It all started one day, a month after Vlad disappeared. No one ever knew, or even knows much about it. All anyone knows is that Vlad dumped Meredith, went home, had a fight with Henry, and the next day he was gone.
The police looked for him, and soon enough his aunt Nelly had to go to a nursing convention for the next two weeks. It is good for her to get away.
Again, it has been one month since he disappeared, and with Nelly gone, people could talk about the situation without fear of her hearing about it.
"He was just simply weird."
"A trouble maker that one."
"Perhaps he just ran off he'll turn up soon."
Although, the classmates of his were not taking things that kindly. It was the beginning of July, and there was a annual barbeque held in the front of the school. Everyone in town was there, and hanging near the front wall of the school, were the popular kids badmouthing Vlad.
"You guys will never understand how strange he really was." Henry snickered, he was angry with him after all, and he has been wondering every day if he still was Vlad's drudge.
"Ha! Yeah man, the freak probably just ran off." Tom chimed in.
"Too bad for us, goth boy had it in for him this summer."
Many laughs were shared, Mike, Chelsea, even Eddie was there, but he was keeping that theory of his to himself.
"Good thing he left too." Mellissa said, glancing at Meredith, "your dad was just going to kill him anyway." Henry smiled and put his arm around his girlfriend.
"Ahahaha, yeah.." Meredith said. She told people that she was over him, but really she just didn't want to be asked anymore. She was still hurt, yet she acted as if everything was back to normal.
After the morning of the bbq the party still raged on, the goths, the adults, everyone, had their share of talking about Vlad, and the subject died down.
It was in the middle of the afternoon, there was music, food, and some very good laughs.
That police officer nobody liked was talking to Greg McMillan. His voice could be heard over the biggest crowd, and he asked Greg to go get his radio from his car. Greg smiled over, and got the radio from the open window of the cop car. He turned around to walk back, waving at his buddy, who was acting as the d.j. He smiled and took a step forward, but his eyes must have seen something down the road, and looked up at the street.
His eyes got very wide, and he dropped the radio in his hands. Now people were staring.
His friends eyes followed his, and his hands stopped moving, eyes wide, and when the fact he stopped playing music, everyone turned to look at Greg.
His mother called out asking what had happened. His father looked at the police officer. All of Henry's friends looked at him. Henry shrugged, and looked up at the street, and at that moment everyone else must have too, because each had that same shocked expression glued on their faces.
There was no doubt about it. Everyone must have seen the same thing. And that same thing was walking closer and closer to them. Principal Snelgrove was the first to break the silence.
"..V- V-Vlad?"