Lincoln Loud woke up with a similar weight on his chest, he instantly knew said weight was his sister Lily. He knew by his own experience that after sharing a room with someone for most of his life (in Lily's case all her life, short it may be) that suddenly sleeping alone in a room can be very discomforting. Before the twins and Lily herself was born he shared his room with Lynn so he knew what a weird sensation it was to go from loud roommate to a quiet room. It was why he could sympathize with Lucy so much, she was probably the younger sister he was closest too, not that he wasn't close to the others. Lincoln looked over to his clock and noticed it was barely 7 am, he inhaled softly before gently laying Lily beside him who at the loss of heat began to squirm so Lincoln quickly grabbed his trusted bunny and pushed him against Lily who grabbed onto him and settled down.

Lincoln quietly made his way to the bathroom where he made himself ready for the day before going downstairs to clean up anything he had missed the other day. It was half an hour later that he made his way up the stairs as he thought about his own room and how it had been a closet.

'I miss a bigger room' Lincoln thought to himself. 'though I really can't complain I've really grown to enjoy my privacy, the little I actually get with all of them barging in whenever they want.'

Lincoln goes to his room and shakes his sister awake and as she opens her eye's she squeals happily before wrapping herself around her brother. "good morning Lily, it's time to get up." Lincoln took her to the bathroom and with an efficiency not seen since the great Loud attic organization of 2014 he made it down to the kitchen in record time. Lincoln saw that they had eaten the last of zombie bran yesterday and they were left with that one really bland cereal no one liked, he couldn't even remember it's name.

"Alright, Lily looks like I'm cooking us some eggs today, scrambled obviously." Lincoln made his way to the fridge and after 3 eggs and a burned fingertip he had the scrambled eggs in front of a hungry Lily. 'Looks like Lily is really hungry today, I didn't even need to bring out any of the normal tricks to feed her.' Lincoln brought out his phone as he sent a quick message to Clyde and Rusty to double check that they would meet up after school on Monday to work on another woodworking project. Lincoln let out a slow shudder at the thought of doing more woodwork.

Lincoln brought himself and Lily to the couch where Lincoln laid down. 'Who knew taking care of a baby would be such work.' thought a tired Lincoln. "How about put on some TV for you Lily." Lincoln flipped through channels until he found the same show from yesterday and set the remote down. Lincoln saw that Lily was really paying attention to the show and was busy playing with Lana's old toy tools she even had a little work table with her. 'Huh, I could have sworn that thing was stored in the attic.' Lincoln thought but was too tired to really care how it got there only that it was keeping Lily happy. Soon he felt the all too familiar sensation of his eyelids drooping, and he was soon asleep on the couch.

"Waagh!" Lincoln jumped up as he heard his sister scream, he looked around quickly and saw that she was holding her thumb out while glaring at the toy hammer. Lincoln picked Lily up and quickly took her to the kitchen where he sat her down on her high chair and got a band-aid to wrap around her thumb.

"It's ok Lily your fine see all better," Lincoln said as he kissed Lily's booboo away. "C'mon Lily it's almost lunchtime how about I heat up some of dad's world famous lasagna?" He got a watery smile from Lily her thumb still clearly hurting as he went on to prepare their lunch. He checked his phone again and saw that both Clyde and Rusty agreed to meet up tomorrow with Clyde wanting to meet up at the Loud house (no doubt so he could stare at Lori). Lincoln sent a message agreeing as he waited for the microwave to ding.

Once Lincoln and Lily were finished it was half past noon so Lincoln decided to call his mother to see when they would be coming home. Lincoln called Aunt Ruth's house and was rewarded with another of his sister's voice.

"Sigh, Hello." The monotone voice of Lucy could be heard coming from the other side.

"Hey, Luce It's Lincoln how are things going over there?" Lincoln asked his most spooky sister.

"It's depressing and dark, but not the good kind I couldn't commune with the other side at all this weekend. Even grandma Harriet wasn't answering." Lincoln could here that Lucy was just as upset as Lola was yesterday.

"Hey, it's ok Lucy, how about when you guys come back today I help you with a séance." Lincoln offered his sister even though he himself was not too thrilled to do it. It wouldn't be the first time cheering up his sisters by doing something he didn't find enjoyable. Like offering to be Lori's footstool, or modeling a dress for Leni, or being an audience member for Luna's bagpipe solo, or helping Luan test out pranks (Lincoln shuddered at this one), or doing anything sports with Lynn and so on.

"That sounds great Lincoln, thank you." It was years of being around his sister that Lincoln was able to pick up the gratitude in her tone.

"No problem Luce could you pass the phone to mom real quick I need to ask her when you guys are coming home."

"Ok, bye Lincoln see you soon." Lincoln could hear some shuffling and faint voices before he heard his mother.

"Hey sweetie how are you guys?" Rita asked her two wayward children.

"Hey, mom were doing fine. I was just calling to check in and ask when you guys would be heading home?"

"We're going to leave around five so we should be home by seven." Replied Rita.

"Ok, mom we'll see you tonight then."

"Take care honey." Lincoln put the phone down and was surprised to see Lily had fallen asleep on her chair, he took her to her crib. He left the door cracked open in case Lily woke up and Lincoln went to his room. Lincoln went online to play a game of rouges and assassins though Lincoln wasn't too sure who to play with. Clyde and his family were still doing their Sunday ritual of unplugging all screens in their house. Liam, he knew, would be busy with the farm until later tonight and Zach and Rusty were going to the arcade today. So with no friends to play with as Ronnie Anne wouldn't be caught dead playing rogues and assassins he decided to just discard the idea of playing the game and reading his trusty comic series Ace Savvy.

It was an enjoyable couple of hours before he heard the tell-tale signs of Lily waking up. He walked through the doorway and instantly knew why Lily had woken up as that horrid smell of his greatest enemy (at least for this weekend) made itself known. "Oh boy Lily I don't know if that's genetic or it's the food you've been eating but we really need to figure it out you're turning to another Lynn." Lincoln got to work disposing of the contamination and took Lily downstairs and saw it was 5. He brought out a notebook and some crayons and set them down behind the watched and helped Lily make some painting it was one of Lily's favorite activities (Lincoln was sure his sister had already found her niche but it was still too early to tell). Lincoln and Lily spent the next couple hours drawing and soon they both heard the sounds of a car pulling up and doors opening and closing, and shortly after the door opened.

"Kids were home!" Rita Loud's voice was heard along before Lily and Lincoln saw a blonde pink blur zoom past them heading upstairs with the sound of the bathroom door shutting.

"Hey mom." Lincoln said as he hugged his mother as Lily babbled at her showing her all the pretty pictures she drew.

"Hey Lincoln." The only male sibling jumped and turned around as he saw his sister Lucy standing behind him.

"Jeez Lucy don't scare me like that." Lincoln held his right hand to his beating heart, before pulling his younger sister into a hug. Lucy squirmed for a bit before hugging Lincoln back.

"Sigh you guys never notice me. " Lucy said into her brother's shoulder.

"Hey how about we go do your séance after dinner." Lincoln said to cheer up his gloomy sister up. He knew he succeeded when he saw the tiny smile on her face.

"Yes, that sounds lovely, excuse me I have to go say hi to Edwin I've ignored him all weekend." Lucy then left to go to her room.

"Hey honey I ordered some pizza on the way here. Your father and the rest of your sisters should all be back sometime tomorrow morning." Rita informed her son before they heard a shout from upstairs.

"MOM! THE SMELL WON'T LEAVE!" Lola's voice echoed across the house as Lincoln's mother smiled at her son before going up to help her third youngest daughter.

It was an hour later that the pizza arrived and another half hour for them to finish eating. It took another hour of helping Lola with her hair and finishing Lucy's séance before Lincoln collapsed on too his bed. 'what a long weekend, I enjoyed the silence but I can't wait for everyone to come back it's been TOO quiet sometimes.' Lincoln thought to himself before the exhaustion of the weekend hit and Lincoln fell into a well-deserved slumber.

Later that night

It was nearing midnight and all occupants of the house were asleep. Well almost all of them, the youngest member of the household was wide awake as she made her way out of her crib and into the hallway. She looked around before crawling her way past the stairs to the end of the hallway and sat in front of the door on the end. She pushed her way in as the door was slightly ajar and saw her brother sleeping peacefully. Lily then with skills she picked up from watching Lucy climb into the vents made it onto her brother's bed without waking him. Lily quickly made her way beside him and laid down and closed her eyes.

Lincoln felt his bed shift and opened his eyes to see Lily sleeping beside him, too tired to take her back he covered her with his blanket before heading back to sleep but not before whispering to his baby sister. "Goodnight Lilybug, sweet dreams." Lincoln saw his sister smile in her sleep before finally letting his eyes closed for the night.

The End.