Chapter 1...
Last friday afternoon at Royal Woods Elementary School...
One day in school, Lincoln was at his locker getting ready for his next class, he looked around both sides before going back to getting supplies, he then stops and thinks about Ronnie Anne. Ronnie Anne moved away with her family a few months ago, but she and Lincoln still keep in touch, although every now and then Lincoln wishes she were back in Royal Woods. Once Lincoln got his school supplies, he closes his locker door and heads off to his next class, Home Ec, in which Mrs. Agnes Johnson is teaching. As soon as the school bell rings, the kids took their seats as Mrs. Johnson goes to her desk to begin her lesson.
"Good afternoon, class." Said Mrs. Johnson.
A couple minutes later...
"And for your weekend assignment..." Mrs. Johnson lectures on. "You are to do a task at home, like housecleaning, cooking, sewing and so on. You are all free to do whatever chore you desire, but you must bring your project back to class on monday as proof that you completed your assignment and don't forget to sign your name on it, okay? And if you can get a family member or two to help you, you'll get extra credit, but don't forget to ask them to sign their name on your project along with yours."
"I got a bad feeling about this." Lincoln whispered to the audience. (By audience, i mean you, the readers) "It's not the extra credit i'm worried about since my sisters are always busy, but given their track record, they'll end up destroying it anyway, no matter how hard i try to keep it safe, and that's not exactly an impossibility... because they've done it before."
But before he can think about what happened last time, Mrs. Johnson asked Lincoln...
"Mr. Loud, are you talking to yourself again?"
"Uh, no, Mrs. Johnson, i was paying attention, honest!" Lincoln bluffed as a few kids giggled.
The school bell rang and Mrs. Johnson signaled Lincoln to stay in his seat as the rest of the class exited the classroom.
"I hope it won't be too much trouble to complete your assignment with your sisters' help, considering their help from your last assignment involving them, right? The diagram?"
"Uh, yeah. It went SO well, after all." Lincoln responded.
Mrs. Johnson walked away and Lincoln got out of his seat and bolted for the door. Once outside, he told the audience...
"Actually, it almost went terribly since my sisters DESTROYED the diagram! Hopefully, I can get a quilt done or something without any of their meddling... i hope."
After school, Lincoln heads home to begin his Home Ec assignment, once he got inside the house, he saw his sisters going about their usual activities. Lincoln sighs and said...
"Better get this project over with... and fast. I wonder if Mom and Dad have any suggestions..."
Unfortunately, Mr. and Mrs. Loud has to leave for their date tonight and won't be back until morning. As usual, Lori is left in charge while they're gone. The first thing that came to Lincoln is a pie and milkshakes, so he goes to work baking a blueberry pie, and made milkshakes to pass the time, when the pie was done, Lincoln turned off the oven and safely took it out with potholders and placed it on the table, he then goes to pour the finished milkshake into glasses, but as soon as he turned to the table, the pie was gone. Lincoln goes to the living room, only for Luan to throw his blueberry pie in his face.
"Got the blues, Lincoln?!" Luan asked jokingly as she runs off laughing.
"Well, so much for cooking." Lincoln said to the audience.
"Thanks for the milkshakes, Lincoln." said Leni as she comes out of the kitchen with the glasses of milkshake he made on a serving tray and goes to pass the glasses to her sisters.
"Better see what else i can find." said Lincoln.
After cleaning up, Lincoln went to his laptop and goes online to look for something for his Home Ec class. He found some tips on how to make handkerchiefs, so he grabbed some materials and went back to his room to get started on the handkerchief. Of course, the task is not easy with all these distraction from his sisters, not to mention Lori ordering him to take out the trash, but a hour later, Lincoln manages to finish the handkerchief. Lincoln then steps outside and said to the audience...
"Whew, glad that's over. I better take this to Clyde for safekeeping before any of my sisters get their grubby hands on it."
But as soon as Lincoln reaches the front door, the door opened, revealing to be Lynn who has just returned. As soon as she saw her brother, she said...
"Hey, Linc! I'm back from my dirt bike competition! ...What's that?"
"A handkerchief i made myself." answered Lincoln.
"For me?" asked Lynn as she snatches the handkerchief. "Thanks, i worked up a real sweat back there."
"Wait, that's for my..." Lincoln said but Lynn wiped her forehead with the handkerchief and took off before he can finish, he then facepalmed. "Great. Now what?"
Lincoln gone upstairs to borrow some material from Leni, a couple of seconds later, he came back downstairs and quietly made his way toward his parents' bedroom door, after making sure the coast is clear, he enters the forbidden room and sits on his parents' bed, he then told the audience...
"Yeah, yeah, i know being in mom and dad's room is against the rules, but it's the only way to get this project done uninterrupted."
Lincoln got underway on crafting a quilt. He can hear his sisters outside, but so far, none of them notice he was in their parents' room... or are they?
"Lincoln..."
Lincoln yelled in surprise as he drops his needle and quilt. He saw Lucy in front of him.
"Lucy, would you stop doing that?!" Lincoln snarled. "And what do you want? I'm busy."
"You know, you're not allowed in here." said Lucy.
"I know that, but i have to get my school project done." said Lincoln as he picked up what he dropped. "Now, do you mind?"
"Actually, i was looking for a quiet place to write my poems, and i saw you go in here." said Lucy. "I hope it's alright if i join you here."
"Well, i guess it wouldn't hurt. Go right ahead." Lincoln said with a compliment, in which Lucy smiles at her brother.
"Thanks." Lucy thanked her brother. "I promise not to say anything."
And with that, Lincoln continued on with his quilt while Lucy tends to her poems. The quilt was halfway done, and Lincoln decided to take a break and get a snack.
"Can you watch my quilt for me, Lucy?" Lincoln asked Lucy.
"No problem." Lucy answered.
In the kitchen, Lincoln was making a sandwich, when he heard Lola yelling upstairs...
"Lana, i'm gonna kill you!"
The only son of the family ignored it and continued with his sandwich and begins eating it when finished, after a minute or two, he heard more ruckus and then he heard Lana say...
"Wow, neat blanket."
"Hands off, muddy! This fabric is replacing my gown you ruined!" Lola shouted.
"No! Give it to me! My pets need a blanket!" Lana argued.
Lincoln goes to the living room to check on the twins, he drops his sandwich when he sees Lola and Lana playing tug of war with his quilt.
"Hey, give me that! That's my project!" Lincoln shouted as he tried to take his quilt back.
"To heck with your project! My next pageant is a month away, and my filthy twin got mud on my gown." shouted Lola.
"So? You'll have plenty of time to get your gown cleaned up till then." Lincoln said to Lola.
"And it's not mud, it's chocolate ice cream." Lana explained.
In a flashback scene, Luan installs a trip wire trap in the door to Lola and Lana's bedroom. Lana came upstairs with a bowl of chocolate ice cream and went to her and her sister's room, only to trip on the wire, in which Lana lose her grip on the bowl and let it fly to Lola's pageant gown and getting chocolate ice cream all over it. Once the flashback ended, the three then snapped out of their thoughts and continues tugging the quilt.
"Let go!" Lola shouted.
"No, you let go!" Lana fired back.
"You two can't have it! This quilt is for my Home Ec class, now stop fighting and give it back!" Lincoln yelled.
The three siblings tugged the quilt for a short while until it finally rips.
"Uh-oh." said Lana.
"Aw, come on!" Lincoln and Lola yelled together.
"Sorry, Lincoln." Lana quickly said as she runs off.
Lola growls loudly and storms off. Lincoln goes to the rest of her sisters and said...
"Excuse me guys, can any of you help me with this?"
None of her sisters answered him as they go on with their antics. After a few seconds Lincoln tried again...
"Hello?! Can anyone hear me?! I'm gonna blow a fuse if you don't drop what you're doing and help me out here!"
"Shut it, twerp! I'm on the phone!" Lori shouted. "Sorry, Bobby, anyway..."
Lincoln impatiently taps his foot repeatedly, slowly getting angry, after a short bit, Lisa passed by Lincoln but came back to him when she saw him angry, she then examines her brother.
"Hmm... dilated pupils, grinding teeth, temperature and blood pressure slowly increasing... you are showing signs of anger, which is unhealthy. Shall i assist you in this matter?"
"Don't bother, i been calm and tolerant with my sisters for a long time and now..." Lincoln growled. "I HAD ENOUGH WITH ALL OF YOU!"
The sisters stopped their activities when they heard their brother's outburst and looked at him.
"Bobby, i gotta call you back." Lori said to her boyfriend as she hangs up her phone.
"You all been playing me like a toy my entire life, making me look stupid, threaten to hurt me, always pulling me into something i really don't want to be in!" Lincoln vented his anger on his sisters. "Always forcing me to do everything for you, like being your butler or a lab rat, pressuring me to play sports and roughhouse... and then play pranks on me when you think i'm not looking! And no one even paid me one bit, for all the stuff i went through!"
"Oh, please." Lola scoffed.
"Technically, currency is out of the question due to the family's limited budget." Lisa theorized.
"Is rides from me even good enough for you?" Lori asked while feeling crossed.
"Sheesh, someone got off on the wrong side of the bed this morning." said Luan.
"You know what? I'm leaving." Lincoln growled. "And good luck living in a family without a brother, i'm gonna go bunk with Clyde, forget this stupid school project. I'm going solo in the real world. Adios."
Lincoln stomps toward the front door, but Leni stops him and pulls him away from the door while saying...
"Hold on there, Linky, let's like calm down and talk things out, ok?"
"Yeah, you're being a total powdered keg, no need to get aggressive." said Lynn.
"Big words for a girl who dresses like a boy." Lincoln growled.
"Takes one to know one, worm." Lynn taunted.
Lincoln growls and picked up Lynn's baseball and threw it at her, Lynn ducked just in time as the ball zoomed past her and smashed a window behind her. The girls gasped at their brother's act of anger.
"Oh, you really threw a foul ball there." said Luan as she snickers.
"You're in big trouble now." said Lola.
"I don't care!" Lincoln shouted as he goes to the front door.
Lori stops Lincoln, grabs his arm and then said...
"Well, you better care! Because you are gonna drop the attitude and clean up the mess you made!"
Lincoln struggles to get his arm free from her older sister's grasp, Lori then shouted...
"And to literally top it off, you..."
"No, you listen this time, you big heifer!" Lincoln shouted as he tries to break free.
"Heifer?!" Lori asked.
"Heifer is a female bovine that has yet to..." Lisa tried to explain when Lana quickly interrupted her.
"He called you a cow."
"WHAT?! WHY YOU..." Lori snarled.
"Whoa, whoa! Both of you calm down!" Luna broke up the two quarreling siblings, trying to calm them down.
"Tell him that, i don't know what's making him crabby and frankly i won't stand for this!" said Lori.
Suddenly Lori and Luna heard the door slammed shut. The slam was so hard it shook the house a bit and knocked a couple of picture frames off the wall, it was also loud enough to rudely wake Lily from her nap, and the girls soon hear her crying.
"Ugh! Someone take care of Lily! I'm going after the little brat." A fuming Lori barked as she goes out the door.
What Lori didn't know was while she was storming to Clyde's house, Lincoln was wandering aimlessly in another neighborhood, after wandering awhile he stops to catch his breath and calm down before deciding to get a soda. Lincoln heads to Flip's Food and Fuel because the family got banned from the grocery store again. On the way, it begins to rain.
"Great." Lincoln said with disgust as he continued on with haste.
Lincoln soon reached Flip's gas station, but instead of going inside, he quickly boards a school bus painted in brown parked near the gas pump, the roof was painted green, and there was a sign on the bus said: "Acorn/Chestnut Scouts". Inside the bus, Lincoln drys off with a towel he found on one of the front seats, once dry, he sits at a seat at the far end of the bus, he sighs and lays down on his seat, he then takes out a comic book from the pocket of his jeans and begins to read it, and soon enough he began to fall asleep. Unbeknownst to Lincoln, a small group of boy and girl scouts along with their scoutmasters boarded the bus and took their seats while not noticing that Lincoln was onboard with them, the driver got to his seat and started the bus and drove out of the gas station...
A few hours later, Lori and Lynn returned home, it has already stopped raining but that wasn't the only case...
"Well, did you find him?" asked Leni.
"No..." said Lori as she sat on the living room chair. "We literally looked all over town, even the places he usually hangs out and he wasn't there."
"Yeah, and none of his friends haven't seen him for awhile, especially Clyde." said Lynn as she sat on the couch.
After a brief moment of silence, Leni breaks it by saying...
"Don't worry, guys, i'm sure Lincoln will come back home. He's bound to miss all of us sooner or later."
"Maybe... But i'm not worried about that." said Lori. "I'm worried about what will mom and dad say when they find out Lincoln's gone."
The rest of the Loud girls (except for Lola who is in the basement washing her pageant gown) gathered at the living room.
"Gee, what got Lincoln so mad that he yelled at us and ran away?" asked Lana.
"I don't know." Lori answered.
"You got me." said Luan.
"Like, honestly, i wish i knew." said Leni.
"Ditto." said Luna.
"Mmm." Lynn shrugs.
Lily coos and drools.
"Should i consult the cards?" asked Lucy.
"No need." said Lisa. "I'm beginning to understand what our male sibling unit is saying amidst his departure."
"And what would that be?" asked Lynn.
"From what i can gather, we been bullying him, taking advantage of him, putting him in unusual positions against his will." Lisa explained. "And never making anything worth his while, even though money is tight."
"Oh, pfft." Lynn Jr. scoffed.
"We did? How?" asked Leni.
"Well, for starters, We have been fighting with him over small and yet, petty things, like a quarter, for example." Lisa explained. "But other than that, Lori threatened to turn him into quote "Human Pretzel", unquote.'
"Excuse me, that twerp was in my..." Lori snarled.
"Our room, Lori." Leni corrected Lori.
"Whatever! He shouldn't have been in there, i told all of you that too many times!" Lori shouted. "Plus, he said all those nasty things about me on that letter of his."
"That ain't all you did, Lori." said Lynn. "You made him go on that double date with Ronnie Anne."
"He hurt Ronnie Anne's feelings and made Bobby broke up with me!" said Lori. "Although, they kissed and made up, afterward."
"It was love at first bite." Luan joked as she laughed. The other loud girls groaned. "You know, cause you two were at a restaurant."
"Oh, i got it, but i'm not laughing." said Lori.
"Sheesh, tough crowd." said Luan.
"Honestly, i'm sure Lincoln has doubts about his relationship with a bully." said Lisa.
"Bully?!" Lori growled.
"Anyway, besides the constant begging of asking Lincoln to review the clothes she either bought or made..." Lisa continued on. "Leni is too lowly intelligent to have done any further harm to our sole brother unit."
"Wait, what?" Leni questioned.
"Lucy scares all of us with her unexpected appearances." Lisa continued even further. "Besides that, she's know to ask our lone brother for assistance on her poems."
"Obviously, i'm the only one who appreciate Lincoln's help, unlike the rest of you." Lucy said to her sisters coldly.
"Hey, we're thankful for his help too, you know." said Lynn.
"Sure, you did, but you never revealed it to him." said Lucy. "Although, i feel guilty for scaring him during our trip to Grand Venture State Park and for costing him the trip to that comic book convention... i should have never gotten that stupid princess pony book!"
The loud girls gazed at Lucy silently. Realizing that she spilled the beans to her sisters, Lucy sighed and said...
"I guess it's no use hiding it anymore. Like, i said, i do needed a break from the darkness every now and then."
Lisa clears her throat and said...
"Moving on... Luna plays her music too loud and it's damaging our hearing."
"Not to mention annoying him AND us with her British accent!" said Lori.
"She never even WENT to England!" said Lola through the basement door.
"Like, what about that cop that came to our house? Did it have something to do with Luna?" asked Leni.
"And yes, all of us annoy each other." Lisa concluded.
"But Lincy had it the hardest. But how?" Leni asked.
"Probably because we all gang up on him and he has no one to back him up." Lisa added.
Before Luna can say anything, Lana raised her hand and said...
"I just want to say, i do feel really bad for getting Lincoln detention when i begged him to help me save all those frogs from being dissected at school."
"Obviously, you don't understand the importance of biology." Lisa told Lana.
"Oh yeah? How is biology so important that you all have to dissect those poor animals?" Lana demanded.
"I thought you might ask." Lisa said to the tomboy.
"We'll discuss that later, girls. Can we please get back to Lincoln?" Lori cuts off. "Anyway, it's not the only thing you done, Lana, you and your bratty twin can't even make it through one day without fighting. Take Lincoln's souffle for example, remember how you and her fought over it?"
"Actually, the souffle Lincoln made was CHOCOLATE, and we all know what really happened." Lana corrected.
Cut to flashback...
After dinner, Lincoln made an announcement...
"I hope everybody has room for dessert, cause i got a big surprise."
The family cheered as Lincoln goes into the kitchen and a few seconds later, he came back to the dining room with a chocolate souffle.
"Ta-da!" Lincoln exclaims.
The loud girls races toward their brother, and pounced on him. The girls engaged in a tug of war over the souffle while arguing.
"It had to be chocolate, did it?" asked Mrs. Loud.
"Yep. I think it's time to start setting restrictions on snacks and desserts." Mr. Loud answered.
Suddenly, the battle for the souffle escalates into a big brawl, with Lincoln caught in it.
"Mom! Dad! A little help here!" Lincoln shouted.
End of flashback...
The loud girls groaned at the horrible memory. Lola wearing a white bath robe, came into the living room and said...
"Did you have to bring that up?! Because of that fight, and for hurting Lincoln, mom and dad banned chocolates and junk food in the house and the only snacks we're allowed to eat is fruits and vegetables."
"Yeah, but the ban only lasted for two months." said Lynn. "Practically, because dad only limited chocolates to once a month."
"At least dad didn't punish us for smuggling chocolate in the house." said Lola.
"I'm even more surprised dad didn't punish you for all the trouble you put Lincoln through." said Lana.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Lola demanded.
"You blackmailed him, instead of trading favors with him like the rest of us." said Lucy.
"Just like YOU blackmailed US because we didn't let you in our secret club." said Luna.
"Well, if you guys let me in your club earlier, i wouldn't have done it!" shouted Lola.
"That's because you'll rat us out if we do let you in." said Lynn.
"Like our brother said, you're nothing but a tattletale, and you're still one TODAY!" Lana barked.
"SHUT UP, I AM NOT!" Lola yelled.
"YOU ARE TOO!" Lana shouted.
After a short bit of yelling and name calling from the twins, Lori shouted...
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP! If you two started fighting again, i will literally twist... no, dang it.. send you both to separate corners!"
"You wouldn't dare!" Lola snarled.
A very angry Lori stood up, picked up the end table and threatened to crush Lola with it. This quickly frightens Lola who ran back to the basement screaming...
"I'm gonna check my gown, bye!"
With Lola gone, Lori gently put the end table back down and sat back down on her seat, her siblings were staring at her for what she tried to do to Lola, so Lori looked at her siblings and said...
"What? She should know better than to press my buttons."
"Lori, Lola's only a little girl." Leni told Lori.
"A little pain in the rear end is what she is. Stupid brat." Lori grumbled.
"You should talk to Lola later on, but i'm going to talk to mom and dad about it when they get home." Leni explained.
"Oh, shut up." Lori spat at her sister.
"So, um... what are we talking about again?" asked Luan.
"Lincoln... And we were just getting to you." said Luna.
"What? Me? What did i do?" asked a shocked Luan.
"Other than bugging us with your dumb jokes, you pulled pranks on a daily basis." said Luna. "And you're always on your absolute worst every year on April's fools day."
"Come on, they're all jokes! Can't any of you take a joke?!" Luan shouted feeling crossed.
"Not if the jokes are as lame as yours." said Lynn. "Honestly, i liked you better as a non-joker."
"Oh, that's typical... coming out of the mouth of a sore loser!" Luan burned Lynn as she ran upstairs, dodging the football Lynn threw at her for insulting her.
"Lynn Loud Jr, you're a jerk!" Luna shouted as she goes after her comedian sister, dodging the shoe Lynn threw at her.
Lily throws one of her playing blocks at Lynn on her forehead...
"Ow! Lily!" Lynn shouted as her baby sister blows a raspberry at her and giggles.
"Honestly, Lynn, this literally proves that you're the worst sister of all." said Lori.
"Oh, yeah? Care to prove it, Miss Artsy Fartsy?!" Lynn taunted.
"Yes, i can, Meatball Mouth." Lori insulted Lynn. "You been constantly roughhousing and bullying our brother for almost his entire life, which came to the point that he finally snapped and ran off, and if that's not enough, he had to put up with you as a roommate when your had that fight with Lucy."
"Excuse me, we already made up... after a few nights." Lynn Jr. snarled. "Me and Lucy had to clean up our room afterward."
""First of all it's 'Lucy and I' and second, that's no excuse for all the other horrid deeds you done." said Lucy.
"Oh shut up Lucy, and I don't care how I talk!" Lynn Jr. barked at Lucy.
"Well you should," says Lucy.
"She's right, and besides, you always rub it in after you won a game!" Lana barked.
"And you know what's the worst thing you done? Condemning him as BAD LUCK!" Lucy accused Lynn. "All because you lost one baseball game!"
"Hey, i know i messed up big time on that, and i made up after that, so just drop it!" Lynn shouted.
"Oh, we're not done yet, you threatened to hurt Lincoln every now and then." Lucy continued. "And eventually, you did hurt him one time... really badly."
"I got mad because that whiner brought C.P.S. to our house!" Lynn yelled at Lucy.
"C.P.R.?" Leni asked.
"No, Leni, C.P.S." Lisa corrected. "They're acronyms for Child Protective Services."
"I had to make Lincoln change his mind about us, if i didn't, we'll all be in separate foster homes by now!" Lynn kept yelling. "It was our last chance to convince that agent when things got real bad. Besides after that mess, i sometimes wonder how long our luck will last."
"Personally, i think a clean slate is the best benefit from a foster family." said Lisa.
"Lisa, you're not helping!" Lori told Lisa.
"I'm just saying." Lisa replied.
"Can it, four eyes, if you like this family, you shut your mouth!" Lynn jr. shouted at the four year old genius.
"I find that difficult to obtain, especially when around a athletic netheradal." Lisa taunted.
Lynn jr. stomped toward Lisa and yelled...
"If you weren't four years old, i punch your ugly face by now!"
"See what i mean, Lynn?" Lori said to Lynn. "You're literally the worst, plain and simple."
"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, I AM NOT!" Lynn screamed and then she storms out of the living room.
The loud girls then hear the sounds of glass breaking, Lynn jr. slammed the back door so hard the door windowed shattered into pieces, and while Lynn unleash her anger outside, the rest of the loud girls, except for Lori and Lily, got out of their seats and headed upstairs. Lori stopped Lisa by asking her...
"What about you, Lisa? What did you do to Lincoln?"
"Honestly, i persistly asked Lincoln to volunteer for my projects." Lisa answered. "Although, they were some minor incidents, they proved to be most informative."
As soon as she finishes, Lisa climbs upstairs. Lori directed her eyes at Lily who looks at her oldest sister with concern, Lori picks up her baby sister and talks to her...
"I guess we're not as innocent as you are."
"Bro boo?" Lily attempted to speak. "Wher Wincoln?"
"Don't worry, Lily, we'll find Lincoln." Lori told the toddler. "I don't know how, but we'll find him.. hopefully."
Suddenly, knocking was heard on the front door. Lori put Lily down on the floor and goes to the door to answer it, outside was Clyde, Lincoln's best friend, he was holding a disc in his hand.
"Clyde? What are you doing here?" asked Lori.
"Looorrriii.. " Clyde was lovestruck at Lori's presence, he quickly snaps out of it and said... "Lincoln! It's Lincoln, i found out where he is!"
To be continued...
Author's note: Sorry it took so long, i keep getting writer's block, but Reiz16 and Timmyturnerfan help me finish this chapter, so be sure to give them credit and thanks for their help... Oh, and Reiz16 wants me to let you know to give her guardian angels credit too.