In the morning, Gwen got up and made her bed well and brushed her teeth and had Luke's second gift.
"Excited for Luke's bowling party today, Gwen?" Rita asked. Gwen nods.
At the manor, Luan came in with Luke's birthday breakfast. Luke looked at it.
It was pancakes. Luke stared at the candle on top of them.
"Yay!" Luke says.
"Happy Birthday!" Luan says. "Blow out the candle and make a wish!"
Luke wishes for his day to be perfect and blows out the candle, which was edible.
He then eats his breakfast.
Soon, everyone decorates for Luke's party at the bowling alley, leaving Luna to watch over Luke.
Gwen made sure everything was perfect.
Luke just sits in his room, staring out the window.
"Are you excited?" Luna asked. Luke remembers his past birthdays as he sniffed.
Luna hugged him. She could see the hurt in Luke's eyes. Luke cries.
"It's going to be okay…" Luna says
"My birthdays weren't always happy…" Luke sniffed.
Meanwhile, Luan made the food for the party and Lana brought the balloons. Everyone was doing their part to make sure Luke had a happy birthday.
Luan was very aware that Luke's past birthdays weren't very happy.
Lucy didn't think anyone could be more sad, like her. But she saw that Luke was sad at yesterday's party, despite being happy on the outside.
Lucy goes to talk to Luke.
"What's wrong?" She asked, wanting an answer.
"This party will fail I know it" Luke says, remembering how his past birthdays were when he had no friends at all.
"Things will be different. Just give us a chance." Lucy says. "Is there anything else troubling you?" Lucy asked.
"No friends! I have none!" Luke trembles and sobs.
"We can be your friends." Luna says to Luke, who ignores her, only thinking the worst about them and not the good.
Soon, the siblings finished preparing for the party. Lincoln texted Luna, telling her to bring Luke to the party.
Luna smiled and put a blindfold on Luke, covering his eyes. Luke just feels broken inside, but holds back his tears.
Luna leads him to the party at the bowling alley and takes off the blindfold.
Suddenly, everyone came out of their hiding spots. "Surprise! Happy birthday, Luke!" They exclaimed.
Luke stood there, speechless, as he looked at the Ace Savvy themed party before him.
He inspects everything.
"How does it look?" Lana asked.
"Okay, you live…for now." Luke says.
The siblings introduced Luke to some friends.
"Hi, I'm Clyde McBride!" Clyde says.
"I'm Stella Zhau." Stella says.
"Hi!" Darcy says.
Luke looks at them.
He opens Sam's gift, seeing an electric guitar. Luke was in awe.
"No way! " he says, stunned.
Later, Luke was chatting with them
"Amazing…" Darcy says interested with Luke's wins
"You must have been through a lot." Liam says.
"He has." Lucy says before Lola performed a private pageant for Luke's birthday. This is not the first time Lola has performed for Luke, as she has done so in the past. The performance was well-received by Luke, who smiled throughout the show.
"Well done!" Luke says.
"Thanks." Lola says.
Soon, Luan was juggling. Luke walked off to the bowling lanes.
"Look, I'm bowling over!" Luan says, laughing.
Lynn goes to play with Luke. Gwen goes to join them.
The 3 of them had a fun time. Minutes later, Luke won.
"Nice one." Gwen says to Luke.
"Thanks." Luke says.
Lynn walked up to Luke. "Good game." Lynn says.
"Thank you." Luke says.
Luke sees some food and goes first, getting a few slices of pizza and some chips.
Lynn was eating healthy. "So you're Luke Huntington. Now that I remember, we've met." Lynn says.
In Florida, Lynn was playing and while she did, Luke was being a cheerleader
Lynn and Luke smiled at the memories.
Soon, Lincoln brought out the piñata and tripped, but Lori caught the piñata. She then hung it up.
Luke smiled at this. Soon, he hit it as candy fell.
Later, Luke pulled Lucy to the dance floor and danced with her as Lucy looks a bit embarrassed.
"I…uh…" Lucy stammered.
Leni records this.
"Sigh." Lucy sighed.
Soon, the lights turned off as Luke looked around, scared. It soon lit up, revealing everyone around a white chocolate cake with 10 candles burning brightly on it.
"Wow!" Luke says as everyone began to sing.
Luke smiled and wished to have an epic party next year when he turns 11.
Everyone cheered as he blew out all ten candles in a single breath.
Later, Gwen was helping clean up.
Luke just sat on a bench in the bowling alley, still feeling a bit sad.
"Wanna talk about it?" Leni asked.
"I hate waiting to turn 11." Luke says.
"It's okay, no one likes waiting for their birthdays." Leni says.
The next day, on Monday, Gwen got ready for her first day at school.
"This should be interesting. Just stay with Lisa." Lori says.
"Okay." Gwen says, having no friends as she looks down.
"Don't be nervous." Lori says .
"You got this." Lynn says.
"Thank you." Gwen says.
In the 4th grade class, Luke refused to speak to his classmates.
Someone tosses a spitball at him. Luke hisses angrily.
"WHO THREW A SPITBALL AT ME?!" Luke hissed.
No one answered as the teacher grew concerned for Luke
"Poor Luke…" the teacher says.
In the kindergarten class, Lisa introduced Gwen to Miss Shrinivas, the kindergarten teacher.
"Why, hello there!" Miss Shrinivas says to Gwen. "You must be Gwen! It's so nice to meet you."
"It's nice to meet you, too." Gwen says politely.
"How polite!" Miss Shrinivas says.
They had a quiz as Gwen did perfectly on it.
At recess, Luke sat alone and sobbed. Lincoln and his friends came to comfort him.
"None of my classmates like me…" Luke says sadly.
"That's sad." Stella says.
Luke just goes to the jungle gym and sulks.
After school, Gwen ran to Vanzilla.
"Um, Lori, can you drop me off at the manor?" Lola asked.
"Why?" Lori asked.
"I wanna see Luke." Lola says to her.
"Okay." Lori says and takes her there.
Lucy goes with Lola.
"Do you like Luke?" Lola asked
"No." Lucy lied.
Lola gives Lucy a look and notices a small blush on her face.
They soon head inside the manor and see Luke practicing for the Mr. Tween Michigan pageant by doing some floor exercises.
They decided to not be rude and watch.
Luke is now doing some flips and cartwheels. He then starts dancing to "Bang Dem Sticks" by Meghan Trainor, using ribbon sticks and banging the edges on the floor. He gets frustrated when he keeps messing up his finishing move on this routine.
"You need help?" Lola asked him.
Luke is screaming in frustration.
"U-u-um" Lucy stammered as her face was red. She felt weird and started sweating as she ran to the bathroom.
Lola helps Luke with his finishing move, showing him her routine. Luke watches and learns.
"And that's how it is done " Lola says
"Thanks." Luke says.
That night, Gwen finished her homework and chores.
"Okay, I'm going to pick up Lola and Lucy." Lori says
Lucy was in the bathroom writing poems, but they ended up becoming Love poems for Luke as Lucy wasn't really sure what do to her siblings would tease her for having a crush.
Lori came
"Okay, you two, come on." Lori says.
Meanwhile
"I can't believe you're almost as smart as me." Lisa says as they work on some stuff.
"Thank you." Gwen says as Lisa smiled.
End of chapter