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I stare at the sun, listening to nothing but people coming down from Earth's surface as they yell or set for anything. Everything happens at once. I sigh as I wander off to view the space more leading more to the smaller moons of mars. Phobos and Deimos.

They were, ‘sorta’ chill as the moon revolution stopped a few months ago in my timelines. I watched over the earth for a while as I sat doing nothing. The only one I thought about was Titan. He protected my celestial body planet. Why, though? He started the revolution. Well mostly Ganymede and Europa, but still!

He was a part of it and went to plan to hit the Earth with deadly asteroids. I don’t like him. Anymore. I guess after the whole moons should learn their place thing? Did he like me back?--

“Earth’s Moon.” I hear behind as I thought, I turn around to see Jupiter's purpleist moon Callisto. I sighed as I went up to her a bit returning the convo.

“It’s Luna and yes?” I respond a bit cringed by everyone calling me ‘Earth’s Moon’ All cause earthlings call me ‘Moon’ every time. I’m usually called Luna by Earth himself, which makes me pleased.

Callisto sighed in annoy as she re-corrects herself, “Luna. I’m here to tell you something since Titan is such a little puss to tell you by himself.” She responds as she looks around waiting for my answer as my eyes widen, a bit surprised that he wanted to speak to me.

“Me? Why is that? Is anyone there or just me and him?” I ask a bit rushed, scared for the outcome as I float over there.

She looked at me as she noticed my nervousness and her eyes started to turn. She came up to me and gave me a ‘hug’ or try to get as close to make it a hug and answered, “Luna, he’s waiting for you. He’s been wanting to talk to you for a while now, it’s nothing bad alright?” She smiles softly, reassuring me. I sigh in relief letting the stars off my shoulders, I give her a silent thank you before we start to head to Titan’s way.

I think Mercury can replace me for a while as we look similar I guess? As we got closer I could smell vanilla, bitter almond, and a bouquet of musky sweetness. It has to be Titan, Titan has many different smells… I wonder why really? I mean, I can’t be talking after smelling like spent damn burnt gunpowder while Callisto got such a strong powdery-gourmand scent. No wonder Triton has a crush on her, It was obvious as soon as I saw the two first talk with my eyes. I grin a bit having feeling to lightin’ the mood with a little talk with her about the situation.

“Hey Callisto, how’s you and Triton?” I say my grin widening as I see her face start to twitch a bit with blush responding with a few words hiding a bit of what I think she truly meant to reply with.

“We’re doing.. Alright, me and him are getting along.”

“Or Dating?” I tease slightly as a laugh comes out of my throat.

She hits lightly on my surface with a small asteroid scoffing, “Oh shut up.”

I laugh as she pouts very lightly trying to hide her feelings, “He doesn’t like me alright; and I don't like him either!” The staring moon yelled, her lipstick popping as she talked.

“Alright! Alright! Jezz! Just joking!-” I continue to laugh as she scoffs, it wasn’t until I saw a light golden yellow bottom, hearing a little chuckle right after. I look up as I see the green mist start to form around his celestial body. I stop as he starts to look at my eyes, I could feel my outer core pump as I hear his voice.”

“Luna, I wanted to talk with you.” He twinkled as his smile started to shine, I smiled back as I looked back at Callisto winking as she smirked and left. I turned back to Titan and his smile staying on his face asked me.

“So Luna, how have you been doing? With Earth and Stuff?” He asked as we started to roam around while talking.

“Oh! Earth is doing great! I guess right now?...” I answer a bit unsure.

“He’s healing of course with Mercury, we are trying!”

“Oh that’s perfect. Look I wanted to apologize for everything–” He tries before I reassure him with my calm words.

“It’s alright, you changed your mind at the right time, I really thank you for protecting Earth at the moment. It’s been three months since that. You said sorry before and I said it’s okay.” I answer back, he sighs as his smile starts to fully fade. 

The convo started to get quiet as we started to wander through the asteroid belt to see Jupiter teaching his moons about love, not just any love, celestial body love. I stop as I hear more, I grab Titan’s wrist lightly heading to Jupiter. Titan’s eyebrows rise as I head over to the giant.

As I got closer I could hear more clearly, My face started to feel confused as Jupiter stated love, my face started to stiffen. “When two Celestial bodies have interest with each other, it’s possible that they can mash together.” Jupiter explains, not even love could be in this system? My face starts to go pale. No. Love? How were we even made? We aren't random rocks coming left to right?! 

I started to feel a grip change to my hand, it turned tight. I turned over to Titan whose face was tense, “You okay?” I ask, he nods his face still tensing, I sigh as we start to walk again. I really can't fall inlove. Like I never could. I could never get a chance with could I? 

I wondered if I really could stop coughing. The dense cotton yellow and sulfur, It was annoying as it was a thing I had ever since I orbited Jupiiter. Jeez It was REALLY annoying, I would get complaints about moons saying “IO can you stop? It’s getting on my craters!”, “You need to get that checked out by Jupiter.”, and “Ew.. it looks like dust on molded cheese from earth!” Like how do YOU know it looks like moldy cheese from earth? You're not Earth’s moon? Like I’m sorry that I smell weird like rotten eggs?

What do I smell like Uranus now? I mean I’ve been smelling that for the past 4.5 billion years so like It’s really nothing new. I kept on thinking about the words other moons would say, on a daily basis regularly, the more I think about it the more I start to think about how I am.

Am I really so bad? How do I act? IS it really ME? What did I do? Is it my fault that it smells like stupid moldy gust of cheese? Whatever. They are just mean people who judge who I am. I just don’t want to be judged and be normal like everyone else, is that so hard to ask for? It just feels like a HEADLOCK.

Something I’m being gripped on so tight, or am I just being dramatic? I think I am. Maybe.