The drive was about an hour long, we pulled up to the Mayor's estate which was huge. When we walked in I wasn't sure if we were at the Mayor's house or a museum for the Green Bay Packers.

"Hello Manson Family! I would like to formally introduce myself, Vlad Masters, Mayor of Amity Park." He said while shaking hands.

Mr. Masters was a tall man in a well fit suit with long grey hair pulled into a ponytail, despite being grey he looked somewhat young, he looked to be about my parents age actually.

"And you must be Samantha!" he said shaking my hand.

I bit my tongue to hold back saying it was just Sam, I knew my mother would scold me for that.

"It's a pleasure to meet you. Now why don't we relocate to the dining hall!"

Dinner was actually quite good, there were salads and when they brought out the main course which happened to be steak I did speak up for myself.

"Pardon me Mr. Masters, but I am a vegetarian." I had learned from other dinners to just leave it simple like that and to say it politely to avoid my parents scolding me.

"Ah no problem Samantha!" He exclaimed and within the next minute another meal had been made.

He seemed nice but something felt off to me, I'm not sure if it was him or the house but something wasn't sitting right with me.

About halfway through dinner something brought me out of being zoned out from their boring talk.

"So I heard that you have also invested with the Fentons?"

My head shot up from hearing their last name. Mr. Masters' face was hard to read, it was similar to my mother's face when she sees what I wear each day, so I guess actually it was easy for me to see his distaste for them. I wonder why.

"Yes, though Mr. Fenton is a bit... eccentric, Mrs. Fenton is a very good investment, she is quite successful in the lab." My father said with some distaste for Danny's father but got more optimistic with the mention of Mrs. Fenton.

Mr. Masters hard eyes softened at the mention of Mrs. Fenton as well.

"A yes Maddie has always been the smart one..." He seemed to have gotten lost for a second then,

"Seems the conversation has become interesting to you Samantha?" He said to me, seeming to notice me looking up from my plate for the second time tonight.

"I go to school with their son, Danny, and I recognized the name and it caught my attention."

"Ah yes Daniel, he is a special boy now isn't he?" He said eyes narrowing with a sly smile that I really didn't like.

"Sure, he is very nice." I replied with a smile trying to mask my uncertainty about this conversation

"Yes, yes, yes very nice... Anyways on the matter of ghosts, have you had to deal with any of these attacks we have?" Many years of uncomfortable and irritating conversations had prepared my poker face for this conversation.

"One or two but I managed to get away pretty fast. What about you Mr. Masters? have you had to deal with many ghost problems?"

He chuckled.

"Oh my dear I have had more than my fair share of ghostly problems."

My mother then decided to take part of this conversation sadly she didn't change the topic she just blew air onto the fire.

"Yes, well Sammie here has also taken an interest into ghosts since we took a tour of a facility a few years ago"

"Oh really! Maybe one day you can take a tour of my labs here! I am having a party for scientists and investors to mingle coming up and I would love to have you all here!"

"Why doesn't that just sound lovely Jeremy! and Samantha would love a tour!" my mom responded excitedly.

Thanks mom.

My parents then got onto some other topic and the rest of the dinner was for the most part uneventful.

As we were leaving Mr. Masters shook all of our hands saying how great it was that we are able to make it to the party and it was an honor to have us all for dinner tonight.

"Don't forget Samantha next time I promise to give you the full tour of the ghost lab here!" His smile was unsettling but I managed to keep up my act as the perfect daughter.

"I look forward to it" I replied with a smile.

We got back to the house at around midnight. It was hard to believe I was playing at the park today. I needed to text someone because I was really rattled by Vlad Masters. It was weird because he didn't actually do anything out of the ordinary I just had a bad feeling and then the talk about Danny... Did he know something? Or is there even something to know about? I took out my phone to text Danny, I felt like he could make me feel better.

'hey are you up?'

As I waited I took off my dress and make up then put on an oversized t-shirt, put my hair in a messy bun and curled up into a ball on my bed.

'yep, whats up? how was your fancy dinner'

Gahhh how do you even word this? Like how do I say " I just had dinner with the mayor and he creeped me out for no reason and I am nervous also he thinks you are a special boy and wants to take me to see his special ghost lab"

Yea, that would go over perfectly. I feel like this is something you don't just send in a text message I need to talk to him in person.

'It was meh, they guy who hosted it was really unsettling, you all have fun after I left?'

'We stayed for a little longer then left. Is everything okay?'

I smiled to myself. Its amazing how great it feels to have someone ask you if you are okay, it means they care about you in someway.

'Yea I think so, do you think I could tell you more in detail tomorrow?'

'How's bout we meet at the park again tomorrow at 12 and you can tell me about it I will be there for you, got it?'

I curled up more covering my burning face with my hands smiling to myself. This damn guy just made me feel better and he barely has to do anything.

'That sounds awesome thank you :)'

'Now. On to more pressing matters, wanna play Doomed?'

I smiled again.

'bring it nerd'