TAUPE - YET ANOTHER SIDE QUEST (64)
The Lodens & The Hoffmans
Not sure why Nora was moonlighting at the pirate bar - perhaps Koffieboon is having a drop in business?
No – I don’t think it’s that; there’s always people in there when we stop by. Then again, event season is coming up for Freya’s school and Erik have some stuff planned with the scouts – maybe she’s just getting ahead of expenses. 
Her wife, Dahlia has been working on a book for a lot longer than she cares to admit. To be fair, she’s been very busy with her lectures on writing, story building and character development – half of her students are almost done their books; one even got a book deal.
Dalia, however, is still in the weeds.
Their oldest, Freya is a writer herself; she’s getting very clean serious about her songwriting – she has dreams of going to Del Sol Valley one day to record her own album. Or maybe Sand my should know? She’s not entirely sure.
Erik loves nature and as a top scout – he barely has enough room for all of his patches and trophies. His mom’s have promised him a trip to Gibby Falls for his birthday with the whole family; he can’t wait to learn how to canoe.
Gramma Hattie even said she would close the stand for the weekend so they could go - it would be a nice change of pace. It would also be a good break from the rivalry going on with her and the Hoffmans ( more on them in a minute ). 
✏️ I did a deep dive trying to find out the truth about the jellybean cookie rift between the Lodens and the Hoffmans - after much research, I found out that no one truly knows. Hattie’s husband and Bruno‘s wife have passed; they’re the only ones who really knew for sure. 
Bruno‘s grandson Felix has his granddad‘s back – he’s not interested in what really happened, he just takes his grandfather‘s word and leaves it at that. Unfortunate – the kids always smile and wave at him, and he feels kind of bad, giving them the cold shoulder.
He low-key hopes that one day his granddad and Gramma Hattie had he will work things out so things don’t have to be as tense.
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