What Have I Done

Chapter 12

As Lincoln and Lynn walked into the house they could smell the delicious smell of food being cooked in the kitchen and the flavorful aroma was filling the house. Lincoln then licked his lips as his stomach growled because of his need to eat. Lincoln then took a seat on the couch because he knew that dinner was going to be ready anytime soon so what would be the point of going upstairs only to come down again. Lynn also took a seat right next to Lincoln who was most likely tired from her practice earlier.

Leni, Luna, Lola, Lisa, Lana, and Luan were also downstairs watching T.V as well. They were watching an episode of Desert Storm on the T.V Lucky for them the show was just starting, but unfortunately their father called them to the dinner table soon after they started watching the show. As they sat down they were met the glorious Lasagna presented in front of them. Lincoln mouth started salivating just from the thought of biting down on it and tasting all the different flavors. The Father of 11's cooking skills has increased significantly ever since he started to work at the restaurant.

"This looks amazing!" Exclaimed Lola licking her lips.

"Well your old man has been getting better at his cooking." Responded Lynn with a chuckle while taking of his cooking robe and taking a seat at the dinner table.

"Well all of that work is definitely paying off in the long run." Added Rita.

They then all started to dig in to their food. All of them were enjoying the delicious taste of the food. After they were all done they all sat in their chairs with full bellies.\

"Well I am stuffed dudes." Luna claimed.

"You can say that again." Lana added.

"Oh Lynn," Started Rita, "I was able to talk to your coach about your little problem."

"Yeah I know, and I feel like I have a way to get past Evan." Lynn responded who glanced at Lincoln who nodded back at her.

"Well that's good to hear Lynn." Stated Rita.

After that everyone started to disperse into their separate rooms. As the were going upstairs, a certain blonde that was looking at her brother enter his room, and that blonde was no other than than Lori Loud. She then sighed and entered her room and laid down onto her bed. With Leni looking through her closet to look at what she would wear to school the next morning. Lori was just looking up at the roof of her room.

"Hey Lori which dress should I wear tomorrow, this or this one." Leni asked in her normal chippy tone.

Lori looked up from her phone and then said, "They're both the same Leni."

Leni then just choose one the wear and then put it on her dresser. As she was getting ready to go take a shower she looked over at Lori who looked different. Leni then took a long, hard look at her sister. Lori had her same neutral face, but she just seemed to be deep in thought.

"Hey Lori." Started Leni.

"Y-Yes Leni." Stuttered Lori as her thought process got interrupted.

"Are you doing okay." Leni Probed.

Lori then paused to think and then answered, "To be completely honest Leni I don't really know."

Leni then walked over to her older sister's bed and took a seat, "Well do you want to talk to it."

Lori then sat up and crossed her legs on the bed. She was trying to think of the right words to say to her sister.

"Well for starters I want to talk to Lincoln, but at this point of time I don't think he even wants to see my face at this point in time," Started Lori, "Even if I do try to talk to him, and should I do and what should I say to him."

"Maybe you could apologize to him." Answered Leni with a smile.

"Yeah that sounds like a good idea. You want me to say hey Lincoln I'm sorry for slapping and punching you multiple times." Lori replied sarcastically.

"Maybe you should start thinking about about to what you can say to him." Leni continued.

"I've been trying to think about this nearly the whole entire day." Claimed Lori.

Leni then put her a figure up to her chin as she starting to think of other ways to approach. She realized that everything she had recommended has already been thought about by Lori.

Leni than thought of something that could work, "I think the best way to go about this is to just not think about it until the time comes for you try and apologize to Lincoln."

Lori than thought about it, She running stressing over something that hasn't happened yet. She was so focused about how she was going to talk to Lincoln that she forgot about why she this happened in the first place. It was her fault why they are like this and why Lincoln probably hates her at the moment. It was her that caused her brother pain for the last few days. He never asked to be put in this situation , but she was the person that forced him into this predicament. She needed it to make it up to him. So she made the decision to make her move the next day and she would think about what to say to her brother the next day.

"Leni," started Lori, "I going to talk to him tomorrow, and I will think of everything then."

"That's great Lori, you're on the right path." Leni said while standing and walking out the room leaving Lori in the room.

As she left, Lori sat on her bed with a newfound sense of determination in her body to make it up to her brother for what she had done to him.

Lincoln sat in his room reading an Ace Savvy comic in his casual underwear. He was on the last page and he felt really tired for reason maybe it was because of all the things he had done that day. He thought about the reasons, but for some reason he just felt so tired. In response to his sleepiness he decided to just go to bed early. Lincoln then went into the hallway with a towel in hand and was heading to bathroom. Fortunately the line wasn't too long so he would be in the shower in 15 minutes.

He then entered the line right behind Leni and started to wait. Leni was also ws going to take a shower as well. She then heard footsteps right behind her and she turned around to see Lincoln standing behind her.

"Oh hey Linky." She greeted with a smile on her face.

"Hey Leni." Lincoln responded with a small grin on his face.

Oh linky I have to talk to you about something." Leni continued.

"Okay, what's up?" Lincoln asked.

Before Leni continued she looked at Lincoln and her smile faded a little, "It's about Lori."

Lincoln was shocked to hear that name to come out her mouth. He expecting something like her talking her fashion designs and what she should wear for the next day.

"What about her?" Lincoln questioned wanting to know what's been up with her lately.

"Well, she really wants to talk to you Lincoln. She's feels really bad about what she did." Leni continued.

Lincoln had to think about what he was going to say next. She was actually feeling bad about what she did and that was really rare for Lori. He thought that talking to her may be challenge, but he was actually looking forward to talking her now and his happiness was only starting to grow by the second.

"S-she is?" Lincoln stuttered out.

"Yes and she really wants to talk to you and try to get things right." Leni said with a small smile.

Lincoln then formed a small formed a small smile which was an understatement to what he was feeling, "Well that's good news because I wanted to talk to her as well."

"Well, I want you guys to make up and leave this all this behind, and I'm happy that you two are willing to talk to one another."

Leni then ran her fingers through his hair which caused Lincoln to giggle a little bit. Leni then gave him a warm smile before turning around and resume her wait in line. Lincoln on the other hand was feeling great. For once, something was finally going his way. He thought that it would be harder to try to et Lori and that it would maybe take longer to get her, but fortunately he wouldn't need to do much to try to talk to her. So he would need to talk to her tomorrow.

Once he got back from taking a shower he went in his room and laid in his bed. The warm water from the shower doubled his drowsiness. There nothing like a nice hot shower before bed and that was certainly being applied to Lincoln at the moment and slowly dozing off on his bed.

At the same time some other also decided to turn in for the night, and soon after that group included Leni and Lori. Before Lori went to sleep she stayed up for some time looking at the ceiling. She earlier she kept thinking about Lincoln and she was thinking about making up it up to him the day. She was worried about this and also excited, but her brain has been a train wreck of different emotions over the last couple of days. But this was her time to make things right and she needed to do it right, so she went to bed with mindset full of determination.

The next morning the Sun started to rise over the horizon and the birds started to sing their songs to world as new day started. Slowly the residents of the Loud House started to awaken out of their slumber. Everything was going fine until Lincoln woke up.

When he opened his eyes he squinted at the light coming through his window and sound of his alarm clock blaring in his ear. When he started to get up a huge pain was sent to his head and he grunted in pain because of the feeling. The alarm clock was only the pain amplify. He then was able to press snooze and turn the monstrosity off. He held his forehead as it was tribbing with every beat of his heart. His body felt weak and he was burning up. He knew that he wasn't feeling well and that he should tell his mother, but that would risk his head hurting more than it already did at the moment.

So with slow motion he got out of his bed and headed into the hallway where he saw Luna, Luan, Leni, and Lola waiting for the bathroom.

"Hey does anyone know where mom is?" Asked Lincoln while holding his head.

"She's downstairs getting ready for work." Leni responded.

"Thanks." Lincoln responded as he held his forehead from his headache.

Leni sees this and asks worried, "Lincoln are you okay?"

"No I don't think so. My head is throbbing I feel like I am burning up"?

As he finished the sentence Lisa came out of her room, "Well elder brother it sounds like you have a fever."

"I do?" Lincoln question Lincoln asked as he turned his attention to his little sister.

"Yes indeed, i would suggest that you stay home to help with the recovery." Lisa Continued.

"Strange I don't remember anything that could cause my fever." Lincoln said.

"Well your immune system must be trying to fend off a infection." LIsa answered.

"Oh poor Linky, I'll go get mom okay." Leni announced she said as she started to head downstairs.

Lincoln then headed back into his room and he takes a seat in his bed and soon as he did a sudden pain struck his head and then held his head in pain as he grunted. About a minute later his mother then entered his room with a thermometer in hand.

"Oh hey honey Leni told me about your problem, how are you feeling?" She asked as she sta right next to her son.

"Well my head feels like someone is banging it with a hammer, my head feels hot and every once and a while I get these chills that travel up my back." Lincoln explained as he sat on his bed.

"Oh my poor baby." Rita hugged Lincoln as a light embarrassed blush spreaded across his face.

"Mom." Lincoln said in an annoyed face.

"Sorry Lincoln," Said as she let go of her son, "here let me check your temperature."

Rita thn put the thermometer in Lincoln's mouth. After a couple of seconds it read a temperature of 101° F.

"Well Lincoln looks like you need to stay home for today." Rita said to her son.

She then went outside of his room and then she went to the hallway with everyone getting ready for the day.

"May I get everyone's attention please!" Exclaimed Rita.

Everyone in the house had stopped in their tracks and looked at their mother who was standing in front of Lincoln's room.

"I don't know if you guys know this, but Lincoln is sick and I am going to need someone to watch him. I would myself, it is expected to be busy at work today, and father had went to the restaurant early, so I'm going to need one of you guys to stay here with Lincoln and take look after him." Explained Rita.

As soon as she finished she saw she saw everyone except Lisa and Lily raised their hand.

"This excludes anyone younger than Lynn." She added soon after.

"Ahh man." They all said as they lowered their heads.

"So anyone else?" Rita asked.

As everyone was asking to stay back and watch over Lincoln, Rita saw somebody in the crowd that interested her.

"Lori, I need you to look after Lincoln."

Lori then looked at her mother with shock. She didn't expect her mother to pick her especially after what she had done to her brother. She didn't even think that she would even trust her to be around him alone anymore. As she looked at her mother and gave her a nod.

"What!" Luna exclaimed, "after what she did."

"First of all they need to make up for what had happened. Second, it's not your decision, it's mine." Rita lectured.

Luna then crossed her arms and sent a glare at Lori, and when their eyes met she saw wildfire of anger and distrust.

"Alright with that settled everyone, except Lori, get ready for school."

As everyone went back to their routine Luna approached Lori.

"Lori I need to talk to you." She stated.

Lori then looked at her and her expression had a nervous look and she wasn't making complete eye contact as she was speaking to her.

"Yeah, what's up Luna." Lori questioned while looking at her sister.

It Luna a couple of seconds to reply as she was trying to find a couple of words to say in her head, "Listen, I know I haven't been the nicest person to you for the last few days and I'm pretty sure you already know why."

Lori then replied with, "Luna I understand why you are mad at me. Heck, I'm even mad at myself for what I had done."

"Yeah that's a reason, but there's more under the surface that you are missing."

"What would that be?" Lori questioned a little surprised.

" I just want to know if you have learned anything from this." Luna stated.

"What do you mean."

"I want to know if you will change."

Lori, taken back from Luna's statement replied, "Of course I will Luna, why would you ask that."

"Lori we've been through this cycle before. Something bad happens, we say we are sorry or we feel sorry about it for a couple of day, and soon after we do it. I'm not going to lie either, I've this couple of times in the past and this is what I'm worried. This type of thing shouldn't happen and again I hope you realize this."

"Luna I get what you are talking about and if I were you I would be worried as well because I'm pretty sure you all know how I get when I get angry, and from the deepest part of my heart I will try to fix this." Lori responded.

"I hope you do." Luna finished as she walked away from her sister and into her room.

Lori stood there for a second and she looked at Lincoln door. She had to make things right with him, and, sooner or later, Bobby. She had no idea what he was going through. Before she couldn't be on her phone she had text from him and calls from him and she ignored them because she was being ignorant and selfish. It brung a tear to her eye that she making making someone that she loved so feel so much pain because of what she had done.

Then it made her realize something, Bobby and Lincoln were most likely feeling the same way. Alone and hurt. With determination in her mind she decided that no matter what she would make it right everybody affected by this whole situation.

She had to.

A/N

So hello everybody. I got a new chapter out and it feels good. I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I also started my freshman year of High School so that's nice. Well I feel like this took a long time to come out because of me being lazy. Again. I really don't know what to say so see you next time.

P.S: I rushed the proof read of this because this had been sitting on my google docs for 2 weeks now.