As the weekends arrived, the Loud children went to do their chores like usual around the house. It was a peaceful Saturday morning with the occasional cool breezes brushing against the fallen leaves on the dewy grass. The sky was quite dark with a few clouds covering the sun, though there is no sign that it would be raining anytime soon. With the parents already out for their work, the children began doing their chores so they could go to their planned activities much sooner.
Lori was descending the stairs with two baskets of her and Leni's laundry when something occured to her. She could feel that there is something different in the house even with the usual noise of her sisters arguing in the living room. It was only then that she realized there is something missing among the sisters attending to their chores like usual around the house. It didn't take long for her to realize what it was, and when she does, she searched around for where the missing part could be.
"Lori wait!" She stopped in her track when one of her younger sister called for her. Turning around in the living room, she was met with the sight of Leni running down the stairs before stopping infront of her. Leni panted slightly before straightening her back, leaning her ample chest forwards, and looked at Lori with a bright smile.
"What is it Leni, I literally need to do the laundry right now." Lori scowled.
"I'm totes sorry Lori, like I forgot to put my bra in in my laundry." She threw a lacy and skimpy looking green bra into the laundry basket. If the color wasn't eye catching enough, the large size was enough to stir a certain repressed feeling inside Lori that she thought was no longer there. It was still a wonder to her how her ditzy sister would develop such a voluptous and full racks that outmatched her own. If anything it was certainly something that Leni inherited from someone in their family tree that she didn't know about. She was just not lucky enough to get the same genes as Leni in her blood.
"Where did you get this thing anyway, I have never seen you wearing it before." Lori asked bitterly, her eyes rolled away from looking at the taunting bra. She really wanted to tear the piece of clothing 'if it could be call that' apart but hold herself back from actually doing it. Then she need to explain why she did it to her sister and she don't have a reason good enough for that... at least that was her reason for now. There won't be anything preventing her to do something about it later. A little incident maybe?
"Isn't it totes fabs, I made it myself." Leni cheerfully clasped her hands together with a wide smile plastered on her face. "Like the only one that ever saw me in them was Lincy when I asked his opinion, and he said that he really liked it." She squealed in excitement but it quickly died down.
"Though he did say something about Lisa after that." She continued with a thoughtful look.
Lori looked at her younger sister in disbelief. She placed both of the laundry baskets down to the floor and pinched her nose before sighing in irritation. "Leni, you can't just go to Lincoln's room in this 'thing' and ask his opinion about it." Lori said, confusing her a little. Leni raised her hand to ask a question but Lori beat her to it.
"And before you ask why, I know that he is our brother but that doesn't mean you can just go to him like it's nothing, he is still a boy and boy have their own needs." Lori explained. Besides he don't need her brother to develop a new fetish for her sisters. Especially not Leni as Lori looked skeptically at her younger sister not so modest chest.
Speaking of him, Lori remembered what she was doing earlier and looked around before raising an eyebrow. "Leni, do you know where Lincoln is?" She asked.
Leni pressed her index finger against her chin. "Like I think I saw him in the kitchen earlier." She replied pointing at the said direction. Lori picked up the baskets of laundry from the floor and began heading to the kitchen only to immediately stop soon after when a loud shouting erupted from the place.
"Cut it out dudette, I need Lincoln to help me right now and we're going to have a sick jam session after this." Luna's raspy voice screamed.
Lori let out a sigh and put the basket back down to the floor. If this keep going on none of them would get their chores done before lunch.
"Good luck with that, we're going to finish my chore first and go to the park later." Lynn argued with a smirk.
From the corner of Lori's eyes, she could see her only brother pouring some coffee into a mug at the coffee maker. He then opened a cupboard above the counter and took a new mug from there before preparing another drink.
"Come on now, Lincoln is going to play pretend with us in our room." Lola chimed in followed by her older twin. "Yeah, we have waited long enough to play with him." Said Lana, her pet frog stuck out from the collar of her overall.
Lori massaged her temples in frustration at her sisters bickering as Lincoln stirred a filled mug with a spoon, mixing the content together until they dissolved with the hot water.
"You both aren't even finish yet with your chores, why do you think he would play with you." Luan remarked, slightly rolling her eyes in annoyance. She then jumped a little when the twins glared at her.
"Plus who would want to hear you blaring your loud music for hours." Lynn said, crossing her arms.
"Why you little-" Luna almost lunged at the jock but Lori stood between them, stopping whatever that would spiraled if she ignored them any longer.
"Enough! Both of you better stop now or I will literally turn you into human pretzels." She threatened, though it did little to intimidate her younger sisters. She literally need to find a new efficient way to keep them in line. Even she was tired with all their petty fighting over the simplest thing.
Lucy stood beside Lincoln and slightly tugging the hem of his orange polo shirt. Noticing the raven haired girl presence, he turned his head to the side and flashed a gentle smile at her as a faint hint of pink colored her pale cheek afterwards. She purred in delight when he softly patted her head before carrying the mugs in both of his hands. Realizing the absent of his warmth, Lucy tried to reach out for him but her voice was lost in her throat like always. Sighing, she lowered her head in defeat at yet another of her many attempts to get his attention.
"Lincoln!" Lori raised her voice as her brother stopped in his tracks before looking at her.
"What is it Lori?" He softly said, a few hearts skipped a beat at the sight of his comforting smile that they almost forget what they're fighting about earlier.
"D-did you already do your chore?" Lori cleared her throat. She tried gaining her strict side but his smile is somehow affecting her in a weird way. Why did this always happen when he was around her? She don't know why but he seems different than the brother she knew. He seemed to be more mature for some reason.
"Don't worry Lori, I already picked up all the trash and threw them away when I woke up this morning." Lincoln said.
"So can you help me with the laundry, I could really use some help right now." Lori asked.
"Hey!" The rest of her sisters screamed while glaring at her.
Lincoln lowered his gaze to both of the mugs in his hands, looked up at her and tilted his head slightly. "Sorry Lori, but I already promised Lisa that I will be helping her today." He replied.
At a corner, Lucy gritted her teeth as her fingers twitched behind her back.
"But Lisa never needed help with her chore." Lola stated. "She always do fine by herself." She added.
"I agreed to help Lisa with her experiment since she helped me with my homeworks a few days ago, I don't want to break my promise with her." Lincoln admitted.
"Dang it, can't you helped her next time I thought we could hang out today" Lynn whined. "I have this new exercise routine I wanted to show you at the park." She grinned suggestively which didn't went unnoticed by her sisters.
"Well, if you wanted to, you can always come with me and help Lisa with her experiment, though I need to warn you first, there might be some side effect like headaches, rashes and constant nausea." He suggested with a shrug, startling most of them.
"Hey, just look at the time, I better get my chores done now." Lynn said before quickly leaving the room.
"Sorry dude, I also have my chores to settle with." Luna nervously rubbed the back of her neck.
Lincoln slowly shook his head in amusement before making his way upstairs to the younger girl's room. In the kitchen, Lori raised a brow at her brother's weird behaviour, surely enough she wasn't the only one that realized his changes lately and if Lynn's prior gesture would indicate anything, there was something happening in this house that she didn't know about. Lori was about to confront her brother about it in private but stopped when she realized the baskets of laundry still need to be done.
Right, her chores, she will meet him later. And before that, maybe she could do something about the piece of clothing that for some reason still managed to bother her. Lifting the baskets of laundry up from the floor, Lori carried them into the basement and started doing her chores by putting the clothes separately into the washing machine. While waiting for the machine to finish their work, she pulled out her phone and scrolled down her social media account to spend her time. A picture of a white cat wearing a small beanie appeared on the screen and she gushed before sharing it with her friends. After liking a few photos of cute kittens, she had instantly forgotten of her plan to talk with her brother later that day.
Meanwhile, Lucy walked into the living room, ignoring the twins fighting over the controller for the tv, and headed upstairs where she entered her room. She laid on her bed and stared absently through her dark bangs that covered her eyes. She already did her chores earlier that morning and hoped she could spend some time with Lincoln since it's been awhile since they did anything together. She missed spending time with him, either with him helping her to find a rhyming words for her poem or just with him listening to her poem recital.
She wasn't that open with sharing her pieces with anyone even if they were her close friends. She still have doubt with her own work, that they were not good enough for their expectation. But he was an exception, she would be fine with him hearing to her most personal poem that only she knew about. Sometimes she just thought about him and the inspiration came by itself into her mind like a drop of water rippling in a clear pond under the gleam of moonlight.
When she started writing anything, she just can't stop until she finished it. And with every words she ever wrote in those time, her emotions fluttered in her stomach at the thought of him. She has been thinking for the reason that could explain her condition. Among all the explanation she ever contemplated, none seemed to be the right answer to fill the empty gap in her heart. He was her brother and yet there is a stronger connection between them being witheld from her conscious. The longer she thought about it the more it bothered her. It was strange for someone proclaiming to be heartless such as her to be disturbed by a simple thought.
It shouldn't have bothered her that much but the thought of Lincoln spending more time with Lisa made her feel something unsual. At first she didn't know what it was, assuming it would disappear with time and everything will get back to normal. But with every chances of her spending time with him being stolen from her, she realized the feeling was only growing stronger and heavier.
Then, she figured out what the feeling was and started hating herself for it. She shouldn't have this kind of feeling towards him. It was wrong, it was disgusting, and it was despised by the society. She can't let him know about it or he would stray further away from her and breaking the sibling bond between them.
At least, that was what she thought until she saw what her brother and younger sister were doing behind their back. Although it was an unpleasant sight, she found a sliver of hope rising in the midst of her mixed emotions. If he was alright with creating a forbidden relationship with one of his sister, then what could have possibly stopped him from accepting her into his life.
She could make her way from there and carefully approached him with the subject, softening him by strenghtening the relationship between them. But it wasn't as easy as she thought it would be. If only she could at least utter a single words to him without fumbling and blushing too much, then she could probably make some progress from there. And with how Lincoln is constantly being too close with Lisa, he didn't make it any easier for her to do anything either.
"Sigh... If only you could see me like her." Lucy curled in her bed. Her eyes narrowed as she clicked her tounge. "What's so great about her anyway?"
As for the spectacled girl, Lisa was sitting at her desk while her fingers delicately typing on the keyboards, opening and rearranging a few articles to fit the entire screen of her computer. After finishing her chores, which is managing the house bills earlier that day, she immediately went back to her current research that took second priority in her complicated yet collected mind. There is a slight increase in the electricity bills recently and she decided that she would confront her parents about it later.
If she was right, the sudden increase would probably has something to do with her side experiment that was still going on and in observation. Since it was caused by her, she might as well put some contribution into the family financial to pay the bills with her parental units agreement.
They might question what kind of experiment she was conducting and she don't need them prying into her personal stuff. It was easier to explain to them that her experiment would need electricity to work than giving a complete explanation that they would surely not understand no matter how hard she tried. Perhaps he could also help her with that. She would consider the idea later, now she still needs to complete the schematic for her experiment if she wanted to make any progress today.
Her fellow colleagues has been demanding more of her time lately with the new discovery she had made in the world of science. They were eager on finding out how her new creation would bring a new revolution in the world. She already prepared her presentation and research for them to confide, with all the information she had gathered, the sources would be sufficient enough for them to give some thoughts of their own. She believed in her predicament, with enough materials and permission from the science community to continue her experiment, there will be nothing else that can stop her from going further.
Well, that is except for her physical that prevented her from giving her full potential. She knew that her body was limited in some sort of sense but that rarely bothered her nowadays with him being by her side. Speaking of him...
"Hey Lise, I see that you're still busy with your research." Lincoln said as he closed the door behind him.
"Elder sibling unit, I wonder why you take so long to get here." She glanced at him from the corner of her eyes, the light from the screen flickered in her thick round glasses.
"Sorry, the others were beginning to get more suspicious lately, I need to made something up so they won't disturb us since we have a lot of stuff in schedule for today." He replied while walking towards her.
"I guess that would be reasonable, you have been absence in most of the portion of their lives by spending more of your time here." She lowered her head, her voice slightly changed.
Lincoln placed a mug down on the desk and gently threaded his fingers through her messy brown hair as her cheeks slightly reddened. "I'm here because I wanted to be here, I don't think there is a reason for you to feel guilty about it." He said, taking a sip from his mug of coffee.
"But do you think you're being fair with them by doing this, they also deserved their time with their brother." She pointed out, her heart sank when he pulled his hand way and leaned his back against the edge of her desk.
"You're not exactly wrong, perhaps I should separate my times properly among you girls next time," Lincoln picked up a sheet of paper from the desk and inspected the content. "But you're different than them, you're not only my sister but also the most special girl in my heart." He placed the paper down only to see her stoic face staring up at him. He smiled and she quickly shook her head before returning her gaze to the computer.
"They will only get more suspicious of you if you keep coming here." Lisa commented. Lincoln drank from his mug and let the caffeine flowed through his body before sighing in relief.
"Well, they would still find out about us eventually." He admitted his worry. "But until then, I'm just happy with us being like this." He placed his mug of coffee down on the desk. "If I need to choose between you and the others then I already knew that you will always be my answer." He crossed his arms.
"You're not being careful enough male sibling unit, our siblings might not be a genius but even them would notice your frequent visit to my room, if this keep going on, they will start asking question and our relationship would be compromised..." she trailed off, her hands clenched over the keyboard.
"...I-I don't want to lose you." She confessed.
Noticing her discomfort, Lincoln looked at her and softly pinched her cheek, breaking her from her trance as she looked back up at him.
"I'm not going to leave you Lise, I promise." He caressed her cheek in his palm. Lisa then placed her right palm against the back of his hand and hold it in hers.
"There is no certainty what will happen to us in the future Lincoln, the possibility will always be changing and the chances of us actually be together was not on our behalf, there is just too much variables that could easily separate us..." She sadly stated.
"And I would still give my all for you." He answered with a genuine smile. Lisa looked at him indifferently before letting out a low chuckle. Her eyes then darted to the mugs rested on her work desk.
"I made some hot chocolate for you." He gave the mug to her as she carefully hold it in both of her hands. "Make sure you blow first since it is quite-" He didn't get to finish his sentence when Lisa winced after taking a quick sip from her mug. "-hot." He sighed.
She glared at him beneath her fogged round glasses with the tip of her pink tounge sticking out from her lips.
"I knew you like chocolate so much but you don't need to hurt yourself because of it Lise." He pressed his thumb against her chin and lifted her face slightly up. Tilting his head, Lincoln bent down to her height and softly planted a kiss against her lips. Her eyes widened for a second before slowly closing. She parted her lips and let his tounge into her mouth as her body melted under his loving embrace. Both of their faces heated up as they stayed in the kiss, neither willing to break it so they can kept going much longer.
Realizing that she was starting to struggle a little, Lincoln pulled away from her lips with a string of their mixed saliva sticking between their tounges. Lisa basked in the aftermath of their kiss, slightly panting with her face bright red. Her half lidded eyes staring at him as she almost leaned forwards for his lips still not too far away from her reach.
Lincoln wiped his thumb against his lips with his eyes wide open in confusion. "It's sweet, did I put too much milk?" He asked, looking at the flustered girl.
Lisa lowered her head at her mug of hot chocolate clasped in both of her hands reaching out from the sleeves of her green sweater. Her round glasses was still fogged from the vapour and the heat radiating from her face. "N-no, it's good, I like it." She said with a small smile.