Chapter 8

It's been 5 months after Landon confessed to Lumae, and he proved himself in many ways, stating to the entire school that he was in love with Lumae, apologizing to everyone that he had angered, giving Lumae flowers every day, which then led him to take Lumae to the local cinema and on plenty of other dates, and now, they've been dating for at least 2 months. Everyone at school knew them as the cute, new power couple. "So, Lumae, I was thinking of going to Claire's place tonight. She's hosting a party. Now I know you don't like her at all, but she has changed after seeing us together, she really is good now." Lumae looked skeptical for a second.

"Well... You know what, yeah sure, why not, we're almost finished with high school and finals are just around the corner, it might be good to catch a quick breather before getting swamped in studies," Landon smiles happily, hugs Lumae around the waist, lifts her up, twirls her in the air and places her back down.

"I knew you'd come through", he then goes in for a cute, romantic kiss and Lumae didn't even refuse. "I'll pick you up around 6, don't be late", he then rushed off as the bell rang, to get to his first period, leaving Lumae all flushed.

Lumae then went on with the rest of her day, working hard, chatting with Riley and occasionally daydreaming about Landon. It all felt too unrealistic for her, so much so that she thought that she had somehow actually sprung into another dimension. But the day came to a quick end, and it was already half past 5.

Lumae was standing in front of her mirror, checking out her cute, but chick outfit, but something felt missing. She looked at her mother's belongings and noticed her mother's blue, crescent moon necklace and thought that it'd look perfect on her. She gently took the necklace, examined it for a few seconds and put it on. Now she just needed to brush her hair. As she was doing so, she heard a knock at the front door, with Grandpa Will calling out to her, "Coming!"

She rushed downstairs and saw Landon in a handsome outfit, "Ready to go?" Lumae smiled and nodded.

"Bye Grandpa Will, I'll try to be back before 10, promise." He smiles at her and lifts his hand up to her cheek in a caring way.

"I know you will deary. Just have fun."

Lumae then went off with Landon, but he seemed nervous the entire way to Claire's, "Landon, are you okay?" He then noticed how tense he looked and instantly tried to loosen up.

"Oh yeah, sorry, I just realized how close the finals are and I haven't studied yet, guess I'm just a bit stressed," Lumae looked at him worried and gently kissed him on the cheek.

"I'm sure you'll do amazing." Landon smiled.

"We're here."

They both got out of the car and headed into the party, greeted by many people. The house was crowded, the music was loud, and it was extremely hot inside, probably from everybody's body heat. But Lumae and Landon swifted through the party.

They occasionally danced, took a break and Lumae had two or three shots that Landon gave her. She didn't really know what was inside of them, but she knew that they were strong. After a while, Lumae started dancing in an extremely erotic way, tempting Landon with her newfound moves. He placed his hand on her hip as she swerved them against him.

Clearly provoked and overcome by lust, Landon whispered into Lumae's ear, "Wanna go somewhere quieter?" Lumae just nodded her head in a partial daze and Landon led her upstairs, making eye contact with Claire as they walked up.

When they get to a room a bit quieter, Landon started to passionately kiss Lumae, grasping her hips tightly, pulling her closer to him.

Lumae felt like she couldn't breathe from all the excitement that she was feeling. Her hands were traveling all over Landon, over the top of his muscular back, down to his lower back, underneath his t-shirt, trailing his muscles with her fingertips, towards the front where she felt a set of hard, muscular abs. She was busy enjoying how Landon felt, when the next moment he suddenly picked her up and placed her on the bed, not breaking their lips apart.

Lumae really wanted to continue, but heard giggling from just outside the door. When she saw that it was Claire and her entire gang standing at the door, with phones in their hands. They were all filming her. Luckily for her, the angle at which Landon placed her on the bed kept her face from being shown, but that was the least of her worries. She looked up at Landon, rage fuming from her. But he seemed unfazed, instead he chuckled, "I mean, what'd you expect? That I'd actually love someone like YOU? Hah, you're delusional!"

Lumae, in a burst of rage, grabbed the closest thing she could find to cover her face, threw Landon off of her and rushed out of the room. She then started sprinting towards the forest again, trying to calm herself down, trying to think about anything else, but all she could think about was how betrayed she felt. She eventually reached Samantha's grave and plopped down on both knees, crying out loud, "I don't know what to do any more Samantha, I can't continue like this," she started crying even worse, but when she looked up to look at Samantha's grave, she noticed a blue flower growing beside it, it was the wolfsbane that she so loved, and Lumae took that as a sign from Samantha. A sign to stay strong and keep going, because she had a plan, a dream, an adventure that was waiting for her, but she had to complete high school first.