Party of None

by ParanoiacPoet

Tired of being outvoted on how he and his sisters spend their weekends, Lincoln decides to do what he wants and show them what its like to be left out for a change

6. Chapter 6

Part 6

Lori drummed her fingers restlessly on the table at the food court. She checked her watch for the fourth time in the past ten minutes, her patience starting to grow thin. Her eyes drifted to Lily, who was sound asleep in her stroller. For a moment Lori wished she could take it nice and easy like that. But she just didn't get to have such a luxury. She was wondering just where all of her other little sisters were at the moment. They had all dashed off in their own directions when they first arrived. Lori didn't even have a chance to blink before all of them were out of sight, leaving just her, Leni and Lily at the entrance.

Taking a look at her watch again, Lori found the time nearing quarter of noon. She had specifically instructed her sisters to meet up with her at the food court by half past eleven. But she had yet to see so much as a trace of any of them. It would have been very frustrating if not for the fact that it was so darn worrisome. And it wasn't like any of them didn't understand the plan. She had sent them all a group text herself. Well okay, Leni had sent the text at Lori's request while she had to take Lily to the nearest restroom for a diaper change. But Leni did get confirmation and told Lori as much before she went off herself, desiring to have her nails done.

Again Lori peeked at her watch, not even a minute having passed since the last time she had checked. Unable to take it any longer, she decided to just try and call one of her sisters. She opened up her contacts list and selected Leni's number.

"Like, hey Lori!" The sweet chirp of Leni's voice sounded as she answered the call. "What's up?"

"Where are you?" Lori asked. "I'm waiting at the food court and haven't seen you or any of our little sisters! It's almost eleven forty-five!"

"Oh, did you want us to meet with you there earlier than half past eleven?" Leni asked.

"No. I wanted you to be here at exactly half past eleven!" Lori sternly replied.

"Then what's the big deal? We all still have five minutes!"

"What are you talking abou..." Lori began before the answer dawned on her. "Leni, what time do you think half past eleven is?"

"Duh, it's eleven fifty! There are a hundred minutes in an hour, silly!"

Lori let out a heavy sigh and pinched the bridge of her nose. "Leni, just please come to the food court. I'm at a table near the Pizza Shed."

"Kay."

Leni ended the call and Lori put her phone away. After a couple more minutes of waiting, Leni finally came into her line of sight. With her were Lisa, Lynn and the twins. Once they got to the table, Lori had Leni take over watching Lily so she could get into line for some much desired food. Taking Lisa and the twins with her, she got into line at a Wendell's restaurant where she could get kids meals for the younger girls and a salad for herself.

Lori idly skimmed over the screen of her cellphone as she waited in line. She expertly pressed the buttons and watched as the screen flickered from one site to another.

"Lets see what my friends are up to." she thought.

Opening up a link to Becky's page she saw her most recent post, made just a few minutes ago.

"Delivering 100 cupcakes to a party." Lori read. "#SweetStuff"

She looked down the list to see a few of her other friends had posted there as well. Joey and Chaz had posted replies right underneath it, further catching Lori's intrigue.

"On my way there now." Lori read from Joey's post. "This is gonna be sick!"

She moved on to Chaz' post. "The Chaz is bringing chips and homemade onion dip. Hope you're ready to chow down!"

Lori frowned. "So they all got invited to a party." she thought. "Lucky. I wonder who's throwing it...and why wasn't I invited?" Lori snorted with irritation. "It's probably Bianca or Sooyung. Those two just can't get over how much better Carol and my selfie's are..."

"Next." said a voice.

Lori looked up to see that she had reached the front of the line. She stuffed her phone back into her pocket and ordered.

"I'd like one salad." Lori said. "Three chicken sandwiches, one spicy chicken sandwich and five large sodas. Also I'd like four cheeseburger kids meals, two with no pickles and extra onions, two with no onions and extra pickles. All of them with juice please. And on the side, one extra large serving of chili fries, one medium serving of onion rings and..."

She looked up to see a small sign that read "Special today. Chicken nuggets, double helping for half price".

"And an order of chicken nuggets" she said.

After a few minutes of waiting, a tray filled with food was set down in front of Lori. Which she took and set down on the table as her other sisters arrived. They all grabbed thier food and dug in with the ferocity of starving animals. Lynn looked over at the platter of chicken nuggets.

"What's with the extra order?" Lynn asked. "No one wanted chicken nuggets."

"It's not an extra order." Lori said with a dismissive wave of her hand. "It's for..."

The words died on her lips when she looked around for her brother, only to find him missing. "Oh right." she said. "He's not here."

"What a shame." Lucy said reaching for a nugget and biting it in half. "I could actually use his help with my next poem."

"Ask around." Lori said. "All of us are here, so at least one of us should be able to help."

Lucy opened her notebook. "Well, this is what I have so far." she said. "It's inspired by last weekend."

"Orange shirt and stark white hair

I look around, but see him nowhere

The siren song of the comic book store

Means he's not here anymore

I am alone, no siblings around

My tears gently hit the ground"

There were heavy sighs all around from the other girls. A reaction that almost made Lucy smile. Almost.

"Like, that's kinda depressing." Leni said.

Lucy stood up and took a bow. "Thank you." she said. "Now I just need to finish it. Does anyone have anything they could add?"

Lucy looked around at her sisters, who continued eating. Lucy groaned. "And this is why I only ever ask for Lincoln's help."

"Well Lincoln's not here right now." Lori said, adding some more dressing to her salad.

"And whose fault is that?" Lucy asked. "Who's idea was it to hold our meeting without him last week?"

Lori's face fell a bit as she looked over at Luna who was smirking at her. "Yeah, yeah." she said. "I know, I heard the same thing from him."

"I guess I can't really blame him for ditching me." Lucy said. "Since he didn't even want to come to the mall."

Lucy's whole body stiffened as inspiration struck. She scribbled down another few lines as she said them to herself.

"But I cannot assign him blame

Since every weekend is the same

And the reason that he made his choice

Was because his sisters ignored his voice"

All of the other Loud sisters slowly stopped eating, save for Lily who was still snoozing soundly in her stroller. An awkward silence filled the space around them until Lynn reached out to snag an onion ring.

"Dude!" Luna said. "Who said you could take one of those?"

"They're for everyone, Luna!" Lynn said in her defense.

"No, the chili fries are for everyone. The onion rings aren't!" Luna countered.

"Enough you two." Lori said. "Both the chili fries and the onion rings are for the table. If you don't like sharing then you can get in line and buy your own."

Luna and Lynn dropped their little quarrel there and continued to eat their food. The rest of the sisters followed suit, many of them grateful for the change in subject. Lori was certainly feeling that way. Not only was she feeling bad for omitting Lincoln from their meeting, she was starting to miss having him around too.

The sisters finished their meals and went to start walking around the mall to look at the various stores for something that would interest them. Lisa and Lucy went to a nearby bookstore, dragging Lynn along to be their chaperone. Leni, Lori and Lola went off to look at shoes, leaving Lily and Lana in the care of Luan and Luna. The four of them went off to take the elevator down to the first floor of the mall.

"So, what do you want to do?" Luan asked of her sisters while she pushed Lily's stroller.

Luna shrugged. "I dunno. I kinda got everything I wanted when we were here last week. I'm mainly here because we all voted to spend the day here."

They continued to make their way past the various stores, none of them in particular catching their interest. But as they walked by a window display, Luna's head suddenly turned and her eyes widened a bit. She let out a suprised gasp and stepped up to the window, pressing her palms and face against it.

"Aw, sweet! Fifty percent off? Count me in!" she said, a wide smile spreading across her face.

Luan stopped and carefully pulled the stroller back a bit to look into the window with Luna. The store was full of musical instruments and music related paraphanelia. The item that had Luna's attention was a large brass instrument with a sign in front of it signifying it's heavily reduced price. And while Luna was more than happy with the find, Luan however wasn't entirely sure about it.

"The tuba?" she asked. "You already have one of those. The darn thing is taking up a lot of space in our closet, remember?"

"It's not a tuba, sis." Luna corrected. "It's a sousaphone. Don't have one of those yet."

"Yeah, well where are you planning on putting that thing?" Luan questioned, a less than amused look on her face. "There's hardly any room for it in the closet as it is and that's after I moved all of my costumes onto that plastic clothing rack."

"I can make room for it." Luna insisted.

"Not moving any of my stuff you won't! You're already taking up more than your share of our room with all of your musical equipment!"

"Well where else am I supposed to keep it?"

"How about the garage, the attic or the basement?" Luan suggested.

"The attic is already at max capacity, the basement is too. And putting them in garage is too much of a hassle for me to deal with."

"What are you talking about? You play in the garage all the time!" Luan pointed out. "Wouldn't that make it less of a hassle?"

Luna got ready to reply when suddenly she felt a small hand tugging on her skirt. She looked down to find Lana looking up at her.

"What's up little dudette?" Luna asked.

"Lily woke up." Lana answered. "And she really needs a diaper change."

Luan and Luna turned their attention to their youngest sister. Lily was fussing a bit, her diaper full and reeking strongly. Luna's face turned a little green as the odor reached her nostrils. There was no way she would dare to tackle that mess. Luckily for her, she wasn't alone with the baby girl. She could just have Luan...

"Not it!" Luan said, pressing the tip of her finger to her nose.

"Dang it!" Luna griped. "I wasn't ready!"

"That's the idea." Luan said, grinning smugly.

"Uh, Lans? Any chance you could do me a solid?" Luna asked hopefully.

"No can do, sis." Lana replied. "Not tall enough to reach the changing stations in the bathrooms."

Luna sighed and accepted her fate, giving Luan a dirty look as she took over pushing Lily's stroller. Meanwhile, in another part of the mall, inside of a bookstore, three of the other Loud sisters were busily enjoying themselves. Or rather, two of them were while the third was desperately trying not to die from boredom.

"Books." Lynn said glumly "Could there be anything more lame and boring than books?"

"Books." Lisa said. "Could there be anything more invigorating and exciting than books?"

"I know what you mean." Lucy said in her usual monotone. "I have a copy of the latest Vampires of Melancholia novel saved to buy today. I'm so excited I can barely keep myself together."

Lisa pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose as she looked over at the stoic look on her elder sisters face. "Yes." Lisa said. "I can tell that you're positively bursting with glee."

Lynn groaned in annoyance. "Just get your book so we can hurry up and get out of here." she said, plopping down on the ground.

Lisa pulled a book off a nearby shelf. "While Lucy and I seek out our literary acquisitions." she said. "Perhaps some reading material of this nature would benefit you."

Lynn looked at the cover of the book with disdain. "How to Wait, by ." she read. Lynn shrugged her shoulders before opening the book with a bored sounding. "Whatever".

Lisa ran through the aisles until she reached the science and math section. "Books upon shelves upon walls of literature!" she said happily spinning on her toes. "Newtonian physics, photomolecular theory, theoretical mathematics. I don't know where to start!"

Lisa reached for a book on a shelf, but it was just out of her reach. Annoyed, she began to quickly stack books into a makeshift staircase that let her reach her book. But the unstable tower of books toppled over just as her fingers met the binding of the book, sending her onto the ground flat on her back. Lisa stood up and dusted herself off.

"Perhaps I should start with a shelf with my reach." she thought.

After a while, Lisa and Lucy both met in the line with a stack of books. Lisa looked at her sister's stack. "I thought you were only here for one book." she said.

"I was." Lucy said. "But there was a perfectly good set of books from the Vampires of Melancholia series in the bargain bin. Not that I'm against getting a good deal, but I mean really...the bargain bin ? Can you believe it?"

Lisa's eyes narrowed a bit. "Well..." she began. "Vampire fiction isn't for everybody."

"And what about you?" Lucy said. "What're you doing with that kid's book?"

"Kids book?" Lisa repeated. "I'll have you know these are books are at a level that would be a far to difficult for..."

"Not those books." Lucy said, reaching for the top of her stack and pulling off a small thin, hardback book. On the cover was a picture of a smiling dandelion with fluffy seeds flying off it. All the seeds had a smiling face except for one who was frowning. "This one. Roy the Sad Single Seed. Isn't this a kid's book about a dandelion seed that doesn't want to leave his family?"

Lisa began to sweat as she put the book back on the stack "Oh, that. It's not for me...it's for Darcy. For...uh...for me to read to her the next time she comes over...uh yeah...thats it." She said, her mouth turned up into a wide, nervous smile.

"Riiiight." Lucy said as she turned back to the line. "Whatever you say, kiddo."

Meanwhile, Lynn stood off to the side, just as bored as before. She had dropped the book that Lisa had provided to her and instead gone to where the magazines were kept, looking to see if there was anything of interest to her there. But unfortunately all of the sports related magazines were still the same old ones she had seen before, some of which were in her room back home. Sure, she could have just looked through them again to help pass the time, but she wasn't that bored. There had to be something, anything else that she could find to entertain herself while her younger sisters were waiting in line.

Lynn turned her gaze to the many people walking past the store through the entrance. Maybe if she was lucky she could spot one of her older sisters and have them take her place. Or at the very least give her someone to talk to until they could leave the book store. She'd even take a pun-loaded conversation with Luan over standing around and waiting like this!

A familiar face passed by the store, catching Lynn's attention. No wait, a few familiar faces now that she was looking. Margo and a couple of the other girls from her softball team were here. Lynn's legs were moving before she even knew it. As she exited the store, she called out to her friends and rushed to catch up with them.

Back in the line, Lucy and Lisa were nearly done waiting their turns. Only one person was standing in front of them now and had just a single book in hand to purchase. Not even a minute later that person had paid for the book and went to leave the store, the clerk at the register calling the next customer forward.

Lucy approached the clerk, an elderly woman who wore a lavender sweater and half-moon spectacles. She gazed appreciatively at the stack of books that Lucy set onto the counter and reached for the one on top to scan it.

"My, my, my..." The old woman said. "I see someone took a look through our bargain bin. You're going to be pretty busy this weekend with all of this reading."

"Yes Ma'am." Lucy replied. "I can hardly wait to get started."

"That's good to hear. I love knowing that there are children today who still like a good book. Now, I noticed that you got in line without a grown up with you. Are you with your mother or father today, dear?"

"Neither." Lucy answered. "My little sister and me came in with our older sister. She's standing right over there."

Lucy turned to point to where she had seen Lynn just a few minutes ago, but now the teen was gone. And after a quick look around she discovered that Lynn wasn't anywhere in the area, possibly not even in the store for that matter. She turned to Lisa, who was also looking around for their missing sibling.

"Where did Lynn go?" Lucy asked.

Lisa peeked at Lucy from around her stack of books. "Frankly, I haven't a clue. I cannot locate her anywhere within the boundaries of the store."

"Oh my, that's not good." the elderly woman observed. "I'm afraid that I'll need to let mall security know that you two are all by yourselves. Now don't worry and sit tight, we'll make sure that you're both taken care of."

Outside of the store, Lynn happily chatted with friends. It may not have been as fun as going to the batting cages, shooting hoops, or practicing lucha libre. But it still beat being in a boring old bookstore with her little sisters. Plus, she could talk about things she actually liked with her team.

"I still can't believe you missed those curve balls!" Lynn said. "I mean after two strikes, you'd think that you'd at least be able to hit the third one in a row."

"In my defense, Francisco's got a heck of an arm on him." Margo said.

A dreamy look crossed Lynn face. "Yeah." she said. "A strong grip, serious shoulder pumping...and the muscles... "

Lynn's gaze quickly fell on her friends, who were all staring at her. She quickly shook the fog from her head. "He's okay." she said. "Yeah...just...OK"

Margo pinched Lynn's cheek teasingl. "Aww!" she said. "Does somebody have a crush?"

"Knock it off!" Lynn said. "So anyways, you guys wanna hit the batting cages later today? I could teach you got to hit those curveballs."

"Nah" Margo said. "I got a party to go today."

"Dang it." Lynn said. "Maybe we can hang out later then."

"What do you mean?" Margo asked. "Aren't you going to be at the party?"

"What party?" Lynn asked. "I haven't heard about any party."

"Seriously?" Margo asked. "Thats' weird consdering that..."

"LYNN!" shouted an angry voice.

Lynn twitched nervously and turned to see her eldest sister storming over to her, with a look of anger burning in her eyes. Lynn nervously gulped down a sudden lump in her throat as Lori came to a stop in front of her.

"I was just in Always Mobile looking at the prices of the new phones." she said. "And then I get a text from Lisa asking me where I am. Care to guess why?"

Lynn could only shrug.

"I'll tell you why!" Lori snapped. "Because the next thing I know, a security guard came up to me. And he had Lucy and Lisa with him. He told me that they were left all alone in the bookstore! What is wrong with you? Ditching Lisa and Lucy like that, you should be ashamed!"

"I wasn't ditching them!" Lynn argued. "I just came over here to talk to my friends. I was just outside the..."

Lynn turned around to point out the bookstore, only to find it much further away than she realized. She hadn't been paying attention to her surrounding as she walked with her friends.

"Oh..." she said as a sheepish grin crossed her face. "Whoops..."

Lori grabbed Lynn by the arm. "First Lincoln, and now you." she complained. "I am not dealing with this today."

Keeping a firm grip on Lynn, Lori walked back over to where Lisa and Lucy were waiting. Lori apologized to and also thanked the security guard for his help. The guard left and then the group joined up with Leni and Lola just a short distance away. Lori took a seat once they found a nearby bench and took a deep breath to try and calm herself down. It helped, but she was still very displeased with Lynn for her mistake.

After another minute or so, Lori pulled out her phone and texted Luna to ask where she, Luan, Lily and Lana were. She got a response after a few seconds and then she stood up and got the group moving again. They took the nearest down escalator to the first floor and soon enough found Luna and the others. Luna seemed to be in a pretty sour mood and she trudged over once she spotted Lori's group. Luan, who was pushing Lily's stroller, joined them next with Lana by her side. Lori took immediate notice of the uneasyness between the two brunettes and turned to face Luna.

"What's wrong with you?" she asked.

"Nothing." Luna muttered.

"She's just upset because she wasn't able to buy the tuba she wanted." Luan explained from her place on the other side of the group.

"Sousaphone." Luna bitterely corrected.

"Whatever." Luan said, rolling her eyes.

Lori let out a heavy sigh. "What exactly happened?" She asked, a part of her already regretting doing so.

"Lily needed a diaper change and I called 'not it'." Luan said. "But then Luna takes Lana into the bathroom with her and Lily so she can get Lana to do it for her."

"I did say that I'd do it if Luna held me up so I could reach the changing table." Lana added.

"Okay, so Lily got a diaper change." Lori said. "What's that got to do with Luna not being able to buy a tuba?"

"Sousaphone." Luna spat through clenched teeth.

"Watch it Luna!" Lori warned. "I am literally not in the mood right now. Luan, continue."

Luan nodded. "Okay, so anyway, after that we went to the store so Luna could buy her tu...instrument and then Lily threw her dirty diaper."

"Wait, wait, wait..." Lynn interupted. "You kept the dirty diaper? Why?"

"I didn't!" Luna said. "Lana kept it!"

"Like, why did you let her do that?" Leni asked.

"I thought she'd toss it in the trash! How the heck was I supposed to know she'd hold onto it?!"

"Uh, hello? This is Lana we're talking about!" Lola stated definitively."

"Lola has a fair point." Lana said, nodding in agreement with her twin.

Lori sighed again and pinched the bridge of her nose. "So I'm guessing that Lily hit someone with her diaper and you were told to leave the store, right?"

Luna nodded, crossing her arms and looking down at her feet.

"She hit the store manager. Got her right in the schnoz!" Luan said, giggling. "It was priceless!"

"Well you didn't have to say a pun and make things worse!" Luna said hotly. "Of all the things you could've done, you just had to go and do something to tick the woman off!"

"Don't blame me because she didn't have a sense of humor!" Luan retorted. "And excuse me for trying to get a laugh out of what was a darn funny situation!"

"Dude! You called her a 'brown-noser'!" Luna spat.

"That was the joke!" Luan spat back.

"ENOUGH!" Lori shouted, stepping between the two arguing teens. "I think it's about time we head home. And you two are sitting apart on the ride back!"

All the girls groaned as Lori led them out the double doors, into the parking lot, and up to Vanzilla. They filed into the old clunker and got themselves situated in their seats. As the van drove away from the mall, they all began chatting away to pass the time.

"I can't wait to get home so I can start on these books." Lucy said, her enthusiam hidden behind the monotone.

"You said it, sister." Lisa agreed happily.

Lucy's eyes narrowed behind her bangs. "I'm still surprised that you bought that little kids book, though." she said.

Lisa snorted. "I'll have you know, elder sister." she said. "Any book is a little kids book, if said little kid is capable of reading it."

"I got so many different kinds of nail polish at Glitter Glam!" Lola said. "I'm not sure which one I should try on first!"

"What kind of choice is it, anyway?" Lana asked, looking at the little bottles in Lola's bag. "All of them are just pink!"

"They aren't all just pink." Lola said in an affronted tone taking out the bottles to show to her "This one is magenta, salmon, grapefruit, watermelon, bubblegum, watermelon-bubblegum, flamingo..."

She stopped at one bottle and examined it closely. "Ok, this one is just pink." she said. "But the rest are..."

"Okay, okay!" Lana said, plugging her ears with her fingers. "I don't need to know any more!"

"Well its' nice that some of us got what we wanted." Luna complained.

"C'mon Luna." Luan said. "You can't expect me not to try and make the best of a bad situation with a joke. I wasn't trying to get us kicked out of the store!"

"And I'm sure there's other place you can get your Suzyphone." Leni said. "Maybe even at a better price!"

"Sousaphone. " Luna grumbled quietly.

The rest of the ride was in relative peace for the most part. The girls still talking mostly about what they had done at the mall, until Luna brought up.

"What do you think Lincoln is up to right now?"

"Who cares?" Lynn said flippantly.

"Yeah." Lola piped up. "He had his own plans and we had ours. Let him do whatever he wants."

"So no one else is curious about what he's been up while we were gone?" Luna said.

The Loud Sisters were silent as they looked around at each other. After a few moments, Lori spoke up.

"It doesn't matter." she said. "Whatever he's up to is...his business."

Luna smirked a bit as she could hear the struggle behind Lori's words. As his older sisters, they felt it was their duty to pry into his business. But this time they had left him to his own devices.

"At least we'd know what he was doing if he had come to the mall with us." Luna said. "But I guess not everyone wants to go to the mall."

Lori's face fell a bit at Luna's words. "Whatever." she said as they neared their house. "I just can't wait to get home so I can talk to..."

Vanzilla stopped at the driveway of their house, unable to enter as a red pickup truck was in front of their garage.

"Hey!" Lynn said. "What's the big idea? Who parked in the driveway?"

"That's the pickup truck for the Casagrande Bodega." Lori said with a trembling voice. "And that means...

Lori looked over to see a familiar figure in a green jacket standing on the porch. Her chest inflated with joy. "Bobby's here!"

Lori parked by the curb and scrambled to get out of Vanzilla, as her sisters filed out of the ramshackle van easily. She ran up to the porch.

"Boo Boo Bear!" she called out she ran up to him.

Bobby turned to greet Lori with a big smile on his face. "BABE!" he cried out as he hugged her.

Grabbing their bags, the Loud Sisters walked up to their eldest sister and her boyfriend.

"What are you doing here?" Lori asked. "Did you come all the way from Great Lakes City just to see me?"

"Yup." he said. "Just to see you...and to deliver the food for the party."

Lori let go of Bobby so she could look him in the eye. "Party?" she said and her sisters said in unison. "What party?"

Bobby held out his phone to show her the digital invitation he had recieved. "The one Lincoln asked my grandma to make food for." he said. "C'mon, I'll show you."

He grabbed the knob and pulled the door open to reveal the inside of the house. There were streamers and balloons were everywhere. A table with chips, dip and countless cupcakes was set against one wall, with a cooler filled with ice and sodas next to it. Their TV had Lincoln's Dance Pads hooked up to it. And off to the side were three more TVs, each with a different gaming system hooked into it.

The girls looked around in wonder at the set up "Whoa!" they said in a united gasp of awe.

"Lincoln did all of this?" Lori managed to get out after finally absorbing the sight before her. "Is...is this what he was setting up for all week?"

"I had some help." Came the sound of Lincoln's voice.

The girls collectively turned to face the stairs where their brother was standing. He smiled at them and walked down to stand in front of them. Once in position he made a grand sweeping gesture to the living room.

"So, what do you think? Pretty sweet set up right?" He asked. "And this is just part of it. I've got karaoke in the dining room, some food for eating contests set up in the kitchen, and in the backyard...well, let me show you."

He walked towards the back door and led his sisters outside. Lana's mudpit was still in place, but now with a new addition that quickly caught the first grader's attention.

"Is that a pig in my mudpit?!" she excitedly exclaimed.

Lincoln nodded. "Yup. That's Virginia. Liam brought her over from the farm so people could mudwrestle with her. Or just watch if they prefer that. There's also going to be some fun games out here, like lawn darts. And if you look around the side of the house, you'll see I've set up a ball pit which you can slide into using the inflatable slide Lisa installed in my room."

"Hmmmm, impractical yet fun. Well done, elder brother!" Lisa praised.

"Thank you. Now, let me show you the basement. That's where I had the VIP area set up." Lincoln said, gesturing for the girls to follow him again.

The sisters eagerly followed their brother back into the house and into the basement. The whole area had been cleared out for a large table with a buffet. Said buffet was entirely made up of Rosa's delectable cooking. There was a Flippee machine next to the buffet with stacks of extra large cups for people to use. A DJ station was set up against one wall and a kiddie pool was placed near the wall across from it. Around the pool were color changing strobe lights set up to add to the atmosphere.

"So, what do you think?" Lincoln asked again. "Does your bro know how to put together a sweet party or what?"

For a moment the sisters just continued to stare at the amazing surprise they had come home to find. Then all at once they burst into lively cheers and sung praise of their brother's efforts. Lincoln basked in it for a moment before gesturning for them to simmer down so he could speak again.

"Glad you like what you see. So, do you think that this is gonna be a blast?"

"YES!" The sisters all cheered.

"More fun than you could possibly imagine?" He asked.

"YES!" They repeated, pumping their fists into the air.

"The kind of party that you'll talk about for weeks?"

"YES!"

"Are you ready to party?!" He exclaimed.

"YES!" They all shouted, practically bursting with excitement.

"Well that's too bad!" Lincoln said. "Because none of you are on the guest list!"

The girls all suddenly gawked at their brother, not sure they had heard him right.

"What?!" Lori asked.

"I said you aren't invited to my party." Lincoln repeated, completely calm with a dead serious tone. "None of you."

End of part 6

We finally got this part done
Please review, and don't forget to send some love over to my co-writer Twisteddarkness225