How's it going readers? Well I am back with another story about Kat and Lincoln. This one takes place right after New Comic Day, and is a sort of make up story to Codymitchell1. My Hero was supposed to be the sequel to New Comic Day but it turned in to more a story about Lori, and even though that is my favorite story I have written, it was not the follow up I had intended on doing. So here is one that is more about Kat and Lincoln and what happened after he got his comic.
As always I don't own a darn thing, the copyrights and trademarks reside with their respective owners.
Relationship Status
by Zoinks81
Chapter 1: Who Ya Gonna Call?
Lincoln stared at the number on his phone, he cleared it and set the phone back on his desk, then went back to sit on his bed. He had done this more times than he cared to admit. He didn't understand why he was having such a hard time figuring out what to say to her. He had rehearsed it a few times now and even wrote it down. Yet still his nerves were wreaking havoc on him. Kat had even told him that she wanted him to call her, left her number on a note attached to a comic book she bought for him. Why was he so dang nervous around girls? Christina, Ronnie Anne, Paige, and now Kat. He was very good at falling for a girl from a distance, but once the time came to make a move he found himself sweating like a pig at an all you eat bacon buffet. What was he so afraid of?
He thought back to how much fun he and Kat had that day at Burpin Burger. A freak accident the shifted into a chance encounter that blossomed into a wonderful time. Two kids who had gone to school together on a daily basis for the past four years, yet not once truly interacted with each other. Sure there may have been a sideways glance here or there, a few passing seconds of acknowledgment in the hallways as they passed by each other. But in the end, they were really just faces in a crowd to each other, only known by a reputation that followed them like a stalking butler.
All of that changed with a spilled milkshake, a lunch of hamburgers, and a long awaited comic book that sat on his desk still unopened, that came with a note attached. Now Kat was all he could think about. He wanted to call her and tell her how much fun he had, and how he thought she was cute. Dang cute. He wanted to tell her that the past few days when ever she would float into his mind he would smile and his heart would beat to the sound of music on he could hear. It was a sappy little song that Luna would probably give him grief over. And it was a feeling that would garner a loving look from his sisters and make them say "Awwwww" as they clasped their hands together and held them to their chests. He wanted to say all of those things and more, but in the end he was just too scared. Afraid of what came next.
His sisters would tell him that he was in love. That was not true. Not yet. No, he was sure that love was not the feeling he was experiencing, he knew it was a crush. He had had enough of them to know what he was feeling. Yet there was something different this time around. Lincoln could not put his finger on it, but he knew there was something that hovered around these feelings like a bee waiting to get to the sweet nectar of a blooming flower. He felt there was something special about Kat, something that he had not experienced before. Well, once before. Lincoln had known something akin to what he was feeling now, back when a certain young Hispanic girl in a purple hoodie would bully him. When his sisters said that she was only doing so because she liked him and did not know how to show it. There was a lasting feeling after he marched out of his front door, a man on a mission, and planted a kiss on her. Sure she popped him good in the eye, making his heart hurt just slightly more than his eye. And his ego was just as bruised at that very same eye. But before she tossed that note attached to the rock, through his window, there was something that hung in the air. There was an unspoken and unseen notion that hung around like lingering perfume. Later he would look back on it and almost be able to grasp the concept, still not fully aware what it meant. It was potential. The possibility of those seedlings of feelings that were shared between the two to grow into something much more than a simple school yard crush. He left Burpin Burger that day with Kat, those very same feelings being planted.
Still, his nerves were on edge at the thought of calling this girl up. He was becoming an expert at crushing on a girl for afar, living out his fantasies in the safety of his mind. Yet to actually have to talk to that girl, to open himself up and let his feelings spill out on to the floor. Well that was something that scared him far worse than having to sit through a Harvester movie marathon. For a kid named Loud, he could be just as shy and timid as his best friend when it came to girls.
He lay on the bed and closed his eyes, looking deep within himself as he wondered why he was the way he was. He had ten sisters. Eleven years of being around girls, sharing a bathroom, listening to their problems, and even helping them solve their differences. He had been able to talk to them openly, and listen to them when they needed someone to talk to. All things that made it easy for him to talk to any girl in school as long as they were just friendly little chats. Once the barrier of friendship began to crumble and fall, with that bright shining light of love glowing in the distance, well then things became much more difficult. He was just not sure why. Was it something left over from his previous crushes?
Christina, his first crush. Sure it could be said that she was the one that set the pace for all of his troubles with women. He never really let on just how much it hurt him that she moved to another class to avoid him. Rejection he could handle, having someone so creeped out that they have to actually move to another room, well that was a whole other kind of hurt. In the end he couldn't really blame her too much, after all the way she found out was well beyond the border of embarrassing. A secret video his sister Luan had recorded of him kissing a statue with Christina's picture on it. Add to that the fact that the video was posted online, and well it would be a bit much for anyone to handle. Still, the way she rejected him was like taking a sledgehammer to his fragile ego. He was shattered. That may have set him up to fear rejection more than he realized.
Paige, his last crush was better, but not by much. Things were pretty good in the beginning, after he gave her the note they talked and hung out a few times. Turned out they both were really into comics and science fiction as well as the video games that brought them together. She was cute, and lots of fun to be around, and it seemed like they enjoyed hanging out together. He was still not quite sure what happened for it all to blow up in his face the way that it did. All he knew was that she wanted to take him to some party that some of her friends were having, and when he backed out, she ignored him for about a week. He wanted to go to the party with her, he was just a little nervous because she called it a date. Once the D word was used it sent him into a spiraling panic. He was not ready for a date. The next time he saw her she was introducing him to a guy she met at the party who became her boyfriend. Having the girl you have been crushing on introduce you to her new boyfriend is the emotional equivalent of a nut shot.
Last but not least was of course Ronnie Anne. Christina and Paige were simple little crushes that you got when you saw a cute girl and wondered what it would be like to hold her hand or give her a peck on the cheek. Ronnie Anne was something more. Everyone saw it. The way they would steal sideways glances at each other, the secret notes that he had kept in a scrap book, and of course the kiss. It was his first kiss, and she belted him for it, but they both knew there was a spark there. It was only later confirmed with the second kiss at Jean Juan's, the one where she kissed back. Every moment they got to be around each other would become one of his favorite memories. His heart would beat faster and his cheeks would glow bright red, something he was glad she never once made fun of him for. Although there was little she could have said, after all she blushed just as much as he did. After April Fools when she took him to get a milkshake, a reward for taking all of his sisters pranks for her, their hands had accidentally grazed each others. At first they would quickly pull their hands away as their cheeks glowed a bright crimson. Yet soon they found themselves inching closer to each other until she had put her hand on top of his. They never spoke of it, but they both knew how much they liked it. It was never said out loud or made official, but Lincoln knew it just as well as his sisters did. Ronnie Anne was his first love.
That was why it hurt so much more than he ever let on to anyone, but mostly to himself, when Ronnie Anne had moved away. They were too young to attempt a long distance relationship, especially since they were never actually in a relationship to begin with. They were just two kids who really liked each other but were too intimidated by the sheer weight of love to confess how they really felt for each other. They wondered if they became boyfriend and girlfriend if that meant they couldn't just hang out and play video games. Would they have to give each other stupid pet nicknames? Would she get as jealous as Lori did when she saw Bobby talking to another girl? That was all stuff that could end up ruining a wonderful friendship. He was not sure he could handle something like that. Still, his heart would flutter like a butterfly when his mind drifted off to the past and that kiss. He could still feel the warmth of her lips on his and how much it made his soul sing a song that echoed throughout his body. That kiss made him believe in magic because there was no other way to explain what it did to him
Now Paige was off with her new boyfriend, probably locking lips and feeling that very same feeling that he had felt with Ronnie Anne. Christina was god knows where, sticking to her little restraining order and keeping a safe distance from the white haired boy that creeped her out so. And of course Ronnie Anne was off in the city with her family, more than likely moving on to what ever exciting new romantic adventures awaited her. Lincoln was left alone in his room looking at a phone number, his head drowning in thoughts and fears of future possibilities that made his hands sweat and his heart race. How was he going to work up the nerve to call her? And more importantly, what would he say to her?
There came a knock at the door that drew him from his mental musings and inward battle with his own confidence. He sighed and got off the bed, making his way to the door, opening it. Standing there in the doorway was Luna, a cocky smile on her face. She was wearing a black Copper Maiden t-shirt, the zombie looking mascot giving a sinister grin, and a purple and black plaid skirt with fishnets and heavy purple boots. She was actually wearing make up, smokey colored eye shadow with a deep purple lipstick. She was dressed to impress.
"Hey little bro, wanna go to the mall with us?" Luna asked.
"Who's us?" Lincoln said, looking passed Luna and seeing nothing but an empty hallway.
"Mom's gonna drop me off to meet up with Sam. Thought it would cool for the three of us to hang. She's been wanting to hang with us for a while now." Luna said.
Lincoln had not spent much time getting to know his sisters girlfriend. She had kept her relationship a secret for some time after she gave Sam the secret admirer note. The family was unaware of the fact that Sam was a girl for a long time. When they finally found out, they told Luna they did not care if she liked boys or girls, all they were concerned with was her happiness. This came as a great relief to Luna, who was a little worried as to how her family would react. Later it had occurred to her that she was being overly worried for no reason, her family was always so excepting of everybody and she would be no different.
Sam had met the family a few times before, but they were almost always just brief encounters, mostly waiting in the living room while Luna got ready to go out. Luna had mentioned before how Sam had wanted to spend some time with each of Luna's siblings, getting to know them all. Lincoln actually looked forward for a chance to get to know the girl that stole his sisters heart. He had not seen Luna as happy as she was with Sam in a long time.
"Yeah sure, could be alot of fun." He said. "Not like I am going to do anything around here." Lincoln looked back to the note now folded and sitting on his desk.
So I hope this first chapter was pretty good for you guys, the next one will be up in a few days. I am working on a few other stories that I hope will be up and ready pretty soon as well.
Also I just wanna make mention that I have started to become highly addicted to a comic book called I Hate Fairyland by Skottie Young. If you do not know of it, check it out, because it is wonderfully twisted and fun. I may end up doing a crossover in the very near future, that is how much I enjoy it.