Rita returned home with the younger girls from the library at 2:30 that afternoon. Luna, Luan and Lynn Jr. were hanging out in the living room playing a board game while Lily was sleeping in her room.
Before leaving on vacation, Rita discovered the library had a story-time hour for kids one to ten years old from Tuesdays to Thursdays from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Generally the parents just allowed the children to relax at home every summer instead of sending them to summer camp or other activities. After story hour, the girls would go for lunch the library provided for children during the summer while Rita worked on editing her novel in one of the study rooms. After lunch the girls went to the children's section and read books until Rita came at 2:30 p.m. to take them home.
"I wonder if Lincoln's home," Rita thought as the younger girls ran upstairs to their bedrooms. She peered into his bedroom and discovered him asleep, then headed towards Lori's bedroom. The oldest child looked up from her laptop when she heard the door opening.
"Hi Mom, I just finished working on my resume like you asked me," Lori responded. She had spent most of the day after breakfast finding resume examples online and preparing her own.
Since Lynn Sr. could only afford to pay three employees and Lincoln at the moment, Lori was searching for a summer job to do on the weekdays then she'd assist at the restaurant for three hours on Saturday afternoons for thirty dollars.
"Good job Lori, I'll look it over tonight," Rita told her daughter.
It was close to dinnertime when Lincoln finally awoke. He returned to his bedroom after washing his face then read some comics before his mom or dad summoned everyone to the dinner table. A few minutes later Rita was shouting, 'Kids dinner's ready," from the bottom of the stairs.
That evening, Rita asked everyone to stay for a while after they had eaten dessert.
"Lincoln, your father and I talked last night about giving you a pizza and video game party on Saturday for your birthday. We invited Clyde and asked him for your other friend's numbers," Rita announced. Lincoln gave them a surprised expression.
"Since you're not working on Friday I'm taking you shopping even though I bought things for you with the card Mr. Kling gave us at the hotel," Rita told him.
(The Cherry king in the Loud House special "Tripped.")
Lincoln's eyes gleamed with excitement. "Thanks mom and dad you're the best," ran up to his parents, Rita first and hugged them.
June 21st
It was 1:05 p.m. at the library. The children just returned from playing after lunch and were picking out books to read. Lola noticed a classmate Sierra carrying a book Lola was reading yesterday but Rita arrived before Lola reached the second page.
She rudely snatched the book away from Sierra and shouted, "I want this book."
The children's librarian Mrs. Russo was shocked by the awful display of bad manners and walked hastily over to the girls.
"Excuse me I don't tolerate that kind of behavior, is your mother nearby?" she asked. Lisa and Lana saw the entire display.
"She's in the library working on her book somewhere," Lola explained.
"What's your mother's name?" Mrs. Russo asked.
"Rita Loud," she replied. Mrs. Russo returned to her desk and turned on the intercom.
At the moment Rita was looking through the window to rest her eyes from looking at the computer when suddenly she received an announcement…
"Mrs. Loud, please come to the children's section."
Rita became surprised for a moment then panicked a little.
"I hope it's nothing serious," she thought while logging off her laptop then went downstairs as quickly as possible.
Entering the children's section she noticed Lola sitting beside Mrs. Russo's counter with her arms folded defiantly and looking arrogant.
"Hello I'm Rita Loud," she told Mrs. Russo.
"Your daughter grabbed a book from another child, so she cannot come back until she learns to follow our rules," Mrs. Russo told her resolutely. Rita became mortified upon hearing that but remained silent.
"What am I going to do with you Lola," Rita scolded her while walking through the lobby with her daughters. Lucy, Lana and Lisa were definitely annoyed with their diva sister because they had to leave because of Lola's rudeness.
"You're grounded until tomorrow and Sunday. You're not allowed to have tea parties and no dessert after dinner," Rita declared.
"Who cares," Lola said flippantly. Rita called an uber since Lynn Sr. had Vanzilla. Five minutes later a car arrived.
Lincoln was given the same assignment of filling the ketchup bottles and putting them on the tables that morning. He was mostly decorating tables in the mornings and bussing tables after diners have eaten. His work schedule was Mondays to Thursdays starting next week since he wanted Fridays off to hang out with his friends. Lynn Sr. drove him home at 1:30 p.m. Lincoln was surprised to find the younger girls except Lola watching TV when he walked inside. Later Clyde came over to have dinner with the Louds since his fathers were working overtime.
The next day Lincoln and Rita departed for the mall at 10:30 a.m. by taking the bus. Rita bought a new dress shirt for him and a new pair of sneakers. They bought birthday cards for Lucy since her birthday was next Monday. After spending an hour at the mall, Rita called an uber to pick them up at the entrance.
"Lincoln you got some birthday cards in the mail I placed them on your dresser," Lori said when Rita and Lincoln returned home.
Lincoln threw the shopping bags on his bed, opened a blue envelope with Pop-Pop's handwriting and found twenty five dollars inside the card. He decided to spend the five dollars at the hobby store and save the twenty dollars, then opened the cards sent by his Aunt Sara and Uncle Lucas and one sent by his Aunt Shirley with ten dollars inside.
Saturday… Lincoln's party
Lincoln slept until 10:00 a.m. that morning. His party was at four that afternoon.
While he sat on the couch eating Zombie Bran cereal for breakfast, Rita and Lynn Sr. left for the supermarket to pick up his birthday cake. Kentauro was in charge of the restaurant today.
Two hours later Lori and Leni were hanging up a "Happy Birthday Lincoln" banner from his seventh birthday and Luna was vacuuming when Lincoln walked in from walking Charles while the other sisters were cleaning and decorating the table.
Rusty and Zach arrived at 3:55 p.m exactly. Rita answered the doorbell and invited them inside. Clyde and five other boys Liam, Chad, Jordan, Artie and Trent were talking to Lincoln in the living room. Lincoln was dressed in a light green casual shirt Rita bought that morning and new brown dress pants.
"Happy Birthday Lincoln!" Rusty and Liam said in unison as they walked into the room carrying presents.
It was four o'clock when Rita summoned everyone to gather around the dining table. In the center of the table was a birthday cake which had blue and orange icing and a smaller version of the cake.
After everyone sang Happy Birthday to Lincoln, he blew out the twelve candles after making a wish. The boys received two slices of pizza from Lynn Sr. and a piece of cake from Rita, then situated themselves in the living room where Rita served them fruit punch. Enjoying their food, the boys chatted about how they were spending the summer and after eating, Lincoln opened his birthday gifts.
Clyde picked up a particular game Rusty brought with him after Lincoln thanked his friends for their birthday gifts. "How about we play this game first?" he suggested.
Two hours later the party was over. Rita gave Rusty and Liam each a slice of cake from the smaller cake for their siblings Rocky and Cecilia (Cissy) and Lincoln escorted his friends to the door and thanked them for coming and wished them a safe journey home.
The day after Lincoln relaxed at home enjoying his birthday gifts. He received from Clyde two DVD's featuring episodes from the first TV series about Ace Savvy that ran from 1990-1991 and watched one at two that afternoon while the sisters went to the mall without Lola. He retired to bed early since he had to work tomorrow. Lynn Sr. bought Lucy a birthday cake after dinnertime.
Monday…
A typical summer weekday for Lynn Jr. consisted of the teenage athlete rushing off after a late breakfast with a duffel bag packed with sports equipment to play sports with her friends Margo and Polly at Ketcham Park. Luna and Lori made Lucy's birthday breakfast later that morning after Lincoln, Lynn Sr. and Rita left for work.
Lori stayed home to babysit the five younger girls. Leni departed at 9: 30 a.m. for her department store job at the mall. Almost every day, Luna visited her girlfriend Sam Sharpe and returned home at three p.m. Luan stayed home to rehearse for a children's birthday party she would perform at on Saturday afternoon.
After dinner, Rita returned from the kitchen with the round chocolate cake Lynn Sr. bought. They sang "Happy Birthday" to her, then Lucy blew out the nine candles. Lucy thanked everyone for the birthday cards and the gifts she received after the cake was eaten then rushed off to enjoy her special TV time.
