The thing with the reindeer

Well, that’s not a bad plan. I’m sure there are people who’d love to help. I would.

Yeah our town is going to be super supportive, not to mention families who adopted kids from there. Fredrick no...I couldn't ask you too. Maybe if I do end up making a charity event here but...

Wow. Jeez. That’s…that’s terrible. Is there anything they can do about it?

Yeah...it is. I guess they only way is if they could match the price. So they are trying to get donations from the town now.

Stefan, if you say the p word ever again, I’m going to have to end our friendship. It’s a dirty word, ok? Seriously though, if you want to do someting when you get back, I don’t mind helping out.

P-word? Oh you mean Pol- *catches himself before saying it again* Gotcha you have my promise. I'll defiantly be recruiting you for when I do. Still need to think of an event and run it by the school. 

Well.. your biggest strength in this situation is the people, and honestly, it doesn’t get much better than that. Right now, is the point where you and your family should look into marketing strategies. Clearly it’s better for you and the community if you keep hold of the property. You need to make sure people know that is under threat. You do what our parents taught us not to do - make a scene. Not necessarily in a bad way.

*nods while taking her advice all in* Spoken like a true politician's daughter Kiara thank you. I might be flying home soon to help out over their but maybe we can do something here too. Like a charity-fundraiser event. 

You live on a fjord? *thinks for a moment* No, wait, that’s not salient. How is he forcing them to sell?

Yeah, well near the fjord. I honestly don't really know. Something about contracts and landlords and the bank which all runs down to him attempting to take the house from them.

You know what.. No. That isn’t how this is going to happen for you. We’ll work something out. People shouldn’t be thrown out on the street simply because  you can’t match someones price.

My mom said they are getting a lawyer and financial planner but it's not looking good. What are we suppose to do?

It’s very fun, I’m getting jealous. There’s this guy on the internet that does weird shapes with his beard. 

*chuckles* Jealous of my mustache. Maybe you should grow your own little ginger 'stache. I've heard of him but my plan is never going to be to make a dragon out of my face or whatever weird shape he can do. 

Wait, they want to buy and close the orphanage? Are they cartoon villains?

He is a villain alright. Apparently the houses' fjord front real-estate is the perfect place for his hotel. He has made my family an offer a couple times before but we've always declined so now he isn't asking.

Oh, not at all. We just all learned where to stand in the classroom and such. Christian is your best friend, right? It certainly sounds nice. I’d rather do hard work with a friend than alone.

Still seems super foreign to me. Yeah he is and you're right it made the work a lot more tolerable. 

What…what would be the consequences of that?

Virtually everything. About 15 kids being put on the street and both my parents income disappearing entirely. 

I would love to cause trouble. Nothing happens at this school!

I think a lot of the trouble stopped right when the tornado hit. That was enough trouble for most. 

[whistles] that blows. Why can’t you do anything about it?

*raises his eyebrows and bites his lower lip* Tell me about it. We don't have the money to match this guys price. 

Mm-hmm. We didn’t get tornadoes often but there were enough of them that we had drills at school and the like. Really? Paid to shovel? That actually sounds like it could be fun.

Fire drills were one thing but tornado drills sounds frightening. Yeah like people would ask me to shovel their drive way because they didn't want to. I wouldn't call it fun but Christian and I passed the time. 

"Everything alright?" Logan frowned, knowing all too well how awful news from home could feel sometimes. He simply nodded at Stefan’s thanks, smiling half-heartedly and hoping nothing more would be said on the subject.

"Not really to be honest. My mom just told me some really shitty news about our families orphanage." Scratches his head not really happy with even speaking about it. Stefan thinks he can read Logan pretty well and knew if it were him that he wouldn't want to talk about his heroics so he kept his mouth shut.