"Lili!" I'm woken by Luke's singsong voice coming from our bathroom where he's brushing his teeth. I smile as I get out of bed and walk towards him.

"Do I have a toothbrush? Or did we not get me one yet?" I ask Luke.

"Of course you have a tooth brush, otherwise no one would be able to stand within a 10 mile radius of you." He smiles at his own joke as he points to a cup with a toothbrush in it.

I lightly punch his shoulder to show my amusement. I grab the toothbrush, put toothpaste on it, and begin brushing my teeth. I realize that I literally haven't brushed my teeth in six years. That meant Luke definitely had a point with the awful-smelling breath. He spits and rinses off his tooth brush. He smiles at me as he reaches to put his toothbrush in the cup.

"Be ready in twenty, sis." He says as he closes his side of the door to get ready. He called me 'sis,' like sister. It makes my heart happy. I can't wipe off the smile from my face even after I've finished brushing my teeth and started looking through my clothes wondering what to wear. Ultimately, I choose a random band tee and black jeans. Luke told me to not get blue jeans, for any reason, ever. It's like some sort of sin with him. The black matches with pretty much every color so I'm not going to argue with it.

I spray on some perfume that Mom picked out for me. It smelled like gardenias. Brushing through my hair, I manage to only make my hair frizz up. I've never really done anything with my hair before, so I'm kind of at my wits end here. After looking up 'very simple short hairstyles' on my new laptop, I come up with a small ponytail. I know how unimpressive, but it took me a long time to get into the browser and put in all right the key words. So I just my hair back and up and tie it with a ponytail holder. After I'm satisfied with the ponytail, I pull a few pieces down around my face to make it less tightly pulled back.

I grab some socks and put them on. I walk back into my closet to grab my new black high top converse. I lace them, and then relace them because they were too tight. I walk out into the kitchen area to see mom making breakfast and dad sitting at the table reading something on his phone.

"Good morning, hun. How did you sleep?" She smiled tome after looking up from the eggs she was scrambling.

"Actually I— I slept really well." I smiled as i joined her in the kitchen.

"Today's everyone's first day back to school after break and it's your first day in a very long time. How do you feel? Excited? Nervous?" She switches her attention to the bacon sizzling in the next pan over.

"Um, both I think." I laugh a bit. I was gonna be in front of a lot of people today. I was really worried I was going to have a panic attack like I did in the airport. I know that I'm not going into it alone, but I'm still really nervous. Then, thinking about the learning aspect, I haven't done that in years! I am so excited.

She hands me a plate as she's just made a few more. "Cover your ears, Lili." She waits for me to obey and continues, "Boys! Get out here if you want breakfast! And you better be dressed and ready!" I am so glad she warned me, I might've gotten hearing damage if she hadn't.

All three of the missing boys jogged into the room to grab their plates and sit at the table to eat them. "Morning, Lili." Jack and Ben both mumble through the food in their mouth, but Dad beat them to saying good morning to me. When I sat down dad asked me the same thing as mom and I said the same thing, but he said something at the end. He said something about how the boys better watch out for me. It was kinda under his breath though.

"Mourning, boys." I reply, and with that we all stuff our mouths so we'd be ready by the time Mom decided to leave. It didn't take us long though, there wasn't a ton of food on our plates. As the boys finished they took their plates to the kitchen and put them in the sink. The boys went to grab their bags for school, so I did too. When we all met back in the kitchen, Dad was there too, and he spoke up, "Lili, we know this is your first day back so we got you a little something to remind you that you have your whole family behind you in everything you do." Everyone smiles at me as mom shows me a small box. As she holds it out to me, I take it and open it to see a beautiful necklace. It was a small circle pendant that said 'Love you to the moon and back.' And when I cleared the tears that were clouding my vision, I saw that they all had something similar. Dad, Jack, and Ben had keychains, Mom had a necklace too, and Luke had a leather bracelet.

The tears I had just pushed away were coming back, and rolling down my face. I had so many happy tears. The moment was only a few minutes long as we did have to go to school, and dad to work. So mom and the boys and I all piled in one car, as dad got in the other. Jack yelled shotgun first so he got the front while Ben, Luke and I were smushed in the back. Luke looked at me and mouthed the words, 'how are you feeling?' I mouthed back how nervous I was and how I was worried I would have another panic attack. He squeezed my hand and mouthed, 'let me see how I can help.' I just nodded even with the confused expression on my face.

It took only a few minutes to get to the school. Everyone got out, even mom. This I wasn't expecting. Jack and Ben both walked into the school while Luke, Mom, and I stayed back for a minute.

As I started to walk towards the building with Luke at my side, Mom says something that stops us. "Lilliana, I need to take you into the office to see what's going to happen with your schooling."

Before I could say anything, Luke speaks up. "Mom, could I introduce her to my friends so she's a little less overwhelmed? You could go into the office and tell them what's going on while I do. And then I'll take her into the office to you." He smiled at her, pleading with his eyes.

Mom waves him off as she says, "As long as she's okay with it." I smile and nod, so Luke and I walk towards the entrance to the building as Mom goes to the office.

"Alright, I just texted them to meet me here." I smile at him for being so nice, but I have a lot of anxiety about meeting them. If I couldn't deal with a few of Luke's friends, then how was I going to handle school? I didn't have to worry for long as I see three figures walk out of the building.