Butterfly Moth (GxG)

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Nymphalidae: The largest family of butterflies with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world, belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea. These are usually medium-sized to large butterflies.
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On Friday night, Hemera Leora found herself sat with her chair pulled up to her bedroom window and her eyes trained on what was on the other side of the glass.

It was very late, but she didn't know just how late. After all, her parents took her phone from her after dark and her alarm clock was so old that it flashed the wrong time. That left her to simply watch the stars through the glass, knowing each and every constellation by heart from all of the books that she studied.

Leora had a curfew of only seven o'clock, Molly and Robert being too strict to allow her out past that. She even still had a bedtime, as sad as that may seem for almost being seventeen years old. She wanted to go out with friends to late night parties in the woods, or go camping with them. But alas, come seven o'clock and she was in her pink and blue themed bedroom.

To live in the suspenseful darkness sounded so thrilling, and far more interesting than living beneath the sun. Leora told herself that when she passed, she would come back as a nocturnal animal of some kind. Possibly a bat, or a fox, or even a moth would do. Anything to be able to live in the comforting shield that makes the dark so much different than the light.

A soft knock at her door resulted in Leora shooting up from her seat, quickly pushing the chair to the side since it had wheels. She dove for her bed, tossing the covers over her head. Just as she did so, Molly opened the door to check on her daughter.

The whole while that Molly was watching her, Leora was sacred out of her wits that she would realize that she was awake. After what like an eternity of attempting to hold her breath, the door squeaked shut and Leora let out a breath of relief.

Her parents were always paranoid after dark, but their daughter wasn't like that. She found the night to be a flirtatious entity who not everyone could fall for. But Leora had.

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