Playing video games in the living room, Lincoln was playing a little Cowboys Vs. Pirates on the Ybox, and he was enjoying every minute of this game. Tomorrow, he was planning to meet Luke at the Inside Africa park to spend some time with the lions again and he knew the pride of lions would he very happy to see him in their enclosure again. Another thing in his mind was: he would be happy to hang out with the African wild dogs in their enclosure, for they were as welcoming to Lincoln as those lions were.
After a whole hour and thirty minutes, he decided to take a break from his games and got himself some Mac n cheese bites that he made last night. He enjoyed the taste if this snack and there were about four bites on the plate in the fridge.
Lincoln couldn't help but watch those videos of him on the internet of him interacting with Mufass, Aslan, Taka, and those lions he met the first few times, and he was surprised to see that the views reached up to one-hundred million hits today. Deep down inside him, Lincoln felt a little proud of himself for being popular with these videos and how viral they were.
"Still feel like one of the lion family, Lincoln?" Asked Lynn, who spooked him from behind.
Lincoln made a small yell, and turned around to see his elder sister. "Agh. Lynn." He said. "I thought you were Lucy."
"Nah, if it was Lucy, you would know."
"Touche. So, what do you want?"
"Just wanted to know how you were doing, bro. No biggie." Then she gave him a rough punch on the right arm.
"Ow!" Lincoln said. "Lynn, I hate it when you do that!"
"Ah. Come on. Just hanging out with the best brother in the world."
Lincoln just rolled his eyes at her. "Okay, okay." He muttered. Clicking on the video again, he still couldn't believe how popular these videos were already.
"Lincoln!" Looa called from upstairs.
Making a small groan, Lincoln got off the computer and went upstairs ti see what the bratty little sister wanted from him. It gave Lynn a chance to look up videos of baseball players accidentally getting knocked out by incoming balls, knocking them to the ground.
"Hahaha! This is hilarious!" Lynn guffawed.
Meanwhile, Lincoln looked for his sister, and he found her with a camera, coming towards him. "Ab, there you are, Linky. Can you play photographer with me?"
"Again?" Asked Lincoln. "But, we just played that game yesterday."
"Do it, or I'm telling mom that you were looking on Girls Galore magazine again!" She blackmailed.
Lincoln was a little terrified of what Lola just threatened him with and he reluctantly did it anyway. While pretending to take pictures, Lola did many sensual poses involving kissing faces over and over again for a period of time.
At last, after about fifteen pictures of her, Lola said: "okay, That's good." Then Lincoln gave the camera back to her.
"Happy?"
"Yep. Thanks, Lincoln." Then she went back to her room with the camera in her hands, humming to herself without a care in the world. It was rather annoying for Lincoln, but he didn't want his habit of looking at girly magazines exposed to everyone else.
"Lincoln!" Lana called. "I need your help!" She ran up to him in a hurry.
"Easy Lana, what is it?"
"Hops won't eat his worms. Can you help me?"
"Okay. Wait, do I have to eat the worm?" Lincoln asked her uncomfortably.
"No. Just pretend that you ate the worm so he'll think you did."
"Ah. Good." Following her to her and Lola's room, Hops had a stern and grumpy look on his amphibious face. "Hey Hops. Can you please eat the worms Lana gave you?"
Nodded his head a "nope" with his arms crossed, Hops blew a raspberry.
"Come on. You gotta eat something, buddy." Lana urged.
Once again, Hops swung his head a no. "Okay. I'll show you how good they are." Lincoln pulled out a worm and turned around to the right side of his body. "Just watch this." He put the small worm down past his neck and dropped it on the floor, going past his neck.
With this, Hops had a change of heart, and began using his tongue to eat as much worms as he can fill in his mouth before swallowing them.
"Thanks m, Lincoln." Said Lana. "Hops will be full by the end of the day."
"No problem, Lana." He got in video chatting with Ronnie Anne on his laptop while sitting on the staircase. "Hey Ronnie Anne. "How's it going?"
"Sorry Lame-o." Ronnie answered. "But I'm grounded for skateboarding in the bodega again. So I can't really be seen going on the computer."
"Oh. Okay. Sorry to bother you."
"No problem." The she signed off.
He wondered of who else to talk with next on the internet, and thought of Clyde. He hoped that he was available for him to chat with. He got him on the other line, and he was available to talk with. "Hey buddy, what'a up?"
"Just bored and thought I would talk to you."
"Nice. I was getting bored myself."
"Hey Clyde, still trying to be better around Dimartino?"
"Yep. I'm feeling better around her now, mostly because Luke is her boyfriend now."
"Same with me."
Clyde took a sip of his milk and he said: "it cannot be a bad as me with Lori. Her, I still can't bleed my nose without looking at her or hearing her voice." Clyde began daydreaming of his crush once again in a funny face. "I can just imagine riding a two-seat bicycle down tbe park with her singing Daisy Bell."
"Right."
"Lori, Lori, give me your answer do." Clyde sang.
Lincoln began to look annoyed by Clyde's usual daydreaming over his eldest sister. "Oh boy." He muttered.
"I'm half crazy over the love of you."
It was just then Lori came in the room and she was apparently looking for her brother. "Lincoln, do you think you can literally help me with something?"
Vlyfr stopped his singing and froze like a statue on the other line. "L-L-Lori?" He recognized that voice all too well. He had a nosebleed with his eyes rolling around like crazy, then collapsed on the floor with a loud thud.
"Oh Clyde." Said Lincoln with a sigh. He knew that Clyde was no unavailable. Closing his laptop, he asked Lori: "what do you want?"
"Sorey to bother you, but I need some advice. What kind of emojis should I send to Bobby, the kiss emoji, the heart emoji, or the wink emoji?"
"Why not try all three? It works both ways." Lincoln suggested.
Lori made a silly gasp and she said: "Lincoln, you are literally a genius. I will do just that." Then she exited the living room while texting to Bobby once again. Lynn was still recovering from her leg a little. It's not so broken anymore, but there was still some cramping in it.
In his head, Lincoln was still curious about what many of those countries in Africa are like if he ever visited there, and there was no doubt that Luke would be with him in that kind of travel in the future. He also believed that his sisters wouldn't be very interesting in going there, more like go to malls or look at clothes on sale since they are all girls.
He believed that all his sisters wouldn't really be interested in going to Africa with him and Luke, maybe except for Lana because of her love for animals, Lisa because of her observing animals (and the fact that she treats all animals as test subjects.) And Luna for the music like the bongo drums and kalimba. The rest if the sisters wouldn't really be interested in Africa.
"Yeah, Lynn would probably think it would be boring," Lincoln thought to himself. "Maybe if there were some lions hunting or cheetahs running around. Heh, let's see Lynn try to outrun a cheetah."
The doorbell rang and it revealed to be Luke and Alexandria looking happy to see him. "Hey Lincoln, you busy?"
"No. As a matter of fact I am bored." Lincoln replied.
"Nice. Perfect timing then." The Rogue Lion said. "Alex wants to hear your guitar playing from what I taught you."
"Oh yes. I just live the sound of a guitar playing."
"Well, I don't know." Said Lincoln. "I'm not as good as Luke."
"Ah, don't be so modest." Said Luke. "You've been getting better on it, and I'm proud of you for that." Then he handed him the ax that Lincoln would play on in guitar practice. "Here you go."
"Wow. Nice."
"What's going on in here bro?" Asked Luna. She noticed the guitar and she said: "oh, you about to jam on that ax?"
"Yep." Luke answered for his brother. "My new girlfriend here wants to here him play."
"Ooh, radical! Let me get the others." Luna said, running around the house to bring the other sisters to hear Lincoln play. He sat on the couch, and held the guitar in his arms. Dimartino sat next to him on one side, and Luke on the other side.
It took a little while, but the other sisters and the parents came in the room to hear Lincoln play.
Ag first, Lincoln looked a little nervous and worried that his sisters will laugh at him for his supposed lousy playing. "Come on dude, you can do it!" Luna cheered him on.
Lincoln gulped and waited for everyone to gather around. He pretended not to see that his sisters were there just for some support in himself and just Dimartino and his godbrother alone, and maybe his parents were there with him too.
"Okay, here I go." Lincoln said. "No don't laugh at me, okay?"
"I'll try my best." Lori teased
"Lori," Rita Said sternly.
"Okay, okay."
Then Lincoln began playing in a rather slow and melodic tune on the guitar, and it sounded really nice. Deep down, he thought that all that playing has paid off, and he is a rather adept guitar player now, thanks to his practice.
Everyone was liking the tune and really dug in how he was playing so nicely. Lincoln began playing some solos and chords on the fret board, and in a much faster pace, and when he was done, there was a nice round of applause from his family and Dimartino
"Whoo! Way to shred on that thing, Lincoln!' Luna cheered.
"That was beautiful!" Leni added.
"Not as good as Luna," Said Lana. "But still, that was so good!"
"Play some more!" Said Lucy. "And maybe you can play something evil or sinister.
"Come on Lincoln, you don't want to disappoint your fans, do you?" Luke urged him encouragingly. "Besides, Alexandria loved it."
"Yeah Lincoln. Please play some more."
"Okay, okay, okay." Lincoln gave up at last with a smirk. He began playing some more nice tunes worth everyone's while for a brief period of time.
The Next Morning
A rooster crowed in the distance from the house, and Lincoln awoken from his slumber. However, something was very wrong. He didn't really feel like himself and his nose was very stuffy, for he couldn't smell a thing closest to his nose, and his throat felt dry, and had a little bit of trouble inhaling in his mouth probably.
Still, he just decided to shrug that off as morning allergies and went out of bed to get some breakfast.
He smelt bacon and eggs for breakfast and promptly went in the kitchen to see his dad cooking the food. "Morning Linc- Oh. You okay?"
"Yeah, just fine, dad." Lincoln replied in a stuffy voice. "Why wouldn't I be?"
"Look at you." said Lynn Sr.
"Nah, just morning allergies dad. No biggie." then he let out a sneeze, wiping some mucus from his nose.
"Okay." said Lynn Sr uncomfortably. Lincoln promptly sat down at the table and began eating his breakfast, although he couldn't really taste the bacon and eggs properly. The other sisters came and got their breakfast, and they all stared at Lincoln.
"What?"
Luna was the first to speak: "You okay, bro? You look a little down under the weather, man."
"Yeah, you look as sick as a dog." said Luan.
Charles heard that phrase and growled in offense. "Come on guys, I'm just fine." Lincoln stated. "I feel like a... ACHOO! a million bucks." Lincoln then felt Luna gently touch his forehead with her hand.
"Wow, you're burning up hot, Linc. You got a fever, and I don't mean a cat scratch fever."
Then Lori, being the oldest, did the same. "Geez, you are literally burning up like fire, Lincoln."
"Come on guys, I told you, i'm fine." Lincoln begged. He began coughing and trying to hard to breath properly.
"You don't sound like it, honey." Rita said. "Not to mention you are paler than a baby zebra."
"Let's get you to bed, and have Lisa look at you." said Leni. She picked up her younger brother and carried him to his room. Lola brought an ice pack and placed it on his head. Lincoln did not want to get sick and he wanted to be with his new brother a the safari park again. This day might not go well for him at all.
"Just sit tight, elder brother." said Lisa. "I will be back momentarily to check the diagnosis."
"Not another CPR." Lincoln complained.
