"For the last time, the answer is no!" Lori scolds to the small genius who was following her with a cup. "Mom and Dad are gone for the weekend, and their stand on no experiments on your family still stands!"
"But Lori! This elixir could change the very nature of gender as we know it! Think of the merits in hermaphrodites and transgenders and same sex couples having kids! It could be revolutionary!" Lisa pleads with her older sibling, setting the cup on the kitchen table.
"What are you guys at now?" Luan asks, walking into the kitchen.
"Lori is squandering scientific excellence!"
"And Lisa is literally not behaving."
Luan shakes her head as she pours herself a glass of punch. "You'd drink you guys could get along by now!" The two siblings groan in response.
"But seriously! What's this experiment?" Luan asks. Lisa opens her mouth to respond, but the doorbell cuts her off. "Maggie's here!" Luan chimes as she sets her cup down on the table then runs off to the living room.
"Now Lori," Lisa starts.
"I literally don't want to hear it. Take your test elixir upstairs this minute, and I will hear no more of experiments on any of your siblings!" The eldest girl sternly says.
The small scientist sighs in defeat then grabs the cup of the table to head upstairs. "Greetings future sister in law," she says to Maggie as she passes through the living room.
"Why does she call me that? We've only been dating a month," Maggie softly laughs.
Luan turns a tinge of pink, "they're just silly like that. How was the walk over here?"
Maggie shrugs as she slips off her shoes by the door. "Fine. A little hot."
Luan smiles, "well are you thirsty? I have some punch on the kitchen table if you'd like."
Maggie nods, "that actually sounds good right now. I'll be right back." The black haired girl walks out of the room as Lisa walks back into it.
"LISA MARIE LOUD!" They all hear Lori screech from the kitchen a few seconds later.
"What did you blow up this time?" Lana asks, not hearing an explosion.
"She wasn't even in there!" Lincoln tries to yell to the kitchen.
Maggie comes spiraling out of the kitchen in a coughing fit while holding her sides. Lori comes out quickly behind her. "I TOLD YOU NO EXPERIMENTS! TAKING LUAN'S DRINK AND LEAVING YOURS ISN'T RIGHT!" The eldest girl yells angrily. "NOW FIX HER!"
"Oh dear Pythagoras. She drank my elixir? It wasn't ready yet! I only planned to test it not actually test it! It wasn't stable!" The small scientist quickly runs up to the coughing girl who is on her hands and knees on the floor. "Come with me!" Lisa practically drags the much larger girl up the stairs to her lab, leaving the whole living room in a state of confusion.
"What did she do to Luan's lady, dude?" Luna asks, looking at the spot of blood Maggie had coughed up on the floor.
"Lisa was asking me if she could experiment on one of us with her new elixir, and I told her no. Then Luan set her cup on the table beside Lisa's, and Lisa must've grabbed the wrong glass. Resulting in Maggie drinking Lisa's potion."
"What does the potion do?" Lucy asks in concern.
"Literally no clue. Something about same sex couples," Lori remarks, trying to remember what Lisa has said earlier.
"She's turning your girlfriend straight!" Lincoln laughs, "that's hysterical!" Luan's face falls as she bites her lip, feeling tears coming on.
"If Lisa made Ronnie Anne only like girls you know you'd be cheesed!" Luna barks, feeling bad for her little sister.
Lincoln quickly stops laughing, "wait, does that mean she won't like Luan anymore?"
"I like Luan fine," comes a deep voice from the stairs. Every person in the living room turns their heads to see where the voice was coming from.
"Good news and bad news family. The good news is that I was able to stabilize the chemical quite quickly." The loud siblings stare awaiting the bad news. "Now the bad news is that the only cure I can find is time."
"How long will she be straight?" Luan asks, feeling a tinge of sadness.
"Three days."
"So she won't be into Luan for three days? Bummer. That's gotta sting. Sorry brah," Luna states comfortingly.
"Wrong. I'm perfectly into Luan," Maggie replies, coming down the stairs, "it is still straight though."
The room stares in utter shock as Maggie's form becomes visible on the stairs. "I borrowed some of your jeans, Luna. I owe you."
"Nah you're Uh you're Uh good bro, I mean brah!" She quickly fixes herself, trying not to gawk.
Luan blinks a few times, "so it was a drink to make her a guy? Not make her straight?"
Lisa laughs, "of course! Altering someone's chemical makeup such as sexuality could cause mental damage to their psychological stance. Altering their physical form is something completely different!"
Luan sighs in relief. "Well, at least you don't look bad!" She giggles, trying to lighten the mood. This earns an eye roll from the changed girl.
"I didn't think it was that shocking. They're still gawking," Maggie remarks as he arches an eyebrow.
"Huh? Oh that? They just think you're cute now. They did the same thing with my tutor," Lincoln explains, flipping the page of his comic book.
Luan glances across all her siblings. "Lincoln's right! Oh gosh that's weird that they're looking at Maggie now. I mean she isn't that different." Luan scabs down her girlfriend for a few seconds, "she just has stronger arms and a toned jawline and uh nice abs and" Luan shakes the thoughts out of her head once she realizes she keeps going lower. She gets bright pink as she clears her throat, "S-so Uh three days, Lisa?"
"Indeed. I will be looking for a cure sooner than that of course, but three days will be the most amount of time spent as the opposite sex," Lisa explains. "I've already run some tests, so I will be up in my lab working on a cure for the time being. However," she pulls out her phone with a big smile, "Maggie? May I have a picture for uh my scientific journal?"
Maggie just shrugs, "if I'm stuck like this then I might as well just let you Loud sisters do whatever you need to."
"Literally don't say that," Lori all but coos. Lisa happily snaps her picture then a few more when Maggie turns to look at Luan.
"Could I bother you for a real drink, babe?" Luan shudders and turns a light pink at the nickname.
"Sure!" She grabs Maggie's hand and leads him to the kitchen.
"Okay I literally can't even," Lori states once they're out of earshot.
"Are you guys "literally" forgetting that's Luan's girlfriend?" Lincoln remarks, "I swear a cute guy breathes and every girl in this house loses her mind!" He huffs as none of his sisters respond. "Quit daydreaming about Mr. short, dark, and pasty!"
"Huh what?" Leni asks, snapping out of her daze.
"I was saying how you and Lori are taken," Lincoln scoffs. "Chaz and Bobby exist."
"It's not cheating if they're just looking, Stinkin," Lynn defends. "It's not like it's an actual available guy anyway. It's Maggie."
"With fluffy black hair that frames his strong face," Leni says.
"And with toned arms he could just wrap you up in," Lori adds in a daze.
"And the way Luna's jeans were tight around-"
"LADIES!" Lynn shouts, "children are present."
"Yeah Luan's impressionable. You have to watch what you say," Maggie remarks as she walks back in the room.
"Did you literally hear any of that?" Lori asks, about to get embarrassed.
"I heard Lynn shout something about children. What were you saying that wasn't appropriate for children?" Maggie arches an eyebrow as she receives silence. "Hello? Lori?" She claps her hands in front of the eldest girl.
"Huh?" She snaps out of it, realizing she's face to face with Maggie.
"I was Uh how does she change your hair too?" Lori quickly asks, starting to run her unwelcome hands through Maggie's now short hair.
"That's a Lisa question," Maggie grumbles as she takes a step back from the handsy girl.
"I heard my name," Lisa chimes as she comes down the stairs with glazed over eyes.
"I could've sworn you were working on a cure," Maggie states venomously, not enjoying all the eyes in the room ogling her like a freak show. "I didn't mean to drink that stupid drink they don't have to look at me like a freak."
"I uh I need you for a test first! I came to grab you! This way please!" She remarks, dragging the changed girl up the stairs.
Luan scans the room then realizes all her sisters are drooling over where Maggie used to be standing. "Uh guys? You look like Hugh was just over! What's up?" Lincoln shoots her a look then she blinks a few times, realization dawning on her with every blink. "You guys aren't!"
"Luan, we're sorry! You literally can't deny he's cute," Lori defends.
"He is a she! And you guys can't just drool over my girlfriend! That's weird!" Luan huffs as she crosses her arms. "You guys are unbelievable. One cute person comes in, and you lose your minds."
"That's what I said!" Lincoln says, "they just never listen to me."
"You were into Hugh too!" Leni replies, "so you're no better than any of us."
Luan blinks a few times. "You're joking right? One. Hugh was none of my siblings significant others. Two. Hugh was actually a guy. Three. I WAS SINGLE."
"Single isn't a good look for you," Maggie smoothly replies from the stairs. Then young girl bites her lip as all eyes are on her again. "Fuck they were talking about me I just know it. Luan probably thinks I'm a freak in this form too."
Luan giggles sweetly as her girlfriend makes her way to her side. "Cute in progress?"
Maggie smiles as she wraps a protective arm around her love. "Cure in progress, babe," she playfully corrects.
Luan was about to peck Maggie's cheek until she catches the glances of her twin sisters staring at Maggie. She then looks around at the whole room. Lynn is practically drooling on the arm of the couch, Lisa is trying to hide the fact she's taking pictures from the stairs, Lori and Leni are whispering to each other, and Lucy and the twins are in the corner by the table gawking and chatting. "Oh my god they're like animals in a zoo. Like they've never seen people before," Luan thinks to herself.
"Wannahaveaslumberpartyatyourhouse?" The comedian quickly blurbs all her words together as she turns to the emo quickly.
Maggie blinks twice. "Slower."
"Want to have a slumber party at your house?"
Maggie arches an eyebrow. "My house? You hate my house. My room freaks you out, and my cat tries to scratch you if you get within fifty feet of anything we own."
"I just thought we could watch a horror movie!" Luan exclaims, trying her hardest to get Maggie to budge.
"You hate horror movies. Loud what's up," the younger of the two girls crosses her arms in a huff. "Well?"
"Just thought it'd be a good cuddle excuse!" The comedian counters.
"You hate cuddling me because I'm bony. Now what gives, Loud?" Maggie growls out, growing impatient of her girlfriend.
"I just really need to get you out of my house," she blurts out quickly without thinking.
Her girlfriend's face falls. "Harsh. I get it, Luan. I'm a freak show right now. You could've asked me to leave. You don't have to come up with some fake movie marathon at my house. I could've taken a hint."
Luan's face breaks into sympathy. "No wait it's not like that I-"
"We're chill alright? I'll wait this out at home. My mom is at her business trip in Seattle anyway, so I shouldn't have a problem waiting this out three days." Maggie gives her girlfriend a small peck on the cheek then heads to the front door, feeling every set of eyes in the room on her as she exits.
"Wait! I'm coming too! Bye guys!" Luan darts out of the front door after her girlfriend.
Maggie almost jumps in surprise as she feels fingers intertwine with hers. "I said you could've stayed home."
"I invited you over to my house, silly! I'm not going to not spend the day with you just cause Lisa went crazy with the chemicals!"
Maggie shakes her head at her crazy girlfriend. "You're lucky I only live a few blocks away from you," she looks towards her house a few feet away. "The less people who see me like this, the better."
Luan smiles as she follows her girlfriend into the house. She giggles as she pins Maggie to the newly shut front door. "I don't know, I think you're kinda cute like that." She tangles her hands in the messy black hair of her lover.
Maggie's breath hitches in her throat as she is pressed between Luan's body and the hard door. She swallows hard then softly chuckles, "so this is why you wanted a sleepover?"
Luan smiles innocently, "maaayyybbbeeee. But I also wanted to get you away from my sisters!"
Maggie softly smiles, "They were staring pretty intensely. Like I know it was freaky, but they didn't have to stare."
Luan breaks out laughing, "no way! You thought they were staring cause they thought you were a freak?" Maggie gives a skeptical look as she tilts her head to the side. "God she's so fucking cute." "They were staring because they thought you were hot."
Maggie's face drops then turns a deep red. "One more time?"
"You were the new Hugh! They were in love with you! I couldn't just have them staring the next three days at what was mine," Luan smiles then whispers, "I can't help it if I'm a little possessive." She playfully nips across Maggie's jaw, earning a shudder from the younger girl.
"T-that explains, Lisa." Maggie stammers out. Luan lifts her face up so she can look at Maggie for an explanation. "Lisa was talking to me about testing everything and making sure every part of her gender study works, but I was so flustered. Like she's four? Who taught her male anatomy and that stuff?"
Luan just laughs, "biology books." She playfully smirks to herself as she presses her body tighter against Maggie's. "I guess I could be nice and record her my findings."
"Y-your findings?" Maggie curses her new male anatomy as all the blood from her face retreats lower.
Luan gently bites her lip as she feels a poke against her leg. She starts to kiss up Maggie's neck slowly, then purrs in her ear, "I'll report to her after a little field research."
