Her mom runs over to her and hugs her. All she could hear from her mom whispering to her, “I’m sorry. I’m so sorry Luna. I’m sorry.” She couldn’t help but cry in her mom’s arms not out of sadness but out of anger. She looked around after letting go of her mom and she saw Derek was gone, but her dad and the police weren’t either.
“Luna, are you okay?” Her dad said as if he wasn’t the reason she was like this.
“Am I okay? Just go home, I said it more than enough times now. Go home. I don’t want to talk to you and I don’t want to be with you. I want to stay here with mom and Marc. Please go home, I am tired of this. I didn’t want to go to grandpa’s funeral, I didn’t want to…okay. So drop it. Drop all of it and just leave because right now I don’t like you.” She could tell that she was hurting him the most. She wanted to make him feel the pain she was feeling.
“You don’t mean that Luna.”
“Look around, you really think I don’t mean that. News flash, you are being a bad dad and I want you gone.” After she said that line, she went upstairs into the apartment. She didn’t watch or wait to see him leave or anyone else leave. She wanted to cry but she had nothing else left to cry, she wanted to sleep but it was only 6 pm. She didn’t want to deal with anything. She heard Kennedy’s TV from the silence in her room. She hated the silence but it was the only way to shut up her head, ‘you did this,’ ‘you pathetic girl, always in the way.’ Luna couldn’t help but put her hands on her ears to shut the voices up. She couldn’t help it anymore, she ended up whispering no multiple times she couldn’t shut it up. She wanted the silence for once. She wanted to be calm and normal but she couldn’t. She didn’t know that anyone was in the room or not but she was destroyed inside.
“Luna? You okay?” She turned around and it was Kennedy.
“Hey kid, yeah I am fine. It was a long day, how was going to work with mom?” Luna cleaned her face and pulled Kennedy over to her on the floor.
“Fun, we colored. What’s wrong?” Luna couldn’t help but hold Kennedy close. She hated it because she didn’t want to show how bad she could get.
“Just mad at my dad, that’s all. Are you okay?”
“I am.” Luna could tell that Kennedy was scared of what was happening outside and then seeing her older sister breaking down into nothing, she would be scared too.
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