Rita and the children with the exception of Lola were gathered at the dinner table in anticipation for what Lynn Sr. prepared for dinner with Lori's help. Suddenly Lucy noticed Lola's absence and inquired, "Lola's not here."
At the time of Lola getting punished, Lynn Jr. Lucy, Lisa and Lily were napping so they didn't hear anything.
"I spanked her for destroying the plane your brother worked on," Rita explained to the Goth.
Lynn Jr and Lisa became wide eyed with surprise then Lynn Jr uttered, "Wow."
"She threw it against the wall when I declined her invitation to a pretend tea party," Lincoln explained bitterly.
Lynn Sr. placed a large serving bowl of paella with chicken near to Rita. She plated some onto an extra plate and proceeded to take it upstairs for Lola.
In her room, the so-called princess was muttering, "Why does he get to go wherever he wants while I have to stay here and just read and do chores?" then Rita opened the door and noticed Lola looking morose.
"Here's your dinner," Rita said dryly while approaching Lana's bed then placed the plate beside Lola then waited for her to say thanks. Rita departed upon not receiving a response.
During dinner Lincoln remained silent and just listened to everyone else chat.
"I'd just have to find all the stores that sell toys on my laptop and ask if they have any in stock," he thought.
When dinner was over, Rita said, "Luna and Luan I'll help you wash the dishes and clean up."
Lincoln rushed back into his bedroom and turned on his laptop to begin his search.
Later every sister except Leni, Luan, and Lynn Jr. approached the twin's room with Lana wearing a grave expression. Lola remained lying on Lana's bed in a gloomy mood and most of the paella her father made was left uneaten. She glanced up and saw her sisters.
"Lola you were way out of line destroying Lincoln's plane," Lori scolded the girl as they group came closer to her.
"Yeah we may have bullied him sometimes to prevent him from getting something that he wanted out of jealousy but we have never broken any of his belongings," Luna added her tone laced with anger.
"He must have spent days assembling it," Lucy spoke in her monotone way.
"And if it wasn't for your greediness at the block party, we wouldn't have beaten up that boy and we would be enjoying our summer vacation," Lori added bitterly.
"Yes I could be listening to my music or talking to Sam," Luna added.
"And our parental units wouldn't have contacted the Institute and have them remove my equipment. I could be working on my experiments," Lisa whined.
Then Lana became furious and almost shouted, "Why are you so mean to everyone? I care more about Lincoln than you. I should have told Pop-Pop about Luan taking Lincoln's sheets to divide Lori and Leni's room during that stupid fight and you giving me dirty clothes and telling me to give them to Lincoln to sleep with or you'll tell mom and dad I still eat from the garbage cans and dumpsters."
The others became wide-eyed in surprise.
"I can't believe you'd stoop so low bra," Luna uttered.
"And you still snitch on us even after we found out your secret Lindsay Sweetwater told Lincoln," Lisa declared.
Lana wasn't done raging at her twin.
"You know what, you can find somewhere else to sleep from now," she demanded.
Lola, who remained silent the entire time while listening to her sisters wrath turned around and faced her sisters
"Fine I'll sleep with Leni," she said petulantly.
"You're not sleeping in my room," Lori declared with arms crossed.
Luna scowled then remarked, "Don't think about sleeping in mine."
"Mine either," Lucy declared.
The deep frown on Lisa's face made Lola somewhat afraid of asking to bunk with the genius.
"Fine I'll sleep on the smelly couch," Lola said peeved.
"Well since we don't have TV, I'm picking out some clothes for tomorrow then get to bed," Lori declared.
While the others headed towards the door, Lori picked up Lola's plate from the dresser then gave her a stern warning.
"And if you even think about getting back at Lincoln, we won't hesitate to tell mom and dad the secret Lindsay Sweetwater told Lincoln," she warned.
After Lori dumped Lola's leftovers, she washed the plate and utensils then put them away after drying them.
Lori never noticed Lincoln's birthday card to Lola was missing because Lola tore it into pieces and threw it in a dresser drawer when she stomped into her room after destroying the plane.
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It was only 8:20 pm. Lola was finished putting on her nightgown when Lana entered their bedroom carrying two blue sheets she got from the linen closet in the basement.
"These are yours," Lana declared before throwing the sheets on her bed. The other girls were changing into their sleeping clothes. Lincoln already changed into his pajamas thirty minutes earlier and fell asleep while watching a repeat episode of Desert Storm on his laptop.
Lola grabbed her pillow then the sheets. Lynn Sr. was coming from the kitchen upon checking the back door and locking the kitchen window. He noticed Lola laying a sheet on the couch on his way to the master bedroom.
"What are you doing out of your room?" he asked inquiringly.
"Weell Lana doesn't want me sleeping with her and the others don't want me either," Lola said dejectedly
"Okay I'll tell you mom you're sleeping on the couch," he replied then hesitated before leaving.
"I promised I'd talk with her," he thought but suddenly became apprehensive about the idea.
"Come on Lynn, stop being afraid of her," an inner voice chastised the father.
He confidently approached Lola who was about to cover herself with the other sheet.
"Lola could I talk with you for a moment?" he asked.
She sat straight up and Lynn Sr. took a seat beside her.
"Why did you get angry and destroy Lincoln's plane because he didn't want to play with you?" he asked.
Lola refused to answer so Lynn Sr. decided to continue.
"I know you kids hate being punished this way but your mom and I decided just grounding you all for a month wasn't enough for assaulting that boy but it's not going to be for the entire summer," he explained.
Suddenly Lola blurted out, "Because he gets to go with his friends to the arcade and go to birthday parties while I'm stuck at home just reading and playing board games. I cannot stand playing another game of checkers. I wish he misbehaved at the block party so he would have gotten punished with us."
"So you're upset that he gets to enjoy himself?" he asked but Lola didn't respond.
"And Lori, Luna, Lucy, Lisa and Lana came in my room and started telling me off saying why do I have to be mean and they all blamed me for ruining their summer. They acted like Lincoln is a perfect angel who never does anything wrong. Like they forgot that he clogged the toilet lots of times," Lola whined.
"I remember," Lynn Sr. replied, then thought, "He ruined all my karaoke CD's."
"Remember the picture he took for your and mom's anniversary? He wanted to take another one but wanted to change the way we looked so he used the hose to wash my makeup off and Lana's mud then tied us up with the hose and dragged us outside, and made Luna wear an ugly wig. He and Clyde also tried to steal Bluebell cookies when Lana and I were training to join the Bluebells," Lola admitted truthfully.
"Really I didn't know about that," Lynn Sr. mused.
"I didn't tell you about it because we sold them kale chips because the Bluebells stopped making cookies," Lola continued.
"And if he didn't go on strike over chores the house wouldn't have gotten so messy and we wouldn't have panicked when we couldn't find Lily," Lola continued.
The father of eleven was listening keenly the whole time. He was beginning to get drowsy so decided to call it a night.
"You need to get some sleep, it's getting late," he said gently.
"Goodnight daddy," Lola said sweetly
"Goodnight Lola," he replied.
In the master bedroom, Rita was finished looking over her work schedule on her cell phone when Lynn Sr. walked in.
"I just talked to Lola, she's actually on the couch because Lana doesn't want her sleeping in her bed," Lynn Sr. reported.
Rita gave a surprised look to her husband, "Well I guess it's okay," she remarked.
When Lynn Sr. got under the sheets, he turned off his lamp. Lola was asleep within three minutes.
Lori placed the book she was reading on her nightstand and yawned.
"What a day," she thought, then suddenly the scene of Lola getting swatted flashed through her mind.
"I hope mom doesn't have to resort to spanking again," she muttered.
Rita had been awake for the last ten minutes thinking about spanking Lola but she wasn't feeling guilty about doing it. Her own mother Marie disciplined the four older girls by swatting them a few times on their behinds when they acted up. This was the first time Rita spanked any of her children because she and Lynn Sr. didn't believe in spanking.
Suddenly a feeling of trepidation about Lola overcame Rita.
"Oh my God, suppose she turns out to be like Sylvia," she thought in a panic.