{"id":1893,"date":"2026-09-15T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?p=1893"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T16:29:30","slug":"chapter-30-chocolate-chip-cookies269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/15\/chapter-30-chocolate-chip-cookies269\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 30 Chocolate Chip Cookies269"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/14\/chapter-30-chocolate-chip-cookies268\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page269 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/16\/chapter-30-chocolate-chip-cookies270\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p>They look at him, puzzled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWake up guys! Today! You did something new today! You both did skits on that stage! That was brilliant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCandiCrush does Crown Green Bowls,\u201d says KristalClear.<\/p>\n<p>Not having seen her approach, NutJob says, \u201cdarling, I was looking for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She takes hold of his hand, \u201cand I was looking for you too!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do Archery sometimes,\u201d says MaxChaos, \u201chelping Mr Rafone with the Sunday League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear adds, \u201cAnd Mr Rafone and AuntSylvie run a Scrabble Club here.<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear has guessed the general nature of the conversation, and recognises the precise message that NutJob wants to deliver. Her mum had told her about <em>Open Doors<\/em>, and she had told him, and now he\u2019s passing it forward.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the <em>Open Doors <\/em>chat isn\u2019t it?\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to open doors,\u201d says NutJob, \u201cto doors that open, to more doors that open, even if you don\u2019t know what\u2019s behind them. Use the mindset \u2018go out and do some good in the world\u2019 and you\u2019ll also discover that you\u2019re opening some pretty useful doors!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe dots will join up,\u201d says KristalClear, \u201cwe don&#8217;t know how, and we don&#8217;t know when, but it will all fall into place. But you can\u2019t do it if you have no dots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NutJob finishes by saying \u201cthe one thing you can be sure of, is that if you never do anything, and you never meet anybody, then you\u2019ll never get a girlfriend!<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear changes the subject. With a happy smile she says \u201cUlverston.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes! Tell me more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not going to be here for OpenMike Night next week. We\u2019re on the Saturday afternoon ferry and we\u2019ll be met by Constable Burgess, and HopAlong and EarlyBird. I haven\u2019t seen them for years. The last time I was in Ulverston I was only ten years old!\u201d<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/14\/chapter-30-chocolate-chip-cookies268\/\">Previous<\/a> &#8211; Book1 Page269 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/16\/chapter-30-chocolate-chip-cookies270\/\">Next<\/a><\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Previous &#8211; Book1 Page269 \u2013 Next They look at him, puzzled. \u201cWake up guys! Today! You did something new today! You both did skits on that stage! That was brilliant.\u201d \u201cCandiCrush does Crown Green Bowls,\u201d says KristalClear. Not having seen her approach, NutJob says, \u201cdarling, I was looking for you.\u201d She takes hold of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/2026\/09\/15\/chapter-30-chocolate-chip-cookies269\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chapter 30 Chocolate Chip Cookies269&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1894,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}