The Sun Will Rise (Moonlight 1)

Chapter 10-Fake You Out

"Ugh, why is this so hard today?" I grumbled to myself, as the page of algebra equations I had to do for school stared up at me.

I couldn't seem to concentrate on it at all. Usually I could get my maths homework done quickly. Yet, I'd tried everything, listening to music, taking a break, watching a TV show. It was hopeless. I flopped backwards onto my bed in frustration. I guess I'd just have to ask Ashton for help later.

My eyes fell onto my calendar. It had small circular markings that showed the important phases of the moon on various dates. There was only one that mattered to me right now, the one showing the full moon. It was tomorrow night. I sighed, I still needed to make plans for that.

We were supposed to be meeting up at Calum or Michael's place but we'd decide the specifics tomorrow. The week had flown by so fast that I'd almost forgotten.

'So, Luke, you are fine for tomorrow night, right?' Calum asks through the bond, causing me to jolt at the sound. It was like he'd known what I was thinking about.

'I think so, I mean I haven't asked mum yet but she should be cool with it.' I think back to him.

'You have to ask her, just in case.' Calum says in a warning tone.

It was a pain, but I knew Calum was right. I couldn't just assume that she would agree. It was a school night after all. That other time when I first learnt about all this and had slept at Calum's it had been a school night. I was already over there, so she really hadn't had a chance to say no.

Hmm, that was probably what I should do right now. It was better to know now if I was going to need to find another way out of here.

'True, I'll go ask her right now.'

I left my room and stepped into the corridor. The light illuminated the hallway surrounding the kitchen door. I think she's in there. Sure, enough when I peeked inside she was flipping through a pile of sheets of paper on the kitchen table. Her eyes downcast on them. I couldn't help but think that she looked a little stressed.

"Ah mum, I was wondering-"

"Hang on wait a minute Luke..." She turned and pointed to the phone. "Sorry, just my son." She apologized to the person on the other end.

I hovered there for a moment, feeling slightly awkward. I hadn't realised that she was on the phone. Maybe I should come back later....

"No that's alright. I've fulfilled my end of the deal do you have the list?" The person on the other end asked, their voice was high pitched but lowered as if they were whispering. It was strange to be able to hear the person on the other end of the line so clearly from this distance. I wonder what deal they were talking to mum about, work stuff obviously.

"Yeah, of course. I'll get it now." She said.

She covered the phone with one hand and held it away from her. She looked in my direction, "Hey, Luke could you go fetch me my notebook, please? I need it."

"Uh, where is it?" I asked.

My mum's notebook had all her contacts in it. She ran her own business so I was used to going on an expedition to find it for her. For some reason, she didn't like keeping it on her computer, I guess she was just old-fashioned like that. Normally I'd know where it is, but since we'd moved I had no idea of its current location.

She looked frustrated for a moment, her brows furrowed in concentration, as she waved her hand at me, "Uh, I think it's in my office or on my dresser, it'll be around there somewhere."

I nodded and left the room in search of it.

My feet slid slightly on the wood flooring as I walked past her room. A quick check and I noticed the notebook wasn't on her dresser like she'd suggested. Hmmm, it was probably in her office then. I take the stairs two at a time down to the office; I hadn't been in here since we'd first moved in. There were a couple of stray cardboard moving boxes to the back of the room, the words 'study' scribbled wildly in marker. I guess nobody had bothered to pack them away yet. I was sure that mum would no sooner unpack them and we'd have to move away again. That was the way things tended to work in our place.