It was a few days after Luke's birthday as Lincoln headed to Clyde's house.
"Hey, Lincoln." Clyde says.
"Hey, Clyde, ready for a marathon of ARGGH?" Lincoln asked.
"You know it!" Clyde says.
Luna sighed as she was heading into a studio. "I gotta play again…this is a dream, performing in front of Mick." Luna says as she begins to record her song.
Meanwhile, Luke was with his friends, watching "Dream Boat: Celebrity Edition" on TV. He was mad at his friends, ignoring them.
Luke got a text from Leni inviting him to lunch. He happily accepted and headed to meet Leni for lunch as his friends looked worried.
Leni was waiting for Luke as she bought nachos. Luke sits with Leni.
"Hi, Luke, are you feeling OK?" Leni asked.
Luke shakes his head. "My friends hate me." Luke says.
"Ouch…" Leni says and holds him. "Don't worry. Next week and for the next few weeks, it's about you." Leni says.
Meanwhile Lucy was saying goodbye to her club.
"I'll be gone for a while." Lucy says. "Starting next week."
"Farewell." Haiku says.
Meanwhile, Lincoln and Clyde were watching TV before they saw an ad for winter themed Ace Savvy cards.
"To get them, you must write a comic in 2 days."
"We so have to enter!" Lincoln says as they begin writing a comic.
Meanwhile, Charity was preparing Luke's wardrobe for the busy Hitmaker tour. And making sure all his stuff was ready to go.
"That should do it! I hope Lincoln and the girls are ready." Charity says.
Lucy meets up with Luke and Leni. Luke was a mess of tears and misery, mad at his friends still.
"Luke, what's wrong?" Lucy asked curiously.
"His friends did something to him." Leni says.
"Let's go meet up with them." Lucy says.
Meanwhile, Luna finishes as Doug looks at her.
"Luna, you are in!" Doug says with a smile.
Luna had tears in her eyes. "Really?" She asked. Doug nods.
Sam hugged Luna. "I'm so happy for you!" Sam says.
Luke finds his friends. He walks up to them, madder than ever.
They go up to him.
"What's wrong?" Gemma asked.
"Why are you mad?" Garrett asked.
Luke steams up. "YOU GUYS DON'T CARE!" Luke shouts.
"We do!" Oliver says.
Luke just hisses at them.
Leni just watches.
"I OVERHEARD YOU EARLIER, SAYING YOU WON'T SUPPORT ME!" Luke shouts in anger.
Luke runs off. "I HATE YOU ALL!"
They looked down as Oliver hid his letter.
Luna came to Charity.
"I KNOW. YOU GOT ACCEPTED." Charity says through gritted teeth, obviously stressed.
"Are you okay?" Luna asked.
Charity tries to calm down. "Listen, I'm working on getting Luke's things together." Charity says
"Let me help." Luna says. "It looks like he requires a lot of things."
Charity smiles gratefully and accepts Luna's help.
Luke faces his friends at dinner that night after getting a text from Garrett. When he comes in, he sees that the friends are celebrating Oliver.
"Hey!" Luke says to everyone as Oliver gulped. "What is all this?! I thought I was important to you guys, but I guess I was wrong to think that you were EVER my friends!" Luke says, tears in his eyes. "You seem to care about Oliver a lot more than you care about me! Why am I not important? My family forgets me, my friends hate me, does anyone love me?! NO! I've been lied to my whole life!" He says and runs off.
Luke runs home, sobbing.
Ronnie Anne packed up for the tour as Sid helped her. "I'm going to miss you so much! I wanna go, really, but my sister has a dentist appointment next week, and then the next few weeks will be super busy." Sid says.
"I understand." Ronnie Anne says.
"You better send me some cool pictures from all the cool places you're going to…" Sid says.
"Don't worry, I will." Ronnie Anne says, smiling at Sid.
Luke is laying on his bed at home, just wanting to be alone.
Lucy knocked on his door. "Can I come in?" She asked.
Luke sighs. "Come in. Come see 'Mr. Friendless', because that's my new name now. I lost them to OLIVER! Oliver got accepted, and they chose him over me!" Luke sobs.
Lucy and Leni came in.
"We're sorry to hear that." Lucy says.
"Anything we can do to help?" Leni asked as Luna overhears it all.
"What happened?" Luna asked.
"It was horrible. Luke's friends ditched him." Leni says.
"For Oliver?" Rusty asked.
Leni nods. "Apparently, he's going to be on the show, too." Leni says.
"We heard through internet links. It's horrible news for Luke, whose confidence isn't the best right now." Stella says.
"You're not friendless." Haiku says, popping up out of nowhere.
"Yeah, we're still your friends!" Liam says.
"You all will come?" Luke asked.
"Um, no. But we'll root for ya! Still got my farm duties." Liam says.
"I'll come! Clincoln McCloud for life!" Clyde says. "Gotta support you with Lincoln!"
"Me, too." Rocky says holding Lucy's hand, causing her to blush furiously.
"Count me in!" Stella says.
Luke hardly knows what else to say, smiling.
Everyone put their hands in the middle. "For Luke!" they say.
Angry9guy: admit it that was sweet.
Crumbelina's Sweet Admirer: Anyway, next, we're New York-bound and heading to the first round!
Author Question: If the characters were to be rated good to evil from first to third place, who would come out on top?
Angry9guy: Charity would totally win the gold medal of goodness. It isn't easy to take in a lot of kids, and despite Luke's condition, she loves him unconditionally. Second to take the goodness medal would be either Leni or Luke. Now hear me out, Luke has lashed out on multiple occasions. But you can't really hold it against him, since it's not really his fault for being autistic and Leni doesn't really understand her mistakes. They both love their siblings. And 3rd would definitely be a tie between Luna and Lucy. They both support Luke and were the ones who saved Luke from his old parents and always check in on him and while Lucy did forget Luke, she is willing to make amends. The 3rd most evil would go to Randy since he did go to an event only to stop Luke from winning Audition. 2nd would be Luke's evil ex-parents. 1st would actually be Luan, who loses it on April Fools' Day.
Crumbelina's Sweet Admirer: If I had to pick the people who earn the goodness medal, first it would be Lucy. Why? Because she would do anything to make Luke happy. Second would be Charity, because of her unconditional love for her son. And third would be a tie between Lincoln and Luna. They both show their support for Luke and are always there to help him when it's needed. Third most evil would have to be Lori because of the way she treats Luke. Second most evil would definitely be Lola because of all the things she did to her siblings and Luke over the years. As for most evil, I'd say Luke's ex-friends Gemma, Garrett, Remy, and Oliver. Why is that? Because they showed their true colors by choosing to celebrate another friend's achievement instead of Luke's, and they treated Luke unfairly on a few occasions.
Anyway, please review. And feel free to answer the question yourself!