Oh boy, this chapter was hard to write at the start. Wasn't sure exactly how to handle things. I hope I did a good enough job. I also went back and checked some previous chapters, fixed a few mistakes and added some words that were missing here and there.
The second Lori and Lana entered the kitchen, most of the other siblings rushed up to them and started to bombard them with questions related to the incident of earlier and what had they been talking out in the backyard. Lola just kept her distance, away from the commotion, still looking a little angry, while Lisa was nowhere to be found.
"Everybody, stay quiet!" Lori shouted, effectively silencing the others. "Look, what happened earlier was just a little misunderstanding. Lana did kiss Lola," a few of the sisters were about to say something, but Lori quickly continued before anyone could uther a word, "but it was just all part of the game. That is literally the way things happen in the movies, and Lana was just imitating it. She just… she just got carried a little. That's all."
Lori looked at her little sister that was still holding her hand, looking down at the floor. 'It's the best if the others don't know the truth. It would be really hard for Lana to deal with that,' She thought.
"So it was just, like, no real problem?" Leni asked, receiving a nod from Lori. "For a second I thought that Lana was really in love with Lola. Because, that would totes explain why she acts like Hugh is still around whenever she's with Lola."
The room was completely quiet, with all of the sisters and Lincoln looking at Leni who had a carefree smile on her face, then turning to look at a slack jawed, wide eyed Lori, then looking down at Lana who was now hiding behind the older girl.
"Ahahaha, Leni, the things you say," Lori said with an awkward laugh. "Of course that isn't the case, you must have just imagined it," she added with a forced smile. "Didn't you hear? It was just a misunderstanding and I'm sure it won't happen again. Right, Lana?"
Lana hesitantly looked up at Luna, then gave a reluctant nod directed at all her sibling siblings.
"See? There's literally nothing to worry about. So let's just forget this ever happened and move on."
All the other kids looked at Lori in silence, until finally Luna spoke. "Dude, tell us the truth."
"W-what? I-I'm telling–"
"Wait!" Lola shouted, walking to the center of the kitchen. She took a moment, looking with critical eye at her twin. "I think I know how to get the truth," She said before stepping even closer to Lana, with their noses just inches apart. Lola could see her twin's cheeks gaining a rosy color, but it still wasn't enough to be sure.
She batted her eyelashes in a way she had learned to do for her pageant contests, something that usually charmed the crowd. It seemed to have achieved its intended purpose, as she could see Lana slowly closing her eyes, tilting her head and slowly leaning closer.
"What are you doing?!" Lola shouted, stepping away from her twin before there could be any kind of contact.
Lana blinked twice before realizing what she had been about to do, and the fact that all the others had seen it. She quickly hid behind Lori, trying to hold back her tears.
"Lori," Lincoln said, stepping up to the oldest Loud. "What's the meaning of this? Why did you lie to us?"
"What's really going on, Lori?" Lynn joined her brother in the interrogation.
Lori sighed, scratching her head. "Look, it really isn't big deal, it's just–"
"How can you say it's not big deal?" Lynn asked, crossing her arms. "Lana is in love with Lola! They are sisters! You know how wrong it is?"
"I know!" Lori exclaimed, feeling her temper rising a little. She walked up to Lynn, leaving Lana behind. "But it's nothing I can't handle! Lana is only six years old! She's only confused!"
"And why didn't you tell us this from the beginning?" Lincoln asked, a bit annoyed at Lori.
"Lana doesn't need more people butting into this. She just needs time. It's clear that Lola won't return her feelings, so in a few days, she will literally forget about them!"
"Dude, are you serious?!" Luna joined up. "You can't just assume that this matter will be resolved so easily. Maybe we should tell the 'rents about this."
"Yeah," Lynn said, "we should let them handle this and have a proper talk with Lana, because obviously, Lori isn't capable of doing so!"
"I'm perfectly capable of doing it! You all just ruined my plans with your–"
"Uhm, guys," Leni interrupted, trying to get the attention of the others. "Maybe you should, like, tone it down a little."
The three girls turned their eyes at the blond, ready to start shouting at her, but stopped as they saw her sitting on the floor, holding a distraught Lana.
"T-there really is something wrong w-with me?"
"Lana," Lori said, rushing up to her sister. "No, I already told you that there's nothing wrong with you."
"Actually, that's incorrect, Lori," came an emotionless voice from the dining room. Everyone looked back to see the little genius of the house entering the kitchen. "There's indeed something wrong with our sibling, Lana."
Hearing that confirmation, Lana couldn't help but let the tears she had been fighting to hold back run free.
The older girls frowned at the little genius. "Way harsh, dude," Luna said, shaking her head.
"Lisa, just go back to your room. You are clearly not here to help," Lori said, pinching the bridge of her nose.
"Incorrect once again, Lori. Besides, it's impossible to focus on my experiments with all the ruckus that you all were making," Lisa said, adjusting her glasses as she took a long look at Lana from the distance. She walked slowly, holding her chin with a hand a humming to herself. "I certainly never expected that the experiment would produce this kind of results."
"Wait a second," Lola said, squinting her eyes at the little genius. "Experiment?"
Lisa, slowly turned her head to look at her siblings, a forced smile on her face. "Did I say experiment? I-I meant–"
"Lisa, did you do something to Lana?" Lincoln asked.
"Noooo...?" Lisa said, sweating bullets.
Lori's eye twitched. "You literally have three seconds to start talking before I turn you into a human pretzel!" Lori said, stepping closer to the little genius. "One! T–"
"Alright, alright, I'll talk!" Lisa said. "No need to resort to such brutish activity."
"Start! Talking!"
Lisa sighed. "About three weeks ago, I asked Lola and Lana to help me with a little project I had just come up with."
"Wait, you mean the one you offered us five dollars?" Lola asked.
"Yes," Lisa said while nodding, "that one. I believe that it's the reason why Lana developed such anormal strong feelings for you."
"What gives, Lisa?" Lynn asked. "Why are you doing experiments that make your sisters fall in love with each other?"
"It wasn't my intention to achieve that kind of result," Lisa said, a bit annoyed. "My intentions were to alter the level of influence a determined set of hormones in the brain that show up whenever an individual is feeling a certain amount of hostility towards another, effectively keeping under control such feeling and preventing any kind of confrontation."
The loud siblings looked a little confused at the little genius.
Lisa sighed. "I was trying to prevent Lola and Lana from ever fighting again, but the machine completely malfunctioned when I was conducting the experiment on Lana. I had initially thought that the experiment had been a complete failure."
"I… I remeber that day," Lana meekly said. "I…" she looked at Lola, "the whole day I couldn't stop thinking how pretty Lola is."
The little princess was taken aback by this comment, quickly looking away with a scowl as her cheeks gained a bit of color.
"You see," Lisa continued, "after a few days, I noticed a change in Lana's behaviour. I deemed the experiment a success, as the fight and noise in the house had gone down drastically. Now, the problem is that the effect of the experiment, as we all can conclude after the events of today, caused our sister to develope a high level of infatuation towards Lola. Street name, a crush."
"Ugh, Lisa! This is exactly why mom and dad keep telling you to never experiment on any of us!" Lori exclaimed. "What are we supposed to do now about this situation?"
"Don't worry, siblings. I believe I can come up with a way to turn Lana back to how she was. It'll take some time. I need to gather enough information of the first experiment and figure out exactly what went wrong with it. With that, I should be able to come up with a solution for this problem."
"So… Lana will stop acting like Hugh is around when she's with Lola?" Leni asked.
"Exactly!"
"And how long will it take you to fix this?" Lynn asked.
"Hard to say right now. I still don't have the information I require. I would say that a week at the earliest."
"So I'll have to deal with her trying to kiss me until then?" Lola asked a bit annoyed.
"Basically, yes. But I don't really think you have to worry much. Lana hasn't show any kind of obsessive–"
"Whatever!" Lola interrupted, pointing at Lana. "Just don't get close to me until you stop being weird!" She said before storming off.
Lana lifted her hands to her chest, trying to sooth the pain she was feeling, with Leni hugging her from behind.
"Lisa," Lori said, breaking the silence that had formed after Lola's words, "could you start working on fixing this?"
"Already started. Right now, as we speak, my computer is running a few programs that will help me retrieve the information I need."
"Good," Lori said with a nod before turning to look at the others. "Alright guys, there really isn't much for the rest of us to do other to keep an eye open in case something happens."
"Uhm, is it a problem if I keep both eyes open? It's kind of hard for me to just close one," Leni said, trying to close only one eye but ending up blinking.
"Leni, that's not… Yeah, sure, keep both eyes open."
"Great!"
Right at that moment, the sibling could hear the sound of vanzilla parking next to the house. Lori looked at Luna. "You think we should tell our parents about this."
Luna thought for a second before answering. "I guess we can keep silent for a moment. But if Lisa isn't able to fix this, we will tell them."
"Of course."
With that being said, most of the Loud kids left the kitchen to greet their parents, with Lori and Lana staying behind.
"Don't worry, Lana. Things will be back to normal in no time," Lori said before leaving the kitchen.
'Everyone just keeps saying fixing this, or normal that,' Lana thought as she looked down at the floor. 'Are this feelings really a lie? …They feel normal to me.'
So a few people kept asking when was Lisa going to say it was her fault. I actually wanted to wait a little longer before that, but I had some troubles dealing with some dialogues, and the best solution I found was for Lisa to just spill the beans.
I wanted to give at least one line of dialogue to Luan, but I just couldn't come up with a pun for her to say. Really hard when english isn't your main language.
I hope you enjoyed this, and as usual, I would be happy to hear ideas for this.