AN: Sorry it took so long, but here is the next chapter. I'm doing a lot of stuff now, basketball, plays, writing a script, so I appoligize in advace for the long wait between chapters. :(

"So tell me about yourself Tony," Squeaky said a few days later at lunch. "Like why I don't recognize you from last year. Did you just move here?"

Squeaky still intimidated Tony a bit. She was loud and excitable and very open and physical too. Physical like she hugged him practically every time she saw him, which she did to everybody, but it still unnerved him. Sure Sara, Greg, Lena and Lindsey all touched him he wasn't used to so much touching.

Squeaky seemed to notice this, she asked him why he stiffened .

"Just not used to so much..."

"Contact," Squeaky filled in for him. Tony nodded. Squeaky smiled and put a hand on his shoulder. "I won't hurt you. Contact is good." And she hugged him again. Maybe he would get used to Squeaky and her balloon-like personality. Then again, maybe he wouldn't.

"No," Tony said simply in reply.

"So why didn't you come to this school last year," Squeaky asked.

"I was home schooled," Tony said, not elaborating at all. Squeaky quickly came to the conclusion that she would have to ask a lot of questions to get the answer she wanted. Tony only answered the specif question you put to him but didn't go into detail.

"Why were you home schooled," Squeaky asked, taking a bite of whatever they were serving for lunch.

"Sara and Greg didn't want to send me to public school," Tony told her.

"Your parents?"

"No," Tony said. It was times like these that Squeaky got fed up with Tony. And she got fed up it know.

"Who are they?"

"My adoptive parents," Tony said, looking at his lunch rather then Squeaky's curious eyes.

"Same thing," Squeaky said dismissively

Tony's brow furrowed and he smacked a palm on he table, make both Squeaky and Abby jump in surprise. "It's not," he hissed in a low voice.

He picked up his fork and started to pick at his food, not really eating anything and Squeaky couldn't get anything out of Tony for the rest of lunch.

Tony wondered why he continued to eat and hang out with Squeaky and Abby. He wasn't like them at all. They were excitable, confident, goofy. Tony was shy and serious. But he liked their company. They accepted him with out questioned, welcomed him even.

"How's school been going," Kyle asked Tony. They were at the park, their weekly meeting. Usually they met more often then that but the last week had been hectic.

"Okay," Tony said and went into detail about everything that had happened for the first test of the year yesterday in math, to everything about Squeaky. Tony went into detail about things to only Lindsey and Kyle. Everybody else, he had straight, simple answers for.

Kyle just listened to him. When Tony finished he recount of the week, Kyle spoke. "Maybe this Squeaky girl like you," he said. Of course he would say something like this. It was typical of the 13 year old.

"Doubt that," Tony said. He wasn't quite sure how he felt about the idea o Squeaky liking him. He didn't really want to think about it.

"Why? She's all nice to you hugs you all the time-"

"She hugs everybody," Tony pointed out. Kyle waved his hand, dismissing this statement.

"Still," he said eagerly. Tony shrugged and Kyle sensed he didn't really want to talk about it. So Kyle told Tony about his week, though not in so much detail. Tony listened to his friend talk as he watched the young kids swing.

At then end of the day Tony and Kyle went back to Tony's house to watch a movie. This was another tradition. And Kyle would be sleeping over.

It was Sara's day off so she and Lena were in the kitchen making some form of potato soup.

"Hey Tony," a voice greeted them. It was Lindsey. Tony wasn't expecting that. He knew she sometimes spent weekends in Vegas with her mother. But usually it was just that, with her mother.

Lindsey seemed to be reading Tony's mind and smiled. "My mom kicked me out."

"Warrick," Tony and Kyle said at the same time and Lindsey laughed. Being Tony's friend, Kyle knew next to everything Tony knew. There were no secrets between them.

"We have decided to let you join our movie club thing," Squeaky told Tony about a week later.

"You say this like I have a choice," Tony stated, knowing Squeaky well enough by now.

"Yeah you're right, you don't. We meet Wednesdays at 5:30," Squeaky told him, all business like.

"Why Wednesday," Tony asked.

"Figured we give something to look forwards to in the middle of the week where there's usually nothing," Squeaky said with a shrug.

"Okay," Tony said and nodded. He vowed that he would at least show up for the first "meeting"

"You are coming," Squeaky said, trying to sound serious. She could pull serious off about as well Tony could tap dance.

"Alright, Tony said.

And he did go. He talked to Sara about it after school, she agreed. Greg teased him about it for several hours. Lena didn't, but she smiled at him a lot more often.

So he showed up on Wednesday with a bottle of soda. Squeaky leaped and him and threw her arms around his neck. Tony was still not used to that.

"You came," she shouted happily.

"I though I didn't have a choice," Tony said. Squeaky didn't reply but grabbed his hand and led him to the living room. Abby was seated on the sofa along with a boy Tony assumed was Squeaky's sister. There was definite resemblance there.

"Tony, meet Jeff," Squeaky said. "My younger brother."

Jeff gave Tony a cheery wave and Squeaky took the soda from him.

"Isn't he so cute," Abby gushed, hugging Jeff tightly.

"Are you two...um..." Tony asked.

"Oh I wish," Abby exclaimed while Jeff laughed.

"Not meaning to frighten you off or anything, but my brother is much more likely to date you than Abby," Squeaky said grinning widely.

"You had to break it to him like that didn't you," Jeff exclaimed and he seemed a little agitated with Squeaky.

"I break it to everybody like that," Squeaky pointed out.

"Yeah and how many people have run off," Jeff continued, glaring at his sister.

"I'm not running," Toy said softly, causing a stop to the argument.

Everybody was looking at him and Tony looked at Jeff rather then Squeaky. Jeff's face broke into a grin.

"I like this guy," he announced.

"Hey, you hit on him, I'll take you head off," Squeaky threatened.

"Isn't this great," Abby told Tony when he sat next to her. "I find it so amusing. I mean, how many brothers and sisters fight over the same guy."