Trust Me

part 11

After the...very very long dinner I ended up just heading to bed and passing out... lord knows I'll need my rest with work and school tomorrow.

I've been so up and down recently, I seem to have forgotten that my break from work would be ending quite soon...so soon in fact that it was like a bitch slap to the face actually.

But nevertheless I am Luna and I WILL work. Ugh

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I ended up waking up to what was supposed to be my bland white ceiling that had cheap luminous stars stuck on it, but instead it was to my best best staring down at me with a frown repeatedly poking at my arm.

Still not a morning person I see.

"You know Mrs grinch, some people drink coffee in the morning and I cannot do that if you're going to try and sleep until you got 10 minutes left. Get up"

Alrighty then.

"Morning to you too bridg, you excited for school?"

"Just as excited as I was when they stopped selling my favorite watermelon lip gloss at Walmart yea sure."

"You know this is gonna be a really good year right?" or I fricking hope it would be " So think about that and turn that frown upside down princess. Let's go get those coffees."

And with that we set off to the coffee shop right around the corner from school. Bridg busy blasting The Offspring with a joint between her thumb and pointer as she uses her and legs to steer. It all makes me calm. Routine and fimilarity, I love it. It makes me feel at peace.

Don't get me wrong it's not like I don't like trying out new things, but just how I know Bridget won't just switch up and change and how we can still be so comfortable with one another and be so alike yet so different relaxes me. Knowing she's here for me relaxes me.

We ended up zooming to school because of the long ass gossip session we had, something I also love about Bridget she knows sometimes I'm not in a talking mood so she does enough for the both of us.

It was only until the second class that I was reminded about Olivia being in our school now when she came up to me and Ethan

There seemed to be some kind of tension rising when he looked up and made eye contact with her once she stopped in front of me, something didn't feel right.

"Dory... can I speak to you for a second?" Olivia says as she looks down towards me with a tight lipped smile. I don't like this one bit, she looks like shes about to cry and that's making me tear up, because first I hate seeing other people cry, which is one of the reasons I stayed for Ethan for so long because he gets on my emotional side and second if she looks like she's about to cry and she needs to speak to me, it either has to do with something about school and something about home and as far as I know everything at school is going perfectly well for her because she walked over from one of our popular cliques.

"Sure Liv, what's up?" I ask back making my voice sound extra sweet just incase, she side glances Ethan and I get the hint, I'm about to stand up but remember Ethan doesn't like being excluded from things even thoufh it could be person. So I turn around and face him." Is it okay if I speak to my cousin quickly?" He looks at me with what look like a bit of pity but it quickly changes into a smile and he says yes as if it was the stupidest question in the world. Weirddddd.

He head out the class without the teacher even noticing and bee line for the field and find a good place to sit where there aren't people near on their free periods.

One look at Olivia and I know something is deeply wrong, this girl is the strongest, wittiest girl I've even met and there's already tears running down her face.

"mom been waiting to tell you without making you mad but you have the right to know... The reason we moved quicker than we were supposed to now is because mom needed to look after you."

I quickly become confused because even though I'm alone quite a bit at the house, my parents still came home atleast once a week if they were busy, sometimes they were even home for a whole month or two, and it wasn't as if I couldn't look after myself, I'd be 18 in 2 months.

"I don't think I'm quite understanding Liv? Why would Aunt May need to look after me I'm perfectly fine looking after myself when my parents aren't home?"

If it could I'm pretty sure her face dropped even more. This made me worry, my stomach tied into knots and I started feeling nauseous.

" Liv can you tell me what's going on please? Are my parents okay? Are they like, taking an extra long business trip? Whats going on Olivia! You're really sca-"

"They were murdered Luna."

And then complete silence, so still you could hear a pin drop, not that one would, the only thing dropping were me and my tears, both cascading to the ground hurriedly.

"w w what did you just s say?!" I meant to whisper but it sounded louder in my ears, everything sounded louder in my ears, it was too loud deafening almost, I couldnt handle it anymore it was too much, everything was too much

The nausea kicked in double time and my head felt dizzy but I didn't care I scrambled up to the ground just as some people headed onto the field, those people being teachers apparently as they started yelling for us to get back to class since I had been gone for awhile, I didn't care though their screams were nothing like the loud, erratic, fast thumping of my heart that I could hear in my ears.

I turned and took off dead sprint towards my locker, I needed to get out of here, and I needed to get out of here fast, I grabbed my purse as I would need to get an Uber or taxi, whichever was fastest, anything to get out of here and away from these noises

Another wave of nausea hit me and this time I knew it was a warning, I took off to the bathroom just in time for a spew of whatever I ate last to come out into the toilet bowl, this really couldn't be real

My mom? My dad? Mama? Daddy? I was never gonna see their bright faces coming home after a work trip again, never gonna see mama help dad out in the kitchen, well trying atleast until he got frustrated and made her sit at the counter and watch him with some snack, a different one every time, strawberries, mangos, crisps, anything you can think of she'd snack on.

I'm never gonna hear daddy tease me about being his cute little girl anymore even when I grew to be almost the same height as him.

All these thought filled my head well i rinsed my mouth and made my way to the school exit, non of this was fair, I started speed walking which turned into a jog which turned into me bumping into someone.