User blog:AustinDR/Fanfiction: A Broken Heart

Today was a great day for the Loud kids. What started as a misunderstanding quickly became much more. Yesterday, Lincoln had uncovered a love letter signed to a certain "L. Loud." As all of the siblings' names begin with the letter L, this only further complicated matters. As the day went on as they tried to get their crushes to notice them, another letter arrived in the mail, this time singling out the sisters who had brown hair. To make matters even more convoluted, it seemed as though the letters were directed towards Luna herself. Despite initially being nervous, her siblings convince her to go to the restaurant that night. While the letter turned out to have been for their father, this inspires the Loud kids to act on their feelings. With Luna as the last of the siblings to give out her love letter, she quickly sprinted behind some of the lockers. As if on cue, the rock star boy and his two friends walked past the lockers. After the blond girl bids her two friends farewell, she goes to open her locker. The love letter gently floats to the ground, thus confirming that this girl was Sam.

Luna walks home after school, casually humming a tune. Luna was pretty happy with herself; even though she was worried about what Sam's reaction would've been to the letter, she seemed to reciprocate what was written on it. As she walked down the street, Luna let her mind roam free. Thoughts of her beloved fluttered through her mind like butterfly wings. Luna lightly placed her hand on her heart, sighing whilst doing so. Every time she thought about Sam, her heart beats fast like a bass drum. Luna never felt so strongly for someone in her life. Not even her former attraction towards Hugh –Lincoln's tutor – could set her heart ablaze with such raw passion. Suddenly all of those sappy songs about love she had heard over the years made more sense to her. Luna was so delighted at what she had done; she was convinced that nothing could rob her of her good mood.

Luna arrives to the front yard of her humble abode. As she made her way to the door, she could hear her siblings buzzing about in regard to their crushes. A soft smile spreads across her face. She was really hopeful that their pursuits for love were fruitful. Luna places her right hand on the door, and she turns it clockwise. Her siblings stopped talking when they heard the small clicking of the door.

"Guys, Luna's home!" screamed Lincoln.

Luna shuts the door behind her when she was immediately bombarded by a family hug from her siblings. Even though she was slightly cramped in between, Luna laughs alongside her siblings. It took no time for her siblings to ask her a series of questions.

"So how did it go?" asked Lori.

"Are ya gonna bring her home?" inquired Leni.

"We always knew that you were pining for her" chuckles Luan "get it?"

What Luan said was true. Ever since she started to hang out with Sam, Luna would hardly last a couple of hours if she did not bring up Sam. However, when she first began to talk about her, her siblings were under the assumption that she was referring to a boy. Since she was hanging out with a young boy and his two friends, it seemed a given that she was heads over heels for that boy. When the reveal came that Luna was a bisexual, it created a slight disarray with them; it wasn't that they didn't notice some of the signs, but it's the fact that Luna deliberately kept her gender a secret that made their jaws drop in unison when Luna once pointed her out in the mall. Eventually, they slowly became supportive of their sister, and they gave her the encouragement she needed. After all, she was their sister, and they wouldn't have wanted it any other way.

"So, how did she respond to the letter?" said Lynn.

Luna beams a smile at Lynn. "I'm certain she digs me, dudes!"

The sisters all emitted a large squee that practically shook all of the windows in the house. Lincoln and Luna both systematically place their hands over their ears. While she was glad that they supported her, Luna clearly didn't want a repeat of what happened the last time they screamed this loudly. Their parents still had to pay for the damages that were done to the neighborhood.

"So when are you going to pour your heart out to her?" asked Lola.

"Hopefully soon, little sis," said Luna.

"Are you going to start dating her?" asked Lori. "I could arrange for a double date with you two, and Bobby and me."

Luna chuckled at this. "I don't want to rush things too soon."

"But what if she never knows that you sent her the letter?" asked Lincoln inquisitively.

Luna scratches her head. That's true; she didn't leave her initials on the letter when she wrote it, so how would Sam know that she had written it? Worse yet, what if she assumes that it was written by someone else. That would crush Luna if that were the likely scenario.

"You're right, Lincoln. What should I do?"

The sisters talked amongst themselves as to what could be done about this predicament. The further they argued with each other, the more outlandish their suggestions became.

"Maybe Luna could put some more letters in her locker" concluded Leni.

"No, that'd be overkill," groaned Lori.

"We should resort to the dark arts to ensure that Sam and Luna will be the only ones with eyes for each other" sighs Lucy.

"Doesn't that kind of rob her of her personal space?" asked Lynn.

"Besides, Mom and Dad both told you that you couldn't do any witchcraft anymore" added Lana.

"Sigh. Defeated again," bemoans Lucy.

Lisa stood up to speak next. "I propose that we make a spray that will make Luna be the only center of Sam's affections."

"That's worse than Lucy's idea!" yelled Lola. Lisa was obviously not amused.

"Oh, so you want to go princess?" Lisa said, clasping her fists.

"Oh, it is on nerd!" shouts Lola.

The two began to brawl. Lori rolls he eyes, and picks both of her younger sisters by the back of their shirts.

"Guys, let's be civil here."

"Yeah; we should go with my idea."

Lori laughs. "No, Leni, you're idea is literally terrible."

"Oh yeah," Leni fumed.

"Yes, of course, Leni, that idea was pretty dumb" added Lynn.

Leni's eyes were like daggers as she looked furiously at her younger sister. "Well, at least I didn't suggest that they both go to a ballgame."

Lynn's eyes grow to the size of kitchen plates. "What did you say?!"

Without much prompt, the sisters fought each other. Hair and loose teeth were flying as the dust quickly gathers to obscure the brutality. Luna and Lincoln both sighed in disbelief. Lincoln and Luna were about to pull their siblings off each other, when an idea struck Lincoln.

"So, Luna, you've been hanging out with Sam for long times haven't you?"

Luna nods her head. "Yup. Enough time to become wrapped up in her."

"What are some of your shared interests?"

Luna subconsciously drills her mind for an answer. "Well, we basically play together, for one."

Lincoln grinned. "So, you and Sam hang out with that rocker boy, correct?"

"Where are you going with this, Lincoln?"

"Well, if you two hang out with that boy a lot, why not tell Sam in secret when you're finished practicing?"

Luna's eyes widen in realization upon coming to this simple answer. "That's actually a pretty good idea. Thanks Lincoln."

She hugs Lincoln, and he returns it. Upon breaking up the hug, Lincoln whistles at his sisters, alerting them to this development. "Great news, we figured out what to do!" informed Lincoln. The sisters each weakly gave them a thumbs up.

"If there's any spare teeth lying around, they're mine," says Lola before losing consciousness.

Next morning was a Saturday morning. Luna sluggishly awakens from her deep slumber to hear buzzing. Luna yawns loudly, stretching her arms and back. She looks to side of her bed, and she sees that her phone was blaring. Luna rubs the sleepiness from her eyes, and looks closely at the number projected on her screen. "Oh, it's just Sam calling me." Luna lets her phone buzz until it ceased before returning to bed. A few short minutes go by when Luna suddenly jolts out of her bed. "Oh my god, it's Sam! I'm late!"

Luna quickly runs to the bathroom, and jumps into the bathtub. She turns the water on fully expecting hot water to erupt from the shower drain. Unfortunately for her, it was ice cold water. The water slowly slithered down Luna's back, chilling her spine simultaneously. It felt as though icicles were being stabbed deeply into her body.

"Cold, cold, cold!" shouts Luna. She turns the water of, and races to her room to get her duds. The family was sitting at the table, hearing all of the commotion happening upstairs. "Boy, Luna is totes freaking out about this," says Leni observantly.

Lori nods her head in agreement. "She's in love, dear sister. I know that feeling."

"Right, when you first met Bobby, you were so nervous, that you had forgotten to get out of your pajamas!" declares Luan. All of the siblings make a joke out of this whilst Lori's cheeks blush red.

Without a moment's hesitation, Luna runs to the kitchen wearing mix-matched clothes. Everyone looked at her strangely. Luna could feel the awkwardness of the situation. "I'm sorry, guys."

"No, that's fine. Don't beat yourself up." Lincoln says reassuringly.

"I just really like her, Lincoln. I want to make a good impression." Luna tilts her head down ashamed.

"Come on, Luna," says Lori "let's get you ready. Trust me, if she likes you back, she wouldn't want you to worry about this silly thing.

Luna relents, and she follows Lori upstairs.

Luna arrives to Sam's house a few minutes late. When Sam sees Luna walking up, she crosses her arms in disappointment. "What was taking you long?" she asked accusingly.

Luna rubs the back of her head anxiously. She couldn't think of what to say. Just seeing Sam again made her stumble on her words. "I-I'm sorry." Sam looks her over observantly, and smiles warmly. "Well, I'm glad you could make it. Come on, let's get started."

The practice went on a couple of hours, each hour being greater than the last. Luna and Sam played on their bass guitars while the other girl played on the drums, and the leader of the group was the singer. Luna continued to play fluently until she allowed her eyes to drift towards Sam. Sam waved her blonde hair back and forth in a rapid matter; beams of sweat slid down her forehead. Luna blushed heavily at the sight of her beloved rocking out. Thoughts about just laying a kiss on her lips crossed her mind several times, but she tried to suppress this until the very end of their practice.

Eventually, practice ended, and the leader of the band called it quits. He packs up his microphone and leaves alongside the other girl. This left Luna and Sam alone. Finally, she could break the ice. Sam gathered her bass guitar, and she gently placed it into its case. Luna watched her a few more times, having her thoughts conflict with each other. "Come on, Luna, you can do this," Luna says trying to reassure herself. Sam was about to leave when Luna spoke up at last.

"H-hey, great job out there, Sam."

Sam looks back at her, her grin spreading across her face. "Thanks, Luna. That means a lot."

Luna sighs deeply. "Okay, good, now I'll just have to..."

Sam interrupts her train of thought. "Oh, I had forgotten; yesterday, I received a love letter from my locker."

Luna gulps in fear. "You have?"

"Yeah; I really need to meet whoever wrote it to thank them properly."

Luna twiddles her thumbs nervously. "Hey, Sam."

Sam turned her glance to the rock star. "What is it?"

Sweat dripped from Luna's forehead. God, why did she have to be so nervous? "Do you have any plans for this evening?"

"Plans?"

Luna giggled in dread. "Well, there was this movie that I was aiming to see, a-and we could probably hang out after that..."

Sam raises her eyebrow in confusion. She didn't have a clue as to what Luna was trying to suggest, but then it hit her.

"Oh. Listen, Luna..."

Luna was shaking in fear.

"You're real cool and all, but I'm not into chicks."

Luna's heart shatters on impact upon hearing these words. After everything they had been through, it would seem only logical that they would get together. Luna had feared that Sam would reject her because of her preferences, but she held onto that hope that maybe she'd be proven wrong. But her greatest fear just became realized. Luna looks down at the floor in rejection. Sam lightly taps her shoulder, understanding the levity of the situation.

"I'm sorry, Luna," says Sam in a comforting tone "maybe we can just be friends."

Luna looks at her dejectedly. Luna was trying to put on a face of understanding, but it was only self-evident that she simply didn't want to break down in front of her crush.

"Sure, no big deal." Luna gives Sam a weak thumbs up, and Sam heads back into her house, leaving her alone. Luna couldn't believe what just happened; earlier that day, she mustered up enough courage to give Sam the love letter, but now her whole world was in shambles as Sam simply wasn't into her. Tears streak from Luna's face as she gathers her bass guitar, and walks out of Sam's garage. Luna looked up at Sam's bedroom, her eyes red from the tears. She then began her long walk back to the Loud house.

"Dude..."