A/N Hello everyone! Welcome back! For this one will show Will's first meeting with the Louds. I sincerely hope you guys wont be dissapointed. The next chapter will be an original one. More information will be in the notes at the end of the chapter.
Making the Case/Memories.
It was Thursday afternoon and Will, Lincoln, and Clyde were walking down the sidewalk. They were carrying on a conversation about Lincoln's family and their achievements.
"We got a big trophy case in the Living Room." Lincoln said in a tone that showed both excitement and annoyance. "Everyone has big achievements inside. Lisa has he Jr. Nobel Prize. Lori has her golf trophies and Lola has her pageant ribbons. Lily even has trophies for thumb sucking contest!" Will was shocked to hear Lilly's achievements.
Wow, winning championships before one year old. What a baby!
"So what's the deal?" Will asked, confused at Lincoln's mixed tone. Lincoln sighed and explained why this is such a big deal.
"All my siblings have trophies, except me! I need to get into that case!" Lincoln declared with great determination.
"There's a filming contest going on at school right now." Clyde explained to Will. "You get a big shiny gold trophy if you win it!" Will was mesmerized hearing that.
"Awesome, and you, Lincoln, see your name all over it?"
"Absolutely! I have to win it! Luan has a lot of cameras, surely she'll let me use one for this!" Lincoln said with great confidence and determination. Clyde took the time to explain the contest rules to Will.
"You got to upload something to Youtube and get votes with 'Royal Woods Elementary film contest entry.' in the title. You can make a new entry as long as you delete your previous entry you can submit a new one. The one with the most votes wins!"
"Sound's simple enough." Will shrugged. "You know what you're gonna do for the contest Lincoln?" He smiled and put on a bigger confident smile.
"Absolutely, come to my house this Saturday, we're gonna put on a spectacular stunt." Clyde decided to nervously add to that.
"We actually could use your help setting the whole thing up." Will laughed at the irony.
"Hahaha! Ok i'll help you out!" Lincoln however, didn't lose his confident look.
"I'll see you two later!" Lincoln said as he, Clyde, and Will separated to go back to their homes.
So Lincoln wants to become a viral sensation? I guess with a life like his it won't be too hard.
The Saturday arrived, Lincoln put on a suit made of nothing but Mentos covering a blue swimsuit. The suit itself looked as if Lincoln was wearing bubble wrap made into a suit, except all the bubbles were the Mentos. He borrowed one of Lynn's skateboards and her makeshift wooden halfpipe ramp in the Loud's back yard. Will just finished pouring several liters of Diet Cola into a kid's swimming pool Clyde had his video camera ready to record a stunt Lincoln's about to perform. Will was also tasked with luring the Loud's dog Charles, and their cat Cliff, and finding a way to keep them in place on top of a handmade seesaw. Which Lincoln and Clyde made by putting a long plank of wood on top of a pile of bricks. This contraption sat next to the tire swing hanging from the Loud's tree. On the other side of it was the pool of Diet Cola.
Will was struggling with the pets, Charels kept running away and Cliff kept scratching his hands. They clearly either didn't like Will or they didn't want to be part of this stunt.
"Oh! Ouch! Lincoln!" He called wincing in pain. "I need help! Your pets don't seem to like me!" Lincoln ran over, he knew what to do. He made them an offer that they couldn't refuse.
"Now Cliff, Charles, if you do me this one favor, I'll let you eat all the pet treats until you puke!" The pets understood immediately and instantly fell into line. Cliff meowed and purred in excitement while Charles panted in excitement. The dog and cat sat perfectly still on one end of the plank, elevating the other side of the plank. Will had an unamused look on his face.
"Thanks." Will grumbled staring at his scratched up hands. If Cliff scratched his favorite jacket, he would be exploding with anger.
Lincoln got up on top of Lynn's ramp and readied himself on Lynn's skateboard. Lincoln put on a blue helmet for safety reasons. Will stood behind Clyde as he pointed his camera at Lincoln and zoomed in on him to set up the shot.
"Is the camera rolling?" Lincoln asked, Clyde responded by giving him a thumbs up. "Hey fifth grade! Lincoln Loud here! Ever wondered what happens when six hundred and seventy two mints meet eighty eight gallons of diet soda? Well you're about to find out!"
Lincoln kicked the skateboard and soared down the ramp and soared through the air towards the seesaw and kicked the skateboard away. He landed perfectly on the elevated end of the seesaw, launching Cliff and Charles into the air and came down on their end on the seesaw hard. This launched Lincoln into the air like a missile head first. He successfully soared through the hole in the tire swing and landed into the pool of Diet resulted in the pool erupting like a geyser with fizz covering the area and a little bit of Clyde in soda. Luckily his camera wasn't damaged. Will made sure to stay back so the mess didn't get him.
Yeah I know, I'm too attached to this jacket. I can't help it. I love this jacket.
"That was amazing!" Clyde cheered.
"I'm just more amazed you managed to pull off this stunt in one take! You got skills Lincoln!" Will complimented.
"You're so right!" Clyde added. "Everyone's gonna vote for this!" Lincoln got out of the pool completely soaked in brown cola.
"All that's left is to edit it appropriately, then upload it and let the votes pour in!" Clyde said with excitement.
"We'll do that...after I shower of course!" Lincoln giggled with the others.
The next day Will sat on the couch in his living room scrolling through his phone, he decided to open up Youtube. He was watching the new viral sensation dubbed, 'Hamtsacam.' A cute hamster just ran in his wheel until he tripped and got flug off. He chuckled at it. He also noticed something in the title of the video.
So this Hamstacam is also someone's entry into Lincoln's film contest. Oh man that's cute. I wonder how Lincoln's video's doing?
He looked it up in the search bar and clicked on it. The video looks just as amazing as was seeing the stunt performed. Unfortunately the video seems to have no votes.
Oh poor Lincoln and Clyde they worked pretty hard on the video.
He noticed a comment on the video and read it out loud. Including the weird pronunciations that come with the spelling of text language.
"Nice Try but U shld go to UR BIG SISTER'S site for some tipzz. Her videos R sick. L.O.L. Comedy."
Will noticed that the last parts of the comment are a link to another website. He clicked it and found Luan's comedy webpage. Luan Out Loud's Comedy Channel.
Oh wow! I had no idea that Luan went into business for herself. She may be annoying but she's smart enough to capitalize on her gift.
Nicholas came out of his room and saw Will.
"What are you doing son?" He asked.
"Just checking out Youtube. Clyde and Lincoln uploaded a video and are hoping to win some contest at his school."
"That's interesting." Nicholas went to the fridge and poured himself a glass of milk. "Listen son. Lana is coming over next weekend to work on my truck." Will was a little confused by this.
"You could easily do it yourself."
"I know but seeing that little cutie work and seeing how she's as good as any mechanic just warms my heart. Besides I do pay her. I want her to understand the greatness of what she can do." Will smiled.
"That's nice of you dad. Just don't hug her ok?"
Nicholas chuckled. Don't worry. "I've seen her digging through the trash and not showering afterwards. God knows what else she's been in." They both shared a laugh before Nicholas gave his son more chores to do. "Will I need you to take the Weed Wacker and edge the yard. Will groaned slightly but agreed."
Here I thought I would have a relaxing weekend after finishing Saturday's chores. Guess not.
"Ok dad." He got up off the couch and walked through the kitchen and out the sliding glass door into the back yard. He went to the tool shed in the lower right corner of the yard and took out his red battery powered Weed Wacker. He took it out and noticed in the Loud's yard Lynn's bouncing a soccer ball around.
"Hey Lynn!" He called to her. She replied but not taking her eyes off her bouncing the ball.
"Hi Will! I'm practicing up! Next year's soccer season is coming up! I gotta maintain my reputation for being this town's star player!"
"Of course! It only gets you free burgers and laundry discounts!" Will jokingly scoffed.
"See! You understand completely!" Little did she know, Lincoln and Clyde were spying on her. With their video camera pointing directly at her recording what was going on.
Wonder what those two are doing? Oh well, gotta get this stuff done.
Will started the device and started cutting the grass along the fence. He paused for a moment when he noticed Lynn was bouncing her ball a little too close to a rake sitting in the grass.
Uh oh! I gotta warn her before…
Too late, Lynn accidentally slammed the back of her foot onto the rake, it rose and struck her in the back of her head, she lost control of her soccer ball and accidentally kicked it forward and it bounced against the tree back to her and struck her in the face. She cried in pain as the recoil from the soccer ball sent her flying back onto a small yellow trampoline which bounced her into the air and landed into the pool of Diet Cola from the day before.
"Lynn!" Will cried. He dropped the gardening tool and rushed over the fence and took her hand to pull Lynn out of the pool. She was soaked all over in soda. "You ok?"
"Yeah i'm fine. Thank you." She said, wiping her face. "I guess I gotta hit the showers."
"I take some responsibility for this." Will confessed. "I was part of this stunt Lincoln and Clyde did, I made the assumption that they would clean it up." Lynn reassured him that he doesn't need to feel bad for her.
"That's very considerate of you Will, but honestly our yard is littered with stuff anyway. If it wasn't the pool of Soda, it would have been something else." Lynn gave Will a smile, which he gladly returned.
They walked back to the house together, they separated once they reached the stairs inside the Loud's home. He traveled back to his yard but not before he stumbled across a laughing Lincoln and Clyde. He noticed Lincoln holding his video camera.
"What are you two doing?"
"We're recording a series of escalating mishaps." Lincoln said in excitement. Will was confused.
"What?"
Clyde took the opportunity to explain. "We saw the comment on our video advising us to go to Luan for advice and she said stunts won't do us any good, we gotta go down the funny route. So we decided to capture footage of anything funny we come across."
"We do so by keeping our camera turned on, we do not miss out on possible comedy gold." Lincoln explained further.
Will quickly figured it out. "You guys recorded Lynn's accident to get funny footage." Lincoln and Clyde nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, it was hilarious!" Clyde said. "Now all we gotta do is edit it and upload it!"
"You sure you want to do that?" Will questioned.
"What do you mean?" Lincoln asked. Will expanded on his question.
"If it was me you guys recorded and uploaded after something embarrassing happened to me, I'd destroy your camera and throw you two out the window." The two boys gulped and understood his meaning.
"That's why we will only be recording my sisters! We gotta beat that Hamstacam!" Lincoln said with determination.
"Hamstacam!" Clyde repeated in a tone that sounded as if that Hamster was his arch nemesis.
"Yeah." Will scoffed, he then stated in a sarcastic tone. "I can't see this blowing up in you guy's faces. The two decided to brush off his warning."
Lincoln smiled confidently and spoke with equal conviction. "It won't blow up because the videos will only be up until we win the contest. I'll take the videos down and my sisters won't know anything."
Will scoffed again. "Lincoln you're gonna be so dead when this is over." However the boys didn't listen. They instead went back inside the house to obtain more footage. Will shook his head and went back to work.
Over the next couple days, Will noticed Linoln had uploaded a new video on Youtube, although it seemed to get quite a large number of votes. Will watched them but was groaning and feeling bad every time he did. The video was a compilation of the mishaps of Lincoln's sister's. It only seems that Luan and Lily are absent from it. Things were very interesting at school. The videos were going viral and everyone was viewing them during lunch.
Man I can't lie, some of these are funny, but I know these were not meant to be viewed by anyone. I mean, Lori appears to have a gas problem, she seems to fart spontaneously. Yeah that's a little funny, but it's clear she has a 'medical condition' that shouldn't be laughed at. Poor Leni, she's been accidentally ramming herself into the walls. I hope she's ok. Lisa's doing it to, but she needs to take her eyes off her text book if she's going to be reading it. Lucy…..I can't lie that's actually pretty funny she's been seen kissing the bust of her favorite vampire Edwin.
Lana is seen digging through the trash, not unusual I know, but to anyone else it may be seen as gross. Luna did the splits doing her Mic Swagger impression, it caused her pants to rip revealing her underwear. THAT'S a side of Luna that I never expected to see. Unfortunately it's in my brain now, I can't unsee it. Lola is seen sleeping, she has all her sleep gear stuff on, curls in her hair, a blindfold, and a mud mask, she's also snoring and drooling everywhere. I'll admit, that's actually pretty funny!
This may be getting tons of votes, he's currently in second place. He's gonna be so dead. I almost feel sorry for him, although, yeah. He kind of deserves it. I mean come on, I did warn him that this will horribly backfire.
Unfortunately that's what happened. Will noticed that many of the students were sharing the video around the school. Will just got his deli sandwich with milk and dessert, all of a sudden as he was walking to a table to eat he heard a loud shriek.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
It caught him by surprise and Will dropped his food on the floor because of it.
"Dang it!" He said bitterly. He looked at where he heard the scream and it was Lori, she darted past the other students who were laughing as they were all glued to their phones. Will saw her go into a nearby Girl's Restroom with Bobby close behind her. Will looked to the other side as he saw Luan and Luna stomping towards him with angry faces. Will gulped in fear.
Oh god, they're angry. I'm totally unprepared for this!
"Will!" Luna scolded. "We've become the laughing stocks of the school! That video everyone is watching is on Lincoln's YouTube page! You're Lincoln's best friend! Do you know anything about this?"
Will sweated and shook, he raised his hands up defensively. "No! I didn't put him up to this! I didn't help him either!"
Luna gave him a heated stare in the eyes, she wasn't one hundred percent buying it. "You absolutely sure bro?" At that time Leni walked up next to Will and looked at Luna to try and defuse the situation.
"Guys, I believe him." She said in a soothing voice. "Will has changed. He may have done something like this years ago, but no way he'd do it now! I mean come on why would he?" Luna paused and thought about it, she then exhaled and calmed down, however Leni was also angry about being humiliated, she turned and joined her other sisters and stared Will down. "Although I was in that video to, I was also embarrassed. Will, are you sure you know nothing about this?"
"I swear I don't!" Will confessed. Even though in actuality he wasn't telling the whole truth. He did know something.
I know Lincoln did this for a contest, but this is Lincoln's mess not mine. I didn't help him or encourage this. So he needs to clean it up. Leni is so nice though, helping me out here.
The other sisters except Luan left, leaving them alone. Luan sighed and gave Will a regretful look.
"I'm sorry Will, this is partially my fault. I gave Lincoln and Clyde the advice. They're just doing what I suggested to them."
Actually, maybe I'm also kind of responsible for this. I mean, I didn't actively try to stop them. Or warn them about what Lincoln was doing. Uhhhh, I'm terrible.
"Don't feel bad Luan, you were just helping them out." Will said in an encouraging tone. Luan smiled at him, which he returned to her.
"I gotta tell you though, he's gonna get it from us all when we see him at home!" Luan said.
"Well, he does deserve it!" Will laughed.
"For now though it will take time for the others to try and restore their reputations." Luan said with concern for her sisters.
"Yeah." Especially Lori.
"Hey you should come by sometime! I got funny videos I want to show you! I made them myself!"
'Ok sure!" Will said, smiling big.
The next day was Wednesday, the contest was coming to a close on Friday. Will caught up to Lincoln and Clyde just before they returned home. The mess at school was steady, with time, Lincoln's sister's will recover from this humiliation, and have their reputations restored.
"Hey guys. Well Lincoln, looks like you got this contest in the bag." However Lincoln and CLyde looked nervous about something. "What's wrong?"
Lincoln spoke up and explained what happened at school. "The video is gaining me lots of votes, but everyone pointed out that such me revealing such embarrassing things, my sisters will murder me."
"Of course." Will said, not dropping his happy tone. "You're not just in trouble. You're dead where you stand Lincoln! The two boys groaned in fear, it was the truth."
"What are you gonna do?" Clyde asked Lincoln.
Lincoln smiled, he had a plan. "Just have to wait by Friday. I'll win the contest and then delete the video."
"That's your plan?" Will scoffed. "That's not a very good one!" Lincoln began defending himself. They made it to the front porch of the Loud's home.
"Come on. There's no way that they know about the video! It's only been two days! What's two more?" Clyde had a sad look on his face and gave Lincoln a big hug.
"Just in case you're sister's murder you! Good luck buddy."
"Don't worry Clyde. My sisters will never know." Lincoln opened the door to ten angry faces of all his sisters. Ready to tear him apart at any time.
"Oh they know." Clyde whispered to Lincoln. Lincoln and Clyde were frozen at the stares Lincoln was getting. All the girls began yelling at him, their yells were overlapping so no one could make out what they were saying. Will instantly turned around and went home.
I'm not gonna stay to see this. It's up to Lincoln to get out of this. Good luck little man! Wow, even though they weren't angry with me. Their angry looks were very intimidating.
The next day, the day before the closing of Lincoln's contest, Will went to YouTube on his phone and noticed Lincoln's video had been deleted. If he uploads something now. He would have to start over from zero votes. Will smiled.
Lincoln made the right decision. However he shouldn't have done this to begin with.
Hours later a new video appeared on Lincoln's Youtube channel. This one already has thirty votes already. Will sat down and clicked the video and began to watch it.
Oh boy, who's Lincoln trying to humiliate now?
Lincoln appeared on screen and began a speech with a big smile on his face in his bedroom.
"Hello fifth grade! Lincoln Loud here! Ever wonder what happens when one brother messes up, and embarasses all ten of his sisters? I didn't think you would, but this is how you fix it!" He reached off screen and took out an orange sign that read, 'Copyright Luan Out Loud L.L.C.'
"Oh and for legal reasons all videos are provided by Luan Out Loud. L.L.C. All rights reserved patent pending. Let er rip!"
The video then cut to Lincoln doing a bunch of silly things that no one would want exposed to the internet. He was singing in the shower, combing and watering a chest hair as if it was a plant, crying while watching a soap opera, sucking his thumb while sleeping with his favorite stuffed bunny, and mostly, the most humiliating thing, he's having romantic conversation, and kissing Lucy's bust Edwin, with a picture of Christina, a girl Lincoln has a crush on in his class.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Will cracked up laughing hysterically. "Oh man, Lincoln bringing yourself down with your sisters. He's a real man for this!"
Seriously, he's quite grown up to think of this to fix everything. I never would have thought of this if I was in his position! Way to go Lincoln! I'm proud of you!
Friday arrived, school was out, the video contest was over. Will looked at Lincoln's video on YouTube, it had many votes, unfortunately Lincoln only came in second place. Losing to Hamstacam. He waited outside for Lincoln, he saw him coming with his head hanging. He approached him with a big smile on his face.
"Hey Lincoln, how was school?"
"Awful. I lost the contest, not only that. Now I'm a laughing stock."
"I know, but Lincoln, you did the right thing to make up for this! You're a good brother, and I gotta say, I definitely learned a lesson in humility because of this!" Lincoln smiled some. They walked to the Loud's front door with Will's arm over his shoulder as a best friend would. Lincoln gulped and opened the door to see all his sisters glaring at him again. Will was a little stunned that they were still angry.
"Oh boy, guess you're still in the hot seat!"
Lincoln sighed. "Will go home, I'll call you later." Will nodded and went back to his home.
Oh man I'm sorry Lincoln, everything will be ok.
The next day, Will finished his weekend chores, he had to shampoo the carpet and mow the lawn again, he finished in the middle of the afternoon. He received a text from Luan a half hour later.
"Hey Will, if you're free, come on over. I gotta show you something."
Oh yeah, Luan wanted to show me videos.
He left his home and walked over to the Loud's and knocked on the door. Lincoln answered it, he had a smile back on his face.
"Hey man, how did it go yesterday?"
"Really good! My sisters all forgave me. While I didn't receive the trophy they gave me something just as good!" They walked over to the trophy case and Lincoln pointed to a miniature gold trophy with the bottom having a sticky note on it that says. 'Lincoln Loud Most Improved Brother.' It was obvious that this trophy originally belonged to someone else.
I'm not in total agreement to just hand him a trophy, I'm not entirely in favor of 'trophy for trying' giveaways, but I don't want to take this away from Lincoln.
"Hey man way to go!" Will said smacking a high five to Lincoln. "I'm here to see Luan."
"Oh, well, you know where it is." Will waved bye to him and he walked up the stairs and knocked on the door to Luna and Luan's room.
"Come in!" Luan called. Will entered. Luna was gone, so it was just the two of them.
"Hi Will!" Luan said smiling, she ran, got up off her bed and went up to Will smiling warmly.
"Hey Luan, what did you want to show me?"
"I know that Lincoln told you what advice I gave him. I've been following that principle to gain footage for a long time." Will nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, he told me to 'have your camera on at all times, you never know what footage you'll discover.'"
Luan sighed. "You see, I got this." She went to her closet and revealed a miniature safe. She entered the combination and then opened it. Inside is a video tape, with yellow tape on it. The yellow tape has written on it. 'Forbidden, do not destroy, view, or duplicate.' "This is a single tape that I got of you." Will was stunned that she has footage of him.
"Of me?"
"Yes. After everything that happened, over the last couple days, I feel like you should see it." She took the tape and went over to a miniature CRT television and put the video tape into the VCR connected to it and started the video they both began to watch.
The date and time appeared around the edge of the screen. This was shot only a couple of months ago. It was Will moving the lawn, he had his jacket tied around his waist. Until all of a sudden the mover hit a tennis ball in the grass. The ball shot out of the bottom of the mower with great force and struck him in the foot, if he wasn't wearing shoes, he'd probably have foot damage.
"YEOW! Will screamed in the video. He stopped the mower and clutched his foot and jumped up and down around in agony. "OH GOD! OUCH! THAT 'bleep' HURT! LOUDS! COME ON! KEEP YOUR 'bleep' TOYS IN YOUR OWN 'bleep' YARD!" With great anger he threw the ball over the fence hard. It bounced off the Loud's tree and flew back to Will and struck him in the stomach hard. He groaned in pain and fell onto his back groaning and swearing in pain. The video went black. It has ended. Will blushed, he was embarrassed at how he behaved in such an emotional manner, with a dirty mouth. Luan took the video tape out of the VCR and locked it back in the safe.
"I know that you would have been furious if I posted it. Not only that, I didn't have your permission to record you at all to begin with."
Will smiled. "You know what, you're right. I would explode if you posted it. At the time, I would have been really angry if I knew you recorded me."
"Hehe." Luan giggled. "That's why I labeled this video as forbidden. I only showed you now, because I feel like you had a right to know it existed."
"Thank you Luan." Will giggled. She offered him a handshake and Will took her hand. Unfortunately her hand had a handshake buzzer in it. Will jumped as he was electrocuted. Once it ended, he grumbled.
"HAHAHA!" Luan laughed. "I'm sorry Will, I couldn't resist. I know you hate pranks, but come on!"
Will smiled through his anger at being pranked again. "Very funny Luan. I gotta go now." Luan couldn't stop laughing.
"Ok Will, I'll see you again! AHAHAHA!" Will left the house and walked home, shaking his hand to get rid of the pain.
You know these guys are so good. It's so nice that I got friends like them. Yes, including Luan. Things would be so different if I never stopped having a sour attitude when I first met them. I would have never learned anything including that it's ok and not the end of the world if you take a humiliating bullet for your family. Like Lincoln demonstrated with this contest, I was a very very different person then.
(Flashback Two Years Ago)
It was the very first evening when the Clements first arrived in Royal Woods, they did some unpacking, Will managed to begin to make his bedroom his own.
"Hey Will!" Nicholas called from the living room. "It's time to go to the Louds! They're expecting us!"
Will groaned. "Dad do I have to? I mean you can go, I don't want to!"
"Quit whining!" Nicholas scolded. "They're expecting us! Not just me!"
Will groaned again and went down stairs and greeted his dad. Nicholas cleaned himself up. He straightened out his hair and threw on a brown jacket. Nicholas raised an eyebrow to his son. Who did shower when they first arrived, but did not bother to dress into any good attire for this special occasion. He still wore his black jeans and grey shirt.
"Will, are you not going to clean yourself up for this? I mean you want to make a good impression."
"I don't care." Will said, rolling his eyes. "Sooner or later, they'll hate us for stupid reasons."
"They'll hate us if you don't try to change that attitude of yours!" Nicholas scolded. "Now I'm done arguing with you! Let's go, and try to be friendly!"
Will reluctantly went with his father and walked from their house and up to the Loud's porch. The air was clean with a cool breeze at twilight on this day. If Will would just change his attitude this place would be a great fit for him and his father.
Noises of all sorts were heard on the other side of the door, immediately when Nicholas knocked on the door the noises stopped. Will stood behind his father, kind of looking like he was hiding. Not because he was shy, but because he really didn't want to be here.
Mr. Loud opened the door, he had a big smile on his face.
"Hello Nicholas. Welcome! Come on in!" He stepped aside and let the two in. Once Will passed by Mr. Loud. He rubbed his hair in a friendly way. "And you to little William!"
"I prefer Will." Will retorted in a harsh manner.
"Ok sorry." Mr. Loud said, still in a chipper tone.
"Hi Nicholas, you to Will." Mrs. Loud said in a similar warm tone.
"Kids! Come on down!" Mr. Loud called. "We need you guys to meet our new neighbors!" He snuck up close to Nicholas and whispered into his ear. "Don't worry, I already told them about Will's attitude. They understand and are willing to give him a chance. Even if he's mean to my kids."
"Thank you very much. He's a good boy, he just needs time." Nicholas whispered back.
All of the Loud kids except Lily, since she hasn't been born yet, have arrived and lined up with smiles on their faces. Ironically, even Lucy did that. Nicholas walked up to see them and Will stayed hiding behind his father. The kids all stood astounded, they were shocked at Nicholas's size. He's incredibly huge! He easily towered over all of them, even the Loud parents.
"Oh wow! You're a giant! Do you have a beanstalk?" Lana asked. Everyone except Will and Lucy broke out laughing.
"Are you kidding?" Lynn questioned. "No doubt that this guy must be a wrestler!" The laughter continued, but Will did pick his head up more when he heard Lynn mention his favorite sport. Nicholas saw his son behind him and moved him out from behind his leg.
"Come on out Will!" He said as he made him stand before the Loud kids. Will looked very uncomfortable and didn't bother to look him any of them in the face.
"Guys these are our new neighbors, the Clements." Mrs. Loud said, presenting them. "This is Nicholas."
"Nice to meet you all!" Nicholas said, waving and smiling to each of the kids. "This here is my son Will!"
Will finally looked at the kids. He had to admit. They didn't seem too bad, however, he already decided that he didn't like them. They all offered friendly smiles to them.
"Go on Will, they're all happy to see you!" Mrs. Loud encouraged. "And don't be afraid to show them your handsome smiling face!"
Will wasn't smiling, he hadn't smiled since he arrived. Before he said anything each of them smiled and took time to introduce themselves.
"I'm Lori, don't worry. You're gonna be going to school with a couple of us. I know how hard it is to be the new kid. I'll help you out." Will didn't respond.
"I'm Leni. Mom's right, you have great potential to be totes handsome! If you want I'll help make you really cute!" Will winced at that, no way he wanted this girl messing with his appearance!
"I'm Luna. You into rock? I hope you love Mic Swagger bro!" Will almost smiled but didn't, Luna almost had him. He still didn't respond though.
Then Luan approached and offered Will a handshake. "Nice to meet you Will! I'm Luan." However Lori lowered Luan's hand. Obviously that handshake was a setup for a prank.
"I'm Lynn Jr! You got a great form, I bet you must be really good at sports!" Again Will remained silent. He did blush a little, was she trying to flirt with him? Nah, probably not.
Finally the only boy stood up and spoke. "I'm Lincoln, you into video games? Comic books? I got plenty."
Will, finally spoke. "Yeah I got plenty to." His voice was still, and didn't convey much emotion. Everyone was a little stunned that he finally broke his silence.
Next Lucy dropped her smile and spoke. "Hi Will, your unhappy demeanor is exactly like mine. I like you already." Will was a little creeped out. This attention from this little goth girl was something he very much didn't need. He remained silent again.
Lola approached Will and courtsyed her pink dress to him. "Hello Will, it's an honor to make your acquaintance." She spoke in a prim and proper manner. Will actually rolled his eyes in response.
Lana actually couldn't take her eyes off Nicholas. "I bet he does a lot of dirty jobs!"
Nicholas smiled and answered Lana's question. "I'm an oil rig worker, but yeah I got a lot of extensive work history of hard sweaty jobs."
"Oh sweet I wanna hear all about it!" Lana chimed.
"Greetings right sided, homebody! Or commonly referred to as, next door neighbor!" Lisa said as she spoke up. Will and Nicholas were stunned, this tiny little girl was using big words, and speaking full sentences.
"Our little Lisa is a genius!" Mr. Loud explained with pride.
"Oh please your attempts at flattery, is only a little pleasing." Lisa added.
Nicholas was a little disappointed in his son, only speaking to Lincoln. "Well son don't you have anything to say to these guys? They've been pretty polite to us."
Will just waved his hand dismissively at them. "Hey how are you doing?" He said in a sarcastic manner without looking any of them in the eyes. The kids all scoffed at him, how rude!
"Now Will that's not nice!" Nicholas said trying to damage control the situation. Will didn't respond to his father.
"Kids! Dinner is almost ready,why don't you guys go play chit chat with Will and I'll call you guys when dinner is ready." Mr. Loud suggested. Nicholas knelt to his son and whispered to him.
"Be nice! You have a great opportunity to make new friends! Don't screw this up!" Nicholas went into the kitchen to assist and converse with the Loud parents.
Will, instead of taking time to talk to the Louds, went over to their chair in the living room and sat down. He just sat and stared at the ceiling, remaining quiet. The Loud kids just followed him and stared at him. He ignored them for a few minutes then finally decided to address all the eyes on him. Will lowered his head and decided to speak.
"What?" He said in an impolite manner. His ill manners didn't seem to phase the Louds, they were curious about him.
"So what do you like to do for fun?" Asked Leni.
"Nothing." Will respond, but in a more calm manner. They were starting to get put off by his manner.
"What music do you like?" Luna asked.
"None." Will responded. They normally would have given up right then, but the parents asked them not to give up on him. They weren't gonna give up so easily.
"You like Ace Savvy?" Lincoln asked.
"Never heard of him." Everyone was getting annoyed and confused. They didn't know what to ask him to get a real response.
"So your name is William! A good strong name makes you sound like a very smart person!" Lisa complimented.
"I prefer Will." He said sternly.
"You know you can ask us a question!" Lana said, pointing out his bad manners.
Will knew just the question to ask. "Do you guys ever shut up?" They were stunned at how rude he was. They couldn't believe it!
"Come on buddy, we're trying to be friendly here." Luna said, calling him out on his behavior. You could at least be a little polite to us.
However Lola got an idea. Lola actually got a more aggressive response from him, when she asked a very personal question.
"Is it just you and your dad? Where's your mom?" Will's eyes widened, he stared at Lola. It was actually very freaky, the Loud kids slowly backed away. Will's face twitched in anger and he put on an angry face and walked up to Lola and said in a very angry voice.
"Do not ask me about her again! Ever!" Will threatened. Lola began cowering in fear. Lynn barged in between the two and stared Will down, Will turned his angry look on her.
"Hey! Who do you think you are talking that way to my little sister!?" The two looked at each other as if they were about to start fighting. Lori and Leni quickly stepped in and separated the two.
"Ok! No need for escalation! What happened, is none of our business!" Lori said.
"Yep, clearly Lola touched on a sensitive subject. We certainly will not touch it again." Leni added the two trying to diffuse the situation. The two slowly began to calm down as their heated looks at each other eased up some.
"Kids dinner's ready!" Mrs. Loud called, the kids went to the kitchen, the kids younger than Luan all sat at a separate table on the border between the living room and the kitchen. It was clear that this table was a kiddy table.
Will sat next to his dad as Nicholas sat next to Mr. Loud, across Will was Leni, and across Nicholas sat Lori who sat next to Mrs. Loud. Next to Leni sat Luan and Luna. No one sat next to Will. Mr. Loud placed a beautiful roast on the center table. Nicholas sliced up some and placed it on his son's plate, he cut himself up a bigger piece. Everyone soon began eating.
"So Nicholas what exactly do you do for a living?" Mr. Loud asked.
"I work on an oil rig. Hard and rough, but hey the money is really good." Nicholas chuckled. "I need it to take care of us."
"How about you Will? You're going to be going to Middle school with Luan, and Luna. Are you excited?" Mrs. Loud asked.
I couldn't care either way. Will responded not looking at her. Everyone at the table grumbled. He just chewed and swallowed a piece of the roast. It was moist and tender, despite Will's attitude, this roast was the best thing he's ever tasted.
"You'll love it bro!" Luna said. "There's so many fun clubs and things to do there."
"That's nice." Will said, in an uninterested tone. Dinner went on, only Nicholas held any conversations with the Louds. Will remained silent, everyone figured out if they tried to talk to him. He would just end the conversation immediately.
After a while the dinner ended, and Will and Nicholas helped clean up the dishes. Nicholas helped put the leftover food away as Will washed the dishes clean. Ironically this was the only positive thing they saw from Will that evening. This indeed proved that Nicholas was right. Will's just misguided and angry. He just needs time.
Afterwards they got their jackets and headed towards the door. The kids went back to doing their own personal business. They completely ignored Will, he made his message perfectly clear about whether or not he wanted to be friends. Only the parents showed them to the door.
"Thank you very much Louds, tonight was delightful! The food you cooked was delicious Lynn." Nicholas said to him.
"No problem! I love cooking. I'll show you some recipes of mine sometime!" The two shook hands.
Mrs. Loud said, speaking one last time to Will. "Nice to meet you Will! I hope this will be the start of a beautiful friendship between you and our kids!" Will made eye contact with her but said nothing. Nicholas smiled nervously at her.
"Anyways see you guys around! Have a good night!" Nicholas said, he waved to the parents and the kids in the room who waved back and the two left the house.
"Can you believe that guy? He's a real jerk!" Lori said, polishing Leni's nails.
"We gave him a chance and he just tells us to shut up!" Luna shouted.
"He was gonna beat me up!" Lola yelled.
"I don't wanna see him again! He's mean!" Lincoln declared.
"Guys!" Mr. Loud said, trying to calm the kids down. "We talked to Mr. Clements. They came from a pretty rough past in their old home."
"Clearly it has something to do with the apparent absence of the maternal figure in their lives." Lisa concluded.
"Absolutely!" Mrs. Loud confirmed. "We asked Mr. Clements about it to, he also couldn't talk about it. It's too painful for the both of them."
"We can see it in him. Guys just be nice to him and give him time! He'll come around and open up to us!" Mr. Loud assured.
"I'm sure he's just misunderstood." Leni said.
"Leni you never fail to give someone the benefit of the doubt." Lori pointed out.
"Someone like that can't be all bad." Leni continued. "I think he just needs a little love!"
Lincoln sighed. "Ok I'll give him another chance. He better not hurt any of us or I want nothing to do with him!" The other siblings all looked at each other and sighed and nodded in agreement. They will give Will another chance.
Back outside Nicholas was stomping with anger at his son for his behavior as the two returned to their home.
"I'm very disappointed in you Will! They opened themselves up to us and took us in, welcomed us, and fed us! Your sourness is how you repay them?"
"I told you! They're nice now, but they will betray our trust one day, I'm not letting them in my life!" Will argued.
"Well, fine then!" Nicholas scoled back. "You can spend two weeks in your room not letting anyone in! You're grounded buddy!"
"WHAT!?" Will shouted in disbelief.
"You heard me buddy!" Nicholas yelled. "Two weeks! You're grounded!" Will growled in anger and stormed ahead and ran up to his room and slammed the door.
(End Flashback)
Yeah, I was horrible then. I was angry at the world and decided to push everyone away. That first night when I met them all was a complete disaster, and it was all my fault. It took several months when things changed. I did something I never thought my old self would do, that's what started the change for me. That however is a story for another time. That's good of them to give me a 'big' chance after I changed otherwise things would be much different now, and not for the better.
A/N I hope you enjoyed this first meeting of Will and the Louds, let me know if you did in a review or a PM. Next chapter will not feature Will much. It's gonna focus on Nicholas. From here on though Will's flashbacks will be less. Gonna focus on the current time. Thank you for reading! I'll see you next time!