Emre and the moon

                                                                                                             "for a friend with laugh.."



    A long-long time ago in a land called Hugsville lived a boy named Emre. He was such a lovely boy but quite a loner. Every night, since he was a little, he liked to gaze at the moon through his room's window as if waiting for someone or something to come down from that silver moon.
    He used to gaze the moon with his dog, Amos. He had it since he was nine, now, when Emre was 22 years old, Amos was already old and slow but very loyal to Emre to accompany him every nite.

    In one particular night, as usual Emre and was again on his window gazing at the moon hanging on the bright starry night sky. The old Amos sat on the floor next to his feet.
    Then a little dot far in the moon was blinking. Emre did not notice it at first, but then the dot is getting bigger and the blink is getting brighter.
    "What is that? Look Amos!!" Emre half shouted in his surprise. He kept on astonishingly waiting for that bright dot to come nearer.
    Amos got up and barked full of enthusiasm.

    Not too long, that shiny thing was coming down closer to Emre. Emre closed his eyes dazzled by the shine.
    "Salutations, you kind earth dwellers, I notice you mesmerizing on our Luna day by day, tell I what troubles you mind?" asked the bright thing almost like a mix of soft whispers and sweet chant.
    Still in his astonishment, Emre said he was bored with his life. He wanted to be someone else.
    "I'm ugly and boring. No one like to be around me. I want to end all of this or being someone else," Emre whimpered.
    "Very well then, will you join I to our Luna? There, all like you," said the bright thing.
    "Your Luna?" asked Emre perplexed.
    "Yes, the moon as you call it," The thing replied.
    "Woof!" Amos barked. The lights took him and he turned silent.
    Emre paused a moment. He considered the offer for a while. He Thought he had nothing to loose in his life to accept the invitation. He really thought his life was miserable.
    "Yes, I will come with you." Emre said.
    Then off they went. Emre half forgot his journey to the moon. He remembered he suddenly covered with warm lights and his body became as light as a feather.

***

    Emre opened his eyes as his two feet felt the solid ground. Everything he saw was silvery but not in dazzling way. It was warm silver.
    Amos was next to him but in silent.
    "Welcome to our Luna. I Anunari Chy," said the bright thing that is now not bright anymore.
    She turned into a brown skin girl with dark long hair and a very dark chocolate eyes. Her look was peculiar but Emre felt he had never been seen anything more beautiful than she was.

    "I know you bewildered. But here we. We not bright and silver as you think always. We brown," Said Anunari.
    Emre sharpen his sight and looked around, Anunari was right, all were not silver but brown. His eyes tricked him.
    "Is it all because of the sun light?" Emre asked.
    "Correct. The sun shines his rays and make all look silvery, but if you look closer, it is all browny," Anunari explained.
    "What? You think brown is no good?" Anunari asked.
    "NO!" Emre disapproved quickly, "you are beautiful," he said shyly.

  
***

    Days went by, Emre and Amos were so happy being in the moon. All were nice to him. He felt accepted by the moon dwellers. But then he thought, what was all that different with his old life on Hugsville?
    "It is all a matter of the way we think it. Just like the moon, it will be silver if we think it is silver, but when we look closer, it is actually brown," Emre said.
    "You learned you lesson, finally, so what do you want now?" Anunari asked smilingly.
    "I want to go home," said Emre. "I understand now, I feel I'm un-like-d not because that I think I'm ugly, but it is all because I don't let people to get a closer look on me, and so am I, I never try to look closer on people," said Emre.
    "Good. I will take you home now," said Anunari.
    "But.. but will I ever see you again? I really want to see you ag---"
    Before Emre could finish his words, he already felt the same warm as he went up the moon.

***

    In one lovely morning in the Hugsville, Emre woke up in his bed when Amos barked and licked his face.
    He remembered all the days he spent on the moon, but his last conversation with Anunari felt like a dream.
    Emre reluctantly walked to his window. He opened the window and looked up to the pale morning sky. Wish Anunari could see him and wave or something.
    But Emre saw nothing. It was only grey morning sky.
    "Hi, Hello!! Hey!! You, up there! You want to buy my bread?" asked someone down the street.
    Emre looked down and saw a brown skin girl with long dark braided hair waving and smiling to him.
    Emre could not help but smile. His heart was suddenly fulfilled with warmness he long for.
    "It is her, Amos, it is her!," he said.