Chapter 5: Meet Your Match, Start the Flame

Luna's POV:

"HEY!" I yell, banging on the door. "I know you're crying in there! Open up!"

"Luna, what are you doing?" Jill asks, sleepily exiting her room. She'd gone off to find the bank a couple hours ago, and after a long grueling process, she'd finally called me over to help her. I think we were going to be great friends. In any case she'd been beat and slept for a couple hours. She was still in her weird, farmer clothes. Huh, I guess we all have our weird moments.

"There's someone in this room, crying!"

"Well if she won't open the door, maybe she doesn't want to be disturbed!"

"COME ON, OPEN UP!" I say, ignoring her. If someone was crying this much there had to be something wrong. It wasn't normal. Even if she was avoiding help, that didn't mean she didn't need it.

Finally the door eases open, and a cute girl with blonde hair and sea green eyes opened the door. Her eyes weren't puffy at all. Huh?

"Oh hello! Sorry, did I keep you waiting? I was watching this great anime with my headphones and didn't hear the door."

"No problem! I just heard you crying," I say.

"Oh, it's the anime. It's the saddest thing I've ever seen. My name's Maya!"

"I'm Luna," I say, stretching my hand out. "And this is Jill!"

Jill sleepily walks forward, raising a hand to wave.

"Hello! Would you like to come in and watch some of this anime with me? I don't mind starting over, it's wonderful!"

"Sure, I love anime!" I say.

"I'm up for it," Jill agrees.

"Alright, just make yourselves comfortable, I'll get some snacks."

"Oh, Maya, I heard an explosion from this room a while ago. What was that?"

"Oh I just burned some popcorn," she says, blushing.

"Really? I'm useless at cooking too!" I say.

"Well I guess I'll be cooking for the three of us," Jill says, yawning. "Back at my old town, I used to win all the cooking challenges. It was wonderful."

"That's great! This is going to be an awesome friendship!"

There was a knock on the door. All three of us were huddled on the bed, teary-eyed from looking at the computer screen.

"I'll get it," I say, hopping from the bed and opening the door. A tall boy, with pure blonde hair, blue eyes, and a stern, sophisticated look to him stands there expectantly. "What is it?"

"Why are you crying? And where's Maya?" he asks.

"We're watching anime. Thank you, goodbye," I say, closing the door.

"No wait! Where's Maya?"

"Who is it Luna?" Maya asks.

I cock my head at the boy. "Answer her question mystery man," I say.

"It's Gill," he yells.

"Tell him to get lost!" Maya answers.

"I came to apologize!" he yells.

"Should I kick him out?" I ask Maya.

"Yea, go get him Luna!"

I nod. He laughs. "You think you can get rid of me? What are you, a freshman?"

I narrow my eyes at him push him out of the doorway and watch his cocky smile fade. "I'm as old as you are, but obviously much smarter than you since I got here before you could."

"What's that supposed to mean, you're here on a scholarship?"

I close the door behind me and slap him across the face. "Why do you ask that? Do you think you know everything about everyone here?"

"You just hit me," he says, scrunching up his face.

A cream haired boy with his hair pinned back comes out of his room.

"Gill stop!" he says, holding back his hand as he comes to strike me.

"What's going on out here?" Jill asks, coming out of Maya's room. "How do you know Maya and why is she crying?"

"I thought it was the anime," Gill says, raising an eyebrow and smirking.

"You are a jerk," I say. "Maya told us what happened."

She hadn't, but it put him on edge.

"What?"

"Never mind that," Jill interrupts. "What happened?"

"She hit me," Gill says, pointing fingers.

"He was being an inconsiderate jerk, just himself; I guess I shouldn't have hit him. Sorry, can't take a slap from a girl huh? You are pathetic."

"Who are you to call me pathetic?" Gill demands. "Do you know who I am? My father is the mayor of Waffle Town!"

"Of course I know who you are," I say, rolling my eyes. "I'm from Waffle Town. My sister is Candace. I left because I wanted to go to school, but I never met anyone. And you've got it wrong. That's not even who you ar. That's who your father is. Idiot. You're too much of a brat to even see that you haven't made a name for yourself, just hid behind the one your father has."

"Luna," Jill says, looking at the floor. "Don't."

"What's the prob-"I stop. Gill's face is contorted in rage, and yet I see that his eyes are sparkling with tears.

Did I do that?

"You don't know me!" he yells, shaking off the cream-haired boy's hand. "And I don't know you! So let's not judge each other anymore ok? In fact, let's never speak again!"

"Fine with me," I say, shrugging. I head back into my room and shut the door behind me, at a loss for words. Had I really done that to him?