Freddy comes for a visit
Next day, Silver had gone before everybody else. He wrote a letter to Jim and went. Arrow was up right after Silver had gone and when he saw Jim with the letter, he knew that Silver had gone.
"Morning, Jim," he said.
"Morning, Arrow," he answered. Then they heard a knock on the door and Jim went to open it. On the outside a male feline with brown fur, tiger stripe tattoos, an orange vest and a tail, stood.
"Freddy? Here already?" Arrow said to the feline.
"Freddy?" Jim looked on the feline. "Then, you must be Amelia's cousin."
"Yeah, I haven't seen my cousin on a long time," Freddy said.
"Do you think that you could show me and Freddy where she lives, Jim?" Arrow asked.
"OK," Jim said and followed the two out. When they saw the mansion that was Amelia and Delbert's, Freddy and Arrow whistled. "Now, this is what I call a house," Freddy said, just a bit awed.
"You can find the way from here alone, can't you?" Jim said. "Sorry, but I have to get back to the Inn."
Arrow nodded and followed Freddy up to the front door. They rang the bell and the blond felinid girl opened the door. Arrow was going to ask for her mother, but before he coul do so, the girl yelled, "MOM! IT IS FOR YOU!"
Freddy looked over at Arrow. "Mom?"
"Wife to a astrophsycist, as well as a mother to four teenagers," Arrow said.
Then Amelia came to the door. She looked at Arrow and then realized that Freddy was also there.
"Hello there, Amy," he said and gave her a hug.
"Don't hug her for too long, Freddy. She has a little flea problem," Arrow said.
Freddy looked over at Amelia, who said back, "So I've got a few fleas. Is that a problem?"
She showed Arrow and Freddy into the living room. Delbert came out of the kitchen that moment, and started when he saw Freddy. He looked over Freddy's strange tattoos and his tail, finally asking his wife, "Freddy?"
Amelia nodded, smiled, and said back, "Freddy".
"So, have you spoken with your neighbors yet?" Arrow asked.
Benjamin was back, and he came in and looked both at Arrow and Freddy. He looked to his Mom, who said, "Yes, Benjamin…this is Freddy. Now, what did the Bips say about their house?"
"Arrow can come whenever he feels like it, Mom."
"Then I shall jog over right now," Arrow announced, looking over at Amelia. "Do you think you could show me the way?"
"Of course, my friend," Amelia replied. She then looked sternly over at Freddy, adding, "If I return and my girls begin asking me for a tail, I will make sure that everyone knows precisely what you dressed as on Halomid(a sort of halloween)."
"All right, all right! I understand, Amy. Relax, cousin."
"And, no tattoos either, Freddy," she said. "I mean it."
"Yeah, yeah. All right already, mother. Like I said before, cousin…relax," Freddy said.
The girls came down the stairs, and stared at Freddy. They then flicked their gazes over to their mother, who said, "Yes, girls, this is my cousin, Freddy. Try not to stare, and do try to relax about him."
She began to scratch her neck, sighed, and then left with Arrow.
"She's telling us to relax," Freddy said, rolling his eyes playfully. He and the children went out to play 'hide and seek'. When Amelia and Arrow eventually came back, Freddy had managed find all teens four times.
"You know, Amy…the girls play just like you used to," he said. "They always seem find the one place no one could believe they might be."
"That's rather nice to hear," Amelia said. "So…are you planning on staying long, Freddy? Or were you planning on leaving today?"
"Well, I had hoped I could stay a few days," he said hopefully.
"Wonderful! We have a room upstairs that we never use. You can put your things there, Freddy."
"Thank you, Amy," he said.
"You're welcome. Now, do be a dear, and please stop calling me Amy. You know that I absolutely detest that nickname."
"Whatever you say…Kitty," Freddy said grinning.
"Fredrick Damien Smollet! You will cease and desist this nonsense, immediately! Do you understand me?" Amelia gave him a irritated look.
"Sure do, my dear Katherine," he said and went inside, whistling a jaunty tune.
Down at the Benbow Inn, Freddy said hello to Sarah, and began to talk with Jim. After that, he went and told Amelia that he was going to take a look around the city, which wasn't that far away from the inn.
"Take my solar surfer, Freddy," Jim said. "It´ll get you to town quicker."
"Thank you, Jim," Freddy said. "I appreciate that, old boy." Then he left, giving Jim a wave goodbye.