"Family Means No One's Left Behind"~ A Greenflame and Children Story

Chapter Fifteen: Notified

Narration~
After a week, Lari was back in the full swing of school, winter came and snow fell on some occasions. But on this winter's day, something pretty unfortunate happened to Mia and her family.

May's Point of View~
Akidah and I were on our way to class when I saw Mia head into the counselor's office, rubbing her eyes. "Mia?" I questioned. "May, you okay?" Akidah asked. I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at Akidah. "I don't know. I just saw Mia go into the counselor's office, and she looked pretty upset about something." I told her. "Wow, I wonder if she's okay." Akidah said. "Well, c'mon, we've gotta get to class. Maybe we can ask her if she minds it." I said. Akidah nodded and we continued our way to class. We sat down at our desks and took out our things. Soon, Mia walked in and took her seat. But when she sat down, she threw her bag against the leg of the desk and laid her head down with a heavy sigh. "Mia? Are you okay? You look pretty moody?" Akidah asked. "I'm fine." She said in a tired tone. "You sure? You sound pretty tired? And I saw you go into the counselor's office, you looked upset. You know, if there's something bothering you, you can tell us." I said. "I said I'm fine." Mia said as she raised her head. "We're just trying to help you if anything is wrong." I said. "You don't need to. Okay?" She responded. Me and Akidah looked at each other with concerned faces, then back at Mia, who already put her head down again, and then class began. After first period and halfway through second period, it was time for lunch. We all grabbed a tray and our food and sat down at a table. Mia seemed more upset than earlier and had barely touched her food. "Mia, are you sure you're okay, you look more upset and you rarely ate?" Akidah asked. She was silent. "I'm sorry, I'm just not in a good mood right now. Something came up that involves my family and our house. I just didn't want you guys to bend over backward to try and help." Mia said. "What happened?" Akidah asked. "I'll tell you after school. Okay?" She said. Me and Akidah nodded and continued to have lunch. Soon, the rest of the day passed by we were on our way home. Mia said that she'd tell us what was bugging her at Central Park. "Hey guys, how was school?" Lloyd asked. "Good, can me and Akidah go to Ninjago Central Park soon?" I said. "Um, okay, but what's the rush?" Kai said. "Oh, um, a couple of friends invited us to hang out at the park before it got colder." I said. "Well, okay, but don't stay out for too long." Lloyd said. "Okay dad, we won't." I said as we made our way to the door. "Hey, you mind if we could come, sis?" Sker asked, along with Kabaz and Lari. "Uh, sure, I guess." I replied to them. Then, we all left to go to Central Park. When we got there, I saw Mia sitting on a bench in front of the statue of Zane. "Mia!" Lari called out to her as he ran in that direction. She turned her head and had a slight smile on her face. "I didn't know that Mia was here." Kabaz said as the rest of us walked over to the bench. "And I didn't know that your brothers were coming." Mia said. "Well, they asked." Akidah said as she smiled. "So, what's up Mia. You said you were gonna tell us something." I said. "Well, yeah, I did say that." She said. "Wait, hold up. What's going on?" Sker interrupted. "Oh, Mia wanted to talk about something, and it sounds pretty important." Akidah said. The boys nodded and we all turned our attention towards Mia. "Well, you see guys, something came up a couple of days ago and it's been pretty stressful for me and my family." She said. Then, Mia took out a folded piece of paper from her pocket and handed it to us. "What's this?" Lari asked. "An eviction notice." Mia said as she let out a sigh. "You're getting evicted?!" Kabaz asked. "Well, yeah, if we don't pay the $1,900.00. You see, our landlord is charging us more money, but we don't have enough to pay. And there's nothing we can do to change the amount owed. We have a week or we'll be kicked out of that house. Both my parents got day-shift and night-shift jobs, and while they're not at home, I feel as if I'm not doing anything to help." Mia explained to us. "That's horrible! We gotta do something to help. We don't want you to lose your house." Akidah said. "Wait! That's what I was afraid of, you go through all that trouble, and just to help me. You really don't have to." Said Mia. "But this is serious, we want to help you, Mia. This is your house, if you lose it, where will you go?" I said. "If you really want to, okay, you can help, but how are we gonna raise the money?" Mia said. "How 'bout a festival?" Lari suggested. "No, that'd take too long to plan and set up." Sker replied. "A bake sale?" Akidah suggested. "Maybe, but I think it'd probably be too cold to sit outside for who-knows-how-long." I said. "Don't worry Mia, we'll come up with something." Kabaz said as he put his hand on her shoulder. Mia looked up at us and had a small smile on her face. We all talked about more ideas and then soon enough, it was time for everyone to go back home. "Hey, Mia!" Sker called. Mia turned her head and asked, "Huh? What is it?" Sker said, "Maybe my mom can offer you a spot at the noodle house, if that's fine with you." Mia smiled and nodded. Then, after everything was settled, we all went back home. "Hey, so how was the park?" Asked Lloyd. "It was okay dad, Mia was there too." Said Lari. "Oh, that's nice. Did anything else happen?" Dad asked. "Well, yeah actually, Mia and her family got an eviction notice." I said. "Oh no, that's horrible!" Skylor said from the kitchen. We all sat down and explained everything to them. "And now, we're not sure what other things we could do to help." Akidah finished. "I can't believe that this is happening to them." Dad said. "Well, if she wants, I can give her a spot at the noddle house and pay her for the services that she does." Skylor said. "I already told her that and she said that she'd be glad to do it." Sker said. Everyone continued to talk about ways to help out Mia until we were running out of ideas.