As Luan ran off, the hateful words she had heard echoed in her head.

You're not that funny. Quit laughing you poser. Ouch.

Why don't you quit being so pathetic trying to get people to laugh at your lame jokes? Now that one had hurt.

Someone should just tell her they're laughing at her not with her. That one had to have been the worst.

But the thing that stung the most was that Maggie had just stood there and said nothing. Was that because she agreed with them? Did she think that way about her too?

The thought caused her tears to pool even thicker in her eyes. She held her arm in front of her face to block the streams of her pain and sadness and almost didn't notice when she came to her house.

She ran to the door, her keys fumbling in her hands as she tried to unlock the door, and then bolted up the steps.

She slammed open her room door and dove onto her bed, shocking her sister Luna who was strumming mildly on her guitar.

Luan shoved her tear soaked face into a pillow and continued to sob into it.

"Hey dude what's the big idea-"Then she saw Luan was crying. She put down her guitar and placed a gentle hand onto her back. "Whoa, Lulu, what's the matter?"

Luan spoke in a mix of tears and muffled sound, the only clear word that was heard was "Maggie".

Luna frowned then remembered that Luan and Maggie were going off to do something important today. "What happened? Did you two dudes get into a fight or something?"

Luan shook her head into her pillow. She lifted her face out of it and looked sadly at Luna. "No. Things just got…..hard. Look, I don't want to talk about it OK?"

Luna hated seeing her roommate like this, but she figured she needed some alone time. "You got it Luan." She turned to the door and saw the rest of her siblings gathered around it.

"What happened to Luan?" Lincoln whispered.

"Did something happen between her and Maggie?" Lori asked worriedly.

Luna tried to waive their worries off. "Don't worry dudes. Luan just needs some time to herself to calm down."

The group begrudgingly accepted her response and walked away, Luna closing the door behind her.

For a while Luan just laid on her bed crying, trying her hardest to forget the pain she had felt.

"You should've seen this coming."

Luan looked up and saw her best friend and confidant now sitting in front of her. "What do you mean Mr. Coconut?"

"Well what were you expecting to happen? You knew that little miss tall, dark, and gorgeous could barely stand you. What made you think her friends would be any different?"

Luan wiped some tear from under her eye. "Well, I just thought that maybe-"

"Maybe what? They'd forget that you had next to nothing in common with any of them? That they might not groan and complain every time you cracked a joke? That Maggie might say something when they insulted you?"

Hearing the truth laid out to her like that made her feel even worse. "I can't believe she didn't say anything." She whispered brokenly.

"Oh, Like anything they said wasn't the truth." Mr. Coconut said harshly. "Sorry dummy, but the truth is that they didn't say a single thing that wasn't right. The truth is that you didn't want any of them, especially your lady friend, to realize how pathetic you are."

"You know you really shouldn't listen to what a block of wood has to say."

They turned to the door and saw Maggie standing there. Luan thought she looked off before realizing that her bangs had been pulled from her eyes by a yellow scrunchie she'd gifted to her.

Mr. Coconut narrowed his eyes. "So the lady in black comes back once again."

"Zip it puppet." She grabbed Mr Coconut and pulled him off Luan's hand. Then she looked at her.

"How much of that did you hear?" Luan asked.

"I came in around the time the puppet called mer tall, dark, and gorgeous." Maggie said dryly.

"Well he can be kind of a flirt."

"Yeah, I've noticed." Maggie sat down on Luan's bed and held out the hoodie she had forgotten. "You dropped this."

Luan took it and held the treasured memento to her chest. "Thanks."

Maggie looked at her apologetically. "Luan, I'm sorry you had to hear all that."

"Oh that's no big deal." Luan said, trying to brush it off. "It's not like I didn't know that's what you all think of me."

"Not me. The only reason I didn't say anything was because I was angry at them for saying something like that." She grabbed Luan's hand and squeezed it tenderly. "I'd never say that kind of stuff about you."

Luan perked up slightly. "Not even before we started dating?"

Maggie blushed. "Well, that doesn't count. I didn't really know you that well back then. Not like I do know."

Luan smiled. "Augh thanks. I gotta say, it's been nice getting to know you too." She pressed a light kiss to Maggie's cheek causing her to let out a rare giggle.

"Thanks. And don't worry, I told my friends off for saying that stuff about you. If they were seriously going to be like that, then they can buzz off!"

"Oh Mags don't be like that." Luan said. "Remember, my family didn't completely like you when they first met you and now you guys get along fine."

"Yeah, but your family didn't say mean stuff like that. And they didn't not like me, they were just surprised that you'd date someone like…..me."

"Exactly, they weren't sure about you, but they gave you a chance. I'm just saying don't push away your friends just because of what they said. They just need a chance to know the real me. Like you do."

"AWWWW!" Came several voices from the doorway. They looked and saw all Luan's siblings gathered around it.

Maggie sighed. "It's really hard to get privacy around here."

"Hey, you knew what you were getting into when you started dating me."

Maggie smiled. "Yeah, I did."

Well here's part two of the two-shot. Hope you guys enjoy it.