Get the Message
Lynn Loud Sr. groaned in frustration as he exited the family van after a hard days work. "Why can't Luna play some quiet music for a change?" he muttered when hearing the very loud rock music Luna usually played coming from inside the house.
Once the father of eleven opened the front door, a blur of white hair dashed out the door. It was his only son Lincoln who seemed to be in a rush.
"Hi dad, bye dad," the boy called out as he ran towards the street. He was heading to his best friend's house to escape the anger of his older sister Lori. "He must be heading over to his friend Clyde."
"Oh crud why did I have to leave the letter in her room, "Lincoln muttered to himself as he ran.
He had accidentally left a nasty note detailing how Lori was the worst sister ever in her room because she had broken a video game of his and not apologizing for it. Then he decided upon leaving a scathing message on her phone instead, but when she had returned home with a new video game she bought to replace the one she had broken, he sneaked into her room to retrieve the message, but accidentally left the letter on the floor before sneaking out after deleting the message.
Lynn Sr. entered the house and saw Lori with a very red face and an angry expression. At that moment, Luna stopped playing her guitar, it was just Lori shouting.
"WHERE IS THAT LITTLE NERD, I'M GOING TO…"then Lori stopped when her father inquired what was going on.
"Look at what the annoying little creep left in my room," she sputtered angrily, then showed her father the note. After reading the note, Lynn Sr. frowned a little.
"I'm going to grind him into dust when I get my hands on him," she continued
"Hold on Lori, you won't do anything of the sort," her father commanded.
"Wait aren't you going to punish him look at some of the words he wrote," she commanded.
After briefly reading the letter, Lynn Sr. frowned and uttered, "Lincoln must have a very good reason for writing this." Lori stood there impatiently with a scowl on her face.
"Lori I'll deal with the matter, but now I have to prepare dinner," he told his daughter.
"When he comes back home, promise me you won't hurt him," Lynn Sr. asked solemnly.
All right all right I promise Lori said quietly before walking back upstairs.
A few minutes later, Lincoln was ringing the McBride's doorbell. Clyde was the one who opened the door then Lincoln rushed inside.
Before Clyde could speak, Lincoln said, "Clyde, I messed up, I forgot about leaving the letter in her room and she found it."
"Oh no," Clyde responded.
"I have a question, could I stay at your house permanently?" Lincoln asked.
"Lincoln let's just play some video games to take your mind off things for a while," Clyde suggested
"That's a good idea Clyde," Lincoln responded.
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Lynn Sr. finally sat down on one of the kitchen chairs after being on his feet for a long after he prepared dinner for the family. While making dinner he thought about where his son could have ran to after running out of the house. "I said I was going to call him after I made dinner, "he thought.
"Hello Mr. McBride, this is Lincoln's father, could I speak with him," Lynn Sr. responded to the male voice on the other end of the line. "Hi dad is anything wrong," Lincoln queried.
"No, it's about the note you left in Lori's room. "Why did you write the letter? "his father inquired.
The eleven year old explained the whole story starting with Lori breaking his game and end with his leaving the note in her room by accident.
"I see you left the note in her room before you found out she bought you another game," he asked.
When Lincoln answered yes, his father said, "Look I was able to calm Lori down and reassured her I would handle the matter myself, so you can come home."
"But she'll break every bone in my body," the boy protested
"As I said, I managed to calm her down, and she has promised not to physically hurt you so please come home for dinner."
"You promise," Lincoln asked skeptically. "Yes," the father replied.
"Okay I'll be there, is dinner ready yet? "Lincoln asked.
"No, you can come home in half an hour dinner will be ready then," Lynn Sr. said.
"Okay see you later dad, bye," Lincoln ended the call.
Thirty-five minutes later Lincoln was home. He silently walked upstairs, nervously awaiting Lori to pounce on him, but heard her speaking to someone downstairs. After washing his hands, he headed downstairs for dinner and walked into the large dining room to say good evening to his mother. Lori was sitting at the table and just looked at him casually.
After dinner, while Lori watched some television, Lincoln approached her and called her name nervously.
"Yes Lincoln," she answered nonchalantly.
"I just want to say thank you for buying back my video game," he blurted out, "And I won't ever write such a letter like that to you again."
"Glad to hear it," Lori ended the conversation. So Lincoln went upstairs to do his homework. The only punishment he received from Lynn Sr. for the bad words in the letter was not being allowed to play video games for two days and Lori kept her promise about not hurting Lincoln.