"Lana, time to wake up." Lynn Sr. said quietly, gently rubbing his daughter's head. "You have to go and get ready for school."
Lanna looked at her father with bleary eyes before groaning. "I hate Mondays." She said, turning away from the man. "I want to stay here in my bed forever."
Lynn Sr. chuckled as he shook his head. "Sorry kiddo, but you know that won't happen." He said, taking Lana's blanket away from her. "I made pancakes. If you don't get ready quickly, you might not find any left for you."
Lana groaned again, sitting up on her bed and rubbing her eyes.
"That's better," her father said, rubbing her head before leaving the room.
Lana got out of bed, rubbing her butt as she walked to the little menagerie next to her bed. Just like every morning, she began to feed every single one of her pets. Half way through, the door of her room opened. She turned around to see her twin sister entering the room, already dressed for the day. Her hair was slightly wet, indicating that she had just taken a shower.
Lana was quiet, watching her sister move to the mirror on her side of the room and grabbing her hair brush. Lana observed with a bit of admiration as her sister brushed that beautiful, golden hair. In the middle of it, Lola noticed something on the reflection of the mirror.
"What are you smiling at?"
The question caught Lana by surprise, causing her to get out of her trance. "What?"
"Why were you smiling?" Lola asked, turning around to look at her sister. Her eyes slowly began to narrow. "What did you do?"
"Me? I-I haven't done anything!" Lana defended herself.
"Then why were you looking at me while smiling? You told one of your pets to crawl under my dress again, right?" Lola asked loudly, looking around the floor of the room, making sure nothing was coming her way.
Lana frowned at that, looking down at her feet. Had she really been smiling? She hadn't noticed. But… 'I think I did stare at her for a long moment.' She shook her head and walked to the door. "I'm going to shower."
"Hey, you haven't answered me!"
"It was nothing!" Lana said, leaving the room. She took a quick shower, and got ready for the day. Lana quickly joined her other siblings for breakfast, occasionally stealing glances at the little princess on the other side of the table.
All in all, the morning turned out to be calmer than usual. With everyone ready, the siblings got into Vanzilla, Lana sitting right next to Lola, not caring at all that she was on the soggy seat.
All the students cheered when their teacher announced that it was time for a break. The first graders rushed out of the classroom, ready to enjoy the best part of the school day.
Lola put her things back in her backpack, then she rummaged through her lunch box, a smile formed on her face, happy to see a peanut butter and jelly sandwich inside. The little girl made her way out of the classroom with her food in hand, her twin quickly joining her.
The two girls walked out to the playground, spotting an empty table on the other side. Lola frowned as she noticed that most of the way was covered in mud. 'Ugh, why did it have to rain last night?!' Lola thought as she carefully made her way to the table.
Halfway through, Lola stopped, turning around and finding her twin right behind her. She lifted a brow as she looked at Lana.
"What?" Lana asked, looking down at herself. "Do I have something on me?"
"Lana, are you feeling fine?"
Lana tilted her head. "Huh? Uhm... yes? Why do you ask?"
"Because we are in the middle of a mud covered field," Lola said as she gestured around them, "and you haven't started to roll all over the place."
"Oh!" Lana exclaimed as she looked around. She hadn't noticed the mud at all. She had just been too focused following her twin, her mind busy thinking about how pretty Lola's hair was and how good it must smell. Lana frowned, quickly shaking her head and dissipating those thoughts.
"I… I'm just too hungry. I'll eat something first and play in the mud later."
That answer seemed to be good enough for Lola. "Okay." She turned around to resume her walk, managing to move one step before a ball hit the hand with which she was holding her food. The sandwich flew from her hand and landed right in the middle of a mud puddle.
Lola looked slack jawed at her ruined food for a second before turning her head around and glaring at the group of boys that had been playing with the ball. Realizing who they had just accidentally hit, the kids ran away to hide.
"I already saw your faces! You'll pay for this!" Lola shouted as she shaked a fist menacingly. She let her hand fall to her side as she looked again at her mud covered, letting out a sigh. "My sandwich," She said sadly.
The little princess was quickly pulled out of her sad thoughts as she felt a hand on her shoulder.
"Here, Lola, you can have mine." Lana said with a smile as she presented her sandwich to the other girl.
"W-what?" Lola asked a little taken aback. "A-are you sure, Lana?"
Lana nodded eagerly. "Of course!"
"But you said you were hungry. What will you eat?"
"I'll eat that one," Lana said, pointing at the sandwich on the mud. "It looks good."
"Gross! Lana, please don't do that." Lola said, looking Lana right in the eyes.
Lana would have normally argued as she had done many times in the past when she did similar things, but looking at Lola's eyes, she just didn't felt like arguing with her. She sighed. "Alright."
Lola was surprised yet again by her twin. She certainly didn't expect Lana to listen to her.
"Then I'll go look for something in the trash."
"No! Don't do that either!"
"Then what am I supposed to eat?" Lana asked a little bit annoyed.
"Here," Lola placed both hands on the sandwich and split it in two. "We'll share this."
Lana rubbed the back of her head. "I guess that's better than nothing," she said, accepting half of the sandwich.
Both girls resumed their walk to the empty table. Lana sat down and began eating.
"Lana."
"Hmm?" Lana slightly turned her head to look at her sister.
"Thank you for giving me your sandwich," Lola said as she hugged her sister.
Lana was caught of guard at first, but happily returned the hug. A sweet smell entered her nose, prompting Lana to breath deeply. 'Her hair does smell really good.' She thought, a fuzzy yet pleasant feeling growing inside of her.
From the other side of the playground, a little four years old girl with a green sweater and glasses was silently observing the girls. She had been a bit suspicious earlier that day when things had been quieter than usual in the house, but seeing this…
'Is it possible that my experiment worked after all? I'll have to observe them a little more and make sure that this behaviour isn't just mere coincidence.' Lisa thought as she ate her flavorless dish with all the necessary nutrients.
A little less than a week has passed since that day. The loud kids were enjoying the day, with some of them going out for the day while the others remained inside.
Lincoln had left to play with Clyde at his house. Lynn was playing on the backyard. Lori was hanging out with a group of friends. Luna was out in a date with Sam. Lucy was in her room doing her homework. Luan was out buying some new gadgets at Fanny's prank emporium. Lola was busy in the bathroom, beautifying herself.
The remaining four girls were all gathered in the living room. Lana was sitting on the couch of the living room alongside Leni and Lily. The three girls were enjoying a TV show, while Lisa was sitting on the armchair, checking the data that she had recollected from the previous days.
'There's no denying it, the experiment was a complete success!' Lisa thought as she read the information on the clipboard once again. 'The amount of noise in the house has gone down a total of 8.65 percent, and the number of fights per day has gone down an astounding 46.3 percent. What's even more amazing, there hasn't been a fight between Lana and Lola since the day of the experiment!' Lisa thought excitedly as she looked at the girl with red hat.
Her excitement slowly disappeared, a frown forming on her face. 'But there seems to be something wrong with Lana's behaviour towards Lola. I haven't been able to figure exactly what it is. I need to recollect more data to figure this out.'
Lisa's thoughts were interrupted when her mother came out from her room.
"Alright girls, I'm going out. Behave while I'm not here." Rita said before planting a kiss on each of her daughter's head.
"Bye, mom!" The girls answered together.
The mother then moved to the foot of the stairs. "Lola, honey, are you ready? We'll be late for your pageant competition!"
"I'm ready!" Lola called back from the second floor, appearing in the middle of the hallway and starting to walk down the stairs, she had applied a light layer of makeup, done her hair to perfection and was wearing a brand new beautiful dress.
Lisa took notice of how Lana's attention moved from the TV to the stairs. She noticed how the moment Lola reached the first floor, Lana's eyes widened a bit and how her cheeks gained a rosy tone. She also noticed the words that came out of her sister's mouth.
"Bah… bah… bah…"
"Hmm? Did you said something, Lana?" Leni asked as she looked at the little girl.
Lana quickly shook her head. "N-no, I… It was nothing." The girl stood from the couch and ran to her mother. "Mom, can I go too?"
Rita lifted a brow. "You want to go to a pageant contest? I thought you hated those."
"I… I don't really like them… But, I want to go and cheer Lola." She said as she flashed a smile to her twin, who returned one of her own.
The mother smiled down at her daughters. "Alright, then let's get going or we'll be late," she said as she guided the two girls to Vanzilla.
Lisa looked with suspicion at the little plumber. 'Did Lana…' Lisa shook her head. 'Not likely. I must have imagined it… But what if…' Lisa scratched her head. Lana had just acted how every single one of the sisters had acted towards Hugh, but this time, Lana was acting like that towards Lola. Could it be…
The mere idea of it made Lisa laugh. 'That's ridiculous, the probability of it being the case is of less than 3.5 percent.' Lisa thought, letting the subject go so she could focus in some other experiment. She had more important and plausible things to think about.
Here you have chapter 2. If there's something that someone would like to see happe, leave a comment.