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The Snye House: Mike Snye was the head of house, but he was only father of one of three children. The other two children were the children of his wife, who was much younger than him. He had a good life, he thought. He was a construction crew chief and he made very good money, and his job came with lots of benefits so that they were not hurting in the least. Cindy knew that he had one savings account, which he had over $15,000 in, but she didn’t know he also had two other accounts, one with $25,500 and one with $250,760 in it. The one with 15,000 in it was the one that he often used to take vacations with his family. The one with 25,500 was for emergency situations such as if their car broke down or they needed some quick money for one reason or other. The final account was a last resort, job loss type of emergency account. Mike was supposedly at work one day while the children were at school and Cindy was at home, making sure it was nice and tidy for the family when they returned. This is where we begin…. The company Mike worked for had just finished a big contract, and he had been personally given a bonus of $5,000 plus the wages for this job which amounted to $12,500, but then he was called into the office at 2:00 in the afternoon. “I’m sorry,” his boss had told him. “You are one of our best, but we just don’t have the jobs. The economy had gone into a tank about two years ago, and people are just not building yet.” “So, you are firing me?” “More like we are laying you off. If we get another contract, you and your team will be one of the first we put back to work. That’s a promise.” Mike sighed. “I understand.” He was not in a good mood at all. All the way home, he started to worry if he had saved enough for this eventuality. He worried that they might not have planned on medical bills when they have no insurance since they had always had insurance before. He worried that their car might be getting old, and now, it really couldn’t be afforded to be replaced. After a half an hour ride home, getting there at around 3:10, just before the kids got home which was quite a change since he normally didn’t get home until six, he opened the door loudly and called into the house. “Cindy? You home? We need to talk!” He thought and thought about what to do to save their situation until they could get on their feet, and he decided a few things that he hoped Cindy would understand needed to be done. Of course, he was not going to part with even one of the girls. They were his responsibility, and they were his family even if the older kids were not really his blood kids. But he needed to find a way to make money and live a little more sparingly than they had been until this point….
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Jessica and Nancy sat in the middle round table talking about their plans for the day. To the left of their table, there was Angela trying to get her little one to eat breakfast, and Olivia, trying to get her little one to accept a new toy to tote around all day, a stuffed rabbit that was way too large to hide. "Now, come on," Angela said to her little Erica, the girl in red pigtails that Angela had gotten the stubborn girl to finally realize she had no choice if she wanted their protection from the bullies. "You need to eat your breakfast, and this cinnamon roll is actually pretty good, and I want you to drink your milk." Angela had bought the breakfast for Erica despite Erica already having had breakfast at home, partially, because Angela pretended not to believe Erica when she said she already ate. Olivia kept trying to shove the pink rabbit that was nearly half the girl's height into her arms. "Come on, now, Kim. Mommy worked very hard at a part time job to get this for you, and I really thought of you when I saw it. Please take it for today, then after you bring it home, you can decide if you want to bring it to school tomorrow or not." No one seemed to be paying attention to Cindy when she first entered the lunch room....
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