Lynn

"SHE DID WHAT NOW?!"

"I was in my room and she was talking to me but I was zoning out and I guess she had asked me a question and I didn't answer because I didn't even know she was asking me because… well I was zoned out! That's when she slapped me and I fell on the floor. She said that next time I don't answer her, it would be worse…" she said with tears all welled up in her eyes. Oh if Lori thought that she won and that she has seen the last of me, oh boy was she wrong! Messing with me is one thing but messing with my little sister is a whole new book! Don't get me wrong, I was angry, but I couldn't show it. At least not now. I had to be supportive to Lola. Based on what she was telling us, it's clear to see that she was depressed. I want to help, but I'm not quiet sure what to do.

We stay at the house for another 20 minutes before we leave. When we get home, we notice that no one realized that we were ever gone. I wouldn't expect anyone to realize anyway. Everything here is very "every man for him self" so no one cares and since mom and dad are already asleep, they never notice anything. Well you know what, I lied. There is one person here that noticed and I'm kinda scared about what they will-

"WHERE WERE YOU?!"

Lincoln

"WHERE WERE YOU?!" I said pulling Lynn inside her and Lucy's room.

"I only left for a few."

"And I called you like 10 times and texted you and you never even bothered to answer!" I said still angry, crossing my arms now.

"Linc, relax. We just left for what? An hour? An hour and 20 minutes? No need to get so worked up." Lucy said walking in and closing the door behind her calmly. "Geez, you act as if you were our dad, and even then, our dad doesn't act so uptight!"

"I'm not uptight!"

"Yea; yea are." She said back. I looked over at Lynn for support or something! But you know what I got instead?! Just guess!

"She has a point…"

"You too! Oh come on! I'm not uptight!"

"Hopefully he'll give Lacy some freedom to leave his sight for 5 minutes!" Lucy said to Lynn in a sarcastic tone, just to get me upset. And of course, Lynn laughed at this which made me turn red. "Oh don't worry baby tomato! I'm sure she will love to be with you 24/7!" She said getting another laugh from Lynn and another aggravated stare from me. That's it. I just left then and there.

Lynn

I howled in laughter! I couldn't take how sensitive he was! And how he got red?! HAHAHAHA!

"I better go check on him before he gets into a spiral." I said wiping a tear of laughter from my eye. I then left to his room. Of course out of habit, I tried to just open the door, but it was actually locked for the first time.

"Linc, it's me. Open the door." I said knocking on the door, then putting my hands in my back pocket.

"Wouldn't you rather hang out with Lucy and make fun of me some more?!" said a muffled voice from inside.

"Oh come on Link! I'm sorry! We weren't serous!" I said in protest.

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Silence, and then I heard the lock click and the door opened slightly. I pushed it the rest of the way noticing that he had just opened it and sat back down on his bed. I closed it behind me and sat next to him on his bed, putting my hand on his shoulder.

"You know that Lucy was just messing with you right? She's just being a little sister. You don't need to get so worked up." I said, but in a reassuring way rather than the mocking and sarcastic way Lucy and I were earlier.

"It's not that." He said.

"Then what is it?"

"I don't think you realize that I worry for you!" he said, voice cracking a bit.

"Of course I know that! It's one of your many qualities! You care about people. ALOT!" I said, eyes widening to show emphasis.

"I mean it." He said sternly.

"Babe, I know. Don't worry though. I was trying to help Lola."

"What's wrong with Lola?" he asked more concerned this time.

"Umm… I'm not sure if she would want me to tell you the extremes of the situation, but to sum it up, things have been happening to her and it's really putting her down to the point of depression." I said, the memory of what she said about Lori filling my mind causing it to rage again.

"…was it really bad…?" he said noticing my anger. I don't know how he does it, but he always notices the little things that sometimes, I don't even realize myself.

"Honestly, yes, but I don't want to lose her trust so maybe you can hang out with her and get her to tell you. Don't ask go her straight up why are you depressed? Like some dimrod, but ease her into it. Ya know?"

"Yea, yea. Understood." He said nodding.

*Knock knock knock*

"Who ever it is, no." Lori said from the other side of the door.

"I wasn't asking permission!" I said as I barged in.

"What is it now?! Hasn't this family had enough of your crap?"

"My crap?!" I said becoming giddy. "Yea because I'm the one who goes around slapping my little sisters and yelling at everyone right?!" I said in a mock happy voice.

"I've never hit any of y'all!"

"Really?! Then why the fuck is Lola telling me you slapped her?!"

"That little bitch! I barley touched her! She wasn't answering me so I was trying to get her attention!"

"Bullshit! She told me that you have been bullying her verbally for a while now and then, you fucking slapped her to the point where she fell, all for a question?! You're really fucked up Lori!"

"I'm fucked up? I'm not the slut who slept with my own fucking brother! On top of that, I'm not the pregnant teenager here, am I?" she said which made my blood boil.

"LINCOLN IS NOT THE FATHER! I DIDN'T SLEEP WITH HIM YOU FUCKING BITCH!" I screamed. Probably wasn't the beat idea, but good thing mom and dad were completely knocked out.

"Likeable story! And don't yell at me!" She said shoving me. Oh that's it. In anger, I grabbed what ever was closes to me, which was one of Leni's huge text books that she was going to read on the plane, and threw it at her, full force. It hit her forehead, made her scream 'ow!' and put her hand to the new bruise. I'm not gonna lie. I was feeling proud of myself. A big red circle was forming in the center of her forehead.

"Oh you are going to pay big time!" She said as she started to charge towards me. I closed the pre locked door that I did while I was standing by it as to give me time to run. Crap. I wanna kill her but I can't because I can barley run, never mind fight. Plus, even if I could, I wouldn't want to put Lacy in harm's path. As I rushed down the stairs, I remembered the one place where I could go and she wouldn't know about it. There's a broken price of wood under the stairs of the basement that is just big enough to fit in. With the help of Lucy, we were able to fix it in a way that allowed one to hide in the wall without the broken wood being a dead giveaway. That's where I went. It was hard to bend and get down there, but I did it. Inside the hole, I waited. Listened. Remained quiet. As I thought, Lori didn't find me, but I knew she was looking so I stayed in there.

By 1 am, I was in my bed and was finally starting to fall asleep. An hour and 45 minutes I was in that damn hole! ONE HOUR AND 45 MINUETS! Unbelievable. Lori is really starting to create massive boarders between me and her. Her and I? Ugh! I don't care! You get it!

A/N: Hello peoples, here is chapter 13! I hope you enjoyed it—I know that this was one of my favorite chapters! I love pushy Lucy, sentimental/ annoyed/ angry Lincoln, and just how everything unfolds. It might sound narcissistic since I did write it, but the thing is, I wrote this a while back so when I came back to read it, I had forgotten what had happened here. Also the thing of the whole "A whole new book" is like the saying "A whole new chapter" but with more depth…. Get it? Ha ha ha… ok… anyway… yea. Also, disclaimer, in no way am I making fun of depression, but I like diversity among my stories and will try to talk about as much things as I can to spread awareness about them and so that people may not be as oblivious to them. This is coming from someone who has been through it themselves multiple times before so please don't say that I'm in the wrong for this. Ok well, that's all. See y'all later.