Chapter 9

Neighbors 2

A month later, Miley was sitting in the front room watching TV. All of the sudden, Christine walks into the room. Miley sees her, and says, "Good Morning Christine. How did you sleep?"

"Fine, sissy. When are momma and papa coming home?"

"Soon, they'll be back next week." The Stewarts went on a trip for teenagers and above, and they left Christine at Miley's.

"When are Chrissy and Lily coming home?" Chrissy is what Christine calls Chris.

"Their flight gets in today. Would you like some breakfast, Christine?"
"Waffles," she shouted!

"Okay. You wait right here and I'll tell the kitchen." Miley left the room, and returned a few minutes later. However, Christine was not in the room. "Christine, where are you?" She then noticed a cell phone where Christine was sitting when she left. Just then, the cell phone rang. Miley picked it up. "What do you want now Helen?"

"I've see you have caught on. My demands are simple, I want you to find my sibling, and bring him or her with my dad to our last meeting place. You have two weeks. You know the rules." The other end went dead.

"Dad is so going to kill me." She got her own cell phone out of her purse and called Oliver at work.

"What's wrong, honey?"

"Helen is at it again. She took Christine."

"When and where?"

"Two weeks from now, same place. She wants me to find her dad and sibling in the next two weeks and take them there."

"This is getting out of hand. What are you going to do?"

"I'm going to find the only person who can help."

"You don't mean?"

"I do. He is the only person who really knows Helen. Plus, I can trust him." Just then, the doorbell rang. "Sorry Oliver. I have to go, someone is at the door." She hung up the phone.

By the time, Miley got to the door, Jonas had already opened it. There was a girl, about Miley's age, with blonde hair standing there. "Can I help you," asked Miley?

"Yes, I thought I would come and introduce myself. My name is Amanda Albert. I'm Jamie's cousin. I just moved in with her, and thought that I might say hello."

"Nice to meet you Amanda. My name is Miley Oken. My husband isn't here right now, but he sends his wishes."

"Thank you. I thought that I would just drop by. Hope to see you around."

"Bye, Amanda." Amanda walked away as Jonas closed the door.

"She seems like a nice gal."

"Yeah, but she seems familiar." She pauses for a second. "What am I thinking, I have bigger things to worry about. Jonas, take me to the security camera room." Jonas led, and Miley followed. When they arrived, another man was waiting. "Corey, get me all available footage of the front room since midnight."

"Yes, mam."

"That won't help," said a voice from the back of the room. All three of them turned to see whom it was.

"What do you want Tim?"

"I'm here to help."

"What did you mean by that won't help," asked Jonas?

"Sure, you can see the footage of Helen taking Christine, but if you want footage to figure out how Helen got in the house or how she left, you won't have any luck."

"You mean that she has been in this house the whole time?"

"Yes, and I believe she still is. This house is big enough that she could stay here for a week and no one would ever find her."

"He's got a point," said Corey.

"Well, keep looking. Let me know if you find anything."

"Yes, mam."

"Jonas, stay here and help Corey."

"Yes, mam."

"Tim, you come with me." Miley and Tim walked out of the room, and walked down the hallway. "Okay, Tim, I want the 411 on Helen."

"Where do you want me to start?"

"Her parents. Why did my dad act so strange, when I said Jack and Julie Hampton? Does he know them?"

"Yes he does, and so do you. At least Jack, that is."

"Who is he?"

"You are looking at him." Miley nearly fainted.

"You, I thought you said that your name was Tim?"
"It is, sort of."

"What do you mean by sort of?"

"Timothy is my middle name. I have used it more often then Jack. If you ever get a chance to look at the cards of you and your brother, stating everything about your delivery, you'll see that it says, 'Doctor Jack Hampton,' not Doctor Tim Hampton."

"So who is her sibling?"

"That I do not know for sure."

"But you said, that she was the sibling of someone in that room, last month."

"She is, but I don't know who."

"Maybe, Lily. She does have twin sister, we haven't met."

"Or it could be your stepsister Wendy. Her mom revealed to her last month that she had an older sister who was your age."

"That's true."

"Or, it could be your husband."

"Oliver?"

"Your husband hasn't told you that he was adopted has he?"

"He forgot to mention it."

"We aren't sure who his real parents are, but we know he has a twin sister."

"This is getting weird."

"You have no idea. Well, I better get going. Oh, by the way your brother and friend Lily just parked their car across the street."

"What?"

"What, they didn't tell you? They moved in across the street from you."

Miley turns to walk away, "Thank you…" Tim had disappeared. "I hate when he does that." Miley ran across the street meet Lily and Chris. "So how was Europe?"

"Excellent," replied Lily with a smile on her face.

"Alright spit it out."

"Fine, I'm pregnant." Miley jumped into Lily's arms.

"Wow, now our kids can grow up as friends and cousins." Lily's expression turned weird. "Lily, what is it?"

"Our neighbors are coming up our driveway." Miley turned to see who it was. Miley's jaw dropped.

"You are telling me that, Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher are your neighbors!" Also with them was Jamie.

"I guess so." The three of them were carrying different things.

"I guess, you are our new neighbors," said Kirsten. "Hello, Miley."

"Hey, Kirsten, Ashton, and Jamie.. Yeah, this is my brother Chris and his wife, and my best friend Lily." Lily fainted.

"Does she always do that," asked Ashton?

"Only around celebrities. She met my neighbors last month," said Jamie. Lily came around a couple of minutes later.

"Well here are some gifts, welcoming you to our neighborhood," said Kirsten. "Nice meeting you." With that, Ashton and Kirsten went back to their houses.

"We need to go inside. I have some very interesting information," said Miley.

"So do we," said Lily. They went inside, and went to the front room. "Let's here yours first Miley."

"Okay. Jack Hampton is actually Tim."

"You're joking," replied Chris.

"Definitely, not. Also, I found out that Oliver was adopted."

"Get out of town. Who told you that? Oh wait let me guess, Tim."

"Yeah. And his information has usually been right. So what information do you have?"
"We have found some miscellaneous information about my sister," replied Lily. "Just some minor stuff. We did find a picture of her, though. Here it is."

Miley looked at the picture, and her jaw dropped. "I've seen that girl before."

"Who is she? Where does she live?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you. Take a closer look at the picture, and tell me who that looks like to you." Lily does, "Oops wrong picture." She went back to her purse. "The picture is missing. I had it in my purse."

"Maybe it fell out of your purse at the airport," suggested Miley.

"No," replied Chris. "She looked at it briefly before, you came across the street."

"Let's go check the driveway," said Lily. They went outside, but they didn't have any luck.

"Do you remember what the girl looked like," asked Miley?

"No I don't. Someone must have taken it. There isn't a breeze."

"Yeah, but who?"

R/N. Thank you to everyone who has reviewed my story. As always, here are some questions for you to consider. Why did Tim, keep his true identity secret? Who was in the picture Lily had? Who took the picture, and why? All this and more in future chapters.

Preview: The Stewart's return home. Miley confronts Oliver about his past.