The sun had set on another day at the Loud house and the twins Lola and Lana had been settled into bed.
Their parents had just finished tucking them in and had turned off the light and shut the door.
It had been a confusing day for Lana, her older sister Luna had brought home a girl named Sam whom she introduced as her girlfriend.
Everyone had been happy to meet Sam but there was something hanging in the air that Lana couldn't quite understand or identify.
Lana didn't like to admit it but there were certain things that her younger twin Lola was better at so sometimes before they went to sleep she would ask her sister to explain it to her. "Lola?" Lana whispered.
There was no response from Lola's side of the room. Lana tried again a bit louder, "Lola!"
"What Lana! This had better be good!" a disgruntled Lola replied.
Lana sat up in her bed looking towards Lola, the room was lit only by her frog night light and Lola's fairie lights.
"Lola, why did Luna seem so scared to introduce Sam to us?" Lana was confused she had always thought of Luna as being the bravest.
Lola grunted and sat up she was wearing her pink nighty, lifting her sleep mask she knew that this was going to be a long night. "I don't know maybe she thought you'd embarrass her."
Lana growled, "Why would she be embarrassed by me." Lola grinned knowing she was getting her older twin worked up, "well you do always have that toad hopper with you" getting the name and species wrong on purpose.
"Everyone loves Hops, and he's a frog," Lana said the words through gritted teeth.
Lola laughed, and Lana realized she was being wound like one of Cliff's toy mice, "come on Lola I'm being serious."
Lola shrugged looking at her sister through the dim light, "I don't know but it's probably not us, she knows we love her."
Lana nodded, "Yeah your probably right. . ."
Then she thought for a moment and a little nervously asked, "You don't think Sam is mean do you, like a mean witch?"
Lola sighed, "No Lana I don't think Sam is a witch besides Luna wouldn't like her if she was mean."
"But what if she put a spell on Luna?" Lana asked suspiciously.
Lola put her hand over her face then exasperatedly said: "Sam didn't put a spell on Luna and even if she did I'm sure Lucy would have broken it."
This seemed to allay Lana's suspicions about Sam.
Lola yawned and asked her twin, "is that all can I resume my beauty sleep?"
Lana was silent for a moment then a bit quietly asked, "Lola if I liked a girl would you still love me?"
Lola wasn't sure where the question came from and responded: "I thought you liked Skippy?"
Lana shook her head, "not anymore he's a jerk! He tried to steal el diablo from me."
Lola scowled no one stole from her or her sister, "don't worry I'll help you get back at him."
Lola started to lie back down but Lana prompted her again, "Would you?"
Lola looked at Lana and in a serious voice this time said, "Lana it wouldn't matter who you liked, you could marry a dog for all I care, as long at they treat you and more importantly me good; I'll always love you cause you'll always be my sister."
Lana's mind seemed to switch tracks, "a dog well it had better be braver than Charles."
Lana was suddenly smacked in the face by a pillow, "Lana just go to sleep," Lola restrained herself from shouting.
Lana relented, "okay night Lola." Lying in bed quietly Lana still couldn't fall asleep.
Listening for Lola she waited for her sister to begin to snore to confirm she was asleep.
When she was certain her sister wouldn't wake up Lana slid to the edge of her bed and slipped to the floor then she quietly tip toed out of the room.
Once in the hallway, Lana looked around until she was certain Lucy wouldn't appear from nowhere.
Once sure was she was alone she approached her older sisters room.
Lana pulled out her flashlight and inspected the door for any of Luan's more obvious traps when she'd confirmed to her satisfaction the outside was safe she opened the door slowly until she felt some pressure.
The door had bumped against a trip wire without setting it off.
Gingerly stepping through the doorway and over the trip wire, Lana entered the room doing a quick scan of the room she didn't see anything suspicious between her and the bunk bed.
Just to be cautious she pulled a can of Lola's hair spray from her pocket and sprayed it around.
There were no obvious laser grids so she approached the ladder with caution.
She climbed the ladder quickly and once at the top gently nudged Luna awake.
Luna shrugged and then rubbing her eyes looked at Lana clearing her throat she asked, "hey Lans did you have a nightmare?"
Lana sat up on Luna's bed and spoke quickly, "Luna I wanted to make sure you knew that I love you and think your the best."
Luna budged up against the wall giving her little sister more room though she was unsure what had brought the night time intrusion on, she smiled," I know Lans I love you too."
Lana nodded and continued "I wouldn't even care if Sam was a witch if she's okay by you then she's okay by me.'
Now even more confused and unsure how to respond Luna just laughed, "thanks, dude that means a lot to need I think."
When Lana made no obvious attempt to leave Luna lifted her blanket, "do you want to bunk with me tonight."
In response, Luna scampered under the blanket cuddling up to her older sister, "Thanks, Luna."
Luna watched as her lil sis quickly drifted off to dream land leaving Luna to wonder what had brought the random visit on.
Finally, she just shrugged and put her arm around her younger sister somehow reassured by the little ragamuffin.
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Just a little thing I wrote thinking about how Lana would react to Luna bringing her girlfriend home.
Hope you enjoyed it.