The Loud House: Memory of A Promise
Part 1: Recorded Memory Chapter: 2 The Tape
Disclaimer: I do not own "The Loud House"
August 6, 2017 Lincoln's Room Sunday Morning
Sunday's morning light spewed across Lincoln's room from his window, showing him with last night's smile remaining while he slowly woke.
"Now that, was a good sleep.", He blissfully thought.
He got up from bed and yawned as he slipped into his morning boxers. After a good stretch and making sure he was decent enough to be in front of his sisters, he proceeded to gather his clothes for the day, tucking them under his arm as he headed out into the hallway. There, in his immediate view, the usual line of his sisters could be seen as each waited their turn for the bathroom. He took his place behind Lynn as the line shifted when Leni came out and Luna went in.
"Morning Linc. Doing better than yesterday?", Lynn lazily mumbled.
"Was something bothering you Lincoln?", Luan added, overhearing Lynn.
Lincoln looked to them. "I'm doing way better and well …"
He thought for a moment wondering if he should mention how lonely he was feeling romantically. The last thing he could remember when it came to his sisters and his romance was him ending up having to take four of his sisters' friends to the Sadie Hawkins dance. In hindsight, he thought he should have kept in contact with them, they were each awfully cute, and considering his situation he could surely use the female companionship now more so than ever.
"Uh Earth to Lincoln?", Lynn said as she lightly punched him in the shoulder.
"Huh?"
Lincoln snapped out from his deep thought and noticed that Luna was in front of him and that Luan had already gone in the bathroom.
"Must be pretty big if you were that far gone in your mind dude." Luna huffed as she laid back against the wall next to Lincoln. "If you don't want to talk about it I can respect that though."
From his peripheral view, he could see that even though Luna said that she really wanted to know, Lynn as well as far as he could tell.
He let out a preparatory sigh as he decided to just lay out his guts. "Well I guess since I feel better than I was doing yesterday I guess I can talk about it now … I've sort of come to realize that I'm lonely."
"Heh that all bro? Your more than welcome to join me in a jam session.", Luna offered.
"Or you and I can go out and play a sport, any sport … Will still try to be number one though.", Lynn added.
Lincoln smiled slightly but then retracted back to a slight frown. "I'm not lonely in that way, in fact that's why I feel good enough to even say this now. I'm just lonely in the romantic kind of way. You know, girlfriend wise?"
Luna and Lynn went slightly bug-eyed and looked away, blushing lightly and saying oh in unison.
"What about Ronnie Anne?", Luan said coming out of the bathroom as Lynn slipped in, more than willing to get away from the awkwardness as feelings weren't exactly her forte.
"I guess she's been busy with new friends or something … we haven't talked much the past few weeks. Plus, we were never officially together now that I think about it.", Lincoln admitted.
"Aw bro." Said Luna as she placed her hand in Lincoln's hair, stroking it slightly in replacement of not knowing what to say.
"Hey Lincoln." Luan said gaining his attention. "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
He thought for a moment but easily gave up with the mood he was in now. "I don't know, why?"
"To get away from Colonel Sanders!" Luan giggled to herself as Luna simply rolled her eyes with a slight smile and Lincoln chuckling a bit. "Feel better?"
"Yeah, thanks Luan."
Luan then placed her hand in Lincoln's hair, messing it up slightly and flicking his turkey tail before heading downstairs for breakfast.
"Hey dude my offer still stands." Luna repeated. "Come jam with me today. Music can easily help take out any funk you might have left in your noggin."
Lincoln smiled and nodded. "Yeah I think I will take you up on that. Who knows maybe I'll outshine you today."
"That's the sprit Linc! Think I'm rubbing off on you." Lynn said as she exited the bathroom passing by. "It's all yours."
"Meet you down in the dining room in a bit Luna.", Lincoln said heading to the bathroom.
"Awesome bro, can't wait to rock out later.", Luna replied as she went her own separate way downstairs.
As the bathroom door shut Lori and Leni both came out of their room, oblivious to the conversation that transpired near them, and headed downstairs.
When they reached the bottom Lori was stopped by Rita. "Lori dear."
"Yeah mom?", She monotonously replied while being glued to her cell.
"I need you to watch the others for today. Some employees couldn't make it to work and my boss is paying extra for any assistants who have today off, if they come in to help with the chaos."
"*sigh* Ok mom."
Rita gave Lori a kiss on the cheek and proceeded to leave. "Thank you dear. Your father will be bringing some leftovers from work when he gets back. I love you, bye."
As the front door closed Lori turned and proceeded to the kitchen to fetch herself breakfast.
She opened the fridge and noticed a hand squeaking past her and grabbing the milk. "Morning Lincoln."
"Morning Lori, where'd mom go?" Said Lincoln as he poured himself some cereal.
"Oh just some extra work at the dental office. I'm in charge till dad gets back.", Lori said as she smiled eyeing a precut bagel.
She grabbed the tiny confection and opened it, placing strawberry jam in it and then followed Lincoln to the dining room. There the other siblings were nearly finishing up their meals.
Lori sat down and cleared her throat before speaking. "Ok guys I'm in charge for a while, but you can go about with your usual things today just don't go too crazy, or else."
She then took a passive aggressive bite out of the bagel while eyeing her siblings. In return, they each gulped and simply nodded.
"Good morning everyone.", Lola said upon entering the dining room.
"Mornin everybody!", Lana added as they both headed into the kitchen to get their breakfast ready.
Silence was appreciated among the older siblings as they ate until a piercing scream echoed from the kitchen.
"YOU ATE MY BAGEL! ADMIT IT!", Lola bellowed.
"NO I DIDN'T! YOU KNOW I PREFER CHARLES' DOG BISCUITS!", Lana retaliated back.
Lola then tackled Lana and both ended up tumbling over each other through the kitchen, through the dining room and ultimately ending up in the living room. Lori, unamused, got up and proceeded to the living room herself though before entering she heard a crash prompting the other siblings to follow suit.
Loud House, Living Room Sunday Morning
"YOU TWO, STOP FIGHTING, NOW!", Lori commanded.
The twins paused momentarily though not because of Lori, that was more of Lincoln's skill, but because of the dust that was fluttering about from the mess they made.
"Lola." Lori continued. "Lana didn't eat your bagel, I did. So stop fighting already."
Lola let go of Lana then gave a false smile.
"Oh really? Well that's ok big sis you need your energy for the day don't you." Lola commented before she started whispering to herself. "Especially when I get my revenge on you."
Before Lori could ask what exactly Lola muttered she was interrupted by Lisa. "Hm, what do we have here."
The small genius picked up a dusty object from the floor. "Ah, an obsolete audio-visual cinematic."
Lisa's siblings gave her blank expressions, the usual response to her advanced vocabulary. "*sigh* Video tapes."
"Are they mine?", Luan said picking another off the floor.
"Negative. They appear to be home movies belonging to our parental units.", Lisa retorted.
"Ooo~! Family movies! Yay! Can we watch?!", Leni asked with pleading eyes.
The other siblings all eagerly agreed, even Lisa showing interest. "I wouldn't mind viewing my younger siblings and comparing their IQs to my own when they were my age."
Lori looked at all her younger siblings and sighed. "Alright, if it will keep everyone busy then ok."
The loud siblings then went about finishing their meals and cleaning their dishes, promptly seating themselves on the couch afterwards while Luan was setting up the vhs player.
"And this wire goes here … Alright its working now. What do we watch first?", Luan said dusting off her hands.
"Oh what about this one?!", Lynn said waving a tape in the air.
Luan took the tape and placed it into the vhs player and hit play. When it started it showed a young baby Lynn (age 2) slightly pushing a ball into a tiny goal.
"Gooooaaaaallllll~", Lynn whispered to herself.
The other siblings frowned as Luan ejected the tape and read the title. Lynn's first goal.
"How about we pick videos that aren't about ourselves?", Luna muttered eyeing Lynn.
"Agreed.", The others said making Lynn pout.
Each sibling then got a single video, while Luan looked at Lynn's choice to make sure she didn't pick herself again, much to her dismay.
"Alright, let's try this again. Who's first?", Luan asked.
"Oh me! Me!", Leni blurted out handing Luan a tape.
Luan looked at the title and read Lisa Gets Dressed then inserting the tape and hit play. On the screen, it showed a younger Lisa (age 3) with a very unpleased look about herself as she wore a frilly dress and was plastered with make-up.
"Aw, she looks adorable Leni.", Rita said from behind the camera.
"Like she totes does!" Leni (age 15) said approaching Lisa hanging yet another dress in front of her to see if it clashed with her make-up. "And she will look amazing every time I need a model."
"I find this whole situation very pointless and aggravating.", Lisa said in a monotone voice with a tinge of annoyance.
On the couch Lisa nudged Lincoln to get his attention and whispered lowly. "Again, thank you for taking the task of being Leni's permanent model. I'm not sure how long my sanity would of lasted at that point."
"Anytime.", Lincoln replied.
When the video ended the majority of the siblings laughed at Lisa's misfortune while she herself gave a slight scowl.
"Hahaha! Ok, that was good, who's next?!", Luan said recovering from her laughter.
As each tape was played every sibling got their chance to poke fun at one another's embarrassing or private moments. They ranged from Lola (age 4) tripping over herself from a new long dress, to Lori (age 15) dealing with an acne breakout, to Lucy (age 6) accidentally dying her clothes pink of all colors. Thinking that everyone had already had a turn, Luan was about to pick on Leni again till she felt a tug on her socks. She looked down and saw that Lily was raising a video to her.
"Aw I'm sorry Lily." She said softly. "We almost skipped your turn."
Luan took the tape and cleared the dust off from the title and read it with a curiously raised eyebrow. "Hm … Lincoln's Promise."
"Huh?", Lincoln muttered as he tried to remember what promise it could be.
"Must be a pretty big promise for it to be on video dude.", Luan chuckled.
"Might be Lincoln saying he'd let mom and dad live with him when he has his own place.", Lori joked
"Ha! And the video must be proof of him saying so in case he denies it.", Lola added.
Luan eagerly pushed the video in and hit play as she took her seat on the couch. As the video played the younger siblings simply watched while on the other hand Lucy and her elder brother and sisters watched with mouths gaping. The awkwardness in the air thick enough to be cut by a knife.
Their faces advanced from a slight pink to a fiery red, their eyes stealing glances at each other, but mostly they each eyed the same person, Lincoln. Upon sensing this all he could do was give a loud gulp.
AN
Same as the first time any honest reviews would be greatly appreciated. Third chapter might take a bit with my schedule but I'll get it done.