A/N Glad you liked the first chapter I'm trying to get a lot more written before I get back to university next week. So here's number two.
It was the first official day of summer vacation. Booth woke up to the smell of summer air and a hint of a fruity floral scent, which was Bones. He looked over to the other side of the bed and kissed his partner on her forehead. He loved that he could do that every morning. Then he looked at the clock telling him that it was 7:30am. It wasn't unusual to wake up early on the weekend for the Booth clan.
"Hey Bones, where should we go today?" as he walked over to the bathroom.
"I was thinking of going swimming" she replied.
"There's a pool out back that we can go swimming whenever we want."
"I was leaning more towards the beach or the new waterpark that opened by the freeway."
"Oh, yes. I remember Chrissy saying she wanted to go to the park."
"Alright, let's ask the kids. I'm sure they are already watching cartoons in the living room."
They were right. Christine was on the floor, lying down on her stomach and her eyes were glued to the television. Parker was lying down on the couch still enjoying the cartoons, even if he was fourteen. Booth felt proud in knowing that his genius child still loved watching Saturday morning cartoons along with the Discovery Channel programs that she would normally watch.
"Morning" the kids said.
"Good morning" Brennan replied "We were wondering if you would like to go to the beach or the waterpark today."
Without any hesitation both Parker and Christine practically yelled, "Waterpark!"
"Waterpark it is." Booth confirmed handing over a cup of coffee to Brennan. "What would you like for breakfast today?"
"Dad, can you please make those awesome pancakes? I missed eating them so much." Parker asked.
"Yeah sure." His father replied.
When the pancakes were done the family sat down to eat and to discuss what they should bring. Parker and Christine were not really paying attention to the conversation. Instead, they were both drowning their pancakes with a bunch of maple syrup.
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"Bones! Did you get the sandwiches and juice?" Booth yelled from the driveway.
"Yeah here!" Passing the sandwiches to Booth to put in the cooler. "Did you get the towels, sunscreen, and the waterproof camera?"
Parker ran out of the house handing Brennan the camera while Christine gave her dad the sunscreen. "We got it." They both said as they hopped in the SUV.
"Here we go" Booth announced while he put on his sunglasses.
It took them 45 minutes to get to the park. It was so hot outside that they just wanted to jump in the water as fast as they could. Booth went over to pay for day passes and handed everyone a wristband to put on. The gang changed in to their swimsuits, put sunscreen on and put everything in a locker as they looked around to see what they wanted to do first.
"Daddy, can we go on that one?" Chrissy pointed over to the highest waterslide in the park.
"That's pretty high up. Are you sure honey?" Booth asked.
"Yup" she replied.
Booth took two tubes that sat two people each and followed his family up what seemed like 30 flights of stairs. He gave one of the tubes to Bones, which Christine wanted to go down with. Christine and Brennan sat down waiting for the lifeguard to allow them to go. The lifeguard gave them a little push and they went down the slide. There were very sharp turns and one very high drop that caused them to crash down into the pool of water at the end of the tunnel.
"Mommy! Let's do that again!" exclaimed Christine.
"Let's wait for your dad and Parker to get down here first" her mom replied.
Just as she said that, she heard laughter coming from the tunnel. Booth and Parker came crashing down causing water to splash the girls even when they were standing at the edge of the pool.
"That was awesome!" Parker shouted. "Can we try out the rope swings over there?"
"Yeah let's go!" Booth said excitedly. Brennan thought, she was practically taking care of three kids at the waterpark today.
Booth lifted Christine up to grab on to the rope and gave her a little push. He watched as she jumped into the water with a grin on her face. Parker grabbed the rope, took a few steps back, and ran. Brennan went after Parker. Then, it was Booth's turn. He did a front flip as he let go of the rope and splashed into the water.
They went on a few more waterslides and everyone was starting to get hungry. Booth went to get the cooler out of the car while the rest of them went to find a table. Brennan handed everyone a sandwich and they ate.
"Can we go play now?" Christine asked eagerly. She had already waited really patiently for 45 minutes.
"Yes you may." Brennan answered, "I'm going to be over here in the shade." She reached into her bag to grab her laptop and started to continue writing her next novel.
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"That was so much fun!" Parker exclaimed as they headed back to the SUV.
"I could go for some food and a nap." Booth followed.
"I could go for a swim in the backyard." Parker said.
"Bud, you've been in the water the whole day. You will shrivel up like a prune," suggested Booth.
"Actually, the skin is protected by an oily substance called the sebum. When you are in the water for a long period of time the sebum washes off." Brennan continued, "Your skin is actually absorbing the water."
"Either way, you've been in the water way too much today." Booth pointed out. "You can go swimming tomorrow after church."
"Alright" Parker agreed "but I was right."
Booth was confused, "Right about what?"
"Remember when I was younger and said that you needed to get 'sexed up'?" Parker asked.
Brennan remembered, "Yes I do. The whole reason you wanted your dad to get a girlfriend was so that you could have a pool."
"Yeah and Bones gave us the keys to the pool in her old apartment." Booth also remembered. How could he forget his son asking every woman in the Jeffersonian to 'sex him up'?
"It's even better now! You and Bones are together and we actually did move into a house with a pool!" Parker said as they laughed.
Christine was really confused. She was about to ask what they meant but her eyelids were really heavy as she fell asleep in the car.
A/N I've got a few more ideas up my sleeve. Feel free to give me suggestions.
