Chapter 161
(The Loud House)
Lincoln has woken up before everyone else and is in the kitchen eating breakfast. His dad arrives and sees him. "Lincoln, what are you doing up?"
"Dad, I got school today" replied Lincoln.
His dad forgot to tell him. "Son, we contacted the school and told them that you can take a break today, so there's no need to get ready."
Lincoln sighs. "No, I have to go to school. Dad, I know that yesterday left me kinda shaken. But I wanna get through this whole school day again, it could help me."
Lynn Sr didn't want his son to go through a day of school after what he had been through yesterday with Lori and Leni's friends which was totally uncalled for, but he knows just how determined Lincoln can be when he has to fix a problem, and as of right now, he wants to fix the problem inside of him.
"Well, if you insist. But you will need someone to look after you" said Lynn Sr.
"Dad, I'm twelve and going to middle school soon, and if you want someone to watch over me then I got my friends and Jordan for that, and let's not forget Patriot and Valkyrie" replied Lincoln.
Lynn Sr was happy to see Lincoln regain his courage and determination so quickly. But he knows that another incident like what happened yesterday could set him off.
Then they hear some footsteps coming down, it was Lisa, Lana, Lola, Lucy carrying Lily, Lynn Jr, Luan, Luna and Jordan.
"Morning guys, breakfast is ready" said Lynn Sr.
"Good morning everyone" said Lincoln.
"Lincoln?!" said Luna and Jordan in shock.
"What the heck are you doing up at this time bro?" asked Luna.
"Didn't you dad say you could have a day off from school today?" asked Jordan.
"Lucky" said Lynn Jr, but she gets elbowed by Luan.
"Guys, guys. I know about that, but I still wanna go to school, and like I said to Dad. I wanna try and get over everything by going through with my friends, so there's no need to worry" said Lincoln.
Patriot and Valkyrie arrive and were shocked to hear what Lincoln just said. Which means they have to keep a close eye on him, wherever he goes.
Luna and Jordan didn't like where this was going.
"As much as I agree with continuing with education on the topic, Lincoln you still have a very unstable sense of thought and could get a mental breakdown should something happen" said Lisa.
"I know Lisa, I know. But I have to get through with this whole school day. And if something does go wrong, then I'll head back home" said Lincoln.
Luna then goes to Lincoln and hugs him. "I hope you know what you're doing bro, I don't want you to break apart like what happened yesterday."
Jordan also hugs him. Lincoln hugs them both. "It's gonna be fine, just as long as I don't recall everything that happened to me, then everything will be alright."
"Wow, you really are one brave person big brother" said Lucy.
"I guess that's what they mean about you having thick skin" said Lola.
"Like a rhino!" cheered Lana.
"I guess being thick skinned can make someone Rhi-not get into trouble! Hahaha! Get it?" said Luan. They just groan at her pun. Except their dad.
Then they hear two footsteps approach. They all turn around to see Lori and Leni who were looking concerned and sad.
Luna was looking at them with a heck of a scorn, Jordan isn't even looking at them, but she is angry and Patriot and Valkyrie are both on the defensive mode again.
Lincoln could see just how bad things were getting, so he intervenes. "Guys, stop!" Luna looks to her brother confused, and so does Patriot and Valkyrie.
Lincoln approaches Lori and Leni. "Are you two okay?"
Lori and Leni were shocked at how concerned Lincoln was for them, and after what happened yesterday.
Leni couldn't take it anymore, she kneels down and hugs Lincoln tightly. "Lincoln! I'm so sorry for what happened to you at the mall yesterday! I should've been looking out for you! I should've been smarter! I'm so sorry!"
Lincoln hugs Leni and rubs her back. "Shhh, its okay Leni. I know you and your friends didn't mean for all of to happen, we just all got into a bad timing, that's all."
Leni just continues to cry and hug Lincoln.
Lori then looks down in sadness. "Lincoln, Luna trusted me to keep an eye on you, and all I did was ….. Was act like my normal self, I should've done better." she starts to shed some tears.
"Lori, come here" said Lincoln. Lori kneels down and joins in the hug. "I know that what you did was a complete fail on Luna's trust. But I know you didn't mean for any of it to happen, it just happened at a bad time for all of us, I can't be angry at this small mistake we all were a part of."
The rest of the sisters were happy to see the understanding and forgiving Lincoln they all know and love.
Luna was still miffed at what Lori and Leni failed to do, but if Lincoln was willing to forgive Lori and Leni, then maybe she can too. But she was more concerned about Jordan.
Jordan knows that forgiving Lori and Leni is the right move, they just didn't know what was going to happen next is all. But she knows that the whole hang out idea started with the other teen girls, but mostly to the one person who made Lincoln have a nose bleed, someone Jordan wants to get even with, Carol Pingrey.
And I thought Lori and Carol were rivals, this just got a turn for the worse real fast.
Lynn Sr then sees Rita by the doorway smiling, she could tell that everything has been made up. Now they needed to contact the school that Lincoln Loud was ready to survive a day of school.
(Later)
Vanzilla makes a stop at Royal Woods Elementary.
Lincolns and Jordan's friends were all waiting for them.
The two kids, along with the sisters all come out.
"Hey Lincoln, how are you feeling?" asked Stella.
"Feeling fine, I'm okay and I just need to try and get through all of this" said Lincoln.
"Stella told me what happened to you yesterday. What they did was so not cool" said Simon.
"Darn right, they were supposed to be looking out for you, not lolly-gagging" said Liam.
Rusty was gonna ask Lincoln something about yesterday but he gets elbowed by Polly, so he stays silent.
Stella then sees Lori and Leni. Lincoln intervenes. "Stella it's okay, I forgive them."
They were all shocked, and they look to Jordan. "I can forgive them too."
They knew they would forgive Lori and Leni, they had no idea it was gonna go that way, but then something comes to question in Mollie's head that Stella said. "Jordan, what about Carol?"
That name made Jordan's smile into more of an angry expression. Mollie realized what she just did, they could all see Jordan's hand turn into a fist and start shaking and her right eye twitches.
Carol was still a mark on Jordan's mind, after what Carol accidently viewed to Lincoln. She is not pleased by this eighteen year old at all.
Lynn Jr is a bit startled by this side of Jordan that just showed up.
Luna could tell that the name of Carol was now an enemy to Jordan's ears.
Patriot and Valkyrie had no clue if this was scary or just awesome to know she is on the same page as they are.
Lori and Leni felt tense at what was going on with Jordan.
Lisa writes this down in her notes, obviously. "What are you doing?" asked Lucy.
"Nothing important" replied Lisa as she continues writing this all down.
Lincoln could see how upset his girlfriend was and holds her hand. "Jordan, my love. Please calm down."
Jordan looks to Lincoln who gives her a quick kiss, and she was finally calm. "Okay, okay. I'll be calm."
This made them all sigh in relief. Though some of them were worried.
"Let's hope Jordan doesn't use this for dodge ball tomorrow" Zach whispered to Rusty. Which makes Rusty gulp in fear.
Lincoln then gets an idea, he looks to Lori and Leni. "Guys, can you please bring your friends to come to Ketcham Park after school? I wanna talk to them."
This shocked them all, but it was more concerning to Luna and Jordan. "Bro, what are you doing?" asked Luna.
Lincoln sighs. "To stop this madness before it gets out of hand."
They then hear the bell ring. "Lori, Leni please. Tell them to come to the park, I just wanna talk to them, that's all."
Lori and Leni weren't sure at first, but they know Lincoln has a plan. "Okay Lincoln, we'll tell them" said Lori.
The kids then head into the school, while Vanzilla drives off.
(Skip, after school Ketcham Park)
Lincoln, Jordan and they're friends are now waiting by the park benches.
"So, how long are we gonna have to wait here?" asked Simon.
"They're taking awfully long to get to the park" said Sadie.
"They have cars, they shouldn't take this long" said Tabby.
"Let's give them some more time fellas" said Liam.
"Yeah, in the meantime. Let's see which one of you can beat me at chess" Clyde pulls out a chess board.
"Oh it's on McBride" said Kat. They both play against each other with the others watching.
Jordan however sees Lincoln just waiting with his crutches next to him and Patriot and Valkyrie sitting on a tree branch next to him, he was looking around for any sign of the teenage girls.
"Lincoln, are you feeling okay?" asked Jordan.
"I'm not quite sure my love. I have a mix feeling of both concern and anger, but I need to talk to them and see how they feel after what happened to me yesterday" said Lincoln.
Jordan could tell this was bugging him, and he wants it to end early before it does any more damage.
Then they spot something, a very familiar purple car and it belongs to none other than Carol Pingrey.
Following behind is Jackie and Mandee's car, with Dana, Becky, Teri and Whitney inside, and then comes Vanzilla and coming out is Lori, Leni, Luna and Luan.
Luna goes to Lincoln and hugs him. "You okay bro? Did you have any issues at school?"
Lincoln chuckles and hugs her back. "I'm fine sis, nothing went wrong and I just had a normal day at school, and no I didn't do anything serious at gym class."
"All we did was do some sit ups and ball passing" said Joy.
"Though Coach Pokawski did the splits and now he's gonna be out until tomorrow" said Cookie.
"I think Norm may have made the floors a bit too slippery" said Mollie.
"How the heck did we not slip and slide?" asked Zach.
"I should bring that up to Principal Huggins later" said Clyde.
Then they see the seven teens go to them. "H-Hey there, Lincoln" said Dana.
Lincoln gets up and goes to them, the first person he goes to hug was Dana, which was surprising to them. "Thanks for coming girls, I really need to talk to all six of you."
Liam and Simon agree and drag their friends away from all of this.
Lincoln then goes to some picnic benches and tables, the six teens with Lori, Leni, Luna and Jordan follow and they all take their seats.
Unknown to them, a van rolls into the parking lot, and a teenage boy and two girls comes out and instead of revealing who they are they just listen into what was happening.
"So, I could only guess how guilty you guys are for making me go through that" said Lincoln.
They all stayed silent and looked down in sadness. But someone has to speak up. And it was gonna be Becky.
"Lincoln, we never meant for you to get hurt like that, mentally I mean. We just wanted to have some fun and bond with you, to help you get passed everything that happened to you recently."
Then Jackie speaks up. "We were complete idiots to drag you along with us, we should've just went someplace where we can all have fun."
"Instead we all thought of the same dumb place to go to, the mall" said Mandee.
"We're real sorry for all of this to happen. We honestly never wanted it to go down so hard and go crazy as well" said Teri.
"And now we're paying the price for our actions. Believe me when I say, our parents did not go easy on all of us" said Dana.
Whitney continues. "Dana and Becky aren't allowed to use their cars till the end of March, Teri and I have been blocked from the internet by our parents, and Carol-"
They all look to Carol who was not looking to happy at all, and was close to crying. "Carol?" asked Lincoln with concern.
Lori sighs. "Carol got the worse from us, she can't be allowed to go anywhere else for summer vacation, which means she can't join us on our graduation party, so she's gonna be stuck here in Royal Woods, or at her job or at home. She was given it easy to use her car, but not for none educational purposes."
"Also, she's been cut out of her allowance, she has to earn it through work now" said Luan.
"Her parents are rich, and they wanna talk to your parents about what had happened" said Dana.
"I'm sure they wanna settle things down so it won't happen again" said Becky.
Carol then stands up and goes to the restrooms, but she stops by a tree and sits underneath it and cries.
They could tell she has got it real bad after what happened.
Lincoln gets up and goes to Carol, with the others following, Jordan however was feeling less concern for the blonde teenage girl.
Lincoln sits next to Carol. "Carol, please talk to me."
Carol raises her head and wipes away her tears. "L-Lincoln, I-I'm so sorry! Y-You weren't supposed t-to see all of th-that, it was a s-stupid idea to b-bring you along! It w-was my stupid i-idea!"
Lincoln could see just how upset Carol was about all of this. She didn't care if she can't go anywhere for summer vacation, heck she wouldn't even care if she can't use her car. All she wanted was to let Lincoln know how bad she felt after yesterday.
Carol sees Lincoln kinda like a little brother as well, when she heard he got kidnapped she felt like she had to help, but when she caused him to get a nosebleed and recall everything he went through, she was feeling like how Luna feels for not keeping him safe.
Lincoln then hugs Carol. This shocks everyone, Luna and Jordan however were not feeling pleased by this.
"W-What are you d-doing?" asked Carol as her crying dies down.
"Carol, I can't say how sorry I am that you are going through with all of this, and I know you didn't mean for me to see …. All of you" Lincoln turns red and so does Carol, this was embarrassing.
"But, you wanted to help me get pass all I had to endure, all you wanted to do was help. Which is something I normally do for my sisters, so what I'm trying to say is, I forgive you Carol Pingrey" said Lincoln.
They are all shocked by this, and so was Carol. She had no clue how to respond to this, but she just hugs him and cries. "I promise I will do whatever I can to make it all up to you!"
Lincoln and Carol break the hug. "It's okay Carol." he then looks to the others. "I forgive you all, you all never meant for it to happen."
This was a good sign that Lincoln was slowly reverting back to the normal eagle training, video gaming, TV watching, romantic charming, courageous kid they all know, which was making Luna happy. 'He's healing, he's healing.'
Then they all see Jordan approach Carol. "Just to be clear, I'm not done with you."
Lincoln gets up. "Jordan my love, please. She already feels bad enough."
"No Lincoln, this is between me and her and it won't go away until I get even with her!" said Jordan.
Lincoln tries again to reason with his furious girlfriend but Carol gets up. "No, no. I understand, what I did was a pure violation to a romantic thing between you and Lincoln. And I ruined the trust you had in me Jordan, I should've known better than to let you and Lincoln share that moment, and I took it from you."
"Ya darn right you took it from me!" yelled Jordan.
This made Lincoln blush, he knows what she means. And so do the others. "Well, this is awkward" said Luan.
"Literally" said Lori and Whitney.
Carol sighs. "Jordan, I know you wanna teach me a lesson for what I did, and I understand. So whenever you're ready, I will be awaiting the call and I will come to you and take it all. No running, no backing down and no begging. To let you get even with me."
Jordan sighs. "Good, as of right now I guess I can tolerate being around you, but next time I'm not gonna be friendly towards you, understand?"
Carol nods. "Yeah, yeah. I totally understand."
Lincoln could see that these two wanted to handle this their way, which means he can't get involved and to be honest, seeing Jordan all serious and determined was making Lincoln think. 'Wow she's hot when she's angry.'
"Lincoln?" they all turn around to see Ronnie Anne, Sid and Bobby. Patriot and Valkyrie were shocked. "How did we not notice them coming?!"
Bobby looks to Lori. "Can someone tell me what the heck is going on?"
"Us too" said Sid.
Lincoln sighs. "This is gonna be one long day."
Lori was feeling concerned about this, so were the others. But they have to tell them, it was the right thing and Lincoln will be there to reason it all out.
A/N: I will add another aftermath chapter of some hanging out time with some of their friends and sisters, and if you guys do have any other ideas for the future, PM me. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.