A/N Welcome back everyone. This is going to be a very simple chapter this time. Sorry for the wait, but I just recently got a new job, so chapter uploads are going to be slower than usual. I apologize for the inconvenience. Stay tuned to the end of the chapter for more art of the fanfiction by UnderratedHero.

Heavy Meddle/Signs of the past.

It was Tuesday afternoon and Will just finished vacuuming up the living room. He coiled up the cord and put the vacuum cleaner in the hall closet. Which sat directly across Nicholas's bedroom. Nicholas wasn't home yet. Will had some free time until it was time for him to start cooking dinner. Speaking of…

Last time you saw me I was tied up on the Loud's back patio. Unfortunately, the twins untied me after about an hour and a half of begins stuck out there. Lana apologized because I was only supposed to be out there for half an hour but they forgot. It wasn't until Lincoln asked them about me did they remember. Lola wasn't so apologetic, she said I deserved it for breaking the rules. I was late for dinner, dad sure gave me a earful about it. However, it's a new day and it's time to move on.

Will went back to the kitchen and poured a glass of Lemonade out of a pitcher into a plastic cup. He went outside and sat on the porch to relax. It was a lovely sunny day, which is exactly what he needs. The Louds were already home. Will was scrolling through Facebook until he came across some unsettling images. He took a swing of his drink.

One was Lincoln standing in front of his locker with the door wide open, he was looking stunned as his pants were down. He was standing still in his tighty whities. Will saw the image and spat the lemonade out on the grass in shock.

Oh god, this is a side of Lincoln I really didn't need to see.

The next image was Lincoln flat on the floor of his classroom with his shoelaces tied together. After that Lincoln was sitting in the school cafeteria at lunchtime looking angry and embarrassed as he held a deflated whoopee cushion. Lastly the final image was Lincoln covered in a mountain of garbage in front of his locker once again. It appeared someone stuffed his locker full of waste and it collapsed on Lincoln when he opened it. Will noticed that the posting dates were all today, and they had many shares and likes.

Poor guy he's had a rough day. How did this happen? Who could have done this?

Lincoln decided to walk home. Which is something he chooses to do quite often with Clyde.. After a while he noticed Clyde and Lincoln walking up the sidewalk. Will walked over to them to greet them but slowed down when he noticed a frustrated look on Lincoln's face. He had to be a few feet away from them, because Lincoln still smelled like trash.

"Hey guys." He said. "You ok Lincoln?"

I'm not gonna bring up the post on social media. He's been through enough today.

"Take a closer look!" Clyde responded pointing to a large wad of red bubble gum stuck on the front right side of Lincoln's hair.

"Oh, how'd that get there?" Will asked.

"There's this person who's been giving me a hard time at school lately." Lincoln said in a slightly defeated tone. Will was quickly aggravated for someone giving his friend a hard time.

"You mean someone's bullying you?" He asked popping his knuckles, looking like he was getting ready for a fight.

Lincoln smiled and spoke with confidence. "Don't worry Will, I got this."

Will was perplexed by this, his expression relaxed. "Really?"

No offense but Lincoln has been in a couple scuffles but he usually ends up hurt on the ground without having thrown a single punch. I really should help the poor guy...but he said he's got this, should I just let him handle it? I guess I should. I mean he can be a man….right?

Clyde explained what happened. "It was awful. They humiliated Lincoln three times today and many other students snapped photos."

"Oh how awful for this individual to do that!" Will said, his eyes were darting around, he was looking like he was hiding something. Again, he doesn't need Lincoln to know that he's becoming a meme.

"What do you plan on doing?" Will asked.

"I confronted that bully." Lincoln said, still confident.

"Really?" Will asked stunned.

Seriously really? Lincoln's really brave!

"Yep!" Lincoln nodded. "I told them to meet me in front of my house at 3:30 in front of my house and we're gonna settle this!" Clyde was stunned hearing such a bold statement.

"Um Lincoln are you sure it's ok to let a bully know where you live?" Will asked, thinking Lincoln made a dumb move.

"Woah you're gonna fight?" He said stunned. Will didn't even think about that.

Woah, Lincoln in a fight? I'd assume that thanks to Lori, and Lynn maybe he knows how to fight, but to my knowledge, he's never been in one! I hope he knows what he's doing!

"No way Clyde I'm not an animal. I'm going to deliver a strongly worded speech! Don't worry though Will. Most people at school already know where I live."

I think I should be on standby in case things get ugly. I mean if it was me, especially when I had a bad attitude I wouldn't be afraid to just leap on the guy and start pounding his face. Although I'm a little glad that he has no intention to fight. Hopefully though, he's no pushover and can stand up for himself.

"Besides that bully already left me a note." Lincoln said taking out a sticky note with the word 'Lame-O' written on it. "It was stuck to my hair, attached to the gum. I need to make sure my sisters don't see it. Because if they do they'll want to get involved and make things worse."

"I don't know, maybe they'd be helpful!" Lori always gives such great advice!" Clyde said happily. Will raised an eyebrow at that statement.

"Clyde has Lori ever actually given you advice?"

"She has! She always tells me to never be myself."

"That doesn't sound like advice Clyde." Clyde just ignored Will's hard truth.

"Poor Clyde." Lincoln chuckled. "My sisters go way over the top for everything. When I last had a paper cut. Luan and Luna wrapped me in bandages like a mummy. Lori took my temperature, and Lisa tried to cure me with radiation."

"Hey just makes me wish I had such loving siblings." Will said shrugging. Lincoln had no response for that statement.

"Well at any rate, you better get that gum out of your hair." Clyde advised. "You need to look intimidating to that bully!"

"I was born intimidating." Lincoln replied fiercely. He attepted to pull the gum out but it was sticking perfectly to Lincoln's white hair.

"You can always use peanut butter to get it out!" Clyde suggested.

"Or you can use the easy way and just cut it out with scissors." Will added.

"No way! I need to maintain my style." Lincoln objected.

"Oh come on you got no style." Will playfully mocked, Clyde and Lincoln laughed at his joke.

"Use creamy otherwise you'll have to get the chunks out if you use chunky." Clyde said going back to his peanut butter advice.

"Thanks buddy!" Lincoln said. "Ok I gotta get inside. Don't worry I got this."

"Good luck!" Will said. Clyde continued to walk home, Will returned to his home and Lincoln went inside his home.

Will sat at the window in the living room watching for the bully.

If things get ugly I'm gonna jump in and save him! God knows I've had my own dealings with bullies.

Will began to reminisce about his time at his old grade school four years ago.

(Flashback)

Will was ten years old at this time in his old home in his old school. He still had the grey shirt he wore when he and Nicholas first moved to Royal Woods. He was sitting in the principal's office alone. He sat in the only chair directly in front of his desk. He had a bruise on his forehead, a black eye, and a scrape on his arm.

The principal, a sharply dressed middle aged man with a balding head with receding hairline, and eyeglasses, sat across from Will at his desk. He tried to speak reasonably to him, but was noticeably irritated with him.

"Mr. Clements this is the fourth fight you've been in this month. Are you purposely trying to get expelled?"

"What difference does it make?" Will argued in a grumpy tone. "My life is over, what good is school gonna do me?" The principal took off his glasses and massaged the bridge of his nose. This isn't the first time Will told him this.

"Look William, I know what you been through is hard, but that's no excuse to be punching people."

Will lashed out the principal, he couldn't understand what he was going through.

"That guy "mocked me! He was teasing me about where my Mom was and where she is now! He deserved it!"

"Trust me. We will deal with what he did. But what you did was wrong to! It's getting bad, the third person you fought with you beat up just cause he looked at you!"

"He looked at me and was whispering to his friends. He was making fun of me! He deserved it too!" The Principal put his glasses back on and spoke firmly to Will.

"Now now, you don't know that. Look William I'm writing a note to your father, I want him to sign it and bring it back to me personally. I need him and you to understand. If you're caught fighting or arguing with teachers again you're going to be suspended. I know what happened. That's why I'm willing to give you so many chances, however I can't give anymore. I have to enforce the rules, and I can't have a once sweet child going around disrupting the peaceful environment here. Understand? If you were any other student, you'd be expelled by now! I'm a nice guy, I'm no jerk ok?"

"Sure whatever." Will scoffed rolling his eyes.

"I mean it!" The principal demanded. He reached into his desk and took out a paper with a few paragraphs scribbled on it. "Give this to your father, have him sign it and give it to me at the end of the day tomorrow!"

"Sure. If I can get him to wake up. He probably drank another whole twelve pack of beer and passed out drunk again!" Will again scoffed. The Principal ignored this, thinking Will was exaggerating. He took the paper and walked out of the office. Little did he know, he wasn't exaggerating.

(End of Flashback)

Yeah I was a fighter. I took no lip from no one…..although I may have overreacted to innocent people. I may have been too rough with some. I was very angry then. I didn't channel my energy into something good. I channeled it into my fist instead. That's why I fought so much. I guess that when I was fighting what I believed to be bullies, in a way, I became one. Also yeah after what happened my Dad was a mess, that's why there's no booze in our house. Luckily we decided to change our lives before any big long term damage could be done to either of us. Unfortunately my anger followed me to Royal Woods even though it calmed down some. It took a couple months for me to change my attitude.

Will looked at the clock and it was 3:28 he looked down the sidewalk through the window and saw a spec of a far away person heading towards the Loud's.

That must be him! Ok I gotta be vigilant! I'm gonna spring into action the second there's trouble! That guy's gonna regret it if he lays a finger on Lincoln...Huh? Wait a minute! It's a girl!

Sure enough the person waited on the front walkway that led up to the Loud's front door. The person is indeed a girl. A hispanic girl with a small overbite, revealing two front teeth. She had her hair tied up into a ponytail and wore a purple hoodie, it matched her purple stockings and shorts.

This girl is giving Lincoln a hard time? No way! Well, I can say I witnessed my share of girls not being very kind so I shouldn't be surprised. Unfortunately I suppose I can't do much intervening if this gets ugly.

Will sat at the window in anticipation he noticed Lincoln walking out the door with a confident look on his face, oddly enough he also had lip balm applied to his mouth. It was a messy application though a lot of it was smeared onto his cheeks and upper lips. Seeing this Will figured out what was happening.

Oh God. He's gonna ask her out? Gonna Kiss her? The suspense is killing me!

Once Lincoln approached the girl, they began exchanging a few words. Not many though, once they finished Lincoln moved in for a kiss. Will was plastered at his window in excitement. The girl squirmed slightly and Lincoln planted the kiss on her right cheek slightly missing her lips. Immediately she retaliated by giving Lincoln a hard punch in the face. Will winced in pain seeing the punch.

Ouch! Struck out! Poor Lincoln. I guess that's my cue!

Will exited his house as Lincoln fell flat on his back from the punch, that's how hard she hit him. Will approached the situation and picked Lincoln up and walked him back to the door. He and the girl met eyes and there was a definite feel of gasoline and fire in the air when they did. They didn't say anything to each other. They broke eye contact and he continued to walk Lincoln back to his home.

"You ok?" He asked him. Lincoln was fire engine red angry, he showed Will the black eye he received from the punch.

"NO! THANKS TO MY SISTERS I GOT A BLACK EYE!" Lincoln shouted, he calmed down a little and explained further. "They decided that since this girl is my bully, she must be in love with me. I was stupid enough to believe it! I followed their advice and decided to kiss her, and look what that got me!"

Will looked over his shoulder at the girl, she was angrily wiping her face off the kiss. He opened the door and Lincoln stomped into the house with an furious look on his face. All his sisters were looking concerned, and looking regretful. They just gave their brother bad advice.

"Thanks Will." Lori said as they took their brother in.

"I'll call later Lincoln! See how you're doing!" Will called as Lincoln walked passed his sisters and up the stairs. Once the door was shut. Will went over to the girl to confront her. She gave Will an intimidating glare. It didn't faze him, as he returned the glare.

"What do you want?" She said harshly.

"First of all, who are you? And Why are you giving my friend a hard time?" Will retorted.

"Who am I? Who are you!?" She countered. Will's temper boiling at this girl's attitude, but remembered that he shouldn't lose it at a young girl.

"I'm Will, Lincoln's best friend and neighbor to the Louds." Will stated, sounding tuff. He had nothing to hide from her. She raised an eyebrow at the statement.

"Best friend? I thought Clyde was."

"Ok Lincoln's my best friend, while Clyde is Lincoln's best friend." Will attempted to explain starting to calm down. The girl's puzzled look didn't go away.

"That makes no sense."

"It's complicated." Will sighed. "Now again, who are you? The two locked eyes before the girl finally gave her name."

"I'm Ronnie Anne Santiago." She said. "I'm teaching Lincoln a lesson about him being a Lame-O!"

Oh yeah. There's definitely way more to this than I thought. I know so because this was me to a certain degree…..wait a minute, Santiago? Don't I know someone with the same last name?

"What exactly makes him one?" Will questioned. Ronnie Anne was stumbled in her mind, she was confused because she didn't truly understand why herself. Her eyes darted around. She was frantically trying to think of an answer.

He's… um.

Woah, could Lincoln's sisters be right? Is she just doing it because she likes him? I mean if that's her reason for pciking on him, maybe.

Ronnie Anne finally regained her confidence and retorted.

"It's none of your business why!" Will and Ronnie Anne exchanged glares and Will decided to play to what just happened. Maybe he could get the truth out. His face turned to one of teasing.

"Did you kind of like the kiss he gave you?" Ronnie Ann spat and blushed at the same time at that question.

"Ugh Gross! Why would that creep do such a sick thing?"

"Well again, you never answered my question. Why are you torturing him?" Will said confidently, he got her now. Ronnie Anne sighed and confessed. Once Will saw this, he relaxed to.

"I honestly don't know." She said defeated. "My home life is a little messed up." Will's expression perked up upon hearing that. They had something in common. He knows what she's talking about because he's lived it.

"What do you mean?" He asked further. Ronnie Anne decided to give him a bit of her life's story. She decided since she was defeated by Will, who sincerely wanted to know what's causing this and is only looking out for his friend, she saw no harm in telling him her story.

"I live at home with my older brother and my mom. She works as a nurse at the hospital and my dad's been gone for years. They divorced and I still don't understand why to this day. He took a doctor's job in Peru, we haven't seen him in years. I miss him."

She looked depressed. Will knew all too well what she was talking about. He decided to add on top of it. Finishing her story, hoping to find some common ground.

"You work to help maintain the home. Your mom works long hours and you don't get to spend time with her a lot and when she's home she just wants to relax and not deal with kids. Which is just about everyday, it gets frustrating that you develop an unhealthy way to deal with your aggression." Ronnie Ann instantly grew stunned. He described almost exactly how she was feeling.

"How did you know?"

"I live alone with my Dad. We came from my old home in Wisconsin, we had to leave because our lives were going down the toilet and we needed to start over. He works at an oil rig, great money, but long hours and backbreaking hard labor. So taking care of the house falls on me."

"What happened? Where's your mom?" She asked. Will clenched his hand into a fist and shook with anger. After a few seconds he took a deep breath and he calmed down.

"It's something I don't like talking about. Maybe someday I can deal with it, but everytime I think about what happened I get overwhelmingly angry. Not even the Loud's know." Ronnie Anne learned quickly that this was a subject too sensitive for Will to discuss. "It just began the downward spiral for us that we decided to leave it behind."

"Sorry dude. You got it though. I suppose you and I are quite alike then." The two smiled at each other.

"What about your brother?" Will asked.

"Well, he's too busy. He supports mom because he's always between jobs and high school, and when he's home he's glued to his phone talking to his girlfriend. Who's actually Lincoln's oldest sister."

No way! This is Bobby's sister? Makes sense. They're both named Santiago!

"Bobby's you're brother? I go to school with him!"

"Woah really? So you've seen it then. The two are glued to each other!" The two shared a chuckle.

"Yeah, it can be kind of over the top at times." Ronnie Anne thought about it some more. She felt comfortable enough around Will to go into more details.

"You know, now that I think about it. I guess I picked on Lincoln because I felt like he was the perfect target due to how close he was to my family. Having a sibling that's dating mine. I guess it made it easy for me to single him out."

"Perhaps so." Will stated, agreeing with her conclusion.

Wow smart kid, but I should expect no less from someone like me.

"Hey, I think I should get going." Ronnie Anne said smiling, she feels much better now, getting it off her chest with someone who understands her. "It was nice meeting you!"

"Not quite! You gave my friend a black eye!" Will interjected stopping her as she was turning around. He was smiling but his eyebrows furrowed. He wasn't angry and the tension diminished, but he wasn't just gonna just let Ronnie Anne get away with hitting Lincoln.

"Well what can I do? I mean I can't get him ice for it!" Ronnie Anne objected. Will smiled, he knew exactly what to do.

"I may be able to help you out, wait here." Will ran back inside his house and came back with a frozen New York strip steak. Here, it's no ice pack but it's still frozen. Ronnie Anne took the steak and a few sticky notes. Will was surprised to see those in her pocket.

"You always carry those?"

"I always had these to leave notes when I teased Lincoln."

"Oh and you're gonna leave a note for him now?"

"Yeah, where's his bedroom window?" Will put on his teasing face again.

"Oh, too shy to just give it to him?" Ronnie Anne blushed and looked away trying to put on a serious face.

"Don't be ridiculous. It's just I don't think he'll want to talk to me after I hit him in the eye." Will lost his teasing face.

"Right, it's the little push flap on the right side of the house. So you're not gonna tease him anymore?" Ronnie Anne scoffed at that question.

"You kidding me? Lincoln's still a Lame-O….but I suppose I'll ease up on him." Will smiled and hung his head, not exactly what he hoped to hear.

"I suppose that will have to do for now. Just don't cross the line ok? I'll come rushing if I hear about it!" Will gave her a serious look.

"You're on!" Ronnie Anne said in a competitive tone. Whatever Will had in store for her, she was ready for it.

What a spunky girl. I like her, I guess I made a new friend. I also guess that Lincoln got a cute girlfriend to! HAHAHA!

He watched Ronnie Anne go to the side of the house and she scribbled some things on two sticky notes. She stuck the notes on the steak and threw it up through the flap that resembled his bedroom window precisely.

Oh wow. If she was a little older. She'd give Lynn a run for her money in athletics.

Will watched Ronnie Anne walk up the walkway and wave goodbye to Will as she walked back home. Will returned the wave and walked back to his home. He also couldn't help but notice the slight blush on Ronnie Anne's cheeks.

Yep, Lincoln got a cute girlfriend for sure…..Now I need to rethink what I'm gonna cook for dinner, because I just gave it away. Dang it, I didn't think of that until now.

The next day at school Will was at his locker, he finished depositing his books and taking art supplies out. He saw Bobby walking side by side with Lori holding hands. He quickly shut his locker and rushed over to them. He wanted to talk to Bobby.

"Hey Lori, can I borrow Bobby for a moment?" Lori grumped for a bit but nodded, she kissed Bobby on the cheek and walked away leaving the two alone.

"I'll call you later babe!" Bobby called to her, she waved happily in response. "So what's up bro?"

"I met your sister yesterday!" Bobby scratched the back of his head out of slight embarrassment.

"Oh yeah? I hope she behaved herself. She's nice, but she can be very rough around the edges." Will had to be honest.

"She was rough on Lincoln, giving him a hard time, but she said she's gonna ease up on him." Bobby sighed.

"Yeah I was afraid of that." Will had to assure him that it wasn't as bad as it seemed at first.

"She and I actually bonded when things got a little rough between her and Lincoln. I stepped out and we talked, we had quite a bit in common." Will opened up to him more. "She told me a bit about your home lives. We got more in common than I knew."

Bobby sighed. "She said that she made a new friend, someone who understood what it's like to be us."

Oh that's nice! She thinks I'm a friend to!

Will smiled big at him. "Yeah, you're a great brother Bobby. Lori's lucky to have you!" Bobby laughed in response.

"Thanks bro!" Will had an idea, actually one he was hoping to do for a while.

"Hey Bobby, I'm planning a guy's night at my house pretty soon. I want you to come!"

"Really? Awsome! Who's all gonna be there?"

"Me, Lincoln, and Clyde. Hopefully you to, my dad is gonna go hang with Mr. Loud so the whole house is gonna be ours!" Bobby only took a few seconds to think about it.

"You know what? Sure! I've heard from Lori that your house is a palace. I'd love to see that for myself!"

"Awsome! I'll let you know soon with the details! I'll see you then!" The two waved at each other and parted ways.

Not much to say about how me and Bobby met. I already changed my bad attitude then, when he and Lori started dating that's when I met him. The other Louds were weary of him, they were just concerned if Bobby was good for their sister. I gotta confess, I felt a little like that to, but hey I can't interfere. We're good friends but not relatives. Even though we've always been friendly with each other, I've never hung out with him, hopefully that will change after this guy's night.

A/N Thank you all for reading for anyone interested in Will's first encounter with the Louds when he had a bad attitude, that will appear next chapter. For now enjoy some more art again by UnderratedHero. Also have any of you seen the Sonic movie? I did I thought it was pretty good for what it was. What did you think? Let me know in a PM or a review.

Nicholas in his Halloween Costume, which is primarily the person I based him off of.

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A future scene in the Fanfic during a Flashback when Lucy doesn't appreciate Will's costume when he had a bad attitude.

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In the future of the Fanfic what Will and Nicholas will look like in the Winter Time.

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Ok guys see you next time!