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Nothing to say
leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet's go
For the first minutes, the four of them just stood still, almost like statues. Luna was the first to take a step inside the room. The tears were already forming in their eyes, but they still refused to believe that it really happened. They all stood around the hanging body, untying the rope on his neck, and laying the body down. It was still warm.
"No… no...no,no,no…" Leni begin to panic
The four then hugged themselves together, letting all of the tears out. They had so many feeling going through them. Sadness for their brother, rage against the rest of the family and guilt for themselves playing a roll on the situation. Lucy was the first to stop didn't meant she wasn't still broken, but she was able to notice a small piece of paper in one of Lincoln's slightly pale hands.
"Girls," The three watched as Lucy opened their brother's hand, only to find a letter. "Hear this"
They all stopped crying for a few moments, as Lucy read Lincoln's last words
Leni, Luna, Lucy and Lana
If anyone of you are reading this, then I already passed out. I knew about your little plan, thus I knew you'd be the first to find me in my… condition.
I can't ask you to not be sad, it would be useless. But I have to say, if it wasn't for you four, this would have happened a lot sooner. Unfortunately, some couldn't see what you see, so I guess this will have to be the way for them to understand. Maybe I'm evil and selfish of wanting them to fill the guilt, but I don't really care.
I have to thank all of you so much. You made the last moments of my life the best I could have, and if anyone of you have any guilt for what has happened, consider yourselves forgiven. We all knew things were slowly getting worse, so I ended it, before someone found out and stopped me.
The four of them almost began crying again. To know that their brother killed himself, and they were the only form of joy and happiness he had, it made their eyes wet, and their skin red of anger
I know it's not the same, but I've got a little thing for each one of you, take a look under the bed.
Leni went towards Lincoln's bed, and when she looked under it, she found five packages, wrapped in green, black, purple, light blue and orange paper. They could tell which one was for who, except for the last one.
They all opened the boxes. Leni got a long light green dress, which she was saving money for at least 3 months. Luna got a guitar signed by Mick Swagger himself. Lucy got the last volume of her favourite book series, which has just been released, and Lana got a toolbox which her father wouldn't let her have, because she wanted to use them to make some 'changes' in the family van
It was the best presents they could ever get, and they would keep it for the rest of their lives. Then they reached the orange box, opened it, and found a scrapbook, divided in four sections, each one containing pictures of Lincoln with one of his sisters, but the most shocking was the last photo, a full page with a picture of the five in the park. They've taken that picture on the same week.
Lucy went back to the letter, which still had some unreaded sentences
I know it's not much, but I hope you enjoy it. Well, I guess you'll see me on heaven later, but know that I'll always be looking for you. Goodbye
They would all start crying again, but Lucy wasn't finished
BTW, if any of our others sisters find out their savings are missing, at least you know where they were spent.
And one last thing. I don't want to give the rest of them the pleasure of reading my last words, so rather burn this, or hide this.
They would never burn such a precious message, so they agreed to hide it. After they found a good hiding spot, they went back to the corpse, which was already cold, and they all gave him their goodbyes.
"I'm sorry we could help you, Linky" Leni said
"I hope you're in a better place, mate" Luna said
"At least you're not stuck in the suffering this life have brought" Lucy said
" We-we-we will miss you" Lana said, falling on her brother's body. The rest of the siblings joined her. They stood a few hours remembering the good times where they were a united family, and the luck situation wasn't present.
"So what do we do know?" Lana asked after a while
"I don't know," Luna said, checking the time on her phone "Oh oh, we're screwed"
"Why?" she asked
Then they heard a huge noise coming from the living room, followed by a loud shout
"LENI, LUNA, LUCY AND LANA LOUD, GET DOWN HERE IMMEDIATELY"
"Oh, crap" Leni, Lucy and Lana said at the same time
They haven't noticed that the whole day passed while they were crying. Now they would have to face the consequences of losing a day at school. When they went downstairs, they thought that their makeup would be all messed up throughout their faces, giving up that there was something wrong with them, but apparently there were so much tears, it washed all of it away, almost as if they have took a shower.
"Uhh, hi dad," Leni said
"WOULD YOU MIND EXPLAINING WHY DID YOU SIMPLY SKIPPED CLASS TODAY"
The four remained motionless and speechless. It was hard seeing their father so angry. And while they knew the reason why they were absent, none of them had the guts to spill out the news for the rest of the family, at least not yet
"YOU ARE ALL GROUNDED FOR THE WHOLE MONTH, NO MUSIC, NO SHOPPING, NO TOOLS, NO POETRY, YOU'LL STAY LOCKED IN THIS HOUSE, ONLY LEAVING TO GO TO SCHOOL. AM I CLEAR?"
The four simply nodded, and they were ready to get locked in their rooms, when
"Hey, what about Lincoln?" Luan asked, and that made the four freeze. It never went through their mind that their father haven't mentioned their brother, as he didn't go to school as well. The four turned around
"That twerp is in his bad luck fase, so it was for the best" Lori said
The four began creating tears in their eyes
"If he went, maybe the whole school could fall apart" Lola said
The four felt the pain of every single word
"It was the best he stayed here, so that no one would get harm" Lynn said
As the four were affected by sadness, Luna had something else in her heart, she looked back and saw her three sisters almost breaking into tears, and that's what she needed to chose her next action.
"f*ck it," she thought to herself, and then she ran towards her family. " AHHHHHHHH"
She tackled Lynn, who felt into the ground, and began hitting her in the face, stomach, arms, legs, or any other part of her body. Quickly enough, Leni, Lucy and Lana hold Luna back, while Luan, Lisa, Lola, and Rita hold Lynn, before she tried to get any sort of revenge. Luna would have to thank the sisters later, because entering a serious fight with Lynn, only if you had a death wish, and one death was enough for the day.
"LUNA LOUD, ARE YOU CRAZY" Lynn sr shouted
"NO, ARE YOU CRAZY" She replies
"WHAT THE HECK DO YOU ME…"
"SHUT UP" She screamed so strongly, even her father backed up a little, then she looked towards Lynn, who seemed okay, apart from a black eye and a few scratches "This, you caused all of this", then she pointed at the whole family "and you just made it worst, and now...now…"
Luna couldn't do it anymore, she just felt on the ground sobbing, as Leni, Lucy and Lana hugged her
"Okay, can someone explain what the heck is going on" Lynn sr said in a a still angry, but a little softer voice. Lucy went closer to the family and, with her usual emotionless expression, she said those three words.
"Lincoln is dead"
At first, they all remained speechless. Then Lynn stood forward
"Is this some sort of sick joke?" She asked
"That's with her" Lana answers, pointing at Luan
"Hey!" Luan exclaimed
"But wait, then where he is?" Rita asked
The four girls pointed upstairs, and the rest of the family ran towards Lincoln's room, only to find his corpse lying on the ground, aside a all surrounded it. The parents try to remain as calm as possible, but in the end all of them began crying.
"*sniff* Why would he do this?" Lori asked
Luna felt a little offended about it. "Are you serious?"
"You had a whole day to understand what happened, it's not that obvious to us," Their father said.
Luna just pointed to the corner to the room, where the squirrel suit was laying.
"That explains a lot." Lola said in an ironic, yet sad fashion
"Then try being a slave for our whole family 24/7, and on your free time you're beaten up by wearing such a strange costume" Luna was holden down by her three sisters, so she wouldn't fight a family member once again.
"Well *snif* he doesn't look too bad to me. You know *sniff* for a corpse" Luan said
Leni, Lucy and Lana saw Luna's face getting red like a tomato. Lana took the hint and dragged her away from Lincoln's room and into her's, which was soundproof, so she just could explode and nobody would hear.
Leni and Lucy remained in the room. Giving a closer look to her brother, they realised he was still wearing makeup. Leni used his shirt to wipe it out of his face, revealing all of his marks. They were all shocked
"Oh my god" Rita said
"Why he didn't told us anything?" Lynn sr said
The other sisters begin speaking, but Lucy and Leni didn't heard, as they left the room, mainly to let them have some time with Lincoln, just like the four had before, and also check if Lana didn't learned any 'new' vocabulary. They saw Lana at in the corridor, in front of Luna's and Luan's room
"So how's she doing" Lucy asked
"Well, she began cursing our family for like, five minutes, then she grabbed her guitar and began playing as loud as possible, until she had no more energy to play, when she went to her bed and began crying. She probably fell asleep.
"We better keep an eye out for her. We don't need another accident in this family" Leni said
The next days weren't easy. The family wasn't as loud as it once were. Not only one was missing, but all of them seemed to just disappear. Soon they had to spread the news to everyone. The police once showed up at the house to search for evidence for Lincoln's reasons for killing himself, but since they hadn't found none (The girls hid the letter very well) , they didn't had anyone to blame.
The family voted to keep the reason for Lincoln's suicide a mystery. Things were already changing drastically. Having both Loud parents going to jail didn't sound very attractive. However, there were some who were suspicious, one in particular was Clyde, Lincoln's closest friend. But when he tried to confront the family, Lori was always there, so he began to malfunction before he could say a single word.
The funeral happened at Sunday morning. Most people would enjoy the sunny day do go out to the park do some exercise. It had a long duration, since almost all family members (excluding Lily) wanted to say a few words to their brother.
Later that day, Leni, Luna, Lana and Lucy went back to the graveyard. it was pitch dark, but Lucy knew her ways around. They reached their brother's grave and placed the squirrel suit at it's side. Luna grabbed a matchbox a putted the suit on fire. Then they all stayed in silence, all of them giving their last goodbyes. When the flames were ending, they began walking back home. Luna turned around a last time, seeing a little squirrel finding shleter near the warm flames
"Huh, irony," she thought
They all went to sleep after that. It would probably be one more of those night they wouldn't be able to sleep. This time, however, a young boy would join the group
At midnight, Lincoln had woken up. He opened his eyes, and saw the outside of his house. "Dammit" he thought "I am alive, and now I'm probably banned from the house"
"Come on, you know some have good hearts," Lincoln heard a girly voice
"You saw what happened right there, they need to suffer," He heard a male voice
He turned around and saw two figures. At his left was a light blue woman ghost, and at his right there was a male light red ghost
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHH, GHOSTS" Both figures turned to him
"Have you looked to yourself at the mirror?" The red spirit grabbed Lincoln and dragged him towards one of the house's windows, and he saw his skin was white, he didn't had legs and was floating in the air.
Lincoln was so confused, he didn't understand what was going on.
"Wh-Wh-Who are you? Wh-Wh-What's going on?" He said
The blue spirit came close to Lincoln and held his hand
"I'm Alice, and that's Dennis." Alice said
"Welcome to purgatory kid, the place where you will have some business to finish, before resting in peace" Dennis said
Okay, so for those who read the original 2nd chapter, this is the finished one. For those who didn't, well, not much to say, only that chapter 3 probably will come real soon, since it well get into the more 'interesting' parts
Like always, if you enjoyed (or not) let me know.
see you next chapter