"Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold." -Joseph Parry
Chapter Synopsis: Lola and Leif try to meet up at the Aloha Comrade, but there might be a problem with that...
"A week has passed since my date with Winston. Even though he said he didn't want to date me, we're still good friends. But something was bothering me since that day. I felt… something… when I kissed Leif. I decided to find out if something happened to him as well."
The scene transitions to Lola and Lana's room. Lola seems deep in thought about something. Lana takes notice of this and asks her twin sister what's wrong.
"Hey Lols, you've been a little out of it since last week. Is everything ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just thinking about something that happened last week."
"What happened? Did Winston reject you? Do you want us to teach him a lesson because he hurt your feelings?"
"No, no! Nothing like that! Winston told me he didn't want to go out with me and I accepted that! He just wanted to be friends with me and I obliged. Please, don't ruin this by beating him up!" I pleaded
"Wait, he friend-zoned you, and you just "accepted it"? You didn't exact some unholy retribution from him rejecting you? Ok, who are you and what have you done with my twin sister?" My sister said incredulously
"I already outgrew that." I scoffed in response "But there's something else…"
"What?"
"Well I dragged Leif along to help me with getting Winston to go out with me."
"Oh, there she is, Lola manipulating one of her only friends in order to get into a boy's pants. That's my sister, all right. I was wondering where she was."
"Wow, you make me sound like a nymphomaniac!"
"Geeze, don't take it so personally, sis. That's just how I interpreted the situation. But anyway, what seems to be the problem? It just looks like you being…well, you."
"Ok, so when the date didn't go as planned. I gave a reward to Leif for him going along with my plan."
"That doesn't seem so bad…"
"It was a "thank you" kiss on the cheek."
"Never mind, this is serious business! I have to tell everyone, Lola!"
"Well, this is the strange part. When I kissed him, it felt like I felt…something. Like a…warm feeling? Do you have any idea what that could be, Lans?"
"I'm not a relationship expert, but do you think that…you could be attracted to Leif?"
"No, it couldn't be…we're best friends. Wouldn't be strange to be attracted to your best friend?"
"I don't know…but maybe you should find out."
"Yeah, I'll do that…thanks, Lana."
"No problem, Lola."
Taking Lana's advice, I decided to schedule a meetup with him. Our place to meet up? It's the Aloha Comrade Russian-Hawaiian fusion restaurant. It took a while for me to convince him, though. He's been a little more reclusive than usual but I managed to coax him out of hiding.
He went over to my place, and together, we went to the Aloha Comrade.
"It's been a while, hasn't it, Leif? I just want to talk what's happened over the past few weeks."
"Yeah, but why did you want us to meet here?"
"Well, I wanted to try some of the food here for some time now."
Both of us went to the door and saw a wanted poster with a very old picture of me. It says: "This girl has been blacklisted. Her name is Lola Loud. If you see her, immediately kick her out. From: Sergei (the owner)
"Well it seems you've gained infamy from the owner."
"How is that possible? My dad works as an executive chef here! Oh no…do you think that Sergei would fire him because of me?"
"I don't know about that. Do you still want to eat here?"
"Sure, just to see what would happen. If he does kick us out, I have a backup plan." I assured him
We walk up to the hostess stand. The waitress greets us.
"Welcome to the Aloha Comrade Russian-Hawaiian fusion restaurant. For identification purposes, state your names. It's a policy enacted by our founder/owner/head chef, Sergei. So, your names, if you please?"
"Sure, my name is Leif Loud."
"And I'm Lola Loud."
"Very good, now I assume the 2 of you will be dining together?"
"Yes."
"Ok, Leif and Lo… wait a minute, did you say your name was "Lola Loud?"
"Yes?"
"I see."
The hostess leaves and heads into the kitchen, where we see Lynn Sr and Sergei cooking up a storm for Sergei's patrons.
"Ah, Lynn. Promoting you to executive chef was the best decision I ever made. Now business has never been better!"
"Well, I'm just glad to be doing what I love."
"Sir, sir!" The waitress exclaimed, breaking Lynn and Sergei's intense focus on their cooking.
"What is it, Kornilova?" Sergei questioned
"Yeah, we were "in the zone" as some people like to say." Lynn Sr added
"Sorry for disrupting your cooking, шеф-повар Sergei. But remember that blacklist you made 12 years ago?
"да. What about it?"
"Someone came in to the restaurant and said their name was лола громко."
Sergei begins conversing with Kornilova in his native tongue.
"У нее светлые волосы?"
"да."
"Она носит тиару?"
"да."
"Она носит розовую одежду?"
"да."
"Then it is her. Let me deal with her." Sergei commanded. Lynn Sr wanted to tag along, but then no one would be able to cook for his customers.
Sergei leaves the kitchen and walks up to the hostess stand, where Leif and I were waiting. He begins to yell at me.
"Didn't you see the blacklist outside, Lola? Lola Loud has been banned for life from this restaurant."
"But why?" I asked
"Don't make me have flashback."
Flashback to the start of what chef Sergei calls "The Incident." Though any Loud House fan knows exactly what he's talking about.
[shouting] "YOU LISTEN TO ME, BUB! NO ONE MAKES MY DADDY WASH DISHES! HE'S DONE WITH YOUR STINKY JOB IN YOUR STINKY RESTAURANT! AND ANOTHER THING-"
[Lola takes a deep breath, and yells out something so horrific over the phone, that it's obscured by the loud whirring of a hair dryer Leni is using. The scene then transitions to when Sergei finally meets the little hellion.]
"Sir, please give our dad his job back. This was all a misunderstanding."
[furious] "What is there to misunderstanding? First, I get the rudest call of my life. Then I have no one to help with the breakfast rush. So, my answer is Нет!"
[cheerful] "YAY!"
"Нет means "no"."
"Aw..."
"Please don't punish our dad. This was our fault."
"Yeah. We're always messing up."
"All we do is make his life worse."
"Whoa, whoa, kids, what are you talking about? You make my life better every day. This is just a job. Don't worry. I can find another one."
[The kids smile and hug their dad; Sergei gets tears in his eyes, touched by their love.]
"I can't say Нет to a man with such a nice family. You got your job back."
"YAY!"
"YES! MY DADDY'S GONNA WASH THE DISHES!"
[The words "dishes" start echoing in Sergei's mind, for he recognizes that voice.]
[terrified] "Ah! You!" [leaps in fear onto a dish and catapults onto a pile of dirty ones.] "Ooh! Ow, my cooking arm."
"Chef Sergei!"
The flashback ends.
"Do you see I had to blacklist you? You may be one of my best worker's daughters, but you were a spoiled отродье, and now you that you've grown up, you are now a сука, Lola."
The heated debate is cooled when a familiar face shows up.
"Oh hey, Lols, what are you doing here?"
"What are you doing here, Lana?"
"Me? I'm dining at the Aloha Comrade. You?"
"She was just leaving." Sergei interjected
"Oh, hey chef Sergei, what are you doing out here?"
"Dealing with a "customer"."
"What did you do now, Lols?"
"She accidently broke my arm 12 years ago, that's why I banned her. Aside from that, she is also rude, and I can't have a disruptive patron scaring away my customers."
He turns to me and says this.
"Get out."
Leif and I left the Aloha Comrade. Lana told me this later, but she's actually dined there quite often. Enough that Sergei considers her a VIP customer. I heard that they treat her like a czarina. Her favorite food there is the Pineapple Stroganoff.
"Well, what do we do now?" Leif questioned
"Don't worry, remember that backup plan I mentioned earlier?"
"Yes."
"Well, we can just hang out at my place."
"Ok, sure. Lead the way."
We headed back to my place. Both of us head up to my room.
"Well, how have things been going for you so far?"
"Ah, they've been fine. I've been slowly getting better at my Latin class. Though…I still have a B-."
"What?! That's great Leif, tell me something in Latin!"
"Lincoln diligitis vos, autem, vos non diligitis eum."
"What does that mean?"
"Lincoln loves you, however, you don't love him."
"What? That's not true! I love my brother!"
"Really, so does Luan, but that's not a good thing." He says as he gives an aside wink to the audience
"What do you mean by that?"
"Oh, I'm pretty sure that someone knows what I'm talking about. But enough about that, what about you?"
"Great, I've got an A in French!" I boasted
"Seriously, that's amazing! Say something in French!"
"mon sœur Leni est trop pur pour ce monde."
Leif gives a blank stare. I translate it for him.
"My sister Leni is too pure for this world."
"True, but doesn't "trop" mean "too much" in French?"
"Yeah, but the word morphs into the word or words that best fits the context of the sentence. You study Latin, so you should be well versed into this. The word "quod" is supposed to mean "and", when it should be "et".
"How do you know that, Lola?"
"Internet translators."
"That's why I prefer transliteration translations, it's the most accurate."
"And…Lincoln helps me with the translations, too. I guess that would mean he tutors me in French. I sure am lucky he took it in the 5th grade." I admit
"He's such a good brother, don't you agree?"
"Yes…I guess he is."
"But I have to ask you something."
"Sure Lola, what is it?"
"Last week, did you feel anything when I kissed you?"
"So, it wasn't just me?"
I was taken slightly aback at his response. So, he did feel something, too?
"Did you feel a warm feeling, too?"
"Yes."
"But, we're childhood friends, wouldn't it be weird if we were attracted to each other?"
"I don't know. Should we start dating, just to see if this isn't a fluke?"
"Gee, I don't know, Lola…"
Leif thinks it over for a while…
"Sure, I want to find out if this is real, too. But I hope it's not. I don't want this to ruin our friendship…"
"I don't want it to either, but we need to know if this isn't just a passing attraction."
"You're right."
Both of us agree to this plan.
The screen pans outside Lola and Lana's room. We see that Lincoln and Leni overheard their conversation.
Both of them spread out and spread the word.
"Hey guys, you'll never believe what me and Leni/Lincoln just overheard!"
Preview
"So why did Lola want to date you?" Lori asked
"She thought she was attracted to me, and so, she wanted to find out for herself."
"And what gave her that idea?"
"She kissed me."
Author's Note: Yes, Sergei really did blacklist Lola for causing him to slip and fracture his arm (and maybe for eating his sandwich, but any of the Loud siblings could have done that) in the episode Job Insecurity. Lola is the ONLY Loud sibling to be banned for life from a restaurant, too! When Sergei and Kornilova are speaking, the things they say are actually in Russian. First, he asks if this person claiming to be Lola Loud has blonde hair. Second, he asks if she wears a tiara. Thirdly, and lastly, he asks if she wears pink clothes. Of course, the answer to all 3 is yes.
I'm sure by now you noticed that chapter 2 was titled in Latin. Well, Leif has been taking Latin classes while Lola has been taking French classes. Since act 1 is Leif's half of the story, any important chapters in act 1 will be titled in Latin. Act 2 chapters that are important will be titled in French, as that will deal with Lola's half of the story.
