Thanks all for the reviews. Okay so I just realized that I forgot to give Big's parents names. Haha foolish me. So his dad is going to be Nick and his mother is going to be Marilyn.

Chapter 5

"Morning you two." Nick smiled at us as we sat down across from him at the table.

"Morning dad." John said.

"Well, look who finally decided to grace us with his presences." Marilyn said, coming through the deck door.

"With such a wake up call there wasn't much choice." John grinned at his mother.

"You use to get up early John." Marilyn said, shooting a look towards me. I quickly averted my eyes so that I was looking down at the eggs on the plate infront of me.

"It's the weekend, there's not much urge to get up early." John said, starting to eat his from his own plate of food. The rest of breakfast was tinged with an uncomfortable silence, except for Nick who just read his New York Times and didn't pay any attention to the scene infront of him.

"So Carrie what do your parents do…" The maid entering the room cut off Marilyn.

"Ma'am, your sister and her children have arrived." The maid said.

"Oh wonderful, thank you… uhm…"

"Sophia." She finished for Marilyn who had been struggling to remember her name.

"Yes, Sophia." Marilyn smiled, standing up as a woman of the same height, with dark black hair (specked with gray) walked in followed by two younger women who looked a little younger then myself. "Rachel, hello."

The two sisters exchange a mild hug and a kiss on either cheek. What a Parisian family I had fallen into. "You look well Marilyn."

"Thank you, so do you. Hello girls." She said to the twins.

"Who is this?" Rachel asked, looking at me.

"Hi, I'm Carrie." I said, reaching out my hand to shake her already offered one.

"New maid?" Rachel asked, raising an eyebrow at Marilyn.

"No, no dear, this is John's wife." Marilyn said, sending me a superficial apologetic look.

"Oh I'm sorry dear." Rachel said, a little more sincere then her sister was coming off. "Well, these are my daughters, this is Katie and this is Kitty." The two girls stepped forward; it was obvious that they were use to being introduced like this.

"Nice to meet you both."

"You too." They said in turn, shaking my hand.

"How have you been boys?" Rachel asked, taking a seat at the island and looking back and forth from John to Nick.

"Alright Aunt Rachel." John said, looking up from the financial paper he had taken from his father.

"Fine Rachel." Nick said, looking up from his own paper.

As the day progressed more of the family arrived and soon they started the barbeque out on the deck. It was a beautiful house, the deck had stairs that led down to the beach and there were no other houses around so there was more privacy. Two tables had been set up down on the beach and another table that had catered food on it.

It was obvious that this family took parties seriously. I could see where Big got it. "Here is your cosmopolitan." He said walking up to me and handing me the pink drink that I had asked for.

"Why thank you." I smiled at him, taking a sip.

"Do you want to go get something to eat?" He asked, slipping an arm around my waist.

"I suppose."

"Oh good, Carrie." Another one of Big's aunts said coming up to me. "We've been wondering about you for a while."

"Would you mind wondering a little while longer Aunt Sally? We were just about to get some food."

"Oh of course. We'll steal you away later dear."

"Great." I smiled before taking another sip of my drink. "Thank you and don't leave me alone for the rest of the night." I whispered, leaning against him.

"I'll try but this is a crafty family."

"Oh am I going to find you tied up in the coat closet? All so they can get me alone?"

"Vultures, kid, they've already started to circle." He waned, handing me a plate. I didn't realize how truthful this statement was.

Well next chapter should prove interesting we'll find our beloved Carrie cornered by some quizzical relatives. And maybe a story about her parents cause that is something I've always wanted to do and one of the motivations for doing this story in the first place. So leave comments, nice ones if you will, no comments pointing out grammatical errors thank you. If I wanted a beta I would've gotten one.

--Mistress Sara