New Neighbors
One day, Andrey noticed a U-Haul truck parked outside the house next door. It had stood empty for almost a year, but now it seemed like they were finally getting new neighbors. A few hours later, all the furniture had been unloaded and Andrey and Anya headed over to meet the people they were about to share a fence with.
Anya baked one of her famous boysenberry pies to welcome them to the neighborhood. It was another older couple, Ed and Linda Thompson. Mr. Thompson was very friendly—they had no reason to suspect that he was about to make their lives a living nightmare.