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Wow guys, I can't believe that I let this slip away from me for so long. Things have been a little crazy lately with family and life in general. I honestly lost track of time and only now realized how long it had been since I updated this story.

So here's the latest chapter and I will hopefully have the next one done within two weeks, I'm going to try and keep to my old schedule. I'll also be posting another chapter for DLA and LFAL within the next two weeks as well so look out for that.

In order news, I will be posting a new story that I've been working on for a couple of months now. It's a short story, no longer than ten chapters at most. It's kind of a messed up story, definitely not something that I would normally write but I was inspired to write it. I will let you all know now that it's dark, not as dark as some stories out there but definitely dark for me. If you're uncomfortable with tough subjects then I don't recommend that you read it. I'm honestly kind of writing it for my benefit because it's a story that I wanted to write mostly to see if I could.

Well, I hope you enjoy this chapter and I'm looking forward to catching up on all of the stories that I've missed during my little vacation.

Too Many Dates

Chapter 11: Coming Out

After Lincoln gave his girlfriend one last hug, he made his way over to the twins room. He didn't know what could have possessed them to behave that way towards Carol but he was going to get to the bottom of it. He didn't bother knocking, choosing instead to barge in like he was mad, which he was. The twins jumped at his sudden entrance and when they saw the expression on his face, they knew that they were in trouble.

Lincoln didn't say a word after he closed the door. He walked slowly towards the center of the room, his glare burning holes into their heads. Lana, the more sensitive of the two, started to tear up at once.

"Do you have anything to say for yourselves?" Lincoln asked as he crossed his arms over his chest.

The twins shook their heads and Lana took off her hat and clutched it to her chest. She might've done it subconsciously but Lincoln noticed that whenever she was scared or upset, she would clutch her hat to her chest. It didn't surprise him, he knew that it was her favorite hat. And he knew that because he was the one who gave it to her.

"Well I have a couple of things that I would like to say to you." Lincoln said as he began to pace back and forth between the two beds. "First of all, what you did was terrible! How could you speak like that to Carol of all people? She's one of the nicest girls in Royal Woods and for some reason that I can't explain, she loves me. Me!"

"B-But Lincy-" Lola tried to speak but Lincoln cut her off.

"I'm not finished yet! Now, you two are old enough to understand a few things. Yes, you're still 7 and are still kids but you already know what I did with Sam, Becky, and Carol. There's no point in trying to hide it since in this family there's no such thing as privacy. Now, I want you two to listen to me very carefully because I don't want to have to repeat myself. I love those girls very much. I can't imagine my life without them now and not just because of the amazing sex that we've had. They take time to listen to me, to talk to me. They try to understand me in a way that not a lot of people try to do. They were my friends first and then they became my lovers. I still don't know how that happened but it did and the last thing that I want is for my sisters to fight them."

Lincoln stopped to calm himself a bit. He sighed before placing his hand on his temple. "I love you guys so much...I don't want to have to choose between any of the girls that I love."

At this point, Lana was silently sobbing while Lola looked like she was close. And when Lola spoke, her voice was breaking on almost every word. "We're sorry, big brother. We just did what we thought was best."

"Why on earth would you think that calling my girlfriend a whore was for the best?" Lincoln asked, sounding fatigued all of a sudden. He made his way over to Lana's bed and scooped her up in his arms, allowing her to cry into his chest. Then he walked over and sat down next to Lola and pulled her into a side hug, which she accepted without hesitation.
"We heard Luna and Lynn talking about her before you and Lori came back." Lola confessed.

Luna and Lynn were talking about Carol? Why would they be talking about her if they didn't know about what had happened yet? "What were they saying?"

This time it was Lana who answered. "T-They were talking about how another girl slept with you." She was still clinging to his shirt as she spoke but she was looking up at him. "We didn't hear everything but we heard enough to know that Lynn called Carol a Wh-a bad word."

Lincoln frowned. "Why would Lynn say that about Carol?"

"We don't know..." Lola said with a shake of her head. "We just heard a little bit. But by the sound of it, it seems like all of these girls were taking advantage of you."

"Why would you think that?" Lincoln asked.

"W-Well, none of them were doing sex with you before, right? And then all of a sudden now every girl wants to do sex stuff with you." Lana reasoned. Lincoln could feel Lola nodding along with her twin. "A-And while we've always known how amazing you were, none of them knew it before the sex stuff happened. It's like when Charles wants to mate with the neighborhood dogs. Most of the time they won't bother with him until he starts to mate with one of them and then all of the girls want a piece of him."

Lincoln couldn't help but grin. Not because of what they were talking about but more so because of Lana's child like logic. "Lana, I'm pretty sure that I'm not releasing a pheromone or anything crazy like that."

"How can you be sure?" Lola asked him. "I don't know a lot about animals but ever since you and Sam had sex it's like every girl wants you as soon as they get a whiff of you. Maybe you do have a scent now that makes girls fall in love with you?"

Lincoln laughed. "What? That's crazy. If you're using that logic then shouldn't the two of you be in love with me too?"

It was meant as a joke. One to be brushed off as soon as he said it but as observant as he was, Lincoln did not miss the signs so clearly displayed on their faces. Their cheeks became red with matching rosy blushes, their eyes turned away from him, their heads ducking away so that he wouldn't seem them. But he could see them and Lincoln suddenly stopped laughing.

"W-What?" Lincoln wasn't sure what was going on anymore. He had come in there to find out why they had done what they did and maybe punish them. But now here he was, sitting down with his little sisters who were blushing like crazy. And all because his little joke revealed a truth that he never thought possible.

"What?" He repeated. He looked down at Lana, who was sitting on his lap and was still clutching his shirt. "Please tell me that you're joking."

He sounded like he didn't want to hear anything about them being in love with him and that hurt the twins, more so than any punishment. Together, the twins began to shed tears.

"I-I'm s-s-sorry Lincoln..." Lana sobbed. She tried to pull away from him in order to distance herself from him but she found that he was holding onto her. "Let go!" She sniffed.

Lola had tried the same thing but Lincoln held onto her as well. "Please let go, Lincoln..."

"Hang on, I'm sorry. That came out wrong." Lincoln scooted back on the bed and with some maneuvering, he managed to sit both of the twins on his lap. He stared at their tearful expressions and he felt terrible for being the one to cause it. He wasn't sure how to respond but as their big brother, it was his job to make things right. "Okay...let's start over. How about you tell me why you think you're in love with me?"

"We don't think that we love you, we really do!" Lola protested, her head snapping up to briefly glare at him. Then when she realized that she was glaring at him, she glanced down at her hands. "I mean, we know what we feel and it's not fake."

"I didn't mean to imply that you have fake feelings." Lincoln amended. "But what I'm asking is why are you in love with me?"

The twins shared a look and after a moment of silent debate, Lana nodded and went first. "We just do."

"That's not really an answer though." Lincoln sighed. "Look, no matter what I'll still love you but how do you two even know what love, romantic love is?"

Lola reached into her dress and pulled out a small string necklace with a plastic golden locket. It was made in the shape of a tear drop and Lincoln recognized it because he had given it to Lola when she was four after winning it at the fair.

"It's hard to explain..." Lola began as she held on to her locket. "There isn't just one thing that made us love you. It's all of the things that you do for us...you're so kind and sweet and wonderful...how could we not fall for a real life prince charming?"

"Well, how do you know that you're not in love with the idea of me?" Lincoln asked them.

"What do you mean?" Lana asked though it was clear that both twins were confused.

"What I mean is, you two have grown up with me in your life, right?" When they nodded, he continued. "All you've known about how a guy should treat a girl is based on how I've treated you. Well, what if in your head you have this idea of what the perfect boy should be and you've mixed that boy with me? After all, I'm the only boy that you two have known all of your lives."

"You mean, like we're only in love with you because we think every boy should be like you?" Lola asked, tilting her head to the side as she tried to understand her big brother.

Lincoln nodded. "Exactly."

"That's dumb." Lana said as she crossed her arms. "Why would we do that when we have you in our lives? No boy has ever come close to being like you, Lincoln. Remember, we've liked other boys before and none of those ever lasted more than a few days. Like Hugh or Skippy."

"Or Winston." Lola added. "We know what we feel for you is real because whenever we try and feel the same for another boy, our heart doesn't beat like crazy. Our palms don't get sweaty and our cheeks don't feel warm..." Lola placed her left hand on her chest as she leaned in a bit and placed her right hand on his chest. "Don't you see, Lincoln? We only feel that way around you..."

"Mom always said that whenever we meet one that we'd know by how we feel." Lana continued on. "And when I think of you...my heart starts beating like the time that we ate those Carolina Reapers because Lynn dared us to." Lana took his hand and placed it on her chest so that he could feel just how fast her heart was racing. "You see? This is what you do to us...to me...you can't fake that..."

Lincoln was quiet for several moments as he tried to comprehend what was going on. He was being confessed to by two of his little sisters and he didn't know what to do. It was clear that they were growing up, especially because for the first time ever, they had managed to shut him up with a solid argument. They had learned a lot from the man with a plan and a part of him was proud of them. He could honestly see them winning plenty of debates when they entered high school if they ever wanted to join the debate club.

But that wasn't the real issue, no, what the problem was that his twin little sisters were in love with him. And he was starting to believe that they actually were in love with him because everything that they described about how they felt about him was exactly how he felt about Sam, Becky, and Carol. Which put him in a difficult position.

He loved them, he honestly did. But that didn't change the fact that they were related and that he wasn't in love with them. Yet, as they stared up at him with determined yet hopeful faces, he felt something click deep inside of him. He didn't want to break their hearts, he didn't want to hurt them. He loved them, yes, he loved them very much. And as much as he would probably regret it, he knew that there was only one way to be sure.

With them so close together, Lincoln cupped their cheeks and gave them each a quick kiss. It was a test to see how they would react. And it was also a test to see how he would react. Lola immediately swooned and slumped to his left where she landed on her pillow. And Lana's face turned the brightest shade of red that he had only seen when they ate those reapers. Steam was practically coming out of her ears!

But most importantly, he felt himself blush a little bit. He didn't dislike kissing them, he was honest enough to admit that. But he also knew that he couldn't do anything further than that.

"L-Lincoln!" Lana gasped as she reached up to touch her lips, her eyes as wide as saucers.

"Well, that happened." Lincoln chuckled. He sighed before picking Lana up and placing her beside Lola. "Look, I'm not saying yes nor am I saying no. I still don't know what just happened and I'm pretty sure that I'm going to hate myself for this. But for now, you two aren't grounded anymore. Just make sure to say that you're sorry to Carol before she leaves. I...don't know what's going to happen but I'll let you know as soon as I know something."

"Wait, does that mean that you might love us too?" Lola asked, her expression hopeful.

"No, what that means is that I'm going to have a talk with Lori and see what she thinks. I'm clearly not the one to handle this because knowing me, I might just give in because I can't say no to either of you." Lincoln reached over and placed a hand on their heads, watching as they seemed to enjoy the comforting contact. "You're my cute little sisters and I'm always going to love you. And I want nothing more than to see you two happy...but just this once I wish that it wasn't up to me to make you happy."

This sobered up the twins and they hung their heads. "We're sorry..."

Lincoln simply smiled. "Don't be, after all, we can't help who we fall in love with."

He stopped by the door just as he was about to leave. "Remember, no matter what I'll always love you." And with that he left the twin's room and made his way towards his own. He had a lot on his mind and he needed to think.

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"So let me get this straight...you want me to help you seduce my brother..."

Luan could still remember her conversation that she had with this particular girl a few days ago. A part of her had hoped that maybe she had dreamt the conversation but alas, that was not the case. It was wednesday and after a few days of trying to figure out her feelings, Luan still wasn't any closer to figuring out what she felt.

"No, I want your help so that we can seduce your brother." Maggie corrected.

Luan sighed. "There you go again...can't you just...not involve me in your crazy plan?"

"Luan, why do you deny the truth?" Maggie asked her. She reached up and placed her hand on Luan's left breast, right above her beating heart. "You say that you don't love him like that yet your heart beats faster when I mention his name. Lincoln..." And Luan couldn't help but blush as her heart did indeed beat faster. "You haven't been dating that buffoon long but even I can see that whatever magic you thought you had is fading. I've been watching you...when was the last time that the two of you even held hands?"

"W-What?" Luan tried to pull away from Maggi but the dreary girl didn't let up. They were sitting in Maggie's living room. And as she tried to pull away, Maggie leaned in closer and they ended up lying on top of one another. "M-Maggie!"

"Don't lie to yourself, Luan, you know that your heart beats for the same man as mine does. You look to him for sun, for warmth...I've seen the way that you smile when you see him, when his gaze turns towards you and you alone." As she spoke, Maggie's face was getting closer towards Luan's and since the dark haired girl had her pinned to the couch, Luan couldn't escape. "When you perform your art in front of a crowd, you always turn to look at him for adoration. You smile brightest when he's the one clapping and cheering for you. I've seen these things for myself and you don't smile nearly as much anymore...why is that?"

Before Luan could answer, there was a sound of something dropping to the floor. Both teens turned their heads towards the entrance of the living room and they saw Maggie's mom standing there with her hands partly shielding her eyes.

"O-Oh my god! I'm so sorry! Please, don't mind me!" She picked up her phone and hurried up stairs.

They watched as the older woman ran away from the room before they turned to look at one another. Realizing their compromising position, the two blushed furiously as they scrambled to sitting positions with a couple of feet between them.

"W-Well, as I was saying...I know that you harbor feelings for him as do I. And as I previously stated, I do not mind sharing him with you...so please, will you help me?" Maggie pleaded with her.

Luan, who was trying her best to forget the situation that had just occurred, could hardly think. "Are you listening to yourself? You're asking me to help you seduce my own brother, who I'm related to by blood by the way, and to also join in? Are you nuts?"

"I fail to see the problem." Maggie turned to stare at her with a straight face.

"The problem is that I'm related to him, Maggie!" Luan whispered furiously, hoping that Maggie's mom wasn't listening to them. "He's my baby brother!" Luan reached up and grabbed the front of Maggie's shirt, pulling her close. "How could you possibly think that I would be okay with having...s-s-s..." But she couldn't finish her sentence, her face returning to it's previous scarlet.

"Isn't it obvious?" Maggie asked. When Luan furiously shook her head, she continued. "It's because you're in love with him."

Luan pulled back as if struck. "W-W-What!?"

"Luan, can you honestly say that you don't feel anything for him? Can you look me in the eye and tell me that you feel nothing romantic for him?" Maggie's expression changed to one forlorn that was pining for a love that wasn't hers. "Can you watch from afar as other girls lay claim to what your heart yearns for?"

A single tear fell from Maggie's eye and as it traveled down towards her chin, Luan got several flashes in her mind of Sam, Becky, and Carol all smiling and holding hands with her brother. She knew that last night, her brother had gone out with Carol and that they most likely did the deed. He seemed to have that effect on all of the girls, even her apparently.

Her mind flashed back to a few months ago, a couple of weeks after she had started dating Benny. She was performing at a birthday party where both Lincoln and Benny agreed to help her. During her performance, she messed up her routine and she ended up falling off of the stage and she landed on the table with the birthday cake. Thanks to Lincoln's quick thinking, she was able to play it off and they used the spare cake that they had for eating instead. It was always a good idea to bring a second cake just in case, as Lincoln liked to say.

The kids loved it and she was able to continue the show but for the rest of the day, she felt terrible about it. Both Benny and Lincoln tried to cheer her up but it wasn't her boyfriend's words that made her smile, no, it was her brother's. And since that day, she and Benny hadn't had the same chemistry as before. Or rather, she didn't have the same chemistry with him anymore and she knew the reason why but was too afraid to admit it to herself.

And now she was being asked to admit something to herself that she was terrified of admitting. But could she really keep denying it? She knew what she felt, what she had been feeling for months, hell, for years now. And Maggie knew it too. Who else could see into her soul and see what she truly desired was her own brother?

"I-I'm scared..." Luan spoke softly. She was trembling, her form seemed to be reaching a point where she would no longer be able to hold back. "I...I don't know what to do..."

Maggie took Luan's hands into her own and clasped them together. "I'm frightened as well but together we can overcome our fear...together, we can lay claim to our Sun."

"Oh we'll lay him alright." Luan couldn't help but chuckle weakly. She sniffed and wiped her eyes before she looked up at Maggie. "Okay, I'm in. I am in love with him." And just like that, she felt as though a weight had been lifted off of her shoulders. "What do you have in mind for making him ours?"

Maggie only shrugged. "I don't. That's why I sought out your help."

"Wait, how did you end up falling for him?" Luan asked, suddenly wondering why. As far as she knew, Lincoln and Maggie had never interacted aside from her 13th birthday party.

Then to Luan's surprise, Maggie actually blushed and averted her gaze. "He...um...he was my first..."

Luan's jaw dropped to her lap. "WHA!?"
Maggie realized what she had said and quickly tried to back pedal. "N-N-No! Not like that! I swear, I haven't touched your brother like that!"

"Well what did you mean?" Luan asked, partly annoyed and partly relieved.

"W-Well, as you may recall, I first met him when he came to my 13th birthday party last year. But I didn't actually talk to him until a couple of days after. He came seeking me out after school one day in order to apologize for his disastrous performance."

Luan nodded, that sounded like her brother. "Okay, go on. I'm following you so far..."

"W-Well, as you may recall, back then I was sort of a shadow of the smiling girl I am today." When Luan looked at her with a deadpan expression, Maggie added. "That was a joke."

"Ha ha. Funny. Get to the good part, sister!"

"Very well, he somehow found me as I was putting away some unnecessary things into my locker. He quite literally bumped into me and when he saw who I was, he smiled." Maggie sighed blissfully. "I had never before seen such a sight..." Her eyes had a faraway look in them as she recalled that day. "All it took was one look for me to experience warmth flooding my chest. His chipped tooth smile, the tuft of white hair sticking up, almost waving at me...you're brother was positively adorable."

"So it was love at first sight?" Luan asked.

"Not quite. I will admit that I was smitten with him but I wasn't going to pursue him after just one glance. I had merely wanted to save him in my memory in order to revisit them at my fancy." Maggie explained.
"So...you were going to basically wank off to my brother smiling at you?" Luan surmised, making Maggie blush once more.

"When you put it like that, yes." Maggie admitted. "Can I continue or do you wish to keep interrupting?"

Luan zipped her lips and threw away the key.

"As I was saying, he introduced himself to me and apologized for his performance at my birthday party. He was very charming and even got me to smile as he walked me out of the school. But as we neared the parking lot, I felt a sudden longing that I didn't know was possible. I didn't want our time to end and he somehow sensed it because he asked me if I wanted to go to the mall with him."

"He asked you out!?" Luan blurted out.

"Not really." Maggie shook her head. "He wanted to make it up to me and he saw that I was hoping to spend a little more time with him. I believe he thought that I wanted to make new friends."

"Did he actually say that to you?" Luan asked.

"Yes." Maggie nodded making Luan groan.

"You know, for such a charming guy, my brother can be pretty dense when it comes to girls crushing on him." Luan muttered. "I'm speaking from experience here..."

"I agree...he's very charming..." Maggie said, holding both hands to her chest and smiling. "He was the first boy to ever ask me to the mall. That's why I said that he was my first...my first crush...my first date...my first love..."

"Have you kissed a guy before?" Luan asked.

"No." Maggie shook her head. "I'm kind of hoping for Lincoln to be my first..."

"What are you going to do about all of the other girls that are also in love with him? Because I can tell you right now that I'm not the only sister that has the hots for him." Luan told her.

Maggie turned to face the comedian. "As I said before, I do not mind sharing so long as he also loves me too. I know that he would not neglect me nor think less of me by comparing me to other girls. All I want, all I yearn for is his warm embrace and his sweet kiss...nothing would make me happier than to have him look at me and for him to tell me that he loves me."

Luan slumped against the couch and sighed. "Well, we sure got our work cut out for us." She glanced at the dreary girl beside her and then smiled. "But I think if we work together then maybe we can come up with something."

"Yes...let's come together." Maggie said.

At that moment, they heard a shout and a thud almost as if someone had slipped down the stairs. Both girls got up and rushed over to the hallway where the stairs were and they saw Maggie's mom lying at the bottom of the stairs, her face completely red.

"I didn't hear anything! I swear!" She said in a panic as she tried to get up. The last thing that she wanted was for her daughter to think that she heard her doing...it with her girlfriend.

Maggie sighed. "Mother...I told you before, I am not a lesbian..."

End of chapter.