Disclaimer I do not own Loud House.

"Hey, Luna you okay?" Melody asked.

"Yeah," Luna answered but it was a bit quieter than normal.

"Are you sure you're picking at your food?" Aria asked looking at the plate.

"I'm fine," Everyone else was taken aback by Luna's quiet volume of voice.

"Did Sam break up with you?" Ethan gasped and covered his mouth at the words.

"No, we're still together," Luna leaned on her hand. Her plate of food was still full even though they were sitting in the dining hall for about thirty minutes.

"Luna if something is bugging you can tell us," Isaac placed a hand on her shoulder.

"I'm just going back to my dorm for a bit," Luna got up and found a to-go tray. She placed her food in and left.

"Luna wait up," Melody ran up to her. "Are you okay you can tell me."

"Yeah I'm fine dude," Luna started to leave the room. "You can go back."

Without another word, Luna left the dining hall. She sat in her room and silent ate her dinner. As she ate she looked at the calendar and the date, October 8th tomorrow would be her birthday and for the first time in her life she wouldn't be with her family.

Despite the Loud family's tight budget they always found enough money to have fun birthday parties. As the children got older and some were able to get jobs to help put some more money into the party funds. With eleven kids in one household, it's hard to get attention when you need it but birthdays were the one exception. Even Lola and Lana got their own time in the spotlight on their respective birthdays. The days became even more fun once Leni became the official party planner, though the sibling had to work hard to make sure she wouldn't accidentally spoil any surprises. Luna turned towards the picture of her family on her nightstand.

"How I wish I was spending tomorrow with ya," Luna picked up the picture and hugged it tightly. She heard the door open and quickly returned the picture to its place. Melody walked in and the two girls reminded silent for the rest of the night. Once Melody went to bed Luna remained silent before slowly grabbing her guitar and started singing.

"Oh, how I long to be home. Even just for one day more. Tomorrow morn means I'm another year older but I stuck away." Luna sang for a bit more. She knew no one would be listening but she didn't care. Little did she know her words were being heard and that they were felt as much as she felt them.

When Luna woke up the next morning she acted like it was any typical day. She got dressed, made herself look decent and headed off to class. The only thing that was any different was that her friends from back home were continually sending her happy birthday wishes. After about three hours or so she heard her phone buzz. She smiled and found a secluded area before answering.

"Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Luna. Happy birthday to you." Leni sang with a wide smile on her face.

"Thank Leni," Luna said with a smile.

"I'm so glad I caught you before class," Leni said. Luna could tell she was outside too.

"No I'm already had classes," Luna explained adjusted her a bit.

"Oh, are you already done?"

"Nah got one more in an hour," Luna explained.

"Is it lunch?" Leni smiled widely. "My friends and I always eat lunch in an hour."

"It's normally lunch time here."

Leni looked at a clock behind her. "You eat lunch 11:15 that's early."

"It's 12:15 here," Luna explained still smiling. Leni titled her head in a bit of confusion.

"Massachuttes is an hour before Michigan," Luna explained.

"That totes confusing," Leni shook her head. "Oh are your friends doing anything special for your birthday?"

"Not sure never really talked about it," Luna looked a bummed despite trying to hide it from Leni.

"What they like have to do something for you!" Leni looked offended by the lack of celebration. "Birthdays totes need celebration."

"Eh, I'm sure they have something planned," Luna lied though she felt incredibly guilty about it. She couldn't tell Leni she never told her friends about her birthday it would break her older sister's heart.

"Okay I don't want to keep you away from your friends," Leni waved to the camera. "Talk to you later."

"Talk to ya later," Luna waved to the camera. She continued with her day as usual. She started to think about her time at home. Her father would probably be baking a cake or cooking Luna's favorite meal like he always did for birthday's. Everyone would try to act all secretive about what exactly what was happen, despite the birthday person already having a clear idea on what is going on. After dinner, Luna would open her presents and then they would have cake. Birthdays were the best all she wanted was to spend some time with her family that was all. If she had taken creative writing this semester she would for sure be writing about how lonely she felt. Birthdays were not the same without her family there and she couldn't do anything about it.

After her final class, Luna walked out and saw two things. The first thing an email for Taylor saying band rehearsal had to, unfortunately, be canceled because of a heating problem in the Music Building. Luna was very upset about this as having band was at least something good for her to look forward to on this day. The second was a voicemail from Lori.

"Hi, Luna I just wanted to call and say Happy Birthday. I didn't know if you had a class but I'm very busy today and I didn't want you to think I forgot because that is literally the worse thing I could do. I hope you have fun and talk to you later."

Luna saw the voicemail was from a few minutes ago but she didn't bother calling back. Lori was probably busy by now or charging her phone for whatever things she had to do today. Afterward, she decided t walk around campus for a bit when she heard a phone ding. It was a text from Melody.

Come to the dorm now! You won't believe this

What happened

You have to see it to believe it!

Luna rolled her eyes and started heading to Green Hall. She wasn't a big fan of when Melody gave her vague texts. The only reason she was going was so Melody wouldn't be on her butt but about it all week. She walked up the stairs and open the door waiting to see what had to be seen.

"Surprise!" A chorus of voices came from the common room. "Happy Birthday!"

"What?" Luna looked around and saw not only her four best friends but also Betty, Dimitri, Damon, Tyler, and a few of her classmates. "What's going on?"

"An importune birthday party!" Aria jumped up and hugged Luna tightly.

"What do you mean?" Luna held in a laugh trying to hide it was her birthday.

"Come on don't hide it," Ethan said laughing a little, "Melody told us how upset you were about being alone on your birthday."

"Huh?" Luna turned towards her roommate.

"I may have heard the song you were singing last night," Melody explained Luna gave her a puzzled look. "What I'm a light sleeper."

"We all felt bad you were going to spend your birthday alone," Isaac explained.

"So we decided to throw something together," Aria cheered.

"With band canceled, we moved it up." Betty said, "I'm glad I was on campus."

"You guys didn't have to do this," Luna said but she was smiling.

"We wanted to," Melody explained and everyone nodded in agreement.

"Seriously dudes birthday's are nothing," Luan said but Aria started dragging her to the main couch in the common room. Aria placed her down on the couch.

"They are a big deal and you're going to celebrate!"

"We're not wasting a party," Tyler raised his hand in the air to celebrate. Before Luna could say anything else the brought out a radio and started to quietly play some British Rock.

"Don't worry our RA is cool with the music," Melody explained as the music kept playing.

"You know honestly I feel betrayed," Dimitri said as he sat next to Luna. "I'm your mentor and you didn't even tell me it was your birthday."

"Dimitri stop being dramatic," A junior girl named Rosa said with an eye-roll.

"Hey we didn't know either and she spends more time with us," Ethan pointed out.

"But let's forgot about that," Aria said before anyone else could add anything. "Let's celebrate."

Luna couldn't help but smile her friends did this all for her. Sure there weren't that many people but it was perfect. She thought this day could n't get any better when her phone started ringing.

"It's my folks," Luna said at the video chat request.

"Answer it," A bunch of people said at the same time.

"Alright," Luna swiped answer and in few second her family appeared.

"Happy Birthday Luna!" The entire Loud family cheered in unison. The entire family, even Lori, and Leni were present.

"Wow thanks, guys," Luna said with a smile.

"You didn't think we forgot your birthday?" Rita raised an eyebrow as asked that.

"What of course not," Luna laughed a little.

"I just can't believe my little Luna is nineteen," Lynn Sr. said wiping away a tear.

"You still have seven other daughters," Lola said from the background looking in the mirror.

"Oh, we sent you a care package with your birthday presents in," Rita explained with a smile. "It should there in a few days."

"Aww thank guys."

"Wait honey is that not your dorm room are you busy?" Lynn Sr noticed.

"It's fine dad my bros just put together a little something," Luna explained.

"I knew they would do something," Leni said in the background.

"I'm surprised you came up for my b-day," Luna looked at her two older sisters.

"We literally had to it's your first birthday away from home," Lori explained smiling.

"We're about to do cake if you want to join us?" Melody suggested.

"Oh we'd loved to join you," Rita said as Aria brought out a cake. It was pretty small but it was decorated in orange frosting and had dark black webs on it.

"Nice cake," Lucy said admiring the Halloween cake.

"We don't have candles, sorry," Aria said as she placed the cake in front of Luna.

"It's fine," Luna said waving it off. As everyone from her family back home and here Luna's smile grew. This was the best birthday ever.