Where There's Smoke, There's Fire

CHAPTER ONE: Ashes and Ice-Cream

Most stories would begin with an entertaining scene, such as a movie theater or the beach. But this story, unfortunately does not. Unlike this story, most stories will begin with three smart triplets spending time with their parents in the family library reading a story about a handsome pirate looking for his lost treasure, or in the dining room eating a delicious meal of beef lasagna and salad. In our story however there is no delicious lasagna, and no interesting story books containing a pirate and a lost treasure. There is however, three smart children, Charles Louella, the first triplet loved to cook food, and you expect a child like Charles to be in the kitchen making a scrumptious meal of lasagna, but alas he was hiding in a hole with his sister. Emmeline Louella loved books, and would rest at nothing to get hold of a book, nobody what kind, a cook book on how to make lasagna and salad, a book about a handsome pirate looking for his treasure, or even poems. Speaking of poems, this leaves me to the last triplet, Lourdes Louella, the third triplet loved poems, her favorite being couplets. Fortunately, I have indeed found one of Lourdes's couplets,

The world's treachery may seem severe,

But at least It's Quiet Here.

I have also found a record of a book in the library of the Louella Manor called The World is Quiet Here, and I also discovered an old baking tray still unwashed and covered in burnt garlic bread, with crumbs spelling It s Qu 1Et h e R e.

These three triplets was you might have already understood, lived in the large Louella Manor until the treacherous date of the 17th August 2003. It began as the scent of a burnt marshmallow, and soon ended with fire flying around the Manor billowing through the open windows, making it unbearable. Charles was busy in the kitchen getting his home-made ice-cream from the freezer and didn't notice the smoke until it was too late - his ice-creams had melted and had ash right through them.

Emmeline was busy in the library, reading a book about a large separation in the Vaukur government. Harold Louella and his partner Patrica Penultimate (soon Patricia Louella) were fighting mayor Victor Vaukur about his daughter Violetta in Parliament when the smell of burnt books filled the air, ending in burning books.
The house began to shake, the two triplets were thrown down the stairs with Lordes behind them. All was quiet.