Finally update. Sorry I took so long, bla bla bla. But the chapter is finally here. Everyone chose the no time skip, so I obey. Here you go:
"LAAANNNNAAAAAAA!" She shouted, holding Lana's hat close to her chest with both hands.
Lola had no idea where her sister had gone, but she just couldn't stay here doing nothing. Still holding her sister's hat, Lola began running down the street, but a pair of hands suddenly wrapping her around her midriff stopped Lola from getting far.
"Let me go!" Lola shouted as she tried to squirm her way out of the hold that kept her in place. "I have to find her!"
"Lola," came the voice of Lincoln from behind her. "Calm down!"
"Let me go, Lincoln! I… I have to find her!" Lola shouted as she continued her struggle to free herself from her brother.
"Lola, we all are worried about Lana, but you can't just run out alone, searching blindly for her!"
"And what do you want me to do?! Wait here until she just decides to come back?! I can't do that!"
"I didn't say anything about waiting." Lincoln said, turning his sister around so she would meet his eyes. "We all want to find Lana, but to accomplish that, we need a plan, and I already have one," he said, smiling confidently at his sister.
Lola looked up at his brother for a moment before finally nodding reluctantly. She still wanted to go and find Lana right away, but Lincoln was right. She wasn't the only one worried about Lana, and if she worked alongside her siblings, following Lincoln's plan, then they would find her way faster than if she went out by herself.
Lincoln guided Lola back to the house. As soon as they entered, the rest of the sisters sans Lori came running downstairs.
"Alright, everyone, gather around. I have a plan."
"Lincoln," Lisa tried to speak, but Lincoln quickly interrupted her.
"We will form form four groups. Me and Lynn will go out on our bikes looking for Lana on around the southern part of the town.
"Lincoln," Lynn tried to speak, but she too was interrupted.
"Lucy will go out with Lori on the van. You will search around the northern o part of the town."
"Lincoln," Lucy said in her monotonous voice, but couldn't get another word out as Lincoln kept speaking.
"Leni and Luan will go out around the neighbor looking for any clues of her whereabouts and asking any person if they have seen her."
"Landon," Leni attempted it this time, but failed just like the others.
"Luna will stay here in case someone calls–"
"Lincoln!" All the sisters shouted at the same time, finally getting Lincoln's attention.
"What?!" The white haired boy asked, looking at each of his sisters.
Before anyone could answer, the honk of vanzilla came from the street.
"Come on, everyone! We have to get moving! What are you waiting for?!" Shouted Lori from outside the house.
All the girls ran towards vanzilla, dragging Lincoln and Lola with them. With everyone inside, Lori quickly drove away from the house.
"What's going on?" Lincoln asked, completely confused.
"We're going to find Lana, Lincoln," Lynn said, patting Lincoln on the back.
"But… But we need a plan. I came up with something that will completely–"
"There's no need for your plan. I already found her location," Lisa said from her seat at the front.
"What?!" Lola asked, happily surprised by this information. "How did you find her?"
"I planted a tracking device on her," the little genius said, showing a cell phone like device, with a bright dot at the top left corner.
"Ohhh. That's… that's great. I guess, we… we don't need one of my plans for this, then," Lincoln said, sounding a bit disappointed.
The van remained in silence for a moment, until Leni spoke. "Wait. Lisa, did you plant tracking devices on each–"
"Lori, turn left now!" Lisa shouted, with Lori instantly doing a told. The van brusquely turned at the corner, causing Leni to get motion sickness, completely stopping her from finishing her question.
Lisa continued guiding Lori through the city for several minutes, with the other kids talking about Lana. As the buildings made way to trees, some of them spoke about their amazement by how far the little plumber had moved on her own, while the others just expressed their worry for the well being of their sister.
"Lori, slow the vehicle. We are getting close," Lisa said as she looked out the window. "Scratch Bottom Campgrounds. A place Lana has been before, with the perfect amount of nature and wildlife to be attractive to our missing sibling. Of course she would choose to escape to such a place. Lori, park the van around here."
Lori did as told, with all of the Loud kids quickly getting out of it and following after Lisa as she guided them. They walked slowly through the campsite, keeping an eye open for their missing sister. It didn't take long for them to reach a clearing, where Lisa stopped on her tracks, causing everyone behind her stop.
Lisa placed her tracking device in her pocket and fixed her glasses as she looked forward. "According to my device, Lana should be behind those tall trees. I recommend a subtle approach in case Lana is–"
Everyone ran forward, ignoring the little genius suggestion and past the trees that separated them from their sister. They easily spotted a little girl with blond hair, sleeping on the middle of the clearing, below the shadow of a three, with her backpack next to her.
Lola felt relief and happiness as she looked at her unharmed sister. She wished for nothing but to run up to Lana and wrap her in her arms, but there was a little part of her that made her hesitate, allowing the other Loud kids to run ahead of her.
"Lana!" Leni shouted as she began running, effectively waking up Lana.
"L-Leni?" Lana groggily asked, surprised by seeing not only her second oldest sister there, but all the others as well. Before she had time to react, Lana was embraced by Leni, Lynn, Lincoln and Luna, with the other kids following close behind.
"Little Dudette! We were so worried for you," Luna said as she ruffled Lana's hair.
"I love disappearing acts, but you running away isn't laughing matter," Luan said with a level of seriousness that surprised Lana.
"Lana! What were you thinking?!" Lori shouted as she got closer. The other Loud kids slowly moved away from the little girl, as they didn't want to be on the way of an angry Lori. "Sneaking out in the middle of the night? Running this far away from home? I just… just..." Lori took a deep breath before kneeling down in front of Lana and extending her arms to embrace her little sister. "I was literally so worried about you. Don't do this again. Please."
"I…" Lana started, looking around at the worried faces of her siblings. "I'm sorry… I…" She felt her eyes starting to burn and her gaze slowly turning blurry. "I just couldn't…" She looked at the back of the group, where she spotted Lola holding her red cap. "I just… I just…" Lana couldn't began crying on Lori's shoulder, wrapping her arms around her oldest sister.
Lori just rubbed Lana's back for a while until the little girl began to calm down. "Lana, why did you do it?"
"I… I couldn't take it a-anymore," Lana said, slightly pulling back. "I heard y-you and Lisa talk. She… she c-can't fix me. I'm sick and d-disgusting, and I'll be like this for t-the rest of m-my life."
Lola couldn't help but feel a pang of regret in her chest. She had been the one who had called Lana disgusting.
"Lana, how many times do I have to tell you that you aren't disgusting."
Lana furiously shook her head. "That's no true! You… all of you…" Lana looked around at each of her siblings, pausing for a second when she looked at Lola, then continued as she closed her eyes tightly. "I… I can't take it… All of you… You look at me as if I'm sick just because I have this feelings… But I can't get rid of them! I tried!"
She wiped a few tears with the back of her hand. "And I can't take it anymore…" Lana looks up with teary eyes. "I'm tired of it hurting. It hurts when all of you look at me… it hurts a lot knowing that there's no way to fix me... that this will continue for the rest of my life…" She focused her gaze once more on Lola, but quickly looked away. "And it hurts a lot knowing that the person I feel so strong for wants nothing to do with me… That she hates me"
All the Loud kids exchanged looks of shame. They really hadn't taken the time to understand how Lana was feeling this past week. And looking back, they knew that she was right. They had begun to look at her differently, with the thoughts along the lines of 'weird' crossing their minds whenever they saw her.
The group remained silent, not really sure what to say at the moment. The only noise that could be heard was that of Lana's crying, but a few steps from the back of the group changed that quickly.
"Guys…" Lola started, looking down at the floor while nervously playing with Lana's hat. "Can… Can I talk for a moment with Lana… Alone?"
Lori looks between the pleading eyes of Lola, and the sad, scared ones of Lana. Finally she lets out a sigh and steps away from the little tomboy. "Come on guys, these two need to talk. And I believe we have some stuff to discuss ourselves."
Lori walks away to the edge of the clearing, but not moving beyond the barrier of trees. She was giving the twin sisters enough space for them to talk, but made sure to keep them in her field of vision in case something happened.
The other Loud kids followed Lori, with some of them looking worriedly between Lola and Lana as they moved.
With the others leaving her alone with Lana, Lola couldn't help but feel extremely nervous. She wriggled Lanas cap between her hands, not sure how she should proceed. She looked at Lana, who had been nervously looking at her. Lana quickly looked away and started trembling. Such sight brought a new wave of pain to Lola's chest, prompting her to do something to change the current state of her dear sister.
After breathing in deeply and exhaling slowly, Lola got closer to Lana, quietly sitting next to her. "Lana…" Lola started, waiting for her sister to meet her eyes, but after a few seconds, it was obvious that that wouldn't happen. "Lana, I…" She lifted a hand and hesitantly placed it on Lana's shoulder. "I'm sorry, Lana."
Lana slightly turn her head in the direction of Lola, but doesn't meet her eyes. "W-what?"
"Lana, I'm really sorry for the way I have been acting. I… I don't hate you, and I think I could never hate you."
Lana lift her gaze a little, finally looking Lola right in the eyes. "Really?"
Lola gives her a small smile. "Really. I… I hated it… I knew that I was hurting you, but I didn't stop… I was scared."
"Scared?" Lana asked with curiosity.
"Yes… Remember that time you accompanied me to a pageant contest?"
Lana nodded. She wouldn't forget that day, with how amazing Lola looked on the stage. "Yeah… you were really beautiful."
Lola's eyes widened, her face turning bright red. She looked down at her hands, still holding Lana's hat, a smile tugging at her lips. "T-thank you," she says, unconsciously playing with a strand of her hair. "Well, I…" Lola clears her throat before continuing. "That day… I spoke with Sweetwater and… Uhm… She… she said some stuff that I… I was so annoyed at her and… and then you kissed me and what she said came back to my mind and I just… I got scared."
Lana lowered her head. "So you… you are scared of me? That… that's why you kept your distance?" Her voice sounded fragile.
"No…" Lola placed a hand on Lana's cheek, forcing her to meet her gaze. "I wasn't scared of you… What she said was true, so I was scared of what that would mean for me in the future… It took me some time, but I don't care about that anymore." Lola smiled brightly, suddenly feeling extremely confident. "You know what I care about now?"
Lana didn't know why, but her heart had started to beat really fast. "W-what?"
"You," she said, placing the red cap on Lana's head.
Lola deeply into her sisters eyes. Yes, she could see that Lola didn't hate her, that she cared… but… "But not in the same way I do." She said, attempting to remove her sister's hand from her cheek, but it wouldn't budge.
"I…" Lola started, her voice trembling.
"So… you couldn't find a cure for Lana?" Lynn asked as she kicked a rock.
Lisa shook her head. "All my efforts of the past week turned out to be fruitless. I'm sure Lana heard my conversation with Lori yesterday, when I informed her of this. That's when she decided to run away."
Luna sighed heavily. "Dudes… We weren't good siblings to her at all. I… Looking back, I think I did treat her as if she had some virus or something."
"We all treated her that way. Sigh." Lucy said, managing to sound gloomier than usual.
"So what now?" Lincoln asked. "Lisa can't help her, so she will stay like that for the rest of her life."
"But is that a bad thing?" Lori asked, getting everyone's attention. "She just… She's still Lana, she just loves one of us a little more than the others. She can't help it, after all, that's how love works."
The group thought hard about what Lori had just said, and there was an unanimous answer to that.
"It's a bit weird," Leni said.
"Yeah, but…" Luan started. "We… we have to try. There's no reason to make things hard for her."
"You know… I was really grateful with all of you. You know, when I came out and told you that I like girls. Lana deserves the same. I mean, whoever she likes doesn't really affects us."
"Except Lola," Lincoln said as a matter of fact. "We can learn to accept it, nut… Lola just doesn't love Lana that way. Things will be hard for some time."
Lisa fixed her glasses. "I wouldn't be so sure about that, masculine sibling."
Everyone focused their gazes on the little genius. "What do you mean, Lisa?" Lynn asked.
"Well, earlier today, I was running a test on Lola, the same one I did on Lana. And I found something interesting."
"What did you find?"
"As I compared Lola's brain waves with Lana's, I couldn't help but notice–"
"Oh. My. Gosh!" Leni suddenly exclaimed, catching everyone's attention. The kids first looked at Leni, who had both hands covering her mouth, then in the direction she was looking. They couldn't help but let their jaws drop to the floor.
It was short, but they still managed to see it. Lola had kissed Lana on the lips. It was a quick, small kiss, but a kiss nonetheless. The kids just watched in silence as one girl nervously looked at the other, who had a confused look on her face. The confusion quickly turned to glee, with both girls smiling at each other as they just lay there with their foreheads touching.
"That, dear siblings, is what I found out earlier today." Lisa said. She had been the only one that hadn't been surprised by what had happened.
"B-but… what happened? Lola love's Lana too? I thought she hated her." Lynn asked.
"She didn't hate Lana, she was just trying to keep her distance because she was in denial about her feelings," Lisa explained.
"Lisa, did you experiment on Lola too?" Lori asked with anger.
"No, but I do have a theory that could explain this. See, the day of the experiment, Lola helped Lana to move back to their room, touching her directly on the process. After that, they both spend the day in the same, closed room, exposing Lola to the chemicals I had used on Lana, but in a smaller dose. That's why Lola wasn't as direct with her feelings as Lana."
Lisa paused, taking a moment to think about something. "That, or Lana somehow managed to catch Lola's interest before the kiss incident. I'm not completely sure which one is, as I didn't have time to run a second test on Lola to check for any kind of toxins in her brain."
"I don't think it matters what the real reason is," Lucy said. "It won't change the fact that they seem to be in love with each other."
"They… They..." Leni started, her hands trembling. "They look so cute together!"
Everyone looked at Leni, then at the two girls.
"This'll take some time getting used to," Lynn said with a groan.
"You are right, dude," Luna said, still watching her two little sisters in the distance. "But… I think Leni is right too," she added, a small smile showing on her face.
Everyone agreed with that.
They decided to give a little more time to the twin sisters. The minutes passed, with the kids chatting about everything that had happened and a little about the future, until Lori's phone started ringing.
She quickly pulled it out from her shorts. It was her father calling.
"Hello, dad?"
"Lori, could you explain to me why I got a call from three different schools saying that neither of my kids had showed up to classes?" Said Lynn Sr., sounding a bit angry.
"Oh! Uhmm… dad, you see… It's literally a long story."
So... I think this is kind of the end of the story. I originally had planned to add a bit more after this, but I have been really busy lately so I don't have time to write. That's the reason why it took me so long to write this chapter. And it would also be better to end it here than just leaving this story unfinished.
I never think too far ahead about what will happen next in this story, and I'm not sure what else to add. This was originally supposed to be 4 chapters long, but it managed to be 10 chapters. I might add an epilogue later, but not sure when. So I won't mark this as 'Completed' yet.
So... if there's something else you would like to see, then comment now, if not, then this is indeed the end of the story. I'm thinking about writing something different in the future. Some girl x girl stuff again, but I don't think it will be between the Loud sisters. (But I do have an idea for a LenixLuna)
To the ones that enjoyed this story, You should thank Codymitchell1. I don't think I would have written this chapter if it hadn't been for him sending me a PM, asking when would I update. It motivated me to sit down and write what had been in my mind for the last 3 months.