Pearl

Inspired short story by Mi Ju's painting. My attempt at creating a short story while perusing this painting.

Luna and Dawn had indiscriminately met on a beach. On their first date they discovered a tiny pearl resting on the shore. Luna kept the pearl in a box as a souvenir as a gift from Dawn. They had fallen madly in love since than, and their recrudescent behaviors sought pleasure for each other every day.
They lived on a small island. They both were city drifters on rebound from a big city. They were inseparable they had thought, they glided on their heels before their heads would catch up. Until a few months later, Dawn had restlessly become unhappy. He wanted to improve their livelihood elsewhere, but Luna wanted to stay on the island and start a studio. He believed that the pearl was worth enough to give them a better life if they sold it to a bank, but Luna didn't want to sell the pearl. They argued for weeks till they couldn't agree to disagree. 
To settle their differences they agreed to seal the pearl in a box and hide it on a beach. If their relationship were consummate, they would return to this spot where they hid the pearl. 

It was a full moon that night. Luna carried the box with the pearl to a beach with Dawn at her side. Luna had been sobbing since they left home, but Dawn was too proud to show his feelings. They walked away into the depths of the shore with the Moon's reflective light guiding their heartbroken vestige. They dove underneath where arrays of iridescent reefs and corals lay. Luna spotted a crevice large enough to hide the box so she signaled Dawn to wedge it between the openings. The box vanished immediately as Dawn had released it. They both were astonished. Something had swallowed the box. The crevice had closed up and then a luminous light ignited from the reef and they were dazed. They were still underneath the water when appeared an enormous amphibian chimera with a crowned headpiece of radiant fluorescent tendrils. Luna and Dawn were despondent as they watched its psychedelic body enlarge with creepy jubilation. Schools of fish swam toward it, frothy bubbles rose from its movements. Luna looked like she needed to go up for air, Dawn was dreadfully aghast. Luna fainted. Dawn shook off his fright and acted quickly as his heart had beaten in his chest, he grabbed her with both his hands under her shoulders and carried her to the surface for air. The beast did not follow. It stayed behind. Dawn had her laid flat in the beach sand as he cupped his mouth over her lips. He pressed her chest with his trembling hands and counted frenetically. He pushed air in her chest three times till she coughed out water. Dawn was glad and hugged her. He told her he was sorry as tears fell from his face. Luna looked him in the eyes as she gathered her conscience to tell him something, but all she could say were two mumbling words. Dawn couldn’t hear her, she grasped for her stomach but it didn't make sense to him. He felt sorry for her and he held her close and she wept on his shoulder.
Dawn moved to the city a day after and Luna stayed on the island. Several months later, Luna gave birth to a baby girl. She never told Dawn, because she remembered the pearl they had lost. She wondered if someday Dawn would come back, but she couldn't live on wishful thoughts, she had a daughter to raise and Pearl was her name.