Well, I figured it's been a little while since I had a Loud House story up here, and this idea recently came to me when looking over the episodes I had on DVD! And I figured I'd give you guys a little treat on what's to come next for the Loud family! So, here's the first of many chapters for this story! Anyway, enjoy!
Inside the Loud House, it was just a normal, average day in the living room as Rita and Lynn Sr. were getting Lincoln ready as they were handing him a backpack and a suitcase.
"Okay, you got your sunscreen, your bug spray, extra clothes, swimsuit?" Rita said as she was looking over a list as the young, white haired boy gave a sigh.
"Yes, Mom, I got everything." Lincoln gave a nod.
"Just remember, son, I know camping is going to be a bit of an experience, but believe me, with the father-son quality time, we'll be having loads of fun together!" Lynn Sr. grinned.
"Can't wait." Lincoln said with a fake enthusiasm in his voice as the parents started to go to the other room. Lincoln dropped the act as he gave a small sigh, turning to a nearby wall. "Summer camping with my father. I'm sure it's not really a bad thing when it's hanging out with your dad, but for me, camping is almost like... boring. There's no TV, no video games, no smartphones... just me and my dad out in the wilderness, roughing it out. Now, I'm sure that's fun for one year, but Dad always insists on having it EVERY year! One bright side to this is I don't have to worry about ten sisters running around going amok for a couple weeks. The sad thing is that I'll be missing out on a whole lot of activities that I find really fun. But I don't want to let Dad down or disappoint him, so I'm going to tough it out with him, even if it kills me."
"Linc, bro, are you done talking to that wall yet?" Luna asked as she was seen walking downstairs, looking a bit bored. "Because something just came up."
"What is it, Luna?" Lincoln turned to his older, rocker sister, raising an eyebrow in curiosity.
"It's like this." Luna gave a sigh. "You see, it involves Leni, and..."
The white haired eleven year old boy looked concerned as he turned towards his older sister. "What happened to Leni?"
Luna led Lincoln over to the couch as they both sat down together as Luna sighed. "Lori called from the mall, and well, the place where Leni works... they found bugs crawling around the vents. Actually, pretty much every corner of the store found tons of these roaches and spiders. You can imagine the freak-out Leni went through."
Lincoln shuddered. "Yeah, her fear of spiders and all... is she okay?"
Luna sighed. "She's fine, but, the whole mall is being fumigated right now, and it might take up to a few days to reopen, but Reininger's, the place where Leni works, it had to be closed down for longer than that."
"How long?" Lincoln asked, raising an eyebrow in curiosity.
"...Six months." Luna frowned.
"Yikes." Lincoln winced. "How did that happen?"
"Apparently, some people were bringing their food over to an undiscovered corner of the store and just began piling secret stashes in there. It was really bad." Luna explained.
"Wow..." Lincoln shook his head in sympathy. "Do you have any idea where she is now?"
"Lori dropped her off at Dairyland to contemplate her crisis." Luna explained. "You know, she always does this whenever things don't go the way they used to, right?"
"Yeah... I still remember a time she went there to contemplate the fact that her license was suspended." Lincoln sighed. "She got over it in a couple months, but still..."
"Yeah..." Luna sighed as she looked up. "And there's also the time she suffered a major break-up with her first boyfriend."
"You mean George?" Lincoln asked, before frowning. "Yeah, that was a tough week for her."
"I just hope she's okay, I hate to see her so depressed..." Luna sighed.
"Well, I don't know if there's much I can do to help, since I'm going to be away with Dad on the camping trip for a couple weeks, but you guys try to do what you can to cheer her up, okay?" Lincoln said. "I'm sure things will work out greatly in the end."
"I hope they do." Luna said as she got up. "I'm sure Lori is telling the other sisters about this right now, and doing their best to plan a cheering up party for Leni..."
Meanwhile, all the way over at Dairyland, inside the park, Leni was seen walking around, looking at all the rides and all the wonderful people having a great time. But Leni sighed as she kept walking, until eventually she found a bench and began to sit down. She gave a sigh as she looked down in depression. "Am I truly nothing? Is that all there is to life?"
Leni gave a groan as she held her head and laid it down, looking around at the other people having fun. "Look at all those people, so happy, so naïve, not realizing that the world around them is just taking them all in, like, one direction..."
Leni gave a sigh as she was now contemplating the past few months now. It had been a while since she had a little adventure of her own, namely, the time she became a race-car driver, but that got taken away from her when she got into positions she wasn't even comfortable with... even then, she was starting to think she had a split-personality that was hidden deep inside her, but she didn't dare release it out, at least, not yet. She never really noticed it until the racing adventure, but things were a little different for Leni since those days.
At first, she thought things would go back to normal and things did, more or less. Still, she was laid off her recent job and sighed as she looked down, wondering what she could do. What she needed right now was a sign, somewhere to go in the right direction... someone to point her towards her destiny...
"Yo, kid! You feeling okay? Are you lost?"
Leni blinked as she looked up to see a female black haired woman with a Dairyland employment outfit, walking over to her in concern. Leni shook her head as she sighed, "No... I'm just thinking..."
The woman gave a nod as she looked closer at the girl. "Say... aren't you the girl that works in the closed down Reininger's at the mall?"
Leni looked up at the woman in surprise. "How did you know?"
"...Judging by the flip flops you were wearing, I took a wild guess." The woman gave a chuckle as Leni looked down at her flip flops, looking surprised. "You seem a little down, though. Sad you lost the job?"
"Yeah..." Leni sighed. "Like, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life..."
The woman paused as she looked over the young blonde haired girl, before giving a grin. "You know, you seem like someone with a sweet personality."
Leni looked up in surprise, before giving a blush. "Well, that's what people say when I meet them..."
"You know, we could use a personality like yours in our park! How would you like to have a job here?" The woman asked.
Leni gasped in shock as she got up. "You mean it?"
The woman smiled. "I'll take you over to the office and we can get you an application."
"Really?" Leni's eyes lit up as she hugged the woman employee. "Oh, thank you so much!"
"Hey, don't worry about it." The woman said as she motioned the young teenage girl over. Leni, with a big smile on her face, followed the woman, holding out her arms in her normal way.
And that's the first chapter done! How did you guys like it? Next time, the family sans Lincoln and Lynn Sr. learns about Leni's new job and what it entails! Will Leni be able to like the quirks of her job? There's a lot more to come, so don't miss out! Anyway, read, review, criticize and suggest, folks!