Chapter 3: Meeting the McDodd's

After school, Jojo returned home after school. He saw a little note taped by the kitchen that said, "Gone to a meeting with your dad. Should be home by 4:30 for dinner. Mom." Jojo felt a little impressed and then noticed the phone ringing. He walks over and answers the phone.

"Hello?" he said.

"Hey, Jojo. It's me." the voice said, only to notice that it's Misty's voice.

"Hey, Misty. How'd you get our number?" he asked.

"I checked the Whoville phone book and found the 'M's' for McDodd. So, I found the number." Misty said.

"Great. So what's up?" he said.

"I talked to my parents that I could have dinner with you and to meet your family and they're okay with it. When is it a good time to come over?" she said.

Jojo looked at the clock and it's 4:15 and he said, "My parents are gonna be home at 4:30 and dinner starts at about 5:00, so I guess it's a good time to come over tonight, I guess."

"Awesome. I'll be there." said Misty.

"See ya." said Jojo.

"Bye."

10 minutes later, he heard his parents coming in the door and Sally said, "I'm gonna get dinner started, okay, hon?"

"All right, Sally." Ned said.

Sally walked towards the kitchen only noticing that Jojo was behind her. She turned around and said, "Hey, Jojo. How's your day at school?"

"Pretty good. I made a new friend at school today." said Jojo.

"Really? That's wonderful. What's your friend's name?" said Sally.

"Her name's Misty Kirkpatrick. We have the same things in common."

"That's nice. Maybe you should invite her over for dinner."

"Yeah, about that, I kinda wanted to talk to you about that and she said she's coming over to have dinner with us." said Jojo.

"Really? What did her parents say?"

"They're okay with that. She's coming over at 5:00."

"That's great."

30 minutes later, diner was getting started and then came a knock on the door. Jojo came over the hallway to answer the door. He opened the door and in comes Misty. She was dressed in a pink and yellow sweater and a blue rhinestoned capri pants. She said, "Hi, Jojo."

"Glad you could make it. Come in." said Jojo.

She entered the house and looked around the place. She said, "Wow. This place is ginormous."

"It's a big house."

"You should see the one we moved into. It's massive."

Ned and Sally came in the living room and sees Misty. Sally came to her and said, "Hello. You're Misty, right?"

"Yes, that's me. Misty Kirkpatrick."

"My name's Sally, Jojo's mom."

"Nice to meet you, Mrs. McDodd."

"This is my husband, Ned. You've heard of him, right?"

"Yep, my dad works as a journalist on the Whoville Weekly newspaper. He's into writing articles and doing interviews."

"That's great. So, Jojo's told us about you." said Ned.

"I think so. Nice to meet you, Mr. McDodd, unless you want to refer to yourself as Mr. Mayor."

"You can call me that when I'm in city hall. Just call me Mr. McDodd."

"Okay, dinner's ready. I hope this table doesn't get too crowded for you, Misty." said Sally.

"We have 96 daughters and Jojo's our only son." said Ned.

"Jojo already told me that he has 96 sisters at lunch." said Misty.

A few minutes later, the family and Misty all sat down for dinner. Sally asked, "When did you come to Whoville?"

"We just moved in yesterday from Whenville." answered Misty.

"I heard it's a great place." said Ned.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that. My mom works as a musician. She owns a new music shop and gives out guitar and piano lessons 6 days a week." said Misty.

"I've had guitar lessons since I was 11 and I've got my first Who-Guitar for my 12th birthday. I've been practicing ever since and I've been writing my own songs and got my first Who-pod for Christmas 3 years ago." said Jojo.

"That's awesome." said Misty.

"When did you two meet?" asked Ned.

"Dad..." said Jojo.

"It's okay. We met at the bus this morning. We got to talking and we've become friends." said Misty.

"That was pretty neat. How did you like the food?" said Ned.

"It's great."

A few hours later, Misty looked at the clock and it was 7:45 and she was ready to go home. She turned to Jojo and said, "Thanks for inviting me for dinner and meeting your family. They're awesome."

"Thanks. I'm glad you like them." said Jojo.

"It's nice to meet you, Misty." said Ned.

"Nice to meet you, too. Is it okay that Jojo meets my family and have dinner tomorrow?"

"It's fine with us." said Sally.

"Great, so see you tomorrow at school?" asked Misty.

"Sure."

"Bye, Misty." said Ned.

"Bye, guys."