Lincoln

"So, you have an appointment tomorrow right?" Our mother said to Lynn while we were eating dinner. I knew that she doesn't like talking about her pregnancy around of our siblings, so she immediately got uncomfortable once they all looked back at her for a response.

"Uh, yea. An ultrasound…" she said very quietly as to avoid everyone from really hearing what she said.

"Oh right! Is this the one where you will be able to find out the gender of the baby?!"

"Well, Technically, I was supposed to find out the gender about 4-5 weeks ago, but I couldn't because the way they were positioned so yea, hopefully, this time I can find out." She answered back, a little louder than the last, and definitely, a bit aggravated, but mom kept pushing her.

"Well if it was because of the baby's position, they should have been able to reschedule you in for another ultrasound within a week from then so that way you could have found out!" Our mother said.

"Well mom, did you consider that they were no available appointments left?! On top of that, I don't have a car yet and I definitely don't have the money to buy one anytime soon, so I would have to borrow the van, walk, take the bus, or take some type of taxi. I don't have money to get the bus or a cab quite frankly, and I can't take Vanzilla because I would either be competing with someone else to use her that day since it wouldn't be my day with it, or she would break down and I would be late! I couldn't walk because It's hard to do so Ok?! It's not the same as before, so I can't go further than ONE BLOCK without getting extremely tired to the point where I have to sit and take a break! I'm trying mom! I'm really trying here! I wanna have a car so I wouldn't have to deal with this crap but guess what? I'm too busy trying to save up money for the baby to even have A DIME left on me! So if you would please stop pestering me about this, I would really appreciate it!" she said, her voice rising as she continued to speak, to the point that she was practically yelling. Well shit.

"Sweetie I was only asking. I just want to be helpful and make sure that all is well organized and taken care of." Our mother said trying her best to sound sweet.

"I'm sorry are you saying that I can't handle this? Mom, I can do this on my own! Stop trying to make this all about you! This iS NOT YOUR KID! YOU HAD 11 ALREADY! LET ME HANDLE THIS JEEZ!" Lynn said angrily pushing herself back from the table and storming off upstairs. Everyone kind of just sat there awkwardly in silence. Especially mom and dad who sat there completely speechless. Now, everyone knew how easily frustrated Lynn got, and with the pregnancy, it was times 10.

"Hehe. Pregnancy hormones, right?..." I said trying to break the silence. It didn't work. I sighed. "I'll go talk to her," I said getting up and walking upstairs.

Once I reached the top of the stairs, I could hear crying coming from her bedroom. Oh no. I didn't even bother knocking, and just barged in. She was laying on her bed, facing the wall, all curled up hugging a pillow. I sat next to her and rubbed her arm comfortingly. She turned around to look at me, and I smiled reassuringly at her. She wiped her tears and sighed. She put her hands out as for me to help her up, and I did. She sat up next to me with her feet now dangling from the bed's edge and looked down.

"I really don't mean to blow up at them. I don't like blowing up at anyone, but lately, everyone has been getting on my nerves, but like, real bad!" she said, still looking down, now fidgeting with her hands. Something she did when she was nervous or worried.

"Don't worry about it! Look. Everyone knows that it's been hard for you and that stress has been at an ultimate high for you lately, so they know that you don't mean what you say."

"That's no excuse. I still don't like blowing up at people, and that is why I try my very hardest so that way I don't."

"Really? Because if I recall correctly, you were literally yelling me yesterday for scratching my arm 'the wrong way'" I said laughing a bit, which caused her to chuckle too.

"Well, yea because first of all, you scratch like a dog and never stop once you start, and second, It's you!" she said giggling. God, I loved her laugh.

"Oh, so you're saying that it's ok to yell at me for literally nothing at all?!" I said, still laughing.

"Oh my God Lincoln! No, but it's different with you! I spend almost all of my time with you, so you know me the best, and I know for sure that you won't take it to heart! Plus your weird scratching thing is not nothing!" she said playfully elbowing me. I simply rolled my eyes with a smile.

"You know that our family knows you're going through a lot and might say things you don't mean right? I'm not the only one." I said, and her smile fell.

"Yea… I'm not so sure. They always seem so… sad whenever I get like this and I understand why, I mean, I just yelled at them! They probably tell themselves that I don't mean it, but deep down, they might feel like I do, and will over think about it. I don't know." She stated. I just smiled. I wasn't going to able to convince her.

That night, Lynn went back downstairs and apologized. Of course, they said not to worry about it, but obviously, she still did. She finished eating her small amount of food that she had there, then got ready for bed along with the rest of us. Tonight, she slept in her room, which I didn't mind, but I did get used to sleeping with her (Yes. JUST sleeping) so it did feel a bit weird. The next day was a school day, so we all got up early, and got ready for that.

Lynn

My alarm on my phone went off at 5:50 AM… well at least the first one did. I'm one of those people who needs to put 10 alarms on my phone, and then STILL doesn't wake up! My goal wake up time was 6 AM, or at least sometime near that so that way I could have enough time to catch the bus. Yea, I have stooped that low.

You see, Lori was taking all of us before, even when she graduated, but then when I got pregnant, she started having an attitude with me and started being mean to me, so I didn't want to take any of her crap and started walking to school with Lincoln, but as you know, I can walk as much anymore without getting tired really fast. That's why I take the bus with Lincoln and Luan. What? I wasn't going to ride the bus alone!

Anyway, my 6 AM alarm just went off, and I hit dismiss once again. You know that thing that happens when you hit snooze or dismiss on an alarm, and you're awake, but you just want to close your eyes for like a minute more, then when you open them like 25 minutes have passed? Well, yea. That's what usually happens with me, but today I woke up to something better than the sudden realization that I have to rush.

"Babe….~ Wake up baby, your gonna make us late," Lincoln whispered in my ear softly. I fluttered my eyes open to his voice, and there he was. He was on the floor, on his knees, looking at me with a sweet smile.

"Hi…" I said softly.

"Hey…" He replied. We kind of just stared at each other for second and Lincoln brushed a lock of hair behind my ear. He finally got up though sighing. "Come on. We're going to be late." He said holding out his hand as to help me. I took it, but still struggled a bit to get up, so he put his other hand on my lower back to help me up. Once I was standing, I pulled down my shirt a bit more since it kind of went up some when I was in bed, arched my back a little as to crack it, and began to walk to the bathroom.

There, I turned on the water of the shower, grabbed my toothbrush, applied toothpaste on it, then put it in the shower. I took off my clothes and got in the hot flowing water. I love taking a shower in the morning! I don't understand how some of my sisters don't do it. Anyway, after my shower, I got dressed in my room, and then looked at the time to see that it was 6:56 AM! I threw the towel that wrapped my wet hair off and went downstairs the fastest that I could. Of course, it wasn't as fast as I could have gone before, but it was still something.

In the kitchen, Luan, Lana, Lucy, and Lincoln were finishing up their breakfast. They watched as I frantically opened the fridge and pulled out a huge tub of peach yogurt, the bag of sliced bread, and peanut butter from the cabinet. I popped a piece of bread in the toaster, got out a bowl, a paper towel, a spoon, and a butter knife and scooped some yogurt in the bowl while I waited for the bread to finish toasting. When it popped up, I put it on the paper towel and spread the peanut butter on it. Once all of that was done, I grabbed the bowl, and paper towel and headed to the table and plopped in a seat and began to eat a bit more relaxed. They were still at the table.

"Hey…?" Lucy said with a wave.

"Hey, Luce. Lans, Luan." I said shoving a spoonful of yogurt in my mouth all the while taking a bite of the bread. Lincoln got up with his empty plate from his seat on the other side of the table and started to walk to the kitchen. On his way there, he pushed back my extremely long bangs out of my face and kissed my forehead.

You see, there were a few sisters that were ok and were cool with us, so he didn't mind kissing my head or doing small actions like that in front of them, but there were also some sisters *cough Lori cough* who would be completely ballistic about something like that. Anyway, when I finished eating, it was 7:10 AM. That wasn't bad at all. I went upstairs, grabbed my backpack, my huge sweater (UGG! I hated that thing so much!) and went downstairs to set it on the couch.

"Hey, you almost done?" Luan asked me as she set her own backpack on the couch.

"Uh, yea. I think I'm all set to go." I said sitting on the sofa.

"And you're going with your hair down? You never do that!" she said surprised. Crap. I forgot to do my hair after I took the towel off of it.

"…Great. I forgot about that." I said getting up slowly.

"Haha. Here, you're lucky I have an extra scrunchie on me. Sit. I'll fix it for you" She said giggling a bit. I sat back down and she came up from behind me, pulled the hair on my face up, and bundled it all together, smoothing out the top, sides, and bottom. Her gentile hands were so soothing, I nearly fell asleep at that moment. I loved it when people played with my hair.

"And… done!" she said taking her hands off of my head.

"Thanks! I really appreciate it!"

"No problem," she said plopping down next to me. "Hey, I've been needing to ask you something."

"Oh no. I'm scared now." I said jokingly. She laughed a bit at this.

"Uh no, I was going to ask… well.." She sighed, "Is it true?"

"Is what true?" I know exactly what she meant.

"You and Lincoln and…" She said looking down at my belly then back at me. I get her not wanting to say it aloud, as to not allow everyone in the house to hear.

"Oh. That." Should I tell her? I mean I know Lincoln already told her, but… ugh. Fine. "Uh… kinda…? Yea. It's true." I said with my head down.

"You know I don't see you guys any differently, right? "

"Really?"

"Yes. I'm serious. It may be… odd, but I'm here for you two! I know you guys can do this, but if you ever need anything, I'll be there! And I'm not just saying that because there is nothing else to say, or I just wanna sound nice! I mean it." she said grabbing my leg for reassurance and smiling. I smiled back and that's when I heard Lincoln running down the stairs. We looked back and saw him putting his back on as he came down.

"Uh, guys! Come on! 7:34!" He said continuing to run to the door. Luan and I bolted up, grabbed our belongings, and ran out with him. Our bus's arrival time is 7:38, but we did have to walk there so we always tried to be out by 7:30 – 7:32. While we were walking, I asked Lincoln to hold my bag for a second so that way I could have pulled my huge hoodie over my head.

When we got there, the bus came within a minute. Good thing we didn't miss it. I sat in a middle seat with Lincoln, and Luan sat across from us. At school, we sat in the cafeteria and waited for the bell to ring. Soon, the rest of our sisters came in. Once the bell rang, we all split ways and the misery began.

7 bathroom trips later, the bell rang and it was finally lunch time. Thank. God. I got my food, and sat at the Loud table and began to eat. Nothing eventful happened then.

After the last bell rung, I got on the bus, rode home, and started on some homework until 5:10. That's when I left for my ultrasound that was at 5:40 PM. Lincoln came too of course, and so did Leni. Because of the fact that I was still a minor, a person that was 18 years of age or older had to come with me for approval or some shit like that, I don't know, it's dumb, but I'm happy that it was Leni out of anyone, all though I would have much rather it be just me and Lincoln.

Once there, Leni stayed in the waiting room and we went in when they called my name. To make a long and boring story short, I signed some papers, read some stuff, and then lied on a bed with my shirt up as they spread the cold gel on my stomach. I had already been told everything that was needed, so I was just here for the gender and while we were at it, making sure everything was still good with the baby, so it should be nice and fast. I hated going to ultrasounds because they were so awkward and weird in my opinion being a 16 year old, but they had to be done.

"Ok, so it looks like the baby is a…"

A/N: Hey guys! Hoped you liked the new chapter. It acctually took me 2 days to write, which isnt long at all for me! It normally takes me 5 to maybe 6 days to write, revise, and edit a chapter so this is for sure the shortest time it has ever taken me.

Although I kind of wrote this fast, I really like how this chapter came out. I tried to include some angry Lynn in, some cute Lincoln and Lynn moments, and some school stuff.

I based majority of the things like what she ate for breakfast, and the times (although they weren't exactlly the same as my bus times) off of my life. Also, Im pretty sure that you guys know what the gender of the baby is, but just in case some don't know, there is a cliff hanger thing, yay.

Anyway, I hope to write the next chapter tonight or tomorrow so yea! Look forward to that! As always, let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestion in the reviews section or PM me! until next time! Bye! (Wait! Also, How is the spacing? Please let me know!)