"Hey, It's me…"

The camera turns away from me and begins to leave.

"Wait, where are you going?!"

A humanoid entity gives what appears to be the middle finger towards me.

"What's your problem, buddy?!"

"2165…007152165."

The entity vanishes.

"Dang it, another one left…I suppose I should tell you what's going on."

The camera turns back toward me.

"I am Lynn Loud Jr. I am 13 years old. Go ahead, call me every vile name you can think of. I know I am super competitive. I know that I am willing to sacrifice anything to get a win. I know…that I've…been a horrible sister to him. You all saw the March 13 incident. I know there's nothing that can change that. Even though Lincoln has forgiven me, I still haven't forgiven myself…and Luce still holds a grudge on me for doing so. I don't blame her. Even that sorry excuse that I was bullied by some upperclassmen in high school may have shifted some people's minds. It doesn't change my broken frame of mind. I tried to help Lincoln and his neurotic friend, Clyde to survive in middle school, I mean, it's not like Ned Bigby left us his journal, so we are all on our own. Somehow, I just made everything worse! Apparently, Lincoln has enough charisma to bypass getting shoved in a locker. Man, Lincoln is probably going to be one of the popular kids when he goes to middle school! I'm…proud of him. This monologue was a waste of time. I don't know why Linc said this would help. I don't deserve redemption. I am irredeemable."


I grab a hula hoop and a Frisbee™ and prepare to head out to Ketcham Park. There's a Frisbee Golf tournament and I want to compete in it. Lucy isn't here, so she's probably in the chimney trying to be a Santa Claus impersonator. She has the right idea, I would want to avoid people a much as possible too. I began walking toward the park as dark thoughts plague my mind.

"You call yourself a caring sibling, sibling abuser?"

"Never forget March 13."

"Win at all costs, even your family's trust."

"You are irredeemable."

"I know the truth; Your sorry masquerade will be broken."

"You don't deserve forgiveness."

"There's no excuse for your actions."

"You are the next part of this vicious cycle which has no end."

Lost in my thoughts, I eventually arrive at the part. I begin to set up my game.

"Sports can't mask the pain you feel inside."

I begin to hide my pain by overplaying and despite my lack of focus, I manage to play 15 rounds. When preparing for the 16th change, I manage to spy Luna hanging out with Sam, but it's none of my business, so I don't spy on them. Besides, I have a game to practice. I walk through a rainbow light as I begin setting up the 16th "hole", if you could even call it that I begin to throw the Frisbee™ and…the wind made it go slightly to the left. I throw it in the hoop for an eagle. I prepare to pack up and set up a 17th round when I see two hulking brutes walking around the park. One of the is a black-haired mestizo and the other is a brown-haired white guy. I think they are linebackers for Hazeltucky's football team. Judging by their barbaric physique, I think they take steroids to get an unfair advantage. Lincoln's team was filled with scrawny weaklings, so I may be right. Hazeltucky is Royal Woods' greatest rival town. Beaverton and Fern Valley are nothing compared to them! The two thugs notice me, but I could care less.

I throw the Frisbee™, but the mestizo kid catches it.


"Hey squirt, you dropped this."

He throws it as hard as possible back towards me. I catch it.

"Hey, pint-size! Don't you know who we are?!"

"Oh, you're steroid abusing football players from Hazeltucky. Of course, they have to resort to cheating to beat Royal Woods."

"Hey, haven't we seen you before?"

"Well, you trashed our street, so we all know who you are, Hank and Hawk."

The two thugs are surprised I know their names.

"Worst decision of our lives, they had hardly any milk chocolate!"

"That reminds me, bro. We still need to beat up that white-haired punk for stealing our candy that we stole."

"Hey kid, are you related to Lincoln Loud? We need to thank him for handing that trophy to us."

I don't trust them as far as I can throw them.

"No."

"Come on. Do you really think we're that stupid?! We know that you scared us in that corn maze last Halloween."

"That was for stealing our neighbors' candy and vandalizing our street."

"Well…"

The two thugs begin punching their own hands. It looks like it's beatdown time…

"It's time for you to receive your complementary beating from us!"

Immediately, a fight breaks out. I try throwing a punch but Hawk grabs my arm and spins it around, a sickening crunch is heard.

"Did you really think you could take both of us?"

He draws back his meaty fist and drives it into my stomach. I gasp in pain. Hank kicks me in the head.

"Not even going to fight back?"

I try to kick Hawk's arm away, but he flips me over. They begin punching me in the eyes, nose, cheek and kicking my chest, knees and legs. The onlookers call the cops on them, but I manage to stagger upwards a grab Hank by the arm.

"Enough!"

I shoulder tackle him out of the way, which only knocks him a few centimeters back. I then sidestep dodge Hawk's attempt to grab me and deck him in the back of the head. I manage to pin his arm and it immediately breaks apart and flows into me. Some of the more noticeable injuries begin to heal. Hawk's entire left arm is gone.

"What the fuck?! What happened to my arm?! Bro, lets get out of here before the cops show up!"

"Dude, we managed to make her bleed bad, I can't stand blood! Let's bail!"


The cops show up and, after interviewing the onlookers, offered me a ride home. I accepted. I head back to my room.

"What happened to you?!"

"Oh, nothing. It's just those barbarians that Lincoln pissed off almost killed me."

"Did you call the cops?"

"They already know. There's a town wide manhunt for them going on right now."

"So, did anything interesting happen today?"

"Well, one of the thug's arms vanished from some reason."

"Strange. Tell me more."

"I…kind of just want to be left alone, Lisa."

"Understood. I'll let you recover, but I will research this further."