AN: Sorry for the wait. I do have an excuse. The disk I saved the updates on was broken. So here it is (I rewrote it). Oh and they were twelve in the last chapter (if ya didn't know). Oh and its not related to I WAS THE AMERICAN FAT KID, just so ya don't get confused. So . . . don't get confused (lol).

Oh and the kids next door were never officially decommissioned just so ya know.

Ten years later:

The twenty two year old blonde man payed the cab driver and exited the taxi. He approached the suburban house cautiously. 'Here it goes,' he prepped himself mentally before softly rapping on the door.

"Hello?" A young African American girl answered the door. Her curly black hair was pulled back in two pigtails that lay flat on her back. She was wearing an overly large pilot's hat on her head.

"Hi," his voice was a strong Australian accent. "Are your parents home?"

"Yeah. MOM!" She called.

"What is it, baby?" Abby asked when she came to the front door. "Can I help you?" She asked politely.

"Numbuh 5?" He said softly, questioningly.

Her eyes widened in recognition. "Oh my God! Numbuh 4!" Without hesitation she pulled him into a hug, noting his new height. "Oh my Lord, you're all grown up." She ruffled his shortened hair. "Wow," She smiled. "Why if I wasn't married . . ." She joked.

"Who's that, momma?" The girl asked.

"This is Wally, baby. He's one of my best friends. This is Lily," Abby introduced.

"She looks just like you. Well, at least how you used to look." Wally commented.

"Yeah, well she's got her daddy's eyes. Come on in. Bet ya can't guess who I'm married to." She teased in a childish fashion.

The two entered the living room. "Sit down. I'll get him. You're so gonna freak out."

Abby left Lily and Wally alone for a minute.

"So how old are you?" Wally asked.

"I'm gonna be five in August." She grinned. "Look it! I lost my front tooth."

"Wow, you did!" Wally grinned.

"And then, guess what? THe tooth fairy gave me five whole dollars. Oh and look at this." She grabbed a stuffed bear from behind the couch. "Me and Daddy went to Build A Bear Workshop and I made this bear. Her names Sarah. Wanna hold her? She says she likes you." Lily held the bear out.

As small a gesture as this was, it deeply touched him. He held the bear lightly in his arms. "Hello Sarah, how're you today?"

Lily laughed. "Don't ya know Sarah doesn't speak English? She's from another planet and speaks Alien talk."

Wally laughed. "How silly of me!"

Abby dragged her husband into the front room. "Um, hello," Hoagie said to be polite. He didn't recognize the man.

"Daddy!" Lily threw herself into her dad's arms.

"Hey Lily-Billy." Hoagie hugged his daughter before turning back to the man. "Are you selling life insurance or something?"

Abby nudged him. "Remember Numbuh 4?" She asked then glanced in his direction.

"Well yeah I do. What about . . . oh my goodness! Wally! How're are you, dude?" he approached the blonde, at first sticking out his hand then simply pulling into a non-gay embrace.

Hoagie looked a heck of a lot different, yet similiar as well. His brown hair had a shorter look, but was noticably uncontrolable. He had lost a great deal of weight and appeared to have gone to the gym quite a few times. He had definitly grown older, but still had the same childish charm he had possessed as a ten year old. "What are you doing here?"

"Well I just wanted to meet up with everyone. How's everyone doin'?"

"Well, you know, Nigel and Lizzie broke up a while ago. She was cheatin' on him and all that. So he hooked up with a cousin of mine some time ago and they just moved in together." Abby said.

"Lizzie was cheating on Nigel?" Wally said in disbelief.

"That was forever ago!" Hoagie added. "Way back in our Junior year in High School. You know, she became a cheerleader and all those football players . . ."

"Oh." Wally paused for a moment. "How's Kuki?" He asked the question he had been dying to ask.

"Well," Abby said hesitantly. "She graduated from some college in Indiana and became a nurse and she moved back here. She has her own place." Abby sighed. "And she's engaged."