A Salty Wish

The Judge had started although it had been quite a good movie Emma didn't really enjoy it that much. While watching the movie she had been feeling a fair amount of guilt. It didn't completely stop her from enjoying, Feeling like she was in the movie herself how she had been feeling the raw emotions scenes had brought her. 

Mrs. Zoe had been crying when the movie had ended, Her son had looked like he was at the edge of his seat while it had ended. While Emma herself had done… 

nothing really. She had been just sitting there not understanding why she hadn't done what either of them had done, feeling like an outlier for not being moved by it like Luna's grandma and father. 

When the movie had finished it was already late into the night with no signs of her mom returning. 

"Emma, would you want to sleep over here while you wait for your mother to return?" Luna's dad had asked while sitting on the couch. 

"I can wait" Emma had replied instantaneously. 

"Alright, if you change your mind you can head to the on the left side upstairs, oh if you need anything call me over I wont be heading to sleep yet" Luna's dad had said heading towards the stairs that was near the entrance. 

Mrs Zoe had headed upstairs looking tired, with her eyes nearly closing. 

"Well then, goodnight Emma" 

When the two of them had left Emma had felt abandoned by her own mother. She had really wished that her mom was here so she could leave. 

Twenty minutes had already passed Emma had been doing nothing the entire time. Not knowing what to do with that time she had on her she had decided that she would explore Luna's room. 

'Selfish, very selfish of myself' Emma had thought to herself thinking that what she had wanted to do was very improper. 

Headed up the stairs Emma had taken notice of the fours room in the rugged hallway. Two rooms on the right and two on the left. 

'Luna's Dad said left, right? So which one would be Luna's room' Emma had thought mischievously. 

She had tried to open the door that was closer to her. Opening the door the room revealed a queen size bed in the center of it with an old lady sleeping in it. 

'Wrong room' 

Closing the door as fast as she could while not making a lot of noise.

Emma had headed to the room right next to the first on the right side. Opening the room had a ton of things in it. First off a bed with pink and white striped sheets, The room had multiple shelves, some had photos and some had books. The one that stood out the most to Emma was one with a photo of Luna as a child. 

The picture had seemed to be taken on a picnic blanket with blue and white colors. It had three people in the photo. One was Luna looking like she was around the age of ten or so. 

Another had been a lady Emma had never seen before, she had looked like Luna but older and with brown curly hair. 

The last person was none other than Luna's Dad himself. In this photo he seemed more lively or just more alive in general. Luna's Dad looked clearly different then he is right now. 

Going a bit further into the room Emma had noticed something: it was a wooden nightstand with flowers on top of it. The nightstand had seemed alluring to Emma, she headed towards it to open the wooden stand. 

Opening it Emma had seen a black notebook inside there. It had text that read 

"Luna's, Don't touch" 

Seeing that Emma had really wanted to open and search what could be inside of it, but before she could Emma heard a sound coming from the room behind her. 

Emma had turned around immediately

"Emma, I said on the left" 

It was Luna's Dad at the door with the same weary expression. 

"Oh, sorry," Retorted Emma. 

"Your mom had called, she should be coming back soon," Luna's dad had announced. 

'Finally she's coming back' Emma had thought to herself with her face visibly telling that she was. 

After looking around for a bit Luna's dad had looked like he remembered something. 

"Oh and Emma, I am sorry for everything Luna had done to you, I should've acted like a father better" 

Hearing this Emma had been utterly surprised not knowing how to respond to Luna's dad for a moment. 

"It's fine, it's not like you did anything to me in the first place," Emma had said turning back focus towards the book.

Luna's dad had just looked at her for a few moments of silence. 

"Would you mind leaving this room though, it had belonged to Luna" Luna dads had inquired. 

Emma had left the room and headed back to the living just to sit there in silence before her mother arrived. 

Ten minutes passed and Emma heard a honking sound from the outside of the door and someone coming down from the stairs. 

"Emma! Your mother is here" shouted Luna's dad. 

Emma had rushed towards the door wanting to just leave the place already. Looking outside she saw a few people and her mother inside of the car. 

"Emma, we're going home" her mother had said sitting on the driver's seat.

With that she had entered the only free seat left in the car, the passenger's seat. They had entered multiple places before actually going home themselves. One the way to one of the other people's home a man with a bun had ended up puking in the sidewalk after he dared to do it in the car.

After a few stops they had finally headed back to their own home. It had been the same as how they had left it before. 

Emma immediately headed to her bed, but then something had nearly made her trip as she was fetching her pajamas, it was the wishing box.