Sounds of Silence

Lisa dashed under Lincoln's bed after placing the Noise-B-Gone earplugs in her ears. Two seconds later, a loud "BOOM' sounded throughout the house, startling Lincoln and his sisters. Even though they had covered their ears, the sound was deafening.

"NOW I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING!" Lincoln shouted afterwards. Lori who was in the hallway with her other sisters, shouted, "What the hell was that," then gasped when she realized she couldn't hear herself speak. "What did you say Lori?" Leni responded, then realized she had lost her hearing and gave a bewildered look to her other sisters. Then Luna shouted, "I can't hear anything." In anger Lori pointed towards Lincoln's room, signaling for them to confront the person responsible for the explosion.

At this moment, Lisa emerged from under the bed, then removed the earplugs. Lincoln sat on his bed, with a worried expression on his face. The other sisters walked into the room and started glaring at Lisa. Noticing their angry faces, Lisa asked with a nervous voice, "Why are you all glowering at me like that?" Luna who somehow could only hear whispering, approached Lisa in anger and placed her hands on the little genius shoulders.

"You made us lose our hearing, you jerk," Luna shouted even though she only heard herself whispering, "How are you going to fix it?"

The little girl shook her head and uttered, "I can't do anything. You just have to wait for at least two or three hours for your hearing to return."

Then Luna turned around to tell the others then realizing they couldn't hear, opened one of the drawers of Lincoln's dresser and found a notepad and pen and started writing what Lisa said.

The girls became angrier when they read the words, then Lynn grabbed the pad and pencil and wrote something else. Lisa read, "You're so in trouble with mom and dad when they find out."

Then Lisa wrote on the pad, "Everybody just stay in their rooms as much as possible for the next three hours then." So they all departed to their rooms.

Five minutes later the Loud parents returned home from the grocery shopping. They were too busy unloading the van they didn't notice the roof was upside down.

"Excuse me," a passerby asked the couple. Rita and Lynn Sr. turned their heads.

"What happened to your roof?" the person inquired. The couple looked at each other with confusion, then gazed upwards and saw the roof was indeed upside down because of the explosion.

The parents looked at each other again, then shouted, "LISA!"

"Let's have a word with our little genius before we call the kids to help with the groceries, Rita said.

Once Lynn Sr. unlocked the front door, the parents stepped inside and immediately Rita went upstairs and knocked angrily on Lisa's bedroom door.

"Lisa you're in big trouble," she yelled in fury. Inside the room, Lisa gasped when she heard the statement.

As the little genius opened her door, she watched as Rita crossed her arms.

"Did you have anything to do with the roof being upside down?" she queried with an irritated tone.

Lisa's eyes widened behind her round glasses. "Really! I didn't know that could happen," she uttered.

"Answer my question," Rita continued, becoming more irate.

"Okay dear mother, I had mixed some chemicals trying to invent a new furniture cleaner when it started foaming up so fast. I knew an eruption was going to occur so I, mmmm….."

Lynn Sr. who was now standing next to his wife asked impatiently, "Please continue."

The little genius then blurted out, "I ran into Lincoln's room, grabbed some earplugs he purchased recently, corked my ears with them and hid under his bed, the only problem is, is…

"Come on spill it!" Rita shot out.

"The eruption made everyone else lose their hearing," Lisa finally admitted.

"WHAT!" her parents shouted.

"But don't worry, their hearing could be restored in two or three hours, so you have to wait until then," Lisa tried to reassure her parents.

"Where is Lily?" Rita asked, and Lisa replied Luna had taken the baby to her bedroom.

"This is not acceptable, for the next two weeks you are not allowed to use any of your chemicals, we will ask the University to hold onto them for a while," Lynn Sr. stated.

"Okay, I accept your punishment," Lisa replied without showing any emotion, then returned to her task of cleaning up the mess in her bedroom.

"Oh, we forgot about the groceries. Lynn, could you take them inside while I check on Lily," Rita asked her husband before heading to Luna's room.

Two and a half hours later…..

Lincoln emerged from his room after spending a long time reading his comic books to use the bathroom. After doing his business, to his surprise, Lincoln could hear the toilet flushing when he pulled down the handle. He gasped, and after washing his hands, ran out of the bathroom and rushed towards Lisa's bedroom, He opened the door and shouted, "Lisa my hearing has returned."

"I knew the hearing loss was temporary, "Lisa replied elatedly.

Suddenly Lincoln noticed Luna and Luan were in Lisa's room

"Lincoln, we both heard you in the bathroom," Luan blurted out. They all ran downstairs to inform their parents the good news.

"Oh that's wonderful news," Rita told them while their dad prepared dinner. A few minutes later, the rest of the girls arrived downstairs to inform their parents their hearing was restored.

Later, after dinner, Lisa gave her sisters and brother an apology.