Bunny's POV

The first thing we noticed was the "For Sale" sign had a big sold sticker over it. North, tooth, sandy and I all wondered and fantasized about who it would be and what they would look like. The one thing we didn't want was an old, grumpy couple. Because then the house could be up for sale again within a few years. We would be ok with it being a family with one or two little kids, since our little gang is great with kids. But that still would not be that preferable. What would be though is a family with a teenager. Hopefully they would be around 16. And of course Tooth would love for them to be a girl or girls. But a guy would be just fine with us.

Today was our families' annual barbeque, so we were all at my place in the back yard. And we were all having a great time, the fathers were conversing near the grill, and the mothers were inside making the side dishes. We were in the tree house, North and I were talking about whether Christmas or Easter was better, and Tooth and Sandy were playing a game of cards in the corner.

Sandy noticed it first, and we all looked over to our soon to be neighbor's house. A Subaru was pulling up into the driveway, and following it was a moving truck. When the Subaru came to a stop, a lady that had to be in her late 20's or early 30's got out. She turned around and looked at the house and smiled. She then went up to the moving truck's drive and they started talking. After a few minutes the driver got out with a few other men and they went to unlock the back of the truck. The lady went and unlocked the door to the house and propped it open with a door stop. And the workers started bringing the furniture into the house. The workers and the lady disappeared into the house.

The gang and I took that moment to go inform out parents. "The neighbors are here!" Tooth yelled across the yard. Our fathers all turned around in shock and our mothers came running into the yard. We all looked at each other and then ran to the edge of the yard and looked over our fence. We waited for a few seconds and the lady came back out of the house with the workers. We all then opened the gate and walked over to her yard.

"Hello, we just wanted to say welcome to the neighborhood." My father said. She turned around to face us with a look of shock on her face. "oh hello, and thank you. I'm Emily." The lady, Emily, said. "it's nice to meet you Emily, I am John and this is my wife Lizzy. And these are my sons, Bunny and North." My father told her. She looked at us with a weird look. "Those arnt our real names by the way." I told her. Emily's face went to one of relief. And then Tooth's mother started to talk "hi, I am Rishi and this is my husband matt, and our daughter Tooth." "Hi!" Tooth exclaimed. "And this is Manny and his son sandy, they are mute, but they know sign language." My father explained. Emily then surprised us by signing hi sandy and many.

"you know ASL?" north asked. We were all very shocked, because most people here don't know it. "um yea, I had to learn it for my adopted son." She said. "so your son is deaf or mute?" my mother asked. "uh neither actually, he just has days were he won't or can't talk." I looked around at my friends and family and they all had a very confused look on their face. "its complicated." Emily added. We all said ok, and tried to think of something to change the subject with.

"so whats your son's name." matt asked.

"oh, his name is Jack. And my husband, mike, and I adopted him 6 months ago."

"so where are they?" matt asked again, while everyone else was looking around trying to find them.

" they are still at our old house, packing up a few small things we forgot about. But they should be here around 5" Emily explained. We stopped looking around and looked back at her. Dad was about to open his mouth to say something, but a worker came up to Emily and tapped her shoulder. "Mrs. Overland, we are done, I hope everything is in the right room. And I hope you like your new house." The worker said to her. Emily said thank you and turned back to face us.

Dad then said what he was going to say " so we would like to invite you and your family to our barbeque tonight at 7." "um sure, we would love to come over, did you want us to bring anything?" Emily asked. "the only thing you have to bring is yourself." Mom said. "ok, well I will see you then, I guess. But I have to make sure the house is set up so when Jack and Mike come home it will look nice. But it was very nice to meet you all." Emily said. And then everyone said goodbye and we all went our separate ways.

When we got back to the tree house, we all sat in a circle and just looked at each other for a second. "so, what do you think Jack will be like?" Tooth asked excitedly. "Whiny, self-centered and selfish." I replied under my breath. "Bunny! That's so rude!" Tooth exclaimed. "Well Emily said that he will just stop talking and made them learn ASL1 , I mean that seems a little selfish to me." I said back. Tooth and I were leaning right into each other's faces in a heated staring contest. But then I saw sandy waving his arms franticly.

"What's wrong sandy?" I asked, turning away from Tooth. "I think that we should just wait and see what jack is like, I mean we don't know anything about him, so why judge?" Sandy signed to us. I have to give it to him; he always finds the good in people that he doesn't even know. "Ok, I'm sorry Sandy and Tooth." I apologized. We sat in silence for a few minutes but we all turned around when we heard a car door close.

I guess our new neighbors are here.