Time for a nice, calm and peaceful time at the Mall. Time to see the gifts that would be made for what comes on December, and also some small plans for when the time comes, to go and meet with their parents who are still locked up and getting some parenting lessons help. Enjoy reading this guys.

"Rock n' Not Loud Adventures!"
Chapter 75: December Mall Time...

(December 6. The Royal Woods Mall. Royal Woods, Michigan.)

Two vehicles arrive to the Mall, one is Vanzilla driven by Lori Marie Loud, and the other a Red Ferrari, driven by Michelle Lewis, and the rest of the Louds come out, and Luan is carrying Lily, and all of them are wearing winter clothing and look to the December Sale banner.

Leni sighs and then she recalls something that went down back then. "Yeah, went through this torment, and man was it intense. I am totes glad that Mrs. Carmichael closed the store for the next two days, because we need a break from the nightmare we went through."

The others can only imagine the horrors that Leni has encountered, then Michelle hands them some cash. "Each of you gets one thousand bucks, and that means you guys can also go to the place known as Gryphon's shopping, and pick out something for your secret Santa gig we did."

Yup, they all did a secret Santa exchange, so let us see who got who: Luan got Lori, Lori got Lola, Lola got Lynn Jr, Lynn Jr got Lisa, Lisa got Lana, Lana got Lucy, Lucy got Lily, Lily got Leni and Leni got Luna and Luna got Lincoln, and this means Lincoln has Luan's, nope! Lincoln got Michelle's name, and Michelle has Luan's name. There, now that makes sense, right?

Michelle then goes into the mall, and soon the rest follow, and then everyone scatters to go and get something which they know their special gift giving person will like, though Lily will get some help from Michelle Lewis since she is still too young to get a special gift for her special sister.

Michelle then recalls something else. 'Right, come tomorrow... We're all going to pay a visit, to Rita and Lynnard and see how things have been doing for them, and also discuss to them about whatever it was Lynn Jr was trying to do, at least she now understands, and that is a good thing, because accepting change is a dang good way to embrace whatever else is coming in the future.'

Michelle and Lily head off to Gryphon's shopping, and along with the other louds sisters, since what they seek is there. They even walk by the McBride's who are there for their shopping, since they will be spending Christmas at Nana Gale's for the holidays and apparently Harold wants to talk to his mom, after what went down from the last McBride reunion and the food they were all supposed to bring.

"By the time we speak with Nana Gale, she has to know that we need to make some changes to the next family reunion, because I swear Aunt Brenda is trying to one up me and what I do. I wanna make the others happy, but she has an ego!"

Howard nods. "I agree, I do not like her. I know she is family Hare-Bear, but she needs to stop trying to beat you. I mean, it's supposed to be a family reunion!"

"And we need to make sure everyone else in the McBride family gets the message" replied Clyde. "Perhaps, I can come up with something for the next reunion, something Aunt Brenda doesn't know!"

This makes Harold and Howard smile, they wanna know what their son has in store.

(With Lincoln and Luna.)

Lincoln is walking by the comic book and video game store, and with Luna following and she is confused. "Hey, Lincoln. Where are you going?"

"Huh? Oh, going to get what my special gift give would love" replied Lincoln, he then heads towards Gryphon's shopping, and so he checks out what is it that Michelle Lewis would love, but then he stops and he sees something incredible, something he has seen but never got to get his hands on. He then shakes his head back, and he continues to look around.

Luna sees the item her brother has been looking at, and this makes her smile. 'Right, looks like something Lincoln has had her eye on, and something I can give him.' Luna then looks around, and then she sees some boxes of this item, and it doesn't cost much, just about five hundred bucks.

Luna then sees her brother, and he is purchasing what looks like, a dress and then he talks to one of the staff, and asks for a different size, to which they guide him to the other dressed and this makes Luna smile. 'Looks like Linc is doing his thing, best I do mine.' Luna then goes off, to pay for what she bought, and she also sees something else, something she could gift to another special person.

As they all continue to go shopping, Mr. Grouse comes in and he sees the place. "Alrighty then, time to see what I can get for my grandkids, and this seems like the right place for it too." He then walks around and he nearly bumps into Lucy. "Dang it, Loud!"

Lucy nods. "Sorry." She then walks off, with the gift she got for her special exchange partner. Lucy also sees something that interests her, but she walks away from it, not knowing that Lana sees it, and this gives her the idea on what to get.

Lana then notices through the glass window, is Flip and the man is doing half-off on Flippies this time, which is new. This surprises Lana, but deep down she knows something is going to happen. 'Weird, I thought Flip would've shut down and bailed from town or something. Looks like that money grubber is up to his old schemes.'

Lana then gets what is needed for the gift giving, and she doesn't notice, Flips' first suckers to his half-off thing, are Darcy Helmandollar and her family, followed by Stella Zhau and her parents and granny. Oh boy.

(Timeskip. Food Court.)

The louds are all here, and enjoying the food and with their bags containing their gifts, and they even wave to Sam and her mom and little brother as they walk by, Lori then asks Leni. "So, that is the burger guy whom Fiona tried to date?"

Leni nods. "Yeah, he is and boy was that rough. I am glad we got some dating backup from Jackie and Mandee, and also Miguel. But I guess the whole thing was not meant to be, because I swear Burger guy and Smoothie Guy seem compatible, heck I am starting to see that they aren't interested in girls anymore, and I respect that. Fiona, she's confused. Looks like she's going to have to find that special someone some other time."

Michelle then speaks. "Finding that special someone is not an easy thing, and it's not some love at first sight thing too, it takes time." They then see some of their friends in the mall too. "Looks like everyone has taken the chance to come here, to beat the crowds, at least not much folks go towards Gryphon's shopping."

Lola then speaks. "I need to be really honest with you all, that place is ten times better than anything I have seen, and they informed me that they have everything I would need for any pageants, and I am so in on it. I just need to make sure Lindsay Sweetwater doesn't know, I intend to win next time."

They can see the rich girls group walk by them, and they have some bags and can carry them on their own. "And what is the next pageant?" asked Luan.

"The Winter Princess Pageant" replied Lola. "No announcements on it, yet. But, I will win it."

Then Lucy asks. "Luan, are you ready for the big play at your school sis?"

Luan chuckles and she blushes. "Yeah, I am." she sees Benny done with his shopping and he walks by them, and this makes Luan smile. "It'll be the best thing for me, and I wouldn't wanna be play-ing into the stage so much, or it'll be a curtain call to deal with." She chuckles from this, but not the others.

Then Luna speaks. "So, tomorrow is when we go and see them again, right?"

Michelle nods. "We need to go and visit them and see how things have been doing, and also talk about some stuff that have gone down that we didn't know about." They all look towards Lynn Jr, and the sporty loud sister knows what she means.

"Yeah, I get it. I need to try and tell them that I don't wanna do whatever I have planned anymore, that it's all over and done with" replied Lynn Jr. "I understand now, but I don't know if they will."

They all know what she means, it was hard enough to get some sense into the thick skulls of Rita and Lynnard, but it will not be easy to help them understand about how things have been doing now, change is coming in for all of them and they all like it, and seeing Michelle Lewis as a mom figure, is something they all appreciate, because she has done things that Rita and Lynnard have never done before.

Just then someone walks up to them. "Hey folks, how about a Flippie for half-off?" but then he sees the Louds looking at him, and they don't look pleased, since they still recall what he did. "What? Was it something I said? You guys don't want a half-off on a Flippie?"

Lisa scoffs. "You say Half-Off, but it is nothing more than some scam, I have seen the other folks you approach and they all seek nothing from your produce and what you plan to scam from them."

"We're gonna go with a no, you psycho attempted murder arsonist" replied Michelle Lewis, and she still has the same glare from when she last dealt with this swindling fool. The others also agree with her and this makes Flip back up.

"Whoa, whoa. Calm it there, lady. I don't know what the heck you're even talking about and I assure you that I would never harm people or push them to the fire... I said too much didn't i?" They look to him sternly, and both Lincoln and Luna want to attack this guy.

But then the mall cops see Flip. "Hey you! Do you have a license and permit to serve that trash drink here?!"

Flip then makes a run for it, with the Flippie cart, and the mall cops all chase after him, which everyone starts to record and plan to make this go viral, and possibly truly mark Flip as one man everyone should never ever buy anything from.

The louds then go back to their food, and then Michelle recalls something. "So, after we visit Rita and Lynnard tomorrow, who wants to try and check out the new Convenient Store? It's called, Seven-Eleven, and they also serve Submarine Sandwiches'." ow that gets Lynn's attention, the sandwich store is called, Blimppie's.

A/N: A dang good December mall day, and they got what they needed for when the Christmas morning comes, and looks like someone is still in the heat of trouble, from everyone else in town. I hope that you all enjoyed reading this newly posted chapter everyone.
Date made: 9/17/22 – 9/18/22.