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Luna never had time to read anymore, especially since she had started at NYU. That didn't stop her from going to the book store, though. She loved being in a quiet atmosphere where it seemed that the people were judgement free. To her, the bookstore was a safe haven. It was a place she could go and escape from her brothers. Sure, she loved them, but they were a little hard to live with. Damion was a great guy, but he was way too protective over her at some moments in her life. Especially when she had been dating Brenden. He thought that since Anthony wasn't around, he could tell her what she could and couldn't wear. There was nothing Luna hated more than being told what she could and couldn't do. Nick, boy was he another story...

Nick was her oldest brother, who just happened to be an alcoholic. He was a really sweet, caring guy, but he was living off Luna and Damion. He wanted Luna's money all the time to buy alcohol or for a cab ride home. She couldn't go a day without Nick hitting her up for money, and she was getting really irritated by it. She loved him more than anything, but she really wished he would just clean his act up and move out already. She wished Nickie and Aly would've moved down here with them. It would've made things easier on Luna. She would have someone to talk to that was also a female. She would also have someone to back her up when her brothers got too brotherly. 

Luna picked up her Starbucks order, making her way to the romance section of the store. There was one book she wanted to read. It was kind of a stupid one to read, but it made her relive her love life with her husband, Liam. A Walk To Remember was the title of said book. In the book, the girl was diagnosed with cancer and pushed the guy away. But they got married and she died. That's the basic version, anyway. In Luna's life, however, it was a little different. Liam was the one with cancer. He was the one who pushed her away. She had finally broken him down, and they eventually got married. He died, though, three months after they had gotten married. When she was younger, she never imagined herself married this young, and she sure as hell didn't think she would be a widow at this age. When she was younger, she thought love was this magical thing that never left or hurt you. Boy was she wrong! It always left, and she had come to find that without the hurt, you wouldn't have love. The two just went hand-in-hand together. 

She picked up the tiny novel, reading the back of it slowly. Even just touching the book made memories flood back to her. 


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Casper’s escape had always been books for as long as he could remember. When he had been sorting through his things to bring with him to New York, he had put back so many things in favour of his small library. He knew he’d end up buying more once he landed in the Big Apple and was settled into his new, possibly temporary, home, but he still couldn’t bring himself to leave his existing books at home. They all lived now in neat alphabetical order on shelves in his almost empty apartment. Casper hadn’t bothered to go beyond furnishing what he definitely needed because he honestly didn’t know how long he would be in the city for. He had flown in to have surgery; a procedure that was planned, but not yet scheduled. Doctor Kincaid wanted to get to know his heart better through her own tests and procedures and not dive right in with only the notes from Sweden to rely on.

He could understand her methods, cold as a doctor she was, but Casper was growing impatient to get better again. He was tired of feeling exhausted all of the time, breathless at the simplest of tasks that once he had taken for granted. If he could only have a date, a timestamp for when he would be operated on then maybe he could feel a little more optimistic. Instead he was just left trying to get through each day until his next appointment for blood tests or ECGs. He could only hope that the next one would be the last and that it would end with a promise of surgery. Until then though, he just had to cope as best as he could and do what he could when he could without pushing himself too far. It was never good to feel like he was about to collapse and Casper only knew Doctor Kincaid in the city. He had his sister, too, but she didn’t know he was here and he hoped to keep it that way right now. He didn’t want Hadley fussing over him.

That morning he had felt a little bit better than he had been feeling most mornings, but Casper had learnt from experience that it didn’t mean he should run wild and act like everything was fine. However, he did feel up to venturing out of his apartment and doing a small amount of shopping. For Casper, shopping almost always meant heading to a bookstore and luckily he lived relatively close to Barnes and Noble. However, given the condition of his heart currently, Casper took a cab to the store, figuring he could walk from there a few blocks if he wanted to grab anything else. He made his way around to the general fiction, not looking for anyone in particular, but taking his time to look over the books on the shelf, slowly stepping to the side when he was done with each shelf. He was so occupied with the books that he blocked out the world around him and didn’t notice the young woman until he bumped his shoulder into her. “Oh, I’m so very sorry.” His English was good, but laced with a thick accent he hadn’t lost since arriving.

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Luna still wasn't used to being someone's wife. She felt that the title of 'wife' made her sound old and boring. Afterall, Luna was only nineteen. She wasn't even out of her teenage years, and she was a wife and widow. She didn't regret getting married to Liam at all. She didn't regret making their marriage the best thing in the world just to make him happy. She didn't regret letting herself fall completely in love with him even when she knew he was dying and nothing could stop it from happening. She only cared about the fact that she was his wife and that she had made him the happiest man on the planet before his time expired on it. She honestly wasn't looking for anything to happen in her future, love wise. She felt that maybe Liam was her one and only, and that maybe she wouldn't get another chance to love like that again. Surprisingly, she was okay with that. What she had with Liam had been more than enough to last her a lifetime. But she had promised Liam that she would move on with life. That was one of his conditions to letting things get serious between them. 

Luna looked down at her book, looking at the picture on the front cover. It was from the movie, so it was overly adorable and lovey. She spaced out, only thinking about her life and what had brought her to this point. So when someone bumped into her, she dropped her book, startled. Her eyes widened a little as she realized what happened, and she quickly bent down to pick the book up, giving a friendly smile to the boy who had just apologized to her. 

"Don't worry about it! Accidents happen."

She told him, still smiling. She quickly slid the book back into it's spot on the shelf, not wanting him to judge her for reading such a girly book. There was really no reason for Luna to be ashamed of reading a romance novel, but her brothers had teased her so much in the past that she just assumed everyone had a problem with romance novels. Plus, she felt that there was a general stigma over them. She felt that people thought romance novel readers were hopeless romantics with nothing better to do in life. She also felt they thought romance novel readers had too high of standards and would never get married because of that. To Luna, romance novels made her feel closer to Liam, and she didn't think there was anything wrong with that. 


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At twenty-six Casper hardly expected to be fighting for his life. The doctors kept saying that they could help him, but they were going to help him with heart surgery and that carried huge risks. He was trying to be optimistic, but he wasn’t going to be entirely blind to the reality he was facing. He would be going in for complicated surgery, and even if he was supposed to be in the care of a brilliant cardiologist, he wasn’t about to brush it off and act like going under the knife was no big deal. Cas didn’t know what he would come out of this like, but he knew his life was already changed by his atrial myxoma, and even if he pulled through the surgery and made a full recovery with another fifty or sixty years on his life, he wouldn’t go back to the man he had been before. It was too late for that.

He didn’t really want to go back, if he was honest. Although there were things that he did miss from a few years ago, his rose tinted glasses were off now. Casper could truly appreciate the life he was living, and he knew that the things he was putting off shouldn’t be put off for a moment longer once he was well enough to do them again. It was frustrating beyond belief not to be able to do anything right now. The simplest of tasks left him breathless and feeling awful, which was why he caught himself dreaming of the day when he could do something grand without feeling like he was about to pass out. He wanted to feel alive, not three steps from death’s door.

Watching the young woman he had bumped into, Cas ran his fingers through his thick hair and took a moment to find the words he wanted. He thought in Swedish and it was still taking him a minute or two to find the English translations on his tongue. It was a little embarrassing to stand gawking at someone waiting for an answer when they were blinking at the string of words that he had spoken a second before, completely clueless as to what Cas had said or even what language he had spoken. He was making more of an effort to get it right now, since New York wasn’t so new to him anymore. “Are you okay?” He didn’t think he had bumped into her too hard, but she had clearly been startled by him and Cas had been raised with decent enough manners to respect someone enough to show that he was at least a little concerned for a stranger. He was never the type to run off and leave someone with enough thoughts to judge him as rude, at least.

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"Oh, yeah. I'm fine. Just a little startled is all."

She answered him with a smile. 

"Trust me, I grew up with two older brothers, so a small bump from someone else is no big deal at all."

She added, trying to make him feel better. It was true, though. She had grown up with two older brothers who happened to love picking on everyone. Whether it was just pulling harmless pranks or literally tackling her to the ground when she walked into a room, she was never safe from their torment. She had many bloody noses and bruises while growing up. Her mother had yelled and screamed at the boys for being so rough with everyone, but it did no good. They were boys, and that was just how they happened to show their affection for their sisters. 

"I think the real question is whether you are okay or not."

She added. 

"By the way, my name is Luna."

She kind of blurted out. She finally took the guy in. He was adorable. He also seemed to be struggling with his English, but that was nothing new to Luna. She had gone to a boarding school for high school, and almost everyone there had been from another country except for her family. There were kids who didn't even speak English, yet she somehow still communicated with them. Her best friend from high school had been from Finland, and his accent had been one of the thickest she had heard before. At first it had been hard for her to decipher what he was trying to say, but eventually, his accent became as easy to decipher as English was for her. 


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Cas had been really quite close to Hadley when they were growing up. He felt kind of bad that he was keeping secrets from her now, but he didn't want to burden her or their parents. He didn't want to burden anyone. He had made it this far on his own and he was fairly certain he could make it the rest of the way. He was nervous as hell, and he couldn't say the doctor he had flown across continents for was warming, but she certainly sounded more confident than those back home. It was that he was clinging to. That and the need to survive. He was only young and there was so much he still wanted to see and do. Cas wasn't ready to bow out just yet.

"I'm glad you're okay." He responded. He wasn't all that used to New York yet and he found it a little odd that people just sort of the information about themselves out there. Cas was never really sure how to respond when they did it. He just ended up looping back to his point and hoping for the best. He was friendly enough, but at the same time he was used to keeping to himself. No one really bothered him or interrupted him with most things, at least not before New York. Now people seemed to start up a conversation when he was just trying to buy his groceries. It was a little different, he had to say.

Blinking, Cas nodded his head and managed a small smile. “I am tired.” He stated simply. It was the easiest lie to tell. She wasn’t the first to ask if he was okay and she wouldn’t be the last. Besides, it wasn’t really a lie. Cas did feel tired all of the time lately. It was the most annoying side effect, and one he couldn’t wait to be rid of. Sleeping for eight to ten hours, waking up, and feeling exhausted two hours after was not how Cas wanted to be. It wasn’t his idea of fun by any means. “I am Casper.” He said with a small nod of his head, returning her introduction.

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<sub>Luna had learned her lesson on keeping secrets from her siblings. When she had kept Brenden a secret, things had gotten explosive between all five siblings. It seemed that no one talked to each other until after Brenden had left her. After that had happened, they had all gone back to being best friends and pretended nothing had happened between them. Honestly, Luna was glad they had gotten so mad at her about Brenden. To her it meant that they had cared enough about her to tell her exactly how they felt. That was, after all, how their mother had raised them, to look after each other. She also knew that if the situation had been reversed, and she had seen her sibling in a toxic relationship, she would've done the same thing, if not more, to prevent them from getting hurt. Luckily for her, none of her siblings seemed to be in toxic relationships. Ever. Aly was never in a relationship. If anything, she was the toxic one. Damion had been engaged to a wonderful girl, but they had ended up wanting different things in life. But Luna had loved Arimet with her whole heart. Nick didn't date. He brought guys home, but that was about it. Never saw them again. Nickie kept her personal life secret from the rest of them. That bothered Luna, but at the same time, she let her sister be. There was no reason to butt in on something as personal as a relationship. 

"Do you drink coffee, Casper?"

She asked him, smiling softly up at him. She loved his name. It reminded her of her childhood, which was something she wanted back desperately. Her favorite Halloween movie had been Casper The Friendly Ghost. The real life one with Christina Ricci as the little girl. She still watched it at least once a year. But when she had been younger, she had the biggest crush on the boy who played the human version of Casper. She had been teased by Damion for it because of the fact that Casper was really a ghost. But her mom and Aly had scolded Damion for teasing the poor, young child. Now when she went back and watched the movie, she didn't see what she saw in the human version of Casper. 


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Cas thought he was protecting the people in his life by keeping his big, bad secret. He didn’t want them to spend their days worrying about him when they could do nothing to change what was happening to him. He didn’t want his parents or Hadley to give up their lives to fuss over him and make sure he was okay. He didn’t want them to be doing his chores, getting his groceries and checking up on him every half an hour to see if there was anything he needed. He wanted them to be out there in the world, enjoying their lives, loving one another in the case of his parents, and hearing Hadley tell him stories all about her life in the city. He didn’t want his sister missing out on any chances that might come her way because she was busy looking after him. Cas didn’t want to be that burden. That was why he had chosen to keep his health problems to himself. He could manage. It wasn’t easy, but he could manage.

Casper hesitated. Several months ago and under normal circumstances he’d be in a coffee shop most mornings, and afternoons to grab his favourite caffeinated drink. However, since his diagnoses caffeine had been ruled out of his diet; a decision that had been reaffirmed in stern tones by Doctor Kincaid at his first appointment with her. He didn’t dare touch the stuff now. At least not until he was better anyway. “Um, no, I don’t.” He answered awkwardly. It was probably a rare and odd thing to find in the heart of New York City; a man who avoid coffee. However, no matter what the situation, Cas couldn’t afford to jeopardise his health at this point. He was so close to getting better. He had one of the best cardiologists in the world, apparently, and he was just waiting for a few more tests, a final appointment with her, and then a date for his surgery. After that he might be waking up a new man with hope for a better lease on life. At least that’s what he had his fingers crossed for anyway. Until then though, Cas wasn’t about to take any chances, no matter how small they might seem.

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