I feel terrible! I spent the whole of last week redecorating my bedroom, and it took longer than I thought. It took longer than I'd thought, so now I'm updating late. I'm so sorry for making you wait. Okay then. *Sighs* Now that I'm done begging for forgiveness…

I know that the title for this chapter isn't very 'original', but it's more of a filler. This also marks where the episode 'Breach' begins.

Chapter Six: Breach

The next few days went well for Luna. By the third day she had already gotten familiar with her new routine: Leah would walk her every morning to where Lexie, Lukas and some of their friends parked their bikes. Lexie and Luna would say goodbye to Leah, and then walk to their first two classes together. Then, they would meet Lukas in the hall and Luna would be traded off.

Once lunch came, her cousin would get her from him and buy her lunch. They'd eat alone together because Lexie and Lukas ate with their own group, and Carmen – obviously – ate with the jocks and cheerleaders. Sometimes though, Leah would sit with some of the other friends she'd made there and Luna would sit alone, listening to whatever 'book' she had that day. It was these days that Lukas would occasionally stare at her from his table, but Lexie was the only one who really noticed.

When lunch was over, Lexie would come over to the smaller girl's table and take her to their health class. Luna didn't like this particular class at all; she knew that – like at her old school – all attention would be on her when they got to studying birth defects and disabilities. Just the thought of it made her want to shudder. She actually did when she found out she had this class.

But her mood always brightened when they got to chemistry, which she learned she had with both Lexie and Lukas. Things had gotten very amusing on her first day. The chemistry teacher was apparently new to the school, and was only in her first year of teaching. This, of course, made her one of those helpless, lost-puppy-like teachers who panic over every little mishap in the classroom.

So when she realized her new student was blind, she began freaking out on the inside. Luna felt all of it, and had to keep herself from dropping to the floor in hysterics. Does this woman really think I'm dumb enough to mess with potentially dangerous chemicals? She remembered thinking. Thankfully, Lexie switched seats with one of the other students so that they could be made partners. It was a silent agreement between the two girls that Lexie would deal with anything chemical-y, and Luna would do what she could while avoiding them.

She had also gotten closer to Lukas – sort of. Their English teacher had been out for a week, so they'd had that whole time to talk during class. But sometimes she didn't have much to say, so she would just listen to him talk – or vent.

Today she was sitting quietly as he ranted to her about his friend Brett, some star football player here, that was refusing to hang out with them. Luna tried to see his point of view on the argument, but was also a bit curious as to why he wanted Brett to join them so bad. Lukas seemed go tense when she asked and tried to brush it off, saying they just wanted to help him with some of the stress he'd been going through.

"By 'help'," she said hesitantly, "You guys don't mean you're doing drugs or anything...right?"

He snorted. "I'm offended," he said sarcastically, "We don't do that kind of stuff. We just want to help him blow off some steam; get rid of some of that extra energy. You know?" She nodded, but was still clearly confused. He sighed, deciding to just change the subject. "So what about you? No plans for the tonight?" It was Friday, and everybody seemed to be making plans.

Luna groaned, obviously not liking the new topic. "I haven't really been doing much," she began, "But last night my parents finished unpacking and finally got rid of the last box. So now they want to go out and celebrate 'officially moving out'." She made quotation marks in the air when she said that. "God! And I'd bet anything that Leah is going to make me wear one of her skirts!" She shuddered exaggeratedly.

"You should," He said, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear, and smirked, "Show off those nice legs of yours."

She automatically ducked her head, hiding her blush. God! She thought, I may never be pale again around this guy!

They were on their way to lunch, but instead of keeping straight on the path that Luna had become accustomed to, Lukas made a sudden turn into another hallway. "Lukas, what the-"

"Just gimme a sec," he said, cutting her off, "I just need to use the restroom real quick."

"But why can't you just-"

"Don't worry, Luna," she could hear him opening a door, "Here If you want, you can wait in the girl's room so you won't be standing in the hall. I'll knock on the door when I'm done."

She nodded and let him gently push her into the door he'd opened for her. She just stood there for a second, before walking over and leaning against the wall on her left. If she was correct, this was the wall connected to the boy's room. She slid down the wall and sat down. Something told her that Lukas would take more than just 'a sec'. Reaching into her bag, she pulled out her lunch, which consisted of a veggie taco, an apple, and a strawberry milkshake. "Girl's gotta have her strawberry," She mumbled to herself.

Just before she could take a bite out of her food, she heard the door from the boys' restroom open and close again. She paused and listened, thinking that maybe Lukas really did only need a second. But when she heard two voices talking through the wall, she began to feel as if this had all been planned. Was Lukas meeting someone?

She nearly yelped when she heard what sounded like breaking tile, followed by the sound of a body being slammed against something (1). It was quiet; Lukas and whoever else was there must have either stopped talking, or were speaking in hushed tones. She kept silent, even clamping her own hand over her mouth so as not to make a noise in case she was startled again.

After a few more tense minutes, she heard the door open before a knock was heard from the door the girls' restroom. She quickly picked up her taco, stuffing the rest of her things back into her messenger bag. She made her way to the door and pushed it open, and instantly she felt the familiar touch of Lukas gripping her arm – a tad rougher than usual – and the wave of his energy and rage.

She didn't say anything about what she heard; in fact she kept completely silent as they walked. She just wanted to get to her isolated table and as far from him right now. She had that sense of danger again, like on her first day – the kind of danger that only came when Lukas was openly upset – and didn't want to be around to find out why. She was terrified, not of what he might do, but of saying something to cause him more anger.

So she stayed silent, even when she was safely seated at her own table. Leah had decided to sit at her other table, which was fine with Luna. Right now, the blind girl wanted to be alone, and to get the thoughts of whatever could've made those noises out of her head. So instead, she concentrated on the dinner her family was going to tonight – the dinner she was dreading.

Luna tugged uncomfortably at the hem of the tight, black skirt she was wearing. "Stop pulling at it, Lu. You're wasting your time!" Leah said, working on her cousin's hair, "Not even you can make it magically grow longer."

"You never know," Luna mumbled – more like growled.

She had been right. As soon as they walked through their door, her cousin practically shoved her into the shower. Then she dressed her up in one of Carmen's hand-me-down, knee-length skirts, and a thin, red V-neck blouse that showered off the top of her cleavage. She knew the colors because she had asked for them; unfortunately, she never told Leah the style she wanted. Too late now, she thought, there is no way I am going to win an argument with Leah.

The only comfort she had now, was that she got wear her own flip-flops. Everything else she was wearing was Leah's or her sister's. "Done!" Leah said, bringing Luna out of her thoughts.

Leah admired her work. Her cousin's hair was left down, as usual, but now a silver barrette with a white rose pinned the right side of her hair away from her face. If she wanted to cover her eyes, Luna would have to use a pair of sunglasses. But doing so would only bring even more attention to the fact that she was blind, therefore she'd have to leave her eyes exposed.

Leah didn't know why her cousin hated her eyes – she thought they were beautiful. Then again Luna never did like sticking out. Add to that the fact she was pretty much a loner, and well, it might explain why she didn't like people, and vice-verse. Still, that didn't stop her from helping – or forcing – Luna out of her shell.

Luna heard her cousin walk to her side of the room and back, before she felt something being placed around her neck. She smiled, realizing what it was before Leah spoke up again. "I found your choker in my jewelry box. Cleaver of you to hide it in there."

Luna fingered the necklace. It had been a gift from her aunt – Leah's mother – which she'd been given for her third birthday. No one was sure why, but Ana had never liked that her sister gave it to Luna, so the young girl had learned a long time ago to keep it hidden from her mother. That was why she hid it in Leah's things, knowing her mother would try to dispose of it when they moved.

The choker was plain black leather. A plain, and thin silver chain extended from the center. From the chain, hung a round moonstone that lay right in the center of her collar bone. The stone was about the size of a quarter, and sometimes – according to Leah – it would seem to glow in the moon light. "Thank you Lee lee," She said, stroking the stone, just as Leo called them downstairs.

The girls took each others arm as the exited the room. Luna had decided to leave her cane home, thinking that Leah could just help walk her to wherever she needed for the night. But boy, was that a mistake.

Mad wasn't even the right word for how she felt right now. No, she was pissed off, to the maximum – at her mom. Partially because it'd become a habit over the last fifteen years or so, and partially because it really was Ana's fault. Everything had been going great at dinner; the restaurant wasn't too crowded, the food had smelled great, and the staff didn't seem to notice that she was blind – no shock or pity had come off of them.

But then she had to use the restroom.

They'd just ordered their drinks, but Luna had had the urge to 'go' since they'd gotten out of the car – of course that would be the time for her bladder to complain. She'd asked Leah to take her, but her mother stepped up and offered – more like demanded – to take her instead. She wasn't too sure about going with her mother, and Leah didn't seem to like it either, but her mother insisted, and won.

All had went well, up until she came back out to find her mother gone, back to their table at least half way across the restaurant. Luna had remembered the path they took though, and had been confident she could find her way back and avoid any sort of collision with someone.

She'd been successful, until someone at a table that had been empty before, pushed their chair up to stand. She bumped into them, and – through some chain of events that she couldn't comprehend – this resulted in that person, an unlucky waiter, and Luna herself to end up on the floor, with food spread around them and on the velvet carpet. Even though she hadn't seen it, she heard it, and was still red-faced from the memory of her poor victim and the waiter yelling at her – before realizing she couldn't see, of course.

But embarrassed was all that particular portion of the night brought for her. It wasn't until her mother got involve that things really went to hell. When the waiter and the mad she'd bumped into saw she was blind, they'd both had different reactions. The waiter was, of course, pitiful and had offered to take her back to her table. The man, however, had only gotten louder, complaining about a blind girl wondering around until it had caught both the manager's, and her family's attention.

When her parents apologized to the manager and the man, her mother had the nerve to blame her for everything, not even mentioning the part where she left Luna alone in the bathroom. The worst part though? Throughout her sympathetic, and 'tearful' apology as they left the restaurant, Ana had been feeling quite smug, and proud of herself. At this point she reminded Luna of that popular mean girl, who would do anything to ruin the poor nerd-girl's life.

So now here they were, at barley six-thirty in the evening, returning home from their five-thirty dinner. Leaning against her window, Luna felt the car slow as Leo stopped right in front of what she guessed was the front gate. She heard his window slide down, and the vaguely familiar voice of Eddie Brown reached her ears. "Evening Mr. Amador," he greeted.

"Evening, Eddie," Her father greeted back. "What seems to be the problem here?" It was then that Luna noticed the sound of honking horns and people complaining on the other side of the rode.

"Chief Monohan just ordered a lockdown. There was some sort of breach in the security system, but I can't spare any details right now. You're in luck, though, that we're only keeping people in for the night."

"So we are aloud in?"

"Yes sir. Just give me a moment to open the doors for ya," Before leaving, Eddie added, "It's also lucky that you got here when you did. I have a feeling that this gate is gonna be one, big traffic jam in the next half hour,"

She heard her father chuckle, bidding farewell to the young security guard before they continued on their way home. As soon as they were away from the noise, her mother turned in her seat, and Luna felt her gaze drilling a hole in her forehead. "I'm very disappointed in you," she resisted a flinch at the sound of her mother's voice. When Ana was upset, her voice came out as a hiss, that reminded anyone who knew her of an angry rattler. "If you'd just taken your walking cane like you were supposed to – like I told you – this wouldn't of happened!" Whoa, back up!

Luna bristled. Was that what this had been about – why Ana had left her alone in the bathroom. To teach her a lesson? She turned away from her mother's voice, 'looking' out the window and realizing that her father was on the road on the forest's edge. Even in the evening, when the sun was most likely setting, the living trees and plants around her would forever glow with a brilliant white in her eyes. "If you had just listen to me, for once," Her mother was still yelling, "maybe we could've save ourselves from such – from such an...an embarrassment. At least face me when I'm talking to you!"

But Luna had since forgotten her mother's voice was even there. At some point during Ana's rant, a strange sensation had almost completely taken over Luna's body. It was some kind of urge; like her intuition telling her to do something she would never normally do. Yet she was fully willing to do it now.

Fumbling around with her hand on the door, she found the lock to it and opened it. She pushed the door open, the sudden burst of wind momentarily paralyzing everyone else in the car, and she took it as her opportunity. Ignoring the yell of her now-unfrozen cousin, she jumped.

Alright, I'm terrible. Not only am I updating late, but I'm also leaving you on such a cruel and nearly unspeakable cliffhanger. But, you know, I'm hopping that this will prompt more readers to review, in order to ask me for more.

Also, it has been decided that between chapters 16 and 17, all of Luna's secrets will be revealed. So start counting down!