"Are you planning on speaking to us, Luna?" Jace demanded for the upteenth time. Luna hadn't said a thing since Chris' mother spoke with her at the restaurant.

Both the boys agreed thirty minutes was the longest that'd seen her go without talking. But nothing could make she even hum.

"Luna, what happened with my mother?" Chris questioned, taking a risk and placing a hand on her forearm.

Again there was no answer from the blonde, although she did look up at Jace this time.

"Hey! Hey! She's actually making eye contact!" Jace said a little over excitedly. "Why's she looking at me though." He watched intensely as her eyes drifted from him to the dark hall and back.

With that Jace understood everything. "I think she's just tired, Buddy, I mean did you see the way she danced?" He said, adding a laugh toward the end.

"Let's go play video games or something." He walked past Luna-who sent him a grateful smile-grabbed Chris, and proceeded to head toward their shared room.

Luna sighed, collapsing onto the floor as tears began to flow.

"We had a deal!" Chris' mother's angry voice relapsed again. "Why the hell are you here now!"

Her tears quickened their pace, leaving hot trails down her face. "What could she have meant?" The girl whispered to herself, wiping at her cheeks roughly.

The events of tonight playing over and over again in her cluttered head. Obviously, Mrs. Chambers had her confused with someone, but why?

Suddenly she got an idea, wiping away the tears, Luna crawled to the fireplace and grabbed a photo album.

Maybe Kelsie would hold some kind of answers to who this Lilia was.

The blonde began to flip through the pages. Each page was filled with five pictures front and back.

Most the pictures were of Kelsie at all ages. Some of her the age she looked now with a boy Luna didn't recognise. Some were just family portraits.

Nearing the end of the book she found an envelope marked K.C./C.C./L.H.

Luna flipped open the envelope, and dumped the content out onto her lap.

They are almost professional looking photos, but you would tell they were candids.

In one picture imparticular Kelsie held a toddler-in a frilly dress-on her lap bouncing them. She looked the happiest Luna had ever seen.

Next to Kelsie was one of those baby bouncy things with a baby maybe six or seven months old in it.

The same dark-haired boy from previously knelt beside the one in the boucy mechanism, but his eyes were trained on Kelsie-the biggest grin displayed across his face.

They looked happy something the blonde envied immensely.

Luna checked the back of the picture but only found a date written there: May 26th, 1990.

Since there was no names, Luna would have to go to the source. Hopefully Kelsie was still up.

....

"Hey, Kels." Luna greeted the blonde who leaned against the woodenrailing.

"Hello, Luna." Kelsie smiled, but didn't take her eyes off the pathway to the lake-as though she awaited someone.

"I need to ask you a question." Luna stated. "I ran into your mother this evening, and she got mad at me for no reason."

"So?" Kelsie turned to face her. "My mother has always been a short fuse." She shrugged a shoulder.

"Jace called me Lilia. That's what set her off. She kept saying that we had a deal." Luna paused. "Tell me who Lilia is." She held out the photograph. "Is she the little blonde on here?"

Kelsie reached and gingerly grasp the picture. Her smile grew as she looked over it. "I'm dead." She said quietly.

"I know." Luna came to rest beside her. "Would you like to tell me how it happened?" She asked softly.

The older blonde swallowed hard before speaking. "Yes, but first I will answer your prior question for it ties together." She placed the polaroid picture on her knee so they could both see. "Lilia was my daughter." She sighed. "I was young, dumb, and careless. But I loved Lilia more than the world as did her father." She traced the little girl's figure. "My parents did not agree with my boyfriend nor the child. They thought she'd be better off in someone else's care." Kelsie glanced up at Luna, smiling softly. "So I came up with a plan, but sadly it got me and her killed in the end."

"Tell me about it?" Luna asked. "I want to know the real story."

Kelsie tucked her hair behind her ear and began. "It was sometime late May, and my mother was making me go to an orphanage the next day."

Kelsie leaned against the edge of the crib. "Did you have a good nap?" She questioned her seven-month-old brother, lifting him from the crib. "What about you? Sleep well?" She asked her own daughter, who giggled in response.

"Mommy!" Lilia hugged Kelsie's legs tightly.

"I love you too, baby," The blonde laughed, lifting her up as well.

"There's my little angel." Lilia's father stated, holding his arms out for her.

Once Lilia was in his arms, Kelsie kissed her head. "I'll be back soon, okay? And everything will be better."

Kelsie resisted the urge to cry as she walked to the next door neighbors house.

She knew what she was doing was the right thing. The blonde couldn't let her parents take the one thing that mattered away from her.

But Chris, poor Chris, was to be left in the care of acquaintances.

Kelsie knocked three times, and waited. "I love you, Chrisy, never forget that." She bent to kiss his head as the door opened.

She quickly made up an excuse and left him with Mrs. Sinclair, running back to the lakehouse.

The smell of gasoline was almost overtaking as she entered the home. But to Kelsie the smell meant the end of an era. The end of the pretty little rich girl who had 'gone bad'.

Grabbing a match, she lit the fireplace and then dropped another burning match to the floor.

On her way to the back porch, Kelsie heard cries coming from the bedroom.

She couldn't go back the flames were too high so she ran for the porch. "Xander!" She screamed. "Lilia-she's still inside."

"Where?" He yelled back.

"I think she's in my room." Kelsie rushed out, praying he'd get to her in time.

"But," Kelsie sighed. "I never knew wether he saved her or not, for the door"-she motioned to the door on the left-"was stuck. It took less than three minutes after that for flames to engulf the whole place."

"You're stuck out here?" Luna guessed.

"I can go anywhere in the house, or backyard; but never out the first door." She answered.

"I'm sorry, Kels." Luna pulled Kelsie into a hug.

"It's not your fault, Luna." Kelsie laughed softly.

"Does he know you're out here? Does he come to see you?"

"Yeah he does, but he never mentions Lilia. If he does it's to say sorry for losing her." Kelsie pulled away. "Don't shed tears, darling, it was so long ago." She brought her hand up and wiped away the blonde's tears.

Luna opened her mouth to speak, but before she could the sound of the floor creaking rang through the otherwise quiet house.

"I must go now. Goodbye, Luna." With the Kelsie vanished in thin air.

"Goodbye." Luna whispered.

"Goodbye?" A voice came from behind her. "Goodbye to who?" Chris asked tiredly.

"Oh no one. Just talking to myself." Luna laughed, raising to her feet.

"You know it's two am, right?" He asked, rubbing his eyes.

Luna shook her head. "I honestly had no clue of the time." She said. "Come on let's go back to bed. As you said it's late." She began to lead him back to the other side of the house.

"Goodnight, Chris." Luna waves from her door. "See ya in the morning."

"Night, Luna." He mumbled, tripping back into his room.

Wow it's been a while, hope this was worth the wait lol - Izzy