Disclaimer: I do own Loud House.
"And the key to shift is too turn gently." Aria explained as she demonstrated shifting for Luna. "It's the least awkward and most gentle way to do it. In my opinion at least."
"Okay, okay." Melody said walking in between Luna and Aria. Melody looked around a bit before giving a sly smile. "While, Ari you are doing a fabulous job we need some upperclassmen help."
"I think she's helping." Luna said before gesturing to the friends group with care in her injured arm. "I think you're all doing a great job."
"Unfortunately aside of Isaac none of play an alto sax." Luna caught Melody glancing at two upperclassman boy. Luna frowned as she had an idea what Melody was trying to do.
"I don't think instruaments matter," Aria started to say.
"But Ari don't you know how vastly different a flute and alto sax are?" Melody ran a bit closer to the two boys. "Hey boys over there we could use your help over here!"
The two boys looked up as Melody waved for them to come over. Luna recognized one of them as one of the three Bari sax players the band had, she was pretty sure his name was Damon. The other she believed to be in the trumpet section but she didn't know his name.
"I cannot believe she's doing this." Luna mumbled to herself angrily.
"You okay Luna?" Issac asked walking over to her.
"Isn't it obvious." Luna gestured to Melody waving to the boys. Issac peaked over and gave a shrug. "Melody likes one of those boys are is using this to hook up with one."
"I dunno I don't watch romance movies. Is that a thing you and your girlfriend do?"
"No my sister Lori watched them all the time though." Luna smiled a bit. "Sam and I make fun of them sometimes. Mostly at how cheesy they are."
"See that's the problem Tyler." Melody explained to the trumpet player. "Do you think you two can help?"
"Sure." Tyler said with a smile. "So which one is Luna?"
"Uh I am." Luna said slightly glaring at Melody.
"Nice to meet I'm Tyler." Tyler took Luna's hand and shook it. "This here is Damon."
"It's nice to meet you both. You really didn't need to come over here."
"It's fine we finished eating dinner anyways." Tyler said before he started demonstrating shifting. Luna took a quick glance at the other and couldn't help but notice that Aria seemed to blushing.
"And that's how you do it." Tyler said after a few demonstrations with a smile. He then turned to Damon. "Do you have anything to add?"
"No." Damon shook his head as he spoke. "Though did you go to YA Roleplaying Camp?"
At that moment Aria blushed a little bit. "Yes, I was in the cosplayers section."
"That's what I thought, I was in it for the Caverns and Creatures adventures. I even got to be Cavern King for a mission. Have you every played?"
"No, is it fun?" Aria played with her hair a little.
"Really fun. Tyler and I are part of a club at the public library for college students. Maybe should join."
"So I hope you're all set for the big run through tomorrow." Tyler said immediately after.
"The big run through?" The five friends said in unison.
"Oh you guys don't know. One the last day of the last week of band camp we do our first run through of our show."
"Wow that's crazy." Melody said in awe.
"I hope I can last that long." Luna thought to herself nervously.
"We should probably get back to our spot we don't want to lose anything." Tyler and Damon waved goodbye and when they were gone Aria turned to Melody a bit angrily.
"What you've been pining over that snack ever since you decided to go to the weird camp."
"Hey." Luna and Isaac whispered to each other before they shared a laugh.
"Hey, I wanted to go to the camp." Aria crossed her arms as she defended herself. "And just because we went to the same camp doesn't give you an excuse to call him over here."
Melody smiled a bit playfully. "If I remember correctly after your first day of this camp you sent me a text that said; 'Oh my gosh Melody there was the cutest boy at my camp! You wouldn't believe at how cute he was!' You also blushed when you realized he was here. I just needed to make sure they were the same guy."
"I do not like him!"
"Oh please you've been pining for him since you found out Justin was only dating you out of pity."
Aria started to tear up a bit. "I told you that in private."
"Ari it's time you move on. I did when I found out the guy I like was a big jerk and." Before Melody could finish Aria had ran away crying. "She always does this."
"You guys stay here I'm going to comfort her." Ethan said before running after her.
"Melody that wasn't very nice." Luna's older sister voice started to come out. "What you said really hurt Aria's feelings."
"You guys don't know Ari." Melody tried to defend herself. "She dated this guy almost all of sophomore year. You didn't have to see the school's ray of sunshine ball her eyes out at the Spring Sockhop because some jerk decided that was the best time to dump her and reveal he dated her out of pity!"
Luna walked over and placed a hand on Melody's shoulder. "Listen I understand how you feel, if someone ever did that to one of my sister's I would want to pound them into the ground like there's no tomorrow but I think bringing it up makes Aria uncomfortable. It doesn't matter if it happen one, two, even ten years ago if Aria doesn't want to bring it up you shouldn't bring it up."
"I know but I want Aria to move on, she and Justin became close friends in their freshman year biology class. Aria never really felt like this before and she had a big plan to ask him out on the last day of freshman year. It worked of course but to learn she wasted all this time on a boy who didn't like her that way."
"Maybe he was in an awkward position?" Isaac suggested with a tiny shrug.
"Well he could have said it sooner." Melody rolled her eyes. "The fact he lasted for eight months just makes me so mad. Was he too worried about hurting her because he could have easily just ended it the next day or if he actually liked her maybe when he stopped feeling that way."
"Melody you can't force Aria to get over this she has to get over this on her own terms. Even if she doesn't want to admit her feelings, if they are there, for Damon she's probably still hurt from her past relationship and she's probably still scared to act on them yet."
"Can I tell you guys something in secret?" Melody asked shocking both Luna and Isaac. The two nodded and sat down across from her. "When I first met Aria I was in a really bad place. I was falling all my classes and my parents didn't even seem to care. Band was my safe haven and in freshman grade I just so happened to be in the same art class as Aria. One day I had a really bad day and for the first time it seemed like someone actually cared. In the span of a semester she brought me back on my feet. I wouldn't even be here right now if it wasn't for her and I just feel like I own her for that."
Luna smiled. "You don't need to worry about her. From what I seen she is pretty much the personification of the emotion of joy itself. You can still help just try not to be so forward with it. Try talking to her first to see if she's okay with what you want to do."
"Okay I understand." Melody wiped a few tears that were forming at her eyes but she was still smiling.
"Are you okay Melody?" The three looked up and saw Aria and Ethan standing there. Luna and Isaac moved over a bit so the two could join them in the circle.
"Yeah just having an emotional moment over here." Melody took a deep breath. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have tried to push your feeling it's alright if you're not ready to move on it's alright."
"No, no it's fine. I understand you just wanted to help. Maybe I am over Justin. It just hurt so much to learn about Justin and I being all a big lie."
"I know. I just wanted you to be happy again."
Aria smiled and hugged Melody with a smile.
"So if we're going to learn about each other." Ethan began before taking a deep breath in. "I might as well tell you guys I'm gay."
"So is Luna." Melody pointed out with an eyebrow raised.
"Technically I'm bisexual." Luna revealed but didn't sound annoyed at all.
"Anything about you Isaac?" Everyone turned to him as he shook his head. "It's okay."
"Well there is something I don't think I said." Luna said thinking about it for a moment. "I have ten siblings."
"Ten!" Ethan said while the others stared at her for a moment with bug eyes.
"Yeah I have nine sisters and one brother."
"So is your last name really Loud or was it a joke that turned into your last name."
"I was born Luna Loud." Luna explained. "All my siblings have names that start with all."
"You could make a T.V. show out that premise." Issac gave a slight laugh but stopped awkwardly when he saw no one else was.
"To be honest Isaac, with all the crazy adventures my family had it could be."
"Do you want to share?" Ethan asked as the others moved a bot closer with very curious expressions on their faces.
Luna laughed a bit. "Where do I began?"