Chapter 4: Breakthroughs

Lincoln was frozen in fear. His sister was riding a skateboard down a highway. Just to find him and Lynn. He had no idea how to react.

He thought the house would have reacted completely different.

He thought that they wouldn't even try this hard to stop them.

Lincoln quickly ducks his head under the seat. Lynn falls from his shoulder and her head lands in the seat. This didn't wake her though. Lincoln was glad about it, Because she would have drawn Luna's attention to them.

"How did she find us?" Lincoln whispers to himself.

"LINCOLN!" Luna yells out.

Silence.

A few heads turn out the window. Some yelling at her for being reckless. Some cheering her on in disbelief. None of it mattered to Luna though. She had saw Lynn and Lincoln head on that particular bus.

Getting them off of it was her only goal.

After all, she had made a promise.

"Luna, You don't need to do this alone. We're all a family and right now, we gotta STICK together, No matter what."

She clutched her fists tightly. She rarely got this emotional. Especially over anything that Luan told her. But those words.. The whole promise..

"I gotta fix all of this.." She said looking off of the road. There was a lot on her mind to think about.

But the moment she looked away, A horn sounded off in close distance.

"OH GOD!" Luna screams.

*SMASH*

"What was that?" Lincoln says as he sits up in his seat. The sound was as if a sandbag dropped off a 20 foot clearance bridge.

"OH MY GOODNESS"
"NO PLEASE NO!"
"WHY?!"

Everyone yells in sheer shock. Lincoln turned quickly back to the window.

There was no Luna.

There was no traffic from the other side.

The attention of the bus was focused solely outside. But Lincoln couldn't find out why. It couldn't have been Luna. Or he at least hopes it wasn't. He knows his sister can be a little reckless at times, But it isn't anything that he should truly be worried about. After all, She still was with the house when Lynn confronted Lori.

"She probably left.. Yeah that's what happened." He convinces himself.

He looks over at Lynn, Who wakes up when the bus runs over a speed bum. She falls out of the seat.

"OUCH!" She yelps as she lands face-first.

"Are you ok?" Lincoln asks.

"Yeah I'm alright..." Lynn answers back. She gets up and looks around at everyone else. Their faces were completely blank.

"Jeez, Everyone looks like they've seen a ghost or something." She says confused.

"It's Nothing." He tells her.

"Alright." She responds. Lynn rested her head back on Lincoln's shoulder. He shoots her a quick look.

"Hey, I meant to tell you earlier not to do that." He says sternly.

"I don't have anywhere else to lay my head." She replied.

Lincoln looked. Her side of the bus seat had springs coming out of it. And as much as he didn't want her taking any of his personal space, He's not gonna make her have to lay back on metal springs.

"Fine, Just don't karate kick me in your sleep." Lincoln gives in. Lynn laughs.

"No promises" She says with a huge grin.

She takes a look outside.

The nightlife in the city was beautiful.

Colorful lights everywhere and music you can hear from downtown just made things feel so unreal.

It wasn't something she was used to seeing and usually it wouldn't stand out as much to her. But with Lincoln, Everything just felt more...fun.

"You know.." She began "I'm glad we did this together. I wasn't sure how all of this was gonna even work out. I still don't but..."

"But?" Lincoln asked. Lynn's face began to turn a bright shade of red.

"Just keep putting your faith in me..Ok?" She says looking away.

Lincoln stared into his sister's eyes. This was like unlocking a new level of crazy.

Lynn, Out of all people, embarrassed. It just seemed insane.

But things have changed so fast, Maybe it's not so crazy after all. He sat back in his seat and took a breath.

"Alright, Alright, Just don't get too mushy on me sis." Lincoln teased.

"SHUT UP!" Lynn said punching Lincoln in the arm. It hurts like hell, But it was worth it. Lincoln tries to laugh off the pain.

"I trust you." He says.

"SHE WHAT?!" Leni yells out, On the verge of tears.

"SHHHHHH!" Luan says covering Leni's mouth. "Just listen for a second."

Leni nodded. Luan lets her hand off of her mouth.

"Look..She felt as if this was a problem that she could handle on her o.." Luan began.

"WHY DID YOU LET HER GO?" Leni cuts her off sharply.

This wasn't going as smoothly as Luan thought it might have. Nobody was supposed to find out why Luna left the house. Luan wasn't even going to say anything about it until Leni walked into her room asking about her disappearance.

"I promise I'll be back home before morning Lu."

It was 7 am.

The promise was broken.

There were more questions than there were answers. She didn't think she would have to deal with anything of this.

And there's no jokes to back her out of this corner. Luan stood up from her bedside and faced Leni.

"She felt as if this was all of her fault. For reasons why, I don't really know. All I know is that she told me she would have them back by morning" She told her older sister.

Leni looked away and started slowly pacing the room. When she stopped, A much more worried look appeared on her face.

"You don't think that there's an actual chance she may have gotten lost? Is there?" Leni asked.

"No way, This is Luna we're talking about. Besides, Even if she got lost looking for them, I'm sure she'd be alright." Luan responded.

"We can't just sit here and just talk about it. We have to start looking for her." Leni said.

"Well If we're gonna start looking, We need to get Lori... It'll be better if we drove." Luan replies. Although the moment she mentioned Lori's name, She wanted to take it back.

"Look...I probably.."

"No It's fine." Leni said with her head down. "We gotta bury this before it gets worse. I've lost Lincoln and Lynn.. I don't wanna be the one who loses Luna."

Luan looked at Leni in awe. She isn't the one for taking leads, If anything, She thought it would have been Lori who would try to makeup, But it's not just that.

She also looks different. She wearing a Basketball Sleeve on her right arm. It was one that Lynn doesn't use because she thinks it affects her shot.

"Why are you wearing Lynn's basketball sleeve?" Luan asked confused.

Leni clutched the Sleeve. She was hesitant to take it off, But she took a look at Luan and she slid it off.

Under the sleeve was a long cut down her arm. It was deep as well.

Luan's eyes were completely white.

"How did this happen..." Luan voiced trembled.

Leni looked away from her sister.

"Lori and I had another fight.." She said flatly.

"Over what?" Luan asked.

"It was over who should apologize first." "We both started shouting and she threw glass at me. So I broke her phone." Leni said.

Luan mimed the act of cleaning glasses and putting them on. She couldn't believe what she had just heard. It's not the fact that Leni broke Lori's phone that's scary.

It's the fact that Leni was bold enough to do it, Even after what Lori almost did to Lynn, that makes it even more insane.

She snapped out of it and look over to her sister.

"Well, For Luna's sake, Let's try to talk to Lori. If things go south, I'm here to set the sails north." Luan said pulling a compass out of her pocket.

"I don't get it" Leni says confused.

Luan sighs. "Never change Leni, Come on." She says as they walk towards Lori's room.

It was so cold. The sun was just rising but the sky was still dark. The breeze was tense, As if a storm was coming.

Suddenly Luna wakes up. She tries to get up but shrieks in immediate pain.

She looks down and instantly is in shock.

Her right arm was broken in two separate places.

It was heartbreaking.

All that effort.

To be so close to getting them back.

Wasted by a wasted driver. Bummer.

She tried to stand in a valiant effort. But the toll her body took from getting smashed by a car was weighing her down and her body collapsed. Luna rolls on her back and touches the side of her head. When she looked back at her hand, There was blood dripping immensely.

"Well, I'm officially wrecked...It's up to you Lu...Bring 'em home dude.." She said smiling weakly.

Her vision began to fade as her hand dropped from the sky.

And then as if like she was in a movie.

Luna blacked out.

First off: IT'S BEEN TOO LONG.

I know and I gotta apologize for how long it took me to put out Chapter 4. I've been busy with so much lately that i never got the chance to write it out. If you been waiting on it for this long, I just wanted to put it out there. Sorry guys.

I also had some saving issues going on too, which was why this wasn't out even earlier.

But it's here now. I won't make promises but Chapter 5 will not take an entire month.

Y'all stay awesome

Titan out :)