The moment when all seems calm and all seems nice and it will be, the day is almost here and we are all looking forward as to what happens when the two louds, along with Michelle and Harriet enjoy their first ever family Christmas Party, with some other friends and some surprise guests. Enjoy reading guys.

Family of Two.

Chapter 132: preparing for the merry tomorrow.

(The Loud House.)

Lincoln wakes up and he gets out of bed, he yawns and stretches and looks around. "Oh, right. We had a celebration from yesterday."

Lincoln touches the ground with his bare feet, and it's cold. So he puts on the bunny slippers and he makes his way out of the room and down the hall and straight for the bathroom to get himself ready for the day, but as he walked he felt sore and was limping a bit on his left leg, and he sees the small bandage wrapping at his ankle.

Lincoln tries to recall what had happened last night. "What the heck happened last night anyway?"

(Recapping memory.)

Lincoln and Luna were part of the game show, Legends of the Hidden Temple.

They faced a mean father and son, known as Stan and Steak Stankco.

They had fun doing the challenges, but the Stankcos hated them for being happy and having fun.

Steak cheated and hurt Lincoln, and so they were disqualified.

They tried to hurt Lincoln and Luna, only to get hurt and arrested for assault.

Lincoln and Luna won a one week trip to Honolulu Hawaii and can bring two others with them.

They went back to Royal Woods and celebrated with the others on this win.

Though some of them wanted to come, they had to respect and wait for whatever choice Lincoln and Luna has for who gets to join them on the trip next month.

One heck of a celebration, and Lincoln blacks out after so much sugar. He ate too much cupcakes and chocolate cake, along with hot chocolate and brownies.

(End recap.)

"Huh, so that's what happened. Oh well, a shame I have this cast until tomorrow." Lincoln then grabs his tooth brush and he gets ready for the day ahead of him. Then he recalls something else.

'Tomorrow mom and I are gonna have a Christmas party, a big family one and we're inviting the Sharps and the Rosato's in the mix. I hope we can handle this as we did with Thanksgiving.'

He then thinks about the choice he was coming up with on who gets to go with him, and his mom to the one week trip on January. "That one is not gonna be an easy thing."

(Later.)

Lincoln comes down the stairs and he sees his mom vacuuming the floor and she smiles when she sees her son come down. "Morning kiddo, sleep well?"

"Sure did mom, though I don't recall what happened after I crashed." Lincoln goes over and he hugs her.

Luna hugs him back, and she recalls what happened last night. "Well, let's recap. You ate way too much sugar and crashed, same went with Jordan, Liam, Tabby and Stella. So, I carried you back upstairs to your room, then the others went home after the whole party and I went back to check on you and change you out of your clothes."

"You did keep mumbling about sugar and stuff, then you started talking about Olmec's temple and how we had fun, that was sweet of you to dream of the good moments."

Lincoln smirks. "Yeah, I guess I did." They then depart from the hug. "The hard part is me having to deal with this sore leg for a while." He looks to his bandaged up ankle.

"Don't worry about that kiddo, be glad you can get that one off tomorrow. Also, you should eat now, breakfast is ready for you and no it's not sugar" replied Luna.

Lincoln goes into the kitchen and there he sees Great Grandma Harriet and Michelle Lewis going through the cook book. "Hey guys, morning."

"Good morning Lincoln."

"Good morning Lincoln. Breakfast is ready, and there isn't any sugar in it either."

Lincoln sees the plate of bacon and eggs and a glass of orange juice, squeezed from the orange itself. "Thanks guys, going through what to cook for tomorrow?" Lincoln begins to eat his meal.

"We are and we're having a hard time trying to pick from the book" said Michelle Lewis. "Though, Lynn Sr's book of cooking ideas are still here, but we're not gonna tamper with it. Luna did say so many months ago."

"We're just gonna see what we can figure out, but I have an option for a duck inside of a chicken, which sounds better. Almost as good as a Turducken" replied Harriet. "The cake is a hard idea though."

"We're trying to see whether we should go for a cake the shape of an igloo, or a cake the shape of Santa, but we have the Gingerbread house ready for that idea" replied Michelle Lewis. "The Duck in the chicken is a good idea, I haven't had one in a long, long time."

"Might I have a suggestion?" They both look towards Lincoln. "Make the cake look like something that would truly be the meaning of something merry and jolly and also have the spirit of the reason why we're all gonna celebrate tomorrow."

They both think about this, then they both look to each other. "We having the same idea?" asked Michelle.

"Definitely" replied Harriet. She then looks to Lincoln. "Thank you for the suggestion Lincoln, I believe we know what to do now. Also, your mother will inform you of the news on the situation with the men who tried to harm you and Luna yesterday" Harriet and Michelle then get to work on the design of the cake for tomorrow.

Lincoln knows she's talking about the Stankcos and deep inside, he is curious as to what's their whereabouts.

(An hour later.)

Luna is in her room and she puts away what she wrapped up for the night of December 24. She then makes sure that this gift is not seen by Lincoln. "Hey mom."

Luna turns around and sees him by the doorway. "Hey, you finish breakfast?"

Lincoln nods and walks in. "I did, and I helped out with any other remaining chores in the house, also I don't wanna disturb what Great Grandma Harriet and Michelle are doing in the kitchen. Those two are going through whatever design they have for the cake now."

Luna smirks. "Yup, leave it to those two to figure it out. For a minute there, I thought they'd spend the whole day bickering on what kind of cake shape and design."

Lincoln then sits on his lower bunk. "Mom, I need to know….. What the heck happened to the Stankcos?"

Luna then sits next to him, while also using her foot to make sure the gift is pushed deeper under the bed. "Well, I guess now is the best time to tell ya. I got the news after the party and after I got changed for bed."

"Now, after their near crime of assaulting both of us, and also looked like close to murder. The Stankcos have been found guilty for a number of things, turns out they cheated on 2 of the contests in the Buff man competition, they rigged the rival's obstacles to fail and make them lose."

"So, as punishment there are banned from ever competing in another Buff man contest starting next year, and also will be serving 365 days of Community service, along with parole, those guys won't be able to do any more trouble with the cops watching over them, also I think the wife of Stan left him after hearing what they did."

"Yeesh. That sounds harsh, but they did deserve it for being a bunch of jerks, and after what you said, they just turned to even bigger jerks" replied Lincoln. "At least that trouble is dealt with."

Luna pulls her son close to her. "Yeah, and now we can look forward to what comes tomorrow, a bit family get together Christmas party with the Sharps and the Rosato's."

Lincoln chuckles and he hugs his mom. "And let's not forget about Leni and Lori." Luna goes wide eyed hearing this. Lincoln looks to his mom. "Yeah, don't be too surprised mom, I knew you'd have this idea. I kinda knew from the start since I do recall the same plan you had when it was Thanksgiving, so I know they're coming here as well."

Luna smiles and she kisses his forehead. "Smart and always prepared for what comes next. That's my boy."

"After what we've been through, I try my best to expect the unexpected" replied Lincoln.

Just then Luna gets a text from her phone. "Oh, Dr. Himmler."

Lincoln knows that name, the man who's handling with Luan. "W-What does it say mom?"

Luna sighs, she didn't want him to deal with this, but she has no choice, and so they both read the text.

Dr. Himmler – Luna Loud, it seems that Luan is trying to recover, but in a way I did not see coming. After you both have left the mental hospital, she has ended up creaming every night, begging for her to leave. We don't know who "her" is, but whatever is going on is making her not much of a threat.

She seems to not wish to be touched by anyone and only wants to be left alone, at first we just thought these to be nightmares or night terrors, but then we noticed that whenever she is alone, the cameras in her room are turned off or go static and that's when she begins to scream.

We believe something, or someone is in the asylum and is targeting her. Though, it seems to be working. This morning, Luan responded and ate her breakfast and without even panicking or losing her mental state, she was calm as a teenage girl eating.

I will keep you updated on her status.

Lincoln and Luna are shocked to hear this. "Mom, is Luan okay?"

"I…. I don't know kiddo, but whatever is going on, might have something to do with Harriet and whatever she left behind there" said Luna.

"But, Harriet wasn't with us when we went to visit her" said Lincoln.

"That part is as true and as clear as day kiddo, but she might've had something do with this, we'll only ask her when the time is right" said Luna.

Lincoln then asks. "Should we go and visit her, again?"

Luna thinks about this and she hugs her son. "I don't know kiddo, I don't know. Maybe soon, we might go and check up on her, to see how she's doing."

Lincoln hugs her back and feels some concern for his former comedic sister. Something is wrong and it seems that this wrong is helping Luan, but it also feels wrong.

Luna then departs from the hug and has an idea. "Hey Linc, since Leni and Lori are gonna come tomorrow, another thing I forgot to mention is that. They won't be going back to juvie or the institute till the later days of December 25."

Lincoln goes wide eyed and he smiles. "So, does that mean we should clean up their old room and make it look nice again?"

Luna nods. "You're choice kiddo."

Lincoln nods, they both depart from the hug and both get up from the bed and walk out of the room and they go to the room across theirs to begin fixing up the former room of the once eldest in the house, they're gonna need some cleaning supplies for this job.

But while they both go to clean out the old room for their incoming guests.

Underneath the bed is the nicely gift wrapped box that says. "From: Luna – To: Lincoln."

But in Lincoln's drawers is another gift wrapped box that says. "From: Lincoln – To: Luna/Mom." But this box is a rectangle shape.

Looks like both louds plan on doing something for the night when it is close, to December 25. Until then, they should prepare for tomorrow, December 24.

A/N: Trouble will come again soon, if anyone here has a concept for the revenge of Stan and Steak, and pretty soon they will go and visit Luan. But those aren't the hot issues right now, because tomorrow is what we're all looking forward to. Leave a review and tell me what you all think.

Date made: 12/5/20.