Lincoln Loud woke up to the sound of his alarm. Lincoln Loud got up and turned it off before changing out of his PJs. Lincoln Loud left his room and saw that there was no line for the bathroom. Lincoln Loud expected this as he set his alarm to go off at 6:30. Lincoln loud put on his black hoodie and headed to the bathroom. Lincoln loud turned on the bathroom lights and unzipped his pants before pissing in the toilet bowl. Lincoln Loud finished peeing and zipped his pants up and then looked at himself in the mirror.
"Who are you?" Lincoln asked the reflection "Your not Lincoln Loud, You're not the son of Lynn Loud Sr and Rita Loud. Your not the brother of Lori, Leni, Luna, Luan, Lynn Jr, Lucy, Lola, Lana, Lisa, and Lily Loud. You're not the Kid who People called the man with the plan" Lincoln told his reflection
The reflection didn't respond. Like it could.
"Who are you?" He asked it again and then chuckled at himself. "Better yet... Who am I?"
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the person who many people had identified as Lincoln Loud left his home early that morning and walked to school.
Lincoln Loud. Sometimes the name felt alien, even to its owner. Recently it felt like that to the owner of the name Lincoln Loud. However, We'll continue to call him that even though he doesn't feel like Lincoln Loud.
On the walk to school, Lincoln searched through his hoddie pocket to find his pack of smokes and his lighter. He remembered when a girl at the park caught him smoking:
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"Don't you know that those things can kill you?" She told him with a know it all tone
Lincoln looked back at her and smiled, "that's kind of the point, trying to speed things up" he told her
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Lincoln wasn't lying. One day he realized how much his life was hell. The next day he woke up and felt... empty. Suddenly all the bad things shadowed the good. Suddenly things weren't right. Lincoln realized that his family didn't love. While many would argue that the family loved each other, you would be wrong. could parents who cared about their children really let them get kicked out of the house? would sisters really take advantage of their brother's forgiveness? Would they really put their son and only brother in a sweating suit and bring him to the beach?
With every event where his family turned against him, a piece of him broke. People can only take so much.
Lincoln realized all of this a month ago, but did people notice? did anyone ask him what was wrong?
Lincoln loved the feeling when he smoked. He knew he was addicted, but did he care? No. See he loved because it brought him a brief happy feeling. Something that his family couldn't do anymore.
Lincoln pulled on of the cigarettes from the pack and put it in his mouth and then put the pack away and he then lit the cigarette and took a deep breath of the chemicals that would give that kick he needed.
Lincoln Loud was broken. Many people say that humans can't be broken, that is not true, if people could not be broken then why do people break under pressure? why do people become sad? why do some people go insane?
"It's times like these where I like to remind myself of a joke, one that may seem simple until you actually realize what it means," Lincoln told himself "why did the Chicken cross the road? To get to the other side"
Lincoln then laughed at his joke. He was sure that no one would really get. He was right. He took him most of his life to realize. what the joke was about. It was one of the few jokes that made him question life but also made him laugh. Not because it was funny but because of how complex it was. The joke itself was Simple yet so complex.
Why did the Chicken Cross the road?
To get to the other side!
Get it?
Do you really get it?