A/N: This is my first attempt at writing a story in I don't know how many years, so I might need a little help and maybe some suggestions to help this story along.

It was the start of the long weekend, Lincoln Loud was doing his homework, after the hard stuff, he decided to do this English homework.

It was a reading assignment, Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. Maybe a nice story would take his mind off the chaos that was always present outside his room. Best of all it was a short story, so it wouldn't get so boring. The story was kind of interesting and somewhat enjoyable. Not somewhat enjoyable, quite enjoyable.

The story about a man sleeping for 20 years, reminded him that Lisa wanted him to test her new sleeping device. He thought it would be a great idea to try it out after reading a story about sleeping. A good night's sleep for once.

Not in this house, getting a good night's sleep was out of the question in the Loud House.

He put the helmet part of the device on his head, which covered his eyes and ears and laid back in bed.

"Lincoln?" said a voice that woke from his deep sleep and removed his helmet.

"What?" said Lincoln rubbing his eyes "What? Who are you?" He looked up and saw a young woman looking down at him. The young woman was about 20, had short blonde hair and was wearing a pink t-shirt and white shorts. Something about her seemed familiar, but what?

"What's going on?" he said, that's when noticed the first change that had happened, his voice was deeper! Then he felt his face, there was a beard, a real beard, he thought it was a trick and it was pretty obvious Luann might have been the culprit, but it was real! He had grown it himself! It wasn't stuck in place with glue or spirit gum. Did the twins smear their dad's Rogaine on him?

Seeing his reflection in a nearby mirror, there was a not a dweeby preteen boy with prematurely white hair, but a full grown man in his early thirties with long hair and a beard that could get him easily mistaken for a skinny Santa Claus or a wizard from one of those fantasy novels that get turned into big budget film series. Lincoln could not believe he was now a man, a grown man! Was he like Tom Hanks in that movie? Would his mom not recognize him and chase him out of his house? Would he dance on a giant keyboard? Well...maybe not, but still.

The girl in his room ran out the door shouting, "Mom! Dad!, it happened, after all these years he finally woke up!" A much older man and woman came into his room. "Lincoln, you're awake!" shouted the older woman hugging Lincoln tightly by the neck, which she could not really reach. The older man turned to the younger woman, "call all your sisters, Lily! Tell them he's awake!"

Then it occurred to Lincoln, he'd really been asleep for 20 years and that the young woman who had woke him up had been nothing but a diaper pooping, drooling baby last time he saw her! Now she was a young woman on the verge of adulthood attending college and his parents were senior citizens. He was a grown man, a grown man who never graduated from school, never went to the prom, never learned to drive, never went to college, never got a job, he had a just slept for 20 years and missed so many opportunities. What had changed? What had stayed the same? Did his absence from the real world really effect anyone or anything?

Following Lincoln's awaking from his 20-year sleep, his formally baby sister lead him to the bathroom, where she sat him down in a chair in front of the mirror and began trimming his beard and hair.

"How's life been going?" he asked

"Okay I guess, I don't really remember you when you were awake, I was just a baby when you fell asleep"

Lincoln couldn't think what to say to the youngest member his family,

"You're out of diapers I see! uh..what else has happened?"

Lily began...

"Well, it's 2037, the population of the earth is almost 9 million, the environment and government are disasters, like always" she giggled "I don't know if you're ready to hear what the world is like now." She then pulled out an electric razor and began to work on his face, "I actually am more interested in what happened to our sisters?" Lincoln asked. Lily began to catch her "long lost" brother up on what the rest of the family had been doing,

"Well, shortly after she graduated Lori and Bobby were married and moved into an apartment together, I sort of remember the wedding, Ronnie was the maid of honor and our sisters were bridesmaids, and I was the flower girl, and at the reception, Ronnie caught the bouquet and.." Lincoln didn't want to hear anymore and asked about the second oldest "What about Leni?" "Oh, she became a fashion designer and a wood sculptor, she also appears on a reality show, I think a producer assumed she was related to that family who were the first reality TV stars" (A/N: I couldn't resist putting in a reference to the REAL Loud Family who starred on PBS's An American Family). "Are we related to them?" Lincoln wondered, "You know I wondered the same thing, and there's a slim chance we might be". Lincoln asked about the rocker of the family "And Luna, what about her?" "She's probably the biggest rock star in the world and she's even been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" "Don't you have to been around for a really long time to get that" "Not in her case, they haven't inducted the Monkees, though" Lincoln was beginning to think maybe some things haven't changed as much as he thought.

Lilly had finished cutting his hair and shaving his face, next she lead her brother to their parents closet and pulled out one of their father's old suits, ask Lincoln dressed out his of his too small pajamas and underwear and into his suit, he continued asking about the family. "and Lynn, what about her?" "She's an Olympic champion and currently coaches a local kids soccer team," Lilly said that as she pointed to a photo of their sister wearing least 20 gold medals around her neck. "No way!" said Lincoln "and what about Luann?" "She's a sitcom star or well she used to be, she kind of had the fame go to her head and fell in with a bad crowd, want to see her mugshots?" "No, how about Lucy? What's she been doing?" "She's an author and probably one of the most prolific horror writers in the world, she's written so many best-selling novels and she's not even 30!" Lily explained "and the twins?" asked Lincoln "Lana works for animal control and she planning on opening her own reptile sanctuary soon and Lola, well Lola's still Lola, though she's kind of worried nowadays" "About what?" asked Lincoln "Getting old, she's 26!" "That's not old!" said Lincoln as his sister helped him with his tie "In the pageant world it is!" stated Lily. "and Lisa?" "She's probably one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, smarter than Einstein and Hawking put together! Won the Nobel Prize, five years in a row, all before she turned 18!"

Lincoln looked at his reflection, he actually looked pretty good after he was cleaned up. "What about you?" he asked his youngest sister, "Oh, I'm attending community college and living here looking after Mom and Dad" "Lily! Is Lincoln ready? His sisters will be over any minute, now" shouted their mother. "Okay, Mom! we're coming!"