Lincoln sighed as he walked all the way home from school. The young snow capped boy had a lot on his mind right now, as to what he plans to do for tonight. He had been hoping to ask Stella to the dance tonight after months of her hanging out with his group of friends, though she gently declined he was still a little down from the rejection.
Not that he was completely heartbroken that she was going with another boy, but mostly because this sort of adds another name to his list of failed potential girlfriends. He turns depressingly to the viewers, "Is it just me, or is it that about every new love interest I get it either goes nowhere or just goes south?" he asks as he makes it to his front door. He takes a deep breath before he puts his hand on the handle, "I bet that my sisters are just waiting behind this door to see if I had asked Stella to the dance."
And just as he said, there his ten sisters were with looks of anticipation on their faces. They all talk at the same time, making it hard to understand what each of them were saying. Until Lori asks the question they're dying to know the answer to, "So did you ask Stella for your Valentine's Dance?"
"When do we pick her up?"
"What dress will she be wearing?"
Lincoln ignored his second and third oldest sisters' questions as he faced to the camera for a second 'Told yah', "Yeah, I asked her." He was then surrounded by all ten brimming faces.
"And what did she say?" Lola asked excitedly.
Lincoln steeled himself, "...No."
WHAT!
"SERIOUSLY!"
"THAT'S CRAZY TALK"
"BOGUS DUDE!"
"Why that Stella would 'Stell' out your heart? Hahahaha, get it? But seriously, that's cold."
"I WILL RIP HER ARMS OFF!"
"May a dreadful curse be cast upon her soul."
"I'll send Hops down her pants, that will teach her!"
"I'M GONNA KILL HER FOR THIS!"
"Looks like I found the first tester for my death ray."
"POO POO! POO POO!"
Lincoln signed as he rolled his eyes, he then pulled out a chocolate bar and removed the wrapper. The tearing sound silencing the ten headed beast, "Now sit." they did as so, "Roll over." again they did as so. "Now play dead." The girls followed as command. He then split the chocolate bar into ten equal pieces, giving one to each sister before petting them like a dog. After the last girl, he then calmly explained what happened.
"Now that you girls are listening and not plotting revenge. She already has a date, one who she used to be great friends with so she let me down gently. So I don't want any one of you even thinking about harming one hair on her head for this, am I clear?"
"Yes, Lincoln." he nodded at their response.
"So, what are you gonna do about the dance? Without Clyde and Gus's, you'll be home alone all day tonight with nothing to do." Lori told him.
"I've gathered that. But with Christina and Paige moved far away, Stella already taken, and the other girls my age that the fandom ships me with are already taken, there's no one left." Lincoln sadly said.
"Are you sure that's it?" They turned to Lucy, "You sure there isn't one girl in the entire world that would want to spend this day of passion with their soon to be white haired muse?" The girls all caught up on what she was talking about.
"Yeah, like maybe, one you have a lot of history with?" Lori inquired.
"Like maybe, three season's worth of history? Hehe." Luan joked.
"Someone who is tough on the outside," Lynn added.
"-but sensitive on the inside." Leni completed the sporty sister's line.
Lincoln facepalmed, "I know what you girls are doing, and it's not gonna work."
Luna placed a hand on his shoulder, "Come on dude, why do you bother in trying to fight it? After everything you two have gone through?"
"Like the egg project, the Sadie Hawkins debacle." Lana listed off.
"Not to mention all the stuff you write about her in your diary." Lola went wide eyed at what she said, all eyes were now on her. "Probably?" she sheepishly rubbed the back of her neck.
Lisa came in with a chalk board, "Based on my observations, the halting of the simulation of Lincoln's heart beat and the increased sweating, along with more incoherent speech and increased adrenaline are at their highest when around the preteen homo sapien female of Latin American heritage." all the miniature Einstein got was confused looks and eyebrow raises. She rolled her eyes, again reminded that her siblings have between above and average level intelligence. Or in Leni's case, slightly below average if you're putting it lightly.
"Ronnie Anne."
"Ooooh."
"No." Lincoln refused.
"Dude, you video chat with her everyday since she moved." Luna said.
"And you still have the used put lid from her last prank." Luan added.
"Not to mention you have also kissed her in the past. TWICE!" Lori finished.
Lincoln sighed, "I don't know guys. Who's to think she'll even say yes? She hates dances, love, romance, dances about the day of love and romance. And our status has been so all over the place, I don't even know what we are anymore!"
"Linky!" the white haired boy turned to his princess dressed sister, "Remember when Lana and I were afraid to go down the giant waterslide at Splashlantis, and what you told us when we were at the top?"
"Close your mouth at the bottom, their might be pee in the pool?"
The twins flinched at that, Lana replied "Well yes, even I have my limits. But after that, 'Just take a deep breath, and don't look down. Ignore everything around you, and just jump'. So STOP BEING A SCAREDY CAT AND CALL HER RIGHT NOW!" Lana yelled that last part, though she got an offended 'meow' from Cliff.
Lincoln, who also harbors the Loud family stubbornness, "Forget, I'm not gonna be rejected again. Ronnie Anne probably doesn't even like me like that anymore." He started to leave, but his slightly older sister Lynn pulled him back.
"Have you ever even asked her, Stincoln?"
"Well, uh no. Bu-"
"There you go again." he blinked at the words of his oldest sister. "Anytime Ronnie Anne is involved you always assume the worst in her without even hearing her part, you can't live your live assuming the worst in people if you never even ask first. And we are gonna keep bothering you until you pull out your phone, call her, and ask her to your Valentine's Day Dance at your school. Which by the way is in 4 hours." she demanded.
"Bug me all you want." Lincoln closed his eyes and crossed his arms, "I'm not faltering."
"Very well." everyone jumped when Lucy suddenly appeared behind Lincoln, "Then I will recite the manuscripts from my teen vampire novels from start to finish. 'Alone in the dark woods, dear Jenny ran for her life-"
"FINE, I'LL CALL HER!" Lincoln yelled before pulling out his phone, the girls walking into the dining room to give him some privacy. He sighed as he stared at his cellular device. Was he really gonna do this? Was he really so desperate to ask the girl that had bullied him in the past, that became one of his best friends, that has plagued his heart ever since he first kissed her, and that moved away in the span of a school year? Honestly, he didn't even know anymore.
Every girl he ever liked had called him weird, moved away, ignored him, or rejected him. Though only two of those he still talks to, and one of them is 3 hours away. If was perfectly honest with himself, at some point in their road Lincoln had found himself fallen for the Latina tween. And still has even when he and his friends were chasing Stella after she came. Stella was pretty, nice, and fun. But there was something about Ronnie Anne that makes Lincoln unable to forget about her, probably her brutish nature that she uses to conceal a nurturing heart that he's seen time and time again. Maybe that she knows what it's like to have to handle family, while he watches over ten sisters she babysits her brother when their mother was working. And now she has another four mouths to help feed.
He gave one last look to the audience and took a deep breath, "Well, wish me luck." he said before dialing the number he received with a steak for a black eye. He heard the phone ring before he heard her voice.
"Hey Lame-O, what's up?"
As Luna would say, YOLO.
"Hey Ronnie Anne, I was just wondering how things are in the city."
"Oh fine. Except the school is as lame as the one in Royal Woods, at least you don't have to hear police sirens when you're trying to do algebra."
"(laughs) Man, I can't imagine."
"Nothing I wouldn't give to be back in Royal Woods for one night, just me and my favorite lame-o in the world. Arcade, skatepark, heck I'd even go to your school's dance for Valentine's Day. I think they have less camera flashes than Aunt Frida."
"Hehe, funny you mention that last one. Because..."
"Yes..."
"Well, the thing is. Ummmm, what I want to ask you is. (gulp) WILLYOUGOTOTHEROYALWOODSMIDDLESCHOOLSTVALENTINE'SDAYDANCEWITHMEASMYDATEANDTHENMAYBESOMEGAMESATGUS'SGAMESANDGRUBANDPOSSIBLYINTENYEARSMARRYME!"
Lincoln covered his mouth, he heard his sisters gasp in the next room over. He hoped he spoke way to fast for her to comprehend what he said, he was so nervous and scared he might have ruined their friendship. He just wanted to have a girl to go with at the dance, not a wife. His fears kicked in when he heard her laughing on the other end, 'Oh no, here comes the rejection'.
"Man, you are just as lame as I last saw you."
Here it comes.
"Sure, that's cool I guess."
"(crying) THOUGH! I'm so sorry Ronnie Anne, my friends and sisters told me to do this and I was so ready to spend Valentine's Day alone and- (Stops) Wait did you say yes?!"
"Sure, sure. I'll be your little date at your school's dance. Anything to get away from the city, I've seen a guy who wore flipflops at the supermarket."
"How is that weird?"
"Just, his flipflops."
"Oh, well then. I guess I'll se you tonight?"
"Definitely. Smell you later, lame-o."
"Not unless I smell you first."
(call terminated)
Lincoln then turned around, ten smiles beaming at him. He sighed, "What did I get myself into?"
(Meanwhile)
Ronnie Anne calmly placed her phone down on her night stand, she took a deep breath.
"YES! YES! YES YES YES! WOO HOO!" she celebrated while jumping up and down pumping her fists up. "FINALLY! IT'S HAPPENING! Yep, nothing can possibly ruin this day." she said before she opened her door, finding her cousins with an assortment of beauty products and beaming smiles. She went wide eyed before frowning, "Dang it."