Before you start reading, for anyone who hasn't seen the loud house, i want to say that the episode "its a loud, loud, loud, loud house" that's being used in this chapter, doesn't belong to me, it belongs to nickelodeon, so don't give me credit. Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
Lincoln suddenly had an idea, he closed his laptop and headed downstairs, he went into the living room that was now empty. Lincoln went over to the couch and started searching under the cushions to try and find any loose change, it wouldn't be much, but it's better than nothing. After a couple minutes of looking, Lincoln finally found a quarter, he flipped it and put it in his pocket, Lincoln got off the couch but was then confronted by his sisters
"we heard money!" Lola said "a dime! No, a quarter!" she said what the coin was.
"that's impossible, money doesn't make a sound" Lincoln said.
"haven't you ever heard the expression, "money talks"?" Luan said as she laughed.
"and the quarter is saying, "hand me over bro"!" Luna said as she pointed her thumb to herself.
Lincoln groaned.
"wait a minute! If there's one quarter down there then there's more!" Lynn said.
All the girls glared at Lincoln and began to pounce on him, but Lincoln was quick and dove out the way. Lincoln was lucky before he ended up in another sibling fight.
The loud house parents then came down to be confronted by a sister fight. Lincoln stood up beside his parents.
"what are they fighting about now?" Rita asked Lincoln.
"money" Lincoln replied as he took the quarter out to show his parents.
"should we stop them before they hurt themselves?" Rita asked her husband.
But Lola then bit Lynn "ow! Lola!"
"too late" Lynn Sr said.
He then put his fingers to his lips and whistled for everyone to stop, and they did "ALRIGHT, EVERYONE UPSTAIRS AND CLEAN THE ATTIC! That will be your punishment for fighting over money!"
The sisters then groaned as he headed upstairs
"now!" he said once more.
"Lincoln, good you didn't get in the middle of that" Lynn Sr said patting his son on the back.
"thanks dad" Lincoln said as he saw his sisters climb into the attic.
Lincoln did kind of feel bad because he's already gave them a bad day for the other thing, but didn't feel sorry for them.
Lincoln then went upstairs and into his room, he put the quarter on his dresser and sat on his bed.
"gonna have to find a way to make more money" he said to himself as he started to think of ways.
"maybe do more chores?" he thought to himself "nah that will take a while" he said to himself.
"get a job?" he thought to himself again "nah, who would hire an 11-year-old?" he said to himself again.
Lincoln then thought that he could go into the attic to try and find any money hidden, but of course, what are the odds of finding money in an attic?
Lincoln was about to head up but then realised his sisters are up there cleaning, might have to wait till everyone is sleeping.
In the meantime, Lincoln got on his laptop and started looking up art tutorials to try and gain new skills.
The loud house, royal woods, 8PM
Finally, after long hours of waiting, everyone is asleep. Lincoln got off his bed, opened his door and tiptoed to the attic. After opening the hatch and climbing up, Lincoln started to search in the hunt for any amount of money.
Lincoln looked through old boxes, but were filled with old clothes and other old stuff, he found coins, but not American ones, just Canadian and euros. Lincoln was about to give up until he realised, he didn't search the back corner of the attic.
Lincoln groaned "desperate times, call for desperate measures" he said to himself.
After looking around and not finding anything, even with the help of a torch he found, he couldn't find anything.
"dang it!" he said to himself "what a load of-" Lincoln was cut off by stepping on a loose floorboard and getting hit in the face.
Lincoln moaned in pain, then after sitting up, he noticed something under the floor. He picked up an envelope, he opened it and read what it said. It was a letter from the previous owner and it said.
"Dear future residence of 1216 franklin avenue, my family always fought over money, so I decided to leave my fortune for you in the hope that you will share it. For a clue on where the money is hidden, reflect upon what I said here."
Signed by Mrs. Sharon DeMonet, the original owner
Lincoln was shocked to read this, but why would the previous owner hide her fortune for the future owners? Wouldn't teaching her own family a lesson make sense?
Lincoln brushed that off and started to find out how to find the money.
"reflect upon what I said here?" Lincoln said to himself as he read the clue over.
He looked around and tried to think about what she means. Lincoln then spotted the mirror, he stood in front of it and saw it reflected another envelope sitting on the support for the attic, Lincoln quickly grabbed a stepladder in the attic and climbed up it and grabbed it. Lincoln then opened it and read what it said.
"Well done, you found the next clue. But beware. If you fight like my family did, you'll never get to the bottom of the matter."
"huh?" Lincoln thought.
Lincoln now had to find the next clue, but what did she mean by "you'll never get to the bottom of the matter?" this was gonna take Lincoln a while to think about. Lincoln put both letters in his pocket and made his way down the ladder and pushed it back up, Lincoln was about to walk into his before seeing Lisa and Lilly's rooms door was left open.
"better close that" he thought to himself.
Before Lincoln closed the door, he notices something sticking out of Lilly's butt. It looked like another envelope.
"what the?" he said to himself.
Lincoln tiptoed carefully over to Lilly's crib and slowly took the envelope out of her butt.
"better wash my hands after that" he thought to himself in disgust.
Lincoln made his way to his room and closed the door behind him, he went into his room and opened the envelope.
"if you're reading this, it means you came together and got to the "bottom" of the matter! Congratulations! You're almost there!"
Lincoln then saw there was also a map in it too! He unfolded the map and saw the layout of the house, and the outside of it.
"X marks the spot" Lincoln said as he saw a X marked outside of the house in the front yard.
Lincoln immediately made it outside and into the front yard with a flashlight and a shovel. After reading the map over and over again, he found he was standing on the marked spot. Lincoln stated to dig, after a while he hit a dent, he threw the shovel aside and pulled out a small briefcase, he wiped away the soil on top of it and noticed there was a lock on it. Lincoln grabbed the shovel and jammed it on the lock, breaking it. He opened the case and was in shock to what he found.
"oh my" he said as he saw a stack of cash.
He took it out and started counting the bills, he had exactly $500. Lincoln so happy to have the money he needed. He shoved the money in his pocket and started shovelling the soil back into the hole. But then it hit him. Lincoln buried the case, went back inside and started putting the letters in new envelopes and putting them back where he found them, he went back into his room and hid the money under his bed in a shoe box he had.
"this keeps getting better and better" he said to himself as he tucked himself in his bed and went to sleep.
Hope you all enjoyed reading this chapter! for anyone who's wondering why i left Lincoln out of the fight when he found the quarter, its because i see it going in a better direction this way, if you're not happy with this choice then too bad haha. If you would like to ask questions, submit ideas or discuss future chapters, heres my discord tag (-_ππππ½πΎπΈπΆπ ππΎππ_-#8660) that's all for now and ill see you all in the next chapter!