"You should literally hang up first," Lori chimes into her phone, "You! No, you hang up, BooBoo bear!"
"For goodness sakes, woman! Someone hang up the cellular device!" The small prodigy shrieks in dismay as she sets down the beaker she was holding onto the living room table.
"Bobby. I'll literally have to call you back. Some people in this house are so rude," the eldest girl huffs as she clicks her phone off.
"I think we stopped being rude after the eighth "no you hang up first", Lori," Lynn argues while hanging upside down in the lounge chair.
"You guys just don't know what it's like to be in love!" Lori defends. "Leni knows," She says, elbowing the girl next to her on the couch.
"Huh? Leni knows what?" the blonde asks clueless as ever.
"Bold of you to assume that Leni knows anything," Lana says as her and Lola break out giggling together on the living room rug.
Lori slams her hand into her face sighing. "You and Chaz, Leni."
"Oh! Chaz is great! He took me to the mall yesterday and bought me this cute sweater! We also got pizza and-"
"Leni!" Lincoln interrupts, "we get it. Chaz is a dream guy, but we're talking about how sickening Lori and Bobby are while on the phone. At least you and Chaz don't have fights over who is going to hang up first! And you guys always hang out outside the house so all of us don't have to barf." The small boy sticks his finger in his mouth for added effect.
"You and Ronnie Anne had a twenty minute goodbye hug last time we went to the city," Lori remarks to her complaining sibling. "Besides, you all should be used to it by now. I could literally be worse. I could have him over and cuddle on the couch in front of you guys all of the time."
"Brah, the only reason that isn't reality for us is that the Rock Gods blessed us with him being a state away," Luna jokes as she gets a high five from her comedian roommate.
The eldest girl opens her mouth to retaliate, but a knock on the front door cuts her short. "Come in," Lola chimes, assuming it was her parents coming home or Clyde visiting.
The Louds all smile as the black haired intruder walks in and kicks her boots off by the door. "Evening Louds."
"Maggie!" Lynn cheers as she sits up in the chair. "We were just talking about our siblings boyfriends! How'd we forget about Mad Dog Maggie!"
"Because Luan literally never talks about or does anything with Maggie," Lori huffs while crossing her arms.
"You actually used literally the right way. They must have really laid into you," Maggie remarks with a smile. "What was it this time?"
"There were a record 22 "no you hang up firsts" in today's phone conversation. She didn't leave us any choice," Lola shrieks in exaggerated distress.
"And then I was explaining to all of them that they've literally never been in love and should back off of me. That's why we were all talking about our loves."
Maggie softly chuckles. "22 huh? Darn. I owe you a new suit for Mr. Coconuts, Giggles. I bet the next record would be 25."
"And I tried to tell you that we'd cut her way off before then! Even 22 made us want to hang her out to dry! Get it?" The comedian laughs at her own joke then grins at her girlfriend. "Come sit with us!"
The black haired girl shakes her head as she starts to head towards the group of siblings. "Hi twins," she says as she ruffles Lana's head and smiles at Lola. "Hey Lincoln logs," she nods to the white haired boy sitting in front of the TV." "Hey Lynnsanity, hey little Einsteins," she glances toward the fireplace, "and hello Lucy."
The whole room shrieks as their sister with a bad habit of sneaking up on people pops her head out of the fireplace. "You always notice the way I move through the universe. I appreciate it." Lucy cracks a sharp toothed grin then retreats back into her shadows.
"How do you always find her?" Leni asks in awe. "She always scares us!"
"You just have to pay more attention to her, I guess?" Maggie shrugs as she plops down on the floor by the twins and Lily.
"Speaking of paying more attention to someone, how come you aren't sitting with Luan? You two never sit together when you come over!" Leni says, looking between the two.
"That's what we were saying, Leni. Luan and Maggie are dating, but they never go out or talk on the phone. Even in person they don't be with each other! In Luan's own house she doesn't even kiss her girlfriend!" Lori scoffs, still upset over how she
got teased over Bobby.
Luan turns a little red as she starts to twiddle her thumbs. "Oh leave them alone, dude. Luan just doesn't kiss people," Luna defends as she pats Luan's back affectionately.
The loud siblings all look at each other for a few seconds, then Lori states, "I was just meaning in front of us or in public, but they've literally never kissed? Like ever?"
"Think about it, Lori. Maggie always comes over here, never the opposite, and Maggie goes to my school, not Luan's. If they never go out like you said, where would they find the time to kiss?" Lynn asks, starting to get curious herself.
"You guys," Luan starts, really getting embarrassed.
"When did you start dating?" Lana asks the black haired girl sitting next to her.
"A few days after my birthday," she replies as she pours a chemical in Lisa's beaker making it turn purple. The young scientist quickly hugs the larger girl for a sixteenth of a second then quickly takes down notes on her pad.
Lincoln pauses his game as he was now invested in this as well. "That was eight months ago!"
"Your point?" She asks, raising an eyebrow.
"We can have a meaningful relationship without having kissed, Lincoln," Luan says with a smile as she watches her girlfriend playing with Izzy and Lana on the floor.
"But eight months? Literally crazy," Lori says while staring at the odd comedian.
"I mean, I'll be honest. When I see you driving across states to see Bobby and giving him all those nicknames, and when I see Leni and Chaz or even Lucy and Rocky," the jokester pauses, "I do think about my how my relationship is different. It isn't bad though."
"Wouldn't you rather have a cute nickname for Maggie?" "And go out for pizza and the mall?" The two eldest sisters ask, leaning forward on the couch more curious than ever. How could anyone be content in a relationship that didn't do anything?
Luan just laughs. She glances over at her girlfriend who has her head in the fireplace talking to the most anti-social sibling. "We're just different. If I called Maggie anything close to BooBoo bear, I think she would throw me to the bears! Haha get it! And she doesn't really like going anywhere like that, she really likes to just stay home and watch movies. What kind of a date would it be if I just forced her to go out somewhere she didn't want to go? That'd be a Cinema! Get it!"
"Luaaaaannnnn," the whole room groans.
""I think I get it," Luna says, her face lighting up. "Look dudes." She points to Maggie in the floor holding Lily while hovering her in the air making rocket ship noises. Lana puts her hand over her nose and mouth and starts making Darth Vader noises while pretending to chase after the rocket baby.
"Houston we are going to make a landing at planet Melancholia," Maggie states in a low voice while looking at Lola who gives the approval. "Space Cadet Lana, we are landing in 3,2,1," all four girls climb into the fireplace where the whole living room could swear they hear even Lucy laughing happily.
"So cute, dudes. Maggie is always over here because she loves Luan, but she also loves all of us. I think it'd be pretty rockin' to see your dude in love with your siblings as much as they are with you," Luna explains while smiling at her younger sister.
"Exactly!" Luan exclaims, jumping up off the ground. Finally! She finally figured out her and Maggie's relationship! Luna figured it out! Luan breaks out in a giant grin, "Maggie and I have a great relationship even without any kissing or hugging or anything like that! She makes me happy and makes all of my siblings happy. That's all I need!" She exclaims to her sisters, but meant it for herself. She didn't need to be physically loved to feel in love. She fell in love every time she saw Maggie roll her eyes at a joke or play with the twins or make Lucy happy. She fell in love with Maggie everyday without touching her once.
"Well, I literally don't get it. That sounds like a best friendship to me, but as long as you guys are happy and she doesn't break your heart, then we're fine, little sis," Lori says with a smile.
"If Bobby isn't your best friend, then what kind of relationship do you two have?" Maggie remarks playfully with an arched eyebrow.
"O. M. Gosh." Lori's face falls as she whips out her phones and pushes the speed dial button. "BOBBY!" she screams into the phone as she runs upstairs to deal with this crisis.
Maggie laughs to herself as the whole room chuckles except Luan who stares at her empathetically, "She's going to think about that for days now, Maggie."
"I was just defending my girl. I figured I'd be more of a girlfriend like she talked about earlier," Maggie says with a playful smile. She digs through her backpack and hands a bright red Luan a piece of candy. "Want a kiss?"