Summary: Danny, Don and Adam are living together. What’ll happen when Lindsay, Stella and Aiden move in next door? - AU

Author’s note: This is another AU fic. I hope you’ll have fun with it. Thanks to LME and afrozenheart412 for reading and for making suggestions. Don't worry, I'll update my other fics as well. ;) But my muse is doing what she wants. lol

Disclaimer: I don’t own anyone or anything.

Rating: T

“Adam, what the hell are you doing there all the time?” Don asked. He was sitting on the large living room couch, one leg comfortably resting on the coffee table, while he watched a game on TV, yelling at the players from time to time.

Now he was looking at his friend, eyebrows raised. Adam, who had been staring out of one of the smaller windows of the front of their house, briefly glanced at his friend before he turned his attention back to what he was staring at.

“I think our neighbours finally moved in,” he answered.

“Who moved in?” Danny, who just left the kitchen and joined his two friends in the large living room, asked. It was still early in the morning on a Saturday, and actually no one of them really knew why they had already gotten up. Especially because a Saturday in Malibu meant going out, maybe lying at the beach. And this they could also do later that day.

“Our new neighbours,” Don answered. When he saw the questioning look on his friend’s face, he added, “The new neighbours who moved into the white mansion next door?” When Danny still didn’t look like he knew what he was talking about, Don groaned. “Hello? You do know the old lady from next door moved out? Or are you living behind the moon?”

“What? Only because I have something else to do than paying attention whether a lady from next door moves out or not?” Danny asked back, rolling his eyes at Don.

“No, of course you have something else to do” Don replied sarcastically. “You’re too busy with writing what? A book a day? Seriously, Messer, you also should get a life outside your office up there.”

“Yeah, and while I should do that, you could maybe go and train a bit more. Only because you’re tall doesn’t mean that’s all you need to stay a professional basketball player,” Danny shot back, grinning at how Don raised his eyebrows even more. He knew his friend hated it when he acted like his coach.

But before Don could shoot back a comment at him, Adam was faster.

“Wow,” he said, still staring out of the window, hiding behind the curtains as good as possible. “I can see them now. They just arrived.”

“And? What can you tell us about them?” Don asked, not really interested. “Another older lady with a lot of money who’ll yell at us the next time we’ll have a party here?”

Adam shook his head. “No. Not at all. They’re looking pretty good.”

“Pretty good means?” Don asked. “Come on, Adam. Give us more details.”

“Why don’t you go over there and look yourself?” Danny asked. Playfully shaking his head at his friend, he was already on his way to the window. It was funny how his friend had ever been able to become a professional and good basketball player. Sometimes he was too lazy to leave the couch even to switch the TV on.

“Oh, and what about you? Curious now? I thought you aren’t interested in the neighbour gossips,” Don teased back.

Danny didn’t reply to that. Instead he joined Adam at the window, hoping he could get a quick glance at the women who had moved in. He had to admit he really didn’t care for any neighbour gossip. Anyway he was allowed to look whether Adam was right about good looking women or not, right?

“So?” Don shouted from the couch. “Is he right? Are they good looking?”

The moment Don had asked, the three new neighbours got into Danny’s eyesight as well. In front of him, he found three women, around their age. Dark haired, pretty women. Adam’s ‘pretty good’ hadn’t even been enough to describe them.

“Oh, I’d say yes,” he answered. “But when you rather want to stay on the couch...”

With a groan, Don tossed the remote onto the coffee table and finally got up from the couch as well. Sighing dramatically, he joined his two friends.

“This is my day off. Actually I didn’t plan on moving more than necessary after such a hard and long week,” he said. “If they aren’t...oh, wow.”

Pressing himself between Danny and Adam at the window now, Don had to agree his two friends had been right. The three new neighbours couldn’t be compared to the older, easily annoyed lady who had lived in the beautiful mansion before. The one who was just locking the car, was a pretty brown haired woman with very curly hair and sparkling eyes. The one who was just fighting with a large bag, also had curly hair. She was a bit shorter than the other one, with large, beautiful brown eyes. The third woman was dark haired with dark eyes and lips that instantly caught his attention.

“Definitely not an old, easily annoyed lady,” Don said. The other two men nodded in agreement.

“Maybe we should greet them,” Danny suggested. “They’re new and it’d be a nice gesture, right?”

“I don’t know if that’s a good idea,” Adam replied, already blushing lightly. But before he could explain why he didn’t just want to go over to greet the new neighbours, the decision was already taken from them when suddenly all three women turned around and headed towards their front door.

“Whoa, whoa,” Adam made, jumping away from the window.

“Hey, what’s your problem?” Don asked, also stepping away from the window though.

“They’re coming over here. You think they saw us?”

“Even if they saw us, we aren’t in highschool, peeking into the girl’s locker room,” Don replied, rolling his eyes at his friend. As much as he liked Adam, he found it hilarious how he was jumpy like that, even scared of neighbours who could have caught him watching them.

He turned to Danny to make yet another comment, but discovered his friend still staring out of the window. A smirk lit his face. Knowing Danny since they had been children, he knew practically everything about him. And could clearly imagine who of those three had caught his attention most.

A fitting comment didn’t leave his lips though when the doorbell rang a moment later. Amused Don noticed the uncomfortable look on Adam’s face, still scared the women could have seen him at the window. Danny had gotten up from his place at the window again. Briefly he glanced at the almost frightened Adam and the broadly grinning Don. He wouldn’t say he was any better than them; although they were in their late twentieth, they still seemed to be like teenagers sometimes.

Anyway this was the first time they’d meet their new neighbours in person and he knew how important the first impression was. He wasn’t going to screw that up. And so he didn’t wait for them to decide what to do next and simply headed over to the front door to open it.

“Good morning,” he greeted them.

“Good morning,” the curly woman answered. “We just moved in next door and thought it’d be polite to come over here and introduce ourselves. I’m Stella Bonasera, this is Lindsay Monroe and this is Aiden Burn.”

“Nice to meet you,” Danny said, shaking the offered hands of all three women. He couldn’t deny that one of the three caused a light shiver to run down his back the moment he touched her hand. But of course he wasn’t going to show that in any way.

Glancing behind him briefly, Danny noticed that his two roommates had finally decided to join him as well, finally looking and acting like normal grown ups again.

“I’m Danny Messer, and this here are Don Flack and Adam Ross,” he introduced them. Once again handshakes and greetings were exchanged.

“Alright,” Stella said then, smiling at the three men in front of her. “We’ve still a lot to do with unpacking and stuff. We better go back over there and finish or we won’t be able to sleep in our beds tonight.”

Danny nodded. “Okay. It was nice to meet you. Hopefully we can...continue talking, next time maybe a bit longer.”

“We will,” this time Lindsay answered, briefly smiling at him.

Hearing her voice now, Danny felt another light shiver. Wordlessly, he, Don and Adam watched their three neighbours heading back to their own house. Even after they had already entered their house minutes ago, they were still standing in their doorway, staring over to the other house that was no longer empty anymore.

“Looks like with this neighbours we’ll have more fun,” Don said into the silence. “That’s at least what I’m hoping for.”

The first meeting had been very short. Anyway the three men couldn’t deny those three women had caught their attention and interest. Something about them was different and interesting and they couldn’t deny they were looking forward to their next meeting.