5. New Music Liking

Lincoln was watching "ARGGH!" on TV with the latest episode, "The buckteeth Mexican banshee" and he loved it. After it was over, he wondered what else was on TV, and didn't really see anything, until he noticed the Crocodile Hunter: Steve Irwin and his old show before he died. "We are deep in the Democratic Republic of Congo with the gaboon viper, the biggest snake in all of Africa." he narrated on TV

Lincoln was really impressed by the way that snake looked, and it's eyes, and small horns on it's horns.

"Bro." said Luna coming down the stairs, with Lincoln's new guitar that she gifted with her. "I fixed this bad boy for you right up, now it will sounds rockin' as you play it."

"Oh, awesome!" Lincoln said.

Then his big sister noticed Steve Irwin. "Dude, is that the Crocodile Hunter? I love that guy. And... whoa! that is a big, cool looking snake."

"I know, right?" Lincoln agreed. "You know, it's a shame that he's dead, Everyone loved that guy."

"Totally, I remember when I was a little girl and I watched this every morning before I would go to school. Somehwere around Lola and Lana's age I think. Still, it is sad he's gone now."

"well, enough of that." Lincoln remarked. "Thanks for helping my new guitar, Luna, and thanks for giving this to me."

"no prob, bro." Then she hugged him again. "So, wanna look at some of my CD's that you might like?"

"sure, what do you got?"

"come on, I'll show you, dude." Then Lincoln turned off the TV and went upstairs to Luna and Luan's room.

"Hey Lincoln, I would tell you an experiment joke, bad sadly, I don't know about your reaction. Hahaha! Get it?" Luan joked.

Lincoln and Luna groaned after hearing one of her terrible puns as usual. "Good one, Luan. Really classy." Said the brother sarcastically.

"so, anyway, you know Mick Swagger's songs, right?" Luna asked him while looking at her CD collection from the closet.

"how can I not hear it. After all, you were the one that taught me about him."

his older sister laughed "right. Well, here's some albums from bands with rocking songs that you will just jam into. Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Metallica, Velvet Underground, Smooch, of course."

"heck yeah, I love all those guys!" Lincoln said.

"sure, you may have heard of a few songs from these guys, but you have not heard all of them."

"cool, what else is there?"

"some bands you never heard of like Tesla, Cinderella,"

Lincoln snickered. "There's a band named after the princess?"

"yeah, it's kind of funny dude, but names aren't everything. This band has very awesome songs that will make you headband for sure."

"what other good bands are there?" Lincoln asked.

"I'll show you some of my CDs and you can put them on your iPod to jam out to when you feel like it."

they both looked at other rockin' CDs like Megadeth, Motörhead, White Lion, Dokken, Slayer, Stryper, Alter Bridge, and others. "Are these guys good?"

"good? Dude, they are amazing. And you probably haven't heard of these guys, have you?"

"not really."

"then get them on your iPod man, and you should totally play some of them on your new guitar."

"any other bands that I should know of?"

"there are, but there are so many I don't think I can tell you all in one day, dude. I'll give you a couple more suggestions and I can help you sinc your songs on your jam player."

"awesome, who else?"

"Poets of the Fall, Leatherwolf, Icon, and Living Colour. If you have heard of the song "Cult of Personality" then you might be familiar with the last band I mentioned."

"oh yeah!" Lincoln remembered. "I do remember that song. Come on, let's get some of these on my iPod. And... I know this sounds stupid, but will I like them?"

"of course you will, buddy. And don't worry, that wasn't a stupid question." She gently rubbed his white hair, and went to to his room, and got on his laptop. They both worked on getting the songs from Luna's albums to the music player, and both were having fun.

"say Luna, you want to go swimming at the poo later?"

"uhh, we're banned from every pool within sixty miles, that's what Lisa said."

"oh yeah, sorry.'

"no don't be sorry bro, it's alright. So, Bro, after this, would you like to do anything fun?"

"hmm, well, I think I'm done for today." Then Lincoln got a text on his phone, and looked at it. "Oh, it's from Ronnie Anne."

Luna of course, was happy because she was so proud of Lincoln for having a girlfriend as usual. "Dude, what did she say?"

"she said she was wondering if I would like to go to the pizza arcade with her today. But... I think I'm just gonna tell her I'll do it another day, and I already spent time with you at Dairyland. But I don't want to hurt her feelings."

"oh dude, don't worry, she'll understand. Just tell her why you aren't coming with her today."

"yeah, you're right." Then Lincoln texted his girlfriend back, saying he already spent time with Luna, and is tired. "So do you think you can teach me to use the guitar after this?"

"you know it, Lincoln. I'll teach you how to play chords and single note keys."

"That's perfect."

"and try not to get upset if you are struggling with it. Everyone has to go through it at the beginning of playing a guitar."

"sure." Then Ronnie Anne texted him back. "Ah, she said she was cool with it."

"see bro? Nothing to worry about if you tell her the truth."

"hey, Lincoln. You busy?" Asked Clyde who just came in his room.

"Oh Clyde, I did not hear you come in. Yeah I am a little busy."

"ah, alright."

"but get this, Luna gave me one of her guitars."

"wow really?"

"yeah, look at it, and she's gonna teach me how to play it right after this."

then Lori was curious and looked at his new instrument. "Ooh, nice guitar, Lincoln. Is that Luna's?"

"L-L-Lori?" Thanks to his massive crush on Lincoln's oldest sister, blood poured out of his nose and fainted.

"oh Clyde, sometimes I just don't understand you." Lori muttered under her breath while face palming herself in the forehead.

Lynn came up to him, and try to wake him up, and then made a groan of slight irritation. "I'll get him on the couch." Then she picked him up "come on Clyde, up we go. Ooh, you're heavier than I thought you would be like."

"hehehe, poor Clyde." Luna chuckled

Lincoln made a chuckle of his own. "I know. At least a guy can dream."

"I'd better go in me and Leni's room so he won't have to be forced to recon with me and literally suffer any ore blood loss."

"good idea."

"Hi, Linky, hey Luna, I was wondering if you have seen my lucky hairbrush, and- ooh, is that a musical stringy-thingy?"

"it's called a guitar Leni, but yes."

"oh yeah, I forgot. Hey Luna, why are you on Lincoln's open and closing computer?"

"just helping him with some music on his iPod."

"oh, you mean the music machine?"

Lincoln rolled his eyes. "Yep. That's the one." He replied.

"oh, that's fun."

"well, did you look I. Your room for your lucky hairbrush, Leni?"

"ooh, smart. Thanks, Lincoln." Then she was off, walking in a pretty fashion. As they were both starting to up more music on the iPod, a really foul odor went rough the air, both groaned on disgust and covered their noses.

"smells like Lily made another big surprise in her diaper."

"I know, it reeks more than a dead skunk's pair of underwear." They both laughed, and a lily walked into the room, giggling happily as she can be.

"Poo Poo!" She said, which was her famous catchphrase of the Loud House.

"well, I guess we should change the diaper."

"I'll get the baby powder." Then Lincoln opened her diaper and looked in disgust. "Looks like you eaten chili for breakfast."

"got it!"

then they both put clothes pins on their noses and changed her diaper." There, good as new." Then he playfully tickled the baby's belly button. "Yes, that feels better, does it, Lily?"

the baby kept giggling and laughing Ashe she was squirming on the pillow.

"well, this might take a while."

"that's fine. I'll help you for as long as it takes. It's my iPod after all."

"thanks dude. You're the best."

"you're welcome, Luna."

after that was taken care of, Lincoln was getting ready for some guitar lessons in Luna's room, with his new guitar.

"now like I said before, don't be to hard on yourself, like you were walking on the cold November rain. Linclon. It just needs some practice.

"got it." Then Luna was teaching Lincoln on playing some easy chords that sounded very soothing. Lincoln was trying his best to get it rig, but as he suspected, it was kind of a struggle at first."

"just keep trying, Lincoln, keep tryin' and you'll get the hang out it."

"right. I'll keep trying." Then he was starting to get the hang of it, and started l perfect them to a harmony. All of a sudden, the first string broke. "Aw man! Just perfect! I am so terrible."

"oh come on, buddy, it wasn't so bad. You started to get the hang of it."

"but this string broke off."

"ah, it happens, even if it is at the right pitch. Some famous guitarists like Slash, Dimebag Darrell, Randy Rhoads, Ritchie Sambora, and even Zakk Wylde or Jimi Hendrix had to face stuff like this."

"they did?"

"of course. It happens to every guitarists.

"are you sure i wasn't terrible?"

"oh, bro. Don't be so bed on yourself. You sounded great. You go full potential, and you will be great once you keep practicing. You are a really special guy with talent."

"thanks, Luna."

"no problem dude. You know I love you, right?"

"I love you too, Luna." Lincoln replied, touched by her words, then they both hugged warmly again.

"so come on, let me help you re-string your guitar, dude."

"Cool."

"it's just like you helping me re-string my guitar at times. And besides, even I go through with those stuff."

"oh yeah, I forgot. Sorry."

"it's fine bro. We all forget sometimes." Then they both fixed Lincoln's guitar, and it worked. "Ready for some more rocking out, bro?"

"you know it!"

"awesome."

then they all went back to the chords and Lincoln was starting to get the hang of this, and may start to be as good as his big sister Luna one day as long as he kept practicing on his new ax.

"way to go, Bro!" Luna cheered.

"I'm doing it, I'm doing it!"

next, they moved on to the single notes on the frets and like the chords, Lincoln was mildly struggling with it, but became more better with it every minute. The sound through the amp was becoming more harmonic as Lincoln was playing on and on."

Then the door went open. "Oh, Lincoln, I didn't know you like to play guitar." Said the father."

"just learning dad, thanks to Luna here."

"aww, it's nice you guys are spending time together. But, do you think you can move it to the garage on a while, it's almost Lily's nap time."

"sure thing, dad. We'll be out there on a couple of minutes,"

"perfect." Then dad left them alone again.