To Heidi with Love

     “Can you meet me at the barn after breakfast? We have something to talk about,” he said. He fed Heidi, gulped down some orange juice, and filled the kittens bowl.
     Later, the three kids, with Heidi and kittens, gathered together in the barn. David leaned against a bale of sweet smelling straw, “I’ve come up with a plan to convince Mom and Dad to keep Heidi with us,” he announced.
     At the sound of her name, Heidi’s ears pricked up, and she wiggled up to David and sloppily licked his face. “Yeah, old girl, we’re talking about you,” he said, giving her a pat and a hug.
     “Hurry up, David,” said Janie. “Tell us your plan.”
     “Okay. Plan A - we’ve got to change Dad’s mind first. Right?”
     “Right,” said the girls.
     “We’ll work through Mom. She’s an easier touch than Dad, you know? We’ll plead, coax, beg. Even whine. Mom’ll weaken in no time. She can’t take much of that, you know? Karla you’re good at crying. That’ll get her for sure.”
David saw Karla wrinkle her forehead, as she prepared to rehearse her act. Janie assured David she knew what to include in her bedtime prayers.
     “And if that doesn’t work, then we move to Plan B.”
     “Plan B?” asked Karla.
     David said, “Plan B is,” and he pointed his finger at the girls, “is we’ll tell them that we have taken a vote, and it’s three against two - we won’t go without Heidi. We’re people too. We have rights. And that’s that! We’ll only go if Heidi goes. Right?”

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