Fall is showing its demons.

That Sunday early morning, Lincoln screams loud like he never did before. His cries quake the walls and reaches to every corner of the Loud house. His sisters reach to him right away by the door.

"Lincoln, are you alright?!"

"He's hyperventilating," Lynn warns. "Quick! Let's cool him up!"

They immediately tend to their shaking brother. Lynn Jr. and Lana fetch a towel to wipe their brother's profuse sweat. Lola and Leni wrap his body with thicker blankets to calm his nerves. Luan and Lily provide a glass of cold water for him. Lisa checks his pulse. And Luna and Lucy calm him down through breathing exercises. The sisters try their best to slow Lincoln's heartbeat.

Mr. and Mrs. Loud race to the top to check the commotion.

"What's happening kids?" Lynn Loud asks worriedly.

"Is Lincoln okay?" Rita adds anxiously.

"Lincoln just woke up from a nightmare," Luna tells them.

"170-180 bpm," Lisa examines. "We need to slow down his pulse."

Learning that, Rita tends to her son's care, caressing his arms and holding his head near to her. Lynn Sr. quickly obtain a towelette and a washcloth to cool Lincoln's skin. With all gathered in Lincoln's confined room, the family try their best to soothe Lincoln's condition.

"Are you okay, sweetie?" Rita asks.

Lincoln keeps huffing, trying to slow down his bloodstream pace. The calmness is right in the corner, but the trauma of his nightmare has yet to subside. Luan gives a glass of water to Lincoln, with Lily handing over the utensil to him. Lincoln takes a gulp of the water and pants loudly to calm down. "I'm good, I'm good, I'm good," he replies. "Just a nightmare." He then sniffles harder.

Rita taps his chest to help clear his lungs. "It's okay, sweetie. You're awake now. It's gone. It's gone."

His sisters then surround him to alleviate the trauma.

"I have worse episodes," Lucy says. "But I understand you Lincoln." She then wraps her right arm to Lincoln's left side. They keep with their effort to calm him down until Lincoln gives the signal that he is fine.

However, watching them is Lori who just stood by the doorway.

Noticing her, Rita orders her, "Lori, there you are. Can you get the thermometer? It's on the tabletop beside Lily's crib."

But Lori gives a disappointed expression to Lincoln, which does not help his situation. Yet, she is compliant to her mother's commands, walking out of the doorway with begrudging. The rest of the family does not notice her behavior. However, it is striking to Lincoln since this directed towards him. But Lori's hidden resentment towards Lincoln is just the tip of the iceberg of their problems.

For now, Lincoln is grateful that his family race to him at his time of need.

The next morning, an average November Monday morning, Lincoln waits for the yellow school bus to arrive. He did not check his phone. But as he boards the bus, everyone begins to stare at him. It is the start of a blistery beginning.

In Royal Woods Elementary, Stella places her backpack in her locker. She is about to ready her stuff for first period. When she closes the locker, her loyal friends Rusty, Liam and Zack appear from her right side, with aghast expressions on their faces.

"Oh hey guys! What's up?" she greets them but is perplexed on their reactions, "What's with the bewildered look?"

The three only show disgust at her before they walk out.

Rusty then has this to say to Stella. "We couldn't believe you, Stella. I thought you are a good-hearted friend."

"What are you talking about?" she asks.

"Some friend! FLIRT!" Acting harshly, Rusty walks out. Onlookers are stunned to see the redheaded kid act this way.

Bewildered, Stella begins to worry as to why her friends ditch her like that. She carries that anxiety to her classroom as she lowers her head to avoid other confrontations.

Likewise, as Girl Jordan walks to their classroom, her eyes are glued on her phone, avoiding being notice by other students, who also acted harshly on her, and wanting to know where all of the commotion is coming from.

She soon notices Mollie and the rest of her gang. "Girls! There you are! I don't know why the other kids are harsh on me. Is this an elaborate prank or something?"

"Oh really?" Mollie replies harshly as well. "Says the flirt I didn't know was my friend!"

"Flirt?" Girl Jordan defends. "Why are you even calling me a flirt? I am anything but a flirt."

"You didn't know?" she responds, leaving Girl Jordan clueless at their sight. She then hints, "The headline on Royal Woods High Daily."

While that information does not give her clarity of the entire reasoning of other students acting harsh around her, Girl Jordan may have a hint on what is the underlying issue.

On the other hand, Ronnie Anne and Sid are walking their way to school from the bodega. They come across Nikki, Casey and Sameer who are sitting by the sidewalk with their skateboards, looking on their phones with disbelief.

"Guys, why are you still hanging around here in the morning?" Ronnie Anne asks.

"Is it true, Ronnie Anne?" Sameer confronts her with skepticism.

"What is what true?" she asks.

The three of them then show their phones to them. They are reading a clickbait article with the title "Three Juvenile Seniors Hook Up with Four Young Girls". Even though the title could be alluding to another story, Ronnie Ann and Sid scroll down the article, showing their names are indicated. That goes the same with the names of Lincoln, Stella, Girl Jordan and most especially, their three new friends Felix, Henry and Ralph. Not only that, it accuses the three of grooming the kids, and the girls "flirtatiously taking the bait".

Both girls are truly stunned and shaken that innocent their Friday night encounter became tabloid news. "How did you get this?!" Ronnie Anne asks them.

"It went viral in the Internet this morning," Casey tells her.

Sid is just dumbfounded as to how to react to this case. She has no words to say but a face in denial of their reality.

Thus, Ronnie Anne speaks for her, "Everybody on school is going to hear about this". She convinces Nikki, Casey and Sameer, "Okay guys, need your help on shielding me and Sid away from the crowd. And I promise to explain everything on the way."

Despite their doubts, the three agree to accompany the girls to school. "We're with you, Ronnie Anne," Nikki assures.

With that comes a whole day of contemplating over the news.

Back in Royal Woods High, Lori hastily drives the Vanzilla for her dad to school, dropping Leni, Luna and Luan to the vicinity.

"Lori, you don't have to drive that fast," Lynn Sr. reproaches her.

After she turns the key and hands it to her dad, Lori only shows a little begrudging as she slams the front door of the van.

Concerned, Lynn Sr. gets down from the van and confronts, "Lori, you have been acting this way all morning." She rebuffs me. "Can you at least tell me what is wrong?" But she completely walks out from him.

He asks his daughters, "What's wrong with her?"

"Something tells me that Saturday morning rain is falling hard on her still," Luna reacts.

"You mean she's acting this way for long now, even yesterday?" he asks, making them nod their heads subtly.

"I'll see what I can do," Leni tells them before she catches up to a heated Lori.

Once inside the halls, Lori is marching her way to her classroom. That is when she notices a Hispanic teen with a shaved beard, a hipster beanie and a little weight on him crossing her path. It is Felix.

Having eye contact on her, Felix flees back to the hall where he came from in a hurried pace.

However, with her demeanor, Lori catches up to him and throws her to the nearby deposit room for sporting equipment. She shoves him to the wall and vents at him, "You filthy little jerk! How dare you and your two goons mess me and my brother's life?"

Felix slows her down, "Wait, me? My friends? A goon? We're not the ones ambushing the party."

"Why did you bring those kids in the party in the first place?!"

"Okay first of all, it was not my intention. I didn't know my crackpot of a stepbrother is throwing a frat-boy party at the mansion. Second, you showed your faces there. And they were expecting you and Bobby take responsibility!"

"So, it's my fault? My fault for leaving my brother and his friends on your daycare service?!"

"Nothing happened to us. Period. We are just playing boardgames and bonding. And we thought we could use a little more fun while waiting for you."

"Oh, by that definition, you have to be blamed."

"Nothing happened."

"Well, you can try pushing that defense for this story." Lori then shows her phone, displaying the article about "Three Juvenile Seniors Hook Up with Four Young Girls".

Even though he never reads the less credible school paper, Felix is speechless about the headline that accuses the three minorities for grooming four underage girls, with the help of their enablers – Lincoln and Lori.

"My name is on that article. My brother's name is on that article. I don't want our names to be attached to a scandal. Now, tell me: why did you took them to the mansion?"

Felix is rather moved by the accusation. But he finds it offensive that Lori believed on the article's credibility, basing from her question. "You have no idea, do you? You have no idea how much your brother and his friends nearly lost faith in you? You thought this entire is case is 'me, my friends scoring points on four grade school girls'? Yes, students into gossip may misunderstood our actions. Fine. But aren't you beneath all that? You're the leader in the sports club. Shouldn't you be above this speculation?"

Annoyed, she grabs him by the collar again. But Felix remains unfazed. "Look, you punk, if you are trying to shame me, it won't be as hard as the embarrassment I faced with my friends this morning!"

Felix makes a valid counter-argument, "Okay, so this discussion is about you? Just you? Not about Lincoln? Not about Ronnie Anne? Nor Sid? Nor Stella or Girl Jordan? It's not about their names in a 'scandal' and them being labelled as flirts when they are not. And trust me, they're not."

Just by that fact, Lori lets go off Felix and realizes a bigger battle at their front.