The train was crowded with mostly animals, but I did notice a human mother and boy near the front. I grew up in a town that was pretty diverse, so I was surprised to see only two humans. I looked for a seat and, surprisingly, I found a seat by a white wolf. She looked very pretty, with blue eyes and a blue dress. I always wished I looked like that. I was always teased because of my long, black hair. Remembering those moments made me wish that I had trimmed it more often. After a while, and a long conversation with my mom, I began to appreciate my hair. I got it trimmed a little bit and now I'm satisfied. As I looked at the wolf, however, I wished my hair was white. Her fur looked so beautiful.

"May I sit here?" I ask the wolf. She looked away from her book that she was reading and looked at me.

"Nobody's coming to sit here, so yes, you may," she replied. She then went back to reading her book, almost like I ran off all of the sudden.

"Thanks," I said as I sit down.

"You're welcome," the wolf responded with a glimmer in her eye, "My name is Whitney. It's nice to meet you.

"Nice to meet you as well," I said, "I'm Riley."

"Are you moving to Redwood?" Whitney asked.

"Oh, yes," I said.

Whitney chuckled. I could tell by the look in her eyes that she thought I was joking. It was the same reaction my mom had when she heard the news.

"What a surprise," she said while chuckling, "I'm moving to Redwood as well."

I was surprised. When I was filling out an application, they said that there was only one house available. I guessed they must have sold a house to Whitney before I got my acceptance letter.

We then talked about what we were going to do when we got to Redwood. Whitney said she was going to go shopping and lay down on the beach. She never said that she was going to do any work. I, on the other hand, said that I was going to hang out with neighbors and do some work around the village, and also shop. I always liked shopping at small stores, which the town was full of.

The train stopped at the city's train station, our only stop. A lot of animals got off and a lot of animals got on. It was almost like they were replacing each other. The last animal to board the train was a blue and white cat with creepy, red eyes. He walked down the aisle and came towards us. I felt frightened, even though it was just a cat. He looked like a psychopath.

"Hi there," the cat said, "Can I sit with you two?"

I look at Whitney. She just nodded. She seemed to be a bit frightened by him as well.

"Sure," I responded. I wished I took it back during that moment. Now, this psychopathic cat is going to sit with us. He probably had a knife in his pocket!

The cat sat in the now empty seat in front of us. It was pretty creepy to have him staring right at us. I thought that I was going to get murdered. I always trusted everyone, but not this cat for some reason.

"My name is Rover," he said while sounding like he was plotting to kill us, "What's your names?"

"Riley."

"Whitney."

"Those are cute names," Rover said. He chuckled. Yep, I was going to die. Whitney rolled her eyes when he said that, but she didn't say anything. She didn't suspect anything.

"I'm going to Redwood to meet with my friend, Ryan," he said, "He's the mayor."

"It must be cool to be friends with the mayor," I said. "You're going to kill him?" I thought to myself.

"It is," he responded with excitement in his voice, "I get secret access to most of his house." He then gave us a curious look.

"You two are the ones moving to Redwood today, right?" he asked. I kind of died down on idea that he's a psychopath.

"Yep," I respond, "I can't wait to live there!"

"I am moving there, too," Whitney said.

"That's great!" Rover responded, "I hope you two have a great time."

"Riley, look!" Whitney said to me while pointing at the window. I look out and I could see a few buildings in the distance, but it was mostly trees.

That was Redwood. It wasn't much from the distance, but it was a whole lot when you're actually.

"Looks like we're almost there," Rover said while looking out the window with us. I was getting more and more excited as we were getting closer and closer. My new town was staring to get in my reach.

A minute later the train slows down and stops. We were at Redwood's train station. Me, Whitney, Rover, and a few other animals and humans got off the train. When we got off, a cute, little monkey behind the desk came running up to us.

"Welcome to Redwood! My name is Porter," he said professionally. Porter then gave all of us maps, but he stopped at Rover.

"Good to see you again, buddy," he said to him. It seemed like he knew who Rover was.

"You too," Rover responded. They shook hands before Rover said goodbye and left suddenly. The idea of him being a psychopath started to resurface.

"Oh, you two are moving here?" Porter asked me and Whitney. We both nodded.

"Well then, here are your maps," he said. He pointed to a large building on the map.

"That's the town hall," he said, "The mayor and his secretary want to meet you two there." I couldn't believe I was going to meet the mayor on the first day.

We look at the maps. I notice there's some writing by a house near the beach and a three other houses.

"Riley's House"

Out of all of the houses on the map, my house was definitely the best. It seemed to have a great view of the beach. I looked over at Whitney's map and she lived near me. I wasn't sure who lived in the other two houses, though. Actually, they could've not even been occupied.

I was getting really excited! I was so happy to meet my neighbors and do activities around town! I looked over at Whitney and she seemed to be excited as well.

I couldn't wait to meet the mayor!