"Hey, Toni Samuels, Bianca DiLaurentis!" local resident of the South Seas apartment complex, Freddy Fernandez, calls out to two of his neighbors who don't live far from him.
"What's up, Freddy?" The mocha-skinned beauty with dark curly hair, Toni, asks Freddy while the redhead with freckles adorning her face, Bianca, just gives him a kind smile. The boy joins the girls on their descent down the stairs.
"You two going to that party tomorrow?" he asks the girls. "Isn't that on the beach?" Bianca asks. "We're gonna be there nonetheless." Toni finishes her sentence.
The both of them know the game plan, their friend has a beach house and they're spending the remaining days of summer over there.
The three made it up to the front gate, which got kicked open, knocking Freddy to the ground and taking Bianca and Toni by surprise.
"Are you okay?" the unfamiliar guy that any of them don't recognize asks as he helps him up, although Freddy kept telling him not to worry about it.
"Ah, you must be the new neighbors in apartment 20." Toni states with realization. "Uh, yeah, I guess so." the guy replies back to her.
"Freddy Fernandez, apartment 17." Freddy introduces himself, shaking his hand.
"Bianca DiLaurentis, that's Toni Samuels. We're up in apartment 21, so expect a plate of brownies or cookies very soon." Bianca introduces herself to Daniel, shaking his hand.
"Daniel LaRusso." Daniel greets.
Bianca turns to Toni. "I'll meet you soon. I'm just gonna help him out." Bianca tells her best friend, who quirks up an eyebrow.
"Okay. I'll catch you later." she confusedly draws out as she turns to the exit of the apartment complex.
"So, Daniel LaRusso, where are you from?" Bianca asks him as she walks alongside him and Freddy.
"New Jersey." he replies back to her.
"What you doing out here?" Freddy asks.
"My mom got a job with some company out here. Rocket Computers. Flight of the Future. I don't know." Daniel responds.
"Never heard of it." Freddy tells him. "It's up-and-coming." Daniel comments, looking at the disgusting pool.
"Is this the only pool you guys got here?" Daniel asks. "Yeah, that's it." Freddy responds to his question. Bianca just pats him on the shoulder. "I know, it's so tragic." she comments.
"Hey, what was that, karate?" Freddy asks him, and just at that one word, everything went blank in her mind.
She doesn't really have the...best track record with karate, all thanks in part to her uncle's dojo and his students.
All that is on her mind is how her uncle would yell at her about how weak she is by showing mercy.
"Bee, you okay there? You spaced out for a second." Freddy asks her. All Bianca could do is put on a fake smile. "Yeah, I'm fine." she tells him.
"This place is a dump. You should go back to New Jersey." an older woman, whom Freddy and Bianca would have frequent run-ins with, comments to Daniel.
While Daniel is conversing with the woman about New Jersey, Freddy and Bianca glance at each other before glancing back at the interaction. Freddy taps Daniel on the shoulder to get him out of the interaction.
"She's crazy. She's not playing with a full deck." Freddy comments as Bianca is helping Daniel with carrying the bike up the stairs. "Ah, she's nice." Daniel defends her.
"What are you doing tomorrow?" Freddy asks him.
"I don't know. I guess nothing." Daniel replies to him.
"We're having a beach party. Sort of Adios Summer. You want to come?" Freddy asks him. "Yeah, sure. That's cool." Daniel replies back to him.
"Great. I'll come and get you. Here's apartment 20." Freddy tells him, leaving the suitcase by the door. "Nice meeting you." he tells Daniel before shaking his hand again and leaving.
"Well, considering that we're neighbors. If you need anything regarding new kid hijinks, just let me know." Bianca tells him with a small smile before making her way down the stairs. Before taking that first step, Daniel speaks up.
"You gonna be at the beach tomorrow?" he asks out, making Bianca turn around with a quirked eyebrow and a small smirk. At that action, Daniel stumbles on his words.
"I mean, if you're not going then…" Daniel was stumbling before Bianca lets out a small giggle and puts up a hand to stop.
"I'm just messing with you, newbie. A friend of mine has a house on the beach, so either way, I'm gonna be there." Bianca tells him, getting Daniel bashful because of what just happened.
"I'll see you around, Daniel from New Jersey." she says to him before making her way down the stairs to meet up with her friends.
She can easily spot them around Grayson Cameron's van.
"Finally! It's about time you show up." Grayson exacerbates.
"It wasn't that long, drama queen." Bianca quips back at him.
"Can you two stop arguing? We need to go." Another mutual friend of Bianca's, Peter Cross, reprimands the two before going into the van and Grayson driving off to their destination.