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"It's only the sixth week of the semester and you haven't made an effort to raise your grade up. You haven't been going to tutoring like I asked you to, have you?" Rosemary couldn't help but overhear her math teacher, Miss Garcia, question her classmate, Luna.

Luna looked down, biting her lip. "Well, no, but the only reason is because I want to hang out with my friends during lunch, why would I want to waste my time hanging out with a bunch of college nerds who make me even more confused than you make me? I'm not going to get any better at math, Miss Garcia, so why even bother?"

Miss Garcia looked up at her in disappointment as she looked behind her to see Rosemary shove her notebook in her backpack. "Rosemary, can I talk to you for a second?"

Rosemary was almost out the door before she turned around, looking from Miss Garcia to Luna. Garcia motioned for her to come to her desk as Rose did. "Yes, Miss Garcia?"

"Rosemary, you know you're one of my best students. I was wondering if you'd like to tutor Luna? She really needs it and I think you'll be a big help-"

"No, I don't need her help, you just need to teach the subject better." Luna frowned. "I don't need a tutor, Miss Garcia, please."

Rosemary looked over at Luna. "Um, Luna? No offense, but, Miss Garcia has been going over some pretty easy subjects-some that we've learnt in middle school. If you need some help, I'd be happy to tutor you. It's no problem at all." She gently smiled at her.

"That's wonderful!" Miss Garcia smiled widely. "There's a huge test on Wednesday and I want you to do your best on it, Luna. Thank you so much for helping me out, Rose."

Rosemary smiled back, looking over at Luna. "Luna, you can come over tonight so we could study for a bit...okay?"

Luna groaned, knowing she was never going to get out of this. "Fine." She stomped her foot as she threw her bag over her shoulder before walking out the door.

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Luna and Rosemary entered her bedroom as she closed the door behind her. "Just make yourself at home, Luna."

She nodded as she looked around her bedroom. "Your room is nice, I love the christmas lights hanging all around." She moved over to the mirror that was near the closet as Luna cocked her head to admire herself. Rosemary watched as she squinted at something that was taped to the mirror.

"Is this you and Sienna?" Luna frowned, taking out the small picture of Sienna and Rosemary.

Rosemary smiled. "Yeah, we took that when we had just become friends in kindergarten. I couldn't wait until we were out of school just so I could show off to everyone that Sienna was my bestfriend. I begged my Dad to take a picture of us...and, this was the result."

"You guys went from bestfriends to lovers, did your relationship change at all when you both got together or was everything the same?" Luna asked, seeing as there was more pictures on the mirror.

"Lovers? Sienna and I are just friends."

Luna widened her eyes. "Oh, it's just...I thought you guys were together because you guys are just so close. Seeing as the way you guys act towards each other, especially Sienna, I thought you two were together officially."

Rosemary shook her head. "Yeah, I sometimes hold her hand and kiss her cheek from time to time but that's just how we like to act towards each other. There's nothing going on between us."

She sat on the bed as Luna gently placed the pictures back on the mirror before she sat next to her. "Hey, I'm sorry for what I said. I shouldn't have said that."

"It's fine," Rosemary sighed. "We should get to studying before it gets late. I'm going to the kitchen for some snacks, what do you want to drink?"

"Um, anything is fine." Luna smiled at her before Rosemary headed out the door.

She bumped into Nathan who had quickly gotten out of his room. "Rose, who's your new friend?"

"My friend, her name is Luna." Rosemary sighed as she moved past him and headed downstairs. She heard him follow her down as he spoke again.

"Do you think she has a sister my age?" He questioned as he watched her reach for two cups from the cabinet.

"I don't think so." She said, heading over to the fridge to take out the lemonade.

"Can you ask?"

"You know you're too young to date, Nate." Rosemary rolled her eyes. She had the two glasses of lemonade in her hands and a bag of chips under her arm.

"Can you just-" They both heard a scream upstairs as Rosemary gently put everything down before heading upstairs with Nathan behind her.

She entered her room, seeing Luna curled up on the floor. "Luna, what's wrong?"

"I don't know! There was a fucking loud knock on the window! There's someone by the window! It's a raccoon, I know it's a raccoon. Get it away!" Luna cried as Rosemary heard her mumble something that sounded like a spanish prayer.

Rosemary headed over to the window as Luna's prayer got louder. She moved the curtains, seeing Sienna laughing. Rosemary smiled, turning over to look at Luna. "It's just Sienna, don't worry."

She opened the window for her to walk through as Sienna's laughter filled the room. "I'm sorry for scaring you, Luna, I just thought it would be really funny and it was."

Luna sat up, crossing her arms as she looked away from her. Nathan shrugged, silently leaving the room.

"What are you doing here?" Rosemary smiled at Sienna.

"I wanted to talk to you about something." Sienna looked at her.

"Can it wait until later? You came too early, I have a study session with Luna right now." Rosemary bit her lip.

Sienna looked over her shoulder, seeing as Luna was taking out her notebook and other books out of her backpack. "Oh, I didn't know. Well since I'm here already, I'll just play video games with Nathan, I guess?"

Rosemary nodded. "Yeah, you do that. It'll only be for an hour."

"Alright...bye." Sienna gave a small wave before leaving her room. She turned back to look at her before disappearing from her sight.

"We should get started," Rosemary sighed, turning to look back Luna. "Do you want-"

Rosemary heard the police scanner that on the bedside table mumble something that she couldn't quite hear anything but managed to make out the word 'hostage'.

Luna frowned. "Why do you have a police scanner?" Rosemary ignored her as she walked up to it, trying to hear it clearly.

"Do you want something to drink? Let me get you something to drink." Rosemary quickly said, leaving the bedroom.

"Rose, you already brought drinks! Hey!" Luna yelled out but Rosemary headed downstairs.

"Rosemary?" Sienna walked out and followed her. "Where are you going?"

"Out." Rosemary said. "Do you mind taking care of Nathan while I'm out and try to help Luna with her math homework? I might take a while."

Sienna smiled. "Alright, go get 'em, Spiderling."

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