Your parents, Rose and Walker, are in the middle of a divorce and figuring out living situations... So they thought it best for you to stay with your Aunt Georgia and Uncle Russel for the meantime. The issue? They live in Healy, Alaska— a small town with a 700-something population in the middle of frosty bumfuck nowhere... Running a convenience store called Beads & Bottlecaps, or The Be-Bo.

While your aunt visits the school to see about getting you enrolled, your uncle cleans the shop, and you man Georgia's station behind the checkout counter, bored out of your mind. And cold. It's Spring in Alaska, and it's still as cold as a bad winter in D.C..

Then, the bell above the door rings, and a group of four boys, all about sixteen years old, walk in with a malamute husky trailing in behind them without a leash or collar. "Hey, Georgie, got more root beer yet-?" One particularly cute boy says, pausing when he sees you behind the register instead of your Aunt Georgia. "You're new..."