Twelve Candles

Candle 3

1216 Franklin Avenue

10:31 am

"Luna?" Luan called out while walking down the stairs.

Last she saw Luna was back in their room. Charles was up there before he grabbed Luna's notebook and ran off with it. She didn't know what to do at the moment but as of now she went on to look for her sister.

Charles just came through the backyard door of the kitchen, still holding Luna's book in his mouth. Luan turned around and saw Charles drop the book and lay down heading off to sleep.

"There you are. Where's Luna?" She asked the dog. In response Charles grumbled and slightly whimpered before yawning and heading off to sleep.

Irritated with her answer she headed outside and looked around but didn't see Luna in sight. Just before she started to head back inside she heard slight grumbling coming from the underside of the porch. She headed off to investigate the source of the noise.

Upon arriving she stopped at her tracks when she saw the sight of a Luna's rear behind stuck in what seemed to be the small opening of the porch.

"Wow I guess the expression bottoms up really takes its toll." She laughed at her own joke. "Hey Luna I guess your name really sends off a good sign of the full moon coming around." She laughed once again.

Luna heard her younger sisters remarks and was ticked off for her joking around rather than helping her out. "Dude! Now is not the time for jokes brah! Help me out of here!" She shouted.

Luan finally stopped laughing and decided to take this more seriously. "Well at least I know that the full moon is coming tonight, but seriously how did you get stuck in there?"

Luna shifted her legs "Charles! He grabbed my book and gave chase! He went down here and me not thinking straight went after him in this small hole. Now I can't move out of here!"

Luan could see that Luna was pretty well stuck in the opening. She wondered how she wasn't getting any sort of injury from the wood. "Alright let me see if I can pull you out."

She grabbed Luna by the rear and tried pulling her out. Luna tried to help her by forcing herself out but to no avail. Luan couldn't pull any harder than she could.

Her arms started to feel weaker as she tried pulling harder. Finally she gave in and stopped pulling. She wiped her sweat off her brow.

"Whew! This is going to be harder than I thought."

Back at the mall, the rest of the sisters are undergoing their own adventures. Lola and Lana are seen chasing the teenager through the toy store trying to get the last Ace Savvy action figure.

"Lola what are we gonna do!?" Lana asked.

"We take that toy back! That's Lincoln's!!!" She yelled.

"But how? He just keeps running ahead of us!"

She was right. They were no match to outrun a teen. Even in a toy store where kids roamed just about everywhere.

Wait that's it! Kids everywhere! Lola herself has gained a reputation of being the queen of the toy box. No matter what she was considered to be feared everytime she came back to her "throne" which was made entirely out of LEGOs. Sure enough she still has her followers protecting her throne from outsiders.

Lola tells her older twin "Lana, keep him busy while I get us some backup."

"Backup? From where?" She curiously asked.

Lola gave a sinister smile "You'll see."

Lori and Lisa are just about done. Since they have what they need all they would have to do is leave the store and grab Lynn and Lucy as well as the twins and go home to get everything ready. They have all they need to make this party special.

"Okay Lisa, are you positive that this is all we really need?" Lori asked.

"Positive Eldest sibling unit, this is all we require for Lincoln's special day in 24 hours. We have no need for Lynn and Lucy to find what they need considering we have it all here in our shopping cart."

Lily clapped her hands. She knew very well the excitement that was coming. Hearing her older sisters talk about it gave her the clue she needed to tell her that it was her bigbrother's birthday.

The two are going through the store as quick as they can, not realizing that ahead of them was another shopper with a cart full of items.

Ahead they clash with the cart. Spilling all items on the floor all while mixing up everything in the pile.

The woman began to get angry. Everything she needed and she was looking for was all in the cart and these two kids had the nerve to let it all get lost in a big pile of things she didn't need.

"Hey! I had just about everything I came looking for in that cart! And because if you it's all gone!" The woman yelled. Her berating caused Lori to get mad as well. They didn't mean to crash into this woman. And now she had the nerve to completely go beserk over a little accident?

"It was an accident! You think it was our life goal to make sure we knock out all of your useless items onto the floor!? Maybe have a cow lady!" Lori yelled back.

The woman gasped at the last thing Lori had told her. She tends to get bad tempers and now she was about to have one because of her.

"How dare you! It's all the same with you teenage women nowadays! Always believing in the wrong things!"

"Wrong things? What the fu-"

As if on cue, a mall security officer had arrived on scene, blaring a miniature siren at the moment Lori was about to spill some colorful language.

The officer was wearing a simple white buttoned up shirt with the security patches on the side of the shirt. He had a navy blue tie with a tie clip attached and he was wearing a pair of dark navy blue pants. His pretense usually meant business.

The slim officer approached the women. "Alright let's make this as smooth as possible. What's the problem?"

The rash woman spoke first practically yelling at the security officer. "This teenage brat and her Little misfits thought it would be a good idea to ruin my day! Just look at what they've done! They mixed up everything into one pile and now all of my things are gone!"

Lori rolled her eyes at this woman's overreaction to a little accident. She really didn't have time for her bickering right now. All they had to do was reach the checkout in time but now it seems they won't be doing so anytime.

"Look lady like I said before it was an accident! You think I made it my goal to do this? I mean c'mon! You're literally overreacting over complete nonsense!" She yelled back.

Not only did this anger the woman even more but she started to move towards Lori which had alarmed the security officer. Lori didn't hold back, when the woman approached her the two began have a little scruffle while many bystanders began to watch the scene.

Lisa simply watched while she was holding Lily, there wasn't really anything she could do.

Another security officer arrived and the two pulled the woman out of the store without giving them a chance to checkout their items. Lisa and lily were escorted out in the process.

They released the women out of the store. "Now none of you two are to return to this store! Cause any more problems again and I'll have you banned from the mall!" With that the two uniformed men left.

What was she going to do now? All of Lincoln's stuff was in there and because of this woman she can't get it back.

"I hope your day gets even worse!" The woman retorted as she left the mall entirely. Lori wanted to show her a piece of her mind so bad, but not only will that cause a scene it will go back to what security just said. She'll be banned from the mall.

"Lynn, Lucy I hope you guys found something." Lori said.

Lynn and Lucy left the store empty handed. No luck. The two hoped Lori, Lisa and Lily had some luck in finding something.

Lynn's stomach began to growl. Her body was starting to have a disagreement to breakfast.

"Yo Luce wait up for me, I think today's breakfast is starting to have a party in my stomach and they need to go!"

Her face cringed. She understood Lynn's vocabulary very well to know what she said. She reluctantly agreed knowing very well that once she comes out of the bathroom, it will be a bad biohazard.

The two went to the nearest restrooms. Upon arriving at the ladies room Lynn ran inside in a hurry, it didn't seem like the party was gonna last too long if she tried holding it in. Lucy simply watched and stood outside, trying really hard to ignore the horrendous noises going on inside. She'd feel bad for anyone having to use the bathroom anytime soon.

Lynn walked out feeling relieved. She felt as if she could run a marathon, which she can, but now they could go back to what they were doing.

"Boy oh boy what a relief! Those bad boys needed to leave badly." Lynn said as she passed Lucy.

Lucy followed behind, trying not to stay around for the door to open. Another woman passed by and headed for the restroom. Boy is she gonna have quite a surprise.

They passed by the food courts to where they met up with Lori, Lisa and Lily. They saw them to be empty handed.

Lucy spoke to the trio "No luck finding anything?"

Lori seemed to be still upset to speak. Lisa did her a favor though. "We did happen to find our current objectives in the store but a little mishap with another adult female caused us to lose it and get kicked out. Have you two found something?"

Lynn shook her head "No, nothing at all."

"Dammit!" Lori slammed her fist. Her sisters looked at her with an unpleasant expression. Lori looked to Lily and thankfully she was still asleep to not hear her current outburst. "Sorry, this day is such a mess."

"Hey today can't be that bad I mean can it?" Lynn asked.

Boy she shouldn't have said that.

Back at home things were still on pause as Luna was stuck under the porch while Luan was trying to get her out.

Luan has tried almost everything. She tried pulling her out, but that was leading to a painful outcome as Luna started to feel as if she was getting splinters.

Trying to slide her out was no good either, no progress was being made so they quickly gave up that idea.

She thought about trying to push her out so that she could try and find a way out on her own. But doing that would just make things more complicated. For one Luna doesn't quite know her way under the porch. Plus she didn't want to spend most of the day showering out the grime and muck from the floors.

Luan was running out of ideas. They had to make this quick, they were already losing time and daylight to get everything ready for tomorrow.

Wait, Leni is still home. Maybe Leni could help, but knowing her she might just complicate things. Well it doesn't hurt to try, or well in this case it might hurt Luna.

"I'll be right back, I'm gonna see if Leni could help." Luan said as she started to make her way to her room.

"Leni?! Dude I'd strongly disagree with that!"

"Well I'm out of options here sis! Maybe Leni might help."

How could Leni possibly help? The girl is a ditz. She could either get really distracted or really confused. She was merely afraid of what the outcome would be.

Luan has left to go get Leni. Luna was still a bit shaky. It's not that she doesn't trust Leni, she's just afraid how bad things could get if she can't do anything to help. They're already losing daylight anyways.

At this time Leni came through. She arrived downstairs to see Luna's rump sticking out from the porch.

"Luna? Are you like trapped in another dimension? Because if you are then your butt is still here." Leni absent mindedly said. Luan had a kick out of that one. Luna however didn't.

"C'mon dude! Help me out!" She cried.

Leni did exactly what Luan did earlier. She tried pulling her out but that didn't work. She tried slipping her out but that ended up giving Luna extra pinches from the wood.

"Owww Leni! That really hurt brah! Can you help me without hurting me?!"

Leni flinched "I'm sorry, I'm like really trying!" Truth be told, she really was. Luan didn't know what to do and neither did their older sister.

Luan sighed "Oh man what are we gonna do? We're wasting time as it is out here and it's almost noon. Lori and the others will be back soon and they'll see that we haven't done anything yet."

"I'm still not even finished with the outfits. They totes still need work." She looked up. "See, that one still needs a better lining."

Luan looked up and saw what Leni didn't realize. A bunch of the outfits were flying out the window and into the streets.

"Leni! Your outfits!" Luan yelled. She finally came to her senses and saw them fly away.

"Ahhhhh! Oh no!!!" She cried.

Leni tried to run after them but they landed in a mud spot just across the street. The entire area was covered in filth that would make Lana feel like she's in heaven. They were ruined and they probably smelled bad.

Leni whimpered and began to tear up. Luan saw this and went out to comfort her.

"I-I really worked hard on them. And now they're ruined! They're gone! It's all gone!" Leni sobbed.

Luan Hugged her older sister, trying her best to comfort her. Luna could hear the distress and couldn't help but feel terrible for Leni. She could tell that she worked hard on them.

"I shouldn't have opened the window! But it was starting to get like super hot in the room, I wanted it to feel cooler."

"Leni it's okay. We still have some time to work on them again." Luan said.

Leni pouted. "No Luan it won't be the same. I made Linky's outfit really special for him. I can't do it again."

She couldn't just lay there and hear her sister feel sorry for herself. She had to get out of this somehow. She didn't care if it hurt, she pulled herself as hard as she could which started to scratch her badly. The splinters were digging deep into her skin, cutting her in the process as well as tearing up her shirt a little.

Leni and Luan saw Luna slowly starting to free herself. They didn't hesitate to help her. They pulled and pulled until Luna was finally free.

Luna got up "finally! I'm free!" She looked over to Luan and Leni and went on to hug the both of them.

"Dude I'm sorry about your clothes. I bet they were rockin'." She said.

Leni was starting to feel a little better, but she was still upset. "I just don't think I can go back and do this again. It just won't be the same."

"I hear you brah. But you can't give up! We still got some time left before Lori and the others come back! Little Bro is still out as well so we still got some time." Luna said.

"Yeah, besides me and Luna still don't have enough done either, so the three of us can all help each other out! Let's make it a special girl time for the three of us." Luan said.

That made Leni smile a bit. She was glad to have sisters like these two. Despite what had happened she was still upset, but hearing that Luan and Luna were both willing to help her together made everything feel all better.

She wrapped the two in a heartfelt hug. "Guys that is like super sweet of you two. I'm lucky to have sisters like you guys!"

"Ditto sis" Luna replied.

A/N: this took a little longer than expected. I tried to finish this as early as I can but I couldn't seem to find the right pieces to it. But nonetheless, welcome to the third candle. The chapter was actually going to be longer, also focusing on the twins little encounter with that teen in the store, but I'm gonna save that for the next candle. I really just wanted to get this one done with. I hope you guys enjoy this chapter. I'll see you all soon, FrostbiteFear out.

P.S the formatting on this one seems to be going back to the way it looks now. I don't know why but I've been trying to set it to how the other chapters were set. Sorry about that folks