(Kenzi's POV)

Hey, Zak and I have been married for awhile now, and I realized he's never actually met my dad's side of the family. I think I know what to do about it…

(2 days later…)

Zak was going over to Nick's to play Left 4 Dead, and Emily was coming over here to, well we didn't really know what were going to do yet. We'd probably go to Starbucks. Back to what I was saying before…I'd better catch Zak and tell him before he runs out the door.

"Hey Zak!"

(Zak's POV)

"Kenzi, what? You know this was actually going to be 'the guy's day off', right?"

"I know, I know, but I kinda sorta have a surprise for you." she grinned.

"Oh no. Don't tell you're expecting another AJ. She's kind of a handful."

"Oh, baby, no. I'm not, don't worry. But just be sure to pack enough clothes for at least 4 days!"

"Wh-why?"

"You'll see. Don't worry. Oh, tell Nick and Aaron to pack, too! I know you're staying over, so just meet Emily and Brittany and I at the airport at 2:30 tomorrow. Don't forget your gear, ether!" I went to walk out the door, and got maybe three steps out onto the sidewalk when I felt Kenzi's hand on my wrist.

"What now, love?" I asked softly. I was expecting her to say 'don't forget something', but she just spun me around to face her.

"And don't forget, I love you." And with that she kissed my cheek before finally letting me go to my friend's for a day of zombie killing.

(Kenzi's POV)

"Kenzi, just calm down. They'll be here." Emily said reassuringly. I was pacing the airport hall impatiently, waiting for my husband and his friends to show up.

"Yeah, but when?" I whined. Brittany laughed.

"Oh, and you call me the impatient one. Whose the joke on now I gu-?"

"Oh here they come!" I shouted suddenly, waving my arms as a signal.

(Zak's POV)

"Kenzi, c'mon, I'm coming. Jesus would you quit…Aaron, call her cell. Get her to stop freaking out. At least we're here on time."

"No you're not. Baby, you're five seconds late." Kenzi calmly said. I jumped. How did she end up behind me?

"Yeah, yeah, five seconds. Big deal. So where we flyin' to?" Nick asked. Kenzi only smirked.

"Not telling. At least til we get there, anyways. C'mon, we gotta board now."

(So the group manages to fall asleep during the flight, despite AJ and Cassidy's hyperness. That made time literally 'fly'.)

(Kenzi's POV)

"Kay, we're here. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My hometown. Well, you guys have been hear before, 'cause remember Mt. Oliver? Thought so. Anyways, the girls and I have some plans to unfold, so you guys can chill at the local beach. Well, actually it's in East Troy, but…y'know. I printed directions and they're somewhere in the rental car. Nick?"

"Huh?"

"Think fast!" I tossed him the keys, and then took off in the opposite direction, the girls behind me.

"Well, this is gonna be interesting, isn't it?" Aaron asked.

Across town:

As we pulled up in the other rental car everybody asked where we were. I told them that this was my childhood home.

(K's mom POV)

I heard a door slam and people talking. A moment later I saw my daughter come inside to the house. Wow did she get tall! Next thing I knew she had me off the ground and she had her arms around my waist in a bear hug.

"You did a good job with this reunion thing. Why though?" I asked.

"You'll find out at the reunion." She told me. So Kenzi and I went out back to work on the backyard. We got the tent up and got the tables out and by that time people had started to arrive.

(Zak's POV)

Well I swam out to the raft with the guys. Nick was getting water in his face and was having a hard time getting out there. We had to help him when we all got out to the raft I shoved Nick in and Aaron shoved me in by then Nick was on the raft he had shoved Aaron in then I saw my phone blink. It was Kenzi, and she sent me a text 'ready for u' it said I was like 'oh boy what is she up to now?'

(Kenzi POV)

I sent Zak a text to come back, along with the address. We had music list set up too, styled in the traditional party set list.

Song

Artist

As If

Sara Evans

According to You

Orianthi

Tik Tok

Ke$ha

There were other songs, but these were just a few. I wanted to show Zak my old room, so (by this time they'd gotten here) I grabbed his arm like a boyfriend and girlfriend would and we ran upstairs. As I opened the door he said, "So this is your room?" I smiled and replied, "When I was little, anyways." Five minutes later he had found a note on the dresser.

"I'm stupid I'm useless I can't do anything right

According to you I'm difficult Hard to please Forever changing my mind

I'm a mess in a dress Can't show up on time Even if it would save my life

According to you According to you…"

By this time According to You by Orianthi had come on, and I had to laugh. That song, in a sense, had been the message of the note. My ex at the time (I had been in I think 6th grade) had wrote me about how we needed to break up. He said I was too involved with other things to focus on him.

I still remembered the note word for word, so as Zak was reading it I kept stealing glances at him. The contrast between him and my ex was incredible. The song's lyrics only made sense more as I listened.

"So that guy was a total jerk, wanting to break up with you because you were involved with other stuff? What an ass. But what was the other stuff?" Zak asked. I giggled, my eyes finally settling on the bottom drawer of one of my old white organizer cabinets. My gear. Well, hopefully it was still there. But when I moved, I hadn't taken anything. Still…

"Baby, go look at the bottom drawer. That is the stuff I was into." Zak walks over to the drawer and looks.

"Oh, Kenzi. You didn't tell me you were a ghost hunter even when you were littler!" He said, excitedly.

"Yeah. It all started in DC. Look, here's my notebook from the ghost hunt we did in Alexandria in West Virginia. Read my intro, I think you'll be surprised at who it sounds like." So we went and sat on my old bed, (which still had pillows and sheets and everything on it) and Zak opened the notebook and began to read.

"America.

She is a country as big as she is beautiful. That, in itself, tells a story that can only be regarded as one of triumph and tears, battle and bloodshed. Every city tells a page, every state a chapter. The citizens are the words that fill the pages with life, so there's defiantly enough to read about. So let life be heard, seen, and acknowledged. From the other side.

The nation's capital is a city built by the founders, its structures of Romanesque influence. Washington, District of Colombia, is known for being home to the White House, the various memorials and monuments, the Capital Building, and the Library of Congress. Many people don't realize that a city as old as this also is home to famous ghosts. From the founding fathers to the soldiers that did in our many wars, America's 'dead and gone' certainly are 'alive and well' after the sun has set. And that, my friends, is when the past becomes the present.

This first city isn't directly located in DC, but is in its vicinity. Alexandria, West Virginia. The first house of interest is the Carlyle House, built by confederates. During the Civil War, the grounds in front of the manor were used as a make-shift hospital. In the onslaught of the war, Union soldiers overran the house, but permitted the confederate Carlyles to stay, confined to certain rooms. During these 'containment days' the daughter Emma Carlyle began to date a union solider. They would meet in the secret room in the garden at night, and it's said that if you knock on the little door in a specific pattern, Emma will finish it. But is it really her?

The next location of interest in located about two blocks west and one block south of the Carlyle House. This was the place where George Washington's doctors (Dr. Cullen, Dr.

Craik and one unnamed doctor) worked. It is rumored the spirits of the doctors still walk to streets and passages between houses on this section of town.

My experience:

We were at the Doctor's House, and we were learning that had Washington had a tracheotomy, instead of the continual 'bleeding' doctors preformed to rid the blood of the sickness would have left him alive. The one doctor that suggested this was Dr. Craik. Cullen heavily opposed. The investigator running the hunt asked for a volunteer and must've saw the fire in my eyes because he handed my a digital voice recorder and said, "Now young lady, you walk down the 40 some foot tunnel between the houses and ask for a sign." I did as I was told, walking back into the tunnel, but instead trying my own EVP session.

"Did you know that the surgery you had proposed, Dr. Craik, has saved many lives today? Mr. Washington, sir (I had to remind myself I might be talking to a President) you might still have lived a little longer had it been preformed on you." I stayed quiet after, and thought I heard what sounded like someone breathing through on old ventilator, like at a hospital. When I walked back, the guy listened to it and asked me what I thought I'd heard. I told him and he said that's what he heard as well. He said it had been a class-A EVP, due to the clarity of the capture. I know, when I'm older, I've never, ever going to forget this."

Zak turned to me, closing the notebook and letting it drop to the floor as one of his hands went to rest on my hip, then other on the side of my face.

"Zak, baby, no…what if my mom comes in?" I asked. He only smiled, laughing softly as he began to kiss me teasingly.

"Well….then it'll….be like….we're teen….agers again. And….who doesn't….like that….idea?" It took me a bit to piece together what he'd said, because between every few words he kissed me and I lost my train of thought. I moaned as I got up, but he grabbed my hand.

"Baby, c'mon. Let's act a little younger for awhile." He said slowly, looking more and more like a puppy dog / testosterone-driven teenage boy by the minute. His hand that wasn't holding mine was pulling back the quilt on my bed. I huffed, acting like the teenage girl I'd forgot I once was.

"Fine…but only for ten minutes." And they I lay back on my old bed, in my old room, in the arms of the one I knew would never ever leave.

By the time we got outside, everybody was here, and surprisingly they were all crowded around Morgan. I walked up to hug her and introduce her to Zak but when I saw Morgan she did not look the same. She was with a guy about 20 and he had his arm around her. He was rubbing his hand across her stomach and she was smiling gently at him while he did this. Then it clicked. Morgan was pregnant! But it'd been awhile since I'd seen her. Zak and I ran inside to get the slip'n'slide when we came back out there were fireflies everywhere.

All the girls were singing fireflies by Owl City, and as I jump in Zak cues the DJ and sings along with everybody else.

So after the song the guys and me set up the slip'n'slide. Thinking it was actually hot out, I let Zak get me with the hose. Aaron shoved Nick down the slide first then it got all crazy. Emily grabbed my right arm and Brittany grabbed my left, and then Aaron and Nick grabbed my legs and 'gave-me-a-head-start' down the slide. Luckily Zak was waiting at the end to catch me. But then I flipped over the end and I ended up on top of Zak, who ended up on his back in the grass. I looked over at Brittany and Emily. They winked, which to us was a code in itself. 'Kiss him'. So I did, my lips just touching his for about 3 seconds before I realized this had been planned. But by the time I realized it, ice cold water was hitting us. Aaron was standing about 5 feet away, spraying us with the hose. I growled playfully, Zak and I both getting up. As I went to chase after Aaron, he grabbed my wrist.

"Look. It's like rain." It was true; the water that fell now did look like rain.

"I know what you're thinking." I said softly. And not even a second later, Zak's lips were back on mine. Ke$ha's Tik Tok played in the background.

After the kiss, we had dinner (which ended up being my mom's famous BBQ pulled pork sandwiches and some of Bridget's desserts). During dinner, Zak and I said. "Ok. As this isn't just a reunion (it's our anniversary), we've planned something special for everyone that wants to go. This year for Halloween we will be filming another Ghost Adventures Live ft. the city of East Troy. We will also be featuring Morgan and Danica's old house." Everyone cheered. Then we took to the canopy covered yard to dance. Sara Evans's As If came on.

After that, most of the guests left. Aaron, Nick and the girls did too; they'd gotten rooms at a hotel nearby. Cassidy and AJ really had a fun time. AJ was staying with us, at my old house. Right now she was asleep in my old room. Zak and I were downstairs, watching the reruns my mom had recorded of (what else?) Ghost Adventures. We were both sitting in an old recliner, Zak stretched out with me resting in his arms. I had blankets wrapped around both of us. I happened to flip on Poveglia, oddly enough, to which Zak actually agreed to watch again. It got to the part where we were in the plague field after his possession and he had the doctor's mask on. By this point I hid my face under the quilt and pressed up against Zak, instead focusing on listening to his heartbeat rather then watching the screen.

"Hey, what's wrong? It's past the bad part." Zak whispered softly, pulling the blanket down and nuzzling me.

"Yeah, b-but that doctor's mask. That's scarier then wh-what happened to you and then what you d-did to m-me." And again I burrowed into him, covering my face with the quilt. But then pulled it down as I felt Zak's hands working their way under the covers to rest on my hips, which he started to rub in circles. I moaned, shivering at his touch.

"Z-Zak…st-stop that. I-if I w-wanted to… oooh feel like this I'd be aahh…rewinding the bad part. S-somehow that makes my….ooww….hips hurt like how they d-do…ooh….ahh…now." I shivered as I felt him kiss my hair. He laughed tiredly.

"They probably hurt like that because admit it, it's probably a turn on for you. Although why, I can't figure out. Wouldn't you have me…" by now his hands were pressing on my hips hard enough to keep me moaning and then he made his voice go all husky and sexy (well not that it's not sexy already) "handle you like this rather then yell and do what I did there? We both know that wasn't a good thing that happened." I sighed defeatedly as he kissed my neck. He was right. I'd much rather have him hold me and kiss me like this then what happened at Poveglia. Either way, we needed sleep. So somehow, before the episode ended, I slipped off in Zak's arms.