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Ten reasons
Chapter twenty-five: The Riot part one- An intentional accident
Waking up from a nap in her crib one pleasant enough day in early Winter, Lily Loud got onto her hands and knees and looked around the room she shared with her big sister Lisa. Those colorful glass bottles that her super-smart big sister was using were not where they were usually kept. Did she finish using them for her work? And why was Lisa even working with them in the first place? The baby Loud sibling had so many questions, and she cursed her inability to talk properly yet, as it kept her from being able to ask any of her questions.
However, to Lily's delight, her big sister Lisa, along with their big brother Lincoln, AKA the best playmate in the world as far as she (Lily) was concerned, came walking into the room. Lisa was carrying one of glass bottles, which was empty and not colored, and Lincoln's hair was blue.
"My apologies, Lincoln," Lisa said to the sole Loud boy, "I had no idea that my experimental medicine would turn your hair blue. It should change back in quick order, though."
"Wait a minute," Lincoln said. Gesturing to the empty glass bottle Lisa held, Lincoln said, "That was the secret project you told me about? You were trying to make a medicine to heal my leg?"
"I figured that you'd like to finally heal your left leg," Lisa replied as she set the empty glass bottle she held back where she usually kept it, "But it seems that I must have missed a few variables when it came to-"
Lisa stopped short when Lincoln picked her up into a hug. "You didn't have to go that far for me, Lisa," Lincoln said in a sincerely touched tone.
"Well, I, umm, had been meaning to experiment around with developing pharmaceuticals at some point," Lisa replied in a flustered manner, "But I had been putting it off. That was, of course, until what you went through nearly three months ago, Lincoln."
"Wincon!" Lily called out in a happy tone, getting both Lincoln and Lisa to turn to see the baby of the family giggle happily as she clapped.
"Oh, Lily's awake," Lisa remarked in a casual tone, "Did you have a good nap, my younger sister unit?"
"Wincon! Wincon!" Lily babbled as she raised her arms up and waved the around. Smiling, Lincoln walked over to Lily's crib, reached in, picked her up, and held her against his chest. This was clearly what the baby Loud sibling had wanted, and she giggled happily while her big brother was holding her.
"Aww, are you happy to see me, Lily?" Lincoln half asked half cooed. At that prompting, Lily nuzzled the side of her head against Lincoln's shoulder.
"It's about time for Lily's lunch," Lisa pointed out to Lincoln as she saw the time on the clock in the bedroom, "And seeing as how she's apparently chosen you to handle her, you should go on and feed her, Lincoln."
"Well mom's not here to do it herself since she had to take care of some shopping, so why not?" Lincoln replied. This prompted a happy giggle out of Lily; the best playmate in the world was also going to get her lunch? Best day ever!
That was a good lunch as far as Lily was concerned. And seeing as how one of her favorite people in the world was the one who was feeding her, Lily didn't act fussy or otherwise cause any trouble. Whenever her dad or her sister Luan tried to feed Lily, they would always try to crack some kind of joke during feeding time; it's not that Lily didn't like her dad or Luan, it was that she didn't find either of them all that funny. The only funny thing about feeding times with dad or Luan was when they would turn around to take care of something, only for Lily to pelt the back of their head with baby food.
Now that was funny as far as Lily was concerned.
After feeding time, Lincoln took Lily back to her and Lisa's room. Seeing a few of her toys laying around, Lily waved a hand at one of them while babbling excitedly. Seeing this, Lincoln knew what his baby sister was trying to get at. "Oh, you wanna play now?" Lincoln said. Gently sitting Lily down on the floor, Lincoln picked up one of her toys and handed it over to Lily.
"Here you go, Lily," Lincoln said as he handed her the toy. The baby Loud sibling giggled as her toy was handed to her; it was one of her favorite toys, too. Seriously. Best playmate in the world.
Lincoln got up and proceeded to make his way over to the door. Seeing this, Lily cried out, "Wincon!" Stopping short, Lincoln turned around and saw Lily clack two blocks together, set them down, look up at him, then gesture to the blocks.
Smiling, Lincoln said, "Aww, do you want me to play with you, Lily?"
Smiling back at her big brother, Lily giggled a bit before saying, "Poo-poo."
"Well sure, I always have time for the cutest little baby in the world," Lincoln remarked as he walked back over. Hearing her big brother call her the cutest little baby in the world made Lily giggle again.
"So Lils," Lincoln began, "What's the first thing you wanna play with?"
"Poo-poo," Lily replied.
"I…don't think you play with that," the sole Loud boy remarked.
"Poo-poo!" Lily repeated, in a more insisting tone. After a few seconds, Lincoln caught a whiff of something that didn't smell all that good. Realizing what his baby sister was talking about, Lincoln got up, went to pick Lily up, then took her over to the diaper changing station so he could get his baby sister cleaned up.
"That is literally bogus, Boo-Boo Bear," Lori said into her smartphone; as per usual, Lori was having a phone conversation with her boyfriend Bobby Santiago, whose family moved to the next state over. "I hope everything gets sorted out properly," Lori said, "Anywho, I'm afraid I have to go. My mom literally just got back from the grocery store, and needs help carrying in groceries." After ending the call with her beloved, Lori slipped her smartphone into her shorts pocket before walking out the front door and over to Vanzilla; Rita, the loud family matriarch, had just gotten back from the store with groceries.
"How was the store, mom?" Lori asked in a casual tone as Luna and Leni came out from the house to help with carrying in groceries as well.
"As it turned out, everything I got was on sale," Rita replied. This prompted Lori, Leni and Luna to look at the massive amount of groceries that their mom got.
"All of this…" Luna began in a tone of mild disbelief, "…Was on sale."
With a nod in the affirmative, Rita continued, "You won't believe how much money I saved." As she grabbed a bag out from Vanzilla, the Loud matriarch said, "So what did I miss while I was at the store?"
"I had another talk with Bobby over the phone," Lori remarked.
"Oh, didn't one of his younger cousins go missing?" Rita asked in a concerned tone, "Did he and his family find him yet?"
"…D'oh!" Lori exclaimed as she smacked herself in the forehead with the palm of her hand, "I literally can't believe I forgot to ask about that! And Bobby didn't even bring it up, either."
"I heard you saying that something was, like, totes bogus," Leni remarked, "What was that all about?"
"There's some trial going on over in the courts over where Bobby lives," Lori said, "Apparently, some police officers were way too rough with apprehending some teenagers, and they're in hot water for it."
"That sounds pretty harsh, brah," Luna remarked, "But how exactly is it bogus?"
"The cops are all Hispanic, and the teenagers are Caucasian and African American," Lori explained, "This trial has a lot of the local residents drawing some rather unflattering conclusions about what's going on."
"Oh dear," Rita remarked, "That doesn't sound like it'd be very pleasant to go through."
"What's worse is that Bobby and his folks are literally being given trouble by some of the other people living in their city, simply because of their heritage," Lori continued, a clearly concerned look on her face, "I'm worried that someone may try to hurt my Boo-Boo Bear, and that there's nothing I can do. I can't even be there for him."
"Keep Bobby in your thoughts, dear," Rita said, "You can at least do that for him."
Smiling sympathetically, Lori replied, "Thanks, mom."
"Hey wait a minute," Leni said, "If Bobby is in trouble like that, then does that mean that, like, Ronnie Anne is in trouble as well? Shouldn't we tell Linky what's going on?"
"You got a point, Leni," Luna remarked, "We'll get the groceries inside first, then we tell the bro what's going on." Nodding in agreement, the three oldest Loud girls then began to help their mother carry the groceries inside.
The following day, Lincoln (his hair returned to normal), Lynn and Lily were at a convenience store. Lynn was on her way to the park to practice one of her many, many sports with some friends, and Lincoln was coming along to watch them play. They were bringing Lily because everyone else would be out, and it would be stupid to leave the baby Loud sibling home alone. "Wait, I'm confused," Lincoln said to his older sister, "Are you and your friends going to practice football or soccer?"
"Soccer," Lynn replied, "But Mitzie keeps calling it football. She says it has to do with referring to soccer as football where she comes from."
"Oh yeah," Lincoln remarked as Lynn gently pushed the stroller Lily was sitting in, "I think Luna got into the habit of referring to soccer as football as well." Giving his sporty older sister a knowing look, the sole Loud boy added, "Up until you made your point to her, that is." As the three Loud siblings left the convenience store, Lincoln said, "Seriously, Lynn. I don't think going as far as-"
"Oh geez," Lynn said as she looked at something in the little compartment in the stroller under Lily's seat, "I left the baby bag in the restroom." Turning Lily's stroller around, Lynn said, "I'm going to go back in for it."
"Don't let me keep you waiting," Lincoln replied as he watched his sisters go back inside of the convenience store. Lincoln was perfectly happy to wait outside; he liked how it was getting to be a bit cooler. Soon the snow would come, and everyone in Royal Woods would get to enjoy a snow-coated holiday season.
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Lily would have preferred it if she was left with the best playmate in the world, especially since he knew that tickling her tummy while going 'goochy goo, goochy-goochy goo' was guaranteed to get a laugh out of her. But, being a baby meant that she didn't have as much control over where she was left as she would like. Still, Lincoln was waiting outside, and soon they would all be at the park, watching the older kids throw a ball around while Lincoln would tickle her tummy while going 'goochy goo, goochy-goochy goo'.
If her big brother blew raspberries into her tummy, then Lily would be super happy.
"There we go Lils," Lynn said as she pushed the stroller towards the door of the convenience store, "We got the bag with all of your gear in it." Walking out of the automatic door, Lynn continued, "Now we can all head over to the Hey what are you doing to Lincoln?!" Confused, Lily looked around until she saw her big brother laying on the ground in a manner that showed that he was pushed. Standing nearby was a boy roughly the same age as Lincoln, with dark reddish hair.
Seeing that he was spotted, the boy bolted. Lynn could have very easily caught him and made him hurt like hell, but she would get in trouble if she went that route. Besides, she had a younger brother to look after.
"Hey Lincoln, you okay?" Lynn asked in a concerned tone as she helped Lincoln up off of the ground.
"Yeah, that was just Chandler being a jerk again," Lincoln replied, "Although I will admit, this is the first time he ever got physical." With a look of curious wonder, Lincoln said, "It's not like Chandler to act in that specific manner. I wonder what's eating at him."
"I'll find him," Lynn said, "I'll go gather Mitzie and Ulfric, then the three of us will-"
"Lynn, let it go," Lincoln interrupted, "Chandler isn't worth it." Lynn was amazed by how calmly Lincoln was taking this; she was also amazed by how maturely he was handling being pushed around by a bully.
"We should at least tell mom what happened," Lynn replied, "You said the kid's name was Chandler, right?" The two older Loud siblings proceeded to make their way over to the park so Lynn could practice her sports playing with her friends, with Lynn pushing the stroller that Lily was in.
Speaking of Lily, the baby Loud sibling was not happy to see someone being mean to her big brother. Who would want to be mean to Lily's big brother? He's the best playmate in the world! He also takes care of her, like the time she hurt her thumb, and she also likes it when he feeds her when mommy's not available. Lily's big brother was perfect, and Lily wouldn't stand for anyone hurting him! As soon as she could, Lily was going to find the meanie-pants and give him a less that pleasant surprise.
The following day, Rita and some of her daughters were over at Gus' Game n' Grub, getting lunch out while Lynn Sr. was handling some business of his. "So, Lynn," Luan began, "Lincoln told me when you all got back from the park yesterday that you had to correct your friend Mitzie no less than twelve times about something."
"She kept referring to soccer as football," Lynn explained, "After the twelfth time Mitzie did it, Ulfric referred to soccer as football, but I could tell that he did it to mess with me." With a bit of a smile on her face and a slight but noticeable amount of blushing in her cheeks, Lynn continued, "I can't believe he's comfortable enough around me to playfully joke with me."
"It's weird how an actual barbarian is a more mature and respectable person than a metaphorical barbarian," Lisa remarked dryly before taking a sip of her drink.
As Rita and her daughters that were with her were enjoying themselves, the Loud matriarch looked at a nearby wall clock. "…The wings we ordered are taking way too long to get here," Rita said as she noticed the time. Getting up, Rita said, "Luan, can you keep an eye on your younger sisters?"
"Can do," Luan replied with a salute to her mother; the three oldest Loud girls, Lori, Leni and Luna, were off taking care of something else, and Lincoln was with Lynn Sr, helping him with his business. As such, when Rita left to go inquire about the wings, Luan was left to look over Lynn, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa and Lily.
"I don't know about any of you girls," Luan began, "But I'm still a little peckish. I could sure go for another pizza pizza." As the other girls groaned at their older sister's lame pun while said older sister laughed at her own joke, Lily, who was dressed up in a cute little yellow onesie, decided to wander off; she wasn't about to just sit around and be subject to lame puns. Luckily for the baby Loud sibling, she had good aim.
Getting a hold of a bit of sausage that was a topping on a slice of pizza, Lily threw it at Lana's face in a way that made the tomboyish twin turn to face Lisa. "Why'd you throw a pizza topping at me, Lisa?" Lana asked in a tone that sounded half annoyed and half wanting to accept the challenge that had apparently just been presented to her.
"What are you talking about?" Lisa asked, "I assure you that I-" The brainy Loud sibling was cut off when Lana threw an entire slice of pizza at Lisa's face, causing it to 'splat' all over. Peeling the edible projectile off of her face and setting it on a plate on the table, Lisa then took her glasses off and examined them. "…You got pizza sauce on my glasses, my unsanitary philistine of a sister," Lisa said, her usually dry monotone carrying a hint of annoyance.
"First off, I was born here in Royal Woods, not over in the Philippines," Lana replied, "Second off, you shouldn't have pelted me with-" Lana found herself cut off when, once again, a pizza topping pelted against her face, this time a slice of mushroom. Although thrown by Lily, the baby Loud sibling managed to make it look like it was thrown by Lola.
Turning to regard her younger twin sister, Lana said, "You do realize that this means war."
"What the heck are you-" Lola began, but was cut off when Lana took a cup of soda and splashed it into Lola's face. "You got soda all over my dress!" Lola exclaimed, and soon a three-way food fight between the twins and Lisa began; Lucy ducked underneath the table to avoid getting dragged into the fight, and the two oldest girls at the table wisely decided to go get ahold of their mother. Lily, for her part, managed to slip away the instant Lola cried out about her dress getting soda all over it.
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Crawling around on the floor of Gus' Game n' Grub, Lily wandered around, taking in all the sights while taking care not to get spotted; if someone saw a baby crawling around, no doubt they would pick her up and inform the establishment of the baby they found. Luckily for her, Lily was small, and thus able to hide relatively well.
The baby Loud sibling was having a ball taking in all of the sights, but one sight that she caught made her stop in her tracks; she saw three boys, all of which looked roughly the same age as her big brother Lincoln, sitting at a table. The one boy, with the darkish reddish hair, was the same boy who had been mean to her big brother outside of the convenience store the previous day.
Thanks to having her super-smart sister Lisa as a roommate, along with how her big brother was really good at always coming up with a plan, Lily picked up a thing or two about coming up with ideas on the fly. And she had just thought of a plan quickly. A plan she knew would make that mean boy pay for what he did to her big brother.
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"I swear, I thought that girl was going to kill me just because I was messing around with Larry," Chandler said to his two goon-friends. Taking a sip of his soda before going on, Chandler said, "Seriously. Where did Larry get such a violently protective girlfriend?"
"Actually, Chandler," the first goon-friend began in a mildly confused tone, "If the girl you described just know is the same girl that I'm thinking about, then that wasn't Larry's girlfriend. That was one of his many, many sisters."
"Well that would certainly explain why she didn't take too kindly to me merely playing around with Larry," Chandler replied, "I swear, how many sisters can a-"
The conceited boy was cut off when a very young voice called out in random baby babble, getting Chandler and his two goon-friends to look around. It was Chandler who saw a baby girl in a yellow onesie crawling around. She had stopped at the boys' table and was currently looking up at Chandler.
"Hey, it's someone's baby," Chandler said as he saw the baby girl; having not paid all that much attention to yesterday, Chandler failed to recognize that this was Lily, who was in the stroller that was being pushed around by Lynn yesterday. Lily raised her arms up and babbled a bit more. Smiling in amusement, Chandler reached over and picked Lily up, sitting her on his lap.
"I'm not sure who's baby this is, or how she got away from her family," Chandler said, "But we ought to return her. We should at the very least inform the staff here that someone's baby got loose and was wondering around."
"The baby is pretty adorable," Chandler's second goon-friend remarked.
"Well yeah," Chandler's first goon-friend said, "It's a baby. Babies are adorable by default."
Giving Lily a gentle head ruffle, Chandler said, "Do you want to find your mommy now?"
"Pee-pee," Lily replied, talking like how a baby is expected to talk like.
"Oh, you need someone to change your di-" Chandler began, but he stopped midsentence when he felt a wet and warm sensation on his lap. Lifting the baby up, Chandler saw, to his disgust, that there was a wet spot on his right pants leg around the thigh area, which is where the baby was sitting on his lap. Looking at the baby, Chandler saw a very noticeable wet stain on the rear end area of the baby's onesie.
"UGGGGGH!" Candler cried out in disgust, "This baby just peed herself while she was sitting on my lap!"
Lily giggled in amusement while clapping, even saying, "Pee-pee," again. As this was going on, Rita came walking past where Chandler and his friends sat, but stopped short, walked back a few steps, and spotted her youngest daughter.
"Boys, what are you doing with my daughter?" Rita asked the three fifth-grade boys.
"She wandered up to our table on her own, so we figured that we'd pick her up and inform the staff here that someone's baby got loose," Chandler's second goon-friend explained to the Loud matriarch, "But while Chandler had her sitting on his lap, she peed herself and some of it got onto Chandler's pants leg."
Collecting Lily from the boys, Rita could tell right away that something was missing. "Hold on," Rita said with a confused look on her face, "I'm certain you had a clean diaper on before I put you in your onesie." Lily giggled again while babbling a bit; before she crawled up to the table where Chandler and his goon-friends were sitting, Lily found a safe place to hide so no one would see her, took off her onesie, took off her diaper, then put her onesie back on. Lily, when she wants to be, can be just as smart and creative as any of her older siblings. Underestimating her simply because she's a baby is not a very wise thing to do.
"Hey mom," Lynn's voice called out. Walking up to her mother, the sporty Loud sibling said, "You had a point about the kitchen staff here running out of wings for-" Lynn stopped short upon seeing the boy with dark reddish hair.
"Hey!" Lynn exclaimed as she pointed at Chandler, "You're that boy who pushed Lincoln onto the ground yesterday!"
"Excuse me?!" Rita exclaimed, alarmed about hearing that one of her kids had been bullied.
To her mother, Lynn explained while pointing at Chandler, "Yesterday, Lincoln, Lily and I were on our way over to the park, when this jerk here thought it would be all in good fun to push Lincoln over onto the ground!"
"Why I never!" Chandler replied in an offended tone, "I never pushed anyone onto the ground outside of a convenience store!"
"Then how do you know that Lincoln was pushed down in front of a convenience store?" Lynn asked, giving the conceited boy a suspicious look. Chandler's expression changed to one of alarm, showing that the conceited boy realized that he had messed up big time.
Lynn Sr. and Lincoln pulled up in front of Gus' Game n' Grub. After getting Vanzilla parked, Lynn Sr. got out and, with his son following him, proceeded to make his way into the popular establishment. When they entered, they saw Rita and another woman talking, with the other woman looking ashamed of something. Standing with Rita were the Loud sisters that had gone with their mother to Gus'.
"What's going on here?" Lynn Sr. asked as he and Lincoln came walking up, getting the attention of everyone else.
"I take it that you're Rita's husband?" the other woman replied. After the Loud patriarch replied in the affirmative, the other woman said, "Yeah, Rita and her daughter Lynn were informing me of how my son Chandler had bullied your son, up to and including pushing him onto the ground. I'm sorry about how my son's been treating yours, and you can rest assured that I will make sure that my son will be appropriately disciplined."
"Well that's good," Lynn Sr. replied, "I'm always glad to see it when parents take responsibility for their children's wrongdoing." After Rita, Lynn Sr. and Chandler's mom talked out a few more things, the Loud family all took their leave from Gus' Game n' Grub. As everyone piled into Vanzilla, Lynn Sr. said to Rita, "Since I learned who that woman was and why you were talking to her, can you explain to me why three of our daughters look like they've been fighting with pizza projectiles?"
"Lola, Lana and Lisa had a food fight with each other," Rita explained, "But with the kitchen taking forever to get not just our order of wings but everyone's orders of wings ready, along with Lily wandering off for a bit and our daughter Lynn spotting the boy who had pushed Lincoln onto the ground, I kind of forgot about the food fight up until now."
"Also, dad," Lynn added with clear amusement in her tone, "Lily peed herself on the lap of the boy who pushed Lincoln."
"Lily peed on Chandler?" Lincoln asked, arching an eyebrow.
Giggling cutely, Lily babbled, "Wincon." The baby Loud sibling then waved her arms at her big brother.
Smiling, Rita said, "Aww, do you want your big brother to hold you, sweetie?" Gently handing Lily off to Lincoln, Rita said, "Don't worry, I changed her onesie and got a diaper on her. It still beats me what happened to the one she was wearing earlier."
While in her big brother's arms, Lily cooed softly while laying her head against Lincoln's shoulder. Smiling, Lincoln gently patted his baby sister on the back. "Well aren't you the sweetest baby ever, Lils," Lincoln remarked, "Did you really pee on the boy who pushed me to the ground yesterday?"
"Wincon," Lily babbled as she gently nuzzled against her big brother's shoulder. Still smiling gently, Lincoln gave his baby sister a gently ruffle on the top of her head.
"Yeah, let's get you into your baby seat so we can all get home," Lincoln remarked.
"He's got a point," Lynn Sr. said to the rest of the Loud brood, "We ought to get going home. Lori called me and said that she, Leni and Luna need to tell us about something rather important that they're doing for some friends who will be out of state for the next few days. I think Lori mentioned something about pet sitting?"
"Well that doesn't sound too bad, dear," Rita replied as she and the rest of the family all got into Vanzilla. As Lincoln made sure Lily was securely in her baby seat, Rita said to Lynn Sr., "Did Lori, Leni and Luna say what kind of dog or cat they were looking after?"
"Well I know that Lori said that one of the pets is a dog," Lynn Sr. began, "As for the other two pets, well…I wouldn't exactly say that they're what you'd call 'normal pets'."
"Oh, they're exotic pets," Rita replied casually, "Well that shouldn't be too difficult, especially given Lana's skill with working with animals. Are the other two pets, like, snakes or something else along those lines?" Hearing the possibility that there would be more snakes in the house made Lana excited and Lola mildly revolted.
"…No, but rest assured that both animals can be legally kept as pets in Michigan," Lynn Sr. replied, "So don't freak out when you see them."
Lynn Sr., Rita, Lincoln and the seven youngest Loud girls stood in the living room as they saw what was going on; a Tibetan Mastiff was standing on the sofa while Geo the Hamster, in his ball, was looking up at him. The large, powerful dog was barking at Geo in a way to suggest that not only should the little creature not come any closer, but that the Tibetan Mastiff was actually afraid of a creature that was roughly the same size as his poop.
Cliff the cat was chasing a fox around the living room, and judging by the noises the fox was making, it did not really appreciate being harassed by the Loud family's pet cat. Luna was sitting on the sofa opposite of the end that the Tibetan Mastiff was on, a skunk on her lap; the skunk looked perfectly content sitting on someone's lap, being in their company. Charles, the Loud family's (rather small) Pitbull terrier, was regarding the skunk with a look that seemed to be jealousy. Walt, the Loud family's pet bird, was in his cage, mostly just sitting there.
Standing in front of the returning family members were Lori and Leni; the oldest Loud sister had a somewhat sheepish look on her face.
"…Umm, yeah," Lori began, "Leni, Luna and I are watching the pets that my friend Allison and her siblings own."
END, TEN REASONS CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Author's notes:
I looked it up; both skunks and foxes can be legally kept as pets in Michigan, assuming that you follow the appropriate laws and regulations. I'm not sure if a family can keep both a skunk and a fox at the same time, but then again, when has a fanfic ever followed real life down to the letter? Anywho, the next chapter will go more into detail about the Loud siblings, more specifically the three oldest siblings, watching the pets of the Ace siblings.