Chapter IV: Two is Company, Twelve's a Loud

Part I

... Beep! Beep! Beep!

The sound of Nathan's alarm woke him from his sleep, which is surprisingly a first for Nathan, but he wanted to be on time to hang out with his newly acquainted friend. Also, it was kind of to be expected since he set his alarm for 3 p.m. last night, but that was besides the point. He goes into his closet, rummaging through his clothes to pick out an outfit for the day.

"No, no…. hmm. This could work." he says, pulling out a pair of faded black jeans and a black T-shirt with a trumpet in a blue design, along with his favorite hoodie that he ties around his waist. Slipping on his shoes, he heads to the kitchen where he sees his sisters, Michelle was at the kitchen table reading a magazine, while Mikaela was on the couch watching TV. He opens up a cabinet and grabs a granola bar, which he hurriedly unwraps and devours.

"Hey Michelle, do you know where mom is?" Nathan asks as he grabs a bottle of water from the fridge.

"Mom's in her room napping, she just got back from jogging around the neighborhood twenty minutes ago."

"Oh, well let her know that I'm heading over to the Loud's house. Bye guys, I'll be back before dark." Nathan replies, and heads out the front door.

Only a short distance from his yard, Nathan could already hear a blaring noise from down the street, though he just assumed that there was some kind of party in the neighborhood. And then a moments afterwards, he realized he had no idea where he was going. He'd forgotten to get Lincoln's house address, and he had no way of knowing which direction he should be heading.

"Well, when in doubt, start walking. Just pick a direction, Nathan" he thought to himself. "Lincoln said he had 10 sisters, so I should out look for a pretty large house. Let's go… left." he pointed in the direction of the loud noise he heard, noticing the larger houses were towards the left of his house.

As he kept was walking however, he noticed the noise grew louder and louder, until he reached the source of the noise, a white, three-story house, with a van parked along the driveway, and various toys strewn across the track-marked lawn. At this point, he could barely hear himself think over the sound of… who knows what he was hearing.

"This is a pretty big house, but surely this can't be right one, right? It has to be another house, anyone but this one" he thought as went check the mailbox in front the house. Sure enough, written on the side of the mailbox, was the word 'Loud' in bold, white letters.

"Dear Lord, what have I gotten myself into?" he said aloud as he went to ring the doorbell. After a few solid seconds of holding ringing the doorbell, he heard a familiar voice coming from inside the house.

"I'll get it!" Lincoln said, well, rather shouted, as he opened the door. Seeing Nathan on the other side of the door, his somewhat worn faced morphed into happiness. "Nathan, you're here. I forgot to give you my address, and I was just on my way to your house to show you the way, sorry about that."

"No problemo, I'm Nathan Pierce. And a Pierce is always ready for any-"

"Hey Linc, think fast!" Lynn shouted from the living room, giving Lincoln the idea to duck from the incoming football. Nathan, however, wasn't as fortunate, and the football crashed into his face, sending him sprawling onto grass.

"Nathan! Are you okay?" Lincoln asked, crouching over his friend, who was clutching his face. Lynn sprints outside to collect her football, but stops when she notices the kid who she beaned with her throw.

"Hey Lincoln, who's he? Is he the friend you were talking about?" Lynn asks.

"Yes, that's the friend, the one who you nearly took his head off with that football! Didn't Dad say no more football in the house anyway after you broke his antique case?" Lincoln questioned, causing Lynn to run the back of her neck in embarrassment.

"Hehe, my bad. Let me help you up, dude." Lynn says as she grabs Nathan's hand and pulled him up abruptly. Once he's onto his feet, Lynn extends her hand to shake his. "The name's Lynn Loud, nice to meet you."

"Oh… thanks. My name is Nathan, Nathan Pierce." he replies as he shakes her hand, although hesitant at first. After they shake hands, Nathan attempts to let go, but Lynn lifts her other hand into fist in a fake attempt to punch him. Nathan instinctively recoils from her first, but that only manages to make Lynn laugh.

"Ha! That's two for flinching!" she says as she punches Nathan's his left shoulder. "See you around." she finishes as she picks up her football and heads back into the house.

"Sorry about Lynn, she can be a little… rough. Are you going to be ok?" Lincoln apologizes.

"Well, I never thought about strangling a child before, but I guess there's a first for everything." Nathan groans as he rubs his aching shoulder. " She almost took my arm off, does she box or something?"

"You'll get used to it." Lincoln responds. "Come on, let's head inside."

Nathan follows Lincoln into the house, and he notices two blonde teenagers sitting on the couch, one who was reading a magazine, while the other was texting on her phone.

"Hey Leni, Lori, this is my friend I was talking about, Nathan. Nathan, these are my eldest sisters Lori and Leni" Lincoln introduces.

"OMG, it's, like, totes nice to finally meet you!" Leni says enthusiastically, standing up to shake his hand, a little too rapidly for his liking, but Nathan didn't really mind. Lori, however, is too preoccupied with texting to greeting Nathan properly.

"Yeah. Nice to meet you. Oh, Bobby is finally calling, I'm heading upstairs! Don't bother me!" she said as takes off up the stairs to her room, not even making eye contact with anyone along the way.

"Ok, that totally wasn't rude at all" Nathan thought to himself, as the baby he saw with Lincoln's parents yesterday shuffled toward Lincoln.

"Hey Lily! What's up, are you hungry?" Lincoln asks as he picks his little sister up into his arms.

"Tummy!" Lily giggles, patting her stomach.

"Ok Lil, let's make you some food." Lincoln says as he makes his to the kitchen, with Nathan right behind. He pulls out a loaf of bread, some Peanut Butter, and a jar of sauerkraut, and makes two sandwiches; the first he puts in a blender for a short time before putting it in Lily's sippy-cup, and the other he takes for himself.

"Do you want some of my sandwich? It's peanut butter and sauerkraut." Lincoln rips off a piece and offers to Nathan, who was fighting the urge to gag.

"Um, no offense Linc, but that sounds pretty disgusting. I respect my taste buds way too much to try that."

"Eh, it's an acquired taste. Isn't that right, Lily?" Lily takes the sippy-cup from her mouth and lets out a small burp, and then giggles.

"Hey bro, whatcha up to?" Luna asks as she walks into the kitchen, reaching into the refrigerator for a soda. She stops as she spots Nathan with Lincoln and asks, "Who's he?"

"Hey Luna, this is my friend, Nathan. He's the new neighbor I was talking about earlier. Nathan, meet my sister Luna, the rocker of the family."

"Nice to meet you, dude." Luna greets him, and gets a look at his shirt. "Sweet shirt. You play the trumpet?"

"Oh, no, I'm just really into jazz music, and I liked the shirt. I couldn't play an instrument to save my life." Nathan said jokingly. "What about you, what instruments do you play."

"I play all sorts of instruments pretty well, but the guitar and drums are where I shine. Music is a really big part of my life, so I try to play anything I can get my hands on."

"Hmm, very talented, yet modest. She's pretty cool." Nathan thought to himself.

"That's awesome. Do you have a favorite kind of music?" Nathan asked.

"Oh, I LIVE for Rock music. I don't know how, but there's just something with Rock music that just takes you on a journey, you know? I'm really into SMOOCH, even more so with Mick Swagger, he's my idol. One day, I hope to make it to the top like him.

"I know what you mean about that. I listen to a lot of Rock too, but I'd have to say my favorite genre of music is Jazz music for similar reasons. To me, listening to Jazz music is like an experience; it's just exciting enough to vibe to, yet chill and mellow enough to think and reflect its meaning. Plus, it's great to listen to while doing homework."

"You got great taste. It's great to have someone to talk music with." Luna commented.

"Likewise."

"Wow, you two are getting along great." Lincoln said. "Quick question though, what's your least favorite kind of music?"

"Oh that's easy, Classical." Nathan and Luna say in unison, and upon their agreed answer, promptly high-five each other.

"She's official my favorite out of your sisters." Nathan announced to Lincoln.

"Well, I'm heading back to my room, you two. We should hang out sometime and talk more about music." Luna said, as she made her way out the kitchen.

"Looks like you're getting along with my sisters well." Lincoln said. "And we only have half of them left to meet."

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot you have a huge family. Well, let's go meet the rest of your sisters."

Hey guys, XxTheGlichHopxX here! Here's Chapter 4, a little later than I had hoped, sorry about that. I'm putting this chapter into three parts, due to the amount of stuff taking place, and I'm currently working on Part II as of now, so hopefully it won't take long. Nathan so far enjoys Lincoln's sisters, well except for Lynn and Lori, and he is going to meet the rest in the next part.

I really enjoyed making this chapter, though it might have some errors in it. Anyways, please let me know what you think, an look forward to more, hopefully better, chapters. Enjoy, and thanks!