Disclaimer: I do not own Loud House.
"Well time to start the final week of band camp." Melody said as the girls walked down to the football field.
"But there's only two weeks." Aria stuck her tongue out.
"I know but I prefer to think of it like that." Melody rolled her eyes with a smile.
The group walked up to the football where most of the band was standing. Paisley, Annie, and Mr. Taylor were standing by the podium with the two drum majors on either side. When the entire band was there the band was called closer to the podium.
"Congratulations everyone we made it through Grind Week!" Mr. Taylor announced and the band cheered. "Now it's time to get down to the details and the specifics of the show. On Friday we will do our Friends and Family show where we will debut Fighting With Music to the public and your friends and family will get the first tickets."
"Looks like my family will be unable to come." Luna sighed as she thought about this fact. "There's no way that they'll be able to afford for all twelve of them to fly over here."
"Okay everyone let's start block." Paisley called and the band started to rush to the block. They went to there spots and reviewed everything in block. From the basics to the more complex everything was there. When break came the band quickly got their water before heading to the top of the show. After the first run through there seemed to be much harsher nitpicks. Luna couldn't help but assume that this was all because they had marched the entire the show Mr. Taylor and the rest of the staff figured that they had most of it memorized. With this it would be right for the staff to assume that the band could handle the staff being harder with their mistakes.
"Drum line focus!" The drum line instructor Ben barked. Luna couldn't help but take a peak behind her. She wasn't at attention so it was okay. The past week made it more clear why she didn't chose drum line. They were band taken up to an eleven. With her zero past experience in band, she would stick out like a sore thumb. It took her three days until she would start marching with her left foot without being told. Now she would even walk starting with her left foot. Ben also was not shy about calling people out. Almost everyday he would bang this thing called a gock block yell left over and over again. It started to oddly turn into a metronome for the band. By now everyone was numb to it.
"I'm so excited for my family to see the show." Aria said as she dipped a fry in ketchup. "My dad is really into superhero movies."
"I hope we get to see our family after the show." Ethan hoped opening his bottle of soda. "I already miss my baby brother so much!"
"Aww I call my little brother that too." Aria said before looked away. "Too bad he's going to tower over me when I come back for Christmas."
"And you'll know how I feel." Melody sighed and placed her hand on her face. "He's over six feet tall."
"But my baby brother is literally a baby." Ethan pulled out his phone and showed the group a picture of him holding a baby. "See he's an actual baby."
"Wow that must have been surprising." Melody said. "You're eighteen and your mom has a baby."
"I dunno Luna what's the age difference between your oldest sister and youngest sister?"
"They have a sixteen year age difference." Luna admitted taking a bite of her sandwich.
"Wow you've seen a lot of babies grown up." Melody said with a smile.
"It's nothing I'm use to it." Luna said but she couldn't help but flash back to when Lily was born. She was so small and cute. She remembered how she wouldn't let anyone else hold once Lincoln hold her. But seemed like in a blink of an eye she was walking. Luna turned around and Lily was talking full sentences. And now this year Lily was starting preschool. Sure Lisa technically grew up faster, she could speak before she was a year old and was reading a few months later. But Lily was different. Once Rita found out she pregnant with her eleventh child the doctor wasn't in the best mood. She didn't care that Rita had eleven kids she was more worried about the safety of Rita and Lily. Rita was an older women and their was a chance that the baby would not make it into term. A worse case senoro was something happened to both mom and baby and ten kids were left with out a mother. The parents told not to tell the kids except for the four eldest about the risk and Luna and Luan spent that night crying over the thought they could lose their mom. Now that Lily was here her life going by so fast. Luna remembered how upset Lori was when Lily said her first coherent sentence and she missed it. Who knows what she could be able to missing know that she was a flight away. At least Lori could come back for a weekend. Luna wouldn't even be back for Thanksgiving.
"He's like this much taller than me." Aria snapped Luna out of her thought. She was using her hands to show how tall her brother was. "Now he'll be this much taller than me. I remember when I could hold him in my arms."
"I was too young to hold mine we're only two years apart in age." Melody sighed in thought of her brother.
Luna couldn't help but think of her younger sisters. She had achieved so much in their lives already and Luna had no doubt they would be able to do so much more in the next few months. She couldn't help but think of how Lisa would feel right at home here even though she was only seven. Sure Lisa couldn't really fit into marching band but in the college sitting, she may never leave. She couldn't help but wonder what her family was doing now.
"What a day." Melody said collapsing on her bed. "I know today was shorter now but I am still pooped."
"I know." Luna said changing her pajama top so she would be cooler. "I am very thankful for the water we were given during outside rehearsal."
Melody looked at her phone as it started to rain. "Hang on it's my brother."
Luna saw Melody talking happily to her little brother. Luna looked at the picture on her nightstand. It was of the entire family when they took their first vacation. Luna held it in one hand and her phone in the other. She looked at her phone and only saw the one call from Sam and a few other voice chats with Leni. There was only one call from her parents that had happened the day before. She continued watching Melody talked to her brother. Luna got under her covers and turned away. She checked her social media and a few other things. After some time she put in her headphones and choose to listen to some music.
As her norm she pressed play on her Mick Swagger playlist and became indulged in his music. His rock and roll music gave her happiness. There wasn't really anything else to it. She really enjoyed Mick Swagger's music. Putting her phone on her charger she kept listening. Despite her missing her family it helped her with home. Melody finished talking to her brother and fell asleep shortly after.
Once she was sure Melody was asleep she sat up and looked around her room. There was barely anything music related in the room. She missed her instruments and even though she had hung up some band posters she missed the familiarity of her instruments. At least having her ax would be nice. She was getting better at the alto sax. Her hands craved the strings of a guitar on them. She didn't care if it was loud she needed her ax she needed her ax.
She started to think of her home. Her family running around with her parents trying to get her younger siblings, mainly Lily, to get to bed. She laid back down and wrapped the blanket around her tighter. Before she could think a few tears started flowing down her eyes. With every second she tried to stop but couldn't. She could hear the voices clearly in her mind. Lori was on her phone, Leni on her sewing machine, Luan telling jokes, Lynn playing sports, Lucy reciting a poem with Lincoln listening, Lola and Lana were fighting, Lisa was working on a science experiment, and Lily laughing along. She wondered if they were missing the background music that Luna normally provided. Sure it was only one person but the time Lori moved to the garage made it clear that one person made all the difference. The tears started falling from her face harder than before. She missed her family and she didn't want to be alone.