CONGRATULATIONS heavenly1998! Yep! Another clue was that the kids were talking about Disney anyways :)

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Mellody and Chris had their noses to the windows as the limo entered the studio lot. Once the car was parked, everyone hurriedly got out.

"Everyone!" Howie announced to the crowd of people busily doing their tasks. Upon hearing his voice, most of them stopped what they were doing and looked at him. "These are my friends Sue and Jack and their kids Mellody and Chris. They will be here visiting our last week on set. Treat them right, will ya?" After his little speech, everyone got back to work, all except one.

"Hi, I'm Naomi, the associate producer. Howie said you guys were coming. Nice to meet you!" A woman said as she walked up to the family.

"Nice to meet you too!" Sue happily replied. "I have to admit, this is our first time on a movie set. What should we be looking at?"

Naomi smiled. "Well we're going to be filming over there." She said, turning to point at one of the soundstages behind her.

"Excuse me, but do you mind if you face us when you speak?" Jack interrupted.

"Huh?" She replied, her focus lost.

"Sue is Deaf. She reads lips, but only if you're facing her."

"Oh! I am so sorry! I didn't know!" She replied, highly accentuating her words.

Sue shrugged and smiled. "It's OK. You don't need to do anything special. Just speak normally in my direction."

She nodded. "Come, we can get you set up to watch the filming process." She said, then led them to their filming location.

As they were walking, Sue smiled at her husband. "THANK YOU."

He smiled back. "NONE PROBLEM."

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"What on earth are you doing?" Bob asked frowning at Carla's hurried approach to super organizing.

"They're coming in a couple hours. I need to make it perfect." She replied, rearraigning the accoutrements on the coffee table for the third time.

He walked over and held his fiancé's shoulders. "Relax." He calmly said, not letting go until he actually felt her relax, which happened a few seconds later.

"Thank you." She quietly said when he let go.

"Now, what can we do to get your mind off of it?"

She shook her head. "Nothing."

"Ah, but there is something."

"What?" Carla asked.

"Pray."

She smiled. "You're right." With that, they prayed for peace.

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"Hey Howie! This is amazing!" Sue exclaimed a little while later, a few minutes after they started filming. Seeing her friend's frown, she frowned as well. "What's wrong?"

"Some of our supplies are missing. We can't find them anywhere." He replied.

"Maybe you just misplaced them?" She suggested.

He shook his head. "No. I specifically remember locking the stuff up in the storage locker when we were done with it Friday. The locker was still locked when we got here, but a lot of stuff is missing."

"Like what? Jack asked.

"A camera, a couple lights, a reflector." He replied.

Everyone frowned, thinking.

"I can't help you, but I'm sure it will turn up somewhere." She said, empathetically looking at her friend.

"I hope so." Howie replied, then went back to his movie making task.

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"Hello!" Carla exclaimed as she opened the door for the realtor and prospective buyers. "Welcome!"

"Hello," one of the prospective buyers tentatively said, he and his wife looking around as they walked in.

"Hello, Carla!" The realtor happily said. "This is the couple I was talking to you about; Eve and Phil Kipler."

"It's nice to meet you. Is this your husband?" Eve asked with a smile as Bob walked up behind Carla.

She turned to look behind herself, then laughed. "No, well, almost. This is my fiancé. We've been living together since his nephew and my daughter got married, well, not together-together. He lived with him and she with me, so when they got married, they shooed him out. Since we're moving to Arizona after we get married, we won't need this house." She rambled. Bob put his hand on her shoulder and that seemed to calm her down.

"So, tell them about the house!" The realtor said after a long bout of awkward silence.

"Yes!" Carla exclaimed, rambling about the house all afternoon long.

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"Still can't find the equipment?" Sue asked a frowning Howie later in the afternoon, soon after filming. Jack had taken the kids to get the actor's autographs, so it was just the two of them in the now nearly empty soundstage.

He nodded, his face turned slightly away from her. "I just can't figure it. It was there one day, then gone the next."

"Does it really affect filming that much?"

He shook his head, leading her out of the soundstage and back to the limo waiting. "No, not really. But the stuff is expensive and it does come out of the film's budget."

"You'll find it soon, I'm sure of it." Sue reassured.

He nodded. "I hope so.

"Did you see the monkey?" Mellody and Chris exclaimed, running up to her as she came closer.

"Did you say monkey?" She said and signed for clarification.

The kids laughed at the sign. "Yeah, monkey." Mellody replied, signing as well.

Looking at Howie with a look of confusion, he exclaimed with a smile. "The movie that's being filmed on the soundstage next door features a monkey main character. We share dressing rooms with them, so they probably saw it when they went to get autographs."

"That's right." Jack replied, finally catching up.

She shook her head in disbelief, then turned to the kids. "You guys ready to go?"

"Do we have to?" Chris complained.

Sue nodded. "But we'll be back tomorrow. Don't you want to eat?"

"And I know just the place! Rainforest Café!" Howie exclaimed, excitedly bounding to the car kids right behind.

Since Howie wasn't looking in her direction, she turned to Jack to interpret. He did, then the couple slowly followed behind, getting into the limo.

"Off to the land of live animals!" Howie exclaimed as Hector drove off.