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smolfangirl · 5 years

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A mermaid’s tail

Some headcanons I wrote and that @miris-xo helped me with. I got the idea about the kiss from this lovely ML fanfic and this awesome comic, and finally remembered to post it. (Here you go, Ellie)

Don’t drown in all these messy words!

Word count: 3.5k

She’s a young mermaid living in Cancún, he’s a young boy on vacations with his parents

Kid Matteo is sweet and innocent and loves all the stories the locals tell about mysterious sea creatures

Of course he’s eager to get into the water and dive for just one sight at the merfolk

A few days of endless hours at the beach later (and reapplying his sunscreen after his mom complains), he finally sees a mermaid

She’s about his age, and swims closer to him than he expected (or dreamed) but when he tries to catch up with her she’s gone

Which doesn’t really matter because he saw a real mermaid!!

Back on land, little Matteo runs to his parents, too excited to even speak clearly, tripping over his words

They don’t believe him. He gets scolded for annoying them with such an obvious lie

“Look, you ruined your dad’s newspaper with your wet hands, no ice cream for you today.”

A year later he hasn’t forgotten about the little mermaid, but she appeared in his thoughts and dreams so often, her image has changed too much from reality

So when he spots her again, it takes him a minute to recognize her

This time, she watches him carefully, clearly having been warned about the danger humans radiate (even when they’re just a little kid)

But over the days, she starts to swim with him and her smile becomes a memory that, years later, is still as crystal-clear as on the day he first saw it unfold on her lips

(She’s helping an injured turtle, and while he’s too young to understand that he just witnessed pure magic, he understands why she seems happy once the turtle is cured)

Years pass without a Balsano vacation in Mexico

In the summer before his last school year he finally convinces his parents to go back to Cancún

He’s thrilled

He’s sure he’ll see her again, and wonders what happened to her in the past years. If she’s still his age, or if she’ll remember him, and if he gets to see her close enough to admire her smile

Or, yk, if he’s completely insane and none of this was real

For the next days, he spends his time in the water

Because he sometimes forgets to reapply sun screen, his skin soon takes on a light shade of red, but he’s too determined to find her to stop

The salt water burns after a while. He keeps swimming

His mermaid, however, is nowhere to be seen

Matteo’s parents grow more annoyed with each day that their son pulls a sad grimace at dinner

“You begged and complained so much to get here, and now you’re not happy?”

One and a half weeks later she’s still not there

Sometimes he thinks he sees her in the corner of his eyes, though every time he checks, there’s nothing there

Once Matteo is certain he sees a mermaid’s tail but no, it’s just some tourist who thinks they can pull the mermaid swimming style off

(Later, he will learn that kids can discover a mermaid with ease but that it gets harder with every year except when they leave the water. But most mermaids choose to remain unseen even in the ocean)

His parents drag him to a Maya site. Matteo spends the time with a feeling of disappointment yet he’s glad since he can at least try to enjoy one day without crashed hopes

The next day, he goes to the beach super early. The water is still chilly and only a few joggers run on the cool sand

And away from the shore, just where it gets a bit too deep for his liking, he finds her

If Matteo could cry underwater, he would

She’s beautiful

Her tail shimmers in the few sun rays breaking through the waves and her hair flows in the water like the laws of nature don’t apply to her

Her movements are gentle, she’s gliding through the water with a grace he never saw before

Starstruck, he follows her for a bit. She pretends not to notice him while she also waits for him when he has to go up for air

After a few minutes he realizes she’s leading him somewhere, and he catches her glimpsing over her shoulder at him so without thinking, he awkwardly waves

She smiles back at him

That’s the moment he decides he needs to know everything about her that he can learn

The next time he dives up he finds himself close to a lagoon he never saw before

Is this place even real?

No time to think about it, though, because she swims closer to him and he’s about to have a heart attack

“I haven’t seen you in a long while,” she says. “I almost didn’t recognize you.” Her voice is sweet and calm and Matteo wonders how she knows Spanish

First thing he blurts out is that he looked for her for almost two weeks now

She chuckles, her tail splashing the water a bit

Then, she introduces herself, “I’m Luna.”

He stammers his name and suddenly, they’re talking. For hours.

At one point, Luna shyly asks him if he wants to play a game with her and if he wants to learn a trick to make swimming underwater easier

“What trick are you talking about?”

“So, I think you humans call it kissing? It’d be just a second… but you can say No, really.”

Speechless, he nods

Before his brain has a single chance to catch up, her lips are on his. However, they’re gone too fast and only when she pulls him back into the deeper water does he notice he doesn’t need air anymore

Admittedly, he is shocked

Probably, no, definitely more because of the kiss

He’d stare at her in awe, frozen, but she swims off and motions him to follow so he tries to catch up while thinking how he ended up with a kiss of a mermaid

They play chase and of course Matteo doesn’t stand a chance. But she lets him win every once in a while

He dreams of her that night and tries to find the lagoon, without success

Turns out it’s a magical place

Luckily for him, she waits for him in the water and leads him back

This time, he’s more prepared for the kiss. Every day, they last a bit longer until he builds up the courage to carefully pull her closer and kiss her a second time, her lips cool and wet

They talk for hours and she shows him the marine life and damn, he never thought it’d be so much fun swimming with turtles

He loves listening to her, to stories about her life and the ocean. She knows surprisingly much about the human world but only shrugs and says they learn about it when he asks why

During dinner, Matteo talks his father into making a donation for the protection of the local reefs

Curiosity also gets the better of him, and he asks whether there are any mermen she likes… like that

What follows is an awkward, yet important conversation about whatever it is that they have

By the time vacations end, he’s fallen fast and hard

His heart breaks the last time they lay on the beach, her tail half in the water, the waves rolling against his body. The last time they play in the water, the last time he kisses her. The last time he feels her skin on his, warm and cool at the same time and nothing like he ever experienced himself

She asks if there are any lakes or rivers where he lives. Matteo tells her about the first days of summer when he was a kid, jumping into the water with his friends, unbothered by how cold it was

In return, Luna mentions a spell she could learn, to keep in touch at least a little, but she needs something personal from him

He promises to come back and bring her something she can use

At home, he gets a job to afford going back to Cancún in the winter break, alone this time

The job is boring. Long, dull shifts at a local supermarket. If it gets too much, he thinks of her smile and the sound she makes when she laughs

The moment he puts his bags down in the hotel room, he goes to the beach

But before he gets his bare feet on the sand, he stumbles into a girl

At first Matteo thinks his eyes are playing a trick on him

It’s Luna

As a human

She laughs and jumps a bit, clapping her hands, saying how nice it is to see him again, and before his summer vacation and she had no idea!

His immediate reaction is How

The explanation knocks him off his feet almost. For a few weeks every year, the merfolk comes out of the water as humans, it’s a powerful magic only understood by very few mermaids, but it works and that’s all she needs to know

He’s thrilled

Now they spend a lot of time together

Walking on the beach, going out for dinner (she eats a lot of fish. A whole lot. It’s weird to him, but then again, he shouldn’t be surprised), he even gets to meet her friends and family at the gigantic mansion they all live in

After a while, their make-out sessions at the beach are close to getting them arrested

His parents keep asking who this girl in his pictures is. Matteo keeps it short by explaining she’s a local

During one of his last nights, he asks her if she could stay human. Luna answers that there’s a possibility but he can’t ask her to give up her life when they’re so new to each other. She assures him she loves being with him, and she’ll miss him terribly when he leaves again. But still, becoming a real human is too big a sacrifice to seriously consider it, for now.

Matteo nods and asks if she remembers his promise to get her something personal from him. Surprised he actually brought it with him, Luna wants to know what it is.

It’s his very first guitar pick on a necklace, made out of ocean-friendly material that won’t be ruined by the water

Again, he flies back home, with a heart even heavier than last time

How do you explain to your friends that your heart isn’t exactly broken but that you fell for a girl you can only see twice a year and even then only when everything works out?

The day it’s remotely warm enough to dip as much as a toe into a local lake, he drives out there, hoping and praying she can reach him

It’s a blurry mess but somehow, he feels what she wants to tell him

“Why didn’t you come earlier?” – “I’m not that fond of freezing cold water.” – “Okay, yeah, me neither.”

The spell exhausts her and although she gets better at it, it’s not working out perfectly. They both agree it’s better than nothing, though

When school is over he’s back in the plane, surprised to learn that his parents follow him. Of course they want to meet this local girl who charmed their son so badly, but is never around to Skype or text

As soon as Matteo swims far away enough from the shore she’s there, kissing him desperately. Her tail twirls around his legs, holding him close (like he’d ever want to let go)

Later when he’s exhausted from swimming and meeting her friends again, they lay in their lagoon

She’s draped over him, her tail glistening in the sunlight, and he is overwhelmed by so much beauty, he barely knows where to look first

In a whisper, she tells him how glad she is that he made it

They’re both touchy af

A wave comes in too fast and big and she ends up face down in the sand after the weirdest body roll ever

He’s laughing so hard he barely can breathe while she tells him to shut up

Two days later, she’s acting weird, giddy and overexcited over the smallest things, but when he wants to know what’s up, she replies he’ll see later

That night, he has dinner with his parents in the hotel. They ask when they can finally meet his mysterious girl and his mom makes a joke about him having heard too many local tales and that she’s probably a mermaid

How funny, haha, of course she’s not a mermaid, that’d be insane, haha

And suddenly, she’s standing next to the table, in a beautiful dress and her hair braided over her shoulder

Matteo blinks

His parents blink

“Why didn’t you tell us?”

Luna jumps in, because his mind is still going wild while figuring out what he’s seeing here. “I didn’t know if I could make it tonight, so he didn’t tell you.”

They’re suspicious of her at first, but quickly warm up to her. She’s too charming and sweet to resist

When Luna and Matteo are alone for a moment, she tells him that she made a deal with her people to turn human between sunset and sunrise, but that it allows her to go out of the water for more days

Things go great after that

She’s even allowed to stay a night over. They’re so in love

(Like a gentleman, Matteo offers to bring her back to the water. Luna insists that she wants to go alone, the transformation is painful and she doesn’t want him to see it)

So, they’re happy and in love and sometimes she can imagine a life by his side

Until

Matteo’s dad takes him out for fishing

And Luna follows them around but gets stuck in the net when his dad throws it further than she expected

Which his dad doesn’t notice of course, he wouldn’t see her until she’s out of the water

Matteo panics

Cold chills run over his spine

Breathing? What’s that?

Luna is stuck and struggling and fighting but it’s helpless

In the last moment Matteo yells “Over there! A shark!” and throws the net into the sea, knowing she’ll manage from there on (or hoping)

His dad is so annoyed

Matteo gets grounded for a few days for ruining the net and the trip and basically being nothing more than a disappointment to this family

Arguing he’s an adult and can do what he wants doesn’t prove to be helpful, but at least Luna is safe

Her family is even less thrilled, they lament how humans always bring trouble and that she should consider leaving him

They both question if they’re good for each other, if there’s any chance this could work out without causing a disaster

In the end each of them decides to just allow this to develop a bit more and see where it takes them (but a few doubts remain)

During the last days of him there, they talk about the future

He’ll go to college now, he has no idea how often he can make it, and it makes them both sad

It gets so much worse when he meets a girl at college who he begins to have a tiny crush on

The guilt eats him up, he’s too ashamed to go to the lake or do anything to reach out to Luna

She’s devastated

Believes her magic isn’t working, but she’s not feeling his presence at all, and she’s tired all the time since she checks if he’s anywhere close to water too often

Sometimes she wonders if he died and thinks about how she’ll never know what happened

Luna loves him, she knew that, but she never imagined it would hurt so much

If she swam down to Buenos Aires, would she find him? But how? And she really can’t stand the cold

So, it’s waiting and hoping he’ll come back one day

The first time Luna feels his presence again, she’s too excited and almost messes up the spell

He apologizes a million times

Admits how guilty and sorry he feels

Explaining everything to her takes time, and the way she asks him if he’s leaving her for this girl breaks his heart

Matteo says he tried to forget Cancún, to forget her, but it’s impossible

Long talks ensue

His toes go numb from the cool water, his whole body is freezing but his mind feels more at ease than ever since that day on the boat

He goes back to reach out for her as often as he can

Gastón notices how happy he is ofc and asks if he went back to the moon and if the trip was nice, before asking why he never applied for university in Mexico

Matteo feels so dumb

Because he never considered it

The thought simply never crossed his mind

Obviously, the first thing he does is researching if and how it would work out

Thinking out it takes its time, and he’s tormenting himself, but one day he wakes up and knows

Heavy discussions and fights with his parents follow, especially with his dad

But Matteo follows through with moving, while he makes Gastón promise to visit him often

The first days back with her are great

Now they know they love each other, they choose this, and they’ll make it work

He knows he made the right call

They play around in the water and at night they walk underneath the stars, and she brings him the prettiest seashells to decorate his flat

However, on the first day of uni he comes back home from an introductory course, and he’s not done counting the hours till sunrise when he discovers her crying on the floor in front of his door

Matteo struggles to understand a single word she stammers

He carries her inside and wraps her in his arms and waits until she calms down enough to tell him what happened

She hasn’t told him yet because she didn’t want to make such a fuzz about it, but she’s been arguing a lot with her family lately. About him and his move here, their relationship. So, this morning, she waited for sunrise by the shore and her family was there, asking why she didn’t get in the water already. Her reply was that she enjoyed being a human and wanted to soak up the last minutes of it for the night. Her family was not amused. Like, super not amused. She admits to Matteo that they have had their doubts for a long time, but today it really spilled out of them. They started saying ugly things, like her relationship was getting out of hands, and she should have told him to not move here, it won’t last, she was making the worst decisions for each and every one, and she should break up with him

In a hot-headed impulse, she refused to go back into the water

And now she’s a human

For good

She’s a human and lost and angry at herself and has no idea what to do

All she wanted was for them to apologize to her

Matteo feels like all the wires in his brain burned through

But he promises her that they’ll make it work

The first weeks are a mess

Luna is either crying or mad at herself and along with him continuing university in a new country, they’re both too stressed. She lashes out at him more than once, while he has to swallow nasty comments about how she alone made that decision

Finally, a month has passed. Things are somewhat more stable now. She adapts to being a human for more than just a few weeks, and he gets used to sharing his flat with someone. Both have their weak moments, but happiness slowly finds its way back in

Matteo helps her to reach out to her family and get all her documents and stuff she kept in the mansion. Lots of tears are involved but, in the end, meeting them helps.

He also learns that she has some basic knowledge about all the things people learn in school

Still, it’s not enough to get a job or training, she will need lessons

They decide it’s easiest for him to cut back a bit on classes and help her until she can get a tutor or course program

The hardest thing is going swimming. She avoids the ocean and it takes multiple breakdowns and endless tears for her to go back

But they make it. They make it through fights and blaming each other, through the stress of barely having time between classes and her new job as a tourist guide for ocean trips, through every up and down. Together

Bonus:

He definitely proposes by the beach, the night sky above them and the sound of the waves in the background

#soy luna #lutteo #my sl fanfiction #sl headcanon #when will I ever stop getting new kittens #also swimming with turtles is really fun and the best and they're just really cool animals

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banalpal · 5 years

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2018 Review

This is going to be pretty long, but I wanted to just go through my year month by month in a really candid way.

January

I started out my year trying to re-invent myself. I had a quaint little apartment, and I wanted to start blogging (here) and vlogging (youtube). I wanted to be organized and on-trend. Early in the month, my band worked really hard on producing our single in preparation for its release on Valentine’s Day.

I ended a toxic relationship with a guy I really loved, and that was hard to do right off the bat in 2018, but I was determined to get better. I started spending a lot of time with my roommates and other friends. I wrote this reflection in my journal in January:

“I’m so glad I spent time with Kendyl, Daria, Jacob and Kaleb. I’m very pleased with the amount of homework I’ve accomplished and that I have gone to my classes AND begun to exercise!”

This is one of my favorite photos taken in January. I was really down about losing a close friend, and I went to an ice cream/live band karaoke event at my college. A few friends and I started spontaneously dancing to Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA,” and I had a ton of fun.

Lucky me! In the span of a week, one of my close friends, Jacob, asked me to be his girlfriend, AND my best friend came to surprise visit from Kentucky.

This is my best friend, Connor!

February

February was truly a bit of a mad-dash of always trying to rehearse for my upcoming senior recital, while balancing my schoolwork, 5 jobs (really!), my friendships, and navigating my new relationship.

Somehow, I managed to pull through and make it to Daria (my roomate)’s birthday party, audition for commencement concert, introduce Jacob to my family, and I even took a trip down to St. Louis to visit my dear friends Luke and Alyssa, while also getting to see Jacob’s WGI competition. I was even on an intramural volleyball team!

March

March taught me much about failure. I had been practicing night and day for my recital. It was supposed to be shared with my friend Nathan, on March 26th. I failed my recital hearing a week prior, and had to reschedule for April. You may be thinking, “big deal,” but I had never honestly put in the work for something and just failed. There were times in my life where I hadn’t put forward my best effort and then not accomplished my goal, but this was the first time I had really worked for something and then failed anyway. It was extremely disappointing, but even in the midst of my hard work and failure, there was time for smiles. I spent quite a bit of time in Michigan meeting Jacob’s family for the first time, I learned how to shoot a gun, and I performed in 4 concerts despite my recital being postponed.

April

If you thought March was wild, well hold onto your hats! In April, I was out of town the 1st-2nd, 6th-9th, 16th-17th, 20th-23rd, and 29th-30th. In that time, I also had to perform my senior recital, direct my drama class showcase, and take all of my finals. Here’s an excerpt from my planner that month:

“This was hands-down the most stressful month of my life. I was traveling nonstop. I truly don’t think I could’ve done it any differently, but I certainly don’t wish to repeat it.”

My sister Phoebe turned 3!

The awesome group of students I got to travel with all those times!

Some friends and I at our volunteer showcase!

I got to go with my best friends to Senior Banquet.

I surprised Jacob in Ohio for his birthday; he had no idea and it was a great day. Totally worth it to be there for him.

I got to sing in chapel for the first time during our last week of school. It was such an amazing experience to do it with some of my best friends!

My wonderful friends from praise team and I after my senior recital! It was so fun to get all dressed up and show everyone what I’ve been studying for 3 years! I wore the same dress to sing in commencement concert.

May

Ahh. May. Such an incredible release from the tension that had built up over the late winter/early spring. I opted out of my choir trip which was sad, but I needed to spend the money on some summer courses. I only traveled a little with the praise team. I was honored with the privilege of singing a solo at our Baccalaureate service. I got to spend so much time with family, too!

My birthday!

Some awesome friends at our senior class event! We released paper lanterns.

Just before the Baccalaureate service. I had allergic conjunctivitis but my friends and family were so helpful with the eyedrops!

My close friends from home celebrating my birthday!

June

June was bittersweet. A wonderful month with wonderful weather, but my dear Great Aunt Ann passed away. It was hard on my family, especially my grandmother. Ann was so positive until her last breath, and an inspiration for me to live my life to the fullest.

I ran my first race ever, a 5k, in honor of my friend Cheyenne who passed away from osteosarcoma.

I went to Cedar Point for the first time! It was rainy, but we had so much fun!

We had a great Father’s Day weekend.

Jacob surprised me with tickets to my first ever baseball game! We had seats right above the dugout for the opposing team. There were peanuts everywhere, but I lived!

Gus and I had a great time at Prairiefest!

Not pictured: applied for and accepted a position as music teacher at Parkview Christian (more on that later)!

July

More summer shenanagins!

I took my final trip with Praise!

Independence Day was spent with close friends!

My great uncle retired and we got to sing “Yesterday” by the Beatles together.

We had some family visit from Florida and we got to go to the Field Museum in Chicago. It was my first time (that I can remember).

The lovely Jen Heim did our family portraits and they turned out absolutely beautiful!

Here’s me doing... yep, you guessed it! goat yoga.

August

August is where the rubber really met the road for me. I had to grow up so quickly. It was like life just smacked me in the face, and I had to decide what kind of person I was going to be moving forward. So, I decided to be the best version of me I could possibly be. I didn’t get there, and I’m still not there, but I’m sure as heck trying.

I started my first full-time job as a music teacher. I way underestimated how difficult it would be. I’m so thankful for the job and for the opportunity, but I won’t lie, it’s been a scary and difficult transition. I feel I was very underprepared for the job and very overwhelmed by it, but I made it through the month alive, with a lot of things learned.

I got to see my first DCI competition with some friends from Olivet!

Through the hardship, I was so thankful to be leading worship 5 times a week at that point. I needed the constant lyrical reminders of God’s faithfulness in all situations.

I got a haircut to make myself feel good. It worked.

I got to sing at my lovely friend Alyssa’s wedding!

My car was totaled in an accident that wasn’t my fault. Just another thing in the dumpster fire that was my life!

I got one relaxing trip to SBR with my highschool students. It was so needed!

September

When life gives you lemons, sometimes making lemonade takes too long and you need to just eat them plain.

I lost a lot in September. My identity was no longer as a worship leader, a college student, a singer/performer, a girlfriend, and probably half a dozen other things I’ve forgotten about. I had to start finding another identity: one marked by my traits alone, and not my circumstances.

I lost a lot of weight. It was time to take control of my situation and my health! I didn’t want to wait for the new year to have a new me.

I paid cash for a new (to me) car! It sucked that I had this expense out of nowhere, but it felt great to be able to afford it.

My favorite thing about myself in hardships is how inspiring it is. Whenever life gets me down, God gives me a song to sing. It reminds me of one of my favorite Psalms:

“I waited patiently for the Lord; He inclined to me and heard my cry. He lifted me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord.”

I’m so glad for all the creativity He gave me that month.

My best friend had a murder themed birthday party, of course! I was Courtney Love because... duh. She totally killed Kurt Cobain.

My brother, the soccer star.

Spending time with old friends at the Sandwich Fair!

Unfortunately, it was time for me to give up my position at First Baptist of Kankakee. I loved my church so much, and I still adore the people there, but I knew it was time for me to move on and meet other Christians in my area. I still hold them so dearly in my heart!

It felt so good to start gigging again, too! I played with my band, Vinyl Fox, twice, and with another combo with some friends from college.

October

I got to go back down to Olivet for Homecoming weekend!

My friend Ricky and I went to a banquet (for my friend from THE CHURCH I JOINED)!

My family at Halloween!

Pumpkin patch with the kiddos!

Luckily, my job became easier with time. I also started grad school!

Gus, being a star.

November

A total blast. I spent so much time improving myself and becoming the person I want to be! It feels GREAT!

I got to spend so much time climbing at First Ascent. My climbing partner and I started actually leading routes this month and we progressed so much! I conquered a lot of fear in that area. I also met my friend Celeste! (The girl in the picture with me).

Alex Molica did a makeup demonstration on me, and I was thriving.

My family had the opportunity to spend Thanksgiving in DISNEY WORLD!! So cool!!

I spent so much time in the city! I kind of fell in love with the train rides home at night. I visited friends (and Sophie, my sister), participated in my first beginner comp (The Humblodt Rumble), did the Sendsgiving challenge (and WON a prize!), and even got to bring my cousin climbing with me!

December

DECEMBER. How could the year have come to a close so quickly? Well, I’m certainly not where I thought I’d end up. My vision for my life and for my future has gone through incredibly major shifts over and over again this year. But then I finally realized, I don’t know what the future holds, and I can’t know. So I need to just stop trying to know. It’s time to let go. I had been holding onto some things so tightly in my life this year - things that were really precious to me - and by doing so, I choked them out. This month I feel I’ve finally settled more into my adult life. It’s truly surreal to have just released songs (that will get its own blog post later), for real this time. I got to see one of my favorite bands, WALKTHEMOON. I celebrated a close friend’s wedding! I even directed all of the Christmas programs at school (while incredibly sick) and they went well!

WALKTHEMOON!

Gus’ first Ninja Warrior competition!

Yes, I changed my hair again. What can I say? I get a rush from surprising people.

MY NEW MUSIC!!! (Thanks to Elijah Svoboda and Scott Miller! The best producers and musicians in the WORLD!)

Oh yeah, and I’m dog sitting for the holiday.

To wrap it all up and stick it under a tree,

New year: better me.

I can’t wait to keep learning and growing and changing in 2019. I’m so ready for whatever God brings my way!

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smolfangirl · 6 years

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A little fresa story II

I am baaaack! It’s more from our favorite parents, and it makes me so so happy to see you love them as much as I do while writing them! This is especially for @xnivesgray who celebrates getting older today and although she likes to torture me with N*co and whatelse not (ken you not?), I enjoy talking to her a lot. So, happy Birthday, Jenni! :D

Also thanks to @huffletiika for helping out with Gastina’s kid, and @miris-xo luckily I had Gastón as the punny godfather already planned so I hope you’re happy too hehe

And to everyone else, I hope you like reading this part as much as the first *-*

Edit: Another thing, because it was brought up several times now: @ac-ars and @sky-girls used the name Rory first. I used my own brain to end up with this name (also because of my roommate who is obsessed with Gilmore Girls and keeps trying to talk me into watching it), which is why I didn’t give them any credit.

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Meeting her

Over the years, Matteo went quite many times through an outburst of happiness. During his first kiss with Luna. When he found out he got a record deal, all on his own. When he worked on his debut album, finally, after the disappointment with Vidia. When he performed in front of a huge crowd for the first time, when people screamed his name and cheered just because he held a microphone.

Those are golden memories and he still finds a rush of emotion like this in his everyday life. When he skates, when he writes a new song, or when he fights with Luna and feels sorry even before they can take a breath to apologize. Emotions inevitably belong to his life now. They’re no longer a burden he pushes down or a weakness he tries to hide behind a mask of confidence. Long gone is the young insecure boy he was at 16, and Matteo likes that. He likes embracing these feelings now, good or bad. It’s great to look back at his past, to see the mistakes and lessons he learned, and to realize they led him to a present filled with happiness.

So, a rush of emotions isn’t new to him at all, yet, in this very moment, he’s drowning in his emotions. Drowns in their intensity, in their depth and in their power.

In this very moment, he knows nothing he ever felt before can compare to this experience, not in his whole life ever.

Luna lays next to him, with sweat glistening on her forehead. Her breath hasn’t returned back to its usual calm rhythm yet, but she’s smiling. She’s smiling so brightly she puts every light in the sky to shame as the midwife carefully places a small bundle in her arms.

It’s not any small bundle, though. No, this bundle is their daughter.

Tears drop on his cheek before Matteo even fully sees her. Luna’s tearing up too. Her eyes search for his, as if to assure herself that this is real, that she’s not dreaming, and that the same sense of wonder overwhelms him too. Smiling back at her, he hopes she sees he shares the same love for someone who is so new to their lives but already changes everything.

She’s barely ten minutes old, her tiny body tucked in a soft blanket to keep her warm. With her eyes closed, she begins to suck on Luna’s breast. She’s so, so small.

And she’s perfect.

Sitting down next to her, he slowly lets his finger caress his daughter’s cheek before he presses a kiss on Luna’s forehead. “You did it, little moon. She’s beautiful,” Matteo whispers before his voice cracks and he rubs another tear away.

His fiancé smiles, or smiles more, to be correct. “She is,” Luna agrees so fondly Matteo’s heart bursts in his chest. “I love you so much, little one,” she adds and slowly strokes their daughter.

Their daughter.

Nine months of preparations and excitement, and he still struggles to grasp he has his own little family now. It doesn’t help that those months flew by so quickly, that they passed him in the blink of an eye. At the mere thought a shiver runs over his spine. These months are his new past, another chapter is beginning, and it’s greater and more exciting than any other part of his life.

Matteo vows to himself to make it a good one, for Luna. For their family.

“Do you need anything, princesa?” he asks and gently lets his hand wander over her arm. “Another pillow? Water? Tamales? I’m sure your mom is just waiting to bring you a world of tamales if you want.”

Luna shakes her head. Holds their baby girl closer, glimpses up at him. “No… I just want to enjoy this with you.”

Matteo chuckles, at the same time he feels more tears rushing into his eyes. “Sounds perfect to me, little moon.” He lays down and robs closer, careful to not disturb their little girl. Luna shifts until her head rests against his shoulders.

In the corner of his vision, the midwife bustles around, cleans up, takes note after note. (And a few pictures for them to keep.) Luna’s messy bun tickles him. The sweat makes her skin stick to his. He forgot to get a pillow for himself, so he leans against the cold, hard headpiece of their bed.

But none of these things catch this attention. None of these things matter.

Instead, the whole world is far, far away.

He feels Luna, feels peace and love and happiness dancing through his whole body. He sees their girl soon sleeping in Luna’s arms. Sees her tiny hand with the tinier fingers wrapping around the one he reaches out to her. He sees the smile tugging on Luna’s lips, and the affection in her gaze.

The whole world is far, far away while they stay in their delicate bubble, trying to process this little miracle.

///

After the midwife asks if they settled on a name yet and they both signed the birth certificate, Luna tilts her head towards Matteo.

“Do you want to hold her?” she asks. Her voice carries this hint of encouragement showing him how easily she recognizes how nervous he is about holding her for the first time.

Slowly, he nods.

His breath hitches and his heart misses a beat as she settles little Aurora in his arms. With her 3.210 grams, she’s both heavy and light and so fragile. A fit of panic heats up his cheeks, he’s scared he’s holding her wrong, scared he might hurt her or make her cry. He throws Luna a helpless glance, but then she smiles and gives him a nod.

Matteo takes a deep breath. Glimpses at his daughter, lets him feel through the overwhelm, the anxiety, the happiness.

“Hello, my little chica fresa,” he utters, then pauses before he presses a kiss on her face. Two kisses, a million and one kisses. “Daddy is so happy to finally meet you, Lily Aurora, and you are so beautiful, do you know that? The most beautiful, and I love you so, so much.”

“Corny much, chico fresa?” Luna teases, but the affection paints a crack into her voice before Matteo can even mock her back. Holding his baby daughter closer, he sticks his tongue out at her and steals a kiss from Luna, and a second one.

“Yes, and I also love you very, very much, Luna.”

“I love you too, Matteo.”

“Even when I’m corny?” he grins and sits down again so she can snuggle up. She chuckles, resting her hand on his stomach, kissing Rory’s forehead. “Even then, forever and always,” Luna replies.

And corny or not, this is all Matteo ever wanted from life.

///

To Matteo’s surprise, the first person isn’t Monica, or Miguel, or even his own parents. Instead, he finds Gastón on the doorstep. He grins so wide it covers his whole face, and he holds both a bouquet and a bag full of gifts in his hands.

“Gastón! That’s a surprise!”

“I came as soon as I could,” he pants and shoves the bouquet into Matteo’s arms. “Nina is stuck at work, but the gifts are from her too. Are your parents here already?”

Drowned by the waterfall of words unleashed upon him, Matteo blinks. “Um. No, actually, you are the first.”

Stepping in, the grin on Gastón’s face makes room for a frown. “Nice. Hey, wait. What’s up with that face of yours? Did the birth freeze your brain?”

A second in silence. Matteo still struggles to catch up, while his best friend waits for an answer. “I’m just… I can’t believe you’re here. And the first one at that! Weren’t you out of town for this conference?”

Gastón pats his arm. “Aww, I’m glad to see you too. And yes, I was in fact out of town, although you don’t need to worry your cute little head about that.”

On second thought, Matteo’s surprise fades. He should’ve seen this coming, Gastón had been there so many times whenever he needed him, day and night. Of course he’ be there for Matteo’s daughter as soon as she was born, too. “Well, okay, then I’m just very glad that you are here.” He pulls his best friend into a hug, hoping to make up for his confusion.

“Amazing. Now, how is my godchild?”

Matteo leads Gastón into the kitchen, where he unloads gift after gift on the dining table. The paper is full of shiny suns and moons, and Matteo tries his hardest not to roll his eyes. “Sleeping. Luna is too,” he explains instead.

“Did everything go well?”

“Luckily, it did, yes.” Just thinking about the moment Luna turned to him, a little pale, and announced with a shaking voice that she had contractions, gives him goosebumps. Not even 24 hours ago he was calling the midwife, yet it feels like an eternity away.

“But?” Gastón asks.

“But I still feel like I died a thousand times. I never should’ve agreed to this whole home birth thing, I can’t believe she talked me into that. The midwife took ages to show up, apparently the traffic was super bad, and I was this close to just calling an ambulance for Luna, but you know her…”

Gastón raises one eyebrow and laughs. “She wasn’t very fond of that idea?”

Leaning against the counter, Matteo shakes his head. His hand ruffles through his hair when he recalls their discussion, fight perhaps even. “She yelled at me like I was Satan trying to take her soul or something. I felt like she wanted to divorce me before we’re even married.”

With both their nerves thinned out from waiting through the first contractions, they weren’t the gentlest with each other, and he figures they owe a lot to their midwife that the tension resolved way before their daughter saw the light of day.

“But she’s fine, right? So, it’s all good,” his best friend throws in, as if he didn’t completely freak out when Nina went into labor three years ago. (Not that Matteo will point that out. For now.)

He nods, smiling. It’s true, both Luna and his baby girl are fine, making him nothing less than the happiest man on earth - Will he feel like hugging the whole world every time he realizes his luck?

“Yes, you’re right, she is. Even the midwife was surprised how quickly it went, she said we were lucky it didn’t drag on for a day or more. But Luna is still very exhausted.”

Gastón musters him, how he stands against the counter, unable to stop smiling now that his brain catches up on reality again. “While you look like a young foal too excited to even think about sleeping,” he comments, then shakes his head slightly. “I can’t wait to pay you back for all the jokes you made about how tired I was after Felicia was born.”

“Hmm,” Matteo mutters much less excited. Mentally, he already began preparing for these jokes long before Gastón even knew about Luna’s pregnancy, and that includes the inevitable puns about his daughter’s name. “Hey, do you mind if I go check on them? But we have to be quiet, I don’t want to wake any of them up.”

“Is there a reason you’re not telling me her name? Are you doing that on purpose?”

There it is. Will Luna be mad at him if he spills it although she’s not there to witness his reaction? He’s not keen on finding out.

“Yup.”

///

Gastón is sneaky.

Matteo catches his best friend throwing around glances hoping to stumble over a hint at his godchild’s name, and it’s a miracle he fails to find any. Or maybe Matteo can thank his chica fresa for that, because the second Gastón sees her, his whole focus shifts to her.

“Awwww, look at you! Aren’t you adorable? So, so adorable!” he coos until Matteo reminds him to be quiet.

Luna still wakes up.

“Matteo?” a whisper slips over her lips and he’s by her side in a heartbeat. “Hey, little moon. Are you feeling better?”

She nods slowly, eyes blinking open. A smile hushes over her face when she spots Gastón leaning over little Aurora’s crib. “Gastón, hi, what a surprise.”

Gastón whirls around, excitement lighting up his expressions and the grin tugging on his lips hurts from simply looking at it. “Hello, Luna! I feel congratulations are in order! She’s almost as cute as Felicia.”

Matteo snorts, arms crossed as he sits down on the bed. “You didn’t congratulate me, and I was involved in this, too, you know.”

Before the last word leaves into the air, Gastón has him pinned down on the bed and squeezes him so tight he might actually break a rib or two.

Or maybe his whole ribcage.

“Matteo, congratulations, you are really good at getting laid, I knew you could do it! I am the proudest!” Gastón exclaims a bit too loud without letting go in the slightest.

“Easy, boy, easy, let me go, will ya? I’d like my daughter to grow up with her dad…”

“Okidoki.” He lets go. While Matteo gasps for air, Luna and Gastón snicker, the traitors.

“So, since both Luna and you are awake now… may I finally learn the name you chose for my godchild?”

Matteo freezes a bit.

If he’s honest, he’s been afraid of that moment. Not so afraid that his heart beats faster or his knees get weak, but enough to want to dread this moment for a little longer. Too many puns did he have to bear after he met Luna, too many at every single point of their relationship, and so far, Gastón hasn’t run out of them. Probably won’t anytime soon either.

Matteo looks at Luna, who’s tilting her head in a subtle nod. He sighs.

Gastón grins.

“Lily Aurora.”

The grin deepens. “Oh my god.” A pause in which Matteo sees a pun forming in his best friend’s brain. Or to be correct, the puns, everything else wouldn’t make sense for Gastón. “Thanks for enlightening me! What a beautiful name. I bet she will be a real sunshine!”

After that, Matteo just stops listening.

///

Unlike Gastón, their parents are too whipped by little Lily Aurora to speak. He wonders who fell head over heels first: Monica holding her in his arms with the softest smile and tears in her eyes, Miguel muttering too many things at once for Matteo to understand while pulling grimaces at Rory, or his own parents sniffing into a tissue.

Either way, they all seem to never want to let her go.

“Do you think they’ll give her back to us?” he whispers to Luna, who rests her head on his shoulder. As she chuckles, Matteo wraps his arm around her and presses a gentle kiss on her hair. “Probably not,” she replies, shaking her head. “I can’t believe she hasn’t started crying yet over so many new people. Is that normal?”

As if Rory waited for the cue, she releases a whine. Luna exchanges a quick look with Matteo, eyes wide open, then turns to their parents. “Give her to me,” she says seconds before their baby girl releases a high-pitched cry and their parents stop arguing over who gets to hold her next. Monica hands her over just as she grunts, and the expectant glares on his young family create a nervous tingle on Matteo’s skin. It’s the first time his chica fresa really screams, the first time Matteo’s heart wrenches at the sound of her crying and the first time both Luna and him try to calm her down.

“Shh, mommy is here, everything’s fine, darling,” Luna mumbles, rocking her back and forth in her arms, but it takes a few minutes for their little one to stop screaming. Even then, she’s moving around a lot, stretching and gawking at everyone around her.

“You missed your mommy, huh?” Matteo coos at Rory, not sure how he is supposed to handle this emotional rollercoaster, the worry and the happiness pounding in his chest when she stares back at him. “Too many people for such a little girl? Maybe you should wet your diaper, I’m sure you could scare everyone off with that.”

Luna rolls her eyes at him, however a grin tugs at the corner of her mouth. “Don’t give her ideas now, chico fresa. You can change nappies as much as you want soon enough.”

His comment gets cut off by his mom, who huffs and before one word leaves her lips Matteo already suspects her to reveal something particularly embarrassing about his childhood – it wouldn’t be the first time. Most likely not the last one either... “You might want to pray she won’t be half as bad as you, your digestion as a baby was…”

“Mom!”

Nudging his shoulder, Luna lets out a laugh. If it wasn’t directed at his mom, he’d think how beautiful it sounded, and how their daughter hopefully would have the same cute laugh. “Come on, Matteo, I want to hear how you shit your pants when you were little! It’s nice to hear you were a normal baby too.”

“Yeah, for you,” Matteo snorts, “Because your parents can’t tell any embarrassing stories about you as a baby.”

Miguel smirks, glancing at Monica who at least attempts to not grin along. He likes his future mother-in-law, right now even more than his giggling fiancé. “Well, we have enough from when she’s older,” Miguel says.

That’s where Luna pouts. “Dad!”

///

In the end, they both agree that Aurora had enough visitors for the day. (And definitely enough childhood stories. Matteo isn’t sure if his cheeks can get any redder, while Luna focuses a little too intendedly on Rory when her parents share old memories.)

Empty plates from their well-needed dinner pile up in the kitchen as they sink into bed again, but Matteo decides to deal with them tomorrow. For now, he only wants to enjoy the quietness in the house with his little family.

How many times is it considered okay to freak out over how cute their baby is? Because their baby girl rests in her crib, her tiny head turned towards them, and her slumber is so cute he wants to take five hundred pictures already.

“What a day,” Luna sighs and snuggles up to Matteo. He cradles her hair, while he wonders how it can be only a day ago that they laid like this, tracing Rory’s movements in Luna’s baby bump.

“And that’s just the first one,” he mumbles. “Imagine the first time she meets all of our friends. And the first time we go for a walk. And soon she’ll be smiling and babbling nonsense.” The thought amazes him. She’s so small, so precious, he has no idea how he could possibly ever get over this. His baby girl, his princesa.

Luna runs her finger slowly over his chest, tapping while she seems lost in her own thoughts. “So many first times.”

“Yeah,” Matteo smiles. “I can’t wait.”

“Me neither. I love you, chico fresa.” Her hands find his palm, embrace it before she places a tender kiss on each finger. For a moment, Matteo closes his eyes, baths in the endorphins flooding his body.

When he opens them again, Luna hovers over his lips, waiting. Smiling. He kisses her, shows her without a single word how much he loves her, but tells her again just to be sure. “I love you too.”

#soy luna #lutteo #my sl fanfiction #a little fresa story #mandy gives no ducks #writing them as parents still makes me very very emo #Jenni I hope you like this but don't think about abusing your birthday to torture me with bandana boy and wannabe Gastón

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