Chapter Thirty-Eight
The next morning while Rick and Kate got breakfast together; the girls slowly started to make their way over to the kitchen. All four girls still in their pajamas; looked like they were half asleep when they got to the center island in the counter. The aroma of coffee was the one thing that had woke the girls up. When they had gotten to the kitchen island counter; Rick was working on getting them coffee while Kate finished up the eggs and pancakes.
"I always like it when Mom makes breakfast." Lily said after she took a sip of her coffee.
"Same here; it's a lot less experimental and a lot more normal." Alexis chimed in.
In that moment; Rick got the Hey, that's not fair look on his face.
"What's wrong with the breakfasts I make?" Rick asked.
"Let's just say that sometimes mixing chocolate with marshmallows and scrambled eggs isn't the most appetizing thing to have for breakfast."
Rick made a pouty/frowny face while Kate just shook her head at her husband's childish ways.
"I like the breakfasts that he makes." Grace said.
"Me too." Audrey commented.
There was a brief silence in the room.
"And the in-laws to be start sucking up to Dad." Lily playfully jested.
After breakfast that morning; Rick and Kate went off to work. Alexis went home to her husband and daughter before checking in on things at her Dad's P.I. office where Hayley was finishing up a case. Lily was going to meet up with Nicholas Javier so they could pick out his tuxedo for the wedding before going to lunch together with his parents. Grace had her niece/goddaughter's birthday party to attend in Williamsburg. Audrey had to go to her cousin's high school graduation party in Morris Plains.
Both Grace and Audrey knew that their respective families were going to be all over them once they saw the engagement ring on each girl's hand. Of course, the girls had their respective fiancé in tow with them so that was only going to exacerbate the whole thing at each event. Jake and Reece were good under pressure as well as being good with being in the spotlight. It was one of the perks of growing up as the kids of Richard Castle.
As they made their way to each thing they had to do Grace and Audrey prepped each of their respective guy before they arrived at the parties they were going to. The amount of times that Audrey and Grace had been told to relax were too numerous to count.
Awhile later both couples were at their respective parties. Alexis and Jack were at work while their daughter was being watched by her paternal grandparents. And the tuxedo shopping was just getting started.