"OH MY GOD! A DEAD BODY!"

Colin slowly opened his eyes. The first thing he saw above him was a girl, a teenager with blond hair, a pair of circular sunglasses on her forehead, and a casual light blue sundress. He sat up, rubbing his head as he asked, "What happened? Where am I, and who are you?"

"AHHHHHHH! THE BODY CAN TALK! HELP!" the girl screamed as she ran into her house. Colin recognized the house as the one on the TV screen. "That girl is what I like to call, how do you say it... oh yeah, "ditzy," He said to himself

He didn't have to wait long before the girl came back, this time with an older girl, probably her sister. "See Lori, it's sitting up! IT'S A ZOMBIE!"

"Calm down, Leni, he's not a zombie and he isn't dead," the older girl named Lori said. She was wearing a tank top and short brown pants, with blond hair and a cell phone in her pocket. "Hey sir, are you OK? Sir?"

"Yyyyeah, I think so," said Colin as he put his hand to the side. But as he put his hand down, he realized that something was off. He looked at his hand to discover that instead of an actual human arm, his hand now resembled a drawing of some sort. He immediately felt sick as he stood up.

"I need a mirror!"

"Look no further!" said Leni, handing him a small pocket mirror. "I always have one to do my makeup!"

He flipped open the mirror and glanced at his reflection.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Colin was still a human, but his entire figure was changed. Instead of being a 3D figure, his whole body looked like something out of an old comic book, like someone had sketched him on a piece of paper.

"WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?!" he yelled. "WHERE AM I?!"

"Woah, calm down, buddy. You're in Royal Woods, Michigan, But you need to calm down right now. Do you have a name?"

"Y-yeah. It's C-c-colin. Colin Gomez."

Alright, I've never heard of you. You look really sick, sir."

"Stop calling me "sir." I'm 16. Why do I look like this? Who are you?"

"Well, you look like this because you were born that way, and my name is Lori. Lori Loud. You probably already met Leni, my sister."

"I'm Leni. Or is it Larry? Umm, or is it Laney? "

"She's not the brightest star in the sky, is she?" Colin asked.

"Don't talk about my sister like that! Only I can say stuff about my sisters. You must be a new student at our school."

"Your what? Oh yeah, the school!" Colin lied. "Definitely here to go to school!"

"I'd assume so, seeing how you're here so late in the summer. Where's your house?"

He looked around, expecting to see Mama's apartment, but when he realized that he wasn't even in his own world anymore, he said, "Oh, just down the street a little. We just got here today, and I was really tired from the car ride, so I just came to take a nap! Yep, that sounds about right!"

"In the middle of the road?" Lori said skeptically.

"Hey, don't question the genius of my mind! Well, I might as well go around and introduce myself to the neighbors..."

"Not so fast! Why don't you come and see our house first?"

"Um, ok, I don't see why not!" He replied, walking up to the house with the 2 girls. "What's the worst that could happen?"

As soon as he opened the door to the Louds House, Colin was BLASTED off his feet by a wave of sound. A brown haired girl holding a guitar peered out the door and looked down at him. "Ey, we got ourselves a guest, gals!" She said in an almost perfect british accent. She was rocking a punk rock look, with a short hairdo and a edgy jacket and skirt combo. "I'm Luna. Nice to meet you, mate!"

"Colin," he said dazed as a football whizzed by his head like a bullet. "I got it!" said another girl with longer brown hair and wearing a sports jersey. She caught the ball, and as she came back in, she seemed to notice Colins presence.

"Who's the new guy? Aw, it doesn't matter, I'm Lynn!"

"Coli-" was all he could say until he was interrupted by two girls going at it. The one girl looked like she came straight out of a beauty pagent, while the other looked like she just got out of a sewer diving class. Both had blond hair and two front teeth missing.

"Who's that?" they both said in unison. "Hey, I asked first, Lana!" Said the beauty pageant girl. "No, I asked first, Lola!". Soon, they were going at it again, saying "I want to tell him MY name!" and "I want to tell him FIRST!"

"I'M COLIN!" He yelled out confused to the two as a shorter girl with a beaker of chemicals came through. "WATCH OUT! THESE ARE SOME DANGEROUS CHEMICALS WERE TALKING ABOUT!" before she ran upstairs, followed by a loud "BOOM!"

Colin didn't even bother saying his name that time, because pretty soon ANOTHER girl came through, holding a baby in her arms. She had long brown hair held back by a hairband, while her teeth had braces on them. She wore a plaid skirt a a yellowish jacket.

"And then the cow said to the rabbit, "That was a HARE-RAISING tale! Ha ha ha, get it Lily?" She said to the baby she had. "Poo Poo!" Was the girls only response. "Who's this? Hey, you must be new! I'm Luan, and I gotta say, it's ICE to meet you!" she said as she suddenly pulled the collar of his shirt and threw an ice cube in it. She laughed, then said "I was gonna wait for Lincoln to come down, but I saw you and thought you needed to CHILL! Ha ha ha, get it?"

Colin, although still a little cold from the ice cube prank, chuckled and asked Lori, "Wait, Lincoln? There's a guy in this house?"

"Yep, the only one. Lincoln? Get down here! We have a guest!" Lori yelled to the top of the stairs. Pretty soon the same boy Colin had seen through the portal in the nebula thing was walking down the stairs, saying "What do you want now, Lori?! Oh, hey. You must be new here. I'm Lincoln. You're probably wondering why there are so many girls here right now."

Colin replied, saying "Yeah, believe me, it's nice to see another guy here."

Lori said "Well, I guess we covered everyon-"

"You forgot me," Said a monotone voice behind Colin.

"HOLY-" he said, holding his tounge around the smaller kids. Soon, he stuttered out meekly, "And who are you?"

"I'm Lucy. I wrote a poem about people forgetting about me. Here it is. Forgotten. Alone. Sadness, Misery overtake my soul-"

Now, instead of feeling confused, Colin was now scared, dumbfounded, and a little bit akward. Not wanting to be around these people anymore, he thought fast.

"Wonderful! I maycome back andlisten to the rest later, but I JUST realized that my, uh, parents wanted me home by 7! So, bye! I'M COLIN, BY THE WAY!"

He walked outside, but pretty soon he was stopped by Lincoln.

"You're not a new student at the school, are you?"

"Kid, I'm still wondering where the hell I am right now. What is this place? How did you know I'm not a student?

"First off, my name is Lincoln. Second, if you don't know where you are right now, I doubt you even know where the school is. Third, there were no new houses for sale on our block. Fourth, you said you had to be home by 7, but it's 11 in the morning. I Can see through any lie you can spin."

"-sigh- Fine, Im not a new student. The truth is…"

He stopped. Even if he told these kids the truth, and nothing but the truth, what are the odds they would believe in him? He already lied to two sisters, so he figured he wasn't trustworthy to them. Seeing there was no other choice, he lied again.

"I'm homeless. I was kicked out of my house, hitchhiked here from upstate, and I'm trying to find a place to stay until I have enough money to go home. Are you happy now, Chico?"

"Very. But I just have one question for you. Why did you decide to come to Royal Woods?"

Colin thought about the answer, the feeling he got when he was in the nebula, when he noticed the world where he was going to be in, and he said, "I don't know. I guess it was just luck."