Lincoln and Leni looked at each other for a few silent moments. Lincoln stood there as he didn't know what to do are really so for the matter while Leni stood speechless at who was in front of her. Her long lost brother was finally here, returned from the mysterious void that was the unknown.
She took a few steps towards the tall man at the door, analyzing every inch of him to see if it was really him and not someone else. But when her eyes gazed sight upon his pure white hair that she immediately recognized, her face grew a large giddy smile and ran towards Lincoln, giving him a tight hug.
"Gah! You're a hugger I see!" Lincoln painfully said as Leni almost broke his bones. Leni just smiled as she buried her face in her brothers chest happily. He really was back after all these years!
"I like.. c-can't believe you're finally back. Where were you.."Leni asked tearfully. Lincoln slowly got her off of him and calmed her down a bit to the point where she had stopped crying. Leading her to a table and sitting her down, as well as sitting across from her.
"Well then. If you really want to know everything.."Lincoln said. "Then I should tell you since you've kinda been left out about everything." Leni nodded and leaned in closely as if Lincoln was going to whisper the entire explanation like a secret, which confused Lincoln.
With a shrug he continued to tell everything to Leni, which was a simple, "I don't know".
Leni stared at him with a blank face, confused at the words that came out of Lincoln's mouth. He didn't know? How on earth was that possible?! He was gone for five whole years and he didn't even remember one little thing? He must be lying!
"You are... totes lying!! You have to remember everything!" Leni exclaimed. "You're like.. playing one of those tricks on me! Like Luan does all the time! I may be dumb but even I don't believe everything i'm told!"
"Well at least you can admit that? Anyways, i'm being serious, Leni. I don't remember anything," Lincoln said with a shrug. Leni huffed in annoyance, still thinking Lincoln was messing with her.
"Tell me you where found then," Leni said smugly. Lincoln sighed, getting annoyed at Leni's pursuit. "I was found washed up on the beach around home. Where a few old shipwrecks are. All I remember was this.. odd dream and slowly being woke up by Ms. Haiku."
The ditzy woman looked at him in disbelief but.. she couldn't help but believe him. While she knew Lincoln was back in town, she didn't really believe it at all. Especially it being mentioned that he had no memory of anyone or anything for that matter which broke Leni's heart. That detail most likely put Leni in a state of denial about Lincoln even returning home.
"Oh.. I'm so sorry Lincoln.." Leni sadly said before giving her brother a tight hug. Lincoln smiled and returned the hug back to Leni. After a nice moment of warm embrace, Leni got up and started leading Lincoln to the backroom.
"Where are we going, Leni?" Lincoln asked. "To the backroom!" She happily replied. "I have a present that is totes gonna look fab on you!"
The white haired man just shrugged his shoulders and went along with the flow, going to the backroom which was packed to the brim with boxes of clothes, hats, and jewelry that caught his eye like a star. Everything Leni owned was either incredibly beautiful, impressive, fancy, a bit tacky, or a mix of all of those.
"Wow. This is all very impressive! Did you make all of this?" Lincoln asked in wonder.
Leni nodded happily and started digging through a large trunk, tossing clothing after clothing out of the oversized chest of clothes. Lincoln dodged the onslaught of the heavy stuff that his sister was just throwing back at high speeds! If he got hit by one of these, he would probablt get knocked out due to how heavy they were. In fact, now that he took a closer look, Leni was digging though a bunch of large coats!
"W-woah! Hold on Leni! You might kill someone with these coats!" Lincoln nervously said as he dodged a few more coats until Leni finally stood up holding a big brown trench coat/
"Is this for me?" Lincoln asked to which Leni happily shook her head yes. "C'mon c'mon! Put it on! I made it so you'll look cool and warm! I know you've probably been told that Royal Woods's weather is really odd and like... never changes in terms of temperature but it randomly does this time of year! That and.. I wanted to give you something nice." Leni happily said.
Lincoln sighed and took the trench coat from his sister. Leni quickly left the room so Lincoln could get the coat on, though its not like she would see him nude. He's just putting on a large comfy coat.
"Maybe she wants to see it on me like a surprise?" he thought to himself before putting the jacket on.
- With Leni -
Leni walked out and closed the door, happily skipping over to a chair to wait for her little brother to come out in most likely a few second. As she waited with a happy face, an obstacle came flying into the shop in the for of a bloat-bug. Leni rolled her eyes as the bug as it flew in.
The bloat-bug was a five inch gray bug with a fly like head and small hose like mouth. It's rear was a bug inflated sac full of acid that it's big wings carried. The Loud woman sneered at the disgusting foul insect as it landed on one of the mannequins, spitting its acid on a small part of its clothes, dissolving the material into a charred gooey paste that the fly ate up. She snapped her fingers, causing her hands to glow a light green. Suddenly, spools of multicolored string began to unravel from the dress on the mannequin and wrapped themselves around the bloat-fly, trapping it into a dangerous trap as the string and fabric floated away from the dress, tightening around the bulbous bug until the string started to cut the skin, leaking the acid inside its body out from the store.
"Sorry little bug. But i'm not calling pest control anymore," Leni coldly said before snapping her fingers once more, causing the net of string that had the bloat-bug in its grasp to constrict around the insect until it was sliced into pieces. The grey chunks of its body fell to the floor in a small disgusting pile with the acid that fell out dissolving the remnants of the insects body away into nothing but slush.
"Good riddance. Wouldn't want it to get on Linky's new coat!" Leni said to herself.
A few moments later, the door opened and Lincoln came walking out with his new coat on which looked really nice on him.
Lincoln was now wearing a grey shirt with an Ace of Spades card on it with the large brown trench-coat Leni made for him. It was very large, with it almost reaching down to his ankles, almost covering his entire arms but leaving his hand visible. On the sides of the coats sleeves were a big black spade on top of the arms, a red heart right below the spade and the word Ace right below it.
"O.M.Gosh!!!! You look.. totes amazing!!!" Leni awed as she hugged Lincoln once again who couldn't help but crack a smile. Even he liked the new look Leni had gave him. It was really comfy and would help hide those puzzle piece markings than a normal short sleeve T-shirt.
"Even I agree whole heartedly. You sure don't slack around with your clothes," Lincoln said at which Leni gave a proud smile. "Well when there aren't many clothing stores in town, you need to have the most quality stuff around to get more customers! You will not believe the stuff they sell at the middle of town! Fifty dollars for a flimsy T-shirt! Thats straight up robbery!"
"I guess i'll find out about that soon enough," Lincoln chuckled before giving Leni back the hug. They let go before Leni's phone started ringing and got it out, seemed like she had a text.
"Oh uh.. We might have to cut this visit short, Linky. I have a few clients coming to model some new dresses I made! I'll see you later?" Leni asked.
"Sure thing. I'll see you home tonight!" Lincoln optimistically said before leaving the store with a wave. Off to explore more of the boardwalk he wanted to do. Leni sighed and started to repair the dress the bloat-bug had spit and dissolved earlier.
"*Sigh.. It's great to see you back, Lincoln. But its only a matter of time before They start coming after us again. I just hope he doesn't run.. into him today," she said to herself with worry..
