Hey guys. First of all, I want to stress that this is NOT a crossover. It is a Loud House fic that has been heavily influenced by Life is Strange, but it is only within the Loud House universe, and you don't need to have played the game to enjoy this work.

That being said, I'm glad you're here, and I hope you enjoy it.

But first, this is a Luna Loud story, so I'm obligated to throw some rad rock and roll your way to listen to every chapter.

Today: "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas, and "Time For Me To Fly" by REO Speedwagon.

A large purple Sterrett amplifier is steadily ringing.

For a moment, she just stands there, clenching and relaxing her hand again and again until she's ready to get back to work.

Finally, she readjusts her guitar so that the strap is comfortable around her collar, and then she proceeds give the Shredder's strings a light strum.

The bottom E and A strings are tuned just a little high, and she corrects this.

She takes a deep breath.

"Carry on my wayward son… There'll be peace when you are done… Lay your weary head to rest… Don't you cry no more…"

Luna Loud breaks into the intro riff, then the crazy intro solo- hitting every note perfectly, even the tricky end lick as she begins singing again.

From "Once I rose above the noise and confusion…" all the way to the very last C note of the song, everything is perfect. The transitions, the slides, the hammer-ons, the distortion; it sounds just like the recording.

She doesn't sing too bad either.

Her family seems to agree, as they've all made their way up to her bedroom. They all applaud: Lynn Sr, Rita, Lori, Leni, Luan, Lynn Jr, Lincoln, Lana, Lola, Lisa, and even baby Lily. Heck, even Lucy claps.

Luna blushes, and takes a bow.

"You guys, come on…" she humbly says with a smile, and she unequips her guitar.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" they all shout in unison, and they rush in to give her a very claustrophobia inducing hug.

"Woah… Thanks dudes," Luna says, remaining as humble as she can.

They all release her.

"Wow, sixteen. I can't believe it," Lynn, Sr. says, tearing up. "You told yourself you wouldn't do this again. Suck it up man!" he says to himself.

"Seriously sis, we're super excited for you," Lori adds.

Luna Loud still isn't quite used to being the center of attention, so she just awkwardly blushes and chortles as everyone smothers her.

Rita unveils a small white box from behind her.

"Happy birthday Luna. We all chipped in," she happily says.

"As if she doesn't know what it is?!" Lola blurts out with typical Lola bluntness.

Luna opens the box, and inside are two admit one tickets for tomorrow night's Butthead concert.

"Ah sick!" she exclaims, and she takes turns hugging and thanking everyone.

"You guys, seriously. This is awesome!"

"Well… We know how much you were looking forward to it… And we knew you'd buy one anyway…" Rita explains.

"So we saved you the trouble!" Lincoln interjects.

"Well, you're not lying bro. You guys had to have got these forever ago. Those tickets were sold out the week the show was announced!"

"I had help from Chunk actually. He still owes me for the Flamin' Hot Chili incident," Lynn, Sr. explains.

"Alright pop- no need to go into detail," Luna says with hand wag.

She giddily holds the tickets up to the light and shrieks a very uncharacteristically girly shriek.

"Eeeek! I can't believe I'm gonna see Butthead tomorrow!"

Then the realization sinks in. There are two tickets.

"So who're you taking with?" Lynn asks, and everyone smiles- except for Lucy of course.

"Gee, uh… I don't know. I mean, I did just find out," Luna nervously musters out.

"Yeah guys. Don't be BUTTHEADS, she needs to TICKET easy for a little bit! Hahaha!" Luan jokes, and everyone groans.

But not Luna. It's her sixteenth birthday, she just had a wicked jam-sesh, and she's going to actually go see Butthead live in concert tomorrow night!

"Luan has a point guys. Besides, I'm sure she'll take one of her friends to the concert," Lynn, Sr. adds. He tears up again. "Not that I'd want to go anyway... Sniff…"

"Alright, kids. Get ready for school," Rita orders, and everyone groans as they all disperse.

Luna admires her ticket for a moment, then looks to see her parents still hanging around.

She smiles wide, and pulls them both in for a big hug. "Thanks guys," she simply says.

"No problem kiddo. You more than deserve it," her father says.

They all release one another. "Alright, well, I guess I'm gonna get ready," Luna says, and she makes her way into her room and closes the door.

Again, she shrieks. "Eeeeek! Oh my god! OH MY GOD! This is gonna be so awesome! This is already the best birthday ever!" she carelessly shouts, letting herself fall back into her beanbag.

She doesn't even notice Luan beaming at her like an idiot.

And when she does notice, she doesn't care. Birthday, Butthead, could it get any better?

But Luan still smiles.

"So, let me guess who you're taking," she snidely says.

"Luan-"

"S…"

"Luan…"

"A…"

Luna face palms.

"M!"

"Ugh…"

"Hahaha! You guys gonna SAM out? Get it? Like- 'jam out?' Hahaha!"

"It's not funny if you have to explain it," Luna says, rubbing her forehead.

"Ah, lighten up. But seriously, you gonna ask him?"

Him.

As in, Luan thinks Sam is a guy- because everyone thinks she's a guy- because she doesn't have the guts to tell them she's a girl- because she doesn't have the guts to tell Sam she likes Sam!

But she needn't fret about it now. It's her day, and she can keep the ruse going as long as she needs to. No pressure at all.

"Uhhh… I thought about it," Luna says as she anxiously rubs her neck.

"Eeeek!" Luan now shrieks. "Better check the DATE! Everyone's gonna LOVE this!"

"Please don't rat to everyone… I gotta at least ask- uhh… him first."

Luan simply gestures zipping her lips.

"Thanks dude," Luna says with a grin, and she grabs her book bag.

Luan stops her. "Hey, seriously. Happy birthday Luna," she says, offering an uncharacteristically sincere hug.

Luna almost wants to believe it's too good to be true, but she decides to reciprocate the hug. Luan can actually be cool sometimes.

She makes her way out the door first, and as she steps above the floor trim…

POW

She gets spring-loaded cake to the face.

"Hahahahaha! That was too easy… You could say it was a piece of…"

Luna shoots her a glare, and Luan stops herself from finishing the predictable punch-line.

But Luna actually smiles as she wipes some of the cake off her face.

"Actually dude, that was pretty SWEET," she says with a laugh.

Luan starts laughing again, but stops as she realizes she's fallen into a false sense of security.

"Wait- What the-?!"

POW

Luna pie faces her with the cake remains.

Now Luan shoots her a glare.

But they just burst into more laughter.

Downstairs, the Loud children are all waiting for Lori.

"Every morning with this chick," Luna thinks.

Mom and Dad are going around giving everyone goodbye hugs and kisses and what not, and they embrace Luna once more. "We love you. Have a good day," Rita says, and the two head out the door for their respective rides to work.

"Man, I'll be lucky to find a thing like those two have."

Finally, Lori makes her way downstairs, talking to Bobby on the phone of course. "Alright Boo Boo Bear, I'll text you after bit."

All the younger siblings- minus Luna- grumble about her taking so long. "Alright, alright! Come on," she defensively says.

"Sheesh- You know this will be your job one day," she tells Luna, who just awkwardly smiles.

They all pile into Vanzilla, and while normally there would be some sort of battle royal to determine who assumes the sweet spot, there's an agreement to let the birthday girl (or boy) get it on their special day.

The others are their usual rowdy selves. Lucy is helping Luan rehearse for her upcoming performance as Daisy in the school production of The Great Gatsby. Lori and Leni are gossiping about Carol Pingrey and the Vortex Club. Lincoln, Lynn, and Lana are arguing about who uses the most toilet paper, to Lola's chagrin, and Lisa is using her tape recorder to take notes on their bathroom schedules. Lily just innocently observes and coos her and there.

Luna on the other hand takes out her purple ear buds and plugs them into her phone. She gets on YouTube and clicks on My Mix. "Time For Me To Fly" by REO Speedwagon comes on.

"Alright, I can work with this."

She looks around to make sure everyone is preoccupied, and when she's sure it's safe, she pulls out her journal.

…

September 21

Happy Birthday, dude!:)

I already know what everyone's gonna ask me today: "How's it feel to be 16?" Of course, Luan would say, "A lot like being 15," but she's better with her delivery.

Actually, it feels pretty sweet. I don't know why, but I just feel untouchable lately. Like I could literally fly! (I'm jammin' to REO Speedwagon- how apropos?)

Still… I don't know if I feel so untouchable that I'll actually be able to ask Sam to the Butthead concert tomorrow night. I mean, I think she likes them, and we have been texting lately. But I'm not sure if she likes me the way I like her, or if she's even into girls. And she may already have plans, and this is kind of last minute…

I'll probably end up going with Chunk… or Dad:X

Stop overthinking it!

…

They come to a red light, and Luna gets a face full of Lana's hat.

"Hey!"

"Sorry, I was aiming for Lynn!" she defiantly says.

"If you're looking for a fight, how about I stick your head up your butt and make you fight for air?!" she cleverly retorts.

Lori turns around. "Knock it off! I'm barely gonna be on time to Lily's daycare with all this road work going on, the last thing I need is you two-"

"Lori," Lincoln interrupts.

"What?!"

"The light's green."

A honking from the car behind them confirms this.

She doesn't even say anything, she just turns around to resume driving.

As she pulls forward, there's another honk. "I'm going!" Lori shouts. Only, it's not the car behind her.

It's the truck fast approaching from the left.

Everyone panics, and Luna looks up to see headlights drawing nearer.

Her heart begins pounding.

"NO!" she shouts, instinctively throwing her hands up.

She anticipates the incoming crash, but it doesn't come.

She opens her eyes to see nothing is moving. It's like everything has been frozen in place.

"What the heck?!"

She feels a strange sensation coursing through her veins. It's unlike anything she's ever felt before.

"Is this- Is this me?" she asks herself.

She feels another strange urge, and she can't help but succumb to it.

It's all a blur- it literally happens in the blink of an eye.

*REWIND*

She feels Lana's hat smack her face again.

"Sorry! I was aiming for Lynn!" she defiantly states.

"If you're looking for a fight, how about I stick your head up your butt and make you fight for air?!" she cleverly retorts.

"What the heck is going on?…"

Lori turns around. "Knock it off! I'm barely gonna be on time to Lily's daycare with all this road work going on, the last thing I need is you two-"

"Lori," Lincoln interrupts.

"What?!"

"The light's green."

A honking from the car behind them confirms this.

She doesn't even say anything, she just turns around to resume driving.

"This just happened? Did time- did time go backwards?!" Luna thinks as tears roll down her eyes.

Before Lori can start pulling up, Luna jumps up.

"STOP!" she shouts, grabbing her shoulder.

"What the heck, Luna?"

The beat up truck that would have- did- careen into their van passes by, honking its horn.

The Louds all just silently watch on, stunned from the sudden excitement.

Lori sighs, and slowly pulls up.

"Jeez- idiot…" she utters.

Luna still sits up with her hand on Lori's shoulder. "Uhm, you can let go now," she sternly says.

Finally, she sits back. Everyone goes on as if nothing even happened.

But Luna knows what happened. She saw it happen. She felt it happen.

She looks around at all of her siblings, and they're completely oblivious.

"That was so freaking weird. That truck-"

She looks to Lily, who's smiling wide. It's easily the most she's ever appreciated her baby sister's happiness.

"We would've been killed. We WERE gonna be killed… And I… stopped it?"

She looks at her hands. Her whole body is quivering.

"This can't be real… That didn't just happen…"

She has many similar thoughts of disbelief as they pull into Lily's daycare, and Lori steps out to get the baby.

She comes through the door to get her out of her seat. "Jeez, Luna. You could've unbuckled her for me," she snidely comments.

Realizing Luna's ignored her, she looks up to see her now sixteen year-old sister. She's got tears rolling down her cheeks, she's trembling, and she's sweaty.

"Luna… Luna?!" she calls to her.

She snaps out of her trance, and meets her sister's eyes.

"What's wrong?" she says, the concern radiating off her voice.

Everyone's looking now.

She sniffles, and wipes her eyes. "Uhm… I… I'm just- this is a really deep song," she nervously lies.

Everyone's still looking.

Lori keeps her eyes locked on her for a moment longer, then continues unbuckling Lily. She pulls her out of her seat, and looks back at Luna.

"Are you sure?" she asks.

"Yeah… I'm fine…" she reiterates, and Lori reluctantly shuts the door to take Lily inside.

Everyone takes turns telling her goodbye, except for Luna of course.

It's kind of hard to act like you didn't just have a near death experience, and that you may have somehow reversed time so that it didn't actually happen.

Everyone returns to staring, and Luna finally acknowledges it.

"Jeez guys… Take a picture," she tries to joke. But everyone can see through it. Still, they stop looking at her, and return to whatever tomfoolery they were involved in before all the excitement.

It's nowhere near as easy for Luna though.

"What's happening to me?..."