The Brightest Stars

Luna

I understand Annabelle now.

It's funny to think that life may just go back to normal after someone leaves. I thought it would when my mother left. It only turned into hell.

But when my father left.....I can't seem to explain what happened to me in the last three years. All I know is that I'm not the same Luna I once was my senior year of high school.

Yet, I see the good in this. At least I've found strength within me. I've learned to overcome the pain of having bruises all over my body after training with soldiers in Area 57.

I've been formed to be a woman of strength with Area 57. It's become my new home. I can't thank them more for what they've done for me. I've met Shaw as well, the commander of the facility, and I've made new friends. Discovered different worlds with it's variety of people. It's said that Area 51 is where the aliens party at. Well, Area 57 is where meta-humans party at. Literally.

Despite of all the different people I've met and kept close by, my love for Xander is the only thing that hasn't changed.

In the past three years, we've grown stronger together. We've been through heartbreak and pain. We've been through joy and passion. I can't see myself without him. We understood that we need each other on the day his parents split and he decided to move out. He now lives at the apartment next to mine. At the end of our long days, we meet up at the front of the building we live in and hold hands until we get to our doors. We give each other one last kiss and a smile as we stand by each other; opening our apartment doors.

We have different hours as to when we step out of our apartments. Sometimes he leaves earlier than I do for his internship at the hospital where Max died.

I know when he leaves before me because I always find a rose taped to my door as I step out of my place. So whenever I step out earlier to go to my internship at the local law firm, I make sure to tape a note on his door; reminding him of my love.

Yet, when we are at the United Force, we barely see each other. At first, I wouldn't bare to walk alone in that place. Everyone scared me and I would spend my time with Xander near the medic area. I would smile at him with pride at how well he is with medicine and patients. I can only imagine how he is at the hospital. Although, I bet it'd be less boring since this facility carries a different rule set of how to train a medic.

Then the year after that, my life was going better than I expected outside of the facility because I became the best in my class in college. I attended to several debates and won all of them. I would text Annabelle about them, but she never responded. So I stopped at one point because I thought that maybe she changed her phone number.

But in the facility, I was the worst thing that could have happened in there.

Everyone hated me because they discovered that one of the main enemies of the facility was my father. Of course he would be. So I learned the reason to why he left me on that day. Why he would say that he had a "job" to go to and disappear for weeks. I understood it all, but I paid for his wrongdoings as people looked at me as an enemy.

Not everyone though. There were some people that understood that I had nothing to do with my father. Especially one of the most important agents in the facility, June Iparis.

But I still had no one to talk to sometimes. Skyler had left. Julia and Diego nearly appeared at the facility because of how hard they studied to skip a year of college. I've felt like our group of friends have slowly been separating over the years no matter how much we tried staying in contact with each other.

As usual, Xander was always there. Just like on the day we met, I was crying one night when a fellow agent had said a few things that stabbed my heart. Xander just sat by me on the edge of one of the obstacle courses for runners. Our legs dangled and he gave me a light push on my shoulder. I looked up and saw his sweet smile. He took out a red rose and put it in my hand.