Hi guys. I'm not sure if this a good idea or not, so let me know if you want me to continue. Also, I'm not that happy with the title, so that might change over the next few weeks if I can think of something better. Anyway, thanks for reading, and hopefully you'll enjoy it.

Chapter 1

An alarm clock goes off and a sleepy blond haired teenager reluctantly gets up. She grabs whatever pieces of clothing she can find from her floor or sprawled across her bed and lazily puts them on wherever they seem to fit.

Her eyes are barely open when she makes her way downstairs and the smell of burning bacon fills her nostrils. As she reaches the kitchen she's confronted with a woman desperately trying to peel something off the bottom of a smoking fry pan. Lux smiles.

"Mum…what are you doing?"

Cate looks up, her face is flushed and she looks completely frustrated. "Honey, I'm so sorry. I was trying to cook you breakfast in bed…" She trails off, offering her daughter a weak smile.

Lux moves into the kitchen next to her mother and pokes at the black stuff on the bottom of the pan. "I will never be able to understand how you are able to burn things so badly."

"It's a gift." Cate retorts before giving her daughter a hug. "Happy Birthday."

Lux hugs her back and smiles. "Happy? Not so much mum. Try hungry."

"Right. Food. There isn't really much in the fridge at the moment… I was supposed to go grocery shopping this afternoon." Cate furrows her brow as she realises they have no suitable food to eat.

Lux opens up the fridge and has a new found understanding of the word empty. Only one thing catches her eye.

"What about this?" Lux asks, turning around with her birthday cake in her hand.

"Cake for breakfast?" Cate says, clearly not enthused.

"Yeah, my birthday, my choice." Lux states, as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.

"Well I guess…but only one slice each." Cate relents, taking the box from her daughter and placing it on the counter top. She retrieves a knife and opens the box.

"Are you sure you don't want to leave this for tonight?" Cate asks, hoping.

"Nope." Lux says smiling angelically up at her mother.

The cake box is now empty and they both sit slumped down against the kitchen cabinet.

"Too…much…cake…" Lux says, rubbing her belly.

"I told you." Cate says, also feeling the effects of the rich strawberry cake.

"I didn't say it was a bad thing. Just…a lot." Lux closes her eyes. She always feels sleepy after she has eaten a lot.

"Well well well, what do we have here."

Both mother and daughter jump in surprise at the voice.

Lux looks up and feigns annoyance at the intruder. "Ryan don't sneak up on us like that."

"Hey, I did no sneaking. You were the ones that were hiding." Ryan bends down and gives Lux a hug. "Happy birthday kiddo."

"Thanks Ry." Lux says smiling into his shoulder. "And for the record we weren't hiding, we're just…really full."

Standing back up, Ryan looks down at the teenage girl questioningly.

She motions to the empty box, with only a few pinkish crumbs left. A wave of realisation hits Ryan's face. "Oh. Well thanks for saving me some."

"We did. There's still some left." Cate speaks up, a slyness in her tone.

"Where?" Ryan asks, looking around the kitchen.

"Here." She says smiling widely, pointing at the pink in her teeth.

"Oh very funny." Ryan smiles, then suddenly his face turns a little serious. "…Well I am really hungry." He quickly bends down, grabbing Cate before she can get away.

"No..don't you dare." She squeals with laughter before his lips are attacking hers.

"Ugh…not in front of the kid please." Lux says getting up and moving away from the two adults on the floor. They both ignore her and Ryan continues to tickle Cate, trying to get his lips to hers again.

"I'm gonna go watch some TV."

She flops down on the couch flicking through the channels. She decides on some little kids cartoon, not really watching it. Her mind drifts elsewhere… She's been thinking about it for a while now - well she's always thought about it, but recently it's been more so.

Her dad.

The subject has never really been properly breached. Not that Cate wouldn't tell her, it just never seemed that important. After all, she had a father figure in her life - Ryan. But for some reason, something inside of her had sparked a curiosity.

What does he look like? Where is he now? Does he have a wife or kids? Could she be a half-sister?

Why doesn't she know him?

The most Lux has been told is that her mother met her father at high school where she-Lux, was at some point conceived. They didn't really know each other very well which is why it didn't work out. And that was about it. Not very much, huh?

Well, tonight that would change. Tonight she would ask her mum about her biological father. That would be her one birthday wish.