Daylight

Chapter 59: Luna does it all

Luna waited to see that her mother was asleep before leaving the tent that Camila had set up in her room. The doctors had discharged Lauren the same day after she promised that she would rest and not stress and everyone was home before dawn.

Luna was happy to see that her grandma Clara wasn't waiting at home, she didn't want to talk to her now but she knew that she would later accept her apology... If she bought enough video game cards, of course.

But Luna was awake for a different reason, Luna wanted to speak to the person who had lied to her about her existence.

"Lauren?" She heard the woman speaking on the other end of the phone "I knew that one day you would come back to your senses and call me! I knew ..."

"You are a liar!!" Luna whispered angrily on the phone to Lucy.

"Luna?"

"The only good thing about this is that I have nothing to do with you," The girl said with resentment "I hope you get very poor and that all your hair falls off"

"Luna!!" Lucy said indignantly, she couldn't believe that the girl had called her at dawn to say these things "You were always rude, even as a baby, amazing how you don't change"

"I HATE YOU" She screamed waking up her mother who jumped out of bed "I HATE YOU, YOU ARE A LIAR I HATE YOU"

"Luna? Baby?" Lauren called by her name and the little girl hung up the phone "I ... I thought we had already talked ... It's okay to be angry with me ..." Lauren was confused, having just woken up and thinking that Luna was talking with her.

"No Mommy" The girl threw herself back in the tent with her mother who hugged her tightly "I was talking to the snake"

"What?" Lauren was alarmed, was Luna having a psychotic attack? "Snake?"

"Lucy, Mom" She held up her cell phone and Lauren breathed a sigh of relief, ok, no one was going crazy "I called her, called her a liar" Luna bit her lip now in doubt "Am I going to be arrested?"

"What?" Lauren couldn't help but laugh "Of course not my love" She sighed "You can express your anger, okay, tomorrow we're going to Dr. Jade ok?"

"Ok," Luna agreed lying down "Even if I said I wanted her to lose her hair?"

Lauren laughed.

"Even if she goes bald, you won't go to jail, you're a child" She shook her head "And I would never let you get away from me"

"Ok," Luna had no doubts about that.

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Camila tried not to feel uncomfortable that she still hadn't talked to Lauren alone since yesterday. She knew that Luna needed her mother's presence, in the morning they had gone to talk to Luna's psychologist - which Camila super supported - and in the afternoon Lauren had gone to find Veronica since her friends were desperate, having seen on the gossip sites that an ambulance had been called to Lauren's house. I mean, their house... Now it was her house too, right?

Camila wasn't sure when she was supposed to move and now it didn't seem like a good time to talk about it the only thing she wanted to do was talk to Lauren for five minutes about Luna's adoption, just to see if she was okay.

"Camzi" Liv caught her eye "You're not paying attention"

"Sorry honey" She went back to helping the girl to study, since the girls had not yet gone back to school, Camila was teaching them at home so they wouldn't be too far behind in their studies "I was thinking ..."

"About Mommy and Lulu?" Liv looked at her curiously and yes, Clara was right, she had Jauregui's cleverness "Me too"

"What are you thinking?"

"Is Mommy really okay from her heart?" Liv frowned "Really?"

"Yes" Camila was happy to not have to lie "It was just a scare"

"OK" The girl accepted it as true "Lulu was strange yesterday and today too"

"Errr ..." Lauren had not discussed with her what they would tell Liv but by the time Lauren had kept this secret she was almost sure she would not want to tell the girl "It's just a phase, she'll be back to normal in no time"

"Okay" Liv went back to doing the exercise as if nothing had happened and shortly afterwards Lauren arrived with Luna and Veronica.

"Hi," Lauren said hugging Liv and kissing her hair, Luna was helping Veronica with something in the hall "What did you do all day?"

"We studied," Liv said sighing with boredom "Really, Mommy, I wanna do something fun"

"I was thinking we could go to the beach again," Camila said from the floor where she was sitting, she thought this house needed a little fun "What do you think?"

"Yessssssss" Liv agreed "Without leaving this time, right, Mommy?"

"Hm," Lauren pretended to think "Sure, we can" She laughed.

"Auntie Vero is going to get MARRIED" A small hurricane rushed into the room and everyone turned to look at Luna and Veronica.

"Yes," Lauren said laughing "She'd already said that"

"No, now she set the date, right?" Veronica nodded to the girl who went to Liv, everyone watched what she was going to do "Here" She Offered a jar "I brought you an ice cream"

"For me?" Liv asked she didn't show that she was upset that Luna was going out with Lauren and Veronica alone because she was with Camila but it was kind of Luna to think about her sister "Thanks, Lulu"

The two hugged and Camila shot Lauren a look of gratitude.

"Don't look at me" Lauren said "It was her idea"

"Yes," Luna agreed "And I still put all those disgusting candies that I know you like even though they are disgusting and that you will die if you keep eating them"

"Luna" Camila scolded laughing, even to make a sweet gesture to her sister the girl was aggressive but Liv didn't even care what her sister was saying, her mouth was already full of fine candies"

"So you set the date?" Camila caught Veronica's attention.

"Yes, on the weekend after Luna's birthday"

"So quickly?" Camila asked.

"So what?" Veronica looked at the two "When you know... Why wait?"

Camila blushed.
Yes, she knew what she was talking about.

"Auntie Vero," Liv said with a mouth full of ice cream "play with me?"

"Sure" The woman sat with Liv and Luna around her, turning to the two women quickly "I'll keep them entertained for a few minutes if you guys want privacy..." She winked "If you know what I mean..."

Camila blushed but knew she could use those minutes to talk to Lauren.

"Meaning?" Liv asked confused, a piece of candy fell on her clothes and Camila had to hold herself not to running to clean

"Mom and Cami are going to kiss," Luna said rolling her eyes "I'll explain it to you, Liv"

"I don't know if it's a good idea to leave them alone with Veronica to talk about kissing" Camila laughed when the woman's eyes sparkled when she saw the opportunity to 'spoil' Lauren's daughters.

"Leave them alone" Lauren smiled and pulled her close "Come with me, let's talk"

"Ok" Camila looked back one last time, seeing Luna making loud kissing gestures while Liv looked at her with concentration holding an ice cream cone almost made her want to stay.