It's a shame, it's a shame, it's a perfect shame

Sean Ortega The alarm clock goes off at six am, kinda early for a Saturday but Sean had shit to do. His wife Elaine was out on one of her business trips so he and Diego had the whoooole house to themselves.

Before the ten year old woke up he made them both chocolate chip pancakes, Diego's self professed favorite, and promised after a few chores they could go out in the back yard and kick the futball around. No he didn't call it soccer. Sean tries to instill his heritage into his son when he can since Elaine never wants to be around to be a mom. The man had struggled with his own sense of identity and his place in the world for years and he won't let that happen to his son.

While Diego cleaned up his room and got the dishes washed, Sean worked out in the garage on the project car he and his boy were working on together. Diego didn't know it but it was gonna be his 16th birthday present since it was probably gonna take that long to get all the parts assembled. But it'd be worth it to see the smile on his kids face. Gods above they grow up so fast.

The sound of screeching hydraulic breaks made him flinch, looking up to see what was going on. Didn't realize how close his head was to the wheel axis and hit his head on it. Idiot. He rubbed at the sore spot and this time carefully scoots out from under the car to look where a moving truck has parked next door in front of that vacant house. There's a person, a very attractive person waving them on and instructing the movers where to put everything but Sean can't help but stare. Watch. Ogle. Fuck he felt like a creep.

Rubbing the back of his neck to quell his nervous tension he walks over to the chain link fence separating their properties and watches as the final load of boxes gets moved into the house. Geuegfe, his new neighbor is looking down at their phone probably checking stuff off from a list. He clears his throat so he doesn't crack his voice like an awkward teenager when he calls over to them.

"Hey! Are you my new neighbor?" Smooth move ex-lax, of course they're your new neighbor. "Need any help?"