The Loud House:

Chosen Friendship

A Fanfiction Story by Yaakov Lubin

Disclaimer: I am not the writer for The Loud House. All rights belong to Chris Savino and Nickelodeon.

PE Class, aka gym class…if you ask some students if they enjoy jogging around a circle or square for ten to fifteen minutes and being pelt by dodge balls. Some might say it's their favorite time of the school day. Others…not so much. It's definitely not for Lincoln Loud, his friends, and some other fellow students at Royal Woods Middle School. They're especially not happy to be in PE class today, as it's new teams day as the dodgeball team captains chose new players that will play alongside them for the whole month. Unfortunately for most of the students there, Chandler and Girl Jordan are the team captains.

Lincoln (Looks over at the readers): "And Girl Joran always beats Chandler to the punch when choosing the best players." (Feeling sour): "Leaving the rest of us on Chandler's team."
Jordan (With a smile): "Lincoln…"

Lincoln (Turns to her): "Yeah?"

Jordan: "Come on! You're on my team silly."

Lincoln: "Oh…"

Even though confused Lincoln goes over to the side of the gym where Jordan's team is. Leaving the other side, including his friends completely shocked.

Chandler (With a smug smile): "Larry? Ha! Your mistake dodge princess."

This gets Girl Jordan all pumped up…

Jordan: "That's Dodge Queen to you, Chumpy!" (Grabs Lincoln's hand and pulls him to her side): "And with this guy by our side, we have a whole new ball game."

Lincoln (Not sure how to respond to that): "Ughh…" (Tries to get his hand free): "Rnngh…" (Whispers): "And I thought Lynn had a strong grip like this. I guess she has a new competitor now."

Speaking of Lynn, she comes running into the gym with a whistle in her mouth, blowing it as hard as she can.

Lincoln (With a raised brow): "Lynn?"

Liam: "What in tradition are you doing here?"

Lynn (Spits out the whistle): "Couch Keck got called into the principal office so I'm filling in for her." (Blows the whistle): "Play ball!"

And so the game begins, as the players on each team race for the balls lined up side to side in the center of the gym. Grabbing, throwing, catching, and knocking opposing players out. The ones who have a chance on Jordan's team are herself and Lincoln, the latter is using a ball as a shield, waiting for the right moment to strike. While the former is catching and throwing, catching and throwing, catching and throwing…the balls being thrown at her at the players, who aimed them knocking out more of Chandler's team. However, something got caught and tied around her legs, causing the star player to fall flat on her back.

Girl Jordan: "Oof!"

Chandler (With an evil smile, while whispering): "Heh- heh…"

He takes out a ball from behind his back.

Chandler: "Time to unleash my secret weapon."

As hard as he can Chandler throws the ball straight at Jordan. But Lincoln…not wanting the best player on the team to be out gets in front of her allowing the ball to hit him on the arm. Unfortunately, he did not expect at all for the impact to hurt so much as it did.

Lincoln (Holds his arm in pain): "Augh!"

Seeing this happen, Lynn blows her whistle calling the game to a time-out. She then, along with a few other students, goes over to check on her brother and Jordan. Once there they immediately see what caught Jordan's legs is a metal slinky. After helping to get the girl free and back up on her feet, Lynn picks up the ball that hit Lincoln in the arm, where it turns out to be…

Lynn: "A medicine ball?!"

Everyone gasped in complete shock…all except Chandler, whose caught trying to sneak his way out of the gym. Earning him angry glares from his peers.

Stella: "I can't believe you cheated like that Chandler!"

Clyde (Looks away annoyed): "I can."

Rusty: "You could've sent Jordan to the hospital."

Chandler (Really annoyed): "But I didn't!"

Lynn (Turns to Jordan): "You better take my bro here to the nurse's office."

Joran (Starts to guide Lincoln out of the gym): "Sure…"

Lynn: "As for you…Chandler!"

She grabs him by the collar and starts to drag him out.

Lynn: "Let's take a trip down to the principles, shall we?"

Chandler just rolls his eyes and crosses his arms.

Chandler: "Whatever…"

Even though Lincoln had to be picked up from school and taken to the hospital by his mother. His arm is luckily not broken. But it is badly sprained though and must keep his arm in a brace for two to three weeks. Lincoln now finds himself riding in the car with his mother driving the two of them home. Just then he gets a text on his phone.

Rita (With a smile): "Who is it, honey?"

Lincoln (Reading the text): "It's from Jordan…and she's inviting me to hang out with her at the mall in a half hour if I'm up for it."

Rita: "Are you up for it though?"

Lincoln: "Well my arm is not hurting right now. And it beats going home with a bunch of worrying sis…yeah. I'm down with that." (Realizes): "Oh…" (Turns to her): "If that's okay with you mom?"

Rita (Her smile grows): "Of course it is! I'll drop you off at the mall and pick you up with Leni when her shift at Reininger's is over."

So Lincoln made a mental note to himself to avoid running into Leni at all costs... at least until it was time to go home. Fortunately for him, Jordan wants to hang out at a party store at the mall called: Party Empire. Where they have items from balloons and confetti canons to costumes…some of those costumes can also be used as pajamas for some reason.

Lincoln (Looking around while walking along with Jordan): "I didn't know you like party stores."

Jordan: "There one of my favorite places to go to." (With a smile): "I'm evening thinking about becoming a party planner when I grow up."

The two stop to talk some more…

Lincoln (Turns to her): "Maybe I can get Leni to give you some pointers. She's really good at planning parties for our family members."

Jordan: "I know your sister actually."

Lincoln (Surprise to hear this): "Really?" (With a raised brow): "How?"

Jordan: "My cousin hangs out with her all the time." (Gets annoyed): "She is even there when I go to hang out with my cuz sometimes. And don't get me started on how many times they tried to give me a makeover!"

Lincoln (Gets annoyed): "Tell me about it. Lately, Leni has been trying to get me to come with her to Reininger's so she can hook me up with a new look."

Jordan (Wanting to change the subject): "Speaking of looks, you want to try on some of the costumes they have here?"

Lincoln (With a smile): "I'm down with that."

As they made their way to the costume section.

Lincoln: "You know what kind of party theme you'll be really good at setting up."

Jordan (Turns to him): "Yeah, what?"

Lincoln (With a smirk): "A dodgeball party."

This gets Jordan herself to smirk as she gives the boy a playful jab in the arm.

Jordan: "Yeah, yeah, funny guy."

Lincoln: "Oww!" (Holds his arm): "Bad arm..."

Jordan (Feeling bad): "Oops!" (Tries to comfort him): "Sorry…"

After the pain goes down, we now have a montage of Lincoln and Jordan trying on different costumes. Lincoln's costumes consist of a magician, a werewolf, and a pirate. For Jordan, she dressed up as a princess, a witch, and like Lincoln a pirate. The last costumes the two tries on are the ones where they double as pajamas. For Lincoln is a kitty cat and Joran is a puppy dog.

Jordan: "These are super comfy."

Lincoln: "If this is how Cliff's fur is to him, I can see why he loves to take naps so much."

Pretty soon the time to pay and leave came. And much to Lincoln's shock not only did Jordan buy both the cat and dog costumes she gave the cat one to Lincoln.

Lincoln: "Really?"

Jordan: "Just think of it as my way of saying thanks." (Starts to blush a bit): "You know…for saving me back at the ball game."

They then went outside to wait for their rides to pick them up.

Lincoln: "So, whose picking you up?"

Jordan: "My cousins going to give me a ride home."

Lincoln: "The one, who is best friends with Leni."

Fiona (Comes up to the duo with a smirk): "You got that right kid."

Jordan turns to her cousin with a smile.

Jordan: "How was work today cuz?"

Fiona (Rolls her eyes): "Could be better." (With a smile): "I got you something."

She takes out a big pink bow and places it on Jordan's head.

Fiona: "There! Doesn't that make you feel all nice and pretty?"

Jordan (With a frown as she starts to blush): "Fiona!"

Lincoln (A bit taken aback by this): "I didn't know you two were cousins."

Fiona (With a frown): "Yeah, hold that thought kid…" (Turns): "Hey Leni! Your little bro is here. And you better come check him out. It looks like his arm is hurt or something!"

And just like that, Leni is running toward the group with a concerned look on her face.

Leni: "What?! Linkys hurt?!

Lincoln (Not too happy at the moment): "Oh boy…"

So we end this story off with Jordan and Lincoln bidding farewell to each other as they head back home with their respective families, while the latter is being hugged and smothered with affection and concern from Leni… no doubt in his mind as well as the rest of his sisters when he gets home.

The End