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Getting to the Lake.

The band played at Lorraine's graduation party as the Laurings made their way across the room to where the Bakers were standing. Melena looked around for a familiar face. She hadn't seen the bakers for a while now and she was kind of nervous of what they would think of her, or even if they'd recognize her. Her pink dress flowed in the wind.

"Melena? Is that you?" Sarah Baker's familiar voice came from behind her. "Oh my gosh, I haven't seen you in forever!" she said giving her a hug.

"Sarah! I've missed you so much." She said hugging her back.

"Melena! Can you come over here for a minute?" her mom shouted from over at the bar. Melena walked over and started to chat with the Bakers and her family.

"Who's that?" Jake asked Sarah as he and Mike walked over to her.

"That's my friend Melena." Sarah said walking away, "Oh, and she's way to good for you." Sarah ran over to where Melena was.

"Guess what Sarah! I'm staying with your family this summer, this'll be the best summer ever" Melena said smiling. "My parents are going over to Hawaii this summer for their second honey-moon, so I'm staying with you!"

"Really? This'll be awesome!" Sarah thought that they'd spend the summer hanging out on the beach and having water fights with her brothers but they were wrong.

"Yeah we have so much to catch up on!" She said. They watched as Mr. Baker circled the room asking his family who wanted to play touch football

"Come on let's go play!" Sarah sighed. "We're here for you coach." She said to her dad.

"You just made varsity!" he said. Then they ran across the room to the yard.

The next morning Tom and Kate decided it was time for them to go back to that lake that they always used to go to.

"FAMILY MEATING!" Tom yelled to his family, and Melena. As they all ran down the stairs Tom could hear them fighting.

"Where's my skateboard?"

"Kyle stole my favorite shirt!"

"Who left their skateboard on the floor?"

"Nigel farted!"

"Just sit down please!" Tom shouted at them "get Lorraine and Charlie on the phone!" Tom looked at them, "Kate and I had an idea, how about we all go back to the cabin down at Lake Winnetka?"

"I'm going to be very pregnant then."

"Yeah, and I'm going to be apartment hunting in New York."

"But, I was going to practice my clarinet." Sighed Henry

"I was going to hang with my friends!" Jake shouted

"What about Melena?" Sarah asked.

"This could be the last time our family can spend the summer together, and Melena can come with us."

"We go anywhere with our name on it." Kyle and Nigel said

"Bingo!" Tom shouted

"Yeah, I Love the Lake, I'm in." Said Charlie

"I guess I can cancel a few gigs." Said Henry

"Yes!" Shouted Tom

"We agree to participate." The twins said together

"Come on dudes, we can bring the wake boards, we'll totally dominated." Sara said

"Okay, we're in."

"Okay that leaves…Lorraine." Tom looked at the phone.

"Come on you have to come!" Everyone shouted at her.

"Alright, I'll come if Dad agrees not to nag me to stay in Chicago." Lorraine agreed

A/N: Keep a look-out for Chapter Two. As you may notice Melena hasn't been in it much, she'll be put in more later.