The Luna Choosing Game by Jane Above Story

Chapter 0405

Back in my room, I immediately set Julian to work on his assigned task: teaching
Elva more magic tricks. This time he had a pack of playing cards and started to
show Elva how to shuffle them. Elva’s tiny hands could hardly wrap around the
deck. When she tried to shuffle like he showed her, it made a big mess.

Elva looked at the mess nervously at first, then her wide eyes found Julian's. She
probably expected him to yell at her.

Instead, he just laughed. “We'll work on that.”

Seeing his bright smile and laugh, Elva immediately mimicked it, until they both
were a giggling mess in a sea of cards.

I couldn't help but feel warmth watching them. It was nice to see so many people
I care about making each other happy.

I wondered if some of my hostility was related to the changes in Julian. He was
usually so confident and charismatic, but put him in the room with Bridget, he
shifted into a shy schoolboy. It was pretty alarming..

To see him shift back just as easily gave me a sense of relief.

Elva and Julian played with the cards for a while. Julian correctly guessed Elva’s
chosen card every time. Elva made a mess of the deck every time she tried to
cut it. It was chaos and fun, and when it was over, I felt a little sad that it had
ended

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Julian left Elva for a moment. She was busying trying to flip the cards between
her fingers like Julian could do, but of course, her small fingers struggled to grip
the cards, let alone turn them.

Julian came to join me instead. I was sitting at a small table with a cup of coffee,
not doing much of anything. Julian took the open seat beside me.

“Something's bothering you,” he said.

I hated how transparent I'was, that everyone who cared about me could see
straight through me as if I was made of glass.

Still, I thought Bridget might be too sensitive a subject. Julian would likely only
deny he acted differently around her. Or worse, he would clam up and stop
talking to me altogether. Julian's feelings for Bridget ran deeply, in ways I didn’t
truly understand since I didn’t know the full story.

But, with a laundry list of things that were bothering me, it wasn't difficult to

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“I'm nervous about the upcoming event,” I said.

“The stage play?”

I nodded. “I'm not sure I would make a convincing actress.” I was very bad at
hiding my true thoughts, for instance. Or my true emotions.

“Oh, it's not that hard,” Julian said. “The only thing you have to do is not care a
tiny bit about what anyone else thinks.”

I laughed. “You make that sound so easy.”

“Isn't it?” Julian grinned.

I groaned good-naturedly. “No!”

“Here, come here, I'll show you.".

Julian stood from his chair and I stood too. He walked closer to me.

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“Same difference,” he said.

“No it's not!” I laughed.

“It is if you imagine I'm the one doing it.”

“You are ridiculous,” I said. “This is never going to work.”

“Humor me.”

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while yet, though as we spent more

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