THE NEXT DAY

In Jack and Karen caravan.

They were both cuddled up in bed, Jack was asleep Karen was laying awake, she quietly and carefully slipped out from bed into the kitchen and started cooking breakfast as she never cooked before she was reading the back of the packets, she had cooked eggs, bacon, tomatoes, toast she had also made tea, she set the dining table then went to wake jack,

'Jack' she called him but he didn't wake so she leaned over him and kissed him on the lips he responded then woke

'Hay' was his first word of the day

'Hay I made breakfast'

'You cooked' he half surprised half worried to what it would look like

'Yea come on' she pulled him out of bed and led him to the sitting room.

The table had been set, and the food looked good

'Wow kare it looks good' they both sat down and started eating

'So what made you cook?'

'Cant I make breakfast for my poodle'

'Yea and your aloud to do it more often this is really good'

'I also wanted to say thanks'

'What for?'

'For listening last night'

'Hay' jack took her hand 'That's what I'm here for even if I have to get the truth out of you by arguing' both smiled at each other, and then carried on eating.

Later on

Will, Grace, Jack, and Karen were walking on the beach.

Will wearing white shorts and t-shirt

Grace wearing denim short skirt and top

Jack the same as last night white cotton trousers and white top

Karen a long white cheesecloth dress.

'I want to go in one hammock' Grace said pointing to four hammocks under the trees

'Come on then' will replied. They all reached the hammocks and got in one, Will and Grace had fallen asleep almost straight away, Karen was playing around with the threads of the hammock while jack had one leg out rocking himself bored. They laid there for about another 5 minutes before anyone spoke.

'Kare' jack said breaking the silence

'Yea'

'Can I come in your hammock?'

'If ya want poodle' with that jack tip himself out of his and tried climbing into karen's without tipping it, it took him a few attempts but he had managed it in the end, they both laid there cuddled up.

A few minutes later Jack and Karen laid in the hammock and watched as this middle aged woman set out a picnic blanket near them, the woman then started to set out a picnic as she called two names out 'Jonathon…Bethany', minutes later an middle aged man came running up the beach holding hands with a little girl about 3 or 4years old

'Come on, look at you Beth you're all wet' the woman said to them

'Daddy splashed me' Bethany said and hugged her mum

'You splashed me first' the dad replied jokingly

'You started it' Bethany said and hit her dad on the arm

'Right that's it little one' Jonathon said and grabbed the little girl and started tickling her

'Daddy…..stop' the girl said in between laughing

'Ok enough playtime till after lunch' the mum said

'Ok after can we make a castle please mummy' the girl begged

'When you have eaten your lunch'

'Yea I want to make the biggest sand castle the world' the girl said while eating her lunch.

'We will Beth, and we will make it look like your house when you're older, with lots of money, servants'

'You promise daddy'

'I promise but only if you eat your lunch like a good girl'

As Karen laid there watching she could feel all the memories of her childhood coming back to her which started to make her feel upset

'Jack'

'Yea'

'I want to go back'

'Back where?

'To the caravan, I have to' with that Karen got up

'Hay kare' Jack said getting up 'what's wrong?'

'Please Jack, I'll tell you in the caravan'

'Stay there I'll tell Will and Grace' with that Jack walked over to them 'hay you guys'

'What' Grace mumbled

'Me and Kare are going back to the caravan'

'Why' Grace asked looking up

'She don't feel well you know the sun and that she has a headache'

'Oh ok then we'll see you went we get back'

'Ok cool, bye' Jack left walked over to Karen and lead her back to the caravan.

BACK AT THE CARAVAN

As soon as they got back to their caravan Karen went to sit on the sofa followed by Jack

'Kare are you ok?'

'Yea its just watching that family you know' Karen said as jack put his arm round her and they cuddled up together, kicking their feet up onto the coffee table in front of them

'Yea I suppose it must be hard for you watching a happy family after your own childhood' Jack said

'What, no Jack that's just it before my dad died I had a perfect childhood'

'What?'

'Yea like that family. My mum back then wasn't a con artist, I had a dad we were a perfect happy family'

'Really?'

'Yea we would have days down the beach like that family you know, mum would set out the picnic while me and dad would go down to the sea we would jump the waves, splash each other, then mum would call us for lunch. After lunch we would all build a big massive sandcastle it was the biggest I had ever seen. Then dad would write on a bit of paper 'Karen Delaney's castle'. He would then tell me how when I'm older how I would a massive mansion have all the money in the world, servants would wait on me, and because I loved shoes he would tell me how I would have the biggest shoe allowance in the world. You know he didn't just tell me he promised me that that would happen'

'Wow Kare I had no idea, I thought you had a bad childhood'

'No honey why do you think I married Stan'

'Why?'

'Because he had everything my dad promised me, the money, the servants and the big house'

'Did Stan know about your dad?'

'No you're the only one'

'Oh my god, so then what happened?' Jack was getting more interested

'Well a few years went on and my dad started to change he would get sick a lot, always going to the hospital, he wasn't as lively as he used to be, mum and dad would whisper a lot. So one day we went down the beach and I wanted to play in the water with dad but he said he couldn't cause he wasn't feeling well, so I went down there on my own as I looked back I saw mum and dad talking I wanted to know what they were saying so I creped up the beach and behind them and I herd them Jack' Karen said as started to cry

'Oh Kare, what was it?' Jack said holding her hand,

'I herd them say that my dad had cancer'

'Oh Karen' Jack pulled her in for a tight hug as she cried, she then carried on

'I must of made a noise cause they both looked round and saw me, I didn't know what cancer was but I knew it wasn't nice, so mum and dad sat me down and told me everything, I was 6 but they explained it to me so well. After they told me we sat there for most day cuddled up and taking about what was going to happen, then my dad turned round and said lets make a sandcastle and that he would make it the biggest in the world, and jack he did I just wished I knew that it would have been the last one we were ever going to make. Then a year went on dad was getting worst, then one day he must on known he was going to go that day, because he was in bed and he asked me and mum to join him, so we did, we spend all that day cuddled up talking saying how much we loved each other he mad me and mum promise that we would take care of each other as help each other out and always be there for each other and that we wouldn't forget him, then we all went to sleep the next day me and mum woke up but dad didn't' with that karen burst out crying

'Oh kare bear' Jack said hugging her as tightly as he could kissing her on the forehead and just hoped that her pain would go away….