I was going to wait for the chapter, but was too excited!

Disclaimer- I dont own anything about Holes. All I own is Luna, Misty, Nathaniel, Mrs. Westerman, and Ellie ( although Ellie is my best friend in real life, the character based on her is my idea)


It had been a few days and Luna had heard nothing from her mother. When she wasn't in school, Luna was either feeding the kids or sitting by the phone, waiting for some kind of call.

The call she got was the call she didn't want.

She answered the phone with hope, "Mom?"

"Excuse me…" Said a voice on the other end of the phone. It sounded like a lady who was too high on herself.

"I'm sorry…" Luna said, upset it wasn't her mother. "Who is this?"

"This is your aunt." The woman said.

"My what??" Luna hadn't even realized she had an aunt. Her mother never talked about her.

"Your aunt." The woman said, annoyed. "I called about your mother."

Luna knew something bad was coming. "What about my mother?"

There was a pause.

"Your mother's dead." The voice was cold and uncaring.

"What?" Luna said with a chuckle, not believing.

"I said your mother's dead." The voice said again.

Luna sat with the phone against her ear. She was partly in shock and partly in disbelief. "Your lying." She accused.

"Why would I lie?"

"Because…" Luna tried looking for an answer, realizing there was no other reason for the phone call but the truth. She started crying and placed her hand over her mouth. "No." She said.

She dropped the phone. Her mother was gone. All because of her.

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Luna looked out the window of the van. Misty was asleep in the back seat, holding her bunny close and Nathaniel was sitting next to her, reading one of his books.

Luna sighed. She was heading out to the middle of the desert to stay with a woman she didn't even know. She looked back at her sister and then at her brother. Now, they depended on her. She had to protect them.

"You okay?" The woman driving asked. Her name was Abby Westerman. She was the Crowe siblings social worker. She had blonde hair and was very young. Luna liked her because she was nice.

"I'm fine." Luna said, lying. She was really worried. "What'll happen to us?"

"Your be staying here with your Aunt Louise." Mrs. Westerman said, keeping her eyes on the dusty road. "She runs a detention camp for boys."

That's what worried Luna. She didn't like the fact that her sister and her would be staying with a bunch of delinquents. "What if something happens?"

"Nothing is going to happen." Mrs. Westerman said, smiling. "I promise."

"That's what my mother said," Luna muttered to herself.


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