Okay, as most people know I took off for a week's skiing and it was fantastic. Just a few degrees below freezing temperature, clear blue sky and sunlight, fantastic slopes, great nightclubs and a looot of alcohol. I had a fantastic week. Then I came home and it's full snowstorm (coming 2 feet snow a day), I get sicker and my computer crashes. Well thanks for that "welcome home!" xD

Anyway, I've stolen my mother's computer but you'd better all be crossing your fingers, holding your thumbs or whatever you do for luck in your country, that I can save my harddrive, which contains about 100 unpublished CA stories....

Aaaanyway. I didn't lose anything from this story cause it wasn't written yet. So I wrote this now, lol. And oh, I don't have a spelling/grammar program on this computer so excuse my mistakes! :)

Agn.


Chapter 6.

"Mum..."

"Ella, wait. I'm almost done."

"But mum, I..."

"Ella, stop it and just let me finish this."

Ella sighed loudly as her mother helped her get dressed. There was so many layers of clothes and socks and hat, gloves and so on, and it had taken almost 20 minutes to get dressed. And all the time, Ella had been trying to tell her mother something, but Kelly wasn't willing to listen. She was busy getting her two daughters into their clothes and she refused to let them go for a second before they were fully dressed. Kris and Tommy as dressing the twins next to her while Morgan was dressing Yasmin. Sandra had told them what was needed for the kids to play in the snow and it was many layers.

"Mum I..."

"Ella, I'm getting irritated. I will let you out, but you need to be properly dressed before, otherwise you can get sick in the snow and we don't want that, right?"
Kelly said in her most motherly voice as she helped Ella into the warm shoes, tying them neatly.

"But.."

"Ella." Kelly sighed, a little more power in her voice. She was getting annoyed.

Ella kept her mouth quiet for another 10 minutes that it took for Kelly to neatly tie all strings, button all buttons and pull up all zippers. When she was finally finished Kelly smiled proudly to herself.

"There, now you can go out and play!"

"But mum.."

"What is it now? You are finished." Kelly said in annoyance.

"I need to pee." Ella whispered.

Kelly immediately heard Kris laugh out loud for a second before she placed her hand over her mouth as Kelly stared up at her from where she was sitting on the floor. Kris immediately looked away, down at her daughter instead. Kelly looked back to Ella who was bouncing in her spot.

"Why didn't you tell me before?"

"I've been trying to!" Ella immediately defended herself.

Kelly sighed. Ella had been trying to tell her something. 'This is what you get for not listening to your children.' Kelly thought to herself.


Half an hour later, Kelly and Ella joined the others outside in the snow. Sarah and Yasmin, who had become great friends the last couple of months, were already trying to make a snowman with Jill and Morgan's help, only that neither Jill nor Morgan knew how to build a snowman, so they weren't really getting anywhere. Kris and Tommy were busy keeping tracks of the twins that were tumbling here and there in the snow, Jessica staying close to her mother's side while Jacob had to discover everything. Kris had sat down on a bench, not really too fond of being outside in this cold snow, and Jess kept close to her in her lap. Jessica didn't see any reason to leave her mother's side. Jacob fought the snow as he saw how Kelly came out to them, and he began to make his way through the deep snow to her.

Kelly made her way to him with a little less difficulty than the small boy. Kelly then knelt into the snow and Jacob climbed up into her lap with a big smile on his face as Ella joined Jill, Sarah and Yasmin finally managed to make a the lower ball of the snowman.

Everyone was smiling, laughing and joking with each other, and about an hour later there was a tall and handsome snowman standing outside the house. By this time, everyone had gotten cold, and Kris and Jess had already walked back inside. Now Kris opened up the window and yelled out to the ones still outside.

"Guys, the chocolate is done!"

Kris smiled as she closed the window again and sat down by the table next to her daughter, smiling as Jess happily drank from her bottle by herself.

The kitchen soon got filled with both adults and children who all grabbed bottles and cups with milk or hot chocolate milk with whipped cream. They soon joined up in the living room.

"This cold is not good for my hair." Jill sighed as she pulled her fingers through the hair. The cold had made it freeze, creating frost in the hair, and Jill was now trying to warm it up with a towel.

"Wear a hat the next time." Janet smiled as she walked into the room, followed closely by Sandra and Kamili.

"Momma!" Yasmin smiled happily and held out her arms for Kamili when she saw her enter, and Kamili walked up to her and pulled her up into her arms. "We made Mr Snowman, did you see him?"

"You did that?" Kamili asked her daughter.

"Me and Sarah and Ella and Jill and dad." Yasmin smiled proudly as Kamili sat down into the couch next to her husband, with her daugther in her lap.

"How good of you guys!" Kamili smiled, and Yasmin leaned back towards her mother's chest.

"Did you get anything?" Kelly asked as she looked at her angels.

"Not really. We've talked to Old 7 but none of them seem to know anything." Sandra answered as she sat down with Janet onto the soft sheep skin that was on the floor in front of the open fire.

"Old seven?"

"Frode Sørensen, my dad, cheif of police Theodor Fossum, Sven Nordmo, Arvid Vika, Remi Olafsen and Anders Dahl. They have been best friends for over 50 years and they help build this town through the fishing and tourism. Theodor is as said the cheif of police, my dad is in charge of sport events together with Arvid who owns a sport store. Anders owns a huge fishing company and several fishing stores and Remi owns several fishing boats." Sandra explained.

"We went to all of them except Sandra's father... and Frode of course, and spoke to all of them. No one seems to have known of what Frode was doing the night he died and everyone seemed upset and shocked that he had died." Janet added.

"So we've got nothing?" Kelly sighed.

"Maybe it's a good thing to keep an eye on those men for a few days, to see what they are doing and if they get together or something?" Kamili suggested, and everyone agreed that it might be a good idea. If these men were the ones who ruled the town, they would know if there was something strange going on.

"Let's divide." Sandra smiled. "I'll watch Sven, Janet, you stalk Arvid and Kam, Theodor?"

"Sounds good."

"I can watch someone too." Kris added, and Jill and Kelly nodded along with her.

"Well, you guys watch Remi and Anders then. I'll leave the files on the table with all their addresses and facts, and let's all go into town tomorrow and I'll take you to a car rental shop." Sandra smiled.

"Sounds great." Everyone agreed.

"Good. Then I'm gonna take a shower." Sandra said as she left the room.

Everyone sat quiet for a while as they looked around.

"Is everyone thinking the same thing?" Kelly asked, and most of them nodded. "Alright then. Kris, Jill, you watch Anders and Remi. I'll keep an eye on Sandra's father."