I surprisingly had a lot of time to finish this chapter today. This may be the fastest I have ever uploaded a chapter. Hooray! Sadly I'll be busy tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, so no telling when Chapter 3 will be uploaded. Anyway enjoy!

No one said anything on the ride back home. The atmosphere felt too dark to want to say anything. But as soon as everyone got home they went to their separate rooms. Lynn received a few skeptical looks from Leni before she went in her room with Lori. Lynn jumped on her bed and grabbed a tennis ball. She threw it at a wall and kept going every time it bounced back. Lucy wrote her dark poems but stopped herself for a moment. "Lynn?" Lynn caught the ball and looked over at Lucy. "What?"
"Great grandmother has told me you've done something bad. Something really bad." Lucy said. Lynn nervously sat up in her bed. "How would she know what I 'did'?"
"She was here when it happened." Lucy continued.
Lynn looked straight ahead and fiddled with the tennis ball in her hands. "What else did she tell you?"
"That you did this." Lucy replied.
Lynn remained silent. "She also told me that you acted impulsively and Lincoln didn't want to fight at all but you kept going. She's very disappointed."
"Yeah? Well she's not here! What would she care anyway?!" Lynn snapped. She looked at Lucy with a twisted angry face. "She cares because she knows we should all love each other. But this alone could hurt our family's bonds." Lynn's features softened. She took a moment to breathe and settle down. "I'm sorry I don't mean anything bad towards great grandma. It's just too much right now. I can't stand to look at Lincoln without feeling like I committed a crime."
Lucy turned back to her poems. "She knows your intentions were hostile, but she also knows you couldn't think straight at the time."
"She must understand everything." Lynn said throwing the ball again. "Not exactly, She doesn't understand how you could have such anger in your heart to want to cause harm that bad." Lucy said.
Lynn shrugged her shoulders, "Frankly, neither can I."
There was a sudden knock at the door. Lucy walked to it to answer it. She opened the door partially and saw Lincoln standing there. "Hey, Lincoln. Are you feeling better?" Lucy asked.
"A little." Lincoln replied. He looked around from his viewpoint trying to find Lynn. "Is Lynn in there? I want to talk to her."
Lucy pushed the door wide opened show the whole room. Lynn sat on her bed with her arms crossed and her head facing her wall. Lincoln stepped past Lucy into their room. "Lynn?" He called out.
Lynn only moved her eyes briefly to glance at him. "Lynn, I wanted to let you know I'm fine. I'm not in pain anymore. You don't have to worry about me."
Lynn wanted to take heed to his words. She wanted to give him another hug. But mentally she was in the wrong place.
"Lynn, talk to me." Lincoln urged grabbing her hand. "Leave me alone, Lincoln." Lynn replied still not facing him. She tried to pull her hand away from him but he held onto it.
"Don't shut me out, please." Lincoln urged again.
Lynn turned to face him with anger on her face, "I SAID LEAVE ME ALONE!" She twisted Lincoln's wrist with the hand he held.
Lincoln winced in pain, "Ow!"
Lynn snapped out of her rage and looked down at Lincoln's wrist. She spotted his wrist brace and noticed it was the sprained wrist. She instantly dropped it from her grasp. "I'm sorry! I just..." She trailed off. She turned her head away from Lincoln again. "Please just go away. I can't be near you right now."
Lincoln looked at her, face full of sorrow. He reluctantly turned and left out of their room.
Lucy watched him tread sadly out the door. She turned back to Lynn. "Why did you do that? She asked.
Lynn shrugged, "I don't know. I just don't feel right around him."
"All you had to do was talk to him." Lucy replied.
Lynn sat up straight and faced Lucy. "I told you, I can't even look at him without feeling guilty of something. I can't just hug him and make everything better!" She said.
Lucy closed the door. "He said it himself. He's already feeling better, there's no need to worry."
Lynn shook her head, "Is he a doctor, himself? No! The real doctor said he will heal through rest and time. He basically just started healing. You don't get results after an hour."
"He's still healing. That's his point." Lucy replied.
"I get that. But I gave him multiple body bruises, and sprained his wrist! I even fractured his ribcage!" Lynn stated.
"The doctor didn't say anything about fractured ribcages." Lucy said.
"He did! I over heard him while he was in the room with Mom, Dad, and Lincoln. He decided not to tell us so we wouldn't worry." Lynn stated again. She threw her hands up, "But look at me now! I can't do anything but worry!"
"Lynn calm down. It's not that bad." Lucy said slightly raising her hands.
Lynn jumped off of her bed and shouted, "It IS bad! I put my OWN brother in a hospital!"
She turned around and punted a soccer ball that was laying on the floor. Lucy didn't even flinch when it banked off a wall, and flew past her face and embedded itself in the corner of her bed.
"Don't you see?" Lynn asked her. "I can't calm down." She walked around the room. "I'm supposed to keep things like this from happening. I'm the most protective sister in the house. Yet I can't protect him from my own rage."
Lucy opened her mouth to say something, but suddenly their bedroom door opened. Lynn and Lucy turned their attention towards the door. Luna stood at the door with Luan standing behind her. They both had concerned looks and both of their attention directed at Lynn. "Did we hear you correctly?" Luan asked. "Was it you?" She asked again. Lynn noticed her worry rant was loud enough for Luna and Luan to hear it. Being right next door, it didn't shock her. "I didn't think you could hear me." Lynn said.
"Normally I'd be blasting my music. But I didn't feel like it after hearing what happened to Lincoln." Luna stated.
"Lynn, please tell us you're bluffing." Luan said.
"Why would I be bluffing about that?" Lynn asked.
"That's not good, sis." Luna spoke up. "You coulda hurt him a lot worse." Lynn grew a little tired of having her sisters say the same thing to her. Even though they were right.
"I didn't think I hurt him that bad." Lynn protested. Luna shook her head in disbelief. "Then why did you do it?"
Lynn felt rage enter her mind, "Look I understand it was bad. Yeah I did that over my favorite jersey. But all I could understand in that situation was that I was never going to get that once-in-a-life-time jersey again. I got really mad about it and didn't think straight." Luna stepped into the room and shut the door once Luan walked in. "Lynn that's not an excuse. Pulverizing him over some jersey?" Lynn held her head in aggravation. "I know! It was stupid! I keep replaying the scenario in my head but that never skips my thoughts. Why I had the nerve to do what I did for a reason like that." She sat on her bed trying to settle her nerves. "What would you do if Lincoln smashed your best and favorite guitar?"
Luna threw her hands up, "I'd be mad. But I wouldn't want to completely batter him!"
Luan stepped in front of Luna, too angered to keep silent. "What were you thinking?!" She snapped. "It's just a jersey! You can literally go buy the same one in a mall like you usually do!"
The fire in Lynn's heart wasn't going out anytime soon. No matter how many emotions spun around in her mind she couldn't help but to feel mad. "It wasn't an average jersey. It was a jersey from a famous soccer player." She replied.
Luan got in her face, "Famous or not. It's only a jersey! Lincoln is family, how could you do that?!" Lynn could understand where Luan's anger was coming from. What Lincoln did was harmless. It wasn't mortally wounding, or even intended to happen. Lynn hung her head in shame. "I don't know." She muttered. Luan grabbed her shoulders and vigorously shook her back and forth. "That's all you can say?!" The door opened once again. Leni and Lori quickly stepped in and shut the door. Everyone directed their attention to them waiting to see what they contribute to the situation. Lori saw Luan squeezing Lynn's shoulders. "Luan you don't have to shake her down. I already got on her about what she did." Luan let go of Lynn and faced Lori. "What? You scolded her?" She asked. Lori nodded. "Lori that's all you could do?! Tell her that's bad, and not to do it again and that's it?! That's basically a slap on the wrist!" Luan complained. "What do you want me to do, Luan? Spank her?" Lori asked.
"Tell Mom and Dad!" Luan replied.
"No!" Lynn interjected. "They'll never let me see Lincoln again if they found out it was
me!" Luan looked over her shoulder at Lynn. "Would you really blame them in doing so?"
Lynn avoided eye contact, she knew she was right. After what she did it wouldn't be deemed insane. "Now hang on, Lu." Luna spoke up. "Separating them ain't the answer." She placed her hand on Luan's shoulder to try to calm her down. "Look, Lynn understands that she did something wrong. I'm pretty sure if she could have a redo, that she wouldn't make the same mistake twice." Luan sighed. Luna's right, what would separation do? After siblings fight they need to talk about the problem and make up. Keeping them apart will only worsen Lynn's guilt on the matter. Their relationship would diminish to nothing and they would grow apart. "Please don't tell Mom and Dad." Lynn begged. "I..." Luan trailed off.
"We won't." Luna answered.

Lincoln was slumped on the family room couch. It's hopeless. Lynn is too distraught to want to speak to him. He knows the only way to make everything better right then and there is to talk about it. But Lynn can't stand being around him without receiving conflicting emotions. They had been talking for years. But now that Lynn aims to avoid him, their relationship is beginning to crumble.
His body still aches from the beating, but he's not dead. He tries to tell her he's alright but she won't believe him. All of this madness because he decided to throw away a jersey.
The doorbell rang a few moments later. Lincoln went over, opened the door, and saw his best friend standing there. "Hey Clyde." He said.
"Hey Lincoln! What's up?" Clyde asked.
Lincoln was about to answer but Clyde spotted bandaged bruises. "Hey Lincoln, what happened?"
Lincoln hesitated to tell him as he scanned around the house for any eves droppers. "I don't know Clyde. It's kinda personal."
Clyde became serious. "If anyone roughed up my buddy, I wanna know about it!"
Lincoln sighed before stepping aside to let Clyde in. "Please don't flip out when I tell you this." Lincoln begged.
Clyde was a loyal friend to Lincoln. If anything like this were to happen in school, Clyde would be the first person to know. Even if Clyde was physically outmatched, he would stick up for Lincoln. "It's already too late for that! We're gonna find who did this and show em' what for!"
Lincoln prepared himself for the irony. "Lynn did this."
"Well let's go find this Lynn person! I'll bet..." Clyde lost his train of thought when he focused on the name. "Waitaminute. Lynn did this?"
Lincoln tried to shush him, "Don't say it so loud."
Clyde's eyes grew wider from shock. "Lynn did this to you?" He asked in a low voice.
Lincoln solemnly nodded. "I threw away her favorite jersey and it set her over the edge."
Clyde was at a loss for words. Never had he thought he would hear that Lincoln was pummeled this bad from one of his sisters. "That's unbelievable." Clyde finally said. Lincoln nodded. "I'm gonna go give her a piece of my mind." Clyde added beginning to walk up the stairs. Lincoln grabbed ahold of his arm before he could make it to her room. "Stop!" Clyde looked at him bewildered. "Why?!" Lincoln pulled him back to the first floor of the house. "My other sisters are already bashing her over the head with lectures. The last thing she needs is someone else adding to the guilt trip."
Clyde winced, "I can't just let this happen and not let her know how I feel about it, Lincoln. Even if she's your big sister, it doesn't mean she gets to clobber you like a rag doll."
He pulled his arm from Lincoln and ran up the stairs. "No don't!" Lincoln said slowly chasing after him. "I'm gonna let everyone in the house know." Clyde said getting to the top of the stairs.
He threw the door open and instantly spotted Lynn. Her, Luna, Luan, Lucy, Leni, and Lori all stared at Clyde. "Lynn! I'm gonna let you and everyone else in this house know what's, what!" He said loud enough for everyone, even their parents on the floor below to hear. Lynn gulped.

"I came here to say you are not a loyal sister!" Clyde continued. "You are…."

Sorry for the cliff hanger, it just felt appropriate for this chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. I will work on Chapter 3 as soon as I can, and hopefully I can have it uploaded soon! Feel free to comment how you felt about this chapter in the Reviews!