Sunnyvale Trailer Park was not the sort of place that she had ever thought she would return to. It wasn't like Frankie had much of a choice before her though; the minute her great aunt died it provided a steady home while the rest of her world was on stand still. She had inherited the house and spoke briefly over the phone with Barb Lahey. The woman had been thrilled that her Aunt had left a bit enough money for three months in lot fees that she went ahead and paid the day before she moved in. She looked out from the screen door and counted backwards. It had been many years since she had last spent a summer with her aunt or seen the trailer park. She breathed out and went down the steps of the porch forcing her thoughts away.

Frankie went back to her jeep and stared at the boxes she had managed to leave her house….ah well her former house with. She lifted a box when she heard the noise of a shopping cart behind her. She put the box down and watched Bubbles pushing two carts talking to a cat that had perched itself on the closer cart. She gave a friendly wave and he stopped to look at her.

"Are you moving into Mrs. Grisham's trailer?" He asked, petting the cat as he spoke to her.

"Yeah...I'm Frankie Simon...that's a cute cat…"

Bubbles looked at her as though he thought he recalled the name but instead he watched as his cat jumped down and the woman pet it; smiling. "I found him this morning...a little mangy but I'll have him clawing and running with all my other kitties….do you need any help?"

Frankie ruffled her fingers through her dark hair and gave a small shrug. "I don't have a whole lot but sure...it's quiet around here huh.."

"Not for long…." Bubbles picked up a box and she followed suit and led him into the trailer. She had kept the furniture but had put away the decorations leaving the walls bare. She put the box on the couch cringing at the plastic noise as she put it down. There was something else to go before she could feel at home. "Ricky might be shooting at squirrels any minute…"

Frankie gave a half smile recalling the Ricky she recalled and wondered about….Jesus Christ she was a stupid girl… "I think I briefly remember that….wow I guess everyone must still be around huh.."

Bubbles looked at her and she gave an amused laugh and opened a box fumbling with things til she found a picture of her as a teenager with her Great Aunt from the porch. Bubbles looked than pointed to her the moment she saw recognition magnified in his large glasses. "You were the girl Lucy and Ricky lost that bottled Lahey!"

Bubbles finished helping and left to return his carts as well as the cat. He saw Ricky outside his shed knocking calling out "Bubs!"

"You're gonna knock down my shed Ricky! What are you doin.."

"Where've you been? I can't find Cory, Jacob, or Julian this morning….and I'm supposed to be watching Mo' in like…" Ricky looked a the sun han back shrugging. "Soon after I woke up I think…"

"I went to Tim Horton's and found some carts and a kitty..I haven't seen anyone since yesterday….listen Ricky maybe you should try to keep from shooting at anything for a day or two…"

Ricky looked at Bubbles as though he were an idiot. "You saw what they did to my trailer Bub's I'm gonna catch those furry cock guzzlers.."

"Barb'll fuckin' be pissed if you run the girl in Grisham's old trailer out the first day she's here.."

Ricky light a joint from his pocket and seemed to be thinking of squirrels than looked back at Bubbles. "Someone moved into that weird old lady's trailer?"

"You know her Ricky...remember when you and Lucy were supposed to be watching that kid and lost her for two days?"

"What kid? Mo?" Ricky exhaled at Bubbles and the other man coughed looking at him.

"That girl that nailed Lahey in the head with the bottle remember? You and Lucy lost her..she was a little thing...now she's tall and...she was really nice Ricky.."

Ricky looked at him than recalled when he and Lucy were first...second? He couldn't recall but he had just dropped out and they had been conned by an old lady in the park to watch her niece. Which...well two days later they found her over an unconscious Lahey with nothing more than a small cut in her palm. It had been a miracle, and a long cockblock for Ricky as a younger man. He looked back at Bubbles. "Well, anyone moving into the park that isn't a cheeseburgler like Randy or someone to screw things up for us is good.."

Julian pulled up with Cory and Jacob. He emerged from his car with a drink in his hand the two others carrying planks. "We're here Rick...the boys'll patch your room together and we can get to work on a new plan.."

"I can't work on anything til tonight I've got Mo..I promised Trin and Lucy they could go shopping or something.." Ricky shrugged and looked back at Bubbles. "Hey you should have your new girlfriend look after him for me, just for a bit. We could go over there..Barb won't let Randy fuck with a new tenant.."

"You find a girlfriend Bubs?" Julian asked sipping his drink. Bubbles made a noise and shook his head.

"She's not my girlfriend...I just helped her carry some boxes.."

Julian looked around than back at Ricky. "That plan's not bad...gotta keep things quiet before we start a new enterprise.."

Frankie had unpacked her dishes and made a pizza. Her ex had yet to send their daughter on time again...but at least her ex sister in law would be bringing her home. She had debated driving to buy groceries but before she could a knock hit her door. "Frankie it's me Bubbles.."

The brunette looked back at the pizza cutter and put it in the sink. She looked back at the door and walked over looking out the door. Bubbles was standing there on her porch with the easily recognized Bubbles and at the two men with him. One man was pushing a stroller with a little boy and the other….well it took nothing to recognize Julian. For a brief few seconds she was fifteen again staring at him as she let Lucy catch her up on gossip from across a party. For a brief second she could remember how he had helped her into his car...than back to her Aunt's. He had been a knight in shining..

Fuck. This is a trailer park...she reminded herself that instantly and stepped outside smoothing her shirt down. "Hey Bubbles...and Ricky...and….."

"That's Julian...hey Francis you got really...tits.." Ricky said obviously distracted from the mission at hand. Bubbles looked back at him with a face but Julian breezed up the steps of the porch and looked at her.

"Don't mind Ricky..he's a fucking idiot.." Julian looked back at his friend than at Frankie. She felt like she could just fall off the porch if he spoke further but she fumbled into her pocket as casually as she could manage to get a cigarette. "We needed to talk a bit than run some errands and we thought we would see if you could watch Ricky's son for us for a bit Frankie…"

DID HE REMEMBER HER? Frankie had always been Francis to everyone until Julian...and he said it in a tone that just… She inhaled her cigarette and looked at the little boy giving a nod. It was all she could say at first. She breathed out some smoke arching her head the other way. "That's fine..is he hungry? I could dice up a piece of pizza if he'll eat that.."

"He likes pepperoni cocks.." Ricky began but Julian rolled his eyes and reached up his hand inches from the one resting on her porch rail.

"He'll be fine with pizza...thank you Frankie we appreciate it...could we hang out in front of your trailer…" Julian spoke and she immediately took another drag trying to keep her eyes off of the front of him. There was something that hung there but she ashed and looked back at Bubbles.

"You were a saint for helping with my boxes Bubbles I appreciate it…" She took another drag and put the cigarette out tossing the bud into a can. "You guys are fine...I'll take the kid in and put some kid's music on or something.."

Ricky handed Mo to the woman before him and she carried him inside relieved that Julian would not be looking at her like that any further in the day. She set the child in front of her tv turning on a DVD her daughter usually watched for hours. The little boy seemed comfortable and she cut the pizza up wondering what would happen next. She had hoped to avoid Julian...and now he was on her lawn...