As they were removing the outer north and west walls of Billy's house, a small moving van arrived. Collin, Brady and Seth went to unload the van. After several boxes, three large trunks, ten garment bags, three frilly white lamps, two dressers, a vanity, a stereo, television, full mattress set, a canopy bed set (that needed to be put together), and trophies. Huge trophies, then the mover took two boxes marked fragile out of the front seat. "Sign here and here, Mr. Black." The man stated to Billy then pushed the ramp back up and closed the gate, securing it, then got in the cab and drove off.

Everyone stared at the amount of things and Paul threw a hammer at the garage, but didn't storm off. He looked chastised as his girlfriend Rachel Black walked over picked up the hammer then glared at him.

"I'm sorry, Baby." Paul whined.

"Good, because this isn't that bad, we haven't even started building yet. Now no more fits!" She stated and then smiled at him.

"I promise, I love you." Paul stated as Seth, Collin and Brady looked like they wanted to hurl.

Jacob and Embry measured out several paces from the house. They were going to enlarge Billy and Jacob's rooms as well as the bathroom then add the extra room for Billy's ward.

They had three days to complete the remodeling, since Leilani had been at a tournament when she received the news about her family. She dedicated her performance to her family and was sure to walk away with another massive trophy.

As the day commenced there were a lot of smashed fingers, slivers, boards dropped on fingers and toes. The first thing they did was lay out the floor. They mixed and poured concrete with in four foot square forms, then laid large sheets of plywood across the forms so they could walk as the concrete set and hardened. The would leave the forms in place and use them four supports for the walls. Next came the walls which they made a skeleton frame of and then used ropes and muscle to lift and push the frames into place. Leaning long four by fours in place to hold the wall up, then tacking the boards into place. Then adding the next wall and the next, the roof was completed, insolated and the ceiling put up. After all the exterior walls were erected, they finished the siding then went inside. After putting up the interior walls, they wired and insolated, then hung the sheet rock. Rachel and Kim painted Leilani's room, while Emily sewed curtains with Sue Clearwater. The paint was a soft white, with flowery curtains. The following day they finished the building. The morning of the third day they began working on the closet and hanging the sliding door. The rod was placed and the garment bags hung on it. The dressers were set next to the closet. Paul and Collin brought in the Canopy frame and Rachel had Seth take Paul's place. She knew how upset he could get and didn't want any of Leilani's things damaged. After another four hours the bed was finally together, the girls had made it and hung the canopy. Next the book shelf was put together as well as a large trophy case. The vanity was placed near the door and the table top lamp was placed on the nightstand that went to the bed set. The two floor lamps were put in two corners then the boxes, trunks and trophies were brought in.

They finally finished at 7 p.m. that night, then Emily and the girls made dinner.

The next morning everyone was up early wanting to be there to meet their newest neighbor.

A mini van arrived at 7 a.m. and the driver got out, opened the back doors and lifted out a very large suitcase, a beauty case, a huge trophy and gently pulled out two surf boards. There was a frenzy of whispers. Then the back passenger door opened and a petite figure stepped out, bundled in a long coat, with hood up and wearing winter boots. The little person seemed to be shivering. Collin and Brady took the surf boards and put them in the storage shed with Jake's, then Jacob and Embry took the bags and Seth the trophy. The girl pulled out a pet carrier and Paul slipped forward and took it from her. He heard a little growl and looked in the door at a puppy, not just any puppy, but what looked to be a wolf cub. He looked at the girl and she smiled.

"He was a present from my dad, he's a hybrid wolf. His name is Koa, it means brave or heroic." Leilani stated.

"Good name for him, he's guarding you. My name's Paul." Paul held out his hand to her. She took it smiling, but the smile didn't reach her sad eyes. Paul winced as the puppy nipped his hand through the cage door.

"I'm Leilani Soto." She stated.

"So what would you call me in Hawaiian?" Paul stated and smiled.

"Well Paulo, that's pronounced Pah-OO-lo, but you could also be Kana Kanui pronounced kah-NAH-kah-NOO-ee." Leilani stated.

"What does that mean?" Paul asked.

"A powerful man." She stated and Paul smiled at her.

"I'll take your pup into your room." Paul strutted away, Lelani giggled quietly and Paul turned and winked at her. He then took the pup through the front door.

Leilani entered the house soon after looking for Paul, since he had been the only one to greet her. She found him as he was coming through a narrow hallway walking towards her.

He smiled and motioned Leilani to follow him. She did so and found a large room set up with her things. There were five other tall guys there, making the large room feel confining. The guys were finishing up her trophy shelf, her book case was already done.

As they put in the last screw they stood back and smiled. The they all seemed to notice Leilani at once. She was sitting on the foot of her bed just watching them. Paul noticed them turn and stopped forward.

"Leilani, this Jacob Black, Billy's kid, Embry Call, Seth Clearwater, Brady and Collin Sampson. They all waved at Leilani as they were named. Leilani smiled and tried to remember each of their names.

Seth, Collin and Brady are all fifteen, they'll be in your grade.

"What are the trophies for?" Seth asked and smiled brightly at her. Leilani instantly liked him. She slid off the bed and walked to the empty trophy shelf. Then looked at the trophies that were setting about the room. She picked up her newest one, a tear in her eye.

"This one was for karate, I just made brown belt." She stated and placed it on the top shelf in the middle. Seth picked up another and handed it to Leilani. "This one is for surfing, I won the Junior finals of our schools competition." She placed it on the second shelf.

"Your school had a surfing team?" Seth asked in amazement.

"Yeah, surfing, karate, baseball, volleyball, chess." Leilani stated and giggled. Seth grinned wider and handed Leilani another. "Volleyball." After all of the trophies had been shelved. Collin and Brady left feeling very bored. Seth stayed with Leilani and they sat on the floor of her bedroom and talked for hours. By the time Billy sent Seth home, Leilani felt she had known Seth all her life. She couldn't wait to see him again.