The Moon Will Fall (Moonlight 2)

Chapter 14-Homecoming

I winced as the bright beams of torch lights were shone into my eyes. With a slight wince I held my hand up in front of my eyes. My stomach flipped, we'd walked into the right place, hadn't we?

"Oi! Shut those off!" Ashton yells quickly.

"You can't trick us, we know you're sneaking back into the house late. Ash." A girl's voice spoke, as I heard the torch click off and the stairway light switch on.

A small male voice behind her spoke too. "And you brought a friend home with you too."

As my eyes adjusted to the light, they scanned over the two children standing at the bottom of a staircase and the end of the living room dressed in their Pyjamas. An older girl stood in front in red hello kitty pyjamas and a younger boy in batman pyjamas. I quickly processed that they were Ashton's siblings, Lauren and Harry.

"Hey, calm down guys. It's only Luke." Ashton smiled at them, "You two both know Luke. It's just his turn to live here for the week."

Nice save, though it was true. No point mentioning that I was still supposed to be at Calum's.

"You're not supposed to turn up at almost midnight though." The younger boy frowned.

"I'm going to tell mum." Lauren pokes her tongue out.

Ashton let out a frustrated sigh, "Mum knows Luke sometimes stays here. We didn't mean to come in so late, but plans changed okay?"

Lauren continues to scowl at the two of us, Harry nods slowly before he lets out a yawn.

"Yeah, it's only Luke. I'm going to bed now. Lauren are you coming?" He questions as he looks sleepily at his sister. She doesn't reply, she continues to glare at Ashton.

"Good." Ashton nodded, his gaze fell on Lauren, "Both of you should be."

"Aww, but we were waiting up for you." Lauren whined.

"Look sorry, I was home so late..." Ashton sighed, he glanced at me, unsure what to say to them. They both knew about the werewolf stuff, but we couldn't explain what had happened to Calum. "It was a full moon tonight." He simply told them.

Harry nodded, but his sister didn't she crossed her arms and scowled. "Didn't you say that was tomorrow night?"

Ashton looked worried, as he bit his lip.

"We just had the nights mixed up and thought it was. It was tonight though." I told them quickly. Ashton shot me a thankful look.

The two seemed to consider it for a moment, and I thought they were going to start carrying on again.

"Ash said to go to bed, let's go." Harry spoke again, tugging on his sister's shoulder. "We have school tomorrow."

With a loud sigh from Lauren and a hug from Ashton, the two of them climbed up the staircase and went up to their rooms.

Once they were gone, Ashton let out an exasperated sigh but smiled. Ashton looked after his siblings a lot, his mum worked long hours, but he didn't bring it up too often. I'd only realised it because I'd been staying here every few weeks. I knew it had been hard for him when we had left, and I guess this had been why. His siblings relied on him, even being a few hours late had distressed them. That much had been evident.

I followed Ashton out to the kitchen, without even asking he made us both a coffee and passed mine over to me. We slumped over the kitchen bench, the weight of everything that had happened collapsing onto my shoulders. I still couldn't believe it.

Once we'd been able to shift back, the three of us had headed to Calum's house. We'd been greeted at the door by Calum's mother, who had caught sight of our glum expressions immediately. Her eyes had searched for Calum. She must've thought he'd been killed. Michael did most of the talking as he explained to her what had happened.