March 2016
On Friday, during lunch, Jervis asked Oswald if he wanted to come over to his house on the weekend (Saturday night till Sunday morning).
Oswald was stumped. He'd never been on a 'sleepover' before. He told Jervis he would ask his parents for permission and see what they said.
After dinner, Oswald approached Rita (who was washing dishes) and told her.
Rita was surprised, but overjoyed. She did not hesitate to give him permission.
Oswald went up to his room to read. Lincoln was not home because he was out with Clyde, as he told his siblings before.
Oswald was reading when he glanced at the clock and saw it was past curfew, yet Lincoln was not home yet, becoming slightly concerned.
Then, Luan, Lynn, and Lisa burst into the room, explaining that they were going to cover for Lincoln so that Mom & Dad wouldn't realize that he wasn't home yet. They began covering the room floor with pillows while Lisa climbed up to open the window (causing Oswald to worry what they were up to).
Looking out, Lisa exclaimed that Lincoln had arrived before shouting that he 'approach at a 63-degree angle'.
Everyone cringed when they heard something (Lincoln) thump against the wall and fall to the ground.
Lisa then corrected herself; it needed to be a 62-degree angle.
Leni rushed into the room, grabbing Oswald by the hand, and taking him into the hallway, where their parents were just coming up the stairs, with Lori conversing with them about a magazine she had just read.
Hey parentals, Leni sweetly spoke, Ozzie was just tellin' me he wants to know how you two met.
So, it was that Dad began to regale how he had met Mom when she was a crossing guard when everyone heard a thud coming from Lincoln and Oswald's room.
Concerned, Mom rushed for the door when Lily started crying. The parents stopped to comfort the baby, providing a distraction for Luan, Lynn, and Lisa to sneak out of the room, carrying the pillows with them.
Mom and Dad checked up on Lincoln before passing on, unaware.
Before he headed to bed, Lincoln told Oswald how grateful he was to have their sisters always covering for him (and insisting he would do the same for them).
'One of the great things about having a big family', Oswald reflected on as he went to sleep…
Saturday:
Early in the morning, Rita called all the kids downstairs for spring cleaning, causing most of them to groan.
Oswald was about to get right to work when Lucy appeared and asked him to cover her side of the workload as she had a poetry reading to get to. Oswald was about to refuse when before he knew it, she was gone.
Oswald sighed, scratching his head, when Lisa approached him, explaining that she had an extremely important lecture to do at the university that she needed to go to. Annoyed, but understanding the importance, Oswald agreed and let her go.
Later, Oswald was stunned when Lincoln told him that the remaining sisters had all left, leaving the two boys to do all the work.
When Rita called up to ask Lynn and Lucy how cleaning, Lincoln opened his trunk and took out a wig resembling Lucy's hair before putting out an impression of the goth's melancholy tone. Continuing with impressions of Lynn and Leni while Oswald and he went into overhaul in cleaning upstairs.
Sighing with relief when done, the boys were startled when Rita announced that Pop-Pop was on the computer's video chat and wished to say hi to all of them.
Worried, the boys went downstairs to greet their grandfather, who then asked to hear some music from Luna.
Lincoln rushed to his room, leaving Oswald downstairs. Moments later, he came back down-dressed as Luna and bearing a similar-looking guitar.
Oswald stood there, mouth agape, as 'Luna' started playing for Pop-Pop, who applauded before asking to hear some comedy from Luan.
'Luna' went up the stairs, with Oswald following right behind.
In their room, as he was dressing up, Lincoln explained that he had texted all the sisters to come home and that he had costumes of all the sisters there for a delay, asking Oswald to help him.
Oswald shrugged but soon found that none of the clothes fit him, so Lincoln told him to just use wigs then.
After entertaining Pop-Pop, 'Luan' came back to the room and told Oswald that Pop-Pop wanted to see the twins, handing his brother the Lana wig and hat.
'The twins' pretended to argue over who would speak to their grandfather first; Pop-Pop trying to be a mediator when Luna and Lana came through the door.
Lana blinked at Oswald's wig and hat before she and Luna started laughing at Lincoln's dress until he explained the situation at hand.
As more and more of the sisters came home, all of them began dressing up as each other (Oswald putting on a white wig to pose as Lincoln; Lincoln ending up as 'Lily').
It went on until Lori (dressed as Leni) came up, saying that Pop-Pop wanted to say goodbye to all of them together. So, all of the costumed siblings gathered downstairs to bid farewell.
The mood of celebration abruptly came to a halt when Mom & Dad came into the room. They were all busted!
The kids explained what had happened. And the parents decided they would allow the kids to continue their plans-as long as they were wearing the costumes to them, much to the kids' mortification.
Later:
Oswald, still wearing the white wig, was driven to Jervis' house by Rita. He was nervous. Not about the wig-compared to his siblings, he knew he had no place complaining on that front-nervous because this was his first sleepover.
He walked to the door-Rita following him-and pressed the doorbell.
Jervis' mother opened the door and greeted them, exchanging phone numbers with Rita (promising to call if there was an emergency). Rita left after kissing Oswald on the forehead and wishing him good night.
Jervis was waiting in the living room for him. He was confused about the wig, so Oswald claimed he and his siblings like to dress up in costumes at home.
Jervis' face lit up into a smile before he escorted Oswald to his room. There, Oswald saw there were several different hats-Jervis explained they were from his grandfather's old hat shop and that he liked to put them on and play-pretend that he was a hero from several historical times.
He and Oswald began putting on the hats, playing. It was a jolly start to Oswald's first sleepover.
An older boy, whom Jervis introduced as his brother William, walked into the room, telling the two that they were to be in bed by nine-forty on the dot.
To Hatoralo:
-It's the first part of a Mythology sub-story in this fic about how the different pantheons and deities in the DC Universe converge and cross paths with each other. And what role the New Gods, especially Darkseid play in events. And in a few chapters, there'll be one about Egyptian mythology.
-No, the Loud kids won't fight Darkseid. The upcoming conflict with him (the finale to the sub-story) will happen decades before any of them are even born.