That night, Helen stood in her bedroom that she shared with Cassy and she looked at herself in the mirror before realising that they should never have moved to this beautiful street. She started at her reflection and saw the fat girl that had once resided there. Even now as she looked a healthy size sixteen (a size fourteen in some boutiques) she still could see that chubby girl that had hidden away behind her bulimia.

Her long ginger hair was curled and she was wearing no make up because of her allergies. The tight green dress clung to her now flat stomach and pushed up her impressive cleavage to give her that confidence she needed as she added the silly heart necklace Hafid had given her years ago. Biting her lip, she slid her feet into the white shoes and added her white beaded bracelets before turning round and smiling at David, who had just entered her bedroom.

"You look nervous."

"I'll be rubbing elbows with the pretty thin women down in that house and it's scaring me."

"You look amazing, Helen. Those women won't believe what you once looked like." She looked at the mirror and laughed.

"Sometimes I wish I was still that chubby girl. That chubby girl wouldn't have got herself into as much trouble."

"It was the loss of weight that gave you the confidence to do everything, Helen. It was the best decision we ever made and you know it."

"I know and that's what scares me, David." She whispered truthfully before turning to look at him. "You go keep an eye on my sister. I'll square up the neighbours and find out each ones will probably cause us problems."

"There is only one person in the world who can cause us problems but you know how to keep him under control."

"Sex isn't the answer."

"It is with him." David whispered as a response before kissing her forehead, just moving away as Cassy entered in a horrible baggy black dress that would have made Lauren cry if she'd have been around.

"Are you ready to go?"

"Always." Helen said raising her eyebrows at David before squeezing his hand smiling. She left the house behind Cassy.

***

Everyone was crowding in Bree's living room having a drink and a chat with the gorgeous aromas of Bree's cooking filling their noses as they tried to imagine what she was playing at. Everyone was curious about their new neighbours but they all knew that Bree had never really been on to put her nose into someone else's business because she personally knew what it felt like to have someone get involved.

"Do you think they'll even turn up?" Edie asked as she sucked on the cherry that she'd pierced with her cocktail stick. She was unaware of how she was naturally flirting with Hafid and he wasn't even paying attention. It would eventually annoy her but she was going to let that slide for now.

"I'm sure they will. I mean, you can't move into a street like this and not join these kind of things because you'll be hated!" Susan cried taking a quick drink of her whiskey not wanting to think of the bad impression she and Carl had made on this street with all their arguing!

"Oh, they'll come. Helen loves a party." Hafid said with a warm smile on his face as he looked around the group of women. Hafid had came with Gabby which the women were sure would annoy Carlos but that didn't appear to bother her as she kept her hand on the nook of his elbow.

"Everyone loves a party though!" Gabby said laughing as she flicked back her hair and smiled at him. The women could see the flirting and couldn't help but smile as Hafid flashed her a polite smile before turning to look at the other women.

The doorbell rang and Bree moved out of the kitchen quicker than anyone had thought possible. She looked absolutely amazing in a grape roll neck jumper and a cream skirt with cream heels. It was amazing that she never got food down her outfit.

Throwing open the door, she held out her arms and threw them around Helen who quickly moved out of them, only offering a small gracious smile. "Bree!" She cried. "Thanks for having us over. We brought a bottle of wine as a token of our gratitude."

"That's a really sweet thought." Bree said with a huge fake smile on her face that made the other girls stare at her in confusion.

"What the hell is wrong with Bree?" Lynette said through clenched teeth as she was also holding a fake smile out to the two women that had arrived.

"Beats me." Susan said in the same way as they moved over to the door and smiled at the two women. Helen immediately moved to hold out her hand to Susan.

"I hear its thanks to your daughter someone managed to get to Lauren in time. I am forever grateful." She said before taking Susan into a hug and holding her close. Susan was shocked at first but was immediately warmed by the woman's compassion that she found herself hugging her back, her eyes wide open as she looked at the other women.

"Helen, you're here to have a good time tonight!" Bree reprimanded before moving into the kitchen.

***

Lynette and Susan followed Bree into the kitchen. "Okay, what's with the hostility?"

"What hostility?" Bree asked brightly as she took down some fresh glasses for the two new arrivals.

"Bree… You're doing your fake smile thing when you talk to them so that means you are hiding something from them and are too busy distracting yourself on that than you are working on being a good hostess!" Lynette pointed out before smiling at Katherine who had just entered the kitchen to ask if there was any help required.

"Okay, I think that there is something go off between the lot of them and I just want to find out."

"How do you mean?"

"Well Hafid told Gabby that Helen was a really friendly person who everyone loved to be around but then something happened that got her really snappy and on edge. Then not only do they move here, miles away from their old home, and then Lauren is attacked and their children kidnapped. No one else find that a little strange!"

"Bree Hodge, you are starting to sound like Edie! This is the kind of controversy she would pin up on our new neighbours. Shame on you!" Susan cried out before looking over at Katherine. "Do you believe any of this?"

"No. I believe they're just a group of four that are trying to start a new life here in this beautiful street and you guys are making it hard by trying to pry." She looked over at Bree. "Their two children were abducted this morning, Bree, cut them some slack. Especially if you want them to like you after this dinner party."

Bree just grumbled before sighing. "Fine."

***

They were all sat at the table laughing and Helen was looking over at Hafid, a small smile on her face when someone started to click, catching her attention. "Helen, you've wrote a book before!" Lynette said astounded as she realised who she was after listening to the two girls explain their careers.

"I have. It's not one of my best but it got a wide audience."

"You don't look big enough to be writing romantic crime books." Carlos commented looking over at her.

"It's not about your size its about your knowledge."

"What knowledge would you have about crime?" Mike asked as he kissed Susan's temple, his arm rested over the back of her chair in an almost protective manner.

"Everyone has a secret knowledge about crime, Mike. Some of us decide to embrace it while the others shun away from it as if its something to be afraid of."

"You admitting you're a criminal?" Edie said causing the rest of the table to explode with laughter. The only person not laughing was Helen.

"Criminal isn't a word you should throw around lightly in a conversation, Edie. I mean, everyone here has to have commited a crime somewhere along the line. No one is straight edged as they like to believe."

That little speech was met by a stunned silence through the crowd and Helen mentally cursed as she realised she'd spoke too soon. There was a light knock on the door and David's face peeped round.

"I hope I'm not disturbing anything."

"Not at all!" Bree jumped up, thankful for the distraction because she knew everyone was now intrigued about Helen's past and she didn't want Helen feeling too uncomfortable at a dinner table because that was just wrong.

"What were we talking about?" David asked as he accepted the spare seat next to Tom Scavo, who offered him a haste handshake before turning back to look at Helen.

"Helen was just telling everyone about how everyone is a criminal at heart." Cassy said placing her hands into her lap knowing that David would now just laugh. And he did.

"Oh, Helen. Which one asked about your book?" He said making it sound as if it was an everyday thing. "You guys shouldn't worry about Helen being a criminal. She doesn't even like to litter, let alone murder someone or anything."

He made a mental note to talk to her when he got home.

***

Everyone had started to leave because they had sitters. David helped Bree carry everything back into the kitchen because she'd requested for him too.

"David?"

"Yes, Bree."

"Is Helen always that weird at dinner parties?"

"She knows how to make an impression, that's for sure." He commented smiling at the pretty red headed woman before placing his hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry. She isn't some crazy murderer that has been let out or anything. She's a harmless young woman that has had a book published and her second one due."

"The imagination of writers, huh?"

"That's how you could phrase it." David laughed uncomfortable before thanking Bree for the meal.

***

"You have to be more careful with what you say, Helen!"

"They were patronising!"

"Helen, no one knows what you was once like. How could they have been patronising!?"

"You don't understand, David. They all looked their noses down at me because they're better than us. They can afford to live on this stinking hellhole. Well so can we after what we did for a living. We have a comfortable sum of money behind us…"

"that a rich relative left us when she died. Helen, why are you determined to get us caught?"

"Because we have been caught!"

The two of them glared at each other in silence before nodding.

"We have been caught."

***

Bree stood in her window and watched as their two silhouettes yelled at each other in the window. Something was odd between them two and she was going to find out. If it killed her.