One nice day in May, Luke was relaxing in his room when Lynn barged in.
"Hey, Luke, I need you to attend my game." Lynn says.
Luke looks at Lynn. "Why should I?" Luke asks her.
"You've skipped most of them and this is the semifinal game before the state finals." Lynn says.
"No!" Luke says as Lynn raises her baseball bat.
"You better come this time!" Lynn says. "Or I will hurt you with my bat!"
"Fine, I will!" Luke says.
After the game, Lynn screamed as she lost.
"This is your fault, Luke! You're bad luck!" Lynn says.
"My fault?! What did I do?!" Luke asked.
"I was on a big winning streak! But, on the day you finally come to a game, I end up losing!" Lynn says. "Unlucky Luke!"
"I hope this doesn't go too far…" Luke says.
A few nights later, Luke was forced to sleep outside.
"Hey! What gives?!" Luke screams.
"You're bad luck!" Lola says.
"Wait!" Lucy says, but no one other than Luna listens.
Lola slammed the door on Luke.
It started to rain outside.
Luke begins to sob. "Let Luke in…" Luke says.
As soon as everyone is asleep, Luke is let in by Lucy. Lucy leads Luke to the attic and puts him to bed, using an air mattress. Luke soon falls asleep.
Lucy sighed.
The next morning, Lucy wakes up to see Lola dragging Luke downstairs.
"Let him go!" Luna says as Lola tossed Luke out of the house.
"Why did you do that?!" Luna asked.
"He's bad luck!" Lola says and slammed the door on Luke's hand. Luke screamed and sobbed before freeing his hand.
Luke begins to cry outside.
"Luke wants to be inside!" Luke sobbed.
"Why don't we sell Luke's stuff? It will prevent anyone else from getting bad luck " Lynn says.
"Good thinking." Lola says.
But before they could lay a hand on any of Luke's things, Luna grabs Lola and Lynn by their ears and drags them back downstairs. When Lucy heard what they were planning to do, she was livid.
"How could you two do this to him? I'm calling the police!" Lucy says.
"Don't you dare! This is his fault! For being bad luck!" Lynn says " Besides, I'm stronger than you!"
Luna stands above Lynn and grabs her by the back of her jersey.
"Luna, get out of the way!" Lynn says.
"No. I don't think I will. And if you so much as TOUCH anything in Luke's room. I will SELL every piece of sports equipment you own! Am I clear?!" Luna says, still holding Lynn by her jersey.
"Fine…" Lynn says.
"I think we should tell mom." Lucy says.
(A/N: Rita sides with Luna and Lucy on this.)
"No." Lola said and tackled Lucy to the ground. Luna also grabs Lola.
"SAME GOES FOR YOU, PRINCESS! YOU TOUCH LUKE'S THINGS, I WILL MAKE MOM TELL YOU TO BUNK WITH LANA IN HER BED AND YOUR PRECIOUS PRINCESS BED WILL BE TAKEN TO THE CITY DUMP, WHERE YOU WILL NEVER SEE IT AGAIN!" Luna screams at Lola.
"Fine." Lola says as Lucy gets up.
Later, Luna was waiting for Rita to come home from her trip as Lucy went into her room.
"Hey, Luna?" Lucy asked.
"What is it, Luce-Change?" Luna asked.
Lucy blushed "Can I sleep with you tonight?" Lucy asked.
Luna nods. "At this point, I'm this close to kicking Luan out of my room. She keeps wanting to touch all of Luke's things, and frankly, I just can't wait to start sabotaging her birthday gigs…"
"I'm scared of Lynn and the rest of the family at this point." Lucy says as her body shook as Luna noticed tears slowly falling. "I'm scared…I'm not supposed to be b-but…" Lucy says as her body shook hard as she was having a panic attack.
"Lucy, it's okay." Luna says and holds her. "I'm worried about Luke, too."
Luke was still sobbing and sniffling as lights shone on him. Rita came out of a taxi.
"Luke! What are you doing outside?" Rita asked, worried and upset.
"They threw Luke out…" Luke sobs.
"WHAT?!" Rita asks as she hears crashing from inside.
She runs inside to hear screaming as she notices the siblings assaulting Luna and Lucy. Leni and Lincoln try to stop them.
"KIDS!" Rita shouted.
The fighting stops as Rita looks around. "What is going on here?" she asks.
"We kicked the bad luck out. We were going to get rid of his stuff to prevent a spread, but Luna and Lucy got in the way." Lynn says.
Rita is stunned by this. "LJ, go get all your sports equipment. Every piece of it. NOW!"
Lynn goes to do so. Rita looks at Luna who looks okay, but Lucy has bruises on her face as she was covering her face and groaning in pain.
She looks at Luke. His hand was red, and he was cold and wet.
Lynn came down with all her sports equipment. Rita proceeds to take it all out to the curb in trash bags.
"What are you doing?" Lynn asked.
"Taking out the trash!" Rita yells. "You treat Luke like trash, so now your precious sports equipment will be going to the dump first thing tomorrow morning!"
"Wait! First of all, welcome back honey, how was your trip? Second, why is her stuff in trash bags?" Lynn Sr asked
"First of all, it was nice and I would have enjoyed it if my son was safe!" Rita shouted.
"He's bad luck! He caused Lynn to lose!" Lola says.
Rita then walks up to Lola. "Go upstairs and box up all your toys. And I will be selling your bed. You're bunking with Lana from now on."
"NO FAIR!" Lola screamed, but complied with her mother's request.
"Luna, get Luke inside and clean his wounds. Lucy, can you stand?" Rita asked as Lucy weakly nodded, but limped over as Luna took Luke up, but Lucy couldn't follow them.
(A/N: Lynn Sr isn't completely spineless here.)
"Okay, I'm going to ask you all why you were so foolish and cruel to just believe in bad luck." Rita asked, trying not to snap.
"We didn't think. We just listened to Lynn. Lori said Luke was bad luck, so I went with it." Leni says.
Rita really wanted to scream at Leni, but she knew Leni was pretty gullible.
Lucy fell over as she pulled down her leggings to reveal blood.
"What is wrong with you, LJ?!" Rita says.
"She got in my way and I attacked her." Lynn says.
"Great! First, Lucy gets assaulted for doing the right thing, then Luke gets thrown out of his own home. If you think this punishment is all you'll get, well, it's NOT!" Rita says as she looks at Lori.
Lori gulped "M-mom, please…" Lori says as Rita slapped Lori in the face.
"YOU ARE BANNED FROM SEEING BOBBY AND YOU HAVE LOST YOUR PHONE PRIVILEGES FOR 2 MONTHS!" Rita screams at Lori.
Rita looks at Luan.
"Cancel any birthday gigs you have for the next 2 months, young lady. You're banned from doing your Funny Business work, and you're grounded from all social media. You also will not go to the theater with Benny this weekend." Rita says to Luan.
Rita looks at Lana.
"Lana, no mud-related things and you will take a bath every night. And no more alligator wrestling. You will also allow me to take your exotic animals to the animal shelter. No guarantees that they won't be given to a new family or two." Rita says to Lana.
Rita looks at Lisa who shakes with tears in her eyes. "Mother unit, please…" Lisa stammered.
"Let's get one thing straight. Lisa, I am your mother, and I'll even take mommy, just treat me like a mother. From now on, there will be no science experiments in this house at all. I'm shocked at how Lily is alive. Besides, they're too dangerous." Rita says. She then looks at Lincoln.
"Lincoln! How could you do this to Luke?! No comics, no video games, no TV, and no friends over for 2 months!" Rita shouted.
Luna was cleaning Luke and Lucy up in her room.
"I'm really sorry I couldn't do more for you…" Luna says to Luke who sniffed.
"Luke is sorry for being a burden!" Luke sobbed
"You're not a burden." Luna says as Luke was broken.
Lucy hugged Luke. "At least Mom came home in time." Lucy says.
Rita catches Lynn in Luke's room and grabs her. However, Lynn tossed the lit up match which began to burn Luke's stuff.
Luke screamed and sobbed, watching in complete horror.
"Good-bye, bad luck." Lynn says as Rita slapped her hard across the face.
Luna threw a bucket of water at the flames. But it was too late. Luke's stuff was basically charred.
Luke's face turned pale and green as Leni came over with a bucket. Luke vomited, then sobbed.
"LYNN MARIE JUNIOR!" Rita shouted. "I cannot believe you did that! I am so angry at you for doing this to Luke's things! So, since all your sports stuff will be gone tomorrow…not only will I be calling your baseball coach to assure him that you won't play in any more games, but your allowance will be going toward replacing all of Luke's things. Also, you will be sleeping in Luke's room, among all the stuff you burned." Rita says.
"I'M TELLING YOU! HE WAS BAD LUCK! PLUS HE ISN'T OUR BROTHER! HE'S SOME MISTAKE LUCY FOUND!" Lynn screamed before covering her mouth.
"THAT IS IT! YOU WILL NEVER PLAY SPORTS IN THIS HOUSE AGAIN! YOU WILL NOT GET A THING FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY NEXT WEEK, AND YOU WILL NEVER GET AN ALLOWANCE AGAIN!" Rita screams at Lynn.
Lynn nods, starting to realize she screwed up badly.
Lucy leads Luke to her room.
"I guess we'll be roommates for a while." Lucy says.
Luke cries. "Why is she so cruel?!"
"I'm not sure" Lucy says as no one was aware someone was recording this.
Lucy tucked Luke into bed.
"Things will be alright." Lucy tells him.
