User blog:LoudFanWolf/Hopping Hope

Hopping Hope by LoudFanWolf

(NOTE: This story takes place before Fools Paradise, you'll see why as you read)

Lana Loud was feeling hopeless, Hopeless and heartbroken. She and her parents had just gotten back from the vets office, which to Lana, now sounded like death row, for her animals, at least. She had just found out that Hopps, her faithful pet frog who had been sick for a few days, wasn't getting any better, and according to the doctor, Hopps would be lucky if he lasted through the night. Lana had watched enough TV to know what the doctor meant by that, Hopps was going to die, and there was nothing he or the family could do. After arriving home, Lana ran to her room, clutching Hopps cage as if it were her baby. Inside the cage, a sick Hopps slept soundly. Lana and her mother, Rita, were sitting on the 6 year old tomboys bed, the mother trying to comfort her animal loving daughter as she continued to cling to Hopps cage.

"I'm so sorry, baby, but the doctor said that there is nothing more we can do about it." Rita said, trying to comfort her daughter to pretty much avail.

Lana turned to face her mother, tears running down her face like waterfalls. "Why, mama, why? What did Hopps ever do to deserve this? Dying?"

Rita sighed. "I wish I could answer that, baby, I wish anybody could answer that."

Rita comforted her daughter as best she could, until Lana finally stopped crying, Rita then gave her a hug and a kiss, and told her everything would be okay.

"That's what they always say on TV, too," Lana thought, for she knew that as long as Hopps, her dearest friend was still sick and potentially dying, nothing would be okay.

As she sat in her room, Lana felt the need to talk to someone who could understand her and her situation. Someone who really understood her love for reptiles, and understood why she treated them with such care and respect. She knew she couldn't talk to her roommate and twin, Lola, she found Lanas animals and their habits to be "gross" and would probably feel kinda relieved that one of them was going away. She couldn't really rest of her sisters either, as they had never had any time to try and understand Lana and her love for animals either. The only person in Lanas family who truly understood the relationship between her and her animals was her dear older brother, Libcoln, but Lana couldn't really talk to him either, because at the moment, he was away with his friend Clyde and his parents, camping in the woods. Oh, how Lana wished there were phone signals in the wild so that she could talk to him.

Aside from Lincoln, there was really nobody who could cheer Lana up at the moment, except for, maybe...

"HEYYYYY, YOUUUUU GUUYYYYYYYYYS!!!!"

Lana knew that Sloth from The Goonies esque yell anywhere, the Loud family friend, Derek Gabriel, had just walked through the door, wanting to drop by for a visit. Lana ran down the stairs to the front door, excited that somebody was here who could actually help her. Derek saw Lana the moment she was at the top, descending the stairs, a smile immediately crossing his features. Derek and Lana met at the bottom of the stairs.

"DERK!!!"

"LANSY!!!"

Lana jumped into Derek's arms, hugging him, very happy to see her friend in her time of need; Derek hugged her small body back.

"Derk, I'm so happy to see you, you gotta help me! Please?" Lana gave Derek "puppy dog eyes," knowing but still hoping that he'd say yes.

Derek smiled. "Sure, Lansy, anything for my favorite twin!" Derek was glad Lola wasn't there at the moment to hear that, but it was true.

"Great, follow me!" Lana then pulled Derek's arm all the way up to Lana and Lola's room, before they both plopped on the formers bed. Lana then pointed to Hopps cage, and the sleeping, sick, and potentially dying frig that was inside.

"Is it Hopps? What's wrong with him Lansy?" Derek asked, seemingly confused as to why Lana was pointing at staring worriedly at the peacefully sleeping animal.

"You know how Hopps has been sick, right?"

"Yeah." Derek remembered how Lana told him yesterday that Hopps was sick, and that she was doing everything to help him feel better.

"Well, me, Mom and Dad took him to vet today and....and" Lana got a lump in her throat as the tears welled up her eyes, and Derek, noticing this began to hold her.

"What? What is it Lansy? What happened at the vet?"

"He..." Lana swallowed before continuing "he said that Hopps would be lucky if Hopps lasted through the night... He's going to die, Derk."

Lana then broke down, collapsing in Derek's arms, hugging him and sobbing profusely as Derek tried his to best to comfort her by shushing her, whispering sweet nothings into her ear and quietly singing little songs to her, trying everything to help her calm down.

When Lana finally did calm down after a few minutes, she looked up at Derek, her wet, bloodshot eyes meeting Derek's passionate, caring blue ones.

"Why, Derek? No, what, Derek? What the heck am I gonna do? Hopps is gonna die and there's nothing I can do!"

Lana then sank back into Derek's embrace, wanting to let her feelings out to her surrogate 2nd big brother as much as possible. Derek really wanted to help the poor little girl, and as he rubbed her back and raked gently through her blond hair, he began thinking of things he could do to make the situation better. Suddenly he got it.

"Lansy?"

The 6 year old looked up at the high school junior again. "Yeah," she whimpered "what is it?"

"Have you ever prayed before?"

AUTHORS NOTE: WILL CONTINUE THIS STORY VERY SOON, PLEASE LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS DOWN BELOW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK OF THE STORY SO FAR!!!