"Alright, I have the swimsuits..." Jade sighs as she triple checks her luggage "Flip flops...dresses...shorts...birth cont-"

"Are you almost ready, Mrs. Oliver?" Beck whispers in her ear as he sneaks up behind her and wraps his arms around her waist, squeezing her tightly

"Beck!" Jade almost shrieks "You scared the shit out of me!"

"Sorry." He smirks, loosening his grip a bit so she can spin around and face him "I'm just a little anxious to get going is all."

"Well, we're not going anywhere until I finish packing." She reminds him as he begins kissing her neck "And until my mom gets here."

"Well do you want a little sneak preview of the week's events?"

"Beck Oliver!" Jade laughs "Our children are downstairs and very much awake. You're going to have to keep it in your pants for a little while long-"

"Mommy!" Charlotte exclaims, running into the bedroom "Daddy!"

"Charlotte!" Jade grins, pushing Beck off of her and onto the bed "What's up, Little Miss?"

"When's Grandma coming?"

"Soon." Jade tells her "Why don't you go downstairs and-"

"There you are, Char." Lennon sighs, entering the bedroom as well "You were supposed to come and find me."

"I tried." Charlotte shrugs "You hid too good."

"Too well." Jade corrects her daughter's grammar "She hid too well."

At this point, Beck knows that any chance of him and Jade having a moment has been completely ruined. So he sits up and scoots to the edge of the bed, grabs Lennon, and pulls her into his lap.

"Daddy!" Lennon giggles "What are you doing?"

"I'm not Daddy!" Beck says in a goofy voice "I'm the tickle monster!"

"Oh no!" Jade laughs as she finishes throwing things into her suitcase and zips it close "Run, Lennon, run!"

"I'll help you, Len!" Charlotte exclaims, climbing onto the bed and jumping onto her father's back "Let her go!"

"Alright, alright. Be careful." Jade warns, reaching an arm out to grab Charlotte as she falls off of Beck's back "We don't need any hospital visits today."

"How long are you guys going to be gone again?" Lennon asks as Beck loosens his grip and lets her slide off of his lap

"Ten days." He tells her "But don't worry, you'll be having so much fun with your grandmas that you won't even notice that we're gone."

In three days time, Beck and Jade were going to be celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary. A decade of marriage is a big deal and they wanted to mark the occasion by doing something special, and in less than an hour would be leaving to spend ten full days in the Maldives. Jade's mother would watch Lennon and Charlotte for the first five days, and then switch off with Beck's mother who would watch them for the last five.

"It's going to feel like forever." Charlotte groans "I'm going to miss you!"

"We'll miss you too, Char." Jade tells her "But like Dad said, you're going to have so much fun you won't even care."

"Can I come with you?"

"No." Beck and Jade say in unison

"It's their anniversary, Charlotte." Lennon reminds her sister "They want to be alone."

"Exactly." Beck agrees "Sometimes mommies and daddies need a little alone time together. That doesn't mean we don't love you, it just means that we want to make sure that the other knows they're loved too."

"Fine..." Charlotte sighs, just as the doorbell rings "Grandma!"

She runs out of the bedroom to make her way downstairs, and Lennon follows closely behind her. Beck and Jade both laugh as they watch their daughters run off.

"Alright, c'mere." Jade smirks, grabbing the fabric of Beck's t-shirt so she can pull him close to her and slip her tongue into his mouth "There's your preview of the week's events."

"If that's the preview, I can't wait to see the actual movie." Beck grins as he stumbles back from her

"Grab the suitcase." Jade rolls her eyes with a smile

"Yes ma'am."

Beck grabs Jade's suitcase off of the bed and slings his own duffle bag over his shoulder, then follows his wife out of their bedroom. They make their way down to the main foyer of their home, where Lennon and Charlotte are already talking excitedly with Kaitlyn.

"..and we can go swimming every night" Lennon says quickly "and we can watch all of the movies that we have and me and Char can show you how the trampoline works and and and"

"Lennon Danielle." Jade laughs, placing her hands on her daughter's shoulders "Grandma just got here, give her a chance to breathe."

"I'm just excited that she's here!"

"I'm excited too, Len." Kaitlyn smiles

If Beck and Jade ever have to both leave their daughters at the same time for longer than a night, they usually opt to have them stay with one of their parents rather than a nanny. It's not that they don't feel that the nanny isn't capable, they just know that Lennon and Charlotte would feel more comfortable with their grandparents. They also know that their parents are always looking to spend extra time with the girls and would never turn down the opportunity to babysit.

"Well, I would give you the rundown...but I know you're going to completely disregard it and spoil them rotten." Jade sighs with a smile as she addresses her mother

"What are grandmas for?" Kaitlyn winks

"Right." Jade laughs "You have our numbers, and the number for the resort is on the emergency list I left on the kitchen island. Priya is going to be here around noon on Monday but I'm sure if you need to get out of here earlier she could-"

"Jade." Kaitlyn grabs her daughter's hand "Everything is under control. Go enjoy your trip."

"Thanks, Mom." Jade hugs her, and Kaitlyn kisses her cheek "Love you."

"Love you too." Kaitlyn tells her "Bye, Beck."

"Bye!" Beck hugs her as well "And thanks again."

"Not a problem." Kaitlyn assures him "Like I said, what are grandmas for?"

"Listen to me, you two." Jade says as she kneels down to be almost eye-level with her daughters "You are to be on your absolute best behavior for both grandmas this week, do you understand?"

"Yes, Mommy."

"Don't let us get a bad report."

"Okay."

"Alright, c'mere." Jade opens her arms to hug them both "I love you. We'll see you next weekend, okay?"

"Okay, Mommy. I love you."

"I love you, Mommy."

"Say bye to your dad."

"Bye munchkins!" Beck smiles, wrapping both girls up in a hug "I love you, we'll see you soon. Okay?"

"Okay, Daddy. Love you."

"Love you too, bye."

Getting from Los Angeles to the Maldives isn't going to be a quick journey for the couple by any means. In fact, it's going to take them almost a full day to get there. From Los Angeles they'll fly to Qatar and from Qatar they'll fly to the main island of the Maldives. Then they'll take a shuttle to the coast to get on a ferry and take the ferry to the smaller island where their resort is. And then they'll do the reverse coming back. It may seem like a lot, but Beck and Jade want to make sure that the trip is as private as possible so they can really be alone just the two of them. And the way that they figure, no paparazzi will want to take two planes, a bus, and then a boat just to take a picture or two of them at the beach when they can very easily catch them at LAX getting on or off the flight.

"Have you ever seen water so blue?" Jade gasps as she looks out the window of their suite

Well really, it's more like a private cabana right on the ocean at the end of its own private dock. It's just a bedroom and a bathroom, and then a beautiful ocean view no matter where you turn.

"Only in movies." Beck tells her as he wraps his arms around her waist from behind "And even then, it's probably just CGI."

"It's so beautiful." Jade grins "Imagine the sunsets."

"We still have a few hours before that happens." Beck smirks, reaching up and undoing the ties that keep the curtains drawn back from the windows "What do you say we get started on that thing that we really came here to do?"

"We came here to celebrate." She reminds him with a smirk "That doesn't just mean sex."

"Doesn't not mean sex though." He laughs, hooking his fingers in the loops on her denim shorts and pulling her towards the bed "C'mon, let's pretend we're horny teenagers again for a few days."

"We never stopped being horny teenagers." She grins "We just got a bit better at controlling the urges."

For the majority of the first day they're there, they almost never leave the bedroom. In fact, the only time either of them leaves the bed is when Beck answers the door to collect their meals from room service. They feed each other, which sounded like it was going to be more romantic than it actually ended up being, but then get right back to it. It's been so long since they've been able to be together in this way without having to worry about someone or something interrupting them. They take in every moment that they can, and then fall asleep completely naked in each other's arms.

Eventually they do venture out of their suite though. The resort has plenty of things to offer them, and they try to take full advantage of all of it. They play pool and ping pong and even a few rounds of badminton. They get couples massages at the spa and take sunset cruises on the ocean. Beck even convinces Jade to try scuba diving with him, which she actually ends up enjoying more than she is willing to admit to him. Every night their routine is the same though. Once they're back in their suite for the night, it's absolutely impossible for them to keep their hands off of each other and off the champagne. They probably have more sex that week than they had in the two and a half years that Charlotte has been alive.

"This has been the most amazing ten days..." Beck sighs as they lay in bed together on their last night at the resort "But oh my god, do I miss our girls."

"I know, I miss them too." Jade admits "Who knew being away this long would make us miss them so much?"

It's the longest that both of them have been away from their kids at the same time. Lennon seemed to be doing okay, but Beck's mom had texted and said that Charlotte was starting to miss them a bit more vocally. They had expected that and it was okay, because both Beck and Jade missed their daughters too.

"Imagine if there was one more to miss." Beck chuckles "Imagine how much worse it would be."

"Would it really be so terrible, though?" Jade turns and smiles at him

"What are you saying?" He asks her

"I'm saying...maybe we're ready for that third." She shrugs

"Well, I wish you would have said something sooner." Beck chuckles "We could have been trying all week."

"No we couldn't have." Jade reminds him "I'm still taking my birth control, and if I had stopped taking it I would have gotten my period. Then neither one of us would have had any fun."

"Alright, fair enough." Beck chuckles as he kisses the top of her head "But maybe that's something we can start talking about when we get home?"

"Yeah, maybe." Jade grins "But in the meantime, what do you say to one more go around? Just for fun?"

"Oh, you won't have to ask me twice."

Beck turns thirty a few months following their first anniversary, and they rent out a club in LA to throw a huge party and celebrate. Lennon and Charlotte stay with Jade's father and step-mother, because the party is in no way appropriate for children. Both Beck and Jade drink way too much alcohol, as do most of their friends. The way Beck sees it, it's his last chance to do something stupid as he leaves his twenties behind him as he enters a new and more mature stage of his life.

"Please." Jade scoffs when he shares his justification with her "We have two kids and we've been married for ten years now. We lost the excuse to do anything stupid a long time ago."

"But at least then if we did do anything stupid, our age would justify it." Beck tells her "Now we're thirty and we're more mature."

"I think that we lost the excuse when we became parents, but it's not something I really want to argue about." Jade sighs "But just a friendly reminder that you're thirty now, I'm still twenty-nine for a few months."

Jade's time to turn thirty does come eventually a few months later though, and when it does she opts for something much less extravagant than her husband did. They invite both sets of her parents and Beck's over for dinner, as well as Cat, Robbie, Tori, Andre, and a few of Jade's other friends that she's made in the industry. Elijah had also been invited, but Cat and Robbie opted to leave him home with his nanny so that they could enjoy a night out together. Lennon and Charlotte are in attendance, but their nanny takes them upstairs as soon as they finish eating so that their parents can enjoy themselves without having to worry.

"I would like to propose a toast..." Beck says, standing up and raising his flute of champagne "...to my amazing wife, Jade. Babe, you will always be my greatest strength, my greatest joy, my greatest adventure, my greatest gift and, most of all, my greatest love. Happy birthday, and may your thirties be the start of the best chapter of your life so far. I love you endlessly."

"Thank you." Jade smiles and offers him a kiss as he sits down next to her again "Now what do you want?"

Everyone at the table laughs at their exchange, knowing how typical it was of the couple. Beck says something nice, and Jade appreciates it but is always just the slightest bit cynical. But it would be clear to anyone at that table that the two of them love each other more than anything else in the world, with the only exception being their children.

Eventually the dinner dies down, and their guests leave. They had the food catered, so the company takes care of the clean-up, and after seeing them out Beck and Jade head upstairs to bed.

"We're both fucking old now, you know." Jade smiles at Beck as she sits down on the bed and kicks her heels off "We might as well just apply for those AARP cards now."

"Oh stop it." Beck chuckles as he unbuttons his shirt "The best years of our life are still ahead of us."

"Yeah, yeah. That's what they keep telling me." Jade sighs "Hey c'mere."

"What?" Beck smirks, walking over to her

She wraps her arms around his neck and lays back, pulling them both onto the bed with him on top of her. They both laugh at the sudden loss of balance and then make brief eye contact for a moment before they start kissing.

"I've been off my birth control for six weeks now." Jade tells him as he reaches around to unzip her dress "You ready to try for that boy?"

"Sure." His face lights up as they break away briefly "What do we have to lose?"

They start trying regularly following Jade's birthday. They're religious about ovulation periods and cycles and honestly pay closer attention than they did when they were teenagers trying to avoid getting pregnant. They don't have any luck the first month, but when the second month rolls around, Jade's period is late.

She doesn't say anything to Beck at first, and takes the test by herself one day when he's on set filming and she's home with Lennon and Charlotte. It comes back positive and she has to resist freaking out about it so that her children don't sense that anything is off. The last thing that Jade wants would be for one of them to tip Beck off the minute he gets home. So, she wraps the test up in a piece of tissue paper and leaves it on his pillow, then continues going about her day and tries her very best not to focus on it. Eventually, Beck comes home and they have dinner together as a family, then play with the girls in the backyard for a bit before giving them their baths and sending them to bed.

"I think there's a bottle of white left over from your birthday still." Beck tells her as they leave Charlotte's room "Want to grab some glasses and sit out by the pool?"

At first Jade is tempted to say yes, but then she remembers that she can't.

"I'd love to, but the girls were a real handful today and I think I just want to go to bed." She lies "Maybe another night?"

"Sure." Beck nods with a smile "Maybe we can watch a movie in bed instead?"

"That sounds nice." Jade tells him, grabbing his hand to lead them to their room "C'mon."

She heads immediately into her closet to change into her pajamas, while Beck strips down to his boxers and throws on an old t-shirt. He's ready before she is, so he goes to turn down the blankets on their bed and notices the package sitting on his pillow. Part of him already knows what it is, but he still can't believe his eyes when he unwraps the test and sees the positive result.

"Jade?" He calls out to her

"Yeah?" She emerges from her closet in a pair of running shorts and an old t-shirt

"You're pregnant?" He grins, holding the test up for her to see

"Oh." She chuckles "Yeah, I am."

"Babe..." He gasps, throwing the test onto the bed and running to wrap her up in a hug "This is so exciting!"

"I know it is." She admits "It took everything in me not to tell you right away."

"Well why didn't you?"

"This is number three, Beck." Jade reminds him "I have to make it interesting for myself somehow."

"Fair enough." He smirks, resting his forehead against her's "We're going to have another baby!"

"Yeah." She smiles before kissing him quickly "We sure are."

I try not to insert author's notes in the middle of stories, but I've been getting a lot of comments and questions in the reviews about where Tori and Andre are.

They're around, they were at both Beck and Jade's birthday parties in this chapter but I didn't focus too heavily on it because I didn't focus too heavily on the parties, if that makes sense. This is very much a Bade story at its core. Back in chapter 6 I said that Tori and Jade would grow apart as they became older, but always remain friends. I bring details about Cat and Robbie in because even now as adults, Cat and Jade are still very much best friends and that contributes to Jade's character. I had all 30 chapters of this story written before I published it, so at this point it would be hard to go back and rewrite everything to add in an arc for Tori and Andre. From here on out the story is very Bade-centric though and there isn't much Cat and Robbie anyways. But I can tell you that Andre plays a very big role in chapter 29 and that will answer a lot of questions about what he and Tori have been up to in the meantime.

Sorry if this disappoints anyone, but thank you in advance for understanding. Stay tuned to see what happens with Bade baby number three!