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Leave it to The Beavers

"Friends, they're friends!" Bud says

A man scoffs and says "Like that's better, she could get Junior killed just by standing next to him!"

"I think this was a mistake" I mumble and I walk outside the house

I take a deep breath and try to block out the argument from inside.

"Don't go, please"

I turn around and I see Junior standing there, I sigh and say "Your family is afraid of me, how could we be friends?"

"Just give it a shot, I'll be next to you. I promise" Junior says and I nod and I slowly walk back in the house

God it's so awkward.

"This is really good" I say as I point at the chicken with my fork and Bud smiles

"My wife made it before she left to go visit her mom" Bud says and I smile

"So how did you two meet?" A man asks

"She chased me at school" Junior says and I look down at my plate

"I told you!" A woman whispers and I sigh

"Junior was one of the first people at school I saw turn or woge, I needed answers so that I wouldn't think I was going crazy. And he ran so I did chase him. Which I'm sorry about" I say

"No it's fine, cause then I wouldn't be friends with you" Junior says and I smile

Maybe dinner won't be as bad as I thought.

~•~•~•~

Nope it was bad, although some of Juniors family waved me goodbye.

Others just got out of my way like I had the flu or something.

The next day I had to go to school and then I had to go to some meeting with Dad that Bud invited us to.

Because Arnold witnessed a murder, if I knew that I would've asked about it at dinner. Maybe not cause then Juniors family would've been even more scared of me.

I got out of the car and I followed Dad, he pulled his gun out and I turned around to see Bud behind us.

"D-don't shoot!" Bud yells and Dad puts his gun away

"I'm sorry" Dad says

"No, no, you gotta be ready. You just never know, I know. You face death every day, I don't" Bud says

"So where's this meeting?" Dad asks

"It's in the lodge, we gotta take the stairs. Look, I'm gonna take you in, make an introduction, and then you'll, you know, make it clear that there's a threat to our society and that the only way to deal with it is take responsibility for our own..." Bud says as he leads us to the lodge

"Well, I don't want to tell you what to say, even though I guess I already have" Bud says and I see the similarity between him and Junior

"Quiet! Order! Order! The assembly has been advised of tonight's question. Will Eisenbud Wurstner please come forward and introduce our guests?" some man says after he banged a gavel