Disclaimer: I do not own Loud House.
"Okay Luna you can do this." Luna told herself as she walked to the empty seat. "It's not hard to make friends by sitting at their table. After all that's how Leni met Helen."
Luna walked up to the table and saw the few people sitting there. The empty closest to them was across from a boy. He was wearing a plaid shirt and had naturally curly light brown hair. For some reason he didn't seem to be talking to the others. Luna hoped he wasn't being ignored by the others and was only just shy.
"Hi I'm Luna." Luna greeted him with a smile as he looked up. "Is this seat taken?"
"I don't think so." The boy answered as he opened his lemonade. "You can sit here if you want."
"Thanks." Luna sat down and started to unwrap her sandwich. "What's your name?"
"It's Isaac." The boy answered before taking a sip of his lemonade.
"Are you from around here?" Luna took a bite of her sandwich as she waited for him to answer.
"I'm from a town called Dreson it's about forty minutes away from here. I'm the only person in my class to attend Amberheart though." Isaac looked down a bit. "At least that's in my band."
"Try being from Michigan." Luna leaned on the table a bit.
"You must be suffering from jet lag then."
"That's a weird thing to say." Luna gave him a puzzled look.
"Hey." Isaac's eyes widen before looking down again. "Sorry. It's a thing me and my friends used to do. Every time one of us said the word weird we would say hey."
"Hey." Luna responded with a smile as Isaac titled his head. "What you the word."
Isaac gave a small laugh. "Well I guess there's at least someone that finds it funny. So, what instrament are you playing?"
"The alto sax." Luna said with confidence before sulking a bit. "Though I'm not very good at it."
"I'm in the same." Isaac took another bite of his sandwich. "I played clarinet for eight whole years but Amberheart never had clarinets. It was the closest instrument that I found I least fingering wise it is in a different key."
"I only know guitar and a little percussion." Luna told him before the two heard a laugh.
"Oh my gosh you are so funny." A guy said before pointing to a girl with curly brown hair tied in a ponytail with the ends dyed purple. The boy had bright red hair and was wear a shirt with a cat on it. "She's funny!" We're besties now."
"Okay." The girl said with a laugh.
"Melody don't replace me on day one." A girl with rainbow hair called out to the first girl putting her hands on her hips, though there was a slight laugh in her voice.
"Excuse me." Luna said to the group, more specially the girl purple ends. When the group to the other two Luna pointed to her. "But are you by any chance Melody Daniels?"
"Oh no I'm Aria Macintosh." The girl introduced herself with a wave. Luna saw she was wearing a shirt the said Marching Band Like a Sport But Harder on it. She also had one of those highly contagious smiles that made you want to smile when you saw it.
"I'm Melody Daniels." The girl with rainbow hair revealed taking a sip of her drink. "Aria and I have joke of calling each other by our names because people have mixed us up since the seventh grade."
"And I'm Ethan." The boy who laughed said.
"Aren't you the girl you came in late?" A second voice added. It was the boy you called Luna out earlier that day.
"Alec, do Ari and I have to keep saying it?" Melody asked before turning to Luna. "Sorry about that Alec has a big ego. At least this isn't your eighth year dealing with him."
"Well someone thinks she's queen of the trumpets." Alec got a little too close to Melody. With a small scowl Melody raised her arm to push him away.
"Woah, woah, woah." Ethan said separating the two. "No fights on the first day or any day for that matter."
"Oh my gosh." Aria gasped. "We never learned your names. I'm so sorry."
"That's fine. I'm Luna Loud." Luna turned her body towards the people talking.
"So you're my roommate." Melody turned towards Luna and leaned her arm on the table.
"You should have woken her up." Alec said with a laugh.
"Alec." Melody put her hand on the table and Luna got a bit scared. Melody adjusted her hair a hair a bit before smiling again. "I woke up early to see the sunrise I then I got breakfast. What I got back to campus it was time to head to the music building."
"It's fine dude."
"So what's your name?" Aria turned to Isaac with a smile.
"Me?" Isaac asked pointed to himself a little nervous.
"Yeah you silly. What's your name?" Aria laughed a bit and like her smile it seemed to be contagious.
"It's Isaac, Isaac Tyler."
"It's nice to meet you."
I can't believe I'm saying this." Luna thought to herself as she continued eating her lunch. "But this reminds me of home."
"Okay everyone we're about to start drill." Paisley announced once everyone returned to the field. Mr. Taylor had joined the other teachers. "Section Captains have received your dot sheet please head to them now."
"Alto saxes over here." Luna heard a familiar voice and sure enough their was Betty holding the dot sheets. With Isaac next to her Luna walked over to with the other saxs. There seemed to be about nineteen of them and of course most of them were upperclassman. Looking over she saw that Alec was also in her section.
"Luna you didn't tell me you were in my section." Betty said walking over and pulling out two dot sheets. "Here you can be AS 11 and you can be AS 12."
"Thanks." Luna said as she took her dot sheet. Looking over it she tried to find the spot. "Okay it says Side: 2, 3.75 outside 45 and 7 in front of the back hash?"
Issac walked up to her and took a look at her dot sheet. "We're on side one."
Luna looked at him. "You've been in marching band! Can you please help?"
"Of course." Luna handed Isaac the dot sheet. "So the sides are facing the audience Side 1 is to their left and Side 2 is to their right. Now the 3.75 is how many steps you are off the 45 at our normal 8 steps to 5 yards the outside refers to going away from the 50 yard line in the center."
"So going towards the 50 would be inside the 45." Luna said as a clarification.
"Yes." Isaac nodded before turning behind him. "You see those horizontal lines of the yard lines those are the hash lines You just walk 7 steps towards the front of the field."
"This honestly makes me fell so stupid." Luna collapsed her head into her hands.
"Don't feel that way." Isaac walked a bit in front of her.
"Is everything alright?" Betty asked walking over to them. "Everyone else is at their dot."
"I'm having trouble reading this." Luna sighed and held up her dot sheet.
"Oh don't about that. I'll help you." Betty turned to Isaac for a moment. "You can go find your dot. I'll help Luna."
Isaac headed off as Luna handed Betty her dot sheet.
"Okay follow me." Betty then repeated everything Isaac had explained to Luna. Assuming Betty didn't hear what Issac said Luna didn't say anything and followed Betty's every step. Once it was all set Betty walked back to her dot and they stood their for a few seconds until Paisley spoke up.
"Alright everyone time to move to the next dot on your sheet." Paisley announced and the band continue went on to the next one.
"Do you need help?" Isaac asked looking at Luna.
"I'm going to try it by myself." Luna looked at her seat and saw it was the same except for the & steps were now 11 ahead of the hash. "Only four steps this should be easy."
Once everyone was back in their spots Paisley spoke up again. "Okay so Daniel and Hallie will count off the new step so reset to your first spot. Remember you have sixteen counts to get to the next spot. Even if you already reach your spot you must keep marking time."
"Remember to count!" Damon announced to the band and Luna swore she saw Aria smile at bit wider as they reset.
The formula went on for the rest of the time outdoor. Luna started gain a high appreciation for the breaks they got. What made it more tiring was that after every other set they had to go to the top of the show and do what they learned. Once 4 o'clock hit Luna couldn't wait for dinner to be over because at 6 music began.
AN: So I hope everyone who isn't familiar with marching band understands how this works. We also have our first major characters getting introduced. Honestly most of them are based on my very best friends in marching band. See you next chapter.