Keeping Her safe from the Dragons - Tara K (popular e readers txt) 📗

just scared of being hurt again” she said as she felt tears streaming down her face

“Hey, hey come here” he said as he stood up and pulled her with him and she burrowed deep into his chest and cried he just held her until she stopped crying.

“I’m sorry, Chris” she said as she looked up at him

“It’s okay, Luna whenever you’re ready to tell me I’ll be there” he said as he kissed her forehead and she rested her head against his chest.

“Dinner’s ready, honey!” Lily called up stairs

“Okay be there in a second, mom” she called back as they pulled away and walked downstairs hand-in-hand

“Hey honey hey Chris” Lily said as she looked at their entwined hands “How long have you guys been dating?” she asked looking at her daughter.

“Since a few minutes ago we have a date on Friday” she said looking at her mom

“Aw that’s sweet” Lily said looking at her daughter

“What’s sweet?” Kyle asked coming into the kitchen

“Luna and Chris are dating” Lily said looking at her husband

“When?” Kyle asked looking at his step-daughter

“A few minutes ago we have a date Friday” she said wrapping her arms around his waist

“Take good care of her, Chris” he said looking at them together

“I will, sir I promise” Chris said wrapping his arms around her waist

“Well let’s eat” Lily said as they sit down and talk. When dinner was over Luna walked Chris to his truck

“I had a nice time” he said looking at her

“I could tell you did” she said looking at him as she rubbed her arms

“Are you cold? Here” he said as he took off his hoodie and gave it to her

“Thanks” she said as she put it on

“You’re welcome. I should really get going I’ll text you later” he said as he gave her a kiss and drove home when he was gone she walked into her house and went to her room

“Honey? Luna?” Lily asked coming into her daughter’s room

“Yes, mom?” Luna asked looking at her mom

“This is tough for me to say but I’m cleaning out your father’s things and getting rid of them” she said looking at her daughter

“Why, mom? you said I could keep some of them” she said looking at her mom

“You’re right I did. So I’ll make you a deal tomorrow after school tomorrow go and get all of the things you wanna keep and I’ll do the same and we will throw the rest out. Okay?” she said looking at her daughter

“Yeah okay deal” she said as she looked away from her mom

“Okay honey” she said as she kissed her daughter on the forehead and left a few minutes later her cell phone rang with a text from Chris.

‘Hey’

‘Hey’

‘What’s up?’

‘Nothing oh, Are you busy tomorrow?’

‘No why?’

‘I was wondering if you wanted to come over and help me throw out some of my dad’s things that my mom and I don’t want’

‘Sure. What time?’

‘After I get home from school’

‘When’s that?’

‘Around 3:00pm or so’

‘Okay sounds good I’ll even come and pick you up’

‘Thanks’

‘No problem’ when she was done texting Chris she started on her homework not that she needed to she was a straight A student she was done with her homework around 1:30 in the morning then she went to bed and her alarm went off at 6 the next morning she got up and went to school.

When school was over Chris was waiting for her she smiled and ran up to him and jumped into his arms

“Hey” he said as he spun her around

“Hey, yourself” she said laughing as he spun her

“How was school?” he asked as he sat her down and they got into his truck

“Good, but very boring” she said as she tangled her fingers with his

“I’m sorry” he said bringing their tangled hands to his lips and kissed her hand making her laugh

“I don’t want to clean out my dad’s things” she said looking at the road

“I know you don’t but you have to sometime” he said looking at her then the road

“I know I just thought it would be later rather than sooner” she said looking at him

“I know” he said kissing her hand again then they finally pull into her driveway

“Time to face it” she said as they get out and she grabbed her stuff and walks into the house

“Where are your dad’s things?” he asked as she sat her things down

“In the attic mostly, my mom boxed it up and threw it up there and never looked at it again” she said as they walked up to the attic.

“Wow” he said as they walked up to the attic and looked at all boxes of her dad’s things

“Yep” she said as she walked over to a box

“This is all of your dad’s things?” he asked walking up to another box

“Yeah pretty much” she said opening a box

“Damn” he said as he walked up behind her

“Yeah I know my dad loved a lot of stuff. Mostly anything dragon or wolf or mythological related he had to have it” she said pulling out a scrapbook of her dad and opened it.

“Is that you and your dad?” he asked looking at it over her shoulder

“Yeah it was taken at Six Flags before he left” she said as she looked through the book

“How old where you when most of these were taken?” he asked as he looked through it with her

“I was between the ages of 5 and 15. He left just a few days before my sweet 16” she said trying not to cry

“Oh” he said

“Yeah, okay I really need a box to put stuff in” she said closing the scrap book as she emptied a lot of boxes and put a lot of things in a box and brought it to her room with her.

“Well I really need to get going, is that my hoodie?” he asked looking at her

“Yeah, you didn’t ask for it back” she said looking at him

“I know it looks good on you” he asked smiling

“I know it does” she said laughing

“Yeah, I should really get going” he said

“Okay” she said giving him a kiss

“Bye” he said after they broke away

“See you tomorrow” she said as she walked him to the front door and waited until his truck disappeared down the drive way she closed the door and went up to her room and looked at all the things she was keeping that was her dads:

A book on dragons

A hoodie

A pair of sweat pants

Photographs

A scrapbook

His wedding ring

Ect… when she pulled out his wedding ring she took off her dragon ring and put the ring on with it and put it back on then she felt something really weird in her stomach, but she ignored it then she put the hoodie and sweats pants in her closet and she put the book, photographs and scrap book in an old back-pack of hers and put it in her closet and went downstairs a few hours later her parents came home.

“Hey, honey, how was school?” Lily asked as she and Kyle walked through the door

“Good, but it was kind of boring like it always is” Luna said as she stood up and gave her mom and Kyle a hug

“Don’t forget to do your homework” she said as she looked at her daughter

“I know mom I will” she said as her mom and Kyle went into the kitchen and started working on dinner and she started on her homework she was almost done when her mom called to her.

“Dinner’s ready, honey!” her mom called up the stairs

“Be right down, mom!” she called down her mom she put her homework on her bed and walked downstairs into the kitchen and sat down with her parents

“How’s school going, Honey?” her mom asked as they ate dinner

“Good, I’m making straight A’s” she said smiling at her mom “like always” she added under her breath

“That’s great, Honey” Kyle said patting her on the back

“Thanks” she said as she pushed her food around “May I be excused?” she asked putting her fork down

“Are you feeling alright, Luna?” her mom asked as she looked at her daughter worried

“Yeah, I’m just not that hungry tonight” she said as she got up and kissed her mom and went to her room and laid down on her bed and fell asleep. She woke up to her phone ringing and she answered it.

“Hello?” she asked sitting up and rubbed her eyes

“Hey, baby” Chris said on the other end

“Oh hey, what’s up?” she asked as she looked at the time it was 10 o’ clock at night

“Oh nothing, just missing my girlfriend” he said

“Really, that’s why you called me at 10 o’ clock at night?” she questioned

“Yes” he said as he laughed

“You’re crazy you know that, right?” she asked laughing a little

“I know yeah, but you’re crazy enough to date me” he said

“I know I am” she said as she looked at the clock “I really need to work on my homework, so I will text you in the morning” she said as she heard him sigh.

“Don’t give me that crap” she said irritated

“What did I do wrong?!” he said confused

“Nothing, I’m sorry I’m just a little tired lately I’ll text you tomorrow” she said ready to hang up

“Okay, Luna…” he started to say

“Yes, Chris?” she asked

“I Love you” he said

“I Love you too bye” she said smiling

“Bye” he said as they hung up and she smiled and did her homework it was really late when she was finally done with her homework.

“Just like my dad” she said to herself before she went to bed

When she got up the next day Luna felt like she was going to get sick so she ran to the bathroom and threw up her mom heard her run to the bathroom and came to check on her.

“Luna? Honey, are you okay?” her mom asked knocking on the door

“Yeah, mom I think I’ve caught a cold or something” she said flushing then washed her mouth

“Okay, honey maybe you should go to the doctor today” her mom said as Luna came out of the bathroom.

“Yeah, I will” she said looking at her mom

“Okay, find a ride from someone Kyle and I both need to go to work” her mom said kissing her forehead and finished getting ready for work

“Okay, I’ll see if Chris can take me” she said walking to her room to call Chris

“Hello?” Chris said when he answered his phone

“Hey, it’s me. Are you busy right now?” she asked

“No, I am not. Why?” he asked sounding concerned

“I think I have a bug and I need a ride to the doctor” she said

“Yeah, of course I’ll be right over” he said grabbing his car keys and left his house

“Okay, I’ll be waiting outside” she said

“Okay, I love you” he said

“I love you too” she said as she hung up and got ready she put on Chris’ hoodie and her dad’s sweat pants put her hair in a messy bun and put on a pair of shoes she grabbed her purse and house keys locked the door and waited for Chris by her truck, when he finally pulled up.

“Hey” she said climbing in and gave him a quick kiss then he pulled out of her driveway and drove to the doctor’s office

“Hey to you too” he said grabbing her hand and kissed the back of it

“Thanks for the ride” she said looking at him

“Any time, Luna I’ll be here for you. So why are we going to the doctor’s office?” he asked as he drove them to the doctor’s office

“I think I’ve caught a cold or something and I just need to make sure it’s nothing serious” she said looking at him and placed a hand on his cheek. “I love you. Thanks for doing this with me” she said rubbing her thumb across his cheek.

“I love you, too. Anytime” he said grabbing her hand and kissed it then the nurse called her name, they walked back and she was asked a few questions and then they waited for the doctor.

“Hello. I’m