It wasn't long until Friday came and everyone who was invited to the housewarming party got dressed in their best clothes and came to meet the new neighbours. Victor was wearing a black tux and had his hair gelled down. Elsa was wearing a dark blue dress with a light blue pattern on it and a pair of black low heel shoes. Edgar was wearing a dark green tax with a bow tie and a small black top hat, weird girl was wearing a light pink formal looking dress, Bob was wearing a black tux with a red polka dot bow tie and Toshiaki was wearing a black dress shirt with a dark red neck tie, dark grey slacks and black sneakers, even though they weren't formal. Just about all of Victor's classmates were there with their parents, except Nassor.
"Looks like the gang's here." Victor stated.
"Except Nassor, I told you he wouldn't come." Edgar added.
"But his mom came." Toshiaki added. "My mom told me if I didn't come she would stop giving me my allowance."
"How come Nassor didn't come?" Bob asked.
"I think He's got the flu." Weird girl answered.
"Ok everyone, we can't tell these people about the dead pets or the whole thing that happened on Dutch day; got it." Victor explained.
"Got it?" Everyone else replied.
Before anyone else could talk, Ted Bates, the host of the party approached the group with a woman by his side, a young girl and Victor's parents. The woman had strawberry blond hair going down to her shoulders, light blue eyes, thick eyes lashes and was wearing a red dress with red high heels. The young girl had light brown hair like Ted, but hers went down to her elbows. Her eyes were a dark shade of blue, she was a bit thin, and she was wearing a necklace with a red charm on it, a black dress with black and white striped sleeves, a pair of black and white stockings and a pair of blue sneakers.
"And this is my son Victor, who I believe you have already met." Victor's father said.
"Yes I have." Ted replied. "Fine boy he is."
Ted looked over to Elsa.
"And most be the mayor's niece." Ted assumed.
"I wish otherwise." Elsa replied with no enthusiasm.
"Well, this looks like a nice little group." The remarked.
"Oh I almost forgot. Everyone, this is my lovely wife Mel." Ted said putting his arm around Mel.
"And this is our daughter, Cassidy." Mel said as she put her hand on the girl's shoulder.
"Hey." Cassidy let out, sounding a bit depressed.
"You'll have to forgive her; she's been like this ever since we left New York." Mel reassured.
"She seems like a very nice girl." Victor's mother remarked.
"Well, we'll leave you kids alone to get to know each other while the adults do the same." Ted said before walking off with Mel and Victor's parents to talk to all the other adults.
Cassidy turned her head to look at Victor and his friends, but she didn't say anything. After five seconds of no words, Victor broke the silence.
"So you're from New York?" Victor asked politely.
"Yep, the city that never sleeps." Cassidy answered, still sounding gloomy.
"Why so glum?" Edgar asked, taking off his top hat.
"I just miss home. And my friends."
"Moving from another place isn't so bad." Toshiaki stated. "I moved here from Japan when I was six, but I came to like New Holland; apart from the common thunderstorms and lighting."
"Thunderstorms and lighting?" Cassidy asked, raising and eyebrow.
"Yep; lighting happens all the time here." Toshiaki remarked.
Cassidy just looked at Toshiaki with a confused face before talking again.
"Hey, you guys know my name but I don't yours." She said while rubbing the back of her neck.
"Well, I'm Victor Frankenstein. Victor said introducing himself.
"I'm Elsa." Elsa fallowed.
"Edgar E Gore." Edgar stated in a grim tone.
"I'm Bob." Bob said standing behind Elsa.
"I am Toshiaki Zaraki." Toshiaki stated while holding out his hand for Cassidy to shake.
"I like your name; it's good to the ear." Cassidy replied while shaking Toshiaki's hand.
Cassidy looked over everyone else to see weird girl standing behind everyone.
"What about you?" Cassidy asked.
"Hm?"
"What's your name?"
"Well, everyone just calls me Weird girl. But my name is Marie."
"Why does everyone call you-"
Cassidy couldn't finish her question because of Toshiaki putting his hand in front of her mouth to stop her from asking.
"Don't ask, you'll hurt her feelings." He said with a grim voice.
Cassidy didn't know how to reply to that. She just turned her head in confusion.
"So is this everybody?" She asked, turning to a new subject.
"Well, not really." Victor muttered while rubbing the back of his neck.
"Really? Who's missing?"
"Nass-"
Before Victor could say anything else, he heard the sound of a barking dog. He knew that bark sounded familiar, it sounded just like Sparky. He was not meant to be there, he was supposed to be back at Victor's house in the backyard. It probably wasn't Sparky, but Victor couldn't take any chances.
"Uh, could you please excuse me; I think I left something behind the fence." Victor explained while walking off to find the source of the barking, leavening Cassidy and the others in confession.
Victor ran to the gate of the Bates's backyard fence, where the sound of barking could be heard. As soon as he came to the other side, he saw Sparky wagging his tail and barking with excitement.
"Sparky, you're not supposed to be here!" Victor whispered to make sure no one heard him. "You have to go home before someone-"
"Is this your dog?"
Victor's eyes went wide with fear when he heard a female voice behind him. He turned around quickly to see Cassidy standing there and starring at Sparky.
"Cassidy, before you freak out let me explain." Victor said with fear in his voice.
"There's bolts' coming out of his neck. And he's covered in stitches."
Victor knew lies could not cover this. He had to tell the truth.
"Ok look, I'll tell you what's going on, but you can't tell your parents." Victor remarked. "This is my dog, Sparky. He's not like other dogs. In fact, he's dead."
Hearing Victor saying that made Cassidy's eyes go wide, but she didn't run or scream.
"You brought an animal back from the dead?" She asked, just standing there.
"You could say that, yes." Victor answered with a quiver in his voice.
Cassidy's eyes went back to normal. She still stood there, not running away or screaming. Then she smiled.
"Cool." She said, making Victor surprised.
"Wait, you're not going to freak out or run away screaming?" Victor asked with his head tilted.
"Why should I? I've seen lots of weird things; nothing can freak me out."
Sparky immediately took a liking to Cassidy and came over to her, barking in Delight.
"You're actually kinda cute." She said while giving Sparky a pat on his head.
"You're not going to tell your parents are you?" Victor asked while rubbing the back of his neck.
"Why not?"
"Well, something happened in this town a few months ago and the mayor said that no one should know about it. And most of it was my fault."
"Oh. Don't worry I won't tell."
"You won't?"
"I shall speak no evil."
Victor felt relieved when he heard Cassidy's words. He looked at Sparky and decided he should take him home.
"Come on Sparky, I better take you back home before Cassidy's parents see you." Victor said while singling Sparky to fallow him.
"I'll come with you." Cassidy remarked, walking up to Victor.
The two kids and the dog started going to the next block where the Frankenstein house was.
"So who is the Elsa girl?" Cassidy asked with a sly voice. "Is she your girlfriend?"
When Victor heard the word girlfriend in that sentence, his eyes went wide and his heart started to beat faster. He had a thing for Elsa, but he didn't have the guts to ask her out on a date yet.
"No she's not!" Victor replied with a nervous tone and his face going red. "Why would you think she's my girlfriend?"
"Sorry I was only asking! I just noticed the way you looked at her, almost like you don't want to look away from her."
Hearing this made Victor confused. Cassidy was being descriptive about the way Victor looks at Elsa.
"You're being really descriptive." Victor remarked with his hands in his pockets. "How come?"
"Well I hope to become a writer when I'm an adult." Cassidy replied. "And I have this habit of studying people who I think are interesting. I have a feeling there's going to be lots of interesting people in this town."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I like to draw too, but that's more of a hobby."
"Maybe you can show me and the gang sometime."
Victor and Cassidy didn't notice they had reached Victor's house until Sparky started barking. Victor walked over to the gate of the backyard, opened it and let Sparky go through.
"I don't know how you got out Sparky, but you have to stay here." Victor said in a serious tone. "We can't let Cassidy's parents know about you yet, ok?"
Sparky just sat down and whimpered in response. He knew what Victor didn't want him to do.
"I'll make it up to you later and we'll play; ok?" Victor explained, cheering Sparky up and making him bark in Delight. "Ok, I'll see you later."
Victor locked the gate of the fence to make sure Sparky wouldn't get out again and left him alone to play with a baseball with Persephone across the wooden fence. With that done, Victor and Cassidy started going back to the party.
"You have a great dog." Cassidy remarked.
"Do you have a pet?" Victor asked.
"No. Me and my parents lived in an apartment so pets weren't allowed."
"Oh."
Victor felt a bit sorry for Cassidy when he heard he say that.
"Well now that you're living in New Holland maybe you can have one." He suggested.
Cassidy's face lit up and she smiled at Victor's friendly suggestion.
"You're right." She replied. "Maybe I can get a hamster."
Victor and Cassidy returned to the party where everything was as it was when they went for the walk. The only difference was that Toshiaki, Elsa, Bob, weird girl and Edgar stood outside the entrance, waiting for them to return.
"What took you two so long?" Edgar asked with his crossed.
"It can't take that long to take a dog back home." Toshiaki added.
"We were just talking on the way there and back." Victor replied. "Right?"
"Yeah, we were." Cassidy remarked. "Cassidy remarked. "You guys wanna see my room?"
"Sure." Elsa relied.
"Sounds good." Edgar replied.
"Whatever." Toshiaki remarked.
"Ok!" Bob remarked.
Weird girl didn't say anything, she just fallowed everyone else.
The entire evening went very quickly. It wasn't long before everyone started saying their goodbyes and leaving for home. Victor and his parents were the last ones there before the evening was out and started saying goodbye for now to the new neighbours.
"It's good to know that there are some good people in this town, we're going to love it here." Ted said as he shook Mr Frankenstein's hand.
"And I bet your daughter will too, now that she knows the kids." Mr Frankenstein replied.
"I hope Cassidy does ok on her first day of school on Monday." Mel said, looking worried.
"Don't worry; I'm sure she'll do fine." Mrs Frankenstein reassured.
While the two sets of parents said their goodbyes, Victor and Cassidy did the same.
"It was great to meet you and your friends Victor." Cassidy said as shook Victor's hand. "I hope we end up in the same class on Monday."
"Me too." Victor replied as let go of Cassidy's hand and went towards the gate. "See you later."
Cassidy smiled knowing that she made some friends today. But she had a realisation. They mentioned someone else who didn't come to the party. She ran up to Victor before he and his parents could leave for home.
"Victor, wait!" Cassidy shouted out. "I need to ask you something."
"Ok, what is it?" Victor asked.
"Earlier you and your friends said that one of your classmates didn't come here. Who were you guys talking about?"
Victor stayed silent for one second, and then he answered.
"We were talking about Nassor." Victor replied, almost sounding afraid to answer.
"Nassor?" Cassidy questioned. "That's an Egyptian name."
"But I'm not sure if he is. He might be at school on Monday and you can ask him, but he might not want to answer. Well, I better go home. See you on Monday."
"Bye."
Cassidy just pondered on Victor's words. She became curious on who this Nassor person might be. She wondered why Victor seemed afraid to talk about him. She could not know now, she could only think about it on the weekend and wait till Monday.