Chapter 141
(The Loud house)
Lincoln and Jordan are in the room, after a nice day in school. Both of them are strumming to some nice tunes on their acoustic guitars.
"So, what how are the rest of your sibs today?" asked Jordan.
"Lola is still being a good volunteer with Meli Ramos and I think it's turning out well" replied Lincoln.
"Why is she doing this?" asked Jordan.
"Lana said that this is the one thing Lola needs in order to get into this Saturday's pageant" said Lincoln. "She has to show she's beautiful inside and out, and what means she has to show that she can be nice to others, she does have a harsh reputation when it comes to what she loves."
"Yikes, Lola must really want to be in that pageant real bad. On the plus side she's being nice to the new girl at school" said Jordan. "Also, what the heck is wrong with Clyde as of lately?"
"No clue, but I overheard him talking to Penelope about his dad's always being on him, or in other words they're always helicoptering him" said Lincoln.
"Wow. Looks like Clyde is waking up to the reality of his dad's always being on his case. Also did you hear that Liam is giving out baby chicks from his farm?" said Jordan.
"Yeah, though that idea Liam's up to doesn't seem like a good idea, those little guys look mean" said Lincoln.
"I hope Tabby is having luck with that" said Jordan. "I also got word about Mollie and her lucky Canadian penny being missing, she said it might be the rat beast."
"Yeesh, that story is still haunting the school, let's hope nothing else gets stolen" said Lincoln. "Also Leni is probably telling her friends about her new driver's license."
"I still can't believe she passed! And all thanks to Lori, so when will Luna get her chance? She is 16 after all" said Jordan.
"Soon I hope, but she said she doesn't wanna rush it. She's still got some tunes in her mind and she doesn't wanna go in too early otherwise she might lose the beat" replied Lincoln.
"Oh, some music references from Luna I see. Nice" said Jordan.
"Actually that's exactly what she said to me last night, and to Sam as well" said Lincoln. "Also, did you get the message from Ronnie Anne?"
"I did, her and Bobby are so going to have a heck of a time with their dad. I just hope whatever she is planning doesn't end bad, or turn out weird" said Jordan.
"With Sid and the rest of her pals, and with her cousins by her side, I know she can come up with something. It's not like she's gonna act like some kind of rebel punk girl just to show her dad she needs help and he has to stay" said Lincoln.
Jordan looks to him. "Umm, could you not say that? It makes it sound like it might happen."
Just then they hear a loud slam from the door downstairs. "Uh oh, sounds like someone is back home and does not sound all too happy" said Lincoln.
"Can't be Lola, or Lana. Lynn maybe" said Jordan.
"Either it's Lynn or Lori. Leni is headed to her work and Luan said she has some big hamlet play with Benny later this afternoon" replied Lincoln.
Then the door to the room is opened and they see a very ticked off Luna, she tosses her axe which lands precisely onto its stand.
Patriot and Valkyrie sees this and flies out the window, they did not want to get involved with whatever was wrong with this rock star.
Luna doesn't even notice Lincoln and Jordan in the room and she heads to her top bunk, lies down on her bed face first and screams angrily into her pillow.
Lincoln and Jordan have never seen Luna this upset before, then Lincoln recalls some times when she was angry.
But she's more like the laid back kind of gal. Then he gets a text from Simon. "Linc, Sam just came home and she does not look happy. Is Luna doing the same as well?"
Lincoln types back. "Yeah, something must've happened at school, and I'm gonna find out why."
He then gets a reply from Simon. "Good luck man, I'm gonna try and talk to Sam, I just hope she's not in the mood to kick me out of her room. I rarely see her like this."
Lincoln then puts his phone away and looks to his third older sister, Jordan holds his hand. "Let's go and see what's bugging her."
With a deep breath both kids put their guitars down and head to the top bunk and sit on Luna's bed. She doesn't even know they're even there.
"Luna?" asked Lincoln. But he gets no response.
"Luna?" asked Jordan. Still nothing.
Lincoln then gets closer and sits next to her head on the pillow, he then rubs her hair. "Sis?"
She may have her face on her pillow but he can still hear her. "What?"
The sound of her tone was not what Lincoln wanted to hear, but he had to suck it up. "Luna, I wanna know what's wrong with you. You rarely seem angry unless it's a concert that was closed for no reason."
Luna doesn't reply, she just continues to grumble underneath her pillow.
Then Jordan sees a paper on attached to her axe. She gets off the bed and removes the paper from the guitar.
She gasps after reading it and then she heads back to the top bunk and hands him the note.
Lincoln also reads it.
From the Desk of Principal Rivers.
Due to recent budget cuts, the music club has been canceled.
Lincoln's eyes stay glued to the note, and he has a deadpan look. Jordan could tell, now he was getting angry.
Lincoln sighs, crushes the paper and tosses it aside. He then lays onto another pillow next to Luna and looks up with the same deadpan look.
"So, you guys are upset because your principal cut off the budget. I can't blame you, I'd get upset about that too Lunes" said Lincoln.
Jordan was shocked, he was on the same page as Luna is.
Luna then removes her face from the pillow and looks to her brother, she can see his long yard stare into nothing, which meant he was also very, very upset.
Luna sighs and lays down next to him. "What the heck is her deal? The music club means so much to me!"
"Yeah, and pretty soon it might to me" said Lincoln.
"What the heck are we gonna do?! Sam, Sully, Mazzy and me won't be able to do any more rehearsals in the music club room anymore! And they took Mazzy's drum!" yelled Luna.
"She's got a lot of nerves just doing that to the music club. At this point I'm thinking of going to a different high school soon" said Lincoln.
"I'd do the same, but the rents wouldn't approve dude" said Luna.
"What the heck is Tabby gonna say when she hears about this? Or chunk?" said Lincoln.
"Principal River's has no clue what she had just begun! We're planning on a strike against her actions tomorrow!" said Luna.
"I wish I could be part of it, but I still have to go to school tomorrow" said Lincoln.
Luna sits up and looks to Lincoln. "Maybe I can disguise myself as mom again and help you get out of there, and heck I can also get Tabby to join in as well!"
Lincoln smiles and also sits up. "Now that is a plan I can accept, but Huggins might be smarter than that and Clyde as well."
Luna looks to Jordan. "What do you think dudette?" Lincoln also looks to his girlfriend.
Jordan could not believe what she was seeing, it was like looking at Twins. Only one is older and the other one is younger.
Jordan sighs. "Guys, maybe Principal Rivers did this as a way to help the school with its budget problems, just think about it. If you guys do this strike thing and reason with her, what's to say she might cut off the budget to another club? That could spark a massive strike against her, and I don't think she can handle that one."
Lincoln and Luna soon had frowns and were thinking about it. Lori is in the sports club, which is where golf is, Luan has her drama club along with Benny and they're also staring on the clown club, Leni's friends also have clubs they join in. Jackie is a part of the drama club as well, Mandee is in Origami club, Carol is in debate club, and Dana and Becky for some reason are in the squirrel feeding club, which is really weird as to why the school even has that.
"You're right Jordan, we weren't thinking straight back there" said Lincoln.
"Yeah, we were so strummed into the music, we completely forgot about what the other kids might be thinking and how they would feel" said Luna.
Jordan smiles. "Good, now that you two have come to your senses, I think I know how you can save the music club Luna."
"Really? How?" asked Luna.
"You could put up a fund raiser for the Music club, people can come and listen to music, learn how to play and some musical history as well" said Jordan.
"You know what, that sounds like a great idea!" said Luna.
"Yeah, we can hold it up at Ketchum Park, I know Mayor Davis owes me a favor for babysitting her kids last week" said Lincoln.
"Rock on bro! I'm gonna go and call my mates!" Luna gets off her bunk and grabs her phone.
Lincoln then hugs Jordan. "Now that's what I call master planning my love."
Jordan smiles and hugs him back. "I learned from the pro."
(Ketchum Park)
Luna was able to contact her friends to come and assist in setting up the fund raiser.
Sam brought Simon to provide some help and also Stella joined in.
Tabby is also there, Liam couldn't make it because he had to deal with his give-away-free-chicks thing.
"Okay dudes, the stage is set, the music teaching area is ready and we are stoked locked and loaded to teaching some great music histories" said Luna.
"This is so gonna be awesome Lunes!" said Sam.
Lincoln and Jordan tune their guitars, to help with the performance, they then see Luna with her friends approach them.
"Lincoln, Jordan these are my other two band mates, Mazzy and Sully" said Luna.
"I think we already know who the little dude is Luna" said Sully.
"Yeah, we saw you and your little lady friend during the whole musical duet" said Mazzy. "And you two were awesome."
"Thanks, and it's nice to meet you guys as well" said Jordan.
"It was really smart of you guys for seeming up with this plan to help the music club" said Sam.
"Truth be told this was all Jordan's idea, I almost fell to the same plan Luna had" said Lincoln.
"Yeah, the whole strike thing" Luna replied sheepishly.
"Well, as long as we can make some money to keep the music club, then we can all have some peace and well thoughts" said Sully.
Then they see Tabby, Simon and Stella headed to them. "Guys, we got some people who are ready for the whole thing" said Simon.
"They all look so stoked to be here" said Tabby.
"And thank goodness I'll be in charge of the mash counting" said Stella.
Luna was excited for all of this. "Alright dudes, you all know what to do. Let's get to our posts and give it our all, for the music club!"
"For the music club!" they all cheered,
Lincoln and Luna were going to provide some musical entertainment since they are well known around town since the musical duet contest, with some back up music from Tabby and Simon, he learned some stuff from Sam.
Luna and Sam will provide some musical lessons.
Sully and Mazzy are doing the musical history lessons, and lots of kids want to know more about the history of music.
Stella is keeping track of how much cash their raking in, but for some reason Chunk is calling someone, they had no clue as to what he was planning.
(An hour later)
The whole Fund raiser went better than they thought, many people came to listen to some songs that Lincoln and Jordan performed, Luna and Sam did well in teaching the next generation on how to use instruments, Sully and Mazzy did well with teaching others about the history of music, now they are all gathered to Stella who is counting all they have gained.
"Alright dude, what's the final rake in?" asked Luna.
Stella uses he calculator and checks all the cash. "Okay, I did all the counting."
Then Mazzy arrives to them with her Tuba. "Wait! You didn't count everything!" Mazzy blows on the tuba and it spews out a lot of cash.
"Whoa!"
Stella uses her calculator again. "Hang on guys, this could be a while."
Soon she was able to count the extra cash that arrived. "Okay, so the amount of cash we made it … A Hundred and Fifty bucks total!"
They all started cheering for the amount of money they just made.
"Holy smokes! That sure is a lot!" said Sully.
"At this point we can save the music club for generations to come!" said Sam.
"This is so awesome mates!" said Tabby.
"We did good guys, we all did our part and now the music club is saved!" said Luna.
They all cheered.
"And I am truly proud to all you dudes for giving it your best and making it all possible" said Luna.
"I'm proud to all of you as well" they all turn around and see Principal Rivers and Principal Assistant Oliver.
"Whoa, Principal Rivers. What are you doing here?" asked Sam.
"I heard from an old friend of mine who said you guy were coming up with this fund raiser and I have to say it is truly impressive" said Principal Rivers.
"And the amount of cash you all made is more than enough to save your music club" said Oliver.
"Awesome" said Sully and Mazzy.
But one thing was in Simon's mind. "I don't wanna be much of a bother, but who told you about this?"
"That would be me guv" said Chunk.
"Wait what?" they all yelled.
"You two know each other?" asked Lincoln.
"Darn right we do, we both were classmates back when we were in our senior years" said Chunk.
"He's also the same guy who asked me out to the prom" said Principal Rivers.
Chunk blushes hearing that. "Yeah, those were some great memories."
Then Luna has an idea. "Principal Rivers, I know we made tons of dough to save our club. But I also think we should split it to fund the other clubs, Drama, Sports, Origami, Debate, Art, Math, Chess, Clown and Squirrel Feeding."
Stella whispers to Jordan. "Why is there a Squirrel feeding club?"
"No clue" replied Jordan.
Principal Rivers and Oliver were happy to hear what Luna just offered. "Alright then Ms. Loud, we can split the money so we can fund every club in the school" said Principal Rivers.
"Smashin' luv! Now that's what I call generosity" said Chunk.
Sam hugs Luna and kisses her cheek. "That is the best thing you have ever come up with!"
"Aw, thanks guys" said Luna.
Principal Rivers looks to Lincoln and Jordan. "Also, I heard from Chunk that you young lady are the one who came up with the whole fund raiser idea, I am truly impressed."
"Thank you ma'am, it was the best way to solve this and not throw a strike" Jordan looks to Lincoln and Luna who both chuckle sheepishly.
"Also, I heard all about the songs you and Mr. Loud here has made, from the song he did at Royal Woods Elementary, the one I saw on social media about your birthday and the duet you two performed at Bangers n' Mosh. I loved that Good time vibe!" said Principal Rivers.
"Thanks Principal Rivers, I guess you can say we both got inspired by Luna, and pretty much I can count music as my talent" replied Lincoln.
Luna was touched at how her little brother would mention about her.
"Which is also why I am asking if you two would like to perform some songs and/or be the DJ for this Friday's School Prom" said Principal Rivers.
They all gasped, Tabby faints.
"W-What? Us?!" said Jordan.
"Indeed, your songs are pretty much what most of the students at school seem to love hearing. And so we decided to let you two be part of the prom for the music" said Oliver.
"So, what do you say kids?" asked Principal Rivers.
Lincoln was about to answer.
"Yes! Yes! Yes! We'll do it!" yelled Jordan as she then grabs Lincoln, hugs him and jumps up and down with glee.
This was not the kind of response they were expecting from young Rosato.
"Wow. Well okay then, I guess we'll have to make the cash split at the school" said Principal Rivers.
"Let me help you guys with that, I can be able to see how many clubs you guys have and calculate the amount of cash for each one" said Stella.
Oliver chuckles. "Wow. Impressive, what's your name kid?"
"Stella, Stella Gonzales" replied Stella.
"Well Ms. Gonzales the help is truly appreciated and who knows maybe one day when you attend Royal Woods High School, you might become Assistant Principal" said Oliver.
"That does sound like a good thing for you" said Principal Rivers.
Stella had no clue what to say. "Wow. Okay, that does sound kind of nice, but I have to get through middle school first."
Simon smiles and looks to Stella in a love daze. 'She's so smart ….. And hot!'
Chunk, Sully and Mazzy are trying to wake up Tabby. But she's still out like a light.
Sam assists and starts to clean up the set up they all made.
Stella told Simon that she would talk to him soon, once she's done helping Principal Rivers and Oliver, also it was going to be her first time to be in the high school.
Luna, Lincoln and Jordan are cleaning up all of the instruments.
"This has got to be the best day ever for us!" said Jordan.
"Easy there my love, you seem really excited for Friday" said Lincoln.
"Are you kidding me? Lincoln, we are about to perform at Prom! Prom! Our first prom!" said Jordan.
Lincoln and Luna chuckled, they realize why Jordan took the offer immediately.
"Little dude, you gotta chill. This maybe your first prom together, but just remember that you two are performing the song and maybe do some dancing when the time is right. Sure wish I could join you two up stage" said Luna.
"Luna, you and Sam and your pals deserve a night to have fun and be who you guys are. There's always next prom to perform on stage" said Lincoln.
"Your right, I know you two are going to be awesome on Friday" said Luna.
They then see Jordan dancing around gracefully and humming a nice tune. Lincoln already knows she is imagining her first prom with him and he also dreams of it as well.
Lincoln goes to Jordan and grabs her by the waist. "You look excited to be part of it, and I think it's adorable."
Jordan chuckles. "Sorry, it's just our first prom, together. And we're not even in high school yet!"
"Yeah, I know and I'm sure our family is gonna be stoked for this news as well" said Lincoln.
"And our friends as well, Tabby, Simon and Stella might tell them before we do" said Jordan.
"And it also means we have to pick out what to wear at the prom. We aren't dancing amongst the crowd, so might as well pick something more into our musical style" said Lincoln.
Yeah, which means I need to pick out something to wear from my closet, or look for something in the mall" said Jordan. "And we have to come up with a new song to perform, we can perform the songs we did from before."
"Yeah, but before all of that. We still have to do our Wednesday share tomorrow" said Lincoln.
"I know, and I do hope you can be prepared for what I have to bring" said Jordan.
"Oh you know I will" Lincoln then kisses Jordan and she does the same.
Luna and Sam smile seeing this. "You got one heck of a little bro and future sister in law Lunes" said Sam.
Luna wipes a small tear from her eye. "I know Sammy, I know."
This is how I would imagine a change to Deep Cuts, and mentioning some of the other episodes from Exchange of Heart, Community Disservice and Project Dad, and soon to come Tails of Woe. And as well as the Big Prom chapter this Friday. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.
The idea for Lincoln and Jordan to perform at the High school was from fellow reader Vasmasdas1, though he gave me a different concept weeks ago, I decided to up the ante and make it better. Thanks man.