Dark Tales from the Loudverse

Tale: Sharp knives and Loud girls

Chapter 2: Ghosts and girlfriends

Lori slowly opened the door to her room and saw Leni sitting on her bed, hugging her pillow and facing the wall.

Lori advanced and sit down with Leni, gently stroking her head. "Hey sis"

Leni flinched at the first touch, Lori could see how tense she was, Leni relaxed after a few strokes but not completely, she could see her trembling and the faint sound of crying muffled by the pillow

"I´m here for you, whatever you need little sis" Lori wiped a single tear that threatened to escape. Leni hugged the pillow more tightly

"Thank you" The words were muffled but clear.

Lori just sat there, it hurt to see her siblings hurt, but this was way worse, she hated to admit it but she really cared about her siblings, she wanted to protect them and such and seeing Leni this vulnerable was too much.

Time passed and Lori didn´t notice when the others entered the room, or when Leni fall asleep or when Lana sat on Lori´s lap and hugged her until she fall asleep, only when Lincoln covered Leni with a blanket was that Lori came back to her senses. Her mother came to her side and gave and grabbed Lana from her.

Leni stand up, she felt fully restored and calmed, she had never felt such peace until then, maybe she needed to cry it out.

A quick glance at her alarm told her it was 3 in the morning, to early to be awake but she wasn't tired anymore.

Remembering what she did still hurt but not like the previous day, she looked around, the room was dark and could see the sleep silhouette of Lori.

She walked carefully to the door, she didn't want to wake her up, she grabbed the knob and began to turn it carefully

She needed a glass of water and maybe a quick snack, she took a look at herself and realized that she was still the clothes from yesterday, she grimaced with disgust about not only sleeping with blood stained clothes. Once it was morning she would wash all the things from her bed and throw that dress.

She open the door and was confused, in front of her was a girl she had never seen. Same height as Luna with long blonde hair and pale skin. Have one of her sisters invited a friend and the poor thing forgot in what room it was?

"Hi, umm you need help?"

The girl turns and Leni freezes, there is something wrong with how her neck looks, her tongue is slightly out and due to hiw dark it is she can't tell what color it is but it's not normal, and the worst part is her eyes, all grey like if the were full of fog but there was something more to them she felt the air escape from her lungs as that girl smiled and vanished.

Leni whole body felt cold, she run to her bed covering her mouth to not scream and wake everyone in the house, she covered herself with the blankets and hug her pillow once again.

Saturday morning came and the usual chaos had subsided slightly

Leni had already taken a quick shower and changed to fresh clothes and was combing her hair.

She was very tired and confused, did she saw that last night or it was just a nightmare?

There was no trace of that thing, but she wanted to make sure.

Lori has already taken up and was taking a bath, so Leni went to check the others rooms, Luan was nowhere to be seen and Luna was talking on the phone, in the next room Lynn was changing clothes,lucy was nowhere to be seen.

Leni continued walking, the sound of Lola and Lana fighting downstairs saved her a room to search, she opened Lisa and Lily´s and the sight of Lily napping while Lisa was very entertained with a very complicated looking book.

Last room was Lincoln and she didn't my need to open the door, Lincoln come out looking sleepy and running his eyes.

"Morning Leni, umm how are you?"

Lerni have her most sincere smile but that still didn't compare to her usual smiles. "Good morning Lincy, I'm fine just a little…"

Leni felt all the hair on her body standing up, she turned around and a few seconds later she saw Lucy going upstairs and behind her was girl from last night right behind her, that thing turned her head in a weird way and disappeared again

"Good morning, father sent me to tell that breakfast is almost ready"

"Thanks Luce"

Lucy turns to see at Leni who is very pale

"Leni are you ok?"

Leni wanted to run, wanted to scream, wanted to do anything else than just stand there, the fear she felt as more things came behind Lucy, some old man with a several wounds in his body, a bald little girl no older than the twins, a well dressed man in a suit and large hole in his forehead. All of them with the same foggy and empty eyes.

Leni saw Lucy speaking but she heard nothing, she saw the things turning to look at her and that was the last thing she saw before losing consciousness

It was the third time she tried to reach Sam but she wasn't answering her phone, she sighed and called her house.

Luna was nervous, Sam told her that she hasn't come out to her parents and only there in emergency and make it look like it was something from the school

"Sharp residence what can I do for you" An old female voice answered, Luna smiled.

"Good evening, I'm Luna, a school mate of Sam and needed to ask her something about the homework, can you tell her please"

"Oh dear..." The voice was filled with sadness. "My granddaughter is at the hospital dear"

Luna was nervously walking the hospital corridor to the room where Sam was supposed to be, her grandmother didn't tell her what was wrong with her, she became distressed when Luna asked her and just have her the same of the hospital and the room.

She reached the place, outside the room was Sam's father, he was tall blonde like her and a bit intimidating but what made her chest feel right was the fact the looked like he cried for hours, his eyes red and puffy.

He turned to see her and dhe felt her body become tense and her mouth dry.

"Good evening, my name is Luna Loud, I'm Sam's classma..."

He cleared his throat "Your are her girlfriend, she already told us"

Luna felt her body increase temperature and blushed furiously but smiled as her body felt more relaxed. "Yeah that, I tried to contact her and called your house but her grandma couldn't told me what happened... Is she ok?" The worry and fear were present in her voice and with each passing second she was getting more anxious.

"No, my wife and my daughter were robbed and assaulted with a blade, Sammy lost an eye and my wife didn't make it" He look at the floor and took a breath "they are treating her injuries, you can enter after that"

Luna went pale and felt despair, first her sister Leni and now her girlfriend, why did this happened? why them?those and more questions floated on her head, she only stopped when she noticed the nurses come out and when Sam´s father told her daughter about Luna and then told Luna to enter.

Luna slowly walked in the room, sitting on the bed was Sam, twiddling her thumbs, the left side of her face covered in gauze and bandages covering where her eye should be. "Uhm… hi Sammy" Luna approached timidly until she was right beside Sam bed

"Hi Lunes" Sam turn to see her and grab her hand after a couple of attempts.

"Heard what happened dude, my most sincere condolences" Luna sits beside her in a chair and squeezes the hand of Sam

"Thanks I appreciate it" Sam just sits there, interlacing her fingers with Luna

"So… when did this happen? Luna clears her throat.

Sam let go of Luna`s hand "sorry but I don't feel like talking about it"

"Don't worry dude"

"Happy birthday Luna" Leaning and kissing Luna in the forehead, bringing a little smile on her.

Author notes:The cabin fever got me and made working almost a chore, thankfully it passed and now i can post this and tomorrow a chapter for my Tritanopia fanfic.

i already have the notes for next stories and this story fully developed, just some corrections on some chapters and i could do post it weekly.

Until next week