Chapter 11

-the next day-


Danielle woke up, Penelope was laying on her stomach Penelope's arms wrapped around her waist. She sighed she knew she was going to have to wait till Penelope woke up, so she could move. It takes another thirty minutes before she finally does.


"Finally," Danielle smiles. "I thought I was going to be stuck here all day." She jokes.


"I wish you could be." Penelope sighs.


"I know." Danielle runs a hand through Penelope's soft, deep brown hair. "But I can't, I have to go home."


"I know." Penelope untangled herself from Danielle, leaning to the other side of her bed. "Josephine callee you like eight times." She hands Danielle her phone.


"Really," Danielle checks her phone, listening to the voicemails.


"Is everything okay?" Penelope tilts her head at Danielle.


"Fine." She smiles before leaving the room, practically running down the stairs, and out the door.


-Nova-


Nova wakes up due to the sunlight pouring through the window. She sits up almost immediately realizing she wasn't in her home..or her own clothes. She walked out of the bedroom, and into the living room where Brandon was.


"Good morning." He smiles. "Or afternoon it's almost three pm."


"Oh fuck really?" She grabs her phone almost table. Twelve missed calls from her dad who she was currently staying with for the summer. "Fuck." She mumbles.


"Everything okay?" He looks up at her from the couch.


"No," she sighs. "I have to get home."


"Yeah, your clothes are in the bathroom still, feel free to shower considering you still smell like weed." He jokes.


"Asshole." She smiles, flipping him off as she walks into the bathroom.


She takes a quick shower, throwing the t-shirt back on as well as the pants from the party. She walks out of the bathroom nearly thirty minutes later.


"You're taking my shirt?" He looks at her.


"You didn't wake me up, and I am not putting this back on." She holds up her top from last night.


"Take it," He holds his hands up in defeat. "Looks better on you anyways." He immediately pauses as the words leave his mouth. "That's not what I meant,"


"It's okay." Nova smiles slightly, cutting him off. "I'm gonna go, I really have to get home my dad is gonna kill me." She picks up her phone.


"I'll text you later?" Brandon opens the door for her.


"Yeah." She smiles walking out the door, the moment it closed behind her, she ran home it was just right next door so it wasn't a long run. The moment she got inside she was bombarded with questions.


"Where were you?" Her dad calls from the kitchen.


"Next door." Nova smiles, hugging her dad before sitting on the stool at the counter.


"You should have called me, I was worried." He smiles slightly at his daughter.


"I know, I'm sorry dad it won't happen again I'll tell you if I'm staying out all night from now on." Nova stands up.


"Thank you." Her dad goes back to cooking and Nova runs upstairs to her room.


Once she reaches her room she changes her pants to sweats, she doesn't change her...his shirt though. She lays on her bed and turns on the tv flipping mindlessly through channels.


-Kiana-


Kiana wakes up to hero walking out of his room.


"Morning." Kiana smiles, sitting up.


"Good morning." Hero's accent is thick and raspy in the mornings...its hot.


"I'm probably gonna go soon, it's like four pm." Kiana laughs.


"Yeah," Hero sits on the couch next to her. "You can stay if you want? We can watch movies."


"Really?" She looks over at him.


"Yeah I can give you some clothes if you want." He smiles.


"Okay, sure." She smiles.


"I'll be back." Hero disappears into his room.


Kiana decided to text Brandon letting him know she wouldn't see him today.


Kiana: hey, probably won't be there today, I'm busy.


Brandon: okay.


Kiana: has Nova left?


Brandon:yep, see you tomorrow.


Kiana puts away her phone the moment Hero comes back out, he hands her some sweats and a T-shirt.


"Thanks." She smiles, walking into the bathroom. She comes out a few moments later, to Hero picking a movie on Netflix. "How do you feel about Titanic?"


"Titanic huh?" Kiana laughs sitting next to Hero. "Did you take for a Titanic guy."


"There are a lot of things you don't know about me." He jokes.


-Luna-
Luna wakes up around five pm with two missed called from Zion and a few text from Braeden. She ignores them, not in the mood to talk.


"Luna?" Her dads voice is loud as he knocks on her door. "Someone is here to see you."


"Come in." Luna keeps her eyes on her phone.


"Luna?" A familiar voice said.


"Braeden." She turned to him. "What are you doing here?"


"I just wanted to make sure you were alright." He shut her door. "I mean after last night."


"I'm fine." Luna smiled slightly. "Just tired, and I don't feel to good."


"Well, the alcohol and drugs will do that to you." He joked, sitting onto her bed.


"Yeah I guess." She laughed a little.


"You wanna grab dinner?" His question startled her.


"Uh," she thinks for a moment. "Sure." She smiled finally giving in. "Just let me get ready." She stood up.


"I'll wait out here." He exits the room.


Luna walks over to her closest looking for something to wear, she decided on blue high-waisted jeans, and a blush silk cami. She brushed out her hair, pulling up, throwing on some light makeup before walking out of her room.


"You ready?" He smiled at her.


"Yeah, let go." Luna left her room, closing the door behind her.


Their walk to the diner was seemingly quiet, but not awkward, just peaceful. You could tell they missed being in each others company. They arrive at the diner a few minutes later.


"Just to be clear this is not a date." Luna told him as she slid into the booth.


"I know." He smiled sliding into the seat in-front of her.


They both gave their orders to the waitress, before turning back to each other.


"What happened after everyone left?" Luna broke the awkward silence.


"Kiana stayed at Heros, Nova went home with Brandon, and I think Danielle was with Penelope." Braeden took a sip of his drink.


"Nova went home with Brandon?" Luna leans in more.


"Not like that, or so I heard." He informed her.


"Yeah, Nova wouldn't do that, neither would Brandon." She leaned back into her seat.


The wait for their food was short, they sat in silence most of the time. Once their food arrived they ate, not talking much.


"How have you been." Braeden leans back into his seat. "I mean after everything I never really asked."


"I'm okay." Luna smiled. "As okay as I'll ever be."


"Me too, but," he paused deciding if he wanted to say the words. "-I miss you."


The words leave Luna speechless, obviously she missed him too, but they are just now getting on good terms, she is just now starting to forgive him.


"I miss you too." She said quietly, staring at him.


"We should go." He gulped, standing up.


"Yeah," Luna shook her head. "-You're right." Luna sighed, walking out of the diner.


Braeden payed before leaving as well, catching up to her. The walk back to her house is quite, this time it is definitely awkward. They reach Luna's house around six-thirty.


"Thanks." Luna smiled at him.


"Anytime." He smiled back.


Luna walked inside her house, almost immediately running upstairs and closing her door. She was tense, stressed, she knew what she needed to do. Luna changed into some sweats and a white t-shirt, she washed her face, and took down her hair.


Luna walked over to her nightstand and pulled out a little box, she opened it and pulled out a joint, it was the only way she was calming down tonight. She sat on her bed after lighting it, taking a big hit, almost immediately relaxing. She laid back flipping through channels on her tv.


-Danielle-


She arrived home around five, her brother was pissed, and her parents didn't even notice. She eventually got her brother to calm down and he was fine. Pissed, But fine.


Danielle went up to her room to start getting ready for bed. She decided to take a shower. Danielle jumped into the shower, the hot water burned but in a good way. She stood there a few moments just letting the water wash over her. She finally got out once the water turned cold.


Danielle looked through her drawers to find something for end she just ended up in light grey sweat pants, and her Black Calvin Klein sports bra. She ended up asleep by ten-thirty.


-Nova-


She flipped through the channels for hours finding nothing to watch. Once she declared there was nothing on, and she was going to nap, she got a text.


B: hey.
N: what's up?
B: you left your necklace here..
N: actually you kept it. Nova can't help but smile at her phone.
B: well I want to give it back now.
N: guess you'll have to wait until another time, I'm going to sleep. Goodnight Brandon.
B: goodnight Nova.


Nova put down her phone and muted it, just Incase anyone else decided to message her. She slid under her warm blankets almost immediately falling asleep.


-Kiana-


The movie finally ended and Hero turned the tv off, getting up.


"Do you need a drive home?" Hero asked her.


"I'm good, thanks." Kiana smiled, getting her belongings.


A short knock was planted on the door so Hero jogged over to open it.


"Hey, I was wondering if you wanted to hang out tonight." Kiana heard Brandons voice echo throughout the house.


"Yeah, just I have some company." Hero said lightly.


Kiana walked in his vision and it went silent among the pair. Brandon didn't know what to believe.


"I'm just leaving." Kiana whispered, pushing past them.


"Hey, Kiana." Brandon hollered for her.


"Yeah?" Kiana turned around to face him.


"Are you okay? I never checked up on you." Brandon asked her.


Kiana was still mad at him for it. It hurt her feelings to see him not caring. But she was used to it. She just wished she wasn't.


"Yeah.. uh- thanks." Kiana smiled.


"Can we talk.. later?" Brandon whispered, getting nervous.


"Yes.. of course." Kiana giggled.


Brandon smiled and nodded at her as she turned around and walked home, him turning around and entering Hero's house.

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