It's midnight, I can't sleep. I slowly and quietly make my way out of bed, careful as to not awake Stephanie from her slumber.

The moon is casting light through the window and I can't help but feel myself edging towards it.

Without realising, I've managed to make my way to the window seat so I can directly face the moon, gaze at it in wonder and bask in the bright, pulsing light.

I don't know what happens but it seems to have a sort of power over me, I suppose you could say it hypnotises me.

I feel alive in its presence, invincible almost.

As the light shines down on me I can feel the energy pulsing in my veins. How can I possibly sleep when I feel most awake at this time? The sun doesn't make me feel so full of life, if anything it does the opposite, it's drains me you could say, dulling my energy and power, numbing my senses.

I know why I'm so drawn to the moon. It's in my nature and it's inevitable. I'm Luna, my name gives it away, of course I'm connected to the moon. It's impossible to describe the exact feelings I receive in its presence. It's euphoric, blissful and so many more things that words could not even begin to describe. The only way you could ever fully understand the true power of my connection with the moon would be to swap souls with me and feel the pull yourself.

I do this most nights, watching the moon I mean. It's why I'm always so tired in the morning. It's calming. The moon gives me a sense of clarity. It helps me sort through all my thoughts and helps me to contemplate and reflect on them as well.

Stephanie is the complete opposite to me when it comes to it the moon and my thoughts and actions towards it. She's an early riser. In a way she reminds me of Solis: glowing in the sun, absorbing the life from it, dull and lifeless at night and very cranky too.

Solis. I miss her dearly. She was always so cheerful, my other half. Our sisterly bond was second to none and she's definitely what I miss most about the other world. I shake my head to try and clear my thoughts. I can't think about her. It always brings tears to my eyes and my heart pangs at the mere mention of her. I have to remind myself that she wouldn't want me to feel this way. 'Enjoy life and live it to the fullest' was her famous quote. Whenever I was feeling down she would always tell me this and trust me when I say that was a lot, my childhood wasn't exactly pleasant.

Suddenly, I can feel the weight of something hanging around my neck, I forget that it's there sometimes, I've just become so accustomed to it being there. I clutch the locket in my hands, protectively. Why do I still have this? My family rejected me and threw me away like I was nothing, so why do I still treasure this so dearly? I shouldn't care about them, but I do. After all they've done I still can't bring myself to hate them. Why would they give this to me? Why did they even try in the slightest to protect me? They abandoned me in the woods for goodness sakes yet they still give me this. It's the only sign they ever cared about me. All my life I've been nothing but a disappointment. I know they don't give a damn so why even try to help me at all?

The only conclusion I've ever managed to come up with is to keep the family secret. No one can know about us so maybe they needed to make sure I could conceal myself. But why not just change my looks altogether before I left? They were more than powerful enough to give me a permanent glamour yet they chose to give the locket to me instead. I'll never know. There's no point spending the night pondering my families motives. That would be a never ending and hopeless case.

Family. That doesn't sound right to me. They didn't care for me like a family would. My parents at least, siblings that's another story. Parents. Nope, more like disliked acquaintances. 

They say blood is thicker than water, I beg to differ.

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Tuesday

I'm even more tired than usual. I couldn't escape the moons pull last night. It was stronger than before so I was up much later than normal.

Why was the moons pull so strong? I've no idea. I felt like I was on the verge of flying to it just to be closer, peculiar to say the least.

I just about scraped three hours of sleep last night so me being cranky is the understatement of the century.

Stephanie's in a rather chipper mood for some reason, she won't tell me why. Her good mood is making me all the more annoyed, honestly she's like a ball of sunshine and it's making me nauseous.

I'm curious as to why she's so...excited?...peppy? I'm not really sure what, but something positive. However, I'm in too much of a pissy mood to ask. I'm sure I'll find out soon enough. Steph can't contain her thoughts for too long, it's both a good and bad quality of hers.

I didn't have to wait too long to find out. It's lunch and I'm sitting with, you guessed it, Stephanie. Tyler and Lucas too but Stephanie is the one you pay the most attention to she's just so bubbly and noisy, today even more so than usual.

"Okay," Steph speaks up, breaking me from my thoughts.  "so I'm sure you're all wondering why I'm so happy today." She pauses for dramatic effect and waits for us to agree before continuing "It's because there's a Halloween party on Friday! It's at Melanie's house and seeing as you guys are my friends you're all invited too. You all probably would have been invited anyway because we're all popular but that's besides the point and..." She babbles on. (Melanie is one of the most popular girls in school and a good friend of Stephanie's. She's not a mean girl, she's actually quite nice to everyone, including me, but she gets along with Steph much better than any of us.)

Really she's so excited because of a party?!

It does sound like fun though and if I go I get out of training and that means less exercise, it's a win win situation. I glance at Lucas, silently asking if I can miss training. Even if he says no I'll still go, so it's pointless to ask but I guess it's just common curtesy, the inner Brit in me taking over if you will. Also, if he says yes it means I won't have to deal with arguing with him about it later.

He nods his head, a smirk plastered on his face. I swear it's becoming the norm for him to smirk, he's almost always doing it now.

"I'm in." I say, masking my joy as to not further excite Steph. Her happiness is still putting me on edge, sleep deprived Luna is not someone to be loud and happy around, it just pisses me of all the more.

"Us too." Lucas and Tyler both say in unison. Honestly, it's like they can read each others minds sometimes, it's fucking creepy.

"Yay!" Steph squeals in delight, clapping her hands together. "We're going to have to decide on costumes though. Group costume? Or shall we do couples costumes." She adds acting serious. When it comes to this sort of thing you have to be careful how you answer Steph, say something in the wrong way and all hell breaks loose.

I'm cringing at the idea of matching costumes, it's just not my thing. Luckily I can see both Lucas and Tyler shying away from the idea too but they look to scared to stand up to her, guess I'm going to have to save the day.

"Gee, um, I don't know Steph. You know coordinating costumes isn't my thing. I think I'm just going to pick my own costume, besides you're not a big fan of my style."

"Oh. Okay then" Stephanie says, looking dejected. Phew, good thing I know how to handle her. If I said that the wrong way I probably wouldn't still be here right now. "Can we at least do a couples costume Ty?" There's hopeful glimmer in her eyes.

Tyler stiffness, he thought I got him off the hook, sorry Tyler there's only so much I can do, you're on your own now. He scratches the back of his neck "Um, well I don't know Steph, maybe."

Stephanie drops her head, seeming very upset, well done Tyler. I do not want to have to console her later, I'm no good with mushy stuff.

"Don't be sad love. How about we discuss this later, yeah?" He says, careful as to not upset her further.

I see a small smile making its way into her lips, thank god, I don't think I could have delt with Stephanie right now, there's just so much on my mind. "Sure Ty, I'll let you think about it. We can talk later." She says sweetly. I think she's planning something, there's no way she'd give in that easily otherwise, watch out Tyler you're in for a surprise.

"Good." He says, looking slightly sceptical, his deep-set, hazel eyes seem to be analysing her. I'd be sceptical too, I guess he's learnt a lot about Steph, most wouldn't have noticed the scheme that seems to be twinkling in the back of her sparkling, blue eyes. Good luck Tyler, you're going to need it.

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So that was a long chapter...

Hopefully you learnt a bit more about Luna and her connection to the moon and how she feels about her sister.

I feel really bad for Luna because she has to be away from Solis. However, I'm the one who wrote it that way so I should be blaming myself, oh well, besides I kind of like it this way.

Okay, I'm done talking. I hope you took pleasure in reading this chapter. Until next time, bye.