It was an average day at the city of Royal Woods: birds were singing, the sun was rising, and the breeding machines known as the Louds were just about to wake up and make everything a whole lot louder. However, amongst the Loud children, the eldest daughter-Lori Loud-got a nasty surprise when she
Her phone was missing. Oh, and Leni was nowhere to be seen. So of course, she got off her room and searched across the hallways as Lincoln got up and left his room, with the teenager's frantic search being the first thing he saw.
"What's wrong, Lori?" Lincoln asked.
"My phone's gone!" the young adult exclaimed. "I just woke up, and it was nowhere to be found!"
"Do you really need it this early in the morning?" was the boy's annoyed response.
Of course, the teenager's response was to grab her brother and lift him. "My phone is like my morning coffee, Lincoln! Only I don't need to brew it beforehand nor bath it in sugar and chocolate to make it taste somewhat okay!" and then she dropped him and asked, "Have you seen it somewhere?"
"Lori, I just woke up, do you think that means I'd been able to spot your phone?" the boy answered before taking a deep breath and adding, "But don't worry, I'll help you look. I'll look up here and you can look downstairs."
"Sounds like a plan!" the young woman smiled.
The pair exchanged looks and separated. On her way to look downstairs, Lori spotted Leni checking her phone on the kitchen table and, figuring she was just looking at her own phone, hastily greeted "Hi Leni!" before resuming her search.
"Hi Lori," the ditz answered, her eyes firmly glued at her phone's screen.
But alas, when Lori's search downstairs finished, she failed to find her phone. So she sat at the staircase and remained downbeat as Lincoln walked down and sat next to her. "Did you had any luck?" he asked.
"No, I searched every inch and corner, but nothing."
"Well, if it makes you feel better, I did find a phone," Lincoln took out from his back a seafoam green phone. "I found it on the exact same spot where you and Leni put your phones. Maybe it's the one you lost?"
However, upon closer inspection, Lori realized this phone wasn't the one she was looking for.
"This phone isn't mine, it's-"
Then, once she realized she did know who the phone belonged to, Lori narrowed her eyes and sternly stated:
"Leni's."
The duo promptly went back to the kitchen and sat close to Leni, who continued to write on her phone as if nobody was there. "Leni, where did you get that phone?" the young woman asked.
"On the desk next to our beds," the fashionista nonchalantly answered. "Why do you ask?"
"Because Lincoln found your phone on the same desk!" Lori showed Leni the seafoam green phone and caught her attention. "And you're using my phone!"
"Oh, this is your phone?" Leni and Lori quickly swapped phones, though while Lori did it with a hint of anger, Leni was a lot more carefree. "So that's why I had Bobby as a contact! Okay then, here you go!"
"How did you confuse Lori's phone for yours?" Lincoln asked.
"Well, they do look pretty similar, don't they?" the teenager argued as she started to play on her phone.
"Still, couldn't you have at least checked before taking it!?" Lori hissed, then spoke with her boyfriend on the phone. "Hi Bobby, yeah, the different tone our conversation had before was because Leni... What do you mean it didn't feel different at all?"
The boy and ditzy fashion-oriented teenager left Lori alone to talk with Bobby, but not before Leni threw a wink at her direction. Though confused at first, Lori returned the wink, if only to not hurt her sister's feelings.