Mark Ponyboy Peters

@Paladin 2017, so yeah, there would be rules, but I didn't want to bog the story down with them. I figured that just saying there were processes and check and things that needed to be done, that was enough to let the readers know that due process was followed. 🙂

Let's Ride!

@Paladin yes ... there are processes that must be followed, but my take is that as Tony is the driving force behind the hostel, he knows all the details and which strings can be pulled, if needed 🙂

Yes @weinerdog 😋 The story is partly written ... it is called Seventeen Again and is in a follow on from The Seventeenth Summer and Kandanga Falls ... though I need to finish the second part of KF first, before I finish Seventeen Again. All I will give away at this stage is that it is set in 1995 and the kids name is Flip ... short for Phillip ... he's past high school age and likes surfing and cars 😁😁😁

Hmmm . . . @Ivor Slipper . . . do you see that as an issue? I remember when I was a kid our next-door neighbours would take in kids from the orphanage for the weekend. I just never thought it might be an issue . . . but I guess in this day and age it could be looked at differently.

@Summerabbacat see . . . miracles do happen! lol There are a few twists and turns still to come in the final 5 chapters. Hope it all falls into place just how I'd like it to! 🤞

-- Chapter 34 -- The shift started quietly, the way most real changes do. He had heard it first from Constable Leggatt, the day he visited the house. Someone from the parties – the one at the sports ground and the one at the quarry – had finally dared to speak up. There was no loud declaration, it was just enough of a whisper that the story began to gather steam, and generate a life of its own. The ears of people who had not been in attendance pricked at the words spoken; that it h

Here ya go. A slightly different take...

@kbois I have faith in you that you'll "do the right thing!" by these guys! 😁

@Lozza thank you, kind sir!

@Summerabbacat I only said it was catchy . . . I didn't say I was a fan! hahaha

@Summerabbacat catchy!

Pfffttt!!! We ALL know that YOU wouldn't have relations with that woman @Summerabbacat 🤣🤣🤣

So, @Summerabbacat I take it you don't want Levi to have "relations" with that woman?

@Philippe nailed it!