chapter 31:

Shenzi heard knocking and a bell ringing. She was half asleep, unable to open her eyelids fully. "Who could it be at this time?" She asked herself while still lying on her soft bed.

She sat on her bed and looked straight towards her clock. It was 3 am. Shenzi switched on her bedroom lights and went out to see who it was at that late hour.

'It could not be Steve, is it... Who is it' she thought before seeing through the peephole.

All she could see was the silhouette of a girl standing, her long hair was wet due to rainfall.

Shenzi opened the door, and Luna went in. Her white-colored long shirt and light blue jeans were wet. You could probably see what color of bra she was wearing.

"What happened?" Shenzi was dismayed after seeing her in this condition, tears were falling down from Luna's eyes, and she was shivering.

Luna slowly walked in, Shenzi closed the door and ran towards her closet. She came back with two towels in her hands and saw Luna standing in front of the chimney. Shenzi walked towards her, wrapped those towels and made her sit on the couch.

"What happened?" Shenzi asked again while rubbing Luna's hands.

"I messed up, Shenzi, Everything is ruined" Luna cried.

Shenzi sat beside her. "No, everything is fine, nothing is messed up." She comforted Luna.

"No", Luna was weeping. 

"At least tell me what is wrong" Shenzi wanted to know.

"I..." Luna was taking time to admit the mistakes.

"I love Lucard," hearing the name 'Lucard', Shenzi widened her purple eyes. She prepared herself to listen to the whole story, because she knew that there was a lot of drama she was unaware of.

"And so does he," Luna sniffled and wiped her tears. "But if we marry each other, he will die" Shenzi bit her lower lip.

"Then how is everything ruined?" Shenzi asked, confused.

"Clara tried to kill him, he took permission from his father to marry me, more than half of the kingdom is handed to Ace and Clara" She said all in one breath.

"Do you really love him?" Shenzi asked.

And at this moment I knew something was going on in her head. After all, I knew shenzi for a longer period of time.

"Yes I do". Luna said

"Then just marry him" Shenzi said.

"But he will die" Luna's brows ceased.

"Luna, listen," Shenzi moved towards her and rested her hand on Luna's shoulder. "Do you think Lucard would be fine without you?" Then she smirked and said "He would not be able to live without you, you did not see him, when you were dating Ace," Luna looked at Shenzi. "He turned pale and colorless, say emotion less, but soul less is the correct word"

Luna wiped her tears. "But at least he could be alive."

Shenzi shook her head in disapproval, "He would breathe but not respirate, his heart would beat, but no blood would run in his veins, he would have a mind, but it wouldn't work. Do you think living like this could be easy for him?"

Luna was silent. "You do not have any words to say, which means you also know that he wouldn't be able to live his life fully after being immortal."

"You are right, but at least, I would not see him die before my eyes", Luna argued back.

"Yeah, you wouldn't see him die in front of you at once, but see his corpse walking around, a body with no soul, he will die every year, every month, every week, every day and every hour in front of you" Shenzi said, and this made Luna lack words to answer or deny it. Luna was again silent.

For a few minutes, Luna was very silent, she was going through all the memories she had with Lucard. They were a happy couple.

Shenzi walked towards the kitchen to make coffee.

"So, what did you decide?" Shenzi asked and handed a mug full of coffee to Luna.

"I..." Luna took the mug "think I should marry him" she said happily.

After finishing the coffee, Luna went to her house for 4 hours' sleep, because she had to go out with Lucard to decide the decorations, and she would hate to look dull and clumsy.