Lori Loud was a simple woman. She wanted her hot coffee on her hand by 6:00 A.M, a nice breakfast by 7 and a goodnight's sleep with her husband after a long day of work. The time in-between breakfast and bedtime was best described as total boredom not worthy of anyone's time.

Still, her day to day life was bearable thanks to the love of her life being by her side. Two years after she left home, she married Bobby Santiago and everything had been perfect ever since. Well, as perfect two 25 five year old working two jobs from 7 to 10, who can barely afford a decent apartment can be. Okay, scratch that it was not perfect but she could live a day at a time with Bobby and that was all she needed.

That day would be different.

She woke up as she always did, with the alarm clock of her phone blasting her favorite song at full volume. She sat up, turning off the alarm. She removed the crust from her eyes and just stared at the wall for a few minutes. It was times like this when she missed her family. Having grown up with the constant chaos of early morning fights, improvised rock concerts or pranks being pulled, the silence her new apartment offered was a little unsettling.

That got her a little nostalgic, remembering the complete anarchy that her home was. Nowadays it must be so much peaceful now, with five of the siblings gone. She moved with Bobby a little after becoming 18, Leni left to make her mark on the fashion world, Luna went on tour with her band, Luan became a hit comedian doing live shows almost daily, Lynn won a sport scholarship to a great university, and Lincoln had left for astronaut school.

Of course, its real name had been Galaxy Garrison but calling it astronaut school is so less silly. I mean for real, was one of the guys in charge of coming up with names been watching Star Travel recently?!

It almost made her laugh, Lincoln the Astronaut. Nobody saw it coming when Lincoln came back from high school with a flyer for Galaxy Garrison. As always, her parents had been very supportive of his choice, as they had of all their children's life choices. After some tearful goodbyes and a ride to the Garrison, Lincoln had gone on to become one of the best pilots they had, eventually landing him a spot in the first manned mission to Pluto. She would be lying if she said she wasn't a little proud.

According to Lincoln he would be back for Christmas and promised to bring back gifts from space. He would probably get some rocks from the road and say they are from Pluto, the cheapstake.

An alarm woke her up from her reminiscence. She took her phone and checked the time: 6:30. She had one more hour to get ready and go to her office.

She got up and went to her small bathroom. A few minutes later she emerged charged and ready to seize the day!

After a small breakfast of course.

As she placed to slices of bread in the toaster, she turned on the little TV they had bought. It was the cheapest model they could afford, but it did its job well and with no complication. Although the occasional cockroach moving across the screen from the inside of the TV.

The TV lit up and she began changing the channels. Commercials for hair products, fast food chains, movies and more flashed through the screen. She finally settled on the News Channels, not that she was very interested in the news, it's just that there were no other good shows right now.

The anchors talked about a variety of topics none of which caught her attention.

"And that's how the cat got reunited with his family, thanks to good Samaritan and pillar of the community Heinz Doofenshmirtz, who is also a doctor" the female news anchor said as the picture of a man with a abnormally large nose handing a cat to a little kid shows up on screen. The very act of doing something good seems to live a bad taste on the man's face.

"A doctor in cuteness I'm sure." The handsome male anchor laughed. He quickly changed to a more serious face "On more somber news, Cerberus-1, the first manned mission to one of Pluto's moon has gone completely silent"

Her toasts jumped out of the toaster, she wasn't hungry anymore.

"Reports say that contact with the ship was lost at midnight last night, but no other reports have come from Galaxy Garrison regarding the faiths of the crew" The female reporter said while a picture of three people came on the screen: gray haired man with a pair of glasses smiling at the camera, a brown haired young man with glasses saluting, and white haired young man giving thumps up at the camera. It was the same picture her parents had put on the trophy case back at home.

"We can only pray for these brave men and hope they come back safe and sound to their families" The male anchor said with a tone of sadness.

She shut off the TV.

Taking her phone she called her boss and asked him to take a few days off and that she'll be back soon, she didn't even give him a chance to answer. She got a bag from the closet and began packing her and Bobbie's stuff. She had already sent him a message explaining what was happening.

Once Bobby came back and both their bags had been filled, they made their way to their childhood home, Royal Woods. Whatever happened to Lincoln it was going affect her family and she had to make sure they are able to handle it. She also hoped to get some answers from Lisa.

Even if her face was that of a young woman with a mission, inside a dreading feeling was beginning to sprout. The feeling that he may never come back home.