Chapter 13: A Day at the Beach

Tuesday Morning four days til the wedding

Dressed in a pair of light khaki shorts and a coral floral tank top Gwen was excited about today's events. Today was the day of the clam bake and earlier that morning Gwen got a text from Morgana while she was boarding her plane. Her and Morgause would be arriving later on that afternoon and Gwen could contain her excitement her bestie was back. And they were gonna light it up at the bachelorette party, her sister, her best friend and her cousins were going to have so much fun this week. Not to mention the shocking news that Gwaine was the father of Vivian's son. Did Lance know? She hadn't talked to Gwaine about what her and Arthur had overheard yesterday at the ranch. How could she? To talk to him about that would mean she would have to admit that her and Arthur were eavesdropping (unintentionally eavesdropping, but still they heard a lot they probably shouldn't have) she couldn't really explain what they were doing there in the first place she couldn't wait to tell Morgana though.

After Gwen and her mother returned from picking up the seafood for their day at the beach. At about 12pm Gwen's phone rang and she fished through her phone to answer the call. Looking at her caller ID she sees the call is from Morgana she smiles as she answers the call.

"Hey girl." Gwen answers the call.

"Hey Gwen."

"Girl where are you?"

"Just made it in, Morgause and I just checked into the hotel."

"That's great we're heading to the beach this afternoon."

"Sounds great, we'll be there."

"You up for some seafood?"

"You have to ask?"

"I know you love seafood."

"How's your cowboy?"

"It's fine, everything is going really well."

"Oh that's good, so how was he?"

"What we didn't have sex Morgana."

"Well why not?"

"Morgana I'm not going to talk to you about this over the phone."

"Fine but you better you hit that and soon."

"Quiet."

"Oh you totally did him you just don't want to tell me."

"You sound like my mother."

"Oh she's curious too, good."

"Anyway I got some gossip to tell you when you get here."

"Oh shit's happening already?"

"Girl you won't even believe what I have to tell you."

"What just tell me now."

"Okay I don't know all the details but apparently Lance's wife, Vivian had a baby by Gwaine."

"WHUT!"

"Yeah Gwaine called her a crazy lifetime bitch. She admitted that she stole dead condoms out his garbage."

"That is the nastiest shit I ever heard, that bitch is crazy."

"I told you."

"Have you talked to Gwaine yet?"

"No Arthur and I accidentally overheard Gwaine and Vivian talking on the woods."

"Oh my god. Wait a minute. What were you and Arthur doing in the woods?"

"Nothing focus Morgana."

"Nah. I can't do it. I just keep seeing Arthur pin you up against a tree all natural and stuff."

"Morgana shut up." Gwen says laughing now.

"So tell me, it was hot wasn't it?"

"Well we got close and there was this moment when we were together it was pretty sexy."

"What was pretty sexy?" Arthur asks opening the bedroom door. "Are you talking about me?"

"Um."

"Who is that?" Morgana asks through the phone. " Is that him? Oh my god that's him isn't it?"

"Um, I gotta go see you at the beach I'll text you the address. Bye."

Arthur leans up against the wall smiling at Gwen.

"That was Morgana, she and Morgause just arrived they'll meet us at the beach today."

"Ah yes the infamous Morgana. She's the one who set us up right?"

"Yep, that's Morgana."

"I'll have to remember to thank her for that." He smiles. "Oh I almost forgot your mother is looking for you. She's ready to load everything up for the beach."

Beach Party

Once they get everything set up at the beach Arnold and Elaine and Merlin's parents start setting up the grill and all the equipment to prepare the food. While the food cooks Merlin suggests they set up a volley ball net and play a game or two.

"Alright how should he divide the teams?" Merlin asks.

"Girls against boys?" Freya suggests.

"We could flip a coin?" Gwaine adds.

"What about team captains?" Morgana wonders.

"I got an idea bride's side against the groom side. That way we can have equal girls and guys on each team." Gwen finally announces.

"That's a great idea." Freya says.

"And Freya should be the bride's side captain. And Merlin should be the groom's side captain." Morgana advises.

"Excellent." Gwaine adds.

So they divide up into two teams on the bride's team there is Freya, Gwen, Morgana, Arthur, Tasha and their cousin Mikey. On the groom's team there is Merlin, Gwaine, Lance, Vivian and Merlin's two cousins Gilli and Sefa. Each team has six replacements subs just incase someone gets hurt. The game begins civil enough and about 15 minutes into the game, after Vivian gets hurt, she gets replaced by William, Lance starts serving balls directly at Arthur. At first Arthur doesn't mind but it seems like Lance is actually trying to hit him.

While they take a five-minute break Arthur quietly asks Gwen about it.

"What's going on with your ex?"

Gwen looks over at Lance at sees him watching them talk. " I don't know he's an ass. Hey you wanna make him suffer?"

"Why I'd love to."

"Then let's do this." Gwen says with a sneaky smile.

During the next round Arthur does every flirty thing possible to set Lance off. Between sets he makes and extra effort to always touch Gwen, giving her nice little slaps on the butt or whispering in Gwen's ear and she'll laugh as loud as possible. Their over flirting is beginning to bother him as he misses several points that he should have easily made. Gwen tries to dive for a ball and she land wrong on her ankle triggering an old gymnastic injury.

"Ahh!" Gwen screams out as she lands on the ground sending sand spraying everywhere.

"Gwen!" Morgana and Freya yell.

"Guinevere!" Arthur rushes to her side to help her up. "Are you okay?"

"Uh. I'm fine it's just an old gymnastic injury. If I ever land on my right ankle wrong it hurts like hell. It'll pass in a few minutes."

Arthur lifts Gwen off the ground effortlessly and carries her over the a chair. She wraps her arms around him and cannot help the blush the creeps onto her face.

"We should call off the game." Arthur states suddenly.

"No you guys finish Jessica or Alisha can sub for me."

"Alright Gwen, we'll finish the game." Freya tells her.

"And win!" Gwen calls out after them as Arthur helps her sits down on a fold out chair.

"Arthur go they need you. You have to win this!"

"I knew you were a sore loser. You just can't stand it. Can you?" He smiles giving her a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Crush him." She looks up and sees Lance turn away suddenly. "Aggravating him that way."

"You know you love it. I'll destroy him, watch me work." Arthur replies with a wink.

"I wont take my eyes off you." Gwen says quietly as he walks away to rejoin the game.

"I heard that." He shoots back.

"Damn it!" Gwen smiles and the games begins again.

When Arthur returns to the game it's just as equally intense between him and Lance but with a few carefully placed serves Arthur wins the game for the bride's team causing to Morgana and the rest of the team to cheer.

"Yes! You suck Lance. We won, you lost Lance you lost everything." Morgana taunts him.

Her taunting increases and it's quite obvious that she's not just talking about volleyball. Merlin, Gwaine and the rest of the groom's team tries not to laugh too loudly.

Gwen gets up her ankle feeling much better and she wobbles toward Arthur. "Great game. You're one hell of a player."

"You're not too bad yourself." Arthur says Gwen finches as she puts too much weight on her sore ankle. "Sit down and rest."

"It's better it really is." Gwen states.

"Well let me help you just incase." Arthur offers.

He escorts Gwen to a chair and caters to her needs the whole time. Fixing her a plate of food, bring her a drink and dessert and refilling her cup as often as she would like. Gwen has to admit that she is enjoying the attention, even when she had gotten sick when her and Lance were together he never doted on her like this. After everyone has had their fill they all help to clean up after their mess, except Gwen, who is forced by everyone to sit down and rest her ankle. Once everything has been cleaned up they make their back to their homes and hotel rooms.

"Gwen call me if you need anything for your ankle." Morgana says as Gwen leans on Arthur, while walking back to the car.

"I'll be fine Morgana."

"I'm sure you will, you seem to be in perfectly fine hands." Morgana smiles devilishly.

"Oh I'm sure I am." Gwen says smiling.