A Baker's Dozen

Disclaimer: I do not own Cheaper By The Dozen. I do, however, own any new characters that were not in the movie(s).

Summary: The Baker kids go to the lake. Will romances pop up? True love never fades…

A/N- This is basically a story of the kids going to the lake. It's the first time they've been to the lake, but with a little twist. There will be some bits and pieces from the movie, some added in. In this, Sarah and Jake are twins. Enjoy and review!!!

"Kids! Family meeting!" yelled Tom. He heard a chorus of groans and lazy footsteps down the stairs.

"Dad, right now? I was touching up my make up!"

"Have you seen my frog?"

"Who left their skateboard on the stairs?"

"Stop being such a baby!
"Nigel, Kyle, don't you DARE touch me with those hands!"

"I found your frog! It was in my clarinet!"

"SIT DOWN!"

The whole room went quite. Tom took a deep breath and paced around the room. He nodded towards Kate to get his flip board (A/N- You know, one of those things on a stand with papers you can draw on?)

"As you all know, it's the summer. So, we're going on vacation--- as a family! And there is nothing you can do about it," started Tom.

"But Jake was gonna show me the new skate park!" cried Sarah.

"And we were going to study in the library! We even got a special card to get more books!" yelled Kim and Jessica.

"And John offered to help me with clarinet!" yelled Henry, obviously bummed out.

"You can do all those things when we get back! We're only staying for a couple weeks. Four at the most," said Tom, hoping they wouldn't object. Someone was knocking on the door.

"CHARLIE!" yelled the kids. Most of them hadn't seen him a couple months.

"What's up?" Charlie asked. He hated missing out on family meetings, no matter how long and tiring they were. Jake quickly filled him in.

"I'm in! I haven't been to the lake in forever. It'd be nice to get away from all the city life too," said Charlie, already very excited, "Come on, you guys! It'll be fun. We can go swimming and fishing…" he said, hoping this would sweeten the deal.

"Water skiing?" asked Sarah.

"Only everyday," said Charlie, as if this was no big deal.

"Yes!" cried Sarah and Jake, high fiving each other, "We're in," they said.

"So, how bout it guys? Mark and Mike, you can go looking at all the forest stuff, Charlie's gonna swim, Kim and Jessica, you can research the lake, we've got some good books up there, Kyle and Nigel can go fishing… So how bout it?" said Tom.

"Yeah!" they all yelled.

"Wait!" yelled Henry.

"What?" asked Tom. They had just agreed! Why oh why did they need someone to slow this down?

"Lorraine has to come," said Henry.

"Oh crap," said Sarah.

"Come on Lorraine!" said Nigel and Kyle.

"No! It's gross and icky," said Lorraine into her phone, "Besides. I've got to repaint my apartment!" she said.

"We'll do it!" yelled Sarah, Jake, Charlie and Henry.

"You sure?" Lorraine asked suspiciously.

"Yup. Whatever makes you come!" said Charlie.

"Deal. You paint it and I'll come," said Lorraine, "Oops, gotta go. I'm late for a pedicure. Bye you guys!"

"Bye!!!" they yelled.

"And with that we make a Baker's dozen!!!" yelled Tom.

"Wait, how?" asked Kim.

"Yeah, a baker's dozen is 13!" said Jessica.

"We're bringing Gunner," said Tom.

"Works for me," shrugged Jessica and Kim.

A/N- Tada! Read and review. I'm thinking about putting this in the SarahxEliot direction, so I need some other 'romances' for the other characters.