❛ LOVE LOST ❜
CHAPTER EIGHT /
EPISODE ONE
❛ luna x belly ❜
( tw : underage drinking , mentions of cheating , mentions of death )
*ੈ ❀‧₊˚ ————— Luna grinned as she stepped out of her mothers summer beach house. Her hair was wet from her shower, dripping down her back and down the sides onto the green freshly cut grass. Spotting Belly, her girlfriend, was easy. She was laying down on a chair, eyes closed and allowing the sun to kiss her skin in all the right places to give her a tan. Walking forward until she was leaning Belly, once she was, she shook her head and allowed the wet hair of hers to drop water all over Belly.
They both laughed, real laughter.
To Luna, Belly was fresh air after being underneath the pressure of water. She was her light to darkness. She was her best friend. Belly was her everything. She wouldn't trade what they had for anything else in the entire world; but she would trade everything else. So she did, trading her sanity to work with little kids in a summer day care to earn enough money so she could buy something for Belly. And the promise ring she had bought lays heavy in her sock drawer for the right time to be used. She wants to give her everything, and this is the start to that.
Luna kneels down, her hand placed gently against the cheek of Belly. She moved her thumb softly, her lips quirked upwards in the smallest of smiles.
"We get it, you guys are into each other." Jeremiah smiles despite his comment. He's genuinely happy for his sister and Belly, that they've both found they're match in a world where things don't always go right.
"Don't listen to the boys," Susannah, happy, well and alive, states with the largest and most bright smile. "You two are perfect for each other."
Luna leans in, and presses her lips against Belly's lip gloss covered ones. It was like a dream come true.
And then Luna snaps her eyes open, and she's no longer kissing the one she loves. But she's not dreaming anymore, she's awake and sitting in a classroom filled with chatter. She was no longer in cousins, but back home where she really didn't want to be.
She leans, picking up her book she had knocked to the floor. The hunger games. It's one of Belly's favourites, so she reads it now; over and over and until and she can think about is the characters who fight to live.
Her phones buzzes, it's Conrad. She won't look at the message, knowing it won't be a text with sunshine and rainbows but instead darkness and thunder. He blames her for everything now, for the sickness that plagued their mother. 'Your fault,' rings in her head until the bell rings and she's finally done high school for the summer.
Her phone lights up again. Her wallpaper, a photo of Belly and herself on their first official date — It started out early, dipping their toes in the water that washed up on the shore. Then breakfast at a diner in town, where they shared a strawberry milkshake and a stack of pancakes with chocolate chips. After that, Luna prepared herself to give Belly the ring. Only she didn't, choosing not to when the universe was screaming at her too. By the end, when they stepped back into the beach house, Susannah was awake and drinking tea on the couch, ready to hear every little detail.
She's too focused on the memories she can't let go off, holding them in her palm like it's what she needs to survive, that she walks right into someone standing near her locker.
Izzy. Her friend who only recently revealed she had a thing for Conrad. Which was wonderful, he could finally stop moping around the house because he didn't have someone to share all the good with. "Woah, you okay there Lulu?" Izzy steadies the dirty blond with her hands, keeping her from falling over as she composed herself.
"Yeah." It's a lie. Luna isn't okay. With her mother, and everything else, she's too caught up in the past then the now.
Izzy let's her hands drop, shuffling her and Luna closer to the lockers and as bunch of teenager boys who are officially graduated run through the halls cheering.
"Are you going to the party tonight?" Izzy asks, deciding to drop the subject knowing she'll only be lied to even more. The party which will definitely be a great start to summer, with good music and good drink. It's something every teenager wants to be at.
"Maybe, I still have to pack tonight but if I'm done early —" Luna starts but is cut off as the schools guidance counselor calls out for her. It's not unusual for the woman to be calling out her name, as she spends most of the time stuck in her head where the good memories are.
"Can I see you in my office? Just for a few minutes." The warm welcoming lady asks, turning on her heals and walking away once she notices that Luna is following her. The hallways had grown quiet,
When Luna stepped into the office, she was instantly met with the tilt of a head and a computer screen lighting up the room. "Hi, you wanted to see me?"
"These are your grades, Luna. They've been getting better. If you keep this up, you'll be able to get into an Ivy League school." The counseler got straight to the point, not nothing to waste the young woman's time knowing she had other places she'd like to be. "You are dropping in math. I'd recommend over the summer you try and catch up on what you've missed this year and then when you come back, you'll be ready."
"Math, got it." Luna smiled slightly. She quite likes how straight forward the woman was and always had been. She didn't want anything sugar coated either. "Thank you."
"Of course Luna. Have a good summer."
*ੈ ❀‧₊˚ ————— "Luna! You're here!" Izzy shouted happily as she threw her arms around her best friend. She was drunk; wobbly and bubbly drunk to be exact.
Lunas cheeks flushed red as she pulled away from Izzy, who attempted to keep her close in a tight hug. Her attempts failed as Izzy's sister, Mary, pulled Luna away from the drunken girl.
"She's having fun, and very touchy tonight. Do you think you'll drink? There's beer pong in the backyard and I'm the designated driver." Mary, who smiled cheerfully with her bright blond hair and pink tips swaying side by side in the light breeze.
Luna nodded, and in that moment her whole 'I won't drink at all tonight' speech she said in the mirror had gone out the window. She wasn't going to not have fun, and she knows she shouldn't be drinking when all the things had happened recently. But maybe, for the time being, it'll help her forget. "Yes, sure! I'll drink. Beer pong, Izz?"
Izzy bounced, grabbing her friends hand and dragging her along with her to the backyard where they both found and empty beer pong table with two boys chatting beside it. "Fellas, wanna play?"
"Of course ladies," One flashed his teeth in a smile, picking up one of the balls and bouncing it into a cup. His eyes landed on Luna, who took the cup and swallowed the contents as quickly as she could.
The game went on until the boys had won the game. Izzy had drank too much, leaving the game half way through the middle and finding a outdoor patio set that she laid across and snoozed on. Mary had finished the game with Luna, drinking from her water whenever she needed too.
Luna, who had drank from almost ever red solo cup on her side, was definitely starting to feel the effects of the alcohol. She's always been a light weight.
"Luna?" Jeremiah wrapped his arm around his sister. He didn't know she was here, nor did he know she was drinking to the point she wobbled with each step. "Lu, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at home?"
"Jer! I'm having fun!" Luna giggled. She stepped away from her brother and towards where the drinks where. She wanted more, and she wanted to get rid of her brother who would continue to follow her around everywhere. "Ima go get another drink, I'll be back."
"Let me come with you," Jeremiah took a step towards his sister, who was quick in shaking her head. "What? Why not? Lu."
Luna sighed, "I don't want you too. I'm still mad at you."
Jeremiah's eyebrows furrowed. "Mad? For what." He hasn't done anything that he could remember, or he hadn't done anything that Luna would know about.
"You know, Jeremiah." Luna whirled around on her feet after having taken a few steps. "When you kissed Belly, after we had gotten together!"
The colour in Jeremiah's face drained. He didn't know how she knew. It wasn't like he had told her, knowing it would do more damage than good. "Lu, how do you know that? Did Belly tell you? She promised she wouldn't."
Oh no.
"Of course she told me! And you know who I got mad at, her. Because of your stupid actions." Luna had gotten mad at Belly, and she had gotten mad at Steven, and she had gotten mad at her brothers. Could you blame her — she just learnt that her mothers cancer was getting worse and that things might not get better. "If you didn't kiss her then maybe things wouldn't be as bad."
Jeremiah's face turned sour. He dropped his water, fists clenched as he frowned at his sister. "Me? I'm the problem? You got mad at Belly and now me and her don't talk anymore. You got mad at her and now she ignores Conrad. You're mad and because of that, Steven doesn't wanna hear from you anymore. It is your fault, Luna!"
By now, tears were streaming down Lunas cheeks. Her body tingled as her brother yelled at her. She hurt, she is hurt.
"My fault? Huh? Sure, Jeremiah. I can be the villan. But you know what's worse, you kissed my girlfriend the day our mother died too! It didn't happen once but twice and you don't even seem sorry about it!" Luna pushed her brother back, her firsts banging on his chest. "Our mother died and I needed you but you were off kissing Belly!"
And without even thinking, Luna turned on her heals and didn't wait for her brothers reply.
Authors note,,
Well! Season two is here! I've only watched the first episode and I love it. We needed some drama, because not everything can be sunshine and rainbows. They'll all make up eventually. And noooo Susannah 😭😭 i knew it would happen but 😭