Chapter 2: Freedom Riders
"If I ran away..Would anyone notice..?"
Lincoln sat there shocked. His sister just told him that she was planning to run away from the house. He didn't know what to say. And the fact that she thinks nobody would notice is crazy... Isn't it?
So there was silence. For about 5 mins, the room was so silent, you could hear a feather drop. Neither Lincoln or Lynn could say anything.
Finally however, Lynn breaks it.
"Home has been terrible lately...I don't know how you've been able to handle all of this."
"It's been bad for me, Getting caught in the crossfire an all." Lincoln said truthfully.
Lynn laughs and then cleans her face in the bathroom. "Yeah sorry about that bro." She yells out.
"I'm used to it at this point" Lincoln says with a grin.
Lynn comes back from the bathroom. "But I'm serious about the run away idea. I need to leave."
Lincoln frowns. "I'm not sure that's a good idea. As for your first question, I don't know about that either.."
Lynn nods. She's given this a lot of consideration for awhile. It's not like this was all sudden or something along those lines. But still, The situation could elevate into something even more serious. Besides, If she went alone, Who knows how this could all could play out. She looks over to Lincoln, Who's trying to get his comic from under the door. She slides it completely under the door and hands it to him.
"I want you to come with me" She continues.
Lincoln on any other day, Would have asked Lynn if she's insane. But this time... Things are different.
Home is different.
The family behavior is different.
And He's feeling pretty different too.
"What's you plan? Even if I leave, We need to go somewhere where it's actually safe." Lincoln says.
"Go where the wind takes us." Lynn says.
"See that's a terrible idea." Lincoln said.
"What do you have in mind then" Lynn asks.
"We'll leave at midnight tonight. Mom and Dad are out at that time. Then We'll head over to a place a little farther away from here." Lincoln explains
"Ooooh. Maybe Detroit. I wanna catch a Lions game!" Lynn said with excitement.
"Ew, They're so bad." Lincoln said with both of his thumbs down.
"But you get the plan right? We're gonna run to the bus station and catch the first bus we can find."
"Ugh, fine." Lynn said with disappointment. "Just meet me by my window at 12."
Lynn told Lincoln to leave so she could sleep. When he walked out of the room, He started thinking about what he should do about his family. He checked downstairs from the banister and found Luna and Lucy watching TV.
Lori was still in her room, Luan was still going on with her jokes. Lola and Lana were messing around with a bunch of old records, And Lisa was experimenting on Old fossils for some reason.
"Good, It looks like everything has become kinda calm after everything that happened earlier." Lincoln thinks as he lets out a sigh of relief.
"Hey Lincoln"
Lincoln turns immediately to see that Lucy is all of a sudden behind him, Which freaks him out and causes him to fall down the stairs.
"We need to put a bell on her or something..." Lincoln says holding his head.
"SICK FALL DUDE!" Luna says throwing up the rock sign
"Wow, Talk about a fall from grace" Luan says with a chuckle
"Good grief." Lincoln sighed.
In about 4 hours, He will be gone. How would they react? What would they do without him? He stares off just thinking about it.
It looks like he was doing it for a while, Because by the time he had stopped thinking, Both Luna and Luan were upstairs. In fact, Everyone else was in their rooms.
Time 11:30
Lynn rolls over on her back just looking at her watch.
In about 30 mins, Life is going to be different. Who knows what her and Lincoln will do. She looks at her backpack that's filled with her clothes, snacks, a baseball bat and her allowance money.
"Its not a lot of stuff but, You gotta take what you gotta take." She whispers to herself.
She looks over to her roommate Lucy, Who has fallen asleep reading some of her poetry. Lynn sighs. Despite her and Lucy having their differences, They always found a way to make it work. Now this time, It feels as if she can't make it happen. She grabs a notebook from Lucy's side of the room and she starts writing.
Dear Family..
Until you figure it all out..
From Lincoln.
Lincoln finishes up his letter for his family and puts it on his desk. He picks up his backpack and looks at the time.
12:00 am
It's time.
Lynn picks up her backpack and silently opens her door. Lincoln comes in and Lynn shuts it slowly.
"So how do we get out?" she asks.
Lincoln takes out a rope from his backpack and ties it to Lynn's bed. They both push the bed closer to the window. Lynn opens it and slowly climbs down first.
Lincoln looks back at the door and whispers, "It's for the best."
Right then and there. Lori busted the door open. And then Lincoln starts to panic.
Lynn looks up to the window to see a yellow color fill up the room and Lincoln standing in panic.
"It must be Lori" Lynn whispered.
"Where do you think you're going Lincoln?" Lori says as she cuts the rope.
Luna, Leni, Luan walk in with a frown on their faces.
"Um, Just admiring the stars." Lincoln lies.
"Uh huh, Then why is this on your door?" Lori pulls out Lincoln's letter from her pocket.
"What's going on?" Luna asks with her hair covering her eyes.
"Yeah, It's way to early to deal with this." Leni says lifting her beauty mask from over her eyes.
Lincoln looks nervously at his sisters.
Then he looks at the ground to Lynn.
He takes a deep breath.
Turns away from his sisters.
And jumps out of the window.
Lynn instantly panics and runs to catch Lincoln. He somehow ends up landing on his feet. Slightly sprains his ankle though. Lincoln holds in his cry of pain with all of his might.
"ARE YOU INSANE?" Lynn yells angrily. "I MEAN IT WAS COOL BUT YOU COULD HAVE DIED!"
"Lori, Leni, Luna and Luan are all up and are about to chase after us. We need to move." Lincoln says, prompting Lynn to keep her voice down.
Lynn nods and grabs a T-shirt out of her bag and tells Lincoln to tie this around his ankle. He does and they start moving.
Lori throws down Lincoln's letter and runs downstairs. Luna and Leni block her though.
"Yo, What's going on right now dude?" Luna asks.
"I don't have time to explain" Lori says moving Luna out the way.
"But It looks serious. We wanna help." Leni tells Lori
"Help? I think you've helped enough" Lori pokes Leni in her forehead.
"Me? What did i do? Did I win something?" Leni asks getting excited.
Lori angrily looks at Leni. "You can't be this stupid."
Leni looks extremely hurt but Lori doesn't stop there. "I say that every time. She can't get anymore stupid. But then she does. EVERY TIME!"
"Knock it off Lori" Luna says clutching her fists.
"No, she needs to hear this." Lori says firmly.
"Leni, You have to be the dumbest person I've met in my life. You can't figure out simple things. And the only things you know are about fashion or keeping yourself from looking hideous. You have probably the smallest brain out of all of us. Even LILY is smarter than you. And she's 15 months old. This is probably why Lincoln decided to leave this house. Because of you..."
Leni stares into her older sister's eyes.
She felt something deep in her heart.
And it sparked her to become angry.
Leni gets in Lori's face.
"You call me stupid, But you must be the one who's stupid if you think I'm the one who drove Lincoln away." Leni says grinding her teeth.
"Lori, You're selfish. The only thing you seem to care about the most is your bf and your phone. Because every time I see you, It's about those two things and ONLY those two things. For god sake Lori you threw GLASS at Lynn! So the next time you wanna point the blame at someone, Blame yourself..I hate you"
Leni runs off in tears.
The tears running down Leni's face stopped Lori in her tracks.
She never wanted it to go this far.
She never wanted to make Leni cry.
It seems like the only thing that got accomplished was that Leni and her are farther apart from each other than ever before. Lori sat next to the door, Looked up to the ceiling trying not to cry in front of Luna, But the weight of Leni's words was too much for her.
"Blame yourself...I hate you"
Lori starts to silently cry.
Luna just stood there. Looking confused and sad.
Whatever had just happened, isn't going to help the state the house is in.
And Luna knew that.
But she also knew she couldn't just sit there and do nothing. If there was still a chance to stop Lynn and Lincoln, She was going have to move. And fast.
"I've gotta fix this" She said as she walked out of the door.
Well That's Chapter 2 guys.
I'll try hard to get Chapter 3 done. If I had to give a percentage, I'd say its about 40% finished.
I needed some room for Character development.
And I think I've found it.
Well anyways. Let me know what you all think about the story so far. Feedback is much appreciate.
Thanks for reading and Y'all have a good one.
Stay awesome.
Titan Out :)