Once the three siblings reached home, they headed straight for the bathrooms. It was lucky for them that they had three bathrooms available so that no one needed to wait for someone else to be done first.

Luna was the first to come out since she only took a shower, unlike the other two who were likely soaking in a warm bath to soothe themselves. Because of that, she caught her parents trying to sneak into the kitchen.

“Father. Mother. Welcome back, you’re home early today. What’re the both of you doing?”

Her father coughed lightly before speaking, “We were just about to get something for tea time. Don’t mind us.”

“Would you like me to fix something for you?”

“No, no. Luna dear, just go rest in your room.” Her father shooed her away while her mother nodded in agreement.

“... Okay...” It was obvious that they were up to something so Luna left them alone.

“Luna baby! You aren’t resting again!” Her mother exclaimed from behind her.

“It’s just some light reading.” Luna was being honest.

Her mother looked a little reproachful but ended up sighing then breaking into a helpless smile. “Forget that, I came here to call you and Erica down. Come!”

Luna obediently followed her mother to get Erica.

On their way down, they met Desmond whom their father had been in charge of getting. They also caught whiffs of a tantalising smell.

A mouth watering spread on the large circle marble table greeted the siblings and the smell now hit them in waves, alerting them to their hunger.

"All of you have had it rough today." Their father said with empathy.

"Come, eat and lift your spirits so that you can put up a good fight!" Their mother encouraged them. "Especially the two of you." She rubbed Erica's and Luna's heads.

Their parents were no dummies and they have their ways of getting information. One of their major sources was definitely their chauffeur who had driven the three of them home in the mess that they were.

Although parents could not interfere with matters taking place in the school, nobody said that they could not cheer their children on from the sidelines.

Luna sat at her usual spot at the table then blankly stared at the bowl of food in front of her.

“Luna baby, is something wrong?” Her mother asked worriedly.

“Hm? No, I was just thinking how wonderful all of you are.” Luna broke into her rare heartfelt smile that shone radiantly, making everyone’s hearts melt.

“Awww, you’re just as wonderful, my baby! Eat, eat!”

Erica and Desmond nodded along eagerly while her father smiled proudly at her.

After their early dinner, Erica held onto Luna’s hand before she went into her room.

“Luna… If anyone comes to find trouble with you at school, can you please call Ge Ge or me?” She was afraid that Luna would experience more hardship now that people saw her as the one behind the rumours and schemes.

“Don’t worry about me. Because it’s me, everything will blow over easily and I’ll soon be overlooked as usual. I won't be able to say the same if you had been the one though.”

The way Luna said it with such confidence thoroughly confused Erica. The odd things that Luna said were increasing overtime and it was starting to worry her. “Jie Jie... Why’re you so sure?”

"That’s not important. More importantly, Erica, every time you feel a compelling need to be rid of Victor or Rina or the both of them, can you promise me to first question yourself if that is really really what you want? Or is it just something that’s triggering you to feel like you need them gone or else? They’re different in an important way.”

Erica looked even more confused and her mouth hung agape. Of course it's something that I want.

“Erica? Please?”

Despite not understanding Luna’s choice of words, Erica gave a tight-lipped smile and nodded to humour her. All she understood from that was how Luna wished for her to no longer bother with Victor and Rina.