I wanted to thank everyone who gave me criticism. I'm obviously new to writing and will try to improve as I go, and having constructive criticism really helps.


It was by no means a long walk from Royal Woods High School to her house at 1216 Franklin Avenue, taking barely 30 minutes by foot, but as she walked side by side with Sam, the girl she was currently head over heels for, talking and joking and laughing, Luna felt like this was both the longest and shortest walk of her life. Forgetting all her fears and insecurities and paying attention only to the smiling girl by her side, she barely noticed when they arrived at the cluttered front yard of her home.

"Here we are! Uh, sorry about the mess, Sam, my siblings kinda just leave all their junk everywhere." The brunette said, smiling sheepishly as she tried to step over a doll with no head.

"No worries, dude! Feels hom- oof!" Sam tried to reply, before stepping on a roller skate. "Oops. Feels homely!" She laughed, trying to recover her balance.

"Hey! You alright there?" Luna scrambled to her side, worried. She started to realized that her house, with all her siblings and all their stuff scattered all around, could be described more as a barely non-lethal minefield than an actual home, and immediately started having second thoughts about bringing Sam over.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine! Just, uh, stepped on something, I think..." The smaller girl assured, trying and failing to find the skate she stepped on. "Don't worry, dude!"

'Chill out, Luna! You're gonna look desperate!'

"LYNN!" Before Luna could say anything else, though, they heard a loud, shrill yell and a crash coming from inside the house.

'Oh boy...'

"One of your sisters?" The blonde asked, trying to get a look inside through one of the windows.

"Yeah, that's Lo-"

"THROW THAT BALL IN HERE AGAIN AND I LITERALLY SWEAR TO GOD!"

"-ri. Yep, that's definitely Lori... my older sister."

As they got closer to the door and the noise coming from inside grew louder and louder, Luna started regretting suggesting they study here instead of at Sam's place.

As Lori yelled at her younger siblings, Sam couldn't help but chuckle a bit. "She sounds kinda..."

"Bitchy?" Interrupted Luna, rightfully ignoring the doorbell and knocking on the door. "Everyone here is kinda crazy, dude. You get used to it after a while."

"Dude, come on. They can't be that b-"

"WATCH OUT!"

Their conversation was suddenly interrupted by a football shattering one of the windows in the door. As both girls ducked to avoid the flying glass, none noticed that someone opened the door and dashed past them, running after the escaping ball.

"Dang it Lynn! I told you to not play football inside!" Yelled Lori, running down the stairs with her phone. "Mom and Dad are going to be literally so pissed!". As she noticed that Lynn was already gone, she sighed and leaned on the back of the couch before pulling out her phone.

"Shit! Dude, you okay?!" Luna dropped her backpack as she helped the blonde back up to her feet, worry audible in her voice. "Are you hurt?"

"I'm okay!" She assured, picking a shard of glass from her hair. "Woah..."

"What is it?"

"I guess you weren't kidding about your family after all!" Sam laughed, half at the situation, half at the brunette's dumbfounded face.

"Yeah, dude, like I said, they are just a bit crazy." Luna laughed too, relieved that the smaller girl wasn't hurt.

"Aren't you a bit crazy too, though?"

At that Luna turned her face away, definitely because she found the lamp next to the door very interesting, and not at all to try and hide the light blush creeping up her face. 'So much for trying not to look desperate... she almost got hurt twice and we're not even inside yet'

"Hey, Luna?"

"Huh?" 'Isn't she a bit too close...?'

"You can let go now."

"Wha-" Luna panicked when she realized that she still had her arms around Sam, holding the girl close after helping her get up. "SHI- Sorry! Sorry, I-I didn't-" She stuttered, quickly releasing the smaller girl. Her blush was definitely visible now.

"Chill, dude!" Seeing her so embarrassed only made Sam start laughing again. "I'm just kidding! I don't mind, really!" She said, trying to control her laughter.

'Wait, what?' "Well, uh, so I guess we should go inside, then, huh?" As she could barely think straight from embarrassment, Luna picked up her backpack and went inside, hoping that if she stayed ahead, the other girl wouldn't notice her blushing. 'Real smooth, Luna. Reeeal smooth.'

"Lead the way!" The blonde said, finally controlling her laughter as she followed Luna inside.


Luna Loud liked to think of herself as a cool big sister. And she was, really! She might not be as responsible as Lori or as kind as Leni, but she always encouraged her younger sisters and brother to do what they loved, even if it meant 11 kids tearing the house apart. She always tried to be there for them, and even though she knew how loud they could be, she didn't care. That's who they were, and she liked it! Luna never even thought about trying to make her siblings less noisy or chaotic or crazy, that's who they were after all. But sometimes she did wonder if she was too laid-back as a big sister.

This was one of those times.

The first thing Luna noticed when she stepped inside, was how chaotic the house really was. On a normal day, she would have never payed attention to all the chaos and all the noise. She grew up with it, after all. But today was not a normal day, and while her siblings weren't causing any more mayhem than the usual, Luna was a lot more self-conscious with Sam by her side, and immediately noticed every little thing her siblings were doing, each one seemingly competing for the title of Loudest Loud.

She heard, rather than saw, Lola chasing Lana around on her princess car, the former yelling mock-insults in a shrill voice such as "You uncivilized pig!" or "Classless mud ball!" while the latter ran away leaving mud marks all over the floor, trying to find a high spot where she would be safe from her twin's automotive wrath.

"Come back here, Mudzilla!"

"You'll never catch me alive, princess! NEVER!"

After acknowledging the twins, a youthful giggle caught Luna's attention, and she noticed Lily, with a videogame controller on her mouth, sitting on the couch next to Lincoln, who frantically tried to take the slobbered controller away from the baby's grasp. Behind them, she saw Lori leaning on the couch, loudly chatting on her phone (with Bobby, surely) while watching her younger siblings with disinterest.

"Ideo gam!"

"Lily! That is not how you hold a controller! Here let me-"

"-and she broke the door window! Just after I literally told her to stop playing with that ball inside the house!"

Looking away from her siblings on the couch, Luna noticed Leni and Luan sitting in the dining room, gossiping. She could see her older sister working with some kind of fabric while the younger had an open notebook (probably homework), but was instead focused on finishing her story with Leni, who gasped loudly after every other sentence.

"-and they were roommates!"

Leni gasped. "Oh my gosh, they were roommates!"

Her attention, however, was redirected to the stairs that led to hall and the bedrooms on the second floor. A light purple smoke started floating downstairs, and a subtle whistling sound began to get louder and louder, until a flash and a loud explosion sound came from one of the bedrooms, no doubt one of Lisa's experiments gone wrong again.

"I'm okay!" Came a voice from upstairs.

"-yeah, sorry, hold on Bobby Boo-Boo Bear. LISA! STOP TRYING TO BLOW UP THE HOUSE!" Yelled Lori, covering her phone. "Okay, what was I saying?"

After taking in all the noise, Luna realized that all her siblings were home already, with the exception of Lynn, who was outside looking for her football, and-

"Hi Luna." Came a quiet voice from behind them. "You seem tense today." She pointed out.

"LUCY!" Luna yelped and jumped in the air, startled, and grabbed her chest while she tried to catch her breath. 'Dammit Lucy! Don't scare us like that!' She thought, realizing that Sam had also been scared. "What were you doing behind us?"

"I just got home." The young goth replied, monotonously. "Who's your friend?"

"Oh, this is-" And then Luna realized.

'Crap! I didn't think of this! If I call her Sam they're definitely going to realize who she is!'

"Hey! I'm-" Started Sam, much to the brunette's horror.

"FOUND IT!"

Before any of them could finish a sentence, however, Lynn came barreling inside the living room with a football, almost running over her two sisters and Sam in the process.

'Thank you, Lynn, you beautiful angel!'

"Hey sis!" Greeted Lynn after almost crashing on Luna. "Hey, who's your friend?"

Having had their attentions caught by Lynn, all the siblings (except for Lisa, who was upstairs, and Lily, who was happily chewing the controller) finally noticed Luna and the blonde girl beside her standing in front of the door.

"Luna! You didn't tell us you were bringing a friend over!"

"Hey Lunes! Who's that?"

"Sis! You brought a friend!"

'You know what? I change my mind. Dang it, Lynn!'

"Hey everyone!" Sam started again, slightly overwhelmed by suddenly being in the center of the chaos. "I'm-"

"This is Sammy!" Luna interrupted, suddenly. "She's, uh, my friend! From school!" 'Ugh, what the hell are you saying? Sammy?'

"-riiight..." The shorter girl looked at her suspiciously. "I'm Sammy. Luna's friend from school! We're here to do some homework actually so..."

"We should probably go to my bedroom! Like, right now." Completed Luna, hastily.

"How rude! You won't even introduce us to your friend? Where are your manners, Luna?" Lola suddenly said, lifting her dress and stepping off her princess car.

'Dang it Lola!'

"Yeah, dude! I wanted to meet your siblings anyway, remember?" Reminded Sam, elbowing Luna excitedly.

"Alright, alright!" Luna rolled her eyes, pretending to be mad. "Sammy, meet my siblings! The drooling one's Lily, the pink one's Lola, the muddy one's Lana, the spooky one's Lucy, the dude one's Lincoln-"

"Oh! So you're Lincoln!" Sam clapped her hands, interrupting the rocker. "My sister told me about you!"

"Uh..." Lincoln, confused, completely forgot about the controller he was trying to take from the hungry jaws of his baby sister. "Your... sister?"

"Yes! Tabby! From the Sadie Hawkins Dance, remember?"

"Oh!" As soon as Lincoln remembered the incident, he immediately shot up from the couch, almost knocking over the controller Lily wasn't currently slobbering. "Oh gosh! I-I'm so sorry! I didn't mean t-"

"Chill, dude!" Said Sam, trying to contain her laughter. "It's alright! Tabby told me you apologized to her already. Don't worry about that."

"Oh." Lincoln wiped his brow, relieved. "Whew... I didn't know Tabby had a sister!"

"Eh, I'm not surprised she didn't mention me. Especially at a dance."

"Wow, that's a real coincidance, haha!" Luan joked as she came back from the dining room. "Get it?"

"Anyway..." Continued Luna, obviously trying to go over the introductions as quickly as possible. "The one who almost ran over us is Lynn-"

"Sorry about that." Lynn apologized, rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

"-the punny one's Luan." Continued Luna, getting impatient. "The-"

Suddenly, everyone turned their heads towards the stairs as another explosion occurred upstairs and more purple smoke floated downstairs.

"LISA! GET OUT OF YOUR ROOM LITERALLY RIGHT NOW!" Lori finally had enough of her little sister trying to blow up the roof. It was her responsibility to make sure the house was still standing while her parents were out, after all.

With all the smoke, no one noticed the resident scientist coming downstairs until Lisa was halfway down the stairs, trying to clean her ash covered glasses on her shirt, but failing due to her shirt also being covered in ash. "Hello, Luna. Hello, female stranger. There's no need for you to stop your banal activities and interrupt my work. Research is going smoothly as always, especially when I don't have to remove myself from work to reassure you that no, I am not about to "blow up the roof", and that any fears of such you might have are completely and totally unfounded and baseless." She said in her usual lisp, not even looking at anyone but Lori (mostly due to her ash covered glasses).

"Baseless? You literally blew up your room twice in less than 5 minutes!" Retorted Lori, putting her phone down while walking towards her nerdy sister. "What "research" are you even doing up there that requires that many explosives?!"

"What am I doing? I thought that was obvious!" Lisa gave up on trying to clean her glasses, choosing instead to stare at where she thinks Lori is standing. "Seedless avocados!"

As Lori and Lisa continued to bicker, the rest of the residents slowly turned back to Luna and her guest. "Well then..." She continued. "The burned one's Lisa, the bossy one's Lori..."

'Dude, even just the introductions take forever in this family! I knew this wasn't a good idea...' As she tried to ignore the fight, Luna looked for the last sibling who had to be introduced. "And finally, we have-"

"Hi, I'm Leni!" The fashionista cut her off, excitedly. "I love your hair!"

"Oh, wow, uh..." Sam was taken aback, slightly flustered due to the sudden compliment. "Thanks, I-"

"Leni!" Luan interrupted, suddenly. "You're gonna embarrass her if you just compliment her out of the blue!"

"I like your hair too!" Lola joined in, trying to get the blonde rocker's attention. "But I think pink would be prettier!"

"What?!" Yelled Lana, jumping in on the growing cacophony. "Blue is totally cooler!"

And just like that, half of the siblings are arguing, paying no mind to the girls at the door again.

With the introductions finally over, Luna wanted to get away from the noise and chaos as quickly as possible, so, without thinking, she took Sam's hand and asked.

"I guess we can finally go to the bedroom, huh?"

"Woah, dude! Not even gonna pay me dinner first?" Joked Sam, grinning.

Luna was sure her face was the same color as Lana's cap now. "Wuh- Wha?" Was all she could blabber before releasing the blonde's hand.

"WATCH OUT!" Lincoln yelled as Lily suddenly threw her controller away, hitting Lynn in the forehead and giving Luna some much needed distraction.

"Lincoln! What the heck!" Lynn shouted while massaging her bruised forehead. "What was that for?"

"I-It wasn't me! It was Lily, I swear!"

"Ideo gam!"

"Ew, that controller was on her mouth!" Lynn noticed that her forehead wasn't just bruised, it was also covered in baby spit. "Lincoln! Gross!"

"It wasn't my fault!"

"You were supposed to be watching her, you dolt!"

"Dang it, Lily..."

"Poo poo!"

"Dang it, Lily!"

The house had completely devolved into chaos by now. If this was a normal day, Luna wouldn't even have noticed it. But today was not a normal day, and even though the chaos and noise today was no worse than usual, Luna was still aware of how crazy this all must look to a stranger.

Even though she wished the house wasn't in mayhem for once, if there was one thing Luna learned by growing up in the Loud house, it was how to navigate between all the chaos and fighting, so she took Sam's hand again and bolted in the direction of the stairs.

"Upstairs! Quick!" She shouted as she pulled Sam away from the now naked Lily, jumped above Lola's car while the princess resumed her chase against Lana, ducked as Luan prepared another pun, and ran past Lori and Lisa fighting in the middle of the stairs.

Luna never thought about trying to change her siblings or control them because, at the end of the day, they were Louds through and through. But sometimes she did wonder if all that mayhem was really necessary.

This was definitely one of those times.


When Luna invited Sam to her house, she imagined them both spending some time together in peace and quiet (for once) while she gathered the courage to confess her feelings for the blonde girl. As soon as Luna remembered her siblings, however, she could expect all kinds of questions and interruptions at all times, but nothing out of the ordinary.

What she did not expect was Sam almost getting hurt thrice in less than five minutes and then having to run around the house just to reach the bedroom.

The girls panted as they leaned against Luna's bedroom door, both trying to catch their breaths after their impromptu obstacle race.

"I... I guess..." Luna panted as she opened the bedroom door and flopped on the floor. "I guess with a family as big as mine, even getting to the bedroom is a freaking chore..."

"Yeah dude..." Sam waited a bit before following Luna, as she was still out of breath. "Your siblings are..."

"Loud?"

"I was gonna say "lovely" but sure! That works too..."

Luna waited for Sam to enter the room and sit on the bed before kicking the door shut without getting up. "Sorry about that mess."

"It's cool! I swear dude, your siblings are cool! They're just a bit, uh, overwhelming I guess."

"Yeah. Tell me about it."

"Funny kid, that Lincoln. Apologizes too much, though. Reminds me of someone..." Sam joked as she got out of bed and sat on the floor, trying to get a better look at the rocker who was currently face first on the carpet.

"Oh, shut up!" Luna tried to sound mad, but couldn't keep a small chuckle out of her voice as she raised her head to look at the shorter girl sitting in front of her.

Sam leaned down until she was lying on the floor close to Luna, but still not taking her eyes off the rocker. "Come and shut it."

'God, this girl is gonna kill me...' Luna immediately put her face on the floor again, almost scared her blush would burn through the carpet, but Sam just laughed. 'Does she even know how she makes me feel when she says stuff like that?'

They stayed like that for a minute or two, neither saying anything, both just enjoying each other's company. Luna hid her face on the carpet and hoped that her crush couldn't see her blushing in the low light of her room. But even though she was more flustered than she could remember being in a long time, Luna enjoyed this moment. She knew that from now on she would have Sam just for her, even if only for a day. Even if only to do some dumb chemistry homework.

Today. Today was the day she promised herself that she would tell Sam.

'Sigh... at least I don't think I can embarrass myself any more than I already have.'

"So..." The blonde girl broke the silence, finally.

"Hmm?"

Luna could almost hear the grin in her voice. "Sammy, huh?"

'Dang it.'


This chapter is a bit longer but I'm pretty satisfied with how it came out. I know that during the episode, all the Louds talked as if they already knew who Sam was, but I thought it would be fun to imagine what would happen if they were led to think that she was a boy like we did instead.