Hello readers, I know that this chapter was very soon, but I just can't stop thinking about this story and how I want to continue it. I am having so much fun writing the characters, writing about how Lincoln and Chris grow as people and keep loving the music that they listen to. I hope you enjoy this new chapter of Finding Peace. This chapter is a bit longer, but I wanted to put a lot of my ideas in.

Chris was having a very average Thursday, get through class, avoid Luna and Sam, and try not to get beat up by Keith. Lunch finally came, he sat down at his usual table and started eating. He half expected Luan to show up, but at the same time wouldn't blame her for not showing up, Chris didn't think he was that interesting of a person. He continued to eat with his phone playing music through the earbuds that he had today, but just as he was about to take a bite of his sandwich. He felt something touch his left shoulder, turning to see what it was, he screamed seeing it was a piranha. He fell out of his seat, he suddenly heard a fit of familiar laughter. Looking up, he saw Luan with a piranha puppet in one hand and her lunch in the other.

"Gotcha Chrissy" she said giggling as she opened and closed the mouth of the puppet.

Chris couldn't help but laugh, it was a good prank afterall.

"Good one" he said as he got back into his seat and Luan sat across from him just like yesterday.

Luan removed the puppet and started eating

The two quickly started chatting, they started talking about how their days were going and school in general. Luan then noticed his playlist.

"What you listening too"

"Just some metal" he said simply as he took a bit of his sandwich

"Mind if I have a listen" she asked happily.

Chris was surprised by her forwardness, usually not many people can easily hop into metal. But was still happy she wanted to give it a try.

"Sure, let me switch to a less heavy playlist"

He quickly switched to a more safe playlist with songs that weren't super heavy and included no swearing. He usually used the playlist whenever Emily wanted to listen with him.

Luan walked around the table with her tray and sat next to him, he handed her an earbud and she happily accepted it.

Chris watched her as she listened to the songs. They listened to songs like Master of Puppets, Medusa, Seasons in the Abyss, and Psychosocial. He watched her move to the rhythm of the drums and guitar, and even started headbanging at some points which brought a smile to Chris's face. Their little music part was interrupted when the sound of the bell rang, they took out the earbuds.

"Wow Chrissy, that was awesome. I didn't know how emotional and atmospheric metal could be but also be hyper and fun"

"Yeah its cool" he said smiling at her

"Can I have your phone number so we can text about stuff" she asked

Chris was shocked, a girl wanted his phone number

"Yeah sure" he said

The two exchanged contacts and parted ways, both of them leaving with huge smiles on their faces.

Scene Change:

Lincoln sat in his last class of the day. The Thursday school day was coming to an end and Lincoln was bored out of his skull. He sat in his chair and watched the clock on the wall tick off each second until the bell would ring. 20 more min, 15 more min, 10 more min. His English teacher Ms. Sumner was currently teaching on a subject on tragedies. Books like Romeo and Juliet about two lovers dying due to misunderstood circumstances and hatred in their families. Or the Crucible, about the issues of one person's words leading to the deaths of many innocents. While Lincoln started finding the subjects fascinating, the fatigue of the end of the day started to wear down on him. He resulted in drawing band logos in his notebook as his teacher continued teaching. Just as he was about to finish the Anthrax Logo. He heard many rustling of papers as he looked up to see Ms. Sumner pulled out a stack of papers.

"I am handing back your assignments that were due on monday, I asked you to write a very personal paper on someone that you consider to be an idol to yourself and the reasoning behind it. I asked you to explain the relatability. I was pleased to see that some of you did good, however, others weren't so good. Steph Curry being good at basketball isn't a good enough reason why you consider him your idol." She said, eyeing a few selected jocks.

As Lincoln watched her handing back the papers, stress started to build inside the young boy. He watched how people like Girl Jordan and Clyde were given back their papers with smiles, while people like Chandler and Rusty were given frowns. He started biting his nails. But as she got to his desk, she skipped past him and went to the kid behind him. Confused by this, he watched her finish handing out the papers.

She walked back to her desk, "Make sure you all read the next 4 chapters of Of Mice and Men, we are going to be having a discussion about it next class."

The bell sounded right after she spoke, Lincoln gathered his things and started heading towards the door.

"Lincoln please stay for a moment"

Lincoln stopped dead in his tracks. "Oh god, this must be about my paper. I bet I failed so badly she wanted to talk to me about it personally." He thought to himself. He watched as Chandler and others looked at him smirking, knowing he was about to be chewed out.

Lincoln walked back to her desk and waited until everyone was gone.

Ms. Sumner opened her desk and pulled out a piece of paper. Lincoln immediately recognized it as his paper.

"I didn't want to hand out your paper because I wanted to personally talk to you about it."

Lincoln was sweating bullets at this point.

Suddenly she smiled and handed him the paper, Lincoln took it and realized it had a great big 100 on it.

"Congratulations Lincoln, you're the only student in the class who got a 100 on the report. You should feel proud of yourself."

Lincoln was absolutely shocked, he aced the paper. This paper was not an easy one, it required most of the writing techniques that he learned so far in the class. He spent hours working on it. He expected at least an 80 or even an 85. But a full 100, this couldn't be real.

Ms. Sumner smiled at his reaction, "You used every written technique that was required and you really articulated how you saw Jonathan Davis as your idol. I could tell while reading it that you put a lot of passion into it.

Lincoln was still shocked, "Wow thank you, I don't know what to say."

"How about you don't say anything and go home, I'm sure you got some proud parents waiting for you."

"Right, okay see you next class" Lincoln dashed out of the classroom clutching the paper in his hands.

As Lincoln walked out of the school doors, he saw Vanzilla and the rest of his sisters waiting for him. He quickly hopped on and they drove home.

As Linclon was sitting in his seat, he decided to read the first few parts of his paper.

My Idol By Lincoln Loud

Throughout my entire life, I struggled to know who my idol was. I always thought that it could be someone like Ace Savvy, who fights crime and saves the day. But after some recent revelations, I realized who my real idol is and it is Jonathan Davis. If you don't know who Jonathan Davis is, he is the lead singer of the band Korn. The reason why I consider Jonthaan Davis to be my idol is because he never gives up. He was bullied all through his high school life because of the way he dressed and how he acted. People called him homophobic slurs for dressing like Duran Duran and he was constantly treated poorly by his peers. His parents weren't much of a help since they got divorced and his stepmother enjoyed hurting him. But he never gave up no matter what, even when he was in deep depression. He found a way to recover and be happy. He found his brothers in Korn and became one of the most influential musicians in metal.

The paper kept going on and on. Page after page he brought up different times in Jonathan Davis's life and how he turned them into songs. He talked about songs like Blind, Daddy, Clown, Faget, Freak on a Leash, Falling away from me, and so many more. Lincoln smiled at his paper and hugged it

"What are you so happy about stinkoln" Lincoln turned to see his sister Lynn staring at him, realizing it must have looked weird how he was hugging a paper, he stopped doing it.

"Oh, I just aced my big paper in English"

"Huh, nice going Linc, that's a win in your book." She said giving him a fistbump

As Vanzilla came to a stop outside the Loud residence, Lincoln hopped out of the car and dashed inside the house.

"Mom, Dad where are you" he called out

"In the kitchen sweetie" he heard his mother call out

Lincoln walked into the kitchen where he saw his mom and dad working on some papers

"I had an awesome day today, I was the only kid in my class to ace our big paper in English" he stated proudly showing off the big 100 to his parents"

Both Loud parents jaw dropped when Lincoln said that

"Wow son that's great, what was it about"

"Well if you must know, it was abou-"

"OMG" A very perky voice yelled in another room

Suddenly Leni came into the room, phone in hand followed by the rest of the loud siblings.

"Mom, Dad you totes won't believe this. The results just came back for the dress contest, and my dress got first place. I won 200 dollars"

"Oh Leni, I'm so proud of you," her mother said, enveloping her daughter in a big hug. Her father did the same as the rest of the loud sisters started patting her sister on the back.

"Tell you what gang, in honor of Leni winning, let's all go to the mall and go on a shopping spree" Said Lori ecstatic

"Sounds good, come on everyone" said Rita

Everyone started to head out towards Vanzilla, Lincoln was left stunned. He quickly catched up to his parents and grabbed both of their hands stopping them.

"Wait mom dad, don't you wanna hear about about my report"

"Not now sweetie, we gotta go celebrare Lennies accomplishment" his mother said as they all headed out the door."

Lincoln simply followed behind, feeling sad as he got into Vanzilla as it drove off to the mall. He finally got a moment of accomplishment, he was going to impress his family and parents, and of course one of his sisters had to beat him at it and get all the attention. Not that he was upset Leni won, he was happy for her, but that was his moment for accomplishment and again his parents said it to his sibling but not him. "Were so proud of you"

The louds arrived at the mall as all 13 louds entered and went their separate ways, the Louds all went to their respective stores with their interests. Lincoln however, simply sat on one of the mall benches, he really wasn't in the mood to shop. He simply put his headphones on and blasted his music.

Scene Change:

Around the 45 min mark, Leni was ecstatic, she already spent 100 dollars on this new dress she loved and shoes that went amazing with them. As she left the store, bags in hand. She started thinking about where to go next, maybe the sunglasses store.

Her thoughts stopped when she noticed Lincoln sitting alone on the bench. She was wondering what was up with him as he was rather quiet since the car ride. She walked over and sat down next to him and sat down. He didn't even notice her as he was too focused on his music.

"Lincoln" she asked, shaking his shoulder, Lincoln snapped out of his daze and saw who was shaking him.

"Oh, hey Leni" he said with sadness in his voice as he removed the headphones from his head.

"Why aren't you shopping?" she asked

"Didn't feel like it" he mumbled

Leni knew something was up, Lincoln usually wasn't like this. Deciding not to give up, she continued to speak.

"Something wrong Linky"

Lincoln simply shook his head

"I know your lying Lincoln, please tell me whats wrong"

Lincoln sighed and chose to speak, "Honestly Leni, i'm just really sad, I aced my paper in English and I was ready for mom and dad and everyone else to congratulate me." Lincoln took a deep breath. "But you showed up winning your dress and you got all the attention, for once I got an accomplishment done but someone else got the attention."

What Linclon just said hit Leni like a truck

"But, I'm really happy for you Leni, you worked really hard to win and deserve to be praised. I just wish I got the same thing once and a while. They never tell me their proud Leni, I just want mom and dad to say it. " he said before looking down

Leni just stared at Lincoln for a little while, processing what he just said. He was worried she would slap him, tell him how ungrateful he was, or just leave. But she did none of those things, instead Leni wrapped her arms around him. Lincoln just sat there, stunned by the action. After a few moments, Leni spoke.

"Oh Linky, I'm so sorry. I didn't realize how important it was for you. If I knew, I would have let you have your moment. I know that you struggle with winning sometimes, so this was a big moment for you." She let go of her brother and cupped his face with her hands. "If it helps, I'm really proud of you."

Lincoln smiled at his sister, "Yeah Leni, it really does help"

"Tell you what Linky, I have 100 dollars left, let's spend that on whatever you want."

"Really Leni, I don't know what to buy"

"Oh come on Linky, everyone wants something,"

Lincoln turned to look around and a light flickered in his head when he noticed a store advertising metal shirts in the window.

"Actually Leni, I think I do want something"

Lincoln got up and the two walked towards the store

Scene Change:

It was Friday and the Loud house was bustling with everyone getting ready for the day. Lori cooked breakfast for everyone. Lincoln walked down the steps and joined his sisters for breakfast. As soon as he sat down, everyone noticed the shirt he was wearing. Instead of his usual orange polo shirt, Lincoln was wearing a black shirt that had an eagle on the front, inside the eagle was a pentagram made out of swords with the words Slayer on the inside. Everyone seemed confused by it except Leni and Luna who knew what it was. Lincoln happily ate all the eggs.

Lisa chose to speak up, "That's a new look brother unit"

"Yeah what the heck is that?" Lola asked

"Oh this just a band, Luna knows it" he says pointing his fork at her

"Yeah dude, Slayer" she said giving him the horns

Lincoln gave the horns back and finished eating.

"Well I'm gonna head to school, bye" he said as he grabbed his backpack and phone and put his headphones on.

"Wait, your not going in vanzilla with us" Lori asked shocked

"Nah, I think I just wanna walk today" he said as he hit shuffle on his playlist and opened the door and left. Leaving many shocked sisters behind.