Vanitate (Emptiness)

It is a usual day for 17 years old Luna Delaware, in her room she’s laying down on her bed looking up to the white ceiling while her mind is spacing out.

You might think that she is a normal girl laying down on her normal bed and a normal house, except it was not, Luna is sick, very sick, she has this illness that force her to be in quarantine and living in the hospital far far away from home, the hospital located somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia, it’s all trees that Luna could see from her 4th floor window in her room, nothing can Luna really do to kill her boredom everyday, no TV, no DVD player, no entertainment that she usually enjoys at home, in her room there’s only one queen size bed in the middle, small drawer in the corner, and set of a table and chair next to her bed, it feels so empty for a 300 square foot room.

It’s been 9 years since Luna’s been taken to this hospital, she was first diagnosed with the illness when she was just 8 years old, and everything never been ‘normal’ for Luna ever since, thou she was just a normal brown haired girl, that came from a small town in New Jersey, a small town called ‘Cherry Hill’.

She was born and raised by native-American parents, so she grew up listening to those famous folklore that is written in history of her race, she love fantasy and supernatural thing, Luna is the only child in the family, with no siblings to play with her, she’s tend to be introverts and shy towards peoples she met, and because of her background and her love of the supernatural things, she was bullied in school.

Luna never had a friend, and she’s always alone, the only friend she had was her dog named Lupin, that she got from her parents for her 7th birthday present, However, Lupin runaway from home not long after a few months of his arrival, Luna was devastated because Lupin was her only friend, she tried to search for him but he was nowhere to be found, her parents also tried to help her by asked peoples around and police officers but everyone had no clue, it is almost feels like he’s just disappeared.

“Morning!, Here’s your breakfast”.

A nurse in white uniform suddenly rushed in to Luna’s room, putting a tray on the table with bunch of healthy food on top of it, ‘Constance’, a Name tag written on her left chest uniform.

There is many of nurses in the facility, but seems like Constance is the one who assigned for Luna’s daily breakfast, she’s a new nurse, probably still under training probation, the last nurse that used to do Constance job for years has recently resigned even tho Luna used to like her, seems like everyone that she likes always leaving her.

And it’s been a week but Luna still cannot get used to Constance, she’s trying so hard to be friendly that sometimes tend to be annoying instead, so Luna thoughts how could she survive every morning from now on with Constance being the first person she’ll meet every morning.

“How was your day? Is everything okay?, I heard you’ve been here the longest, I mean how could you manage? Poor thing”. Constance said with obviously fake sad face.

“By the way. I’m new here.. so hey, get easy on me okay, oh and did I mention already? that you are too skinny you know, get some weight, didn’t they feed you?”.

“..............”. Luna in silence. First, she didn’t like the fact Constance didn’t knock the door and just rushed in, second, she doesn’t like being interrogated, third, she think it’s rude for mentioning how skinny she is, fourth, Constance just speak too much.

“Are you okay? Hello~~”. Constance snapping her finger in front of Luna’s face, trying to get Luna’s attention.

“..............”. Luna’s not bother and turn her head to the window instead.

“Okay girl, I understand you are going through a lot, sick and alone in this remote hospital for so long but hey, spilling one or two words doesn’t hurts, and I heard about the dead of your parents...”. Constance couldn’t finish her sentence, seeing the unfriendly glare Luna’s giving her, she realize that Luna’s not happy with she mentioning her parents dead topic, maybe not happy aren’t quite right to describe how Luna’s face looks to Constance in that moment, it is more like she’s Angry.

“Stay.. AWAY!” Luna raised her voice saying it loud and clear in front of her face. It’s well deserved for one or two words Constance asked for.

Speechless, Constance hold her mouth shut, then hurried to the door and leaving Luna alone again.

Feeling sad and gloomy after remembering her parents dead thanks to annoying Constance, Luna get up from her bed and walk to the huge window, she’s standing there for a minute.

“Mom.... Dad.... I’m sorry” Luna’s said while looking through the woods.

Tears falling down through her beautiful brown eyes, she’s start to bawling, she’s been holding it since the day of her parents dead, everything happened so quickly that she doesn’t even have time to progress it, but now she’s finally letting it all out from her chest.

Luna’s crying with her hands on her face, she’s cried until suddenly she’s heard a thud sound coming from the window, “who’s that?!!!!”. Shout her.

Surprised and confused by the sound, she goes by checking the window first, she found a little mark there which possibly caused from something hard that been thrown to the window, still with puffy eyes Luna’s looking in to the woods trying to find someone or something that possibly caused the thud, but, not a single creature there except the trees wiggling around by the wind.

The window itself is huge, it’s a 180 degree angle, so she quite sured that if something out there then she must have seen it already, her eyes searching to the woods left and right, nothing is there, instead, it make her realize how looking at the woods making her feelings more alone and empty.

Luna then close the curtain, shutting the world behind her back and hoping tomorrow she can survive one more day, how empty the woods is, it’s still nothing compared to Luna’s emptiness.

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