Long Live Life
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Now let's see how Luna and Lucien are doing.
Chapter 13 – Where Do We Stand?
Luna's POV
It's Monday which means it's time for school. Oh joy. That was the sarcasm there. I was at the kitchen with mom and Korrina just finished with breakfast when the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." I said coming to the door. I wonder who could be here at this hour. I arrived and opened it nearly fainted because of who it is.
"Hi Luna." Lucien smiled.
"H-Hi Lucien." I said blushing. "Um why don't you come in?" I said letting him inside and he did.
"Hi Lucien!" Korrina said waving to him with a huge smile on her face when Lucien and I walked into the kitchen.
"Hey Korrina." Lucien smiled to her.
"Oh Lucien, good morning." Mom said smiling to him. "What brings you to our home?"
"Well I thought it'd be okay if I drive Luna to school." Lucien said. Wait what?! Is he serious?
"Well if Luna doesn't have any objections to it then sure." Mom said with a smile. Oh my gosh, thank you mom! "That will make things easier with me just dropping Korrina to school before I go to work."
"Then it's settled then." Lucien smiled turning to me that made me blushed. What is wrong with me today? Not that it's bad.
"I guess we should get going then." I said. "I just need to go grab my bag."
"I'll meet you outside." Lucien said and then headed out as I went upstairs to grab my bag. As I came back downstairs, I was met by my mother who gave me a big hug.
"I'm so happy for you Luna." She said.
"W-What?" I asked feeling red over my face.
"Don't think I don't know." Mom smiled when she lets go. "You think you weren't gonna tell me about you and Lucien being together."
"Um, well, we're not, I mean we are, I mean it's just, we just… confessed." I said feeling embarrassed.
"It's still something for you two and I'm happy to see that he's made an impact on you." Mom said.
"Thanks mom." I said trying my best not to cry. Mom saw it and wiped the tears off my eyes and then hugged me again.
"I love you Luna." She cried.
"I love you too mom." I said hugging her back.
"You have a good day." Mom said kissing my check. I nodded and said goodbye to her and Korrina before I was out of the house.
"Everything okay?" Lucien asked when I got inside his car.
"Yeah," I said giving him a look to assure him it is. Lucien than reached out to hold my hand as I almost jumped out of my seat from the spark of his touch on my skin but I was able to control it.
"Let's go then." He smiled and then pulled out of my driveway and on the road heading to school. This might be a good day. A few minutes later, we arrived at the school parking lot where the students are hanging around before school starts. Lucien turned off the car, he got out and slid across from the front over to my side where he opened the door for me.
The minute I got out of the car with my bag over my shoulder, heads turned to our direction. Oh no, not again.
"Um, everyone's staring at us Lucien." I whispered to him as we started walking.
"Well not everyone," Lucien said and pointed out. "I think that guy just saw it. Besides," He smirked. "I am breaking the rules anyway."
"Rules?" I asked in confusion.
"You heard what everyone says about me and my family. Well, they're about to see me like they've never seen before. Like this." Lucien said as he took my hand causing some of the students nearby to gasp. Looks like Damien was right; people will know about it soon and it's soon.
"Come on, my family's waiting for us." Lucien said.
"Wait what?! Your family, now?!" I asked.
"Well yeah, is there a problem?" Lucien said when he stopped and so did I. "I know it's soon but I just wanna introduce everyone to my girlfriend. I mean if you want to be called that." Oh my gosh, he called me his girlfriend already? We've only been, well sort of been together for three days and we're already at that stage? Well of course I want this. I just hope we're not going too fast.
"No, no, I mean, I want to be called your girlfriend," I said causing Lucien to smile. "It's just that… well, what if your family doesn't like me?" Lucien chuckled as if he couldn't believe it. That was a stupid question to ask.
"Don't worry; they'll love you. They're really excited to meet you, mostly Alice so be ready." Lucien said.
"Okay." I said and Lucien took my hand again as we walked towards a set of cars parked together where the Cullens are hanging around. I couldn't help but gulp as we came up to them with me being all nervous.
"Hey guys, I'd like you all to meet Luna Snow. Luna that's Rosalie, Emmett, Alice, Jasper, Edward, Bella, Lucas, Krystal, my brother Bryce and his girlfriend Lucina, you already met my cousin Evan and that's his twin sister Sarah." Lucien said introducing me to his family.
"Um, hello everybody." I said nervously.
"Hi!" I jumped when Alice jumped in right in front of me looking so excited, too excited. "It's so nice to finally meet you Luna! I can tell Lucien is so into you! You and I should definitely go shopping together! You and I can have so much fun! We'll be best friends! I can tell! I'm super excited!" Okay how do I respond to all of that? How can she keep on talking like right now without taking a break in between?
"Okay Alice, you're overwhelming her, and us, again." Lucas said pulling Alice away from me and handed her to Jasper. "Sorry about this little pixie. She gets excited over everything and I mean everything." Lucas said to me as Alice stuck her tongue at him.
"You live with her long enough and think she's settled down now but no." Bella said laughing. Again, I don't know how to respond to that. Should I laugh with Bella? Suddenly, everything inside me, the feeling loosened up and I felt at ease, comfortable to be exact.
"No need to be nervous Luna," Jasper said smiling. "We're just happy that we all get to meet you."
"By that he means normal happy unlike this girl here." Krystal said pointing out to Alice.
"Well, I'm happy I get to meet you all." I said giving them a small smile.
"You don't know how Lucien is like since he met you. He wouldn't stop thinking about you." Edward said chuckling causing Lucien to look embarrassed as he gave Edward a dirty look.
"Look, whatever you heard about us are nothing to listen to." Rosalie smiled to me.
"Yeah! Now come here!" Next thing that happened was that when Emmett spoke, he ran up to me and picked me up in his arms for a big hug as he spun me around. Okay I know that Emmett is a lot like a huge teddy bear that I really wanna hug if he wasn't smiling but right now,
"I-can't-breathe!" I tried to say.
"Emmett!" That's when he put me down and I stumbled a bit from the dizziness as I regained focus to see Emmett grinning.
"Sorry about him, he's such a child sometimes." Sarah said. "Like my brother here."
"Hey!" Evan said in offense and started arguing with Sarah as Lucien led me to Bryce and Lucina.
"It's nice to meet you Luna." Bryce smiled as he shook my hand. When Bryce smiled, I somehow couldn't resist more than I couldn't resist Lucien's. I can see where he gets that from.
"It's nice to meet you too." I said. I then turned to Lucina who then surprised me with a hug instead of a handshake. Okay this is unexpected. Nice but unexpected.
"I'm sorry," She said when she let go wiping away her tears. "It's just that Lucien means a lot to me and you don't know how happy I am that he has you."
"Wow, thank you Lucina." I said feeling touched as Lucina smiled.
"Come on, we should get to class." Sarah said when the five minute bell rang.
"Ah screw the classes. OW!" Emmett cried when Rosalie smacked his head.
"I'm with him on that. OW!" Evan cried when Sarah punched his arm. Wow, the girls here sure can hit hard.
"I'll walk you to your class." Lucien said taking my hand as we all walked inside the school building. Everyone was whispering once again when they saw us mostly on me and Lucien due to the hand holding. We soon went separate ways for classes. I saw Bryce patting Lucien's shoulder as Lucina gave him a hug adding a quick kiss on the cheek.
"Here's your stop." Lucien said as we arrived at my history class. "I'll see you after class."
"Bye Lucien." I said and Lucien hugged me before he took off to his class. The minute I walked into the classroom, heads turned to me while the teacher was going through her computer. Why does everyone do this? You see me and Lucien together and it's like we have extra heads or something. I quickly went to my desk where I have the row to myself since the desk next to me is empty and pulled out my notebook and pencil.
"Hey," I looked up to see two girls sitting in front of me; one with long plum dark brown hair and the other one with long mahogany dark brown hair.
"You're Luna Snow right?" The plum dark hair girl asked me.
"Um, yes." I said nervously.
"Nice to meet you." She smiled. "I'm Kiani Violet, and this is Piper Trakel." She said as Piper smiled to me.
"Thanks for introducing me." I turned to see a boy with curly light brown hair spoke sarcastically as he chuckled before turning to me. "Hey, I'm Leonard Risk. Sorry if we never introduce ourselves to you last week. We weren't sure if you were comfortable talking to people."
"Oh," I said feeling a bit relaxed now. "No it's okay. It's nice to meet you too."
"So, are you and Lucien, you know, an item?" Piper asked me.
"Well… I guess you could say that." I said.
"That is so cool!" Piper said.
"You are so lucky!" Kiani said.
"Yeah it's not every day you see a Cullen dating someone that's not in the family." Leonard said. Okay this is surprising.
"How did it happen between you and him?" Kiani asked me. That's when several girls that are in my class came up to me asking the same thing as some of the boys were the same wanting to know what the Cullens are like. I can't believe this; I'm actually getting attention, in a good way?
It was hard to do any work in class with students hounding me with questions about me, Lucien and the Cullens since the teacher let us do free time due to her not feeling well. If the class is like this I hate to see how my other classes turn out. I was right when it seems to me that today is 'ask Luna about her and Lucien' day. Okay that was a long name but still.
"Hey," Lucien said when I came out of Biology and saw him waiting for me.
"Hey," I smiled as Lucien took my hand.
"Where's Damien?" Lucien asked when he notices that Damien didn't come out.
"I texted him earlier and he's at home sick since Sunday." I answered when he told me he got the flu.
"Damn, I hope he gets better soon." Lucien said as we walked together to the cafeteria.
"I'm sure he'll be fine with his father taking care of him." I said as Lucien nodded his head.
"Well once again, we don't have to worry about him being alone at lunch or we would've made things weird for Damien if we let him sit with us and my family." Lucien said.
"I don't think it's weird." I said. "It's just that well… Damien has a crush on Sarah."
"Yeah, I pretty much knew that." Lucien said. What!
"You did? Does Sarah know?" I asked.
"Nope." Lucien said. "She's all into her studies and doesn't really associate with other boys at this school. It's not that she doesn't get offers, she does. How can she not? I have Algebra class with her and Damien and he sit next to her. I saw him staring at her while she's taking notes. He does that all the time. He stares at Sarah like her and Evan's brother Jacob stare at a new Lamborghini. How could she not notice it for this long?" He chuckled. Wow.
"And you never told Sarah about it?" I asked.
"I don't meddle into people's love life. That's Alice's job." Lucien said chuckling.
"Well just so you know, it's not that Damien would feel weird being with you guys and Sarah, it's just that Damien's a bit… shy to talk to Sarah." I said.
"Really. Hmm," Lucien said as we made it inside the cafeteria where everybody is already at. Lucien led me to the table where the Cullens are sitting.
"About time you two show up." Evan said as Lucien got me a chair to sit down before he sat next to me.
"We were just talking Ev." Lucien said to him.
"Sure, talking. OW!" Emmett cried when Jasper smacked his head. Do they always do that to him? He might have a concussion if so.
"Knock it off, you're embarrassing the new lovebirds." Jasper said. "Mostly Luna." He said as I felt myself feel red.
"Maybe I shouldn't be here." I said about to get up
"No don't." Lucien said holding my hand to stop me. He sounded desperate, or maybe hurt.
"Nice going Emmett." Rosalie said smacking his head.
"Less than a day and she now wants to leave us." Krystal said to Emmett.
"N-No, no, it's just that… well, I feel like, with everyone watching us now and well…" I felt embarrassed on what to say but Edward seems to have know what I was gonna say when he spoke.
"Don't worry about us Luna. Everyone here is just curious about us wanting to be friends with you." He said with a smile.
"Yeah, it's just because there's nothing else to talk about besides sports, music and celebrities since there's nothing really happening much here in the city." Lucas said to me. "New kids are always the talk of the town but it'll die out. I give it about a week or two."
"Are you sure it's okay?" I asked still in the spot to get up.
"Of course," Sarah said.
"Don't worry about it." Bella smiled.
"Please? Stay." Lucien said with a look that's so hard to resist.
"Okay." I said putting myself down in my seat causing Lucien to smile as he gives me a firm squeeze on my hand. I actually don't wanna let go of this feeling of his hand on mine.
"Just so you know, we don't care about our reputation at this school." Lucina said.
"Yeah we already went through too much from one of the previous schools we went to." Emmett said.
"What happened at your old school?" I asked.
"That school was being so stereotypical of students staying in the status quo where they can treat other students below them like shit." Bryce said as most of the Cullens shook their heads. Wow.
"Don't even get started on the principal." Rosalie said. "At least he got fired when the superintendent finally found files that failed to be reported and these students who tried to cause us trouble big time got expelled."
"Serves them right." Bryce said.
"Wow, I never knew a school could be like that." I said. "That's way worst than when…"
"Yeah, Lucien told us about this Patrick guy bullying you." Jasper said. "We're sorry for what he did."
"I can't believe he would be such an ass to you." Sarah said as Evan shook his head.
"I don't know what you ever did to get him and everyone he makes do cruel things to you." Rosalie said sneering.
"I wish I knew." I said. I then noticed that Edward is looking at me. It was like he's more like he's examining me.
"So Luna," I turned when Alice spoke to me. "How about that shopping trip?"
"Um, I'm not much of a shopper since I've never shop with anyone except with my mom and sister." I said.
"What!" Alice said as if she was insulted.
"Oh no." Lucien said. What?
"Here we go again." Krystal said.
"We are definitely going shopping soon!" Alice said. "You need a new look! We need to buy you new clothes, dresses for when you go on dates, parties, dances and –"
"Alright, that does it!" Lucas said as he and Krystal got up and dragged Alice with her in her chair away from the table out of the cafeteria.
"Ignore Alice, shopping solves everything in her book. Don't worry about her; I'm not much of a shopper myself." Bella said to me.
"And just in case Alice goes too far such as going through your clothes without you knowing, my sister Tiffany will take care of that." Lucina said causing everyone else to laugh. Suddenly, I felt more relax being with the Cullens.
The rest of the lunch hour was telling the Cullens about myself as well as getting to know them such as how they all got adopted to Carlisle and his wife. Like how they first adopted Emmett, Edward, Alice and Renesmee after losing their parents, and then Jasper and Rosalie. Then after they took Bella in when her parents went to France, they adopted Lucas after losing his family in a fire. Then Carlisle's wife took her niece Krystal in after losing her parents from cancer and being killed. I was already told about Lucien and Bryce's lost and then being told how Lucina and her siblings lost their parents by muggers that killed them. Wow, everyone had it rough.
The bell rang meaning it's time to get back to class.
"It was nice meeting you Luna." Rosalie said as we all got up.
"Hell yeah it was!" Emmett said as he came at me lifting me for another bear hug.
"Emmett!" Everyone said as he laughs when he puts me down.
"We'll see ya later." Jasper said pretending to tip off a hat like a cowboy.
"We really need to shop." Alice said squealing.
"Come on," Jasper said taking her arm and dragged Alice to her next class.
"You should come to our house sometime." Edward said to me.
"Yeah, the rest of our family would love to meet you." Lucas said.
"I mean sure you met Carlisle but you know what we mean." Krystal said.
"You should come over this weekend." Bella smiled.
"Yeah, it'll be fun having you around!" Evan said flinging his arm over my shoulders with a grin.
"Evan, get off of her. What are you trying to do, steal Lucien's girlfriend?" Sarah teased and then turned to me. "Nice chatting with you Luna." With that, everyone else left leaving me alone with Lucien, Bryce and Lucina.
"Well we should get going, don't wanna be late for class." Bryce said. "Hope we can hang out again soon." He said to me. Lucina then gave me hug again. Wow, she must really like me.
"Again, I'm sorry. I'm just so happy for you two." She said letting me go.
"Thanks Lucina." I said.
"Alright, you should get to class. Lucien as well." Lucina said to him.
"Who are you, my mom?" Lucien teased causing Bryce to burst out laughing as Lucina rolled her eyes giving Lucien a look before she and Bryce left for class.
"Let's go." Lucien said taking my hand for English class. Once again, people are staring at us as we walked our way to the classroom. Even Mr. Reed notices when he smiled seeing me and Lucien coming in together.
"Don't these people have anything better to do than talk about us?" Lucien mumbled as we took our seats together.
"I agree." I said as the bell rang signaling the start of class. Lucien turned and smiled to me. Why does that always make me blush? Mr. Reed started another session with a new lesson. We spent most of the class time writing down notes. Well most of us. I was but it was kinda hard to do it with one hand while your boyfriend holds the other hand underneath the desk. He never let go of it since we came in, not that I'm complaining. I wish he would take notes so that he won't get in trouble but Lucien assures me that he has a good memory. No wonder he has a high GPA.
The rest of the day on the last class was people wanting to know about me and Lucien. Isn't this getting old? I mean I like the different kind of attention I'm getting where people aren't mean to me but this is too much. School ended and Lucien offered to drive me home which I accepted and he drove me to my house.
"I never got to tell you how beautiful you look today." Lucien said as he walked me over to my front door.
"Th-Thanks." I said.
"You don't think you're beautiful, do you?" Lucien asked. He really picked it up.
"It's like I said; I'm just plain." I said as we arrived at my door.
"Well it's like I said; you're far from plain." Lucien said as he caressed my cheek. I think I just melted again. This feeling I'm having is something I never felt in all my life. Lucien then looked very nervous when he spoke.
"So Luna, I was wondering if you want to, if maybe, this weekend, I don't know, do you wanna… go out?"
I just stared at Lucien. Did he just ask me out? I had to be sure.
"Are you asking me out like… on a date?" I asked nervously.
"If you wanna call it that." Lucien said.
"Then yes, I'll go out with you." I said with a smile causing Lucien to do the same. "So what do you wanna do?" Lucien grinned at my question.
"I actually already have an idea for a date set on Friday after school. What do you say?" He asked.
"I'd love too." I said.
"Cool. I can't wait. Well, I'll see you tomorrow at school. I'll pick you up in the morning." Lucien said.
"Bye Lucien." I said. Lucien gave my hand a squeeze before he left and got into his car and drove off leaving me in a daze state.
Wow, I can't believe it. Lucien asked me out on a date this Friday. I know I'm feeling a doubt if this is true but I'm not gonna let that get the best of me. Friday couldn't come any sooner. I have a feeling that this date is gonna be special.
Any ideas what Lucien has for a date for him and Luna? Find out on the next update. Please review.