Lincoln was just out with Clyde at the arcade: Gus' Games N' Grub, playing some Guitar Hero, when Lincoln got a call from Luke, and he told his friend: "Hold on, Clyde. Luke's calling me."
"No problem, buddy." said his best friend. "Go ahead. I'll wait."
Then Lincoln went into one of the booths in the restaurant section, and answered the phone and he said on the other line: "Hello? What's up, Luke? Everything alright?" Then he waited for a response for his new brother.
"Hey Linc." said the Rogue Lion at last. "Everything's just fine. Thanks to my new girlfriend here."
"Ah. So what's up?"
"She wants to meet you, and remember what I said about her seeing you before?"
"Uh-huh."
"She has seen you."
"Ah. Okay. So you want me to come over there and meet her?"
"Totally. What do you say."
Thinking about this in his head, Lincoln finally said: "Sure. Let me just finish up in the arcade with Clyde. I'm about to beat his high score."
"Ooh. Nice. Can't let him break your record, huh?"
"No sir. Anyway, I'll see you soon."
"Okay. My girlfriend will be looking forward to see you again." Said Luke. "Have fun with Clyde and make sure to beat his high score, would ya?"
Lincoln made a chuckle before saying: "I will Luke. I'll look forward to meeting your girlfriend, too." Then he hung up and went back to Guitar hero. He and Clyde were going at it hot, and ultimately, in the end, Lincoln was victorious against him.
"Ohh! Almost had you." Said Clyde. "Still. Good job."
"Thanks."
"So what did Luke want?"
"He wanted me to come meet his new girlfriend at his house a little later today."
"Cool. That's really cool." Said Clyde. "Why not vote over there now?" He heard his stomach growling and fuming in his tummy. "Oh right."
"Yeah, we can't go anywhere on an empty stomach." Then Lincoln's tummy began growling too. "I can really go for a three-meat pizza right now."
"You read my mind, Lincoln." Clyde agreed with him. They all went to the counter and had a large, three-meat pizza with pepperoni, sausage bits, and slices of Canadian bacon. As soon as they took the first bite of their slices, they immediately fell in love with the taste of this. Nothing beats the taste if pizza than Gus' Games n Grub.
Horking their food down and enjoying their small cola drinks with ice cubes in them. Both boys wished they can have a pizza a second time (without spending any more money, that is.) But, they were almost full with their lunch anway.
Finally, as soon as they were both done, they promptly put their scraps and leftovers away into a nearby trash bin, along with their empty cups that used to have cola in them. "Boy am I fed." Said Lincoln, patting his belly in happiness.
"Totally. Well, come on. Let's see who Luke's girlfriend is." Then they gave Gus, the owner and proprietor of this joint fifteen dollars, and were out of the restaurant, with their stomachs very happy.
At Luke's house, there was a purple car with a pink heart at the window of the trunk. They knew it belonged to the new girlfriend just looking at it. Admittedly, the two were a little nervous. But they knew Luke, so it shouldn't be a problem for them at all.
Opening the front door, they were greeted by his two dogs as usual, by being pounced on and having their faced licked all over as if they were ice cream cones. "hey hey hey!" Lincoln laughed as he felt his face being licked by Shadow. "Alright boy. Nice to see you too!"
The rottweiler just continued licking Lincoln's face with joy. Meanwhile, Whopper was licking all over Clyde's face, and his tongue was a little more slobbery. "Ah! Whopper!" He squirmed around as his face was licked like this. The great pyranese stopped his licking for a second, and howled at the ceiling in happiness.
Shadow got off of Lincoln as his little, stubby tail was wagging with joy. "Nice to see you dogs, too." Said Lincoln. He and Clyde looked all over the room and saw Luke waiting for the new girlfriend to sit with him.
"There you boys are." Said the Rogue Lion. "Just in time."
"So, where is your girlfriend?" Asked the white-haired boy.
"Lincoln?" Said a familiar female voice. "Clyde?" The two boys turned and what they saw froze them and make their hearts drop down to their feet as if the gravity in their bodies were as strong as Jupiter. A beautiful, Latin woman with long, brown hair was in the corridor and Lincoln recognized her an in instant. "It's so good to see you sweet boys again." She was wearing a white tank too and a black leggings on her own legs.
Too lost for words, the two were flushing and began going "ba-ba-ba-" over and over again, leaving the Rogue Lion a little confused on what was up with these boys. Dimartino was just as confused as her new boyfriend.
"Lincoln, Clyde?" Luke asked. "You two guys alright?" He waved his hand at Lincoln's face and then Clyde's, but to no avail. Next, he tried snapping his fingers at them, and ultimately, Lincoln turned away and pulled Clyde with him.
"I am so sorry Luke, but... We need to talk. Ms. D, can you please give us a minute, please?"
"Of course Lincoln. Are you okay, sweetie?" she asked
"Just fine. We just... need to get our heads straight." Then he went to the backyard to talk with his new brother. "Luke, about Dimartino," he said
"What about her? You don't like her?"
"No, no, of course not." Lincoln reassured. "But... She was our substitute teacher when Ms. Johnson broke her leg while riding a mechanical bull. And, she was so beautiful, me and Clyde almost flunked because of her."
Luke had his eyes wide hearing that.
"Even Lori's boyfriend nearly flunked because of her. She is that beautiful." Clyde added
"Well, you ain't wrong." Luke remarked. "She is the most drop-dead beautiful girls I have ever met."
"Kinda why we almost failed."
Little did Lincoln know was that Ms Dimartino was standing at the back door, possibly to come check on him and Clyde. "I'm sorry." she said at the doorway. The three looked back at her. "I never knew that my looks made you struggle in class so much."
"Ah come on, Alexandria." said Luke, wrapping his left arm around her shoulders for comfort. "And, to me, you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life."
"Oh ho, Luke." Dimartino blushed. "You say such the sweetest things. Why can't more men be more like you?"
"Ah, Alexandria." Luke flustered, then he gave her a kiss on the lips to show his love.
The beautiful Hispanic woman looekd back at Lincoln again. "i'm sorry, miss Dimartino. you're too beautiful to look at for my eyes."
"And my eyes." clyde added.
Dimartino went up to Lincoln and bent down on her left knee, and put out her right arm on his right shoulder. "Lincoln," she said. "Please. tell me. what is the matter?"
Sighing in defeat, Lincoln ultimately said to her in reply. "Miss Dimartino, you almost made me fail the fifth grade, because... i was in love with you. Or, falling for you at least."
"You... were in love with me?"
"Uh-huh." Said Clyde.
"All of the boys in the school were in love with you." Said Clyde. "But, could you blame us? I mean, look at you. Luke's right when he said you are one of the most beautiful women in the world."
Flushing again, Dimartino felt some guilt building up inside her. Her almost making the boys in Lincoln's class because they were distracted by her beauty and her body?
"And, every time you gave us a test, we failed it and you leave a frowny face on the paper next to the 'F', and that was a little cold."
Alexandria frowned and said: "oh. I'm sorry about the frowny faces on your tests. But, I was never trying to hurt your feelings, I only put those there because i was just sad at how low you scored on them." The boys still didn't turn around to face her.
Clyde then "We know you weren't trying to hurt us. You didn't know about how we felt."
"Yes. I was not aware that you boys were... swooning over me. Bow, please, look at me." The two kids reluctantly turned around, but had their heads bent down so they wouldn't have to look at her. However, she used her soft, warm hands fo gently lift the boys' faces up to make eye contact with her. "I'm so sorry if I almost made you fail because of me."
"No. It's okay." Said Lincoln. "Look, I know you would never hurt us."
"And I am really flattered by how you all fall in love with me, but I am far too old for all of you."
"We know." Lincoln and Clyde remarked in unison.
"Well. This is.. a little awkward now. I probably should have brought her here." Luke said.
"No, no, it's alright." Said Alexandria.
Lincoln sighed again and had an idea. "Maybe since you have a boyfriend now, my new brother, I can be more calm around you."
Smiling, Ms Dimartino said: "I think that would be a good way to try and help you not be so shy around me."
"You're right." Said Clyde. "Well, I'm curious about how you and Luke met."
"Come inside." Said the Rogue Lion. "We'll tell you when we set foot."
"It' a real page-turner on how we first met and came to be." Alexandria added. "And.. will you boys be okay while looking at me? If you can't, I understand. But please, don't be very shy around me."
"We'll try." Said Lincoln. He, and the others went inside and sat on the couch together. "So, you guys were her students once?"
"Yep." Clyde remarked flatly.
"We have certainly met before." Lincoln added.
"Right. Well, it happened three weeks ago and I was helping my dad feeding the Cape buffalo in the large pen, then I saw Alexandria holding a drink for herself, and then she just tripped and fell on her right ankle. I couldn't help but notice that and I went to her aid."
"Let me tell you, Lincoln." Said ms Dimartino. "Luke here is quite a gentleman. He offered to bring me an ice cream and I was flattered by his kindness. He was more than kind enough to bring me a chocolate-vanilla swirl on a cupcake cone.
"Then after that, I offered her a new drink for free."
"After that, me and Luke had a really good talk and found we have many things in common."
"Like what?" Asked Clyde curiously .
"We both have a love for Africa, animals, and all things French." Said Alexandria. "I even helped him feed a few birds around the Out of Africa park."
"I didn't know you loved animals, ms. D."
"I do,Lincoln. I love animals just as much I as love kids." Then she took a sip of her hibiscus tea. "I know that Luke and I are meant to be together. What is not to like about this charming man?"
"He is my new brother after all." Lincoln agreed with her.
"Brother?" asked the substitute teacher. "I thought you only had-"
"I know, I know. Ten sisters, but... I always wanted a brother figure in my life, and it's fun hanging out with a guy, and I need to do guy things in life once in a while." Lincoln remarked.
Alexandria smiled on her cute, beautiful face. "I completely understand."
"And living with ten sisters is never an easy thing to do in life."
"That is true Lincoln, but I grew up with four older brothers." Said Miss Dimartino. "I was always the butt in their jokes and always picked on by me, being wrestled by them every day."
Lincoln and Clyde were rather surprised to hear that by her. Turns out that Lincoln was not the only one dealing with a big family like him and Ronnie Anne. "Wow. That just have been a nightmare for you when you were in a house like that."
Ms. Dimartino made a cute and sexy laugh from herself. "Lincoln you are really funny."
"Don't forget about me, sweetheart." Luke said.
"Oh, get over here, Lion." Then they both kissed on the lips. "You are such an amazing man."
"And you are the most amazing woman ever." The Rogue Lion admitted to her, then they kissed again. "Well anyway, I decided to take Lincoln under my wing and be his new godbrother if he needed some help in his life, like if his sisters were driving him crazy."
"Well, That's very nice." Said Alexandria.
"And, I think Alexandria is a beautiful name, miss Dimartino." Said Clyde.
The Hispanic woman was flattered and said: "Thank you, Clyde. I was named after the city in Northern Egypt. Sometimes, my own friends would call me Alex for short."
"Isn't that more of a boy's name?" Asked Lincoln.
Miss Dimartino couldn't help but laugh at what Lincoln just said. "No, sweetie." She said. "It can be both a boy's name and a girl's name."
"Oh. I see."
"As we were talking more and more at the park." Said Luke. "I knew that we were meant to be together as lovers." Luke continued with the story. We started out on small dates and I took her with me on a few rides on my motorcycle."
"At first, I was scared, but now I'm used to it."
"And speaking of which." The Rogue Lion then went into one of his closets and pulled our a leather jacket. "Ta-da!"
Gasping, Dimartino promptly took the jacket. "This jacket is so beautiful, Luke." She said gratefully. "I absolutely love it."
"I knew you would love it." Then he felt himself being hugged by his new girlfriend, feeling very flattered and touched by her new boyfriend's bee gift. "Glad you love it."
"Oh and do you think that maybe, you can come assist me at one of my substitute classes for when I I am teaching?"
"Hmm. I'll have to think about it. What would you have me do?"
"You can show some of those animals from your dad's safari park and show them to the other students."
"Hmm.. I would have to talk to my dad and the administrators about it."
"Of course. No rush at all, you cool cat. It would make the kids very happy, and as long as they are safe and not aggressive."
"Heh. I'll bear that in mind, Alex." Then he took a sip of his own hibiscus juice. "I didn't mean to make this... awkward for you guys. I didn't know that Alexandria kinda made you... nutty."
"No, it's okay." Said Lincoln before turning to miss Dimartino. "And, we're sorry for foolishly falling in love with you, Miss Dimartino." He and Clyde's cheeks were blushing a tomato red on their faces.
"Oh Lincoln. There is no reason for you and Clyde to be sorry. I'm certain it was my fault that I made the boys almost fail school."
Lincoln smiled. "Good. And... i won't go very nutty on you again since you have a boyfriend now."
"Me too." Clyde added.
"Thank you, boys." Dimartinp smiled and hugged them to show how much she cares about them. "Well, it is very nice seeing you again."
"And we'll see each other more often than ever, right?"
"Absolutely."
"Especially since she is welcome here any time she wants." Luke added. "Well, I guess That's done."
"Oh, and I have seen those videos of you with those lions, Lincoln." She added. "I was rather impressed by how they all accept you like a new member of the family."
"Yeah. I was starting to worry that I would have got mauled to shreds. But, I'm so happy I can he with those lions. Although, my parents always worry about me when I do that."
"Yes, because they love you, Lincoln. That's what parents do."
"Yeah, I know."
"Would you guys like to stay for more jus de bissap?" The Rogue Lion offered.
"I can't. Mom needs me to do a chore." Lincoln remarked.
"And i have to get back to my dads and take my anti-allergy pills." Added Clyde. "And I'm allergic to flowers, including hibiscus."
"Okay. No problem." Said the Rogue Lion. "Let me know if you need anything, little brother."
"I will, Luke. Thank you." Lincoln said. He got off the couch and Clyde did the same.
"And the same with me." Dimartino added. "I can help you out too bow that I am your brother's girlfriend now. It's the least I can do."
Lincoln smiled at her. "Thank you, Miss Dimartino." He replied.
"You are quite welcome, mon ami. A tout a l'heure."
"What does that mean?" Asked Clyde
"It's French for see you later." Luke corrected.
"Oh. Okay. I think I remember you teaching us that miss D." Lincoln said.
"Of course. I am very fluent in Frenh, Lincoln. I have spent two years in Gabon after all."
"Wow. See you guys later. Come on, Clyde." Then the boys went out the door. Luke and Alexandria began kissing a few seconds after, passionately sharing their love.
