This fanfiction is written by the author DawnFrontier12
You can find it on Wattpad.
I am translating this fanfiction from Spanish into English.
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Chapter 1: The Winter That Changed Everything.
<I have to be willing to give up who I am in order to become who I will be.>
-Albert Einstein-
Another day had arrived in the Royal Woods City, winter had come early that year, covering everything with its white cloak.
The streets were covered in white; the little creatures had begun their three-month nap, and the Christmas season was approaching. The aroma of hot chocolate from the local coffeehouses and gingerbread filled the air, accompanied by the scent of mistletoe and pine trees.
Ornate white, red, and green ornaments and vibrant flickering Christmas lights adorn the doors and windows. And what could not be missing, Santa Claus has taken to the streets in the form of decorations, advertisements, and men in disguise.
The nearby lakes had become solid skating rinks as couples, friends, and families showed off their skills or attempted to learn how to skate. In the central square, a huge Christmas tree, luxuriously decorated with gold and silver ornaments and with a star crowning it, was being prepared to be lit. Yes, Christmas had taken over the town, but this Christmas would be different for a certain suburban family.
In a small room at 1216 Franklin Street, Lincoln Loud was getting ready to ride on a new sled for the first time since his older sister Lynn had destroyed the previous one. The boy looked at the camera and began to speak.
He said, "When you live in a big family like mine, you have to take care of your things."
You see, last summer we went to the beach and Lynn had the idea of taking my skates to slide in the sand, of course, it sounded like a good idea, but then we realized that under the sand there are also rocks and pebbles. Rest in peace, my old skates. Although it wasn't all bad, where my mom and dad bought me another one for my birthday, and I've been waiting all year to use it. According to the weather service, this is going to be the snowiest winter ever. One more thing, according to the news, we'll have what's called -a Super Winter Holiday- a whole month and a half without school! Even though they did it to win over 18-year-old voters, we kids can still enjoy it.
Downstairs, the girls were creating traditional Christmas mayhem. Lori tried not to open any presents early, Leni attempted to create something for the holiday that wasn't made from the frills her mother had been searching for everywhere, Luna tried to write a new Christmas song, Luan made Christmas jokes, Lynn and lucy looked for gifts around the house, Lola tried to be good, and Lana set traps to catch one of Santa's reindeer, while Lily played with her Christmas decorations.
In the upstairs rooms, family genius Lisa Loud has mixed some alchemical ingredients recently purchased on the black market to create her own. What's the reason for this? Well, it was very simple. She had thought of creating a formula that would allow children to have a more adult mindset.
"Stupid little ones. Wasting 45 glorious days of studying, no wonder everyone gets the worst grades in the state. If all goes well, I'll be able to release it into the water supply" she said while shaking the formula over her head, seeing it change colour in the sunlight.
Lincoln, who had overheard everything hidden behind the wall, decided to confront his younger sister, asking her, "Lisa, what do you think you're doing?"
"What do you think?" she asked. "Save our fellow creatures from having their minds become a soft homogeneous mass of primeval mud" said Lisa, without stopping the mixer.
"I don't understand anything you're saying" Lincoln said.
Lisa looked at him in frustration. "I think you already know that, considering you've been spying on me."
Lincoln wanted to run, but the robotic arms that came out of the ceiling grabbed him and left him hanging upside down. "You won't get away with this, Lisa" he said. "I'll tell mom!"
Lisa looked at him again with a questioning face and said, "We'll see, Big Brother"
Lisa finished her experiment by pouring the liquids she had mixed into a beaker to finally see how they changed from green to yellow and from yellow to red. "Ha-ha-ha-ha, it worked, mu-ha-ha-ha!" The little scientist laughed, but her laughter stopped when she saw how the formula changed from red to white, and then to gray, and finally to black.
Lincoln knew it wasn't a good sign when he saw his sister with a shocked face, "Lisa?" He asked "Is this normal? Please tell me yes" the young man pleaded, still holding onto her.
Lisa said, "No... that shouldn't happen."
The bottle began shaking and bouncing until it spilled over, causing an unstable chemical reaction.
"Everything will fly," she exclaimed, running
"Wait!" Lincoln yelled, "Get me out of here."
The girl forgot about her brother in the panic of the moment, his release button was very close to the epicenter of the explosion. But she had to do it, she was the only hope for Lincoln. She ran toward the button and pressed it, releasing her brother. When the chemicals reached the critical point, Lincoln ran, hugging his sister, using his sled as a shield.
The explosion was huge, and they were both thrown out of the window. After their parents heard the explosion and saw their children fall into the tree in the yard, they desperately ran to help them.
Through the snow, they saw Lincoln hugging an unconscious Lisa، her eyes closed, but she was still breathing. They were soon taken to the hospital, where they were treated.
Outside the emergency room, the doctor -a bald man with glasses- was talking to the parents.
"Well" the doctor was examining the patient. "The daughter is out of danger, although she has some bruises and a broken arm, but the son..."
Mr. Lynn started freaking out. "What? What happened to my son?"
"Good" the doctor said, unable to find the words to say anything else as a shriek pulled them both out of their thoughts.
A nurse ran over to where the doctor had been. "The boy is already awake!"
Soon everyone, the nurses, the doctor, and the Loud family, arrived in Lincoln's room. He was still holding his face tightly.
"What's going on?" asked the boy, rubbing his eyes vigorously. "I can't see" he shouted, turning to where he heard the footsteps of his family and medical staff. His pupils and irises, which were normally blue, had become blurry with hardened edges.
The parents turned to see the doctor, who looked down and cleared his glasses. "That's what I've been trying to tell you. His eyesight is damaged. I'm sorry, he'll never see again."
Rita approached her son and hugged him
Lincoln freaked out when he felt the hug. "Mom? Are you my mom?"
Rita began to cry, saying, "Yes, son, I am. Your mother is here."
Outside the hospital, the Louds got into the family van and drove home.
As they walked, the girls were silent, only Lori daring to speak. "So... will Lincoln be blind forever?"
The car stopped at a red light, and the father watched his daughters in the rear-view mirror as they began to cry.
Leni couldn't believe the situation they were going through, just yesterday, her little brother had been reading a comic and playing his video games, and now he couldn't even see his own face in the mirror. "They can cure him, right?" she asked, her voice trembling as tears streamed down her cheeks.
"I don't know, my dear," said Rita. "The damage he sustained was very serious."
Already back home, the Louds had cleaned and tidied up Lisa and Lily's room.
"It's all Lisa's fault" Luna begins crying. Everyone turns to see the rocker. "It's her fault" she says, squeezing the broomstick so hard it breaks in half.
"What are you talking about, daughter?" her father asked.
Luna was changing the wand as she spoke. "I heard it all too, she was planning to put something in the city water, Lincoln was going to tell you, Mom, but she stopped him, and I went downstairs to tell you, but then everything exploded. Because of that bitch my brother is blind. You deserve to be in a coma, and you deserve to stay there in a coma forever. "
The girls and their parents hugged her when they saw her fall to the ground.
A month passed, and Lisa didn't wake up, Luna's words seemed to fall like a curse on the girl, while with Lincoln it was no better. Every morning he got up crying because he didn't know if his eyes were still open or closed, and if it would be more appropriate to say that he was crying, since his tear ducts had been damaged by the explosion, or if it was all a dream. Someone had to constantly attend to him if he needed help to get up to go to the bathroom, and this was always with one of his sisters or his parents, who took turns spending the night with him, so that he could eat without spilling something on himself. A world without lights or colors, in complete darkness was a living nightmare, but little by little Lincoln learned how to move forward. His friend Clyde helped him. Visiting him daily in the hospital, reading him wonderful comics and describing the drawings in vivid detail, Luan encouraged him by telling him jokes, being careful not to tell jokes about hir brother's attitude.
Luna played beautiful songs for him as long as they weren't too loud to disturb the other patients.
Finally, on the last day of the first month of winter, it was a Friday, and Lincoln was discharged from the hospital, his mother taking him in a wheelchair to the family carriage. The boy wore black glasses and carri ed a folding cane.
When he got home, he was greeted with a hug from his sisters and pets. He learned Lisa wasn't there. After losing his sight, he started relying on his hearing and could hear she was in a coma. Partly, he felt guilty, he had lost his sight and was still limping on one leg since the fall, but even with all that, he couldn't save his little sister.
He was well received at home by the girls, who had prepared a chocolate cake for him to celebrate his return home.
"You can now spend the rest of the holiday with us" said Leni, hugging her brother.
Lincoln and his parents wore worried expressions, which the girls noticed.
Luan asked "Why do they look like this?"
"Girls" Rita said, "sit down. We have to tell you something important." She pointed to the couch, and the girls obediently sat down.
"What's the matter, Mom?" Lynn asked, knowing something was wrong and hoping it had nothing to do with her brother's health.
Mrs. Loud stood before her daughters and began to speak. "Girls, I'm afraid there is no easy way to say this, but..." she paused "Lincoln will not be living here anymore."
It left all of her daughters speechless.
"Why doesn't Lincoln live here anymore?" Lucy asked in astonishment.
Rita looked her daughter in the eye as she raised her gaze. "Honey, it's true. Lincoln is going to a special school for children like him. The doctor who treated Lincoln has a sister who is the principal of that school, and I accepted two weeks ago. The bad news is that it is in Canada."
Everyone was shocked to hear about the location of the school.
"Canada!?" they all shouted together.
"Yes, Canada" said Rita.
Mr. Loud continued "Your grandfather owns a house near the town where the school is, Lincoln will live there."
"They can't take him from us like that." luna said Jumping off the couch.
Rita apologized to her daughter and began to cry, saying "I'm sorry, but we have no other choice."
"It's going to be hard, but you need to understand that it's what's best for your little brother. In Canada, they don't have the super long winter break, so they have school, Lincoln and Grandpa will leave on Monday morning."
For the rest of the weekend, the girls spent playing and chatting with their little brother since they would only see him during Christmas, New Year's, and summer holidays.
Monday arrived, and the taxi that would take them to the airport was waiting for Lincoln outside.
Rita hugged her son for the last time. "You have everything? Toothbrush? Clean clothes? Let me check one more time."
Lincoln laughed at his mother's attitude and said "Calm down, Mom, I'm fine."
Grandpa brought their bags and waited for them on the porch. "Rita, calm down, the boy is blind, but he's not stupid."
Rita sighed. "I know, Dad, I didn't think it would happen."
The sisters finally hugged their brother with their parents
"Don't forget my face, you silly one," lori said in a sarcasm-filled tone.
Lincoln laughed and replied, "It's not going to happen, unfortunately."
Everyone laughed and let Lincoln go. They could only see how the lonely boy from Loud House had gotten into the taxi with his grandfather. The car started and disappeared over the horizon.
