Chapter One
It was Thanksgiving week; Lily was getting close to closing out the fall semester of her junior year at Stanford University. The very same Stanford University that was her mother's alma mater and the same University that had turned Lily's older half-sister down for early admissions a number of years ago before finally accepting said older half-sister. In a few hours' time, Lily would be sitting in one of the many terminals of San Francisco International Airport to board the plane that would fly her back home to the city that never sleeps so she could spend the holiday with her family.
Lily was actually looking forward to spending the holiday with her family. This holiday would be the first one ever where all three of her grandparents that were still alive along with her step-grandparent would all be at the loft for the holiday. In the last few years, Martha had stepped away from acting and being a life coach. Jim had retired just as Jackson and Rita had gotten out of the spy game. This Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's would also be the last one where it was just Alexis and her husband; Jack. Back around Easter; Alexis and Jack had announced that they were expecting their first child together after three and half years of marriage.
Little did anyone back home know, but Lily had a two karat surprise on her hand for them. Now the part of Lily's reading from her eighteenth birthday came true, she did eventually break up with Erik and she did start seeing Nicholas Javier. What the psychic hadn't mentioned during the reading three years ago was that Nicholas Javier was going to propose to her four days prior to them flying back to New York. Instead of calling home after she had said yes to Nicholas, Lily decided that she wanted to wait until they had gone home for the holiday to share the news with their families.
"Don't worry; Lil, they'll be happy for us." Nicholas Javier said.
The couple had been at the San Francisco International Airport for a while now.
"I'm not worried about whether or not they will be happy for us. I know that they will be. What I am worried about is us taking the attention away from Alexis, Jack and the baby."
Nicholas Javier knew at that point what his girl was really saying.
"Don't worry everything will be fine. Alexis won't be upset with you, nor will Jack."
Lily nodded to her boyfriend's general direction as she sent a text to her family back home.
We're at the airport, we'll see you in a couple of hours.
Now the game plan for Thanksgiving was for the dinner to be at the loft. Nicholas Javier's parents, sister and her boyfriend would join everyone for Thanksgiving dinner.
Just before the boarding for the five and half hour flight to New York was called, Lily got a response from her family. After she had read the text, Lily and Nicholas Javier grabbed their carry-on luggage when boarding for first class. As they approached the doorway to the tunnel that would bring them to the plane, Lily showed the airline employee their boarding passes on her phone. The airline employee gave them go ahead to board the plane so they could take their seats.
"The benefits of dating the daughter of a world famous mystery writer." Nicholas Javier said as they made their way to the plane.
"World famous-ish, hon." Lily corrected.
Shortly after that, Lily and Nicholas Javier had taken their seats in first class. Lily was talking to another person the plane that was seated near them that had overheard the brief conversation between Lily and Nicholas Javier just moments before. By this point in her life, Lily was quite use to being noticed when she was out in public due to her father's status as a best-selling author. Nicholas Javier was still getting used to being in the public eye all of the time just as it had taken Kate and Jack some time to get used to it.