Late fall mornings are nothing to complain about! After all, autumn is the time of year when the weather begins to cool down ever so slightly. What could be wrong with that?
Though… I suppose that on a day like this if you're Linka Loud, or to be more precise Lincoln Loud in Linka Loud's body, you have plenty to say, given that it's just about that time of month when mother nature decides to come knocking.
Morning sunlight filters through the rounded window just as it has done for years, falling upon the young girl resting in her bed. For a moment, the sunlight falls upon her closed eyes, causing her to stir for a moment, before rolling on her back.
*Groan* Linka moans, a pounding ache knocking on her soft forehead. "Ugh, what's going on?" she holds her head before push herself up.
An unfamiliar liquid moved around her abdomen. "What the heck?"
In confusion, she quietly turns in her bed and weakly stumbles out. "What's going on with me?"
Though exhausted, she still pulls the overly warm bed sheets from her resting place and looks upon an unexpected sight: a small crimson stain of unknown origin… at least, to the young girl.
For a moment, a wave of confusion overtakes her, her young mind racing for an answer, "What the… Lincoln… there has to be an explanation for this!" She then rubs her head, "Linka's an eleven-year-old girl. What could cause an eleven-year-old to bleed from her…"
That's when the realization hits her, and she looks down at her now slightly stained night pants. "Am I bleeding… from my…" The thought slowly forms in the former young boy's mind.
"Am I having a…" Linka's face goes red in embarrassment, "No… it can't be."
"It's… my time of the month." She whispers, a feeling of dread falling upon her. And with that, she grits her teeth, "Dangit Lincoln! Dangit, dangit, dangit!"
Now, don't get me wrong, Lincoln knows what happens when Mother Nature calls every month! After all, with five older sisters, it's difficult not to know. That being said however, Linka is still not used to the whole boy-turned-girl thing.
Though having temporarily subsided while Linka realized what was going on, the young girl's pounding headache returns, this time with a vengeance. She groans once more, before pulling the towel and loofa off her door hanger, stumbling out of her room and waddling over to the bathroom just a few… miles… away.
Hopefully, any leftovers wouldn't hit the floor.
"How the heck Did Lynn, Luan, Luna, Leni and Lori deal with this?! It's only been like ten minutes!" She drops down on the toilet and leans back against the seat just waiting for something to change.
For a few moments, the pain in her abdomen refuses to subside. For the young girl, time seems to slow down, prolonging her unexpected pain.
Though, eventually she feels herself relax and the warm liquid pooling inside her finally dissipating, "I feel horrible."
She holds her head once more, before turning to face the bathtub, "Though… I guess that's nothing a warm shower can't fix." With that, the young girl carefully undresses and leaves her clothes in a pile by the door.
"So this is what a period is like… no wonder my older sisters get so angry during them." She doesn't bother washing or scrubbing herself down, and instead lets the warm liquid flow over her body, giving her some well-needed relief.
"When I get home, I have to get those girls some chocolate. If this is what they deal with every month, it's the least I can do… Chocolate… Ooo… chocolate. That sounds like a good idea…" she then quickly shuts the warm shower, grabs her towel and heads downstairs.
Luckily for her no one else had woken up yet… well, save for her eldest brother.
"Mornin' Linka!" Loki greets, his voice filled with enthusiasm while he holds his coffee mug above the morning paper. For a moment, he stares at his younger sister, before tilting his head in confusion, "Uhh, why are you in nothing but a towel?"
Linka simply glares at him, before walking over to the pantry and digging through its contents. "Where the heck is the chocolate?! I need chocolate right now!"
Immediately, the realization hits Loki, "Oh… it's that time of the month." He sighs in defeat, "Ok then, let's do this." He then slowly walks over to the young girl and places a warm, comforting hand on her shoulder, "You ok Linka?"
"Just peachy!" Linka responds with annoyance in her voice, before pulling more of the pantry's contents out in a desperate search for the prize she so desired. And with a more cheerful tone, she continues, "Just tell me where the chocolate is and I'll get out of your hair!"
"How am I going to tell her?" Loki hesitates, before answers "Uhh, we stopped buying chocolate when we would always run out before the car got into the driveway, remember?"
The memories of watching Linka eat all of the chocolate on the car ride home replay in his mind. With her being who she is, she always got the sweet spot in the van.
Linka turns to the boy with daggers in her eyes, "No chocolate?! Well this is just great!" She then turns and stomps upstairs, leaving Loki behind.
"Well this is just been a great week. First we find out that our sister is well… questioning what she wants to be, and now she's on her period." Loki then sighs, letting himself take in just what was going on, before he quips, "At least Christmas break is coming soon. Maybe we'll get a break then."
With another sigh he declares, "Ok, big brother Loki mode on." Then, a determined look overtakes the boy's face, "Let's do this. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that Bebe has her time of the month around Linka's, but oh well! At least I can see it coming!"
And with that, the eldest brother rushes up to his room and runs into his closet. "I hope I remembered to stock up… This is the first line of defense against the Linkpocalypse!" He thinks, as he digs through the random assortment of boxes, cabinets, trinkets and drill rifles that crowd the closet, before he comes across a small brown box labeled, "Use In Case Of Female Emergency Only!"
"Please tell me I stocked enough, please tell me I stocked enough!" Loki repeats, as he slowly peels back the cover and takes a peek inside. His heart beats faster in anticipation, holding it quickly before finally flipping the lid!
"Fuck!"
"Hey Loki, whatcha' doin'?" Loni tiredly sits up in his bed and stretches in response, "You remember what dad said about cussing around the house. Linka could hear and get corrupted or something!"
Loki puts on a sheepish smile, "Oh nothing, I was just checking supplies and stuff for the family trip in a few days. And don't worry, I highly doubt Linka heard that one."
Loni tilts his head in confusion for a moment, before shrugging and returning to bed.
"Phew, close one." The young man thinks, before re-hiding the box and grabbing his wallet, phone and keys off his nightstand, "I hope these guys can handle Linka's… current status while I'm gone."
Then, with even more determination, the young man heads out of his room and quickly sneaks out of the house, hops in the family van and drives off with a single destination in mind.
Meanwhile…
Linka stands in the middle of her now messy linen closet room, "Dangit Linka! Where the heck did you hide your chocolate?! Now I'm craving some and I can't find any!"
She then grabs Trevor's device off the floor and shouts, "Come on you stupid person-card sealing thing! Don't you have chocolate or something?!"
No response. Figures.
In frustration, the young girl throws the device onto her bed, before continuing to search her room. "I just want some bloody chocolate!" Linka shouts with a familiar accent, before she pauses, "Wait, when did I turn British?"
"Uhh Linka, you in here?" Lynn calmly asks, "I wanted to know if…" The young man takes a quick look inside the young girl's room, "Uhh… I think I should-"
Linka glares at him in response, before her expression softens, "Oh hey Lynn!"
"This isn't a good time, am I right?" Lynn asks, taking a step back and slowly closing the door.
The young girl shrugs, "Don't know, what do you need?"
"Luke just wanted to make sure that you and him were good to hang out today and stuff."
"Yeah Lynn, I'm still good if he wants to go and stuff." Linka calmly responds, before turning and picking the random assortment of trinkets and items off her closet floor… forgetting that she had changed into a skirt.
Lynn nosebleeds again, before turning around and walking straight into his room, not even bothering to even address his waiting brothers.
Only he knows what naughty thoughts have entered his mind.
"Ok…" Linka thinks, "Lincoln, you're a girl now. And it's that time of the month." She then finishes cleaning her room up, before sighing and sitting down on her bed, "Now, what did your older sisters do to deal with their time of the month."
For the next few moments, she does her best to remember… yet the thoughts don't seem to come her.
"Either I don't remember what they did or…" Then the realization hits her, "Or I never spent time with them while they were dealing with this stuff… F!" throws herself on the bed in frustration.
That's when Rita shouts, "Kids! Breakfast is ready! I brought some chocolate chips from the contest yesterday, so we're having chocolate-chip pancakes!"
Linka's eyes open wide, before she jumps up and rushes out her room door.
"I'm still confused as to how something with chocolate is considered acceptable for breakfast," Levi remarks as he adjusts his glasses.
"Shut up, Levi, nobody cares," Lexx responds, "Chocolate is good for you and tasty to boot!"
That's when their sister bolts passed them and down the Loud House stairs, leaving the brothers confused and surprised in her wake.
"Uhh… is it that time of the month again Luke?" Lane asks in confusion. "She usually doesn't rush down to get the little chocolate mom puts in her pancakes unless… you know."
"I wouldn't know, but it seems like it. Loki would know since… I don't know why really." Luke shrugs, before turning to Loni, "Do you know where Loki went? He usually holds a brother's meeting to tell us these things so we don't accidently cross her or Bebe."
Loni shrugs, "All I did was watch him go through some box this morning. I don't know what he was doing with it though…"
Levi then follows, "Interesting… I need to take a sample from Linka's room to make sure." Then he turns and takes a step towards Linka's room… only for Lynn to grab the scientist by the collar and pull him away with, "No Levi, you're not invading Linka's privacy again, you know how well that turned out last time."
"Curses." He responds. "Foiled again."
"So what are we going to do?" Leif speaks up and Luke responds by pointing at his four youngest brothers, "Levi, Lexx, Leif and Lars, I want you to stay clear of Linka for the time being, you don't know how bad some women get when it's that time of the month, got it?"
Then he motions at Lane, Loni, Lynn and himself, "Us four are going to do whatever we can to keep Linka calm while we wait for Loki to come home from whatever he went out to do, got it?"
The brothers nod in agreement.
"Good." Luke's voice is filled with a brotherly command as he finishes, "Now come on, it's breakfast time."
The ten brothers nod, and head over to their tables with restrained order, as if trying to make sure that they didn't annoy their parents and agitated sister.
Linka takes about ten minutes to eat her allotted chocolate-chip pancakes, before she gets up with, "I'm headed up to my room."
Lynn and Rita nod in allowance and watch as their only daughter calmly leaves the table… while not noticing the missing bowl of chocolate chips in the kitchen a few minutes later.
A few moments later and Linka Loud is back in her room, devouring the sweets without hesitation.
"Mmm chocolate." Linka purrs, as she takes another handful of the sweet substance and throws them in her mouth, "No wonder my sisters were chocoholics, this stuff tastes great!" She then stretches, before lying down, "Thank goodness the cramps stopped, those were horrible!"
She then takes a deep breath… before taking another handful of chocolate and throwing it in her mouth, "Ok then, what to do… what to do?" She takes a quick look around her newly cleaned off desk, and notices a small black sphere with a golden casing on it.
"The Matter Key…" She whispers, before getting up and taking the strange object in her hand, "William told me to equip it to the dimensional watch… somehow." She then takes hold of the device that caused this mess and stares at it, "But how? It's not like I can just jam them together or something…" Then she places them next to each other and tries to, well, jam them together. Immediately, the matter key reacts, glowing with purple energy for a moment, before enveloping the watch with its glow and disappearing.
A few moments later, the dimensional watch reforms and lands in her hands. This time instead of a dull grey, its strap has turned black while its dull grey faceplate has gained a golden boarder.
"Huh… I guess that works…" She quips, before tying the watch to her arm and leaning back. "Now… how to deal with my first period like this."
That's when Linka hears a knock at her door. "Hey Linka, it's Loki!"
"Door's unlocked, you can come on in." Linka calmly responds and immediately, her eldest brother enters the room carrying a small box labeled, "For Linka's Lady Days."
"How are you feeling?" the young man asks with a fatherly tone, "I heard it's that time of the month again." He then leans over and places the small box on her bed.
"Who told you?!" Linka angrily asks, "Did Levi do some more tests on me again?!" before realizing what he said, "Lincoln… how the heck did you know that?! Levi hasn't run any tests on me since you got here!"
Loki shakes his head, "Nah, I just know the signs really well." He then pulls a few supplies and places them on the desk, "Some tampons, Children's Tylenol, and stuff to stop hold off the bleeding and deal with the pain." He smiles with pride, "And I've made sure that you would have enough for the entire week."
Linka takes a good look at the random items he had given and smiles as well, "Thanks Loki!"
Then, he peaks out into the hallway, before whispering, "I know dad doesn't like you getting too much chocolate, especially around this time, but I made sure to pick up a few dozen bars before I left the mall." Then he carefully pulls out an oversized bar of white chocolate and passes it to the girl, "Don't forget to hide this, or else Levi might use it to try and understand the color white again."
The young girl's eyes go wide with a ravenous ecstasy for a moment, before she looks up at Loki with begging eyes, "Thanks Loki!" And with that, she takes the bar in her hands.
Loki motions for Linka to sit on her bed and she complies. He then follows and takes a seat next to her and hands Bun Bun over with a soft hug, "Don't worry Linka, this is just mother nature saying you're growing up, you're going to be fine."
And with that, the young man stands up and steps out of the room, leaving Linka behind.
"Ya know what… I think that this isn't going to be so bad after all…"
Then, she steps out of her room and heads down to the living room with the biggest grin on her face. "Hey Lexx and Lars!" She greets.
"Sigh." Lars responds.
"Hey Linka!" Lexx holds up the remote.
"May I have the remote?" Linka politely requests.
Lexx shakes his head, "No! I'm watching-"
Linka gains an angry expression, before jumping at him, "Give me the remote."
A few minutes later and Linka sits between the two, with her smile having returned and the remote now firmly in her grasp.
"So this is what Luke meant by stay clear of Linka..." Lexx declares before promptly passing out.
A few minutes later…
"You sure you want to do this bro?" Luke asks, before placing his guitar in its rack.
"Yeah," Loki responds, his voice breathing of a commanding calm, "I doubt you the others have had to deal with this before, have you?"
Luke shakes his head, "Usually, I just give my roadie the week off when her time comes. You as well as I know that in a house as small as this, it's hard to deal with that stuff in here. You sure? I can try calming her down with music after all."
"Yeah, I'm sure I want to do this Luke," Then Loki turns and steps out of the room, "You can have fun with Linka and that music contest later, It's in a week or something right?"
"Yeah," Then he grabs an acoustic guitar and begins tuning, "well then, good luck and have fun I guess."
"I'll try." Loki mutters, before taking a deep breath and heading downstairs.
He stands up at attention in front of Lynn Sr. who simply responds with a soft, "Yes Loki?"
"Sir, I wish to take Linka to the mall today. May I have your permission to do so, sir?!" Loki speaks with a booming voice, as if he had been trained to sound off.
Lynn Sr. raises an eyebrow in response, "No! She went a few days ago and went out with Junior yesterday! Why should I let her go out when she could stay home and finish her work?!"
The young man thinks for a moment, before sounding off his response, "Sir! Because Linka is currently menstruating and I believe it would be in the best interest of the family for her to go out and spend with another girl and myself, given the circumstances of the previous cycle, sir!"
"Oh, I see." The man thinks about the disaster of Linka's last time, before returning to his paper, "All right then son, feel free to take her out. But make sure she's safe and home in time for dinner."
"Sir, yes sir! Sir, thank you sir!" and with that, the young man turns and walks up the stairs.
Lynn Sr. flips his newspaper page and mutters, "That time at military school worked wonders."
Loki walks over to his sister's door once more, adrenaline rushing through his veins, "Ok Loki, just like with Bebe, stay calm and prepare for whatever comes your way." He then knocks, "Hey Linka, wanna hang out with your big brother today?"
A soft silence emanates from her room door.
"Linka? You in there?"
*Groan* "Go away." Linka responds tiredly.
"Take some of the meds," Loki replies, before grabbing hold of the room door and entering his sister's private sanctum. "Bebe says they help a lot with the cramps and stuff."
"Ugh, I feel like I'm going to throw up." The girl declares, while leaning up against her wall.
*Sigh* "Ok Linka, Come on." Loki softly brings the girl's trashcan over to her, "If you need to throw up just do it in here ok?"
"Thanks Loki…" She declares, "Is there something wrong with me?"
Loki shakes his head in response, "Of course not, you're my sister, and how you're feeling is just a part of life."
The young girl smiles, "Thanks Loki. How do you know how to deal with girls when they're like this? I never thought that you would, ya know, be so knowledgeable about a girl's time and stuff."
Loki smiles in response, "Very few do, and you can thank Bebe for that." He then rubs the back of his head in embarrassment. "I kinda walked in on her when she was trying to deal with her period and stuff." He leans back against the wall, "When you spend so much time around a girl, you start to pick up on the things that you need to do make sure they feel comfortable."
Linka smiles, "Thanks again Loki."
"No prob sis." He responds, "Am I still you favorite brother?"
The young girl nods, "Yeah bro, you're still my favorite."
"Haha! Good!" Loki joyously responds, "Because of your current condition, Luke and I agreed to let me spend the day with you instead. Do you mind?"
For a moment, she hesitates, but nods anyway, "Ok then Loki, so what are we going to do today?"
"I called up Bebe and Ron Andy. They're going to meet us at the mall ok?"
Linka's face goes red in embarrassment, "Uhh, you brought Ron Andy! That's…" her voice fills with a soft care, "Actually… spending time with him sounds really nice…" While in the back of his mind he thinks, "Dangit Lincoln! You like Ronnie Anne, back home remember! This isn't like you at all! Why the heck does his… handsome smile… strong, passionate heart… his-" She cuts off her own thoughts, "Snap out of it!"
"There's nothing better than having the guy you like and the older sister you don't have around when you need some guidance and laughs, am I right?" Loki quips, before offering the young girl his hand, "So wanna go? We don't want to keep them waiting."
The nauseous feeling dissipates from Linka and she nods, "Sure Loki, let's go now."
And with that, the duo gets up and heads out, with Loki declaring, "Hey dad, I'm leaving and taking Linka to the mall now!"
"All right son, make sure she's safe." Lynn Sr. responds with a commanding, fatherly tone.
A few minutes later…
After the short van ride required to reach the Royal Woods Mall, the duo gets out and walks over to the main entrance, where they find Bebe and Ron Andy waiting for them.
"Heyyyy Loki." Bebe greets, before throwing her arms around her loving boyfriend.
"Hey Bebe." Loki responds, before grabbing onto her sides in a loving response.
Linka walks over to Ron and rubs the back of her head awkwardly, "Hey Ron Andy…" Her voice nervously trails off.
The boy fights his urge to blush as he greets, "Hey Linka. I heard you're doing well…"
The girl fights the urge to blush as well, "Yeah I have…"
"Ok then," Loki declares, "You know what to do Bebe, right?"
Bebe playfully punches Loki's arm, "Yeah, I know what to do, this is your little sister after all."
"Huh?" Linka tilts her head in confusion, "What do you mean?"
Loki kneels down to Linka's height and gives a soft response, "Since you're going through something us guys can't help with much, I decided that it'd be a good idea if you spent the day with another girl, one with much more experience than me or Claudia."
For a moment, Linka hesitates, unsure of what to do next, yet Ron Andy simply walks over to Loki's side, "I guess I'll stay with your bro then, Lame-O." He gains a soft, understanding air around him.
"Ok then." And so, the young girl sighs, before turning to Bebe, "So where to first?"
The older girl smiles, before taking Linka's hand and answering, "Hmm, how about we head to the hair salon? Your white hair looks like it hasn't been fixed up in ages!"
Linka smiles, "Ok then." And with that, the two girls walk into the mall, leaving the two boys alone outside.
Ron Andy then steps forward to follow… only for Loki to grab him by the collar and pull him in.
"What the heck?" The young boy goes in fear.
Loki glares at the boy, "Never call my sister Lame-O ever again. Got that, punk?" The older boy stares straight into Ron Andy's soul with that threat, to which the younger boy simply gives a frantic and terrified nod.
"Good." Loki continues, before letting go, "Now come on, let's give the girls some privacy to do their thing. Plus, I have something way more fun in mind than sitting around waiting."
"You sure it won't end up like the last time we tried to hang out?"
"The Pony deserved it though!" Loki hastily responds, "Now come on, do you really want to sit down and do nothing for the next…" Loki glances at his watch, "six hours?"
"Good point." Ron Andy responds, before turning and walking towards the Loud family van.
And with that, Loki follows and the duo drives off to whatever adventure they had in mind.
Meanwhile…
"Ahh, this is amazing" Linka quips as she lets the soothing drier push the water out of her newly cleaned white hair. "I've never been to a hair salon before. Dad's worried that I'm going to get attacked if I'm not with my bros or something."
In the back of her mind though, she screams, "Lincoln… why the heck are you enjoying getting your hair done?! It's just a waste of time!" But, rather than fight, her mind decides to just follow the impulse.
"I know right?! Loki takes me here every now and then because it just feels so nice." Bebe speaks with her own kind voice, "You know that if you ever need another girl to talk to, you have my number right? I don't think your dad would mind if you went out with another girl."
Linka nods, "Yeah. I just, with ten brothers I feel like this stuff is too awkward to talk about and stuff. As for dad well…" her voice trails off uncertainly.
"Haha!" Bebe goes, "Don't worry sis, I understand. Trying to talk about girl problems isn't easy, and frankly, I'm glad Loki has such a cool little sis to hang out with. And don't worry about dad problems."
"I'm just glad that Ron Andy has such a cool older sis too…" while she thinks, "Like the sister I never had…" She then mentally slaps herself, "Lincoln! You've had ten sisters! Bebe though… is like the sister you don't have here…"
"Haha, you really like Ronnie don't you?" Bebe jokingly asks, "I can tell, you're really not good at hiding your feelings." She continues with a nostalgic tone filling her voice, "I guess you two really are meant for each other in a way or something like that."
Linka looks away and blushes, "Haha, yeah…" Then she turns to her and continues, "Hey Bebe… how did you meet Loki? He doesn't seem like the type to ya know, meet up with a girl that easily."
"There's a short story to that." Bebe responds, "Since we've got some time before the blow dryers finish doing their job, how about I tell you? And then I can give you some good advice for dealing with your period, older sister style."
Linka thinks for a moment, and nods, "Sure Bebe, I'd like that."
Bebe leans back and looks forward. A soft, comforting air overtakes them as she begins, "Well, I met your brother about a year ago, he was how do I say, the cool bad boy in the school."
"Haha!" Linka goes, "Loki? Trying to be a bad boy? That sounds hilarious!"
"You're telling me? But somehow, he still managed to get some of the girls, not me of course, I thought that he was trying too hard to be someone he wasn't." She then closes her eyes and lets herself get drawn in by the hair dryer, "Then one day, I was walking home at night when some random dude tried to attack me."
Linka's eyes go wide in surprise, "What… why?"
Bebe shrugs, "Don't know actually, I was able to fight him off, but Loki came along anyway and kicked his arse while shouting, 'No one hurts my sister on my watch!' and something like that."
"So he helped ya out?"
"Heh, yeah." Bebe responds, her voice becoming even more nostalgic while her face goes blush, "He fought him the way a trained soldier would. He's never told me why though."
The young girl shrugs, before listening closely."
"Anyways, I decided to give him a chance after that. Haha! At first he was trying to keep the bad boy façade up, but he turned out to be a big ol' softie."
"I can tell. He doesn't really seem like the bad boy type."
Bebe nods, and the two driers finish drying their long locks, "Yeah, haha, now come on, let's go do some other girl stuff." Linka smiles in response, and the two girls leave the salon with that.
A few moments of silence pass, with the two girls just taking a good look at the mall surrounding them. The large marble tiling that they walk over works beautifully with the off-white of the second floor balcony shops. Though the mall is mostly concrete, there are foggy skylights about the hallways.
After minutes of just aimlessly wandering through the mall, Linka breaks the soft silence with, "Hey Bebe, why'd you date my bro if he was such an arsehat?" she tilts her head towards her in confusion, "You don't seem to be the type to date a bad boy… even if they helped you out."
Bebe chuckles, "Well, I wouldn't normally, but after he 'rescued' me that night, I offered him the chance to date me. It was the least I could do." She then leads the girl into a nearby department store, "Under a few conditions of course."
"And those were?" Linka tilts her own head while she thinks, "I now know why women wear these tampons... they work surprisingly well to hold off the bleeding."
"Well for one, he had to drop the bad boy facade. He had to treat me like a lady. And he would have to treat me like he would his own sister."
Linka's head snaps to her in shock, "So he became overly protective and stuff?"
Bebe nods, "He got cleaned up and when some other boy tried to mess with me... he kicked his arse with nothing but a paperclip and some noodles."
"Haha! Seriously sis?!"
"Yep!" she responds, her voice gaining a hint of excitement, "Now let's get you some new clothes, orange is your favorite color right?"
"Yeah..." Linka nervously responds.
Bebe then responds by pulling a set of orange undies from the pile, "Then these should do, after all, you have to replace the one's you're in sometimes. I'd say, after we buy these to keep them in your purse, just in case."
Linka's face goes red, before she sheepishly responds, "Sure Bebe, sure."
Then she leans down, "And let's get you some new clothes, it's like you wear the exact same thing every day!"
"Ok then." Linka eagerly goes, "Why does the idea of shopping for new clothes suddenly have an allure to it? Why do I now want to go through all this stuff just to see what looks good?! I have to ask William what's going on with me!"
A few minutes later the duo walks out of there, now with several bags filled with random clothes and trinkets weighing them down. "So where to next Linka?"
"How about the spa?" Linka suggests, while her mind shouts, "Why am I oddly ok with that? I just went yesterday with Lynn didn't I? Why is it like I've never gone before?!"
Bebe thinks for a moment, "Sure Linka, but later. Once we go there we'll probably come out too late for the rest of the shopping!"
And so, the younger girl thinks for a moment, "Well then how about you decide then?"
"How about we go to watch a wrestling match?"
Linka just looks on in surprise.
"What? Just cause we're girls doesn't mean we can't like wrestling."
"Huh, well I guess you're right." A feeling of dread overtakes her, causing her to grab onto her and beg, "Please don't tell dad!" her mind begins to race with random thoughts, "Why the heck did I just say that?! Why do I feel so… emotional all of a sudden?!"
Bebe kneels down to Linka's height and responds, "Don't worry, I won't. Loki and I agreed that neither of us would speak of what happened ok?"
The younger girl wipes one of the tears that had begun to form under her eyes. "Thanks Bebe."
"No problem."
And so the two go, and watch the game.
Later...
"Well, I've told you everything I possibly could about Loki and I." Bebe quips, "As well as my 'time of the month' advice. So how about you girl? How'd you meet up with Ron?"
Linka blushes, "Well… we met when he started bullying me for no reason, and then I decided to try and challenge him to a fight… For some odd reason I decided to kiss him instead. Ever since then he's softened up to me and treated me really well." While she thinks, "It's a good thing that I didn't tell my bros or else Ron Andy would probably be in the hospital. Wait, Lincoln… how do you know that?"
"Heh, no wonder Ron's seemed more mellow since he started talking about ya. He never stops!"
"Really?"
"Yeah." Bebe's voice gains a motherly nostalgia to it, "He just goes on and on, talking about you like you're the girl of his dreams."
She smiles in response, "I don't know why or how, but I think I just enjoyed spending six hours shopping with Bebe…" The duo then walks through the front entrance to the mall. "She's just like what Bobby was to me!"
"Anyways, when you want to go out and do some things, as well as 'stop' the bleeding when you go out, make sure to use and carry some tampons ok? As for the cramps and pain, use the meds Loki gave you, all right? They help make the week bearable"
Linka nods, "Thanks Bebe, I wish my brothers knew half of the things you taught me."
"No prob girl, if you ever need some advice from another girl, or just someone to talk to, you know who to call."
Linka smiles once more, and with that Vanzilla rolls into the parking lot.
The two boys inside look like they had just been through a tornado of adventure with… whatever they came back from. While the third, Cristopher, simply opens the passenger side door, steps out and looks at Linka with traumatized eyes.
"Ahh!" He screams, "I just read a story in which you had a twin sister and you went too far with her! The internet named her 'Liberty'!" Then, he nervously runs off, continuing to scream in terror.
"Uhh… what was that?" Linka stammers, only for Ron and Loki to shrug and the older boy to shrug, "Don't know, we picked him up and he's just been like that."
The two girls just shrug in response.
"Anyways guys, what have you been doin?" Bebe jokingly asks, as she gets in the passenger side seat next to Loki.
"Don't ask… all you need to know is that it involved some determination, a flower, duct tape and a small pony… again."
Linka raises an eyebrow as she takes the seat next to Ron, "Care to explain?"
"Nope, it's going in the pile of stories we won't talk about unless we are asked to by the authorities, along with the last time we hung out together."
"If you two hanging out together is so dangerous, why do you do it?" Bebe curiously asks, to which Loki whole-heartedly responds, "Because sometimes, we need more chaos to make our normal chaos easier to pull off."
"One day I will see what he does with Ron in his free time." Linka thinks, before giving a soft sigh, "Why do I feel so weird… I shouldn't like Ron, I'm a boy… but I can't help but feel like I actually like him. At least I have Bebe to talk to, so that helps. I've been going along with it to prevent suspicions but…"
"So did you like hanging out with Bebe, Linka?" Loki calmly asks, bringing her back to reality.
The young girl quickly nods, "Yeah! We should do this again sometime!"
"Haha, that's great."
And with that, the group drives off… not noticing the flakes of snow beginning to fall.