Lorelai awoke to Luke's arm wrapped tightly around her.
"Goodmorning" he said softly as he moved a few strands of hair out of her face
"Morning" Lorelai responded groggily. Luke leaned down and kissed her gently on the forehead
"What time did the kids get back last night?" Lorelai asked
"Late" Luke responded and kissed her softly
"Its so nice waking up to the pretty waves, can we move here?" Lorelai asked peering out at the ocean seen from their beach house room.
Before Luke could respond Will and Emma made their way into their room. Will had a breakfast tray in hand and Emma carried a pot of coffee and a glass of orange juice.
"Breakfast Mommy and Daddy!" Emma enthusiastically said
"When did you become a morning person?" Luke asked amused
"Since today" Emma responded
"We brought breakfast for you guys" Will said setting the tray on his moms lap
"Ooh Luke, our babies brought us breakfast in bed" Lorelai said grinning
"That was very nice of all of you" Luke said taking in the breakfast
"Correction it was very nice of grandpa, Max and me, we did all the cooking, Emma sat and watched
"I supervised" Emma said with a pout
"Your daughter" Luke said to Lorelai motioning to Emma
"Oh so when she's winning soccer games and being fabulous she's your daughter, but when she's being Castro to the Cubans than she's mine?" Lorelai asked with fake annoyance
"Yep" Luke agreed taking a bite of toast
Will and Emma took it as their queue to leave
"Enjoy your breakfast" Emma said grinning
"We will baby, thank you" Luke said
Lorelai smiled warmly at him
"What?" Luke asked
"Nothing, this is nice and your such a sucker for our daughter" Lorelai said smiling
"Am not" Luke replied and leaned in and kissed Lorelai again.
As Emma, Will, and Max made their way to the beach, Emma went on and on about how cute she thought her parents were being.
"They are not cute" Max said with disgust
"Arent you a Luke Jr.?" Emma said rhetorically
"I just don't see what's cute about an old married couple actually enjoying each other's company" Max stated
"Give it up Max" Will said with an eye roll
"Whatever" Max muttered
"You know what is cute? Dolphins" Emma stated smiling
"Random " Max replied
"Let's swim with the dolphins today, and we can invite our new friends!" Emma stated excitedly
"You just want to spend time with Finn" Will said rolling his eyes
"No I don't, I just got out of a relationship, after Adam I am really not looking for another"
"Good, because Finn is way too old for you" Max said as they finally made it to the water.
"You really are a Luke Jr." Will said laughing at Max's expense
After about 4 hours on the beach the kids headed back to the beach house. Max threw a t-shirt over his head that matched his bathing suit, Will just walked back in his bathing suit, and Emma threw on a pair of short-shorts but kept her bikini top showing.
"Yup defiantly trying to impress Finn" Will noted. Emma just glared at him in return. When the kids got home they saw their dad cleaning up in the kitchen
"Hey dad" Max said taking a seat on a bar stool in the kitchen
"Hey guys" Luke responded wiping down the counter tops
"Where's mom?" Will asked
"Her and your grandpa went to get some fresh sea food, your grandparents and Rory are coming in tonight, and I'm on cleaning duty" Luke responded
"All that's left is the kitchen?" Emma asked looking around. Everything else seemed to be clean
"Right" Luke responded.
"So I want your honest opinions okay?" Luke asked
The kids waited for him to continue
"I really want to make things up to your mom for how I treated her this past year"
"I thought this is what this trip was about?" Will asked
"Well it is, it's also an apology to you three for how I acted, but your mom and I are married and I want to show her that I'm never going to take her for granted anymore" Luke said blushing softly, He was never one to reveal that kind of information especially not to his kids.
"Awwww, that's so sweet dad" Emma replied hugging him. Luke wrapped his arm around her tightly
"There's a reason I planned this vacation this exact week, Friday is your mom and I's anniversary and I want to maybe…do a vow renewal"
"Oh my gosh, we have to get dresses and tuxedo's and flowers, and Rory and grandma and grandpa have to be there, oh and Sookie, dad, Sookie has to come and Jackson and Davey and Martha, and everyone from our town, and we can't just go get mom a wedding dress in 6 days' notice, and Paul Anka, Paul Anka has to be there!" Emma ranted
"I am not flying out a dog" Luke dead-panned
"But dad, it has to be perfect" Emma said looking up at him with her puppy dog blue eyes.
"Your grandma is bringing her personal dress consultant and me and you can go pick out flowers and I have a tuxedo appointment for all of us men on Wednesday, its going to be perfect" Luke responded
"Dad, you've lost your touch, since when did you become some softie?" Will asked laughing
Luke glared at him
"And also Young Danes I would like to have a talk with you of what your intentions are with my mother" Max mocked
Emma giggled.
"Please fly Paul Anka out, he can be the ring bearer!" Emma remarked
"No, and even if I did agree who's going to bring him to the airport"
"Sookie and Jackson when they fly up"
"Honey, we can't just ask Sookie and Jackson to fly here last minute, that's expensive" Luke said
"Grandma and Grandpa can pay, their freakin' rich" Will stated
"Fine I'll talk to Emily" Luke grumbled
"And Paul Anka too?" Emma asked in a hopeful tone.
Luke sighed "Yes Paul Anka too"
The kids left the house to go Isabel, Finn's, and Zane's.
When they went inside, Isabels arm immediately grabbed Emma and they rushed upstairs.
"I have to know, does Max like me?" Isabel asked
"Um, I think so, he hasn't said anything since the concert last night"
"There was a moment right, towards the end, it seemed like he was going to kiss me" Isabel stated
"Iz I don't know, it seemed like a moment, but hear me out, and I'm telling you this because I like you okay?" Emma said
"Okay?" Isabel replied hesitantly
"Max isn't really a boyfriend type of guy, he doesn't just date one girl, he has never had a serious girlfriend and I doubt that he will because after this 2 weeks is over were going back to Stars Hollow and you're going back to California and I just can't see him getting serious with any girl especially a girl that he will have to have a long distance relationship with" Emma stated sympathetically
"Yeah, I guess, he's just so hot you know?"
"Um, he's my brother so I don't really think of him like that"
"Right, well lets go" Isabel replied grabbing her arm and bringing her downstairs
"Hey Emma!" Zane said happily
"Hey Zane, whats up?" Emma asked while looking around for Finn
"Nothing, Finns not here, he's out working" Zane responded
"Oh okay, cool" Emma said trying to shrug it off.
A while later Max and Isabel were in the kitchen getting food for everyone when Isabel stopped dead in her tracks.
"Max, do you like me?"
"Yeah, your cool" Max responded grabbing some potato chips
"No I mean like me like me, like do you find me attractive?" Isabel asked
"Well yeah, look at you, I don't know anyone who wouldn't find you attractive"
"Okay, but Max I like you, I really like you and I think maybe we could date or something?"
Max sighed and looked at Isabel deeply
"We can pretend this didn't happen" Max said and began to leave
"But Max! What is it? Why don't you want to try being together?"
Max walked closer to her and kissed her explosively. She wrapped her arms around him and he grabbed her around the waist.
"What you want 2 weeks of that, just to go home and lose touch?" Max whispered and layed his head on her forhead
"We don't have to lose touch" Isabel reasoned
Max removed a strand of hair from Isabels face
"I just don't want to put myself through that, you're like the only girl, I've ever felt like this towards"
"Well then lets enjoy this 2 weeks we have together, why waste it? "
Max kissed her again and pulled her upstairs.
Meanwhile downstairs Finn busted through the door from his long day at work. Emma felt her heart flutter at his tan skin and large muscles.
"I'll be upstairs taking a shower" Finn said to Zane
Emma waved at him and he waved politely back.
That night the kids came home to get ready for dinner. Max and Will both put on Khaki shorts and Will wore a shirt with the sleeves cut off and the sides cut out. Emma came down in shorts and a bikini top. Suddenly Lorelai bust through the door with Emily, Richard and Rory in tow
"Look who's here!" Lorelai squealed
"Rory!" Emma yelled and threw her arms around her older half-sister
"Hey" Rory said happily
"Emma it really isn't appropriate to walk around like that, you don't want some filthy man to get the wrong impression" Emily said snootily
"That's what I said, hey Rory, Richard" Luke responded making his way into the room.
"Hey Luke, where's everybody?" Rory asked
"Will and Max went to get some milk from the store and my dad is out on the beach with his metal detector"
"Honestly you would think that man is starving, the way he is constantly desperating himself for a dollar" Emily said rolling his eyes.
"Mom its just a hobby, just like the DAR is a hobby for you" Lorelai spoke up
"I could hardly consider the DAR a hobby, there's a lot of time and effort put into to that"
"Well maybe I'll join him" Richard said nodding
"You certainly will not" Emily continued offended
"Dads making stuffed clams tonight for dinner" Emma said changing the subject
"That sounds delicious" Richard replied surveying the house.
Emma gave her grandparents and Rory a tour of the house and showed them their rooms. The family had a nice dinner and Luke discussed his plan for a vow renewal with Emily and Richard and they agreed to fly Sookie and her family in for the renewal.
Around 9:00 the kids were wanting to go back to the beach.
"Hey, I'm going with Rory and the kids to the beach, you want to come?" Luke asked Lorelai
"No, I'm not feeling well, I just threw up I think those clams made me sick" Lorelai replied
"You want me to stay here with you" Luke asked sitting next to her on the bed
"No, go spend time with the kids, I'll be okay" Lorelai said softly and kissed his cheek
Luke kissed her on the forehead and exited the room.
Down on the beach there were few people. Rory strolled with Luke as Max carried Isabel on his back and Emma and Will raced eachother to see who could make it to the pier the fastest.
"Excited for your last year of Yale coming up?" Luke asked Rory
"Yes and No, I'm kind of scared not to know what my future will hold" Rory said gazing at the ocean
"Well that's okay, what about Logan, you think maybe you and him will settle down?"
"I don't think so, not anytime soon, I have a lot I want to do first"
"That's good, I'm proud of you, you have your priorities straight, I really respect that"
"Thanks Luke, so Emma told me that you are wanting to renew your vows with mom"
"Yeah" Luke said turning away so Rory wouldn't see him blush
"I think it's a nice thing to do" Rory responded
"Yeah, your siblings seem to think so too"
"Who's going to be the flower girl?" Rory asked amused
"Um…I guess Martha, or maybe your sister" Luke said with a smile
"Yeah I can see 5 foot 5 Emma dressed in a tiny flower girls dress, walking on her knees pretending she's 5" Rory said laughing
"She would do it, my kid would do anything she's dared to do" Luke said as he watched Emma and Will race back. His kids were constantly making bets with each other it highly amused Luke.
"I know remember when I dared her to drink a cup of coffee even though she hates it, I mean she really hates it" Rory said smiling
"I think she hates it more than I do" Luke responded
"Nobody can hate coffee more than you, besides I think you hate it about the same, but she drank it and in one sip, you were so mad at mom for letting her" Rory laughed
"Well she was practically a baby, it could have stunt her growth"
"Luke, that was last year, I dared her to drink the coffee last year"
"Well, I can't help it in my mind she's still 3, just like I cant see you past being that bookworm starting Chilton" Luke said
"I was not a bookworm" Rory scoffed
"Please, your purse weighed like 30 pounds from all the books you would stuff in it when we would go grocery shopping"
Just then Emma and Will popped over.
"I beat her" Will boasted
"No fair, you have longer legs" Emma pouted in a way that reminded Luke of Lorelai.
"Rory lets go pick seashells" Emma said and took Rory's hand.
Luke was left standing with Will
"Couldn't have just let her win?" Luke asked with a smile
"Nope, I'm not you" Will responded
Luke and will took a seat in the sand, the sun was going down and Will looked up when he heard a little girl giggle. The little girl was about 2 and was wearing a tiny baby bikini and skirt. Will smiled at the image of the dad holding the little girls hand as she struggled to walk through the sand. The mom came back from behind and held the dads hand. Both parents watched the little girl with grins on their faces. Will then quickly looked away
Luke studied the couple and then turned to Will
"What are you thinking about?" Luke asked him
"I wish Jessica was here" Will stated quietly
"It will be okay" Luke said and squeezed Will's shoulder
"Is that so bad that she didn't want that?" Will asked motioning to the family
"Its not that she didn't want that its that you both have the rest of your lives to get the whole package as your mom calls it, you have every right to be mad son, but Jessica did what she thought was best"
"What was best for her, maybe not whats best for me" Will stated
"Will your getting a football scholarship next year its pretty much guaranteed, your going to go off to college and really get to experience life, if you had a kid you wouldn't be able to do it"
"Mom did it" Will said
"Your right but she was very lucky, Jessica loved you very much, she would have never wanted to hurt you" Luke replied trying to get his son to understand
"She did though, I love her so much dad, but I just cant forgive her right now"
"That's okay for now, you both need your space, but I think at some point you need to talk to her"
Will nodded and turned around when he felt someone tap his shoulder
"Hi, my name is Anna-Maria, I saw you on the ferry a few days ago, I don't know if you remember me" The girl said.
Will immediately smiled, this was the girl with the long blonde hair that was breath-takingly beautiful
"Hi, I'm Will"
Anyway please review it will make me happy and want to write more! What did you guys think of Rory? Luke talk, Isabel and Max, and the vow renewal? Let me know what your thinking the good, the bad, and the ugly!