Chapter 1: Ice Town

January 2018- Age 4- Pawnee- Ice Town

So now that the campaign is about to be fully underway we need to discuss how we will deal with Ice Town." Jen Barkley stated.

"What's Ice Town Daddy?" Sonia asked as she and the two boys looked up at Ben.

"Oh, nothing. Nothing. Nothing. Just, uh a town made of Ice in the North Pole."

"Is it where Santa lives?" Wesley asked causing Stephen to stand up with a huge smile on his face.

"Ah, ah. Yeah. Yep. Okay why don't you go play in your room with your stuffed animals and think about what kind you want next."

"Yay!" the triplets shouted causing Jen to grimace and smooth out her poncho.

November 2020- Age 6- Partridge- Ice Clown

"Daddy, when are we going to see an ice clown?" Sonia asked with her brothers standing beside her waiting for the answer.

"Where, where did you…did …you…hear that?"

"I don't remember," Sonia answered as her brothers nodded in agreement.

November 2022- Age 8- DC- Ice Town Never Dies

The family was in Pawnee for the week of Thanksgiving. While Leslie was in a meeting at the Midwest Bureau of National Parks, her old job, the triplets were hanging out with Ben at his Pawnee office. They loved whenever they got to go to one of their parent's office and got to busy themselves with whatever tasks their parents could come up with. On this day they had been stuffing some envelopes. When they had left for lunch with Ben they were unexpectedly met with some angry protesters forcing Ben to once and for all explain Ice Town to his kids.

"Why were those people holding signs that said, "Go back to Ice Town Ice Clown," Wesley asked as he sat beside his dad in their favorite booth at JJ's Diner.

"Well, they were holding those signs so that I would see them. Sometimes people that daddy works for get angry at me. When I vote on things in DC some people are happy with the way I vote and some people are not happy. Those people were not happy. When I was eighteen, which is very young, still a kid really. I was elected mayor in Partridge where Grandma and Grandpa and Aunt Stephanie and your cousins live. I tried to build a place called Ice Town where people could ice skate and play hockey because people really love to do that kind of stuff in Minnesota. Anyways, Ice Town didn't work out. It went really wrong. It was a very bad thing so people were really mad at me and called me Ice Clown. So sometimes when people get mad at me they call me Ice Clown," Ben explained.

"Ice Clown, is that a real type of clown? I've never seen a clown made of ice," Stephen commented.

"You were a kid mayor!" Wesley exclaimed.

"That's so cool!" Sonia said grinning.

"Yes, I was a kid mayor but I did a terrible job! I made a lot of mistakes but I've learned from them and I haven't made the same mistakes again. And none of you are allowed to run for mayor until you're 35," Ben explained, "Promise me now and I'll buy you a stuff animal."

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