Long Live Life
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Twilight characters or anything Twilight related.
Let me start things off with I hope you all are enjoying yourselves with reading my stories. Now if you guys have read Have A Purpose, you remember that I said that that was the final sequel of my After Breaking Dawn series. I mean you saw Edward and Bella's story, you saw the new characters going through things while seeing Nessie and Jacob and the Volturi is done, what else? But as I looked back, there hasn't really been a Nessie and Jacob much seen and also there's the part about Nessie and Jacob's baby. I never planned for another sequel but this reader made a review suggesting that I should. I sort of did. You just read A Christmas Surprise which was a spinoff. That was crucial for the next one. Now you get to read this story which takes place after that story fourteen years later. You could call this a sequel but I call this 'a look into the new future.' So I wanna give a shout out to marissamtz03 for inspiring me to do this. It took some thinking about what to write but I finally figured it out. This will take time to update later on because I want this story to be good. This one's for you and everyone. Enjoy!
Again, this takes place fourteen years later after Have A Purpose and A Christmas Surprise. If you have not read the other stories; A New Life, The Other Half, A Reason To Smile, Happily Ever After, Full Of Surprises, Forever Together, Value In Beliefs, Have A Purpose and A Christmas Surprise in that order, read those first before you get to this so you won't get any confusion. No preface.
Life is a long journey, with problems to solve, lessons to learn, but most of all, experience to enjoy.
Chapter 1 – Starting Over… I Think
Luna's POV
"Luna. Luna, wake up. We're almost there."
I slowly opened my eyes at mom's call. As soon as they were opened, I saw the woman with long dark red hair, my mother Maureen, driving with both hands on the wheel and eyes on the road. Something caught my eye and I moved the strand of my chocolate cherry hair to the side as I turned my head to the front of the passenger seat where I'm sitting. I looked down the bouquet of white and pink roses I received before we left and the card that was attached to it.
"I'll miss you Luna.
Love, Jenny"
I sighed after reading the card my neighbor's six year old daughter I used to babysit back in Portland gave me with the flowers. At least they were nice to me apart from my family. They always were unlike everyone back in school.
"We're in such a nice city. They have some good places to go shopping." Mom said looking around through the windshield. "Hey Luna, I see that new school you'll be attending. It looks great, don't you think?"
I sat up straighter and looked to my window to see the big school campus. We just passed the sign that reads "Lakeville South High School" in colors of red and gold.
"It looks nice." I shrugged.
"Luna, I know this is hard, but you will do just fine here in Minnesota. I did this for you." Mom said being patient. Our reason for moving to Minnesota from Portland is because of mom's work. She's a doctor and is one of the best. That's when Minnesota was in need of help and mom volunteered. She couldn't possibly refuse the offer. There's another reason to it, but it hurts just thinking about it.
"I know, it's just… I hope this school is better than the others." I said with a sigh. It's the beginning of March and I'm continuing my freshmen year in high school and my younger sister, Korrina is continuing her level at second grade. We both start next week just to get assimilated into the new environment according to mom. Missing my friends back in Portland wasn't a problem; I don't have any friends there. It's not that I don't want to be friends with anyone, I do. I just couldn't no matter what I do. I'm a loner, maybe an outsider.
"Don't worry." Mom said reaching over to give me a firm squeeze on my shoulder and I turned to see her giving me a warm smile. "This school will be great for you. I just know it. Think of this as like an adventure for you. You'll never know what could happen."
I hope so but somehow I doubt it for me. With me, there's nothing special for me, or about me. Mom continued driving for half an hour following the big truck that has all our furniture and belongings.
"Luna, wake up Korrina, will you?" Mom asked and I looked over to the back seat to see the eight year old little girl with long dark red brown hair asleep holding on the grey silver wolf stuff animal in her little hands. My little sister is such a lucky little angel.
"Korrina," I said reaching for her knee and gave her a light shake. She stirred a bit until her eyes opened up to me. "We're here." Korrina looked out the window and got excited to see a nice big house with a beautiful green lawn. It's not what you called 'celebrity kind' but it's amazing.
"So, what do you girls think?" Mom asked as we entered our new home while the men were unloading the truck.
"It looks great!" Korrina said smiling. "I like that shiny thing in the living room." She said pointing up to the ceiling where an object was hanging on it showing its crystal sparkle.
"It's called a chandelier, Korrina. It's used to decorate the place." I explained to her with small smile.
"Wow, it must be a welcome present!" Korrina said causing me and mom to laugh.
"Maybe," Mom said. "Why don't you girls go upstairs and pick out your rooms. They're all much bigger than the ones back home."
Korrina and I walked upstairs and sure enough the four rooms were a bit bigger. Not gigantically big but normal big you would say. I know for sure that the room with the bathroom will be for mom. We can leave another room that's above the garage for the guests which leaves the other two for me and Korrina to decide who gets which.
"I want this room!" She said coming into the room that faces the backyard.
"Okay, then I'll take that one." I said pointing to the one above the living room facing the front yard.
"Look Luna," Korrina said opening the doors leading to a balcony outside. "Look at the backyard from here!" I followed her outside sure enough to see the backyard which was normally big and a nice stone patio. Just add some furniture and the place will be even more nice.
"It's beautiful." I said to her. "Come on, let's get everything unpack."
We spent the next few hours bringing in everything from the truck placing them where they should be in the house. After helping Korrina with the bed and unpacking her things in her room, I went to do the same in mine. My single bed was already moved in and so were the boxes for me to unpack. I unpacked the boxes with all my clothes and put them in my closet and drawers that were also there along with my desk, mirror and nightstand. As I was unpacking, I pulled out a photo frame where a picture of my family is shown.
There's Korrina with the same hair color she has now in mom's arms as they both smiled to the camera. The same with me where on my shoulder was an arm coming from a man with short dark brown hair. I felt the tears coming out of me as I silently cried.
It's been a year since my father Noland passed away due to Leukemia. He died one week before my last birthday. He was funny, caring, loving, very good with software and has a great personality. I just miss him so much. Mom, Korrina and I had a hard time with our lives since dad died. As time goes by, the pain slowly heals, but not completely. We all have to do our best to move with our lives like mom and her new job and Korrina, well, she's just a kid so she doesn't exactly understand things yet. I don't understand life. Why did it have to happen to dad? Why does this thing happen to me? What did I ever do? I just don't get it.
"Luna, Korrina, come downstairs. The pizza's here." Mom called. We were told about dinner since it's only our first day and of course mom is tired to cook. After wiping the tears away, I left my new room and joined Korrina as we walked downstairs together to see mom handing the money to the guy who just delivered our pizza.
Dinner was alright. We just talked about how nice Minnesota is. I just hope it's nice to me. The past week was spent with unpacking and rearranging furniture in the house. The TV was set up, the cobwebs have all been removed, everything has been dusted and the place was cleaned. Mom got settled at her new work at the hospital two days ago and the staff there welcomed her with open arms. I wonder if I get a welcome like that when I start school. Korrina might since she's loved by everyone. How can you not love her? Her life is totally opposite of mine. Anyway,
I woke up on a Monday morning. Today, I start my first day at a new school. After taking a shower and getting dressed, I had breakfast with mom and Korrina. Korrina is already dressed looking very excited. That makes one of us.
"Okay, so I'll drop you girls off at your school on my way to work. Luna, you'll take the bus home and I'll pick up Korrina when I get off." Mom said where I saw her in uniform.
Soon it was time to go, Korrina and I grabbed our backpacks and we piled into mom's light blue Ford car and soon we were off. This is it.
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