Hey everyone, hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Here's a second one and yeah. That's it basically. Enjoy!

(I've rewritten the bit where I forgave Cristina because I realised that it made no sense to forgive so quickly and the bit where Luna and Sam came in as he was out of character so reread that bit too, thanks)

unknownwriter21

'4 Years Later'

Lincoln loud awoke from his slumber. He looked around his small, cramped room and stared at the posters on his wall for a while. There was a massive one with NF on it with a signature on it. Near the foot of his bed, there was a piano with a microphone and headphones which he would normally sing and play some of NF's songs on. After a few minutes, he hoisted himself off of his bed and went to the window to see his surroundings. It was a warm and beautiful day outside and he took a big whiff of the morning air. So refreshing. He then turned around and stared into the mirror. In the mirror, he could see a tall, lanky kid with white hair. His hair was now longer and covered his ears and nearly one of his eyes. His arms were covered by bandages, elbow to wrist, and what lay beneath only he knew. There was an earring in his left ear and it was just a hand doing the middle finger. He was now 16 and puberty had been very kind to him to say the least. He stopped staring at himself and started getting changed into his usual school clothes. When he finished changing, he went out into the corridor. There, his sister Lucy was waiting in line for the bathroom. She turned and saw him and she felt sad. Normally, she doesn't mind because she is a goth but she felt sad at what she done. She said something but he just ignored her. Lucy felt bad but decided that he didn't want to talk so she stopped. Lynn finished up in the toilet and as she passed Lincoln, she felt guilt take over her body. Back 4 years ago, he needed comforting when everyone turned on him but they turned away too, leaving him helpless and alone. She also said hi to him but he just stared straight ahead. Lynn walked down the stairs guiltily and Lucy went into the bathroom. When everyone did their toilet things, they went downstairs and sat together. Well, except for Lincoln. Everyone was sat near the right end of the table and Lincoln sat at the left end with no one two seats away from him. Oh yeah, Lori, Leni, Luna and Luan didn't live at the loud house anymore as they went and pursued their dreams. As they ate, the family took quick glances at Lincoln and felt so much hate towards themselves. Lincoln ignored them and didn't look up once from his food. When he finished he got up and left without saying a word. The Louds just sat there by themselves with no one but their guilt.

Lincoln started walking towards school by himself. Not with Clyde. Clyde had come and tried to apologise to him a year after it all happened but Lincoln didn't say anything. He just ignored him and carried on with his life. Clyde felt regret but could do nothing to change Lincoln's decision. Lincoln made it to the school grounds where he was met by thousands of students standing outside the school grounds. He pushed through the crowd and make it to his locker. Stella came near him and tried comforting him but he said nothing to her so she gave up. Whilst Lincoln was collecting his things from his locker, someone spotted him and came to approach him. When Lincoln got his things, he closed his locker and turned to leaver but a hand held his shoulder. When he turned, he saw who it was. It was her. Cristina chuckled nervously. Cristina and Lincoln hadn't spoken for about 3 years, not since the bullying. Cristina broke up with Chandler 2 years ago and he left the school last year. Lots of people were giving him lots of hate for what he did to Lincoln and he couldn't handle it anymore so he left school. Cristina had since felt guilty about the incident and wanted to make it up to him. "H-hey Lincoln. L-long time n-n-no s-see? H-how have you been?" Cristina looked at him with a smile. She was extremely nervous but she had to tell him. Lincoln pushed her hand off his shoulder and stared her dead in they eye. "Why would you care? I'm just a 'loser' according to you." he said coldly with venom in his voice. Cristina shrunk in fear as she remembered what she said all those years ago. "I, I'm sorry Lincoln. The prank I did was very stupid and I just wanted to apologise." she said with sincerity in her voice. Lincoln chuckled and replied. "No, I don't forgive you. I will never forgive you. Ever. You ruined my life and you think a simple sorry will fix everything? Hah!" he finished as he turned and went to his class. Girl Jordan, Stella and Clyde had been listening to the conversation and they felt a deep sadness. They knew what they had done and wanted to apologise but Lincoln didn't care. They all looked down sadly and went to their class.

Throughout the school day, Lincoln did what he normally did. Nothing. It neared the end of lunchtime and Cristina and Lincoln were in the same class. "Listen up class. We have a project for you guys to do and you're gonna be put into groups by me." the class groaned as Miss Johnson spoke to the class. Lincoln put his hand up which surprised the class and most of all, the teacher. "Oh Lincoln, yes what's your question dear?" Miss Johnson was happy that Lincoln finally spoke in one of her lessons. The only time he ever speaks is when he says 'here' in the register. "Can you do it by yourself if you want?" Miss Johnsons smiled was wiped away and she let out a big sigh. "No, you can't," Lincoln cursed under his breath. "Anyways, the pairings are on the board here." She stepped to the side to show a slide with the partners for the project and Lincoln looked for his name. He went down the list and when he finally saw his name he almost died of shock. He had to do the project, with Cristina?! Was this some sort of wind-up. How, out of the WHOLE class was he paired up with her. Lincoln glanced over at Cristina who smiled at him and she mouthed 'meet me after school' to him. He nodded and sank into his seat. Fuck's. Sake. The lesson passed as she explained what they had to do and that each person had to do an equal part of the project otherwise they would be in detention for 3 weeks. Failure to finish the work would result in a 3 week detention also. The project was some sort of Spanish essay and you had to also make a poster about a shop and have a conversation. It seemed long, boring, pointless and he couldn't be fucking asked.

Lesson ended and they left to go home. Lincoln was the first one out and made his way to his locker. Hopefully, Cristina doesn't find him and he can get home before "Lincoln!" Shit. Lincoln turned and saw Cristina running to him. Her female parts were jumping like kids in a trampoline park and when she got close enough to him, she stopped to catch her breath. "So, basically for the project... we can work on it at your house or mine. Either is fine." Lincoln shook his head "Definitely your house." Lincoln replied instantly. Cristina raised her eyebrow at this. "Oh, uhh... ok? Why mine though? I don't mind, I'm just asking out of curiosity?" she asked. Lincoln stared at her blankly. 'Was she being serious?' he thought. "Maybe because my sisters would murder you if they found out you were the one that made that video?" he replied sarcastically. Cristina shaped her mouth in an 'o' shape and she then scratcher the back of her head. "Yeah, about the video, I just wanna say..." "I don't care, come on lets go" Lincoln interrupted. Cristina decided to listen to him and they made their way to her home. On the way, there was silence and no one spoke at all. Lincoln wanted to go there and finish up quickly so he could go home. When they reached her home, he saw a Ford Mustang parked in front of the home. It looked very nice and also seemed a bit expensive. Cristina put in the key and entered the home. Lincoln followed behind her and they both entered the living room. When Lincoln entered he saw Cristina sat down. He went to sit down but saw someone sat in the corner of the room. He turned to look at her and what he saw surprised him. It was a very fit women with a thin waist and big... footballs on her chest. She was a brunette and had glasses atop her head like Leni. Lincoln blushed when he saw her and waved to her. She giggled in response and waved back. Lincoln sat down and him and Cristina started working together on the Spanish. Lincoln didn't speak, he just started drawing a poster while Cristina made a Spanish conversation between a customer and a waiter. Minutes of silence passed until the older brunette spoke. "So, Cristina. You gonna introduce me to your cute boyfriend?" she giggled while teasing. Cristina blushed while Lincoln did too. Not at her calling him and Cristina bf and gf, because she called him cute. "Don't mind my sister Lincoln. Lincoln, this is Quinlan and Quinlan, this is Lincoln." Lincoln looked up at Quinlan and flashed a smile. Quinlan, in return, eyeing him up. "So, Lincoln. Do you have a girlfriend?" Lincoln shook his head. "Interesting." She said while smirking. "Neither do I." Lincoln's face turned a little red as he tried to continue working on the project. Quinlan then moved closer to Lincoln and sat quite close to him. From this close, Lincoln could feel her breath on his back. He shuffled away from her a little but she just moved closer. Quinlan then noticed his earring and inspected it. "How do they let you wear that in school?" she said. Lincoln looked at her and she pointed to her ear. he understood what she meant and just looked down. "They don't, I just wear it anyways." he replied. Quinlan nodded and then got up. "Ok. I'm gonna go to the store and chill there for a bit." she said. Then she smirked. "So you two are gonna be home alone." she teased playfully. Cristina's face turned red but Lincoln didn't react. He could clearly tell that she hadn't seen the video. "Bye Quinlan" he said as she left for the door. The brown haired beauty smiled and left. After the door shut, Cristina spoke. "The house is empty now. It's only us now." Lincoln looked up at her with hate in his eyes. "I mean, you said that last time but we saw how that ended didn't we?" Cristina looked down in shame. "I-I'm sorry." Lincoln exhaled heavily. It was gonna take more than a couple of sorrys to forgive her which Cristina seemed to know too as she said. "And I know it may take some time for you to forgive me but for now, could we at least be... f-friends? Please?" this made Lincoln surprised as he didn't expect her to come up with that. As the question sunk into his brain, Lincoln sat in thought with two sides of his brain conflicting against one another. One side telling him the obvious, she brought you pain, made you feel like shit, almost made you kill yourself but the other side was telling him that she has changed and that being friends would be good for him. Lincolns internal debate came to an end as he had come to a conclusion. "Hmm... I guess we could be friends, FOR NOW. " he emphasised the for now to let her know that if he felt uncomfortable at any point that the friendship would be broken. Probably permanently this time though. Cristina looked up in surprise but then her face turned into one of pure delight. Cristina smiled and went to go give him a hug. She wrapped her arms around him. Lincoln wanted to refuse it but his body wanted, no, needed this hug. He hadn't hugged or done anything like holding another humans hand in the time between the prank and the present. She pulled away and sat back in her place with a massive grin plastered on his face..

Two hours passed and Lincoln decided it was time to leave. "I'm gonna go now." He got up and said goodbye. Walking to the door, Lincoln put on his shoes and left. Cristina was sat inside with a smile on her face and weight off her shoulders. Quinlan returned to the home and when she came in, she saw Lincoln was gone and looked at Cristina. "Where did the cutie go?" she asked. Cristina told her that he left and Quinlan sat down next to her. "I noticed that he didn't speak much." Quinlan replied. Cristina looked down with a sombre expression on her face. Cristina told Quinlan about what she did and Quinlan's fist were balled up. "How could you!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. "He was so kind and nice. What did he do to you?!" Quinlan carried on shouting. Cristina replied and told her about Chandler and how it was his plan. She then showed her the video. The whole time Quinlan covered her mouth in shock and disgust. After the video ended, she got up and went upstairs stomping loudly on all the steps. Cristina followed her up the steps and caught up with her. Quinlan was furious at how her sister acted and was tempted to even hit her. "Don't speak to me until you apologise to him!" She shouted as she went into her room and slammed the door. "I-I'm trying." she whispered under her breath. Cristina decided to leave Quinlan alone while she was in a bad mood and decided to go to her room to think about things.

Meanwhile, Lincoln is currently at home. He's listening to music and reading comics in his clothes (he stopped reading comics in his undies lest they get something else to bully him about). Comics and music are probably the only two things that helped him through his depression. There was a knock at the door and Lincoln told them to come in. It was Luna and her girlfriend Sam. He looked up to both of them with an eyebrow quizzically raised. Both of them looked at him with sadness in their eyes. "We uhh..., came back to see you actually. How are you holding up?" He glanced up at them from his comic and gave them a glare like they had just made a bad joke. "Interesting how you care now huh?" he was speaking under his breath but both of them heard him. When he said, he was talking to both of them because at the time of the 'incident' even Sam had laughed at him when the video was released. "W-We're sorry bro. Our intention was never..." "What ever, I don't care. Now if you don't have anything else to say, leave." he interrupted Luna and said with venom in his voice. Sam produced a guitar from a bag she was holding and held it out to him. "Me and Luna thought it would be best if you had this since you seem to like jamming to music now, you know?" the brunette said with a nervous smile. Lincoln took the guitar, inspected it and nodded in approval "Thanks," he said bluntly, showing no excitement on the outside but inside, he was jumping for joy. The two girls sensed this and smiled at this and left. Lincoln put the guitar by his piano and went back to reading his comic. He was excited about the guitar but comics come first. The day passed and all he could think about was Quinlan and Cristina. He thought about how Cristina gave him a hug and how it felt so nice. Also, he thought about Quinlan and how she didn't treat him badly or with pity. It became late when he finished the book and he put it down and turned his room light off. He went to sleep with a smile on his face. For the first time, in a really long time, Lincoln Loud felt slighty happy.

A/N: Hey, I finished the chapter. Woo! This one was difficult and I rewrote it about 4 or 5 times because I didn't think it was good enough but I finally finished the chapter in a way that I like. Hope you have a good day and bye!

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