CHAPTER 2
The Will
When they finished celebrating, the three orphans walked to their house, smiling ear to ear. When they arrived at their mansion, though, they put frowns on and cried some fake tears. They opened the door. Mr. Doe was inside.
"Ah, children. I see you came." Duh, the children thought. "Would it be alright if I used your father's office to speak to you about the will?"
"It'd be alright." Said Klaun, still crying fake tears.
Mr. Doe brought the children upstairs and to a small door, it was their father's office, he used it to type editorials and articles for the newspaper he worked for. Mr. Doe brought out some keys. "Your father trusted me with his keys before he died. He was right to do so." He opened the door and let the children in,
The orphans sat in the three chairs in front of their father's desk. They could see some littered about papers and the old typewriter he used. Mr. Doe sat down behind the desk and brought out another piece of paper. "This is your parent's will." He said. "It contains but one paragraph." He began reading –
"We, the Mauldiere couple, being of sound minds hereby bequeath all our worldly possessions to our dear children Rose, Klaun, and Moony. Including our vast fortune of 50,000 dollars. But they can only get this money when Rose comes of age, until then, the money will be kept in a safe in the Parliville Bank. The bank has our records so when Rose comes of age they can go in and get the money. Until then…"
Mr. Doe stopped reading. He turned the page over, and over again. "I'm sorry children, but there's no more left, I forgot to bring the second page."
"But that wasn't a lot, how could that be just one page?" asked Rose.
"One pale?" asked Moony, meaning to say "One page?"
"Yes, it was written by your mother, she always wrote in huge letters. I'll go to my house to collect the second page, will you be alright on your own?"
"Yes, Mr. Doe." Said Rose and Klaun in unison.
"Bes, Flister Moe." Said Moony.
Mr. Doe walked out and drove to his house. Klaun, Rose and Moony looked at each other and jumped for joy.
"I can't believe it! We have the whole house all to ourselves!" cried Rose.
"We can go into the rooms we weren't allowed in before!" yelled Klaun.
"Yabblehoo!" Moony shouted, meaning "Hooray!"
"Alright, settle down." Said Rose. "Listen, we can't get our parent's money until I become 18, and that's another 4 years, since we own the house now, we're going to have to pay the bills!"
"Not actually," said Klaun. "Mr. Doe left without his notebook. It says here that the bills will be paid with the money in the bank."
"What, but 4 years, with the bills, that'll take away a lot of the money!"
"Yes, but we'll still be left with a few ten thousand dollars," said Klaun. "Plus it says here Mr. Doe will help us with the bills every once in the while. And we can bring the bills down a bit by not using the phone and TV so much."
"But I'm a fourteen year old GIRL!" Said Rose. "I can't live without the phone!"
"Well, I'm a twelve year old male, I can't live without television. Besides, for the first few months, we'll be too busy looking at rooms we weren't allowed in before to worry about those."
"Hmm. Good point." Rose looked outside the door. "Just think, all those rooms, Dad's secret garden in the back yard, Mom's relaxing room, the basement…"
"We have a basement?" asked Klaun.
"Well, every house has one of those, right? And more and more and more. We can get cookie jars off the shelves with ease. We can buy and buy and buy without anyone telling us we're spending too much because we have 50 grand in the bank. No one giving us any rules or any rubbish like that. We're going to be free. Free, I tell you!" Rose looked back at her siblings. "Klaun, you can read all night! Moony, you can bite anything and everything (except our stuff), and I can invent all day long."
Klaun and Moony looked at her puzzled.
"And we also get to not go to school anymore." She finished off. Klaun and Moony smiled. They were going to have the time of their lives.
There came a knock at the door. "Children, could you let me in? I have the second page of the will!"