She always hated Valentine's Day. A day where couples are all mushy and lovey-dovey to each other, exchanging kisses, sweet-nothings, and most cliché the flowers and boxes of tasty chocolates. For some people it's romantic, others it's alright.

But for Ronalda Andrania Mulan Lumisa Santiago, or as most people simply know her as Ronnie Anne. The whole thing just makes her want to barf.

Back then she just ignores the romance that comes from the Day of Cupid, but after her older brother Bobby got his girlfriend she just couldn't stand romance and love at all. He and his 'babe' Lori were as cliché and lovey as it can get. The hourly phone conversations, the gifts, the constant dates, the nicknames, the kissing, the EVERYTHING!

If she thought Valentine's Day in Royal Woods was bad, Great Lakes was even worse. Everywhere she went on her skateboard, heart décor was all over, couples were either laughing together, feeding each other, kissing. It was awful.

The worst part is what happened at her new school.

(Flashback)

Ronnie Anne was right outside the front door of her school, a building vaguely similar to her old one in Royal Woods but a lot bigger. She was conversing with her group friends she met somewhere around the fifth week after her family moved. You have Casey, Sameer, and the tallest of the group Nikki.

"So, any plans for tonight?" Casey asked the group.

"Sorry, but I'm grounded so my rents are dragging me to this fancy seafood place." Sameer sighed, the others groaned at this.

"Couldn't they just ground you like normal parents?" Ronnie Anne whined melodramatically, Sameer just shrugged.

"I got asked out by this guy in my science class, so I'll be busy." Nikki said.

"Meh, probably just sit in my room all day. Like always." The three city dwellers, or two and half since Sameer is from Kansas, all raised an eyebrow at the Latina's idea. "Yeah, I've never been one for Valentine's Day. Prolonged exposure to romance makes me feel like I'm choking."

"Are you sure Ron? You're not even gonna consider going to the school St. Valentine's Ball, I promise it's nothing boring like the dances back in Royal Woods." Casey promised.

"And you lost me at 'Ball'. If there's one thing I hate more than the idea of love, it's dances. LAME!"

"But what about that one time?" Sameer asked.

"I was just looking for Lincoln so I can ask him to the arcade for a deal, and like the clueless cute boy he is he avoided me like the plague because he thought I'd ask him to the school's Sadie Hawkins Dance." Ronnie Anne explained.

"Would you have asked him to that dance if there wasn't a deal?" Nikki questioned.

Ronnie Anne went wide eyed for a moment, "Uh, NO! No I wouldn't off!" she let out a little to loudly.

"So you don't think he's cute like you said earlier, do you?" the tall girl teased her, the boys giving her similar teasing looks.

"Yes, WAIT NO! I mean- GAH! Look it's complicated, anyway I'm not going even if you guys drag me by the foot! Case closed!" Ronnie Anne stated authoritatively.

"Okay." The three said defensively.

Ronnie Anne then got a text on her phone, "I got to go guys, Bobby got stuck in the freezer again. Later." she said before setting her skateboard down and riding off.

(flashback over)

Go to the Dance. Please, it's like they don't even know her. The day the world see's Ronnie Anne Santiago in a frilly little dress with pretty little shoes with her hair up in a pretty little bow at a dance, is the day Curt Hawkins ever wins a match in WWE. In other words, never.

And to think they had the gall to assume that if Gus's Games and Grub didn't have a 2 for 1 deal the day of the Sadie Hawkins Dance at her old school she would have asked Lincoln Loud, the boy she tormented him for two months after the start of 5th grade and had kissed her (twice), to the same dance that she would rather jump into a ravine then even step a single toe in.

That was so very...

(sigh) True.

As Ronnie Anne swerved through the mean streets of Great Lakes, she looked back on all the times she and Lincoln spent together. From their weekly hangouts at the arcade, to the times the two were at each other's houses. Even when they were constantly bombarded by his meddling sisters, she and Lincoln always had a good time as long as they were together. Though their 'relationship' had a few snags like that Sadie Hawkins dance and the egg parenting project, but its roadblocks like that that helped Lincoln learn more about her. For the first 11 years of her life she always secluded herself from other people, from her mother and brother always working to her father doing wo knows what who know where, Ronnie Anne has always been alone.

Until he showed up in his life. When she first saw that innocent bucktooth smile and freshly kept white hair, she was totally smitten. And she briefly hated him for it, for making her feel emotions that she never had or wanted to feel in her life. After a while the two had become such close friends, and overtime those feelings she had tried ever so desperately to repress has time and time again come on out to play.

But then her family moved into this city, and now they only hang out like once or twice a month. And even then, her cousins or his sisters or anything always gets in the way. She missed the days when it was just her and him hanging out just one-on-one, every day. With each encounter her courage to express herself getting stronger and stronger until she can eventually let out all the emotions she had kept bottled up inside, she just wished she had been braver before she had to move away. Leaving everything she loved in Royal Woods, the lack of parental figures to boss her around at home, the skatepark she visits regularly, her soccer team, and most importantly: Lincoln.

"Well, it doesn't matter now anyway. The writers probably already have some new potential love interest for him, leaving me out here in this concrete jungle." she groaned as she expertly avoided any obstacles like pedestrians and fire hydrants, etc. She then pulled out her phone with a deadpanned frown "Not like he's just gonna call me right now and ask me to his school's dance for Valentine's, he probably already asked some other girl out right about now."

Ring

Ring

Ring

She skidded to a stop when she felt the phone shudder, who could that be? And low and behold, look he the contact was. She steeled herself and felt out a deep breath, she brought the phone up to her ear and casually answered the call. "Hey Lame-O, what's up?"