Alex and Luna appeared in front of a 5 story building painted gold.
They encountered a lot of customers when they entered the Golden Nugget, now Alex's s propriety.
''Welcome, Master."
When one of the waitresses saw it was Alex her face changed, she curtsied to welcome the new owner of the Golden Nugget.
Even if today was her first time seeing Alex, they had been informed about what happened, therefore they knew Alex's face.
Alex nodded his head before with Luna and the waitress, in the addition to the general manager, a golden-haired middle-aged man they went to the VIP room located on the fifth floor.
After they entered the beautifully decorated VIP room, the golden-haired middle-aged man introduced himself.
''I'm Quentin Lafaq, I'm the general manager. The viscount has informed us what happened. We are all honored to have you as the new owner of the Golden Nugget. What are your orders?"
''Nothing for now. Today, I did not come for the matter regarding how to manage this restaurant, but I'm here as a client. As you can see I'm here on a date. Serve us your best dishes.'' Alex ordered.
''As you wishes,'' Quentin said before curtsied and left with the waitress.
''I do not like this man,'' Luna mumbled as she watched Quentin leave.
Alex was astonished by Luna's words because he didn't see, nor detect anything unusual when checking Quentin.
''Why did you say that? Have you noticed something?" He questioned her as he did not take her words as jokes.
Luna considered for a moment how she could explain what she felt,
''I can't say why for sure but I don't like that man not because I've noticed something but because my intuition told me to be wary of him.''
''I see. Intuition, huh!. I'll consider your warning and look into it.'' Alex said with a serious expression on his face. He then mumbled,
''It will be good if I've my private force which can help me gather information.''
Luna smiled she seemed to be thinking about something after she heard Alex's words.
Soon, their table was filled with nothing but food. The two started eating.
After they finished eating and drinking a bit of wine. The two left, Quentin saw them off while looking at Alex with a particular interest.
Their next destination was a jewelry store where Alex brought Luna, lot of accessories, he even brought an extremely beautiful jewel that matched her beautiful hair.
When he gave her the jewel he said, ''A jewel upon you is as a bow on pretty hair, the hair is still the star.''
Overwhelmed by her emotions, Luna suddenly hugged him in front of everyone.
The other customers send a thumb in Alex's direction. Even though his skin was usually thick under so many stares, Alex felt embarrassed.
As their episode at the jewelry store, the two continued their date.
One hour later. Deciding to take a rest, Alex found a bench under the shade for them. They weren't particularly tired, to be honest. But sitting a little was always nice.
Luna sat beside Alex who seemed lost in thought after seeing.
''Do you have fun?" He suddenly asked her this.
''Yeah, I've fun. Today was really fun. Everything seemed to be shinning. It made me feel really happy. Thank you.'' She said.
''There is no need to thank me because I also had fun. Luna, there is something I want to ask you. Can I?" Alex said, his expression turned serious.
Luna's body stiffened for an instant, she quickly composed herself as she had expected something like this to happen the moment she accepted this date.
''Go on. What do you want to ask me?"
Alex nodded his head to Luna's approval. ''I don't know why but I have the feeling that you and I, know each other. I can't recall where. So, can you tell if it's true?"
Luna did not immediately answer, even though she was prepared to hear that Alex may have forgotten about their past, hearing it was another matter, it hurts her little. As if it was only her who kept cherishing those memories.
Shaking her head, she asked, ''Did you remember a girl named Lû?"
''Lû?" Alex said absentmindedly, he seemed to have seen a scene of a younger version of him playing with someone. He could see the other party's face.
''Let's get married when we will grow like this we will be always together.''
''Lû, are you serious?" The young Alex asked.
The scene turned blurry and vanished, Alex, regained focus, he looked at Luna.
''Lû? I can't remember,'' he said eyes clouded in confusion, he only remembered talking to someone named Lû, however, he couldn't see the latter face, nor he knew the latter gender.
'Is this Lû, Luna?' he wondered why looking at Luna who was trying to hide her dejection when she saw that he still couldn't remember.
While scratching his head Alex decided to explain things to her, it was something not a lot of people know about it.
''Excuse me if I hurt your feelings because it seems it is the case but, I had an accident in the past that made me lose all my memories until 10 years old, so,-"
''What?" Luna shouted when she heard Alex's words. She hadn't expected this to be the reason for Alex forgetting their past.
''I'm sorry,''
Suddenly, she felt ashamed of herself holding grudges against Alex when she saw that he ignored her on their first meeting after being separated for eight years. If only she had approached him and asked him why he did not react when she greets him on their day at the school instead of stubbornly waiting for him to approach her.
It couldn't be helped that she reacted that way because of what Alex represents to her.
Back in those days, Luna had thought it was only natural to be with Alex. It was a given that she would grow older with him, and those days they spent together would continue forever naturally. She had been eight years old when she learned that it wasn't meant to be — nine years ago. It was why Luna could remember those days she spent with Alex so clearly, it was as though they had only happened yesterday.
Because Luna liked Alex. She loved Luna, she had become so devastated to be separated from such an important person. It was so painful that she would never forget it. She still remembered the promise they made when they parted, too. There was no binding power at all behind it between two children fleeting promise. Her feelings now could be different from love, but even so, that promise was still something sacred to her. That's why Luna would occasionally remember Alex, even though she had grown older, wondering how he was doing, she did not have his contact, so she couldn't contact him and know how he was doing.
Even though she could not contact him, every time Luna remembered him, she felt warmth in her chest that supported her, as though he was beside her. She wondered how Alex had grown up. Did he still remember the promise as she did? If he did, and they were ever to reunite as they promised, what would they do? Luna thought about those things every time she remembered him.
When she finally learned what happened to him, to his family she wanted to rush there, to console him, to be there for him.
Unfortunately, she couldn't, every day was like torture because Alex did not like social media, she had no getting in touch with him, he was too secretive, so it was hard to get his contact. Even Maria's contact couldn't get anything useful.
Finally, when they reunited again, after the opening ceremony she left Maria and Sakuya to dash toward Alex, eyes filled with happiness she shouted.
''Lex, I'm back.''
However, the emotional reunion she had expected did not happen at all. Instead, what happened next broke her heart into million pieces.
Alex looked at her as one look at a stranger, he said, ''Excuse, do I know you?"
Luna was too shocked to answer. Alex continued, ''Ah! I get it. You are one of my fans. You come for an autograph. Here is it.''
He took out a pen and signed Luna's notebook before leaving the frozen Luna standing as he disappeared into the depth of the school.
It took nearly 45 minutes for Luna to regain control of her emotions. Her eyes were almost moist. Maria and Sakuya were standing beside her, not saying anything.
They had seen the scene from afar and knowing how important Alex was to Luna they could understand how she felt. They were furious again Alex, however, at the same, they felt that there must be a reason for Alex to react the way he did. Therefore, they suggested that Luna must look into it, unfortunately, because of how stubborn Luna was and because Alex rarely comes to school, things remained unsolved until now.
Thinking about all of these things, Luna sighed, 'How unreasonable of me.' she mumbled to herself before looking at Alex and announced.
''Lex, I'm your childhood friend Lû.''