20

A week later, November 28th…

Katherine walked out of her house to get the newspaper.

Underneath the photo of the Bates Motel were the new words

BATES MOTEL TO REMAIN

STANDING UNTIL SPRING

Katherine started to read the article. "Thanks to an anonymous donation to the Fairvale Town Council, the decision to tear down the abandoned Bates Motel will be moved to the spring of 2010…"

She walked back into the house, where Megan and Brooke were coming down the stairs from Katherine's room.

"We got to sleep at 2 AM! Why are we awake only 5 hours later?" Brooke asked.

"Check out the newspaper!" Katherine replied.

The other two did. After reading the headline, they cheered.

"Wait a minute… I have an idea. Let me go call Rudolph!" Megan said.

A minute later, she was on the phone.

"What…?" Rudolph asked, half asleep. "Who's calling me so early?"

"They postponed the demolition of the motel!"

"Wha… It's too early…" he said. "Wait. What?"

"Yeah!" Megan continued. "I got another idea!"

"OK. Tell me."

She asked, "Did your dad have a will?"

"I think so. I don't know. Even if he did, no lawyer's told me about it since I turned 18."

"OK. If you want to save your father's motel by this spring, you're going to find something in his will that gives you power over it. To do that, you'll need to find it first. You're going to need some help."

There was a pause before Rudolph replied, "OK. Let's do it. Maybe we can call this demolition off completely!"