Here is a request from The Amazing Ghost Musician. Have a good time.


October 2, 2033…in Leni's Brooklyn apartment

The future has been kind of bleak, but majority of the people are taking proper measures to make this period livable. On this kind of year, Dwayne Johnson is President of the United States, half of the Congress consists of former used car salesmen and reality TV stars from Bravo, seahorses become a primary seafood in the industry, Tesla is now owned by Disney, traffic has escalated for the last ten years that forces some business to run as work-from-home units, How I Met Your Mother is rebooted and China still exists. But kidding aside, it has been a wild transition in the real world from what was fifteen years ago to what was happening now.

But for the Loud siblings, it is a different case. Most of them have gone to their separate ways. Though they frequently communicate through their Snapchat phones, they never see each other personally. But most importantly, they never get in touch with their one and only brother: Lincoln.

None ever receive any updates about him. None ever take the effort to communicate with him. And none ever care to reach out to him. None.

Ever since Lily left the nest, Mr. and Mrs. Loud retired to Bali, leaving the Loud house with no one to guard it or take ownership of it. The sisters just tossed that concern aside since they carelessly assume that their brother would be interested on being the proprietor of the house. However, when the siblings, they gradually did not care much about each other. They just ought to go their separate ways and separate lives.

As for Luna, she has pretty much a rocky life. During college, Luna lent her talents to the underground rock scene. Along the way, she also took part in college protests against the administration. Her tactics led her and her companions to be arrested multiple times. After finding a gig from her freelancing as part of the underground bar house band, she dropped out of college and aimed to score with big names in the rock music scene. She played for music festivals, college pep rallies, impromptu concerts and other performance requests. However, her subsequent vices and toxic relationships with some peers caused her to be kicked out of her apartment and settle on sleeping on her friends' couches. But boldly, she reached out to her sister Leni for help. She agreed nevertheless.

Leni, on the other hand, has been mildly successful as a fashion designer and a blogger. Her pursuits in college caught the attention of some well-known magazines. They allowed her designs to gain exposure, which in turn results in her own designer label. It was slightly successful after finding a niche audience (which are her friends, young mothers and women from 55 years up). However, it was bought by a still ailing JCPenney. However, its demise caused her label to get null as well. She still had the purchasing money from JCPenney, but she does not know how to spend it. Eventually, Luna reached out to her, and she let her stay in her apartment.

Luna could only let the memories pass while looking at the apartment window with despair and uncertainty. She has her notebook and her acoustic guitar on her lap. Her notebook is written sheet music lines but has no notes on it. The now 32-year-old has been suffering from writer's block after the trauma of being homeless. She also left behind some vices, but she cowers inside the apartment whenever she feels urges of relapses. It has been difficult for her to stay away from her musician life (for the meantime). That is why she finds solace on being alone whenever Leni leaves for work for Lancome. Though, white noise consumes her.

Hearing it louder, she screeches, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Not wanting to contain it anymore, she screams one more time, "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" And out of total frustration, she drops her guitar and throws her notebook and her pen towards the door. Luna feels no relief just yet. "AHHHHHHHHHH!"

Suddenly, a pile of mail drop by from the hatch. Luna notices it, as well as the hurried stops from the other side of the door. She assumes the delivery man must have been scared of her.

Luna then picks up the mail and checks out the pile. She hopes it would be a response from the recording company whom she sent a demo music for. She flips the rest back to a saucer near a table. But she notices one particular mail.

Right on time, Leni arrives back in the apartment. "Home at last! Hey, I just saw the mailman running away downstairs. Probably got scared of Mrs. Katz' cats."

"You don't say…"

"Yeah, I mean they're cute. But they're still horrifying. But she keep telling us they're cute. I mean how tragic."

But Luna's attention is still glued to the letter. But she finds it more serious when the sender is from the bank. She shows it to Leni, "Sis, did we…?"

Leni scans it out. "Hmmm must have told us that we have noticed him."

"Just because it said, 'For Immediate Notice'."

Finding that out, Leni opens the enveloped letter and browses through the somehow straightforward letter. She cannot help but gasp at its contents.

"What is it sis?" Luna joins Leni in reading the letter. Casting the highfalutin details aside, the letter generally states that the ownership of the Loud House, which was still at the ownership of the Loud family, has been redirected to a person named John Doe, under the agreement of the Loud estate. "It's a very, very mad world."

"What is it?" Leni asks.

"They are turning over the house to somebody we don't know."

"Oh no! You mean this apartment?! I don't even know that this is an apartment!"

"No! I meant the Loud house, dude. Our home. Mom and dad sold it to some hacky bloke named John Doe."

"Ooooh John Doe. He must have been a good guy. But why would he buy the Loud house?"

"You mean why wouldn't our sisters have the Loud house?"

"They say they didn't want it. And that they have other valuable assets to work with?"

"Like what? Their nose bridge?"

"Okay. That's kind of harsh. But you have to at least understand them."

"It's like they don't want a piece of our family history. How would you feel if that would be the case, huh Leni?"

"Okay Luna, maybe you're being too harsh. We can just talk this off with the bank or some lawyer or some guy. And maybe we can arrange something, like give us a chance to buy the house…"

"You could do that?"

Leni then stutters, "I…don't…maybe…somehow."

Luna immediately taps her sister on the shoulder in exhilaration. "Dude, we have the money from JCPenney. We can buy it from him! All we have to do is to travel back to Royal Woods, perhaps arrange a deal with the dude. If not, we can fight in court."

"That's a little big. Well, too big."

"It would be great! What do you say?" Luna ends with offering a handshake to Leni.

Leni is objectively nervous about the idea. As much as she wants to go along with Luna's plan, the fashion designer is not used on more responsible matters like land proprietorship and financial negotiations. Nevertheless, after pondering it for an hour, she complies.


Right away, the two take a domestic flight to Detroit, Michigan from LaGuardia Airport and take an Uber going to Royal Woods, Michigan. Along the way, the sisters are mystified how much Michigan has changed from the last time they got there. But the part when they finally entered Royal Woods is where their nostalgia glasses are dropped. More buildings, high rises and condominiums are scattered throughout the city, even occupying the once sprawling suburbs. Their favorite establishments, Burpin' Burger and Gus' Games N' Grub, have been converted to megastores on their lot. And the Royal Woods Elementary, as witnessed by them up close, has been demolished. It is truly breathtaking to see their hometown change.

They finally arrive at the Loud house. But it was not the same Loud house that they grew up in. The roof is tattered. The wooden post on the porch has cracks. The window's glass have been shattered. The wooden walls are filled with vandalism. And there are paint peels scattered around the lot. From the looks of it, the house must have been abandoned for years.

"Sure this is a good idea?" Leni asks her sister.

"Yes," Luna answer optimistically. "We can get a hang of it. There's a lot of work needed. But if we buy the house, we can turn it brand new again. And I can stay here. And you wouldn't have to be bothered with me around your apartment."

"But I actually like you…hanging around the apartment. Really. You've been a good help."

"Well, our house needs our help."

With that, Luna and Leni quietly proceed inside the house. The door is conveniently unlocked, so Luna opens it.

The interior is exactly how they pictured it. With no furniture around, other than a mattress and leftover stuff in the living room, dust has cluttered the surroundings. They sneak their way to the kitchen which was wrapped in plastic coverings. They find no significant object there. But that does not stop from checking out the entire house, going to their parents' room, the yard and finally, the upper floor. Much like the rooms downstairs, they contain plastic coverings, dust, paint peelings, leftover glass from the cracked windows and dust.

Luna meanwhile enters her old room that she shared with Luan. Even if there are no furniture nor leftover belongings, she could almost reminisce the good times she had.

So does Leni. When she revisits her room, she looks through the old walking closet and recalls the happy times she had with Lori and the rest of her siblings.

After that trip to memory lane, Leni and Luna go downstairs but they stop at the second step down and rest on it. They are entirely speechless of the state of their once beloved house. They could only utter a sigh from the gloominess of the place.

"Well, that was it," Luna utters.

"Wasn't like it. But it's still here," Leni agrees.

Suddenly, the front door opens at their surprise. But as the light taking over their eyes recedes, a familiar figure emerges from it. Beneath the man's ruffled face, his messed up body, his worn-out clothing, his tattered shoes and his tired expression, they recognize him.

"Lincoln?"

Immediately, their eyes are glued to those of their beloved brother. He drops his belongings down, and they rush to take him into their embrace. The broke Lincoln breaks down in tears after finally seeing the sisters who really loved him at first. Luna and Leni also cannot help but let the tears flow after finally seeing their brother from a long, long time. It never comes across to their mind to ask what led him to come to the house. They just embrace him.

"We missed you, bro," Luna weepily says.

"I missed you, too," he replies.

They seize that moment when lost brother and struggling sisters meet face to face after all these years and share each other's embrace.

It is also relief for the sisters to finally see their most estranged sibling safe and sound from all the trouble that went with him.


Afterwards, Leni treats them for pizza. There, Lincoln explains to his sisters that his wife and his children passed away from a car accident. He tried to inform the family, but they never reply back. Sooner, after the funeral, he got heavy in debt from the funeral and hospital costs that he had to sell his possessions and his house. He alerted his parents about his homelessness. Receiving that news, they bestowed the Loud house to him, since the house is of lower value. As of now, he remained at the house, trying to look for a decent job.

Hearing his testimony makes it more emotional for the sisters. Leni then offers Lincoln a place to stay in her apartment and a job in her company as part of her company's building maintenance. He agrees so, under the condition that he will help revamp the house to its glorious form.

They end their dinner with a toast with pizza before they pack for their flight back to New York.

Luna and Leni are glad that their brother is found.