Later, that night, rain poured against the windshield as Brad was driving his car to venture their way to Dr. Scott's place. Janet was eating some chocolate while Miracle was in the back, staring out the window. She loved the rain, but knew if she stuck her head out to enjoy it, her mother, Janet, would not be happy. Janet offered some of her candy to Brad, but he gently shook his head and continued to drive, she continued to eat as she heard rough vrooming and looked out the window to see a motorcyclist.
Janet was nervous at first, but a bit nit-picky." God, that's the third motorcyclist that's passed us!" she shrieked, then sounded critical. "They certainly take matters into their own hands."
"Yes Janet, life's pretty cheap to that type," Brad gripped the steering wheel, then looked back at Miracle. "Don't let me ever catch you riding on a motorcycle with a boy, Miracle."
'You won't stop me, I vant to try that at least vunce'. Miracle thought to herself.
Brad grew from confident, then shrunk nervous as he saw they were driving into a dead end.
"What's the matter?" Janet asked.
"Looks like we took a wrong turn at that fork in the road a few miles back." Brad remarked, turning the car around.
"Then where did those motorcycles come from?"
Brad stopped a moment from that question, turning back and the car shook a bit with a bang noise.
"What was that bang!?" Janet cried.
Brad growled as he looked out the window and saw their tire had gotten flat. "Dammit! I knew I should've gotten that spare tire fixed!" he growled, slapping the wheel. "You and Miracle stay warm and I'll go look for help."
"Where will you go?" Janet asked. "We're in the middle of nowhere."
Brad stopped to think for a minute. He then remembered something and turned to Janet.
"Didn't we pass a castle a few miles back? Maybe they have a telephone we can use."
"I'm going with you." Janet put her things away and grabbed the first thing she could find since she didn't have an umbrella with her. "Miracle, stay in the car."
"Oh darling, it's not worth us both getting wet." Brad simply said.
"I'm coming with you, besides, the owner of that phone might be a beautiful woman and you'll never come back again."
Brad chuckled as he opened his door and Janet grabbed her newspaper over her head to keep dry.
They both went out, but Miracle refused to stay inside and out of it. "You can't leave me in the car!" she rebelled, opening her door. "That castle looks awesome!" she opened the door and followed them as they safely went to the castle gate.
Janet looked back at Miracle, sighing and frowning. She then took Miracle's hand with her free hand keeping the paper on her head. They came up to a sign reading: Enter At Your Own Risk! Brad and Janet eyed each other nervously and walked inside as lightning flashed. Brad and Janet saw a light over at the Frankenstein place. It looked a lot like something from a science fiction movie as they drew closer and closer. More motorcyclists drove by them and they must've been headed in the same direction.
Miracle looked in the distance and saw a stringy blonde haired hunchbacked male singing a verse to himself. No one could hear it, but somehow, Miracle knew what he was singing and sang with him about darkness going down the river of nights dreaming. Brad was surprised by Miracle's singing, but they kept going closer. Sure, it wasn't Dr. Scott's place, but this would have to do for now. It seemed that fortune had smiled down upon Brad, Janet and Miracle, and the three of them had found the help they had been looking for. Or have they?
Brad rang the doorbell, Janet folded and put away the newspaper and straightened out her hair and skirt, and Miracle merely wrung her hair so it wouldn't drip. She had a small smile on her face, she liked the rain and thunderstorms didn't affect her much. She looked at the castle, finding it very fascinating from the style.
"Oh, Brad, I'm so frightened!" Janet gasped.
"It's okay, Janet." Brad said to her as he took off his glasses to dry them.
The door creaked open and the family was introduced to the hunchbacked man from earlier that Miracle had seen from the window. He looked very familiar to her somehow. Brad introduced the man to himself, Janet and Miracle, then stated their business. The man glanced at Miracle, then back at the couple, not sure of what to say to them.
"You're wet." The man simply said.
"Yes," Janet looked at him strangely like he was an idiot. "It's raining outside."
"Yes." Brad agreed.
"Yes," the man echoed as a flash of lightning illuminated his face, then opened the door more to let them in. "I believe you three better come inside?" he smiled at them to show them he meant no harm.
'You're too kind." Janet smiled, following her fiancée in the strange house.
Miracle looked around as they walked, her smile growing even more. It was pretty cool décor, her eyes filled with intrigue, a clock was heard ticking. Miracle ignored the conversation between the man and her parents, but snapped to attention as she heard wicked cackling.
"You're lucky, he's lucky, I'm lucky, we're all lucky!" a red-headed woman in a maid uniform cackled, sliding down the stairs banister and throwing a feather duster to the man beside her.
Miracle's eyes widened as the woman had a strong resemblance to her. Her eyes were green too. The couple sang about time warps and pushed Miracle, Brad and Janet in the room where there were similarly dressed people in tuxes and colorful apparel of clothing. There was even a slender woman in a golden tailcoat with matching hat with short pink hair and joined them in their dance.
Beside her was a young girl about Miracle's age, wearing a lightning streaked tiara with dark brown hair tied in a silky ponytail and dressed like the other people in their tuxes. Brad enjoyed the song, Janet looked annoyed, and Miracle seemed interested as everyone jumped to the left, took a step to the right, put their hands on their hips and do pelvic thrusts. Miracle really wanted to join in on the song, but Janet wouldn't allow her to, putting her hand on the girl's shoulder and not wanting her to join the dancing group because she was scared.
Everyone continued to dance, and let the tap dancer take a solo, but she spun so hard that she fell. She put her hat back on and they did one last verse of the dance and song together, and suddenly, they all fell to the floor like they were collapsing from exhaustion. This mustve been a private party, making Brad and Janet feel insecure and unwanted. They stepped back to the shut back doors. Since they were done, this was probably a good chance to call or ask for help. The girl that was Miracle's age came back and put on a black button that appeared to have a symbol of red lips on them, she saw everyone down on the floor, and let herself drop with them.
"Brad, say something!" Janet whispered.
Brad paused for a moment and looked at all of them. "Say!" he called, getting their attention. "Any of you folks know the Madison?"
Janet groaned at that question. She then turned back to him, stepping back and smiling anxiously at the crowd. "Brad, let's get out of here."
Brad and Janet gently bickered with each other backing up against the doors as they opened and an elevator came down, slowly. Janet even pulled Miracle back as it looked as the party-goers were heading toward her. Brad watched them rise up too and kept her secure so the boys wouldn't come near her. He might've not been her biological father, but he was still protective of her like any dominant male would a teenage girl. Miracle however, in contrast, was annoyed with being pulled back and didn't want to leave yet. She even heard some noises behind them and turned to see the elevator coming down with some foot tapping to the tunes incoming as some of the party guests clapped to the tune of the song.
"Look, I'm cold, and wet, and just plain scared!" Janet cried, wanting to leave as soon as possible.
"I'm here," Brad smirked, looking smug." There's nothing to worry about."
Janet looked behind him and saw the figure in the elevator turn to face them. She let out a Banshee scream and fainted slowly and dramatically from the figure that looked as though he, or at least maybe he was a he, was a vampire, he had a very pale white face with ruby red lips. The figure then came before everyone, throwing off his cloak to reveal he was a transvestite from a place he liked to call Transsexual, Transylvania. His deep, velvet singing voice really attracted them, though they were still anxious to leave, Miracle wasn't sure how to feel around him.
"I'm glad we caught you at home," Brad told the transvestite as he went to get a cup of water. "Could we use your phone? We're all in a bit of a hurry."
"Right." Janet agreed with a friendly smile.
"We'll just say where we are and head back to the car," Brad added. "We wouldn't want to be any worry."
The transvestite smirked, then splashed water against a dark-haired young teenage girl who seemed to have been hiding from everything. The transvestite then told them not to panic as he kept singing about himself and invited them up to the lab to check out his newest project. Miracle wanted to look at the transvestite more, but Janet wouldve shouted at her, however, Miracle managed to get out of her mothers grip. The transvestite then left them and the group of people and went up the elevator to go up his lab as he had mentioned and would wait for them there and left the guests in the care of his personal servants.
