The Loud House: Memory of A Promise
Part 1: Recorded Memory Chapter: 2 The Tape
Disclaimer: I do not own "The Loud House"
August 6, 2017 Lincoln's Room Sunday Morning: Lincoln
Sunday's morning light spewed across Lincoln's room from his window, showing him with last night's smile remaining while he slowly woke.
"Now that, was a good sleep.", The young man blissfully thought.
He yawned as he got up from bed and stretched before he slipped into his morning boxers. After making sure he was decent enough to be in front of his sisters he proceeded to gather his clothes for the day, tucking them under his arm as he headed out into the hallway. There in his immediate view the usual line of his sisters could be seen as each waited their turn for the bathroom.
He took his place behind Lynn as the line shifted when Leni came out and Luna went in. "Morning."
"Morning Linc, doing better than yesterday?", Lynn lazily mumbled.
"Was something bothering you Lincoln?", Luan added, overhearing Lynn.
Linc looked to them for a second. "I'm doing way better and well …"
He thought for a moment wondering if he should mention how lonely he was feeling romantically. The last thing he could remember when it came to his sisters and his romance was him ending up having to take four of his sisters' friends to the Sadie Hawkins dance. In hindsight, he thought he should have kept in contact with them, they were each awfully cute with their own personalities, and considering his situation he could surely use the female companionship now more so than ever.
"Uh Earth to Lincoln?", Lynn called out as she lightly punched him in the shoulder.
"Huh?"
Linc snapped out from his deep thought and noticed that Luna was in front of him and that Luan had already gone in the bathroom.
"Must be pretty big if you were that far gone in your mind dude." Luna deduced as she laid back against the wall next to Lincoln. "If you don't want to talk about it I can respect that though."
From his peripheral view, he could see that even though Luna said otherwise she really wanted to know, Lynn as well as far as he could tell.
He let out a preparatory sigh as he decided to just lay out his guts. "Well I guess since I feel better than I was doing yesterday I guess I can talk about it now. I've sort of come to realize that I'm feeling lonely."
"Heh that all bro? Your more than welcome to join me in a jam session.", Luna offered.
"Or you and I can go out and play a sport, any sport. Will still try to be number one though.", Lynn added.
Lincoln smiled slightly but then retracted back to his slight frown. "I'm not lonely in that way, in fact that's why I feel good enough to even say this now. I'm just lonely in the romantic kind of way. You know, girlfriend wise?"
Luna and Lynn blushed slightly at the reveal of his situation and averted their gazes as they tried to think of some solution or decent proposal.
"What about Ronnie Anne?", Luan mentioned from overhearing as she came out of the bathroom while Lynn slipped in, the young jock more than willing to get away from the awkwardness as feelings weren't exactly her forte.
"I guess she's been busy with new friends or something, we haven't talked much the past few weeks. Plus, we were never officially together now that I think about it.", Linc admitted.
"Aw bro.", Luna uttered as she placed her hand in Lincoln's hair, stroking it slightly in replacement of not knowing what to say.
"Hey Linc." Luan softly called, gaining his attention. "Why did the chicken cross the road?"
He pondered for a moment but easily gave up with the mood he was in currently. "I don't know, why?"
"To get away from Colonel Sanders!" Luan giggled to herself as Luna simply pinched the bridge of her nose and regrettably smiled with Lincoln chuckling a bit. "Feel better?"
"Yeah a bit, thanks Luan."
The jokester then placed her hand in Linc's hair, ruffling it up slightly and flicking his turkey tail before heading downstairs for breakfast.
"Hey dude my offer still stands." Luna repeated. "Come jam with me today. Music can easily help take out any down funk you might have left jogging in your noggin."
Lincoln smiled and nodded. "Yeah I think I will take you up on that. Who knows maybe I'll outshine you today."
"That's the sprit Linc! Think I'm rubbing off on you." Lynn interrupted while she exited the bathroom and passed by. "It's all yours."
"Meet you down in the dining room in a bit Luna.", Lincoln continued as he moved to take his shower.
"Awesome bro, can't wait to rock out later.", Luna replied as she went her own separate way downstairs.
Upon the bathroom door shutting Lori and Leni both came out of their room, oblivious to the conversation that transpired near them as they were lost in their own daily routine while they made their way downstairs.
When they reached the bottom the elder of the two was stopped by Rita. "Lori dear."
"Yeah mom?", She monotonously replied while being glued to her cell.
"I need you to watch the others for today. Some employees couldn't make it to work and my boss is paying extra for any assistants who have today off if they come in to help with the chaos."
Lori let out a slightly aggravated sigh. "Ok mom."
Knowing the given task wasn't all that pleasant Rita gave Lori a kiss on the cheek for her acceptance regardless and proceeded to leave. "Thank you dear, your father will be bringing some leftovers from work when he gets back. I love you, bye."
As the front door closed Lori turned and proceeded to the kitchen to fetch herself breakfast.
She opened the fridge and noticed a hand squeaking past her and grabbing the milk. "Morning Linc."
"Morning Lori." Lincoln poured himself a bowl of cereal. "Where'd mom go?"
"Oh just some extra work at the dental office. I'm in charge till dad gets back.", Lori replied as she eyed a precut bagel and smiled.
She grabbed the tiny confection and opened it, coating it with strawberry jam before following Linc to the dining room. There the other siblings were nearly finishing up their meals.
Lori took the empty seat at the head of the table and loudly cleared her throat to garner attention before speaking. "Ok guys I'm in charge for a while, but you can go about with your usual things today just keep things below crazy, or else."
She then took a passive aggressive bite out of the bagel while eyeing her siblings, receiving nervous gulps and eager nods in return.
"Good morning everyone.", Lola annunciated upon passing the dining room.
"Mornin everybody!", Lana added as she dawdled behind and headed into the kitchen to get their breakfast ready.
Silence was appreciated among the older siblings as they ate until a piercing scream echoed from the kitchen.
"You ate my bagel! Admit it!", Lola bellowed.
"No I didn't! You know I prefer Charles' dog biscuits!", Lana retaliated back.
Infuriated Lola tackled Lana sending both tumbling over each other in a vie for dominance that trailed out the kitchen through the dining room and ultimately ending up in the living room. Lori, unamused, got up and moved along to end the dispute herself though not before a crashing noise rung out prompting the other siblings to follow suit.
Loud House, Living Room Sunday Morning
"You two, stop fighting, now!", Lori commanded.
The twins paused momentarily though not because of Lori, that was more of Lincoln's skill, but because of the dust that was fluttering about from the mess they made.
"Lola." Lori continued. "Lana didn't eat your bagel, I did. So stop fighting already."
Lola let go of Lana then presented a faux smile.
"Oh really? Well that's ok big sis you need your energy for the day don't you." Lola commented before she started whispering to herself. "Especially when I get my revenge on you."
Before Lori could ask what exactly Lola muttered she was interrupted by Lisa. "Hm, what do we have here."
The small genius picked up a dusty object from the floor. "Ah, an obsolete audio-visual cinematic."
Lisa's siblings gave her blank expressions, the usual response to her unnecessary advanced vocabulary which made her sigh. "Video tapes."
"Are they mine?", Luan said picking another off the floor.
"Negative. They appear to be home movies belonging to our parental units.", Lisa retorted.
"Ooo~! Family movies, yay! Can we watch?!", Leni asked with pleading eyes.
The other siblings all eagerly agreed with even Lisa showing interest. "I wouldn't mind viewing my younger siblings and comparing their IQs to my own when they were my age."
Lori looked at all her younger siblings and sighed. "Alright, if it will keep everyone busy then ok."
Elated with the given grace the Loud siblings then went about finishing their meals and cleaning their dishes before promptly seating themselves on the couch afterwards. The majority watched with eager anticipation as Luan went to task in setting up the VHS player.
"And this wire goes here … Alright its working now. What do we watch first?", Luan queried as she dusted off her hands.
"Oh what about this one?!", Lynn offered while waving a tape in the air.
Luan took the tape and placed it into the VHS player and hit play. When it started it showed a young baby Lynn (age 2) slightly pushing a ball into a tiny goal.
"Goal~.", Lynn whispered to herself.
The other siblings frowned as Luan ejected the tape and read the title. "Lynn's first goal."
"How about we pick videos that aren't about ourselves?", Luna muttered eyeing Lynn.
"Agreed.", The others said making Lynn pout.
Each sibling then got a single video, while Luan looked at Lynn's choice to make sure she didn't pick herself again, much to her dismay.
"Alright, let's try this again. Who's first?", Luan asked.
"Oh me! Me!", Leni blurted out handing Luan a tape.
Luan looked at the title and read Lisa Gets Dressed before inserting the tape and hitting play. On the screen, it showed a younger Lisa (age 3) with a very unpleased look about herself as she wore a frilly dress and was plastered with make-up.
"Aw, she looks adorable Leni.", Rita said from behind the camera.
"Like she totes does!" Leni (age 15) said approaching Lisa, hanging yet another dress in front of her to see if it clashed with her make-up. "And she will look amazing every time I need a model."
"I find this whole situation very pointless and aggravating.", Lisa said in a monotonous voice with a tinge of annoyance.
On the couch Lisa nudged Lincoln to get his attention and whispered lowly. "Again, thank you for taking the task of being Leni's permanent model. I'm not sure how long my sanity would of lasted at that point."
"Anytime.", Linc replied.
When the video ended the majority of the siblings laughed at Lisa's misfortune while she herself gave a slight scowl.
"Hahaha! Ok, that was good, who's next?!", Luan said recovering from her laughter.
As each tape was played every sibling got their chance to poke fun at one another's past embarrassing or private moments. They ranged from Lola (age 4) tripping over herself from a new long dress, to Lori (age 15) dealing with an acne breakout, to Lucy (age 6) accidentally dying her clothes pink of all colors. Thinking that everyone had already had a turn, Luan was about to pick on Leni again till she felt a tug on her socks which prompted her to look down and see Lily raising a video to her desperately.
"Aw I'm sorry Lily." She said softly. "We almost skipped your turn."
Luan took the tape and cleared the dust off from the title, developing a sinister smirk as she read aloud the curious title. "Hm … Lincoln's Promise."
"Huh?", Linc muttered as he tried to remember what promise it could be.
"Must be a pretty big promise for it to be on video dude.", Luna chuckled.
"Might be Lincoln saying he'd let mom and dad live with him when he has his own place.", Lori joked
"Ha! And the video must be proof of him saying so in case he denies it.", Lola added.
Luan eagerly pushed the tape in and hit play before rushing back to her seat on the couch. As the video played out the younger siblings simply watched with the same interest they held in the other videos while Lucy and her elder brother and sisters looked on with increasing curiosity. By the end of the video the majority of the Louds held flushed faces as they stole glances at one another before Linc's sisters all focused their attention on him.
The silence was unnerving and the tension in the air it created was thick enough to cut with a knife. In the end all the white-haired young man could do was gulp.