First off I do not own the Loud house characters. They belong to nickelodeon
Friday, September the 13th was the first thing Lincoln saw on his phone that morning. He had been staring at the bright rectangle for quite some time in his room, imagining the worst that could possibly happen. Friday the 13th never sat well with Lincoln. He was quite the imaginative soul which helped a lot when coming up with adventures as Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack with Clyde but on days like this, Lincoln's mind was a bottomless it of 'worst case scenarios'.
He sat hunched over on his bed, holding his phone in one hand while clutching Bun-Bun dearly in the other. His eyes were locked on the screen with pupils so small they were barely visible. All Lincoln's face could show was pure unfiltered fear. The possibilities of disaster were staggering - 10 snooping sisters, 2 pathetic parents and 1 undesirable day; the perfect conditions for a category 5 sister-nado.
Lincoln sat there still as a rock; his eyes didn't even blink (it was actually a little concerning). He only broke from is statue like prison when a loud bang nearly threw his bedroom door off its hinges. It took a while for Lincoln to return to Earth after having his head in the clouds for so long. He shook his head slightly and sighed, annoyed at the idea of facing the day. This day. Judging from the sound of the pounding at the door Lincoln could only deduce that it was his immediate older sister as the source of the banging. He took a deep breath and prepared himself for the inevitable onslaught to come.
"Hey Lynn" he groaned.
"Mornin' Stinkoln!" she shouted, prompting an eye roll from the white haired tween. "You gonna be at my game later, right?! It's only a practice match but it'd be nice to have a bit of an audience, y'know, to show how awesome our team is."
Suddenly, something clicked in Lincoln's head. He had scheduled a movie day with Clyde, Liam and the gang on the 13th of September; he never realised that it was Friday the 13th when buying the tickets though. Ronnie Anne was included in their little gang and would only be in town on that day so they had come up with something they could all do together. They all agreed on watching 'The Harvester 3: The Surplus' at the Royal Woods Theatre.
This day never ceases to be Lincoln's unluckiest day imaginable.
He dreaded the thought of declining one of Lynn's game invitations as she wasn't the type to take 'no' for an answer. He tried to come up with an excuse that would save him from one of Lynn's excruciating beat downs, this however, rarely ever worked in his favour. Straight up telling Lynn about Ronnie Anne would save him from a beat down but it would increase the forecast from a sister-nado watch to a sister-nado warning. On the other hand simply saying 'I can't' would be too vague and would most likely prompt an interrogation from the young sports jock.
"You still in there Stinkoln?!" the sports addict interrupted. "You still haven't answered my question!" she continued.
Here goes nothin'
"Uh" he said softly "I've got plans with some friends later. It's kinda the only chance we've got to hang out right now" he claimed.
"Oh" she sighed.
"Sorry, Lynn" Lincoln apologized.
"It's no prob, Stinkoln" she began, "You just gotta be at my next match to make up for it!"
"Great" He groaned to himself again.
"Later Stinkoln, I got first dibbs on the bathroom!" she bragged as she darted off to the other end of the hall.
Lincoln exhaled in a sigh of sweet relief. He was anticipating a beating from his athletic sister and was very much glad to not have received one
Suddenly an ear-splitting scream came from the other end of the hall.
Lynn burst into Lori and Leni's room and frantically scanned the area for the source of the scream. She spot Leni sitting on her bed wearing a light blue nightgown, pressing giant white pillows on her ears, still tense from the sudden noise. Lynn quickly turned her head to see Lori sitting on her bed with the biggest smile she could muster.
"Why're you screaming?!" shouted an extremely annoyed Lynn.
"Aaaaaaaaahhhh" the eldest sibling screamed again, though to a lesser degree this time, thankfully.
Leni, again, pressed the two pillows onto her ears. Lynn mirrored Leni and covered her ears with her hands, dropping them as Lori stoped.
"Ya done?" Lynn said annoyed.
"Mhmm!" Lori nodded excitedly.
"Good…" Lynn began "now can you use your words and tell us what's going on?" she asked slowly, attempting to calm her eldest sibling down.
Lori inhaled deeply "Bobby's got the day off today because their schools let out earlier than ours, and y'know how that new Harvester movie is coming out today, yeah, he bought tickets for me and him to watch today after school to surprise me and I don't usually like scary movies very much but this time a have an excuse to cuddle next to Bobby Boo Boo Bear during the movie!" she said with the speed to rival a car going 200m/h. With the lung capacity she seemed to possess, Lori could become on Olympic swimmer.
Lynn and Leni remained completely still for a moment, staring blankly at Lori. They turned to each other, then to Lori, back to each other, then again to Lori. Lynn opened her mouth to speak but was cut off by Lori.
"Wanna hear the best part?" she started again.
"Sur-"
"Bobby's bringing his little sister, Ronnie Anne, along which means we can totally set her and Lincoln up together on a date when the movie's over and takes pics and tell them how cute they care together!" she said, this time seemingly quicker that before.
Her sisters needed a few seconds to process everything (Leni more than Lynn). After finally catching up to their high speed sister, Lynn spoke up.
"That'd be amazing but Lincoln's already got plans after school" she said sadly.
Lori's smile dipped.
"Well… then we'll make time!" her huge smile returned.
"But…," Lynn paused, "…how?"
Lori's smile soon turned and curled into a devilish grin, "Oh, I'll tell you how…"
Lincoln, still tired from waking up so early, decided to finally start getting ready for school. He rubbed his face and sighed "Might as well get it over with" he groaned and moved sluggishly towards his bedroom door. He raised his hand to turn the doorknob when suddenly he paused. He could hear what sounded like a large crowd rioting outside the hallway but instead of the screaming and shouts of anger he heard… giggling? What in the world was going on?
"Oh no…" a thought struck him, "…could they have…" he assumed the worst. "They couldn't have found out about Ronnie Anne coming over… could they?"
Lincoln quickly grabbed the jangly lock but he soon noticed that the noise in the hallway had suddenly stopped. Out of nowhere the noise picked up again, this time along with shushing and mumbling rather than giggling and laughter. In an attempt to catch the culprits, Lincoln hastily opened the door but was only able to catch a glimpse of a few pairs of feet trailing into the eldest sisters' bedroom. He knew they were up to something.
"An unscheduled sister sibling meeting," he deduced by the sound of them hastily rushing into the bedroom.
They must've rushed once they realised that Lincoln was on his way out of his room, no doubt because of the jangling of his bedroom doorknob, so they tried their best to hide their intents from their only brother, attempting to throw him off their trail. They failed miserably. However, this could be of worth to Lincoln.
"They're probably planning to force me to do something embarrasing, so…" he concocted a plan, "…if I'm not here then they can't embarrass me at all!" He rubbed his hands together and laughed maniacally, though his plans were never really 'evil' per se.
"Let's do this!"
Lincoln immediately put his plan into action. He headed back to his bedroom, packed his bag, organised his school clothes and a separate outfit to change into, grabbed his loofah and his towel and rushed into the bathroom, somehow carrying everything at once. Even more perplexing was how he could carry all his stuff and was still able to close the bathroom door behind him.
"That was the bathroom door" whispered the small diva. She dropped the cup that she was using to listen through the door which came down with a loud thud. All the other loud sisters tried to quiet her down with a resonating "ssssssssssshhhhhhhh"
"Whoopsie" was her embarrassed response.
Due to Lincoln being so close in proximity, the Loud sisters resorted to whispering as their prime communication. Ironic, isn't it?
"So Bobby Boo Boo Bear and our future sister-in-law are coming by this afternoon," Lori sated, (They might be jumping the gun a bit, don't ya think), "so we gotta come up with a way to make this date happen."
Leni raised her hand with a puzzled look on her face.
"Yes, Leni?"
"Um quick question… Ok, two questions. Who's our sister-in-law again? And since when was Lincoln married?" she question.
A mix of groans and soft sighs resonated in the room.
"We're talking about Ronnie Anne, Leni." Lori stated.
"But when-"
"No, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne aren't married" Lori interrupted.
"Not yet they aren't, dude" the family rock star claimed.
"Yeah, because they're not at the marri-age to do that yet" the family gesture joked. "Get it?!" The groans of her sisters confirmed that they did indeed get the 'joke'.
"Back to the plan…" Lori declared. "So we need a way to get Lincoln and Ronnie Anne together by the end of today."
"Can we plan something that'll go by quick? There's a new horror movie coming out today and I don't wanna miss it" the gothic sister breathed.
"Wait…" Lori came up with something, "That's it!"
"A stupid horror movie?!" the small diva interjected, "That's your plan?"
"It's not stupid, it's super scary" her twin sister retorted, "I hear that people got PTSD from those other movies and that this one is the scariest one yet!"
"I highly doubt that," the little scientist retaliated.
"That's exactly why we should have Ronnie Anne and Lincoln watch it together," Lori explained, "Ronnie Anne'll be so scared that Lincoln will have to be her knight shining armour and comfort her and then they'll fall in love and live happily ever after"
The room fell silent.
"If your calculations are correct," Lisa spoke, "though Lincoln is quite the scaredy-cat, which can be adjusted, this plan of yours that you have fabricated may actually prove successful"
"In English please!" Lana nagged.
"Lori's plan just might work" Lisa translated.
"There's your proof everyone!" Lori claimed, "So…" She raised her shoe in the air as if it were a gavel, "If ever one is on board, let's get planning!" she whisper-shouted, banging the shoe on her bed to soften the sound of the impact.
The Loud sisters responded with a resounding, yet somehow hushed, "Yeah!"