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Chapter 2: Let The Suffering Begin
It was Monday at Royal Woods Elementary school. Vanzilla stopped at the front side. The door open to reveal Lynn Jr, Lincoln, Lucy, Lana, Lola and Lisa.
As all five of them got off, Lori call out, "I'll see you guys later."
"Bye Lori." Lincoln wave back at her, which she return the gesture.
Once the white haired boy had his back turn, he miss the stare that Lynn was giving from behind.
Since morning Lynn put on her great act of saying good morning to her siblings and parents, including Lincoln. The rest of the family were surprised by this unexpected behavior. However, when the gang were ready to leave, Lynn decided to put her plan into action, by posting one tweet in her Twitter page.
A evil chuckle escape from her lips. Lynn muttered with a smug smirk "Enjoy your day, loser."
Lincoln's youngest sisters went to their classrooms, leaving the only brother walking the halls who is about to have the worst day of his life.
As the boy is reaching to his classroom, he barely notices the students eyeing on him until he hear the whispers in his ear. Normally, he nevers listen to what they're saying about him, considering being the bottom of the food chain. Lincoln look both ways to see students avoiding his stare or leaving the scene.
Shrugging his shoulders, he enter his classroom and sat down in his desk. What seems unlikely was that one of his friends, Liam, pushes his seat away a few feet from him. Turning to his right, he saw another student doing the same as well.
Now it was really bothering him. Lincoln turn his head back to Liam, asking "Liam. Liam." The young orange kid didn't reply; he was burying his head in a textbook.
Before he could get his attention other than calling his name, Ms. Johnson came in, starting today's lecture. The boy's mind was still on of what's happening.
It was lunchtime. Lincoln search for his friends. There was Liam, Rocky and Zack at their usual seats. He goes over there but by the time he got there, they get up and quickly left, leaving their food behind.
"Guys, wait!" Lincoln call out. They never return. "Just what's up with them?"
"You tell us, Lame-O." A voice said from behind. Lincoln turn and saw his two friends, Clyde McBride and Ronnie Anne Santiago.
"You notice?" Lincoln sat down as well as his two friends.
Clyde said, not seeing the few eyes staring at the gang "When I was walking to class. Everyone is avoiding you, Lincoln. And me by some."
"Same here. When I ask someone why, they just ran." Ronnie Anne grumble, lightly touching her knuckles. "Even after I threatened them." She took out her phone and show it in front of the two boys. "Then I saw this."
Both of them were looking at the recent tweet on Twitter. The post was a meme with the photo of Lincoln and the bold words "I'm Bad Luck! Stay Away or Else!"
Clyde said in disbelief "What is this? I'm Bad Luck; stay Away or Else?"
"I don't know what this is, but this isn't funny." Ronnie Anne replied.
Lincoln didn't say anything except looking at the post and the words. It didn't take a few seconds until he knew who posted the tweet.
"Lynn." Both of them look at him. He repeated "It was Lynn."
Clyde cried "Lynn did-" Lincoln slam his hand at his mouth.
"What's going on, Lincoln?" Ronnie Anne demanded. Then Lincoln grab her arm and Clyde's arm before exiting out of the lunchroom.
They were inside the janitor's closet. With a tug on the core, the light bulb light up. Ronnie Anne said with a tone "Why you pull us in the closet, Lame-O?"
Lincoln answer "To avoid being hear by everyone. As Clyde say before, yes it was Lynn who sent the tweet."
"But why?" Clyde asked.
Lincoln sigh by the question, knowing his two closest friends deserve to know. "You can't tell anyone about this."
For fifteen minutes, he reveal the lie from last week. Lynn forcing him to attend her baseball game. Her accuse him for being bad luck. Lincoln taking advantage of it to get some time for himself. The family overreacting to the luck. And finally believing Lynn to kick him outta of the house.
Seeing the shock looks of them, Lincoln added "Before you say anything, my family have make amends to me. Except for Lynn. She still thinks I'm bad luck."
Ronnie Anne declared, gritting her teeths "That whiner, all because she lost one game."
"Don't do anything rash, Ronnie Anne. My parents already punishes Lynn for it. I just want all of us to move on without someone bringing up the past."
"Looks like everyone knows of your 'condition'." Clyde remarked before the Latina tomboy shot him a glare.
"Calling bad luck as a condition is like having runny nose means you're ok." She said sarcastically before turning to Lincoln, "You have to tell your parents about this."
Lincoln shake his head negatively, "No way. My family has been put through quite enough after the lie. The last thing I want is more people finding out why."
"Still you need to do something about this," Clyde pointed the tweet in Ronnie's phone.
Lincoln said "I'll talk Lynn about this," He open the door, and all three exit out of the closet.
The young boy resume spending the rest of his day of being treated like the plague. No one would interact with him nor socialize, in fear of catching his 'disease'. At class, the students that often sit around him refuse to be near him and request to be transfer to a different class. Or they put the 'not-so-feeling-well' excuse to be sent home. At gym no one didn't help Lincoln from getting pummeled with dodgeballs. Clyde stay by his side but he, too, got the same result as his friend. After school he finds his locker vandalize with the words 'Bad Luck!' and "Go Away!" All of his stuff were thrown into the garbage dump that Ronnie Anne recover.
After one hellish day, Lincoln march over to baseball practice to see Lynn. Sure enough, the tomboy was throwing a couple of pitches in the empty field. She was alone by herself; her team didn't feel to practice after their failed championship game. But Lynn thought they were whiners instead of winners.
"Lynn!" Lincoln call out.
Lynn stop her pitches and turn to face her bad luck charm with a smirk "What up, Lame-O? Like my tweet?"
"This is a new low, even for you." Lincoln furrowed his brows at her.
"Just taking a page from Lori and Lola's page; the public has the right to know," She replied without guilt.
"Are you seriously on that? You know mom and dad will be mad at you if this didn't stop," He warned, only for the tomboy to snort.
"Like I give a crap what they think," She walk to him with an intense glare, "They were suppose to be at my side and you convince them to let you back it."
"I convince them because I was telling the truth!" Lincoln argued, ready to punch Lynn if that ever happens,
"Spare me the lies, loser! I know you're bad luck!" Lynn grabs him by the collar.
Lincoln forcefully bring down her arms, "Get off of me! I'm not bad luck! You need to tell everyone the true!"
"Why should I? You lied and the whole family follows just because you wanted some alone time. Now I told a 'lie'," She finger quoted mockingly, "And people are following it. Does that sound familiar to you?"
Lincoln can only stare heavy at his sister for being so cold hearted that she's not thinking about the consequences. Lynn walk past him, bumping her shoulder against him to add his pain.
"You better start preparing for tomorrow cause from the looks of it, people are gonna start hating you. Maybe even the girls. They'll start doing the same and mom and dad will locked you out of the house again."
Lincoln senses some impact that might be foresaw in the future. If what Lynn said is true, then this will repeat of the incident, only much worse. Fighting her won't change her mind, let alone telling his parents or an adult if Lynn denies it. And Lincoln was already causing enough trouble for his family.
"Lynn," Lincoln's voice was soft without the rage, "Don't do this. If you want to hit me for everything that's happened, go ahead. I deserve it." Lynn stopped walking and didn't face him. "I shouldn't took over the lie to be alone. You have no idea what living in a house with ten girls begging to be there. I know what I did was selfish; mom and dad was right for not coming to them before this mess ever happen. Don't continue on after they told you to stop. I know you're like this when it comes to something like this. All I'm asking is to delete the tweet and I'll never speak of this. Not to mom and dad. Not to Lori. Not to Luna. Not to our sisters. Not even my friends."
Lynn lowers her head as the bangs cover the top half. She take in what Lincoln was saying. Only it took her no less than three seconds to response. She bends down on the ground and her hand clutches on the grass before closing it.
"What…" Lynn turns around and throw a handful of sand at Lincoln in the stomach. The throw almost knock him to the ground. "A loser you are! You better start thinking about your battles or people will call you a wimp! No amount of words can't save you, Lincoln! Remember that!" She left while muttering a few slurs against the boy.
Lincoln sighed while shaking her head in disappointment "Well, that was no help." He dusted off the dirt from his shirt.
"Lincoln, are you alright?" A feminine Latina spoke with a heavy accent.
He turn and held a small blush over his substitute teacher, Ms. DiMartino. Shaking off from blubbering like a love sick dog, he said "I'm fine, Ms. DiMartino."
She said with concern "I saw what was happening between you and your sister."
Lincoln wave it off before showing a force smile, "It's nothing. Lynn just mad about something."
"I hear her team lost on Friday." Ms. DiMartino bring up the past, much to the boy's fear of getting caught.
"Yeah."
"And from the looks of it she's throwing her anger on you, Lincoln."
"It's not what you think, Ms. DiMartino." Lincoln argued, which he saw her raising an eyebrow. "This is just siblings fighting; it's normal."
Ms. DiMartino frowned, crossing her arms "It's normal for her insulting you and throwing dirt?" She saw the plain dirt in Lincoln's orange shirt. Lincoln was nervous; she was close of breaking him. The Latina teacher places an arm at his shoulder. Lincoln's cheek grew timid red. "Lincoln, if there's something wrong, you can tell me."
Lincoln lied again "There's nothing wrong, Ms. DiMartino. I gotta go! See you tomorrow!"
"Bye." She was already seeing him gone. Unknown to the boy, Ms. DiMartino knew that he was lying and what she saw wasn't normal sibling fighting. She hoped that this sort of thing doesn't happen again to Lincoln.
At the Loud House, everyone join in on dinner time. The parents ask their daughters and Lincoln how was their day. When it was Lynn's turn, she gloated in such a smug manner that she had the best day. Lincoln expresses more disappointment to his big sister. When his mother asked him about his day, Lincoln was in a slump to reveal his terrible day because of Lynn or lie to get out another punishment from said athletic.
So he said with another force smile "It was fine, mom."
"Nobody give you a hard time?" Lynn Sr. asked, taking a bite from his spaghetti. The young boy look at the expression on Lynn's face with a smirk that say "Try telling them and let's see what happens".
"No." He return eating his meal with more frustration. Lynn slightly chuckle under her breath. The sisters nor the parents didn't notice the exchange made by the two. Except for a certain goth who saw the smirk in her roommates face.
Lynn jump on her bed with a satisfied look. She had a wonderful day, despite what her actions had led her. Slapping her head in response, the tomboy almost forgot about checking her phone. Lynn saw the many responses and likes of her tweet. People were on board of treating her brother like he is bad luck.
Deep chuckle escape from her mouth, she muttered "That'll teach that loser not to mess with me."
"Lynn."
She flinches in shock, nearly falling out of bed. Lucy glance at her roomate getting up with a stern look.
"One of these days you're gonna kill me." She remarked.
Lucy crosses her arms before continuing "We need to talk." She took out her phone and show her the tweet. "About this."
Lynn snorted "So what if I did? You can't prove anything to mom and dad."
"You're in way too deep, Lynn." Her voice drop lower, but Lynn wasn't scare. "Are you trying to get yourself into more trouble than you already are?"
"I don't care. Lincoln is getting what he deserve!" Lynn spoke in a hush voice to avoid her other sisters hearing.
Lucy growled "Is this really worth it? Ruining your own brother's reputation?"
"He started it! He lied to us! Instead of crying to mom and dad, he took advantage of it! That loser is getting what's coming to him!"
"And you don't see the problem here?"
"What do you mean?" Lynn was confused.
"When we all thought Lincoln was bad luck, we took advantage of it and push him away. We made him feel like he was unloved. But thank god mom and dad come to their senses before anything else is damage further. Our sisters made their apology to him. Why can't you?"
"Spare the philosophical crap, Lucy! This is the real world! In life, people are always going to get hurt! They can't talk their way outta this! Not to losers, wimps, and nobodies! They just need to accept it!" Lynn argue back.
Lucy said "That's just horrible. How can you even say that?"
"That's life, Lucy!" She repeated, walking beside her gothic sister. "And Lincoln needs to deal with it!" The tomboy was stopped by a force grip in her wrist.
"Tell them the truth before things goes horribly wrong! I foresee that your actions will have an outcome you won't like!" Lucy warned.
Lynn scoff, before laughing. Turning to her with a mocking expression, "You're really gonna tell me to drop this because of a prediction? What you get that, from a fortune cookie?"
"If you don't tell them, I will!"
"Good! Then I'll tell them about your little accident with clogging the toilet!" Lucy felt her grip loosen.
"How?" She gasped.
"After laughing Lincoln for three weeks, I had some time to reflect over the innocent. Despite the loser's taste in comic books, there was no way he reads that dorky Princess Pony book. He was covering for someone, and I thought it was Lola for sure. Until." Lynn goes over to the vampire poster and rip it off, revealing the Princess Pony book poster.
Lucy, for the first time, felt scare over the revelation. She stood her ground despite shaking "What do you want?"
"It's your word against mine." Lynn replied.
"You're joking."
"No, that's Luan's case. But I will you this," Lynn faces her sister's face. "If you so much as to breathe a word to mom, dad or anyone in this house, I will reveal your crimes to them and the entire school. You'll be just like Lincoln and see how it feels to be laugh at. You tell anyone what I did at school, I'll denied it. Help that loser, and your life is ruined. Guess you'll be living in the darkness forever with you Princess Pony books."
Lucy lay out shallow breaths and lost any movements of her hands. The thought of getting tease and ridicule was one thing, but having her life destroy and dealing with abusers in this house and at school is worse than death.
Lynn smirked deadly at her, "What do you say, Lucy? We have a deal?"
"I…" Lucy mutter with her head down. "Fine. You win."
Lynn closes her eyes in victory, "I knew you understand." She walk past her, going to the bathroom to brush her teeth.
"Lynn." The athletic growl mile at her sister's pathetic pleas. "Just think about what your actions will lead to. End this now before it's too late."
"Yeah, yeah, I'll get right into that when I'm done with that loser. And you need to stand by in the shadow like a goth you are to see what the world really is like."
Lucy retreat back to her coffin and close the lid. She started crying because Lynn will laugh at her. She couldn't stand to be ridicule, not after what Lynn had threatened to do. Lucy couldn't do nothing. She can't tell her parents. She can't tell anyone of her sisters. And she can't even say to Lincoln let alone save him from constant abuse from school. Maybe she hasn't told him yet, but she felt regret for what Lincoln was put through from three whole weeks of mockery in this house since he took the blame from clogging the toilet. Lucy was the one who didn't laugh at him, but she had to watch him take it. Now Lincoln's life will be one nightmare after another, and she surprisingly didn't want that to happen to him.
"I'm sorry, Lincoln. Please forgive me…" Lucy quietly prey for her big brother.
So Lynn is going as far to ruin Lincoln's reputation and discredit Lucy for clogging the toilet. Again, she's not gonna be the villain. Her actions will have consequences as I told you. Chapter three will have Lincoln facing another hellish day and Lucy can't do nothing. Got any suggestions, put it in the review.