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Chapter 2

Daydreaming is not a safe activity to participate in while playing softball.

Luna found that out the hard way. Literally.

She was fantasizing about how she would profess her love for Sam after shredding some sick riffs for the umpteenth time when the softball (a rather misleading name) slammed into her forehead.

Luna fell to the ground in pain. Coach Armstrong ran over to her from the pitching mound. He knelt down next to her and asked her, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, Coach," replied Luna, wincing. "I'll be fine. Just give me a moment."

Coach Armstrong helped her to her feet, then said, "I'm going to send you down to the nurse's office. It looks like you have a pretty serious welt."

"Okay, thanks." Luna turned to walk back to the school.

"Just remember for next time, although outfield may be boring, you still have to pay attention."

"All right. I'll try."

Luna sighed and trudged towards the school entrance, dropping off her mitt on the edge of the field as she passed by. She yanked the sleeves of her windbreaker over her frigid hands to protect them from the late October wind. She grimaced against the pain of her forehead as she entered the school. She ran up to the locker room, changed rapidly, and grabbed her backpack, then walked to the nurse's office.

The bell rang a few minutes later. Luna gave her ice pack back to the nurse, slung her backpack over her shoulders, and raced for the door. She managed to snag a seat for herself on the bus. She took out her phone and inserted her earbuds, tuning out the barrages of curse words and homophobic slurs that flew past.

Luna felt a tap on her shoulder. She pulled out one earbud and turned to see who it was. It was Luan, who had sat down next to her while she wasn't paying attention.

"Hey, Luna!" Luan began. "How's my favourite brunette older sister?"

"Dude, I'm your ONLY brunette big sis."

"Yeah. I guess that isn't FAIR!" Luan laughed at her atrocious pun.

"Don't quit your day job."

The bus started to move. Luna pulled out her other earbud.

"So, WELT else is new?"

Luna sighed. "I spaced out during softball and got beaned in the forehead."

"Daydreaming, huh? About what?"

Luna noticed how enthusiastic Luan seemed about the concept of her daydreaming. Although she wanted to share the good news, she decided to toy with her sister. "Three guesses."

"Playing a concert with Mick Swagger," Luan answered immediately.

"Nope. Guess again."

"Uh, becoming a one-hit wonder."

"Nope. One more guess."

"String, or NOTHING!" exclaimed Luan in her best Gollum voice.

Luna made a buzzer noise. "ERRRRRT! Wrong all three times! You don't get to come back tomorrow! You're a complete LOSER!"

Luan rolled her eyes. "Then what were you daydreaming about?"

"Why should I tell you?"

"Because I want to know."

"Maybe if you're nicer to me about it, I'll tell you."

"Fine," huffed Luan exaggeratedly. She proceeded to break out her puppy dog eyes and her most sickly-sweet voice: "Pwetty PWEEEASE?"

"Not now," Luna responded dismissively.

"Awww! Why?"

"'Cause I don't want to right now."

"Can I at least have a hint?"

"Sure. It's not a thing that I made up."

Luan gritted her teeth. "GAH, now I REALLY want to know!"

"I'll tell ya in a little while, bro. Just stay calm until then, okay?"

Luan sighed. "Okay."

They both sat in silence for a minute, then Luan piped up again. "Can I tell you a joke?"

"Yeah, sure. How about a chemistry joke?"

Not missing a beat, Luan continued, "Well, I'd tell you a chemistry joke, but all the good ones ARGON!"

Luna cracked a smile. "You have any bad ones?"

"Sure! Why did the EDM artist get kicked out of the chemistry lab? Because he dropped the base!"

Luna grinned again.

"You know what all doctors say about chemists: if you can't helium and you can't curium, you ought to barium!"

Luna spaced out as Luan entered into her stride. I should probably text Sam, see if she knows that I got invited to her band.

Hey, what if it was her idea? That would be SICK!

I guess she knows me the best out of that whole band. I like Jamie and would call him a friend, but I don't know too much about him. And Alex is kind of subdued, but she seems okay. Still, I basically know nothing about her.

Yeah, definitely Sam's idea. It was sweet of her to think of me.

I'll still text her, though, to let her know that I'm game.

Man, I'd better start brushing up on some of my older songs! I need to be in prime form for tomo-

"Luna! Time to get off!" exclaimed Luan, startling her. Luna jumped up, grabbing her backpack, and the two sisters exited the bus. Leni and Lori followed close behind.

As the siblings walked the short path to their house, Leni turned to Luna and asked, "What happened to your head?"

"I spaced out during P.E. and got beaned by a softball."

"Does it still hurt?"

"Nah, I'm good. Don't worry about it." Her head still hurt slightly, but Luna wasn't complaining.

They entered the house, and Luan proceeded to drag Luna up the stairs.

"Come ON! I want to know what you were thinking about!" she yelled.

Luna sighed, wrenched herself free of her sister's grasp, and entered her room. Luan followed behind and shut the door.

"So tell me. What was it?"

Luna tossed her backpack onto her bed, thinking. She had no idea where to begin. "Well, remember Sam?"

"The guy who you gave the letter to?"

"Yep! Well, uh, Sam has a band, and I got invited to join!"

Luan looked at her in astonishment for a second. Then she broke into an earsplitting grin.

"OH MY GOD, THAT'S AWESOME!" she squealed, jumping up and down.

"KEEP IT DOWN!" yelled Lori from her room.

This is exactly why I didn't want to tell her on the bus.

Luan ran over to Luna and said, "I have about a million questions! When are you playing? Did he invite you? What instrument does he play? Can I come watch you guys? Are you-"

"Hold on!" interjected Luna. "Slow down! Okay, so my first practice is tomorrow after school; no, not personally; the keyboard and the clarinet; and no. Sorry."

"Aw, man! Come on! For these sorts of things, we have to BAND together!"

Luna groaned. "Okay. For that pun, you have to leave."

Luan started to complain, but Luna gave her a death glare. She walked over to the door.

Before she left, Luna said, "Wait a sec!" Luan stopped.

"This is a just between you and me thing, okay?"

"Got it. I won't tell a soul!" With that, Luan strode out the door.

Alex is the other girl from "L Is for Love", in case you were wondering.

The grammar mistakes in Luna and Luan's dialogue are intentional.

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