a brothers return

chapter 8

Lori looked at Lucy before asking "This couldn't wait until tomorrow?" Lucy responded with. "No this is very important." Lori signs then asks "What's this meeting about?" "It's about Lincoln and what happened at the park." Lori and the rest of the Loud sisters look at Lucy for a moment before Luna says "We know what happened at the park alright dude, Lincoln got into a fight from what Luan said." Lucy turns her head towards the rocker and says "There's more that you guys don't know." Everyone is confused by what Lucy means by that. "Okay I called this sister meeting to start right now." Lori says hitting her shoe against the dresser. "The floor is yours Lucy." Lucy looks at her sisters before saying "This happened before Lincoln got into the fight with Hank and Hawk and before we saw Ronnie Anna and Clyde." "Clyde the Mcbride's son, he was at the park." Lucy looks at Luna before saying "Yeah. When I saw him, he was with Ronnie Anna."

Lucy continues with "Me and Lincoln are underneath the tree. Our brother was helping me write poems. I would first ask him if he knew any words that rhyme with my word, he would nod at me then I would give him my book and pen to write the word down. Things started off normal with me asking a rhyme and him then writing the word down in my book until I asked him and tried to give him my book but he didn't take it." Lucy looks at her sisters before saying "I look up at Lincoln and he seemed to be out of it, almost like he was thinking or in a trance." Most of the sisters are silent, waiting for Lucy to continue all but Luan who asks her sister. "Was Lincoln looking around the park when he was like that?" Luan asks and the rest of the sisters are confused by this. "Yes. When he was in the state, he was looking around the park but why do you ask?" Lucy says, answering Luan's question before asking one of her own. "While talking with Giggles, I noticed that he was looking around the park but I didn't know what to think of it. Maybe it was something to it." Luan said with sadness in her voice that she didn't pick up that something was wrong with her little brother. "Come on Luan don't be sad, there was like no way that any of us could've known that something was upsetting Linky." Leni said than giving her younger sister a hug alone with Luna. "She's right, we don't know what Lincoln thinks so it's impossible for us to know if something upsets him. So dude please don't beat yourself over this and if Lincoln has a problem then we'll be there for him."

After 90 seconds of silence Luan has calmed down thanks with help from her sisters and silence is in the house until Lori says "Alright Lucy you were saying." The eldest Loud sister getting the attention of Lucy who nodded then continues on. "So after seeing him in that state I called his name once but it was like he didn't hear me,there was no reaction from him. So I tapped his leg and called his name once more and this did snap him out of his trance. Now we are looking at each other before he reaches and grabs my book alone with my pen from my hands and waits for me to give him the word I need him to rhyme with but there was something I couldn't shake off."

Flashback

"Lincoln is something wrong?" Lucy asks her brother who is looking at the book but when she asks the question, he turns his head towards her but turns a page in the book and then starts writing something down as Lucy watches. Lincoln stops writing and hands the book to his sister before he starts looking around the park. Lucy looks at her brother before looking at the book which says "What do you mean?" Lucy stares at the book then says "Lincoln I was calling you but you were not responding and.." Lucy stops and seems to think for a moment before continuing on with "Sign I don't know. You always seem to be more focused with everything and I don't know why but I just found it weird for you seemingly out of nowhere stopped responding." Lucy notices Lincoln now looking at her once again then he reaches for the book and pen which Lucy gives to him and just before he starts writing Lucy asks "You were thinking about something right Lincoln?" Lincoln stops and looks at his little sister before nodding his head indicating yes to her question.