Chainsmoking your Love

I'm the boy who threw the Brick

Lincoln and Tabby were outside for Lunch and sat against a wall. Lincoln and she have been talking for a while since the party last night. They enjoyed each other's company, but Tabby knew something was up with Lincoln.

"Hey, Lincoln?" Tabby asked

"Yeah Tabby?" Lincoln replied

"Is something wrong?" Tabby asked "I mean you don't seem like yourself Mate"

Lincoln smiled and looked at her, "you ever felt invisible?" he asked "like your not worths people's attention

"I guess... I mean my younger brother some times get more attention than I do" Tabby said

"Not what I meant..." Lincoln said with a sigh, "How about a joke?"

"A joke?" Tabby asked

"It'll explain how I feel," Lincoln told her

"Ok, tell it," Tabby told him

Lincoln nodded and began the joke, "so, there's this young boy, he's really good at fixing stuff and problems. He's a real master of his craft. Because he's precise. to him, Everything has its place. Anyways he gets asked to build a brick house. He does the math. He figures out exactly what he needs. Step by step. he finishes, the brick house and it's amazing. It's a perfect brick house. Just the way he drew it in blueprints. Only one problem. There's a brick left over. One single brick. He realizes why he still has this brick so he picks up the orphan brick and throws it up into the air as high as she can. And then...um...shit. Messed it up. OK. Forget that joke. Can I tell you another one?" Lincoln asked her

Tabby nodded, figuring that he messed up the joke but kinda smiled at it.

"So Three sisters of a big family die, the oldest sister, the funny sister, and the jock sister, right? They're standing at the pearly gates and god stands in front of them"

"ok, keep going," Tabby said

"So god's there and he's going to decide what their eternal fate shall be: heaven or hell. God goes to the first sister. God asks her "what gift did I give you?" She replies with "You gave me the gift of responsibility" "What did you do with that gift?" God asks her "I use it as a status and didn't take care take responsibility for my mistakes which cause my sibling's grief," she tells him, God frowns, realizing that she didn't take her gift seriously so he snaps his fingers and the oldest sister goes to hell," Lincoln said and stopped to look at tabby

"alright" Tabby replied

"The funny sister is up next, god asks her "what gift did I give you?" She replies with "the gift to make others besides myself laugh with joy" "What did you do with my gift?" God asks again, she said "I only made myself laugh while my jokes cause others grief," She told God, God frowned, snapped his fingers and the funny sister went to hell"

"alright keep telling it Mate," Tabby told him

Lincoln nods and continues, "It's the jock sisters turn now, God looks to her and asks, "And you? what gifts did I give you?" She looks up to him and says, "the power to of strength to protect those weaker then me" God nods and asks, "what did you do with the gift I gave you?" She replies with "I used that gift to turn it around the ones I was supposed to protect" She said, God sighs and then snaps his fingers and send the third sister to hell"

"Ok? is there more to this?"

Lincoln nods, "yeah here's the finishing part," Lincoln says "God is about to leave but then, he sees a boy waiting by the gates, he approaches the boy, "Where did you come from?" asks God. The boy looks to God "Oh I was just standing behind those other guys the whole time, you just didn't see me" he told God "Did I give you a gift?" God asks. "No, none to speak of," says the boy. God gives him a good long look and sighs "I'm so sorry. I'm embarrassed. Seriously, this almost never happens but I don't know who you are" God admits. the Boy looks at God and he quietly says "I'm the young boy who threw the brick in the air." suddenly a sound from above can be heard, something fallings, and it's the brick. God looks up but it's too late. He never saw it coming. It hits him so hard, his brains shoot out his nose. Game over. He's dead" Lincoln finishes the joke

Tabby finally understood the joke and looked to Lincoln sadly before asking "And where does God go when he dies?" Tabby asked

Lincoln chuckles and looks back to Tabby, "He goes to hell" Lincoln replies "Roll on the snare drum. Curtains close. Good joke?" Lincoln asked

Tabby nodded sadly, "yeah... good joke Mate" She replied

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Carol sat on a bench for lunch, she didn't want to sit with Lori at the moment. To her horror, when she looked in the closet last night at the party, true to Lincoln's words. their it lied. The squirrel mascot costume. Carol couldn't believe that the Family she was so envious of, could do something like kicking their own out because they thought he was bad luck.

"Hey, Carol!" Came a feminine voice

Carol was taken away from her thoughts and turned around to see... Becky. Carol sighed in relief, and she waved at Becky

"Hey Becky, what's up?"

"Nothing much, just thought I should talk to you"

Carol was confused, "about what?" Carol asked

"Well... Lori was a bit concerned about you, you started not acting like yourself during half of the party and didn't really seem ok earlier" Becky said

Carol scoffed, "that bitch shouldn't worry about me," Carol said before quickly closing her mouth

Becky was also stunned at Carol's sudden curse, "wow! what was that about?" Becky asked

Carol looked at her, "I'm sorry I'm just a bit... upset at her"

"why?" Becky asked

Carol looked at her and sighed, "h-how well do you know her brother?"

"Lincoln? My White Russian? what about him?" Becky asked

Carol wasn't going to ask about her little nickname and would ask about that later

"He didn't seem like himself... I mean he was smoking and then told me about his family kicking him out all because he lied about being bad luck-"

"Hold up, Hold up?" Becky cut her off, "They did what?" Becky asked with her eyes almost seemingly on fire

"They..." Carl began before sighing, "they kicked him out because he lied about being bad luck"

Becky was simmering with rage, Carol was a bit concerned about Becky's current state but continued to tell the last part

"Do you remember the Squirrel mascot that was caught walking around the town?" Carol asked

"What does that have to-"

"it was Lincoln, he said his family made him wear it because to them it was good luck as long as he wore it" Carol finished

Becky then got up and walked back into the school and Carol quickly followed her

"Becky where are you going!?" Carol said

"Lori" Becky replied "I'm gonna give her a piece of my mind"

"Wait Becky don't!" Carol said, but it was already too late, Lori was nearby and saw Becky and Carol walking back

Carol knew this was where things were going to go bad, fast...