Chapter. 3 The Dursleys meet The Williams family
Petunia Dursley was admittedly a very snoopy person wanting to know all the latest gossip and was self stated to be very observant of anyone coming to her home this was why said woman jumped when she heard the door ring and in surprise she glanced out the window again to almost barley see the new guest's who had somehow managed to get past her while she had been watching the road this caused the woman to frown angrily before dismissing it as a fact of having only just moved into the house and not having the layout and best viewpoints yet so with a very horse like huff the woman walked down the stairs and to the front door before snooping once again by looking into the peephole in the door and she paused surprised when she spotted a man on the other side which caused her some surprise seeing as usually back at her old house it was the women that came around to gossip this caused the woman to frown she did not like something being different from the norm but she decided this wasn't to far out there maybe the man was asked by his wife to come talk to them and thinking this Petunia smiled
"Maybe because of a secret" the shallow woman whispered before she opened the door with a 'charming' smile in place
"Hello there" Petunia greeted causing the man to smile in greeting
"Hello I heard you were new in town so I decided to come by and see if you guys needed any help around the town" the man said easily before holding out his hand
"Sam William I'm your neighbor" Sam stated and quickly Petunia looked down at the hand and wrinkled her nose after having spotted a black substance on his hand probably oil from fix a car or some other manly activity
"Petunia Dursley" Petunia stated fake smile never leaving her face as she watched the man slowly lower his hand sheepishly while all the while keeping up a smile of his own
"And I would love to learn all about where the best stores are around town" Petunia stated allowing the man to enter her house
"Oh yeah most of the really good stores are scattered around town square" Sam stated smiling as he looked around before he frowned noticing all the picture of the woman, her husband and child and noticing the lack of boxes
"Huh did you lose any of your belongings during the trip" Sam asked confusing Petunia
"No thankfully all of our belongings came through alright" Petunia stated gladly although Sam frowned remembering his daughter telling him of her new friend Especially of how skinny he was before shaking his head it didn't do well to think the worst in a person he just met maybe she did lose the pictures and just didn't want to concern him in their business so shrugging the lack of pictures of the young nephew away he got back to what he was doing as Petunia led him to the living room but he paused once again when he noticed more pictures with the beach ball of a son with no sign of the boy and then he paused as he realized something why was one boy so much larger than the other before shaking his head it could just be genetics after all the boys father is rather large while his mother's skinny it's entirely possible it's just genetics but Sam didn't know why but something in his gut was telling him something wasn't right here and he knew if his wife was here she'd be telling him to trust his instincts but even still he wanted more information before he jumped the gun at the least for legal reasoning
So he as he sat down he went back to telling her about different points of the town and thanking her for the tea
"Although almost all of the kids love to hang around the old playground I bet your kids would just love the place" Sam stated causing petunia to smile
"Hmm I'm sure my little Dudders would love to play around there" Petunia stated smiling but also causing Sam to freeze in question what about the other child so he decided
"Huh I thought you had two kids my little girl happened to tell me about seeing a raven haired boy running into the woods yesterday" Sam asked and instantly his host's face fell for just a moment he saw her scowl and even after the scowl left her lips and that same smile returned but one thing was different her eyes had harden she did not like this fact
"Huh that would be my delinquent nephew he's always been nothing but trouble parents died in a car crash drunk" Petunia said quickly shaking her head but Sam noticed how rehearsed it sounded as if she said the same thing multiple times
"But enough about that no need to worry your ears about that dreadful child my husband has been doing his best to put him straight" Petunia said and suddenly Sam was very worried but he knew without concrete proof of what he could tell just from those sentences alone he could do nothing but then a flash went through Sam's eyes making his glasses shine as a idea formed in his head
"Ah of course let's talk about something else" Sam said pleasantly listening to the woman blather on about her 'sweet Dudders' which he was beginning to doubt was all that 'sweet' until he was able to get away from the woman and her house and has he left the house he turned right to see his own and quickly walked to it only to be met at the door by his wife who frowned looking at him as he walked inside
"Sam is everything" Emiko was saying only to freeze surprised as her husband walked past her and pulled his phone out
"Sam" Emiko asked walking towards her husband and as the phone was answered on the other end Sam sent his wife a shake smile of reassurance before he turned to the phone
"Yes Hello I'd like to speak to Principal Phibes ….. Thank you" Sam stated waiting
"Hello" Phibes asked through the phone
"Hey Phibes I wanted to ask you for a favor" Sam stated tilting his head as he glanced through a window and spotting Petunia looking at their house through her own scowled before casually walking into the living room where the woman couldn't spy on them and Emiko seeing the woman as well scowled and followed her husband
"Let me guess you went to meet a certain neighbor and they told you about a delinquent nephew" Phibes asked causing Sam to scowl in anger before sighing
"And have You meet this delinquent nephew yet" Sam asked causing his wife to turn to him
"Yes indeed and seeing as you and your family already know I take this kind of stuff at face value I made sure to meet both him and his cousin and I must admit the cousin worried me far more than the 'delinquent' who unlike his cousin was extremely polite but what's more is the fact that I had actually asked him a question and Mr. Dursleys glared at him to keep him from saying anything" Phibes stated causing Sam to scowl
"And What would you suggest" Sam asked and once he got his answer Emiko noticed that her husband had that gleam to his eyes the gleam he usually had when he had a idea
"Great I was thinking the same thing mind passing the message on to Erma as well" Sam asked and getting a confirmation turned to his wife as he hung up
"Well how do you feel about a first for dinner tonight" Sam asked causing Emiko to smile
"That would be interesting although one thing concerns me" Emiko stated causing Sam to look at her confused before she shook her head
"It's nothing just me worrying" Emiko stated before she looked back towards the Dursley house as if to cement something while Sam tried to figure out what could have his wife worried as he remembered one of the first words Erma used to describe the boy
"Daddy I met a glowing boy"