Alexis' 21st
Alexis came downstairs around 9:30am. Her sisters, brother, grandmother, dad and step-mom had been up for a while now. The entire family had driven out to the Hamptons a day or so before today for Alexis' birthday. Before they had gone to the house in the Hamptons; Alexis had gone out with some of her friends from school for her birthday. Today on the other hand; the day of her actual birth, was the day she would celebrate the milestone with her family and the friends of the family.
"Happy Birthday!" the family shouted as Alexis came into view.
"Thank you all." Alexis said still half asleep.
"Alright let's give her some space to wake up before we bombard her again."
Alexis managed to smile at Beckett as a way of saying thank you. Outside the caterers and all the other things for Alexis' party were arriving. Martha had gone all out for her granddaughter's birthday.
"You did too much; Grams." Alexis said.
"There's no such thing as too much when your granddaughter has a major milestone happen to her."
With that Alexis hugged her grandmother.
"Thank you; Grams."
A while later the extravagant party that Martha had planned for Alexis was underway. Esposito, Lanie, Ryan and Jenny had driven up just as Montgomery had driven up with his wife and their kids.
Off in the distance there was an on-looker that no one really saw all that well. But Beckett could see the uninvited guest in the distance and she already was keeping an eye on said guest.
That all changed within a millisecond. The uninvited mystery guest left when another uninvited guest made her appearance.
"Alexis; Happy Birthday." Meredith said as she came waltzing in to the party.
"Deep fried twinkie." Espo coughed.
There was a bit of disgust on Martha's face as it always had when her former daughter in law dropped by. Castle and Beckett's friends watched on as Meredith went to say hello to her ex-husband.
Delilah, Carter and Riley kept their distance while Beckett stayed right next to Castle. It was her way of nonverbal way of telling Meredith that she had lost her chance with Castle. The triplets saw everything from their vantage point.
"This is gonna be good." Delilah said to her siblings.
"Yeah it will." Riley and Carter responded.