Hey, everyone. How you can see on the title, I will take the sisters a bit more in the focus. We will see the insights of some characters and in the next part get a bit dirty again. Also, the next part confirms a ship in this story that was implied in an older chapter. Maybe you can already guess which one it is.

Disclaimer: The Loud House belongs to Nickelodeon.

Chapter 40

Lincoln's sisters Part 1

Lincoln woke up this Sunday and his underwear was wet again. "Damn. D is really good with her feet. I have to get rid of it. I don't want to explain this to one of my sisters again."

At breakfast, the typical chitchat was at every side of the table.

"Hey, Linky? Do you want to do something with me and Lana today?" asks Lola him with a subtle amorous look.

"Oh, eh. Sorry, Lola. But I'll meet Ellie later," he answers her.

His parents stop their talking with their kids to look at Lincoln.

"Who is Ellie?" ask both in unison.

"She is a friend I have met while I was in Isaac's group. She is part of his band who had played yesterday, too."

"Well, okay. But don't overdo it on your first date, sport," his dad says with a wide grin.

"Dad! That isn't a date. We're just friends who want to hang out a bit."

"Don't let your father teas you. I wish you much fun with your little friend," Rita says to him.

"Thanks, mom. But she isn't little. She is sixteen."

"Oh. Oh, my. Well, as long as she is a nice girl."

"Mom, I said it isn't a date. So no worry. Also, she is nice."

"Anyone else who is going out today?" the patriarch asks.

"Yeah, I also meet a friend at the park," Luan says.

"Okay. Don't forget, kids. Tomorrow is school again. So don't come home too late."

Both are nodding and continue their meal.

Lola was still looking at Lincoln. She was a bit disappointed that her boyfriend wanted to spend time with another girl instead of her.

Back in their room, Lola immediately starts to rant about Lincoln. "Can you believe it? He would rather hang out with this Ellie instead of his two adorable girlfriends!"

"Lols, not too loud. The others shouldn't know that he is in a relationship with us. At least not till we know that they have no problems with it or are for him too," Lana explains quietly to her lookalike.

"Are you not furious about that? Are you not hurt?"

"I'm a bit disappointed, yeah. But it still is his life. He can hang out with whoever he wants. And he said it himself. She is just a friend."

"Ronnie Anne was also 'just a friend' and we all know how bad he had it for her."

"That is different. Back then, he wasn't already in a relationship. But now he is and you know that he never would hurt us."

"I know. I know."

"Also, we can see him all day. We live in the same house. It's just that your pride is hurt, that's all."

"At least I have some. Not like others, mud runner!" Lola said while crossing her arms in front of her chest.

"Hey, I also have pride. You're just jealous at this Ellie. No reason to let it out on me."

With stomping feet, Lola is leaving their room.

"Where do you go?" Lana asks her.

"I go to Lucy. She had seen this Ellie. She can tell me something about her."

She continues her walk and Lana is following her.

Lucy was on her bed. Reading a book as Lola is knocking at the open door.

She looks up and sees the two blond girls. "Hello, my sisters. What can I do for you?"

"We want to know something about this Ellie," Lola says directly.

"She is jealous," says Lana bluntly what brought her a glare from Lola.

"I already had thought that this will happen. I can understand you, Lola."

"Ha. See?" Lola says triumphantly to Lana and sticks out her tongue.

"But we also should respect the freedom of our boyfriend. If we forbid him to meet other girls, we would not be good girlfriends. And with that, just push him away from us," the goth explains to the beauty queen.

"Ha," replies Lana to Lola.

"Okay, okay," says Lola defeated. "I just want to know what kind of girl she is. She is not his sister, so should she has it for our precious boyfriend, we may have a hart time to come up against her. She is older and with that is way more developed than us. And maybe Linky would choose a normal relationship instead of us."

"Don't you have trust in Lincoln?" Lana asks not believing what her twin sister had said.

"She is not that wrong, Lana. We do not know if he is thinking that a normal relationship would be better for him. At least he can have kids with her instead of us. But when this is what he is wishing for his life, I am not the one who will stand in his way. I love him more as you can love someone. And that is the reason I want him to be happy. Even if that means I have to let him go," explains Lucy.

"But weren't you afraid that you would end up being alone?"

"I still am. But others also wish to be at my side. Like you two or Lynn."

Lana goes to Lucy and holds her fist to her. "No matter what. I'll remain part of your life. We are a family. Nothing will change that."

Lucy smiles slightly. She nods and bumps her fist softly at Lana's.

Lola sighs, "As if I could get away from you. Even if I actually want it. Lana here is sticking at me like gum. But what is now with that Ellie?"

"Lincoln had said it at the table. She is a nice person. I can not deny that. But I think she is showing her 'goods' a bit too much for my taste."

"What do you mean by that?"

"The way she dresses shows very well how womanly her body is shaped. And it looked like she enjoys the looks of others at her a bit too much. I do not know her well enough to say something like that. And I do not want to talk bad about her without knowing her better. But it looks like she is a so-called 'easy girl'."

"What is an easy girl?"

"You will know that when you become older."

"You aren't that old yourself. Don't act like you know everything already," Lola huffed.

After breakfast, Lincoln decided to watch some TV. Leni was already on the couch and is switching through the programs.

Lincoln takes place beside his second oldest sister. "Hey, Leni. What are you watching?"

"Oh. Hey, Linky. I want to watch The Dreamboat but I couldn't find it," she says while still switching from channel to channel.

"Eh, Leni. The Dreamboat doesn't run on Sundays."

"Oh, right. Silly me," she said in her typical happy demeanor while smacking her palm softly against her forehead.

Lincoln chuckles about it. "Please never change, Leni."

"Huh? Why would I change? I had already chosen my clothes for today," she says not getting what he was meaning.

"I mean, your character. Remain the person you are. Because I really love you the way you are." Lincoln takes her into a loving hug.

But instead of hugging him back, Leni hesitates. As Lincoln looks why, he was surprised. Leni was close to crying.

"Leni? Is every—"

Suddenly she breaks out of his hug and goes upstairs. Lincoln didn't what was going on. He was going after her but just faced a closed door with a not responding Leni behind it.

He couldn't do anything so he decided to go back down. But he was worried about his big angel.

Sometime later were Lincoln and Luan on their way. Half on, they separated since Lincoln's destination wasn't the park.

Ellie had send him a message where she had asked him if he has time because she wanted to hang out with him.

Lincoln was a bit surprised. It sounded like she wanted to see him pretty badly. It also is that she has to come from Huntington Oaks to Royal Woods. It isn't that far, but still. What does she want from Lincoln?

Lincoln had come to the edge of the woods where Isaac's group normally had their meetings. Ellie was already there.

Ellie stands up from the stump, she was sitting on, to greet Lincoln. "Hey, Lincoln. Thanks that you have taken the time for me. I bet you're really busy with all your sisters."

"Hey, Ellie. Yeah, they know how to keep me busy. So it is nice to get away from all the chaos from time to time. And how are you doing?" he greeted her back.

"Fine. I'll be doing fine. The show, we have given, had made me really nervous. But it was fun too and also it was nice to get cheered by you," winks Ellie at him, what makes him blush.

He laughs slightly embarrassed, "Well, you were pretty good there. Of course, I would cheer for you."

"Was I as good as your sister? Isaac had told me that one of your sisters is a rocker herself and should be pretty good. But he must have exaggerated."

"Luna is one of the best. She is awesome and knows how to play her instruments. But you're also pretty good with your guitar. I think you two would be good friends," Lincoln explains passionately.

"Maybe. You know, I don't get along with other girls that good."

"What? Why?"

"Eh, they just get jealous or are pissed when their boyfriends look more at me instead of them."

"Did this happen often? I mean, you look good. No question. But I don't think that all guys are like this, that they are looking after another girl when they have a girlfriend."

"Maybe. I don't want to lie to you. I provoke it a bit."

"Why are you doing that when you know that they have girlfriends?" Lincoln asks her.

"I..." Ellie shacks her head. "No. You just would think bad of me when I tell you."

"I would never think bad of you, no matter what."

"This is really nice of you but I think that will change your mind."

"Okay, I swear by all my Ace Savvy comics that I'll not think differently about you as I think now," he says while holding his left hand up and his right on his heart.

"You're really sweet, Lincoln. Do you know that? I wish you would be a bit older. Maybe things would be different then."

"You make me pretty curious. So come on, what is it?"

"Okay. I am a girl that likes to fool around. I had sex with a lot of guys without getting serious."

Lincoln was taken aback as he hears that.

"See? I've told you that you would think bad of me," she says sadly.

"No, no, no. It isn't that. I don't think bad about you. I'm just surprised."

"Lincoln. You can be honest with me. Everyone thinks that I'm a bitch. And I don't even blame them. They're probably right."

"Than why are you still doing it?"

Ellie looks into the distance. "Benny. This all had begun as we have lost him. We were really close, you know? He was like my best friend. I could talk with him about everything. But after he was gone... There was this hole in me. I had felt so empty. So I have searched for something to fill it again. And so, one thing came to another and I ended up having sex with some strange guys. I had at least felt something, so I continued."

"I... I'm sorry for your loss. What had happened to him is terrible."

"Then tell me, Lincoln. Tell me how you could do something like that to your sisters?"

Lincoln was taken aback again. Not only because of this question but also because of Ellie. Tears were falling down her cheeks.

"Do you not love them? Do you not care for them?" she continued.

Lincoln was hurt. Not because of her words. But from the fact that he once, had stopped believing that his family really loved him. That he had stopped caring for them.

But not anymore. He knows that they love him. Some of them more than he had ever thought.

He looks at Ellie, "I love my sisters. All of them. From the deepest of the deepest part of my heart. I had denied it for a while that they truly love me too. I still feel ashamed of it. But they have shown me more than once that their love for me is real and pure. And so is mine. Depression is a big, fat asshole and it tries everything to drag you down."

"What had made you thinking that they didn't love you back?" she asks curiously.

"All my sisters are very talented at something. As said before, Luna is good with any instrument and also is a great singer. Lola wins one beauty pageant after another. Leni makes the best dresses. Lynn is an awesome athlete. And so on. I'm a bit skilled in all that stuff but not as much as them and I haven't find my special skill by now. So I felt overshadowed by them. My depression began and that voice in my head had let me think all this. Also, there was Da—that damn thing with Ronnie Anne." Lincoln thought it would be better when she doesn't know about the talks with Damien.

"Who is Ronnie Anne?"

Lincoln sighs and tells her everything.

"Man, that is hard. I still know how it had felt as my first crush had rejected me," Ellie says after Lincoln has finished.

"It wasn't funny, that's for sure."

"There is one thing I wonder."

"Eh, what is it?"

Ellie looks at Lincoln with a serious look, "What had Damien said to you when you were with us?"

Lincoln got pale in just a second. "W-what do you mean? We just had talked with each other."

"Yeah. And then out of the blue, he attacks you and stabs you with a knife. Lincoln. I want you to be absolutely honest with me. Had he said something to you that had made you even more depressed? Does he have anything to do with Benny?"

Lincoln gulps a big log down his throat. What should he do? If he tells her about Isaac's and his theory she would maybe go after Damien herself. But he hates it to lie his friends directly in the face.

He sighs heavily, "Okay, Ellie. He had told me stuff that had fueled my depression. But he was so subtle that even I didn't notice it. Isaac and I think he may have done the same to your brother but we have no proof to that."

Lincoln could see how anger grew in Ellie. How the hatred of Damien becomes bigger and bigger.

So he jumps up and grabs her at her shoulders, "Ellie, listen to me. I know that you want nothing more to make him pay for it. I can understand you. But it doesn't bring Benny back. I also want to see that Damien gets what he deserves. But I don't want to see how you go after him and maybe get hurt or even worse, get killed in the process. So, please. Please promise me that you will not do anything stupid. I beg you as your friend."

Her anger fades slightly away as she looks into Lincoln's eyes. He truly was worried about her. Ellie let hang her head but before Lincoln could say something again she laid her hands on his.

"Okay. I promise you that I will not go to get Damien. But for that, you have to promise me something too."

"Everything," he says without hesitation.

She looks up again. "Be my brother."

Lincoln was surprised by that. "W-what?"

"Back there as you were with us, you had treated me like a sister. Don't think that I haven't noticed it. It had felt nice. Maybe things will change when I have a brother like you at my side."

Lincoln laughs quietly, "Okay, Ellie. From now on, you're one of my sisters. You can always count on me. I not only promise you that, but I also guarantee it."

Both were sitting in front of the woods for a while longer and just enjoying the nice view and company.

Stay tuned and have a great day.