PART 12
"Hey beautiful!" A wet dripping Vaughn stood right above Sydney's body who leisurely still laid on the chair taking some sunbathe.
"Argh, Michael get away, you're making us all wet!" she pushed on his legs in the hope to get him away.
"Sorry, I didn't see your little friend! Who's that?" curious Michael she thought.
"That's Jessie, she's the girl of Christina's brother so don't scare her away. She had a long swim with me"
"Yeah I saw you two in the pool. I watched you."
"What? You're spying on me now?"
"Of course I'm not spying Syd, I was just...."
"What were you?" she lifted her eyebrows.
"Oh no, there we go again" Weiss had just stepped out of his house and immediately turned on his heels to go back inside. He didn't want to hear any of those words these two constantly exchanged.
"Well I was just, well you know... you and that bikini... you perfectly know what that does to me Syd. And to top it, you're pregnant with my child. Do you think that would go unnoticed by me?"
"Oh, so you like what you see?" she pondered mischievously.
"Hmmm... of course. My beautiful, nice looking and sexy wife carrying my baby under her heart. That definitely wouldn't go unnoticed by me Syd."
"Ok, I got it!" Jessica chose that moment to wake up from her little afternoon nap. She rubbed her eyes and called out for her mother not realizing where she was at first.
"You're mommy's not here Jessie, but I'm sure she'll be here soon to pick you up, honey, ok?" the girl nodded tiredly while Sydney checked her watch. "What do you say we comb your hair first, pretty one?"
Vaughn sat behind Sydney and watched her attentively combing the girl's long blond hair for a while until all of her long knots were undone. She then braided her hair the same way she had done it with her own, a long braid that started from the top of her head to the end.
Once that was accomplished, Sydney sought for something in the bag. Jessica looked curiously over her shoulder and smiled once Sydney popped out a beautiful mirror.
"Here!" she held the mirror in front of the girl's face "You like that?"
"Yes, beautiful. Thanks!" Jessica dropped a quick kiss on Sydney's cheek and then squealed "Mommy!" as soon as she had noticed her mother watching her from the living room/terrace door. "Mommy look there" she squealed and turned her head so that her mother could admire the art work Sydney had just achieved.
The mother lifted her girl into the air and analyzed the braid "Really beautiful baby. Did you have fun?"
"Uh-huh! We had cake and ice-cream!"
"Really?"
"Yes I also go swim with Sydney"
"That's wonderful baby, where's your brother?"
The girl simply shrugged. "He's up with the other boys, getting dressed again and god knows what they are doing up there! I don't wanna know!" Christina explained.
Right then they heard a loud laughter coming from up the stairs that could both be heard from the living room as well as through the open window on the 2nd floor.
"I guess I better go have a look at them" Vaughn got up from behind Sydney and Christina thanked him.
"Hey look, this is what Mr. Greene looks like!" Oliver was standing in the middle of a circle playing the clown of the bunch, imitating his former 3rd grade teacher.
Alex had to laugh big time. Mr. Greene was well known for his large face. In the middle of his big face, there was also a big red nose that made him look like a drunken Santa Claus. "Yes and a nose like Rudolph the red-nose reindeer"
"You boys are so silly!" Joey and Megan exclaimed surrounded by the other three girls, standing in the door pane.
"The girls!" Oliver shouted and slammed the door.
"Too late boys, we saw everything" Joey said meanly on the other side of the closed door and they all tried to stifle a laugh but failed badly.
"That's not even true. We're all dressed" Thomas said as he looked around at the rest of the boys, making sure that they were definitely all in their clothes. Well not really clothes but at least underwear.
"Joelina Marie Weiss! What's going on here? Why aren't any of you dressed?" Now it was the boys' turn to laugh as they heard Joey's father in the hallway. The girls, as well as the boys had been kindly asked to go upstairs and dress into their respective clothes. While the boys were apparently about to get that done, the girls stood in the middle of the hallway in their still bathing suits and giggled.
"We're not doing anything daddy, it's the boys!" Joey gave it a try to escape from her father, pointing at the now closed door.
"Joey and all of you girls in there!" Weiss hurried them into Joey's bedroom "Now get out of your wet suits and no arguing!" he shut the door behind him and walked back downstairs and met Vaughn halfway.
"What's up man?"
"Boys against Girls. I managed, come on let's get back down. They better not overreact otherwise I know some girls who'll be going early to bed tonight and I know they won't like that" Weiss winked at his buddy.
"Hey Will, want some more beer?" Vaughn and Weiss met him at the bottom of the stairways on his way to the kitchen.
"Sure! I was just heading to it"
The three men sat around the table talking to each other while Jessica and Joshua went back home with their mother after they said their good-byes to everyone. The women were starting to get the evening barbecue ready while the men had a look at the children that were playing outside. They also had started the fire of the barbecue and once it was almost ready, the children were kindly asked to dress up the table.
Soon enough they were gathered once again to eat the festive, not so original, meal. All sorts of Salad bowls were standing on the table. There was even fruit salad of which the children were fond. They kept on poking their fork in the plastic bowl standing in front of them.
The adults talked about life, their lives, their upcoming vacation plans and even a little bit of their jobs. The children had other subjects to discuss about. What was the new gossip in school? Who was the most successful? What kind of new toys that were out and cool? They all came to the point that the Digimon cards and Beyblades were the coolest to trade ever.
At 10pm Weiss thought it was late enough for the girls and chased them upstairs. Of course grumps, protests and pouts followed his first requests but 15 minutes later he finally had managed to get them inside the house, remembering them about their girl's night.
"Are you going to survive this?" Will wondered.
"What? You mean, 6 girls and me? Of course! I'm the boss!" Weiss meant his wife, his two daughters, Joey's friends, Lisa and Megan as well as Will's daughter Kelsey. They were going to stay over for the night.
"Yeah! The male boss of a girlie pajama party!" Will mocked.
"Hey! Be careful, you're talking about your own daughter!"
"What do you say if I leave my boys here too?" Vaughn joked but Eric didn't get it at first.
"What? Are you crazy man? It's not written day care center at the front of my house! You wanted five children, now you're stuck with them!"
"Hmmm" Vaughn hummed dreamily. His thoughts had drifted off to somewhere else as soon as Weiss mentioned his children. "Stuck in a good, nice way"
"Mommy" came a loud screaming from the top of the stairs "Where's your hairbrush? I can't find it. Can you tell me where it is?"
The adults outside had to shake their head, letting out a loud moan "Wait! Let me go" Sydney said. "I'll have a look on them"
"Thanks Sydney, that's real nice of you Weiss replied for his wife who was pretty much exhausted upon all the stress of the day.
"No problem at all, it changes from my everyday men life" she said smiling and strutted off.
Apparently the girls seemed to have lots of fun with Sydney as she wasn't coming back down anymore. They were laughing out very loud, giggled, then tried not to laugh and all ended up in a loud outburst. The boys were in the basement playing on the game console, which left the other adults by themselves for some talk. Will and Eric had a glimpse through the large CD collection in Weiss' living room until they had finally found the one that they wanted to listen to.
Different sounds of U2, Depeche Mode and many other filled the air with rock music. Sometimes they hummed or sung along when they knew the lyrics.
"I think it's getting late" Will announced as he realized it was already past midnight.
"Yeah and Syd is still up there. I wonder what they are doing up there. It's fairly quiet and I'm sure they haven't realized how late it is". Vaughn got up and proceeded to go upstairs to refresh his wife's mind a little bit. They should have been home already for at least an hour.
"Angel, we should go home, it's getting..." he stopped dead in his track. Bodies clad in their colorful pajamas were just everywhere, on the ground and on both beds with Sydney on top. Vaughn watched his sleeping beautiful wife as he approached the bed she was lying on. She laid on her back with her right leg tangling of the bed, her chocolate brown long hair rested all around her head. She looked like an angel to him and that's the reason why it had been easy for him years ago to find the way he was going to call her for the rest of his life. She was his angel.
He gazed around the room and dreamed of the wonderful life his best friend must be living with so many girls around him. The room was absolutely wonderful, just like it was years ago when Weiss came to gave him the good news "It's a girl!" he had shouted all around the office. Vaughn was even surprised by his best friend's behavior. He had always tried to play the cool and constantly tough guy and throwing jokes around him.
But the day he met Christina, had changed him into a complete different person, He was head over heals in love with her and they only married two months later. When they got back from their honeymoon, they learnt about their new addition to the family. As soon as he had seen Weiss' smile that day, he would never forget about that one.
As much as he hated to wake her up, he still had to do it, so he leaned over her sleeping form and whispered her name softly into her ear until she started to stir lightly in her dream "Come on wake up, we gotta go home".
Sydney's eyes flashed open to find her husband's head hanging just above hers. His deep blue green eyes looking into hers and she was lost in them.
"I'm tired" she protested in vain.
"I know, I'll get you to bed as soon as we're home but first I have to get you downstairs... come on" she rubbed her eyes quickly and took in the view of the room for a while.
"My god, they are all sleeping"
"Yeah" he murmured, smiling at her beautiful face. The light of the nightstand made her eyes shine even more than they usual did. "Ok... I guess I have no choice but to get my butt moved, right?"
"Uh-huh!" Vaughn simply replied, grabbed her hand and helped her first into a sitting position and then into the standing position, keeping a grasp on her waist to be sure until she was steady on her feet.
Minutes later they all said their goodbye, thank yous and see you soon's. Weiss and Will helped Vaughn get his half sleeping boys into the big van "You sure you can handle it by yourself once home?" Will asked.
"Yep, I'm used to it" he winked at Will "But thanks for the offer. We'll see you soon again"
"Sure, it was great to see you guys again"
A last wave into the night and Vaughn's and Tippin's headed to their own homes.