It is 6:00 PM, and it is another night for the Secret Secrets Club to meet again. They decide to gather in Luna and Luan's room as the other convenient room, next to Lori and Leni's. All the members seem to be there, down to their latest member Lola. Lori is the last to arrive in the room. There, she sees Lola, Lynn and Leni pillow-fighting, Luna strumming her electric guitar, Lucy reciting a song for her, Luan and Lana flipping a book, and Lisa teaching Lily how to play the xylophone.
Lori arrives, somehow stunned from something. "Luna, has Lincoln arrived?" she asks her rocker sister.
"Haven't seen him in a while, dude," Luna replies. "Anything wrong?"
"Nothing. It's just earlier the other day, he told that he 'loves me'," Lori intimately shares.
"Why? What's wrong with that?"
"I literally supposed to only here that from my boyfriend."
"Relax, that's just Lincoln being Lincoln. Why bother?"
"After what happened last week?"
Flashback
Lincoln is at laundry duty to wash the family's identical shirts (with their names printed in the front) to be used for a sports fair. The shirts are hard-earned by the siblings. So it is a huge responsibility to take care of them.
The 11-year-old sets their shirts for rinsing for 8 minutes but he leaves it for around two hours, as he gets occupied playing an online role-playing game. Realizing his mistake, Lincoln runs back to the laundry, takes them out of the water, places them to the dryer and sets it to the topmost heat process.
Lincoln then shares his thoughts to the readers, "Phew. Glad I pulled them out of the water in time. Well things couldn't get any worse from here."
Just as he shares, the heating process ended, and Lincoln checks at their shirts to discover, at his utmost shock, that their shirts shrunk. "AHH! Ohh no!"
Conveniently, or inconveniently, his sisters hear his scream and race downstairs.
"Lincoln, what's going on?" Leni asks.
Seeing them, Lincoln instantly shuts the dryer door and hides their shrunken shirt behind him, "Nothing. Just finishing up cleaning our shirts," Lincoln nervously answers.
"Are you literally taking good care of our shirts?" Lori queries with a serious tone.
"Uh-huh. Absolutely. 100% all taken care off," he assures shakingly.
Lola then spots a shirt by the floor. "Hey, isn't that shirt has my name on it?" she says, as she walks to retrieve it. She then notices a sudden change. "Wait, how come it became too small for me?"
As Lincoln stutters, the dryer door suddenly opens and the sisters pick up their designated shirts.
"Wait, why mine became smaller?" Lynn wonders.
"Mine's got heat broiled on it," Lucy observes.
"Wait guys! Our shirts shrunk!" Luna notes.
After that, all the sisters confront Lincoln about this. "LINCOLN!" they scold.
Lincoln nervously tries to appease them, to no avail, "Uhmm guys, just relax. I didn't mean to…"
And that situation has went with a fight cloud, with Lincoln as the only victim.
End of Flashback
Lori finds this as a moral issue since she never thought that despite their silent treatment towards him, he is still cool with them. Though it is normal to resolve things in a gradual flow of time, Lori would never expect him to say "I love you" to her.
"Sis, like I said, it's Lincoln being Lincoln. He makes mistakes, but he really cares about us," Luna emphasizes.
"Yeah…" Lori spouts with hesitance. She then decides to commence the meeting. "Luna, sound the alarm. Let's start."
"You got it, sis," Luna responds with one loud guitar rift, catching the rest of the Loud sisters' attention.
"Okay, do I get everybody's ears?" Lori announces, making the sisters' answer in hubbubs. "Okay good," she continues, "I have a question: is it weird for Lincoln to say 'I love you' to me?"
Again, the sisters' answer in hubbubs. However, Lynn raises her thoughts, "Only boyfriend/girlfriend get to say 'I love you'. Or parents. Or grandparents."
Lola decides to raise a similar concern, "I think Lincoln said the same thing to us."
Flashback
Before entering his room, Lincoln encounters Lana and Lola play hungry hungry hippos. Lana gets the upper hand, but Lola is rather impressed with her play. He walks near to them and expresses, "Hey, Lana and Lola, my two lovely younger siblings."
"Hey Linc!" they both exclaim.
"I just want to let you guys know that I love you both."
"Okay…?" Lana responds bewilderingly. "Lincoln, is there something going on?" Lola asks.
"Nothing going on. I just wanna express my love to you guys," Lincoln elaborates, walking to his room with a smile on his face but leaving the twins at frozen unease. But Lana shrugs it off right away.
End of Flashback
"I didn't find it all that weird because I didn't understand what he meant," Lana elaborates as she chows down popcorn, making Lola slap her own face.
"Dude, this shouldn't be a problem for all of us," Luna emphasizes, "It shouldn't be a problem for you."
However, Lori brushes this off, "I have no problem of saying 'I love you'."
"Oh yeah?" Luan tests Lori, "Why don't you say that to any of us? Or to Leni."
Gulping from Luan's dare, Lori approaches Leni and tries to utter those three words, "Leni, I love…your dress. Yes. I love your sunglasses. I love your earrings. I love your skin complexion. I love your…zit."
"Zit! Zit! Where's the zit? Where's the zit?" Leni panics as she grabs a mirror.
"You mean where is zit? Hehehe. Get it?" Luan jokes, making the other sisters groan.
As Leni panics, Luna calms her down. "Relax Leni, there's no zit."
Leni looks at the mirror to double check. "Oh, what a relief."
However, the discussion goes back to Lori. Lola argues, "Seriously Lori, you wouldn't admit that you love your sister?"
But Lori counter-argues, "Well, why don't you do the same to Lana?"
"Yeah Lola! We dare you!" Lynn initiates.
"Okay fine!" Lola reluctantly agrees with temper, making her march to Lana. "Lana, you already know what I need you to hear. So, hope you would understand it with a good heart."
This leaves Lana speechless to reply something. "Uhmm okay…" Lana replies.
"That's all you can do?!" Lynn complains.
"Well, it would have been better if it weren't for Lucy sharing a creepy story yesterday!" Lola complains.
"Why would you blame me? I just did what you told me to do: tell you an interesting story that you can share to your friends," Lucy defends. "Besides, that is something I need to get relief after I was dragged to that horrendous gig with Luan."
"Hey, I told you that it is laugh-freely gig. Not a laugh-free gig. Hehehe," Luan defends.
"See what I mean?" Lucy reiterates, making Lynn laugh at her. "That includes you, Lynn."
"What did I do?" Lynn asks.
"You knocked over my poem anthology books with your soccer ball," Lucy says.
"Well, that could not have happened if Lana kicked the ball in a proper way," Lynn complains, taking a blame on her sister.
"Why me?" Lana rebukes.
"I taught you the proper way to maintain the ball on air," Lynn points out.
"Well, sorry that I wasn't able to perfect it," Lana justifies, "If weren't for Luan poking fun at me."
"I wasn't poking fun at you, I was motivating you," Luan defends.
"Oh yeah? What do you mean by 'you'll not Messi this one'?" she complains.
"Oh, come on that was supposed to be a keeper. Hehehe. Get it?" the jokester sister defends laughably.
"Well, it's a soccer pun. Hahaha. Get it?" Lana jokes sarcastically.
"Luna was the one who suggest that," Luan stresses.
"Luan!" Luna protests for Luan's potent blaming.
"Well, it's true, my punny sister. Hehehe."
"Well, you can take your jokes to Lisa in the sky with diametric," Luna raises her concern, while deliberately dragging Lisa in the mess.
"Why do you have to force me into your denunciation?" Lisa interrogates.
"You keep on telling me to be serious about my studies, while you are secretly playing flash games!" the rocker sister brings it up.
"I have my defense. Information overload is a major stressor for mental concentration. So, I need to conduct a menial activity to relax my mind," the child prodigy points out.
"Well, it doesn't justify you playing a Pokemon Go rip-off for six hours, while I'm grueling in physics!"
"You can blame it on Leni for suggesting that game to me," Lisa points out.
"Yeah, you can blame it on Leni for suggesting that game to Luna," Leni agrees absent-mindedly. "Wait?"
"Heh, just like I easily deduced, my fine scatterbrained kin," Lisa says while poking fun at her sister.
"Wait, you are the one who gave us that game?" Lana asks complainingly.
"Yeah…" Leni confirms.
"That game caused a virus in our phones!" Lynn agrees alongside.
"How come? Mine keeps on blinking on and off?" the 16-year-old stresses.
"It only means it's not working!" Lola berates.
"And indeed, we found the culprit of our troubles. It only means one thing: that each of us is a scorn. May our souls face the charges," Lucy says.
And at that, all Loud sisters, except for Lily, beat each other, forming a fight cloud. In all expense, they let loose all their frustrations with each other, whether those frustrations are unnecessary or not.
"Hey Luan, I thought we're through this!" Lynn grumbles.
"Well, you threw us into this mess. Hehe. Get it?" Luan jokes in an out-of-place manner, prompting Lynn to beat her, again.
In the midst of their squabble, Lori's phone rings. Lily tries to point it out. And after moments of ringing does Lori manage to pick up her phone and answer it.
"Hello, not know Bobby, I have a situation with my sisters," Lori answers. But it was not Bobby who answered. Lori moves away from her sisters fighting to get a clear reception. "Yes…Uhmm…Mhmmm…" She takes time to listen to the caller, telling her something crucial, making her feelings slowly shift from anger to apprehension. The caller is actually a doctor, who told Lori of the terrible news.
"Guys, guys!" Lori tries to call the attention of her sisters, to no avail, "GUYS!"
At that last call, the siblings stop fighting.
Lori announces the crucial news, "Lincoln's at the hospital. He got into an accident. We need to go!"
In such immediacy, the Loud sisters head to the van and drive to the hospital. There is no speech among them. They are just occupied in the prospect that their brother is in life-or-death situation. Each sister is at shock of such revelation. It is really outstanding that they transition from quarreling about tacky concern among each other to being concerned about their brother's safety. No one can predict the intensity of the situation; they just want to see their brother safe.
As they arrive at the hospital, the Loud sisters rush to the emergency room, where they timely witness their brother being hurriedly delivered to the operating room. It is a drastic happening to glance on their brother, extremely unrecognizable from his head injury. They try to follow him to the OR, but they are stopped by a couple of nurses. Their force is too strong that they can only catch glimpses of horror that will encompass them. A perfect way to say, a matter of life and death.
The sisters, still in utter shock, are then designated to a waiting room with each facing their own anxieties. Lori is wrapping her chest in fear. Leni is trying to patch up the happenings surrounding her. Luna wraps her face in grief. Luan embraces Lana in an effort to comfort each other. Lynn leans her face on Lucy's shoulder, while Lucy is hiding her grief strongly. Lola starts flowing tears from her face. And Lisa holds Lily firmly close to her.
"Can I hold your hand?" Leni abruptly asks Lori, "I don't want to feel alone."
And without a question, but a gesture of love in the midst of trouble, Lori takes Leni's hand firmly. In just a silent gesture, the eldest sister feels the affirmation that they can be strong as a family.
With that, she reaches her hand to Lola, making the latter hold her hand without uttering a word. Seeing this, Lynn follows, alongside Lucy.
"Come on guys. Let's come together, for Lincoln," Lori persuades her sisters, prompting them to follow suit. Lisa holds Leni's hand, while she holds Lily's at her right. Lana takes Lily's hand while holding Luan at her right. Luan, meanwhile, grasps Luna's left hand, while Luna takes Lucy's hand, closing the circle. And there, they take a moment of solemnity.
To herself, Lori utters these words, "Mmmm to the One above, we are not a praying family. We admit. But Lincoln's all yours. Make him strong. Make us strong."
From there, it is going to be a huge hurdle for not just the sisters, but for Lincoln.