Chapter 25 and as always there is a surprise at the end, I hope you like.

"I can't believe that you've been in Las Vegas all this time," Mrs. Frost said with an exasperated sigh. "For the last few weeks we thought you were hitch hiking around in Oregon."

Luna smiled and crossed her legs. "Nah, I was there for about three weeks, staying with some friends of Mary-Lynnette and Mark then I came here."

"How do you even know these people?" Alyssa asked. They were sitting in Luna's bed room at Thierry's house, with Luna and Alyssa on the bed and her parents and Bobby on one of her couches. On their way up here they had seen many of the resistants here, including Thierry himself who had the lying instinct to tell her parents that this was his parents place and he stayed here with some of his friends, like a half way house.

Luna shrugged. "Old friends of Mark and Mary-Lynnette's and Lucas and Lupe are staying here too."

"The Acevedo kids?" Mr. Frost asked, and at Luna's nod continued. "I haven't seen either of them for years."

Luna smiled. "Yea, so I came here and I've been staying here for about two and a half weeks."

"And you didn't bother calling any of us for all that time?" Alyssa asked, with a frown. "Seriously Luna the moment you called me I didn't know either to scream at you or beg you to come home."

"Sorry," Luna apologized, looking around the room at the faces of her family. "I can't believe your all here though, how did you find me?"

"Your email?" Bobby said, lifting his head from one of his books that had brought. "We all got one saying that you missed us and that you got us some tickets to see you here."

"I didn't send any email." Luna replied, cracking her knuckles.

"Well who ever did is our hero," Mrs. Frost said standing up and walking over to her daughter to give her a huge hug. Because now we've found you and we can all be a family again back home."

"Wait what?" Luna asked as her mother dropped her arms and smiled at her daughter.

"We're all going home soon," Mr. Frost said with a smile of his own. "Everybody at your school as missed you terribly and now we can all get back to our lives."

"But I'm not going back." Luna said fearlessly, so that every pair of eyes rested on her. "I came here to get away, I have and I intend to stay."

"You can't stay here!" Mrs. Frost gasped, pointing her finger at her daughter. "You're only sixteen and the law requires you to stay under your guardian's roof, and that would be us so you're coming home."

"That's so unfair," Luna said standing up. "I'm not leaving here. I actually like it here."

"Life isn't fair Luna," Mr. Frost said standing next to his wife. "And we don't care what you think you like, it would be better for you at home with your family."

"The same family that wanted to send me away to an asylum." Luna snapped, taking a step forward. "I actually like it here and the people here treat me like their family even though I'm not their family, why can't you see that it's better for me here?"

"Because it isn't!" Mrs. Frost cried. "And we know what's best for you!"

"Or what's best for you?" Luna yelled. "You treated me like I was some outsider in your house, here I'm accepted and here is the place I want to stay!"

"Well you can't!" Mr. Frost yelled. "And you're coming home with us!"

"Why!" Luna screamed. "Give me one good reason why I should go back with you!"

"Because I don't want to lose another daughter!" Mrs. Frost screamed louder then Luna had ever heard and then broke down crying into my father's chest.

Luna's eyes widened, when had they lost another daughter? They only had two and that was herself and Alyssa. "What do you mean?"

Mr. Frost's eyes were sad as he help lead Mrs. Frost who was still sobbing into his chest over to the couch before looking up at Luna. "Luna, there's something that we haven't told you."

"Dad," Bobby said quietly. "Don't."

"No Bobby," Mr. Frost said tiredly. "Its time she knew the truth."

"What truth?" Luna asked, turning back to Alyssa who was as shocked as Luna was. "What haven't you told me? Did you have another daughter before me?"

Mr. Frost nodded; staring into Luna's striking blue eyes with his dark brown ones. "Luna, we had a daughter before you, her name was Samantha."

"Was?" Alyssa whispered.

"She died." Mr. Frost said flatly.

"But what does that have to do with me?" Luna asked frantically, her eyes pricking with tears. "And why haven't you told me or Alyssa about her?"

Their father sighed and placed a hand over his face. "Because we wanted Alyssa to treat you like she was your birth related sister."

Alyssa gasped. "You mean…"

"Luna isn't your birth sister." Mr. Frost said removing his hand from his face. "She's adopted."

Whaaaat? A twist that I knew about from the beginning? Of course! It just adds to the drama…hahahaha review and tell me what you think.