Okay, I don´t wanna make you wait any longer, but I have to tell you, that this is the first un-betaed chapter, because I can´t reach my beta. So I am sorry for the faults which surely are in there!
Rachel, if you read this: Damn, get a new emailadress and then tell me (pretty please on my knees and begging ). I have chapter 12 lying around and can´t contact you...it´s driving me nuts!
Also someone (sorry I´m really bad with names!) told me that preschool comes before kindergarten in the USA. So sorry that I mixed that up, but I have to tell you, that system is nuts! I mean kindergarten includes the word "kinder", which means children, without any clue how old said children are. But pre-school, the word says it, means that it comes pre (before) school. Here comes kindergarten (mostly with 3 years, sometimes earlier) and then a year before school comes pre-school( not a must) and then comes school (at 6). But I changed that in the chapters to come, so don´t wonder why the twins and Will suddenly changed their spots. And thanks for telling me!
Chapter 8: Fishy Rockstar
"Wow, kiddos look, such nice weather here!" Lorelai said excitedly when they arrived. She wondered why she got no answer and turned towards the back-seats: All three kids were asleep.
"Look at our lazy kids!" she said to Luke and smiled.
"Well they are sick. And lazy. Wonder where they got it from!" he smiled back, before he got out of the car and walked towards the entry of the house. Lorelai caught up to him and slipped her hand in his.
"How am I going to open the door now?" he asked and gestured with his chin to his hands. In one he held the first bag, in the other now Lorelai´s hand.
"Don´t be grumpy, honey! I know a solution for everything." she smiled sweetly at him, stuck her hand in his pocket, grabbed the key and unlocked the door.
"See, I am clever, Mr. Grumpy" she laughed.
"Everybody would be grumpy after hours in a car with you," he said while they walked inside.
"Hey! I was behaving perfectly fine" she pouted.
"Uhuh, flipping from one radio-station to the next, then torturing me with your Metallica CDs, needing 6 coffee-breaks and three more stops for the bathroom and finally you were reading out loud a Cosmo article in Kermit- voice. I don´t wanna know what behaving badly would mean" he told her.
"Well, maybe you´ll find out once we´ll bealone in a car for that long!" she said and tried to sound extra naughty.
"Dirty" Luke said.
"Come on, admit it! You love it and we both know it" she laughed and bounced sideways in front of him.
"No, I don´t." he argued with her, although he knew this would culminate in another nonsense conversation.
After they had checked out the house, decided on who would take which room and put an end to the "yes, you do"-"no, I don´t"- discussion, they went back outside to the car to take out the kids and the rest of the bags.
First they placed the kids together on the big bed in the main bedroom, so they wouldn´t be alone and get scared when they would wake up and then they got the rest of the baggage.
"I thought we came here for a week, obviously I missed the fact that we moved here" Luke remarked sarcastically after he brought the last suitcase into the house.
"Oh, shut up you. You have three girls here and we need to be pretty" she told him before she walked outside in the backyard to find the pool.
"Then be pretty while carrying your stuff yourself the next time" he grumped, but walked over to where she stood and slid his arms around her waist from behind. She was standingon the terraceand looked down on the sea.
"It´s beautiful here", she said with a dreamy expression.
"You´re beautiful" he whispered and placed a kiss on her cheek. She lay her hands on top of his and, while staring straight ahead on the sea and with a serious expression, she asked
"We will work through this. You and the kids will trust me gain and Will won´t hate me any longer, right?"
"Will never hated you"
"Right? We will be able to..." Luke interrupted her.
"Of course we will, don´t worry." he told her. They stood outside in comfortable silence for some more minutes, until they heard Laila´s cries for her parents, followed by Sara´s coughing.
After dinner, while it was still warm outside, they decided to go for a walk on the beach, taking the kids with them. Luke and Lorelai walked along the beach with their arms around each others waist. William, Sara and Laila were skipping ahead, searching for shells. Luke held their shoes in one hand, while Lorelai held her own pair in her free hand.
"Mommy, daddy, look!" Sara yelled excitedly and showed them a little crab she had found.
"Better you put it back down before it will pinch you" said Luke
"But it´s cute. I want it to be my pet." Sara insisted.
"And what´s his name? Or is it a girl?" Lorelai asked and winked at Luke.
"It´s a he and his name is Luke" the girl smiled. By the way she smiled and the devilish glint in her eyes, which reminded him even more of Lorelai, Luke knew there would be an explanation for it.
"You named him after your father? Why?" Lorelai wanted to know.
"Because he looks like daddy and daddy is always in a crappy mood." the girl giggled and looked at Lorelai who burst out laughing.
"Oh wait, you monster!" Luke laughed, crabbed the girl and ran with her into the sea. The water was only reaching his ankles, but Sara laughed and screamed.
"I think you need to dive to learn the difference between your father and strange looking sea-animals."
"No, daddy, I can´t swim" Sara screeched. Luke held her so that only her feet dove into the water and she struggled so that the water was splashing around those two. William, who saw the splashing water, ran to them and made them even wetter.
When they started splashing the water to Laila, she ran to her mother and hid behind her. Within seconds Lorelai was wet and the rest was laughing about her, because of her tirade directedto Luke, about her hair, her make-up and clothes. But then she had to laugh herself, picked up Laila and hugged her tight, so that the girl got equally wet.
Back at the house Lorelai stopped the others when they wanted to enter.
"You three can´t seriously believe that I will let you in like that!"
"Why?" William wanted to know.
"Because you are dripping wet and all fishy"
"Fishy? That´s not a word" Luke laughed.
"And you are wet, too!" Sara pointed out.
"But we don´t smell like fish. Undress!" Lorelai laughed and ordered.
"Here? Are you crazy?" Luke asked her.
"Why, sexy Lukey, scared somebody might see your goods? Don´t worry nobody´s around" Lorelai grinned and pulled at his shirt, pulling it over his head and patting his chest.
"Mommy, am I sexy too?" William wanted to know. Luke wanted to say something, but Lorelai stopped him.
"You are awfully sexy my baby-boy. I am sure the girls will go crazy in ten years" she smiled and helped him out of his wet shirt and shorts, while Luke helped Sara.
"I think you all need a bath." Lorelai told them after she had sniffed at them.
"Sara, Laila I will bath you first and Will do you want to shower or take a bath with me?" Luke decided.
"I wanna bath with you" William said.
"Okay, then come here girls." Luke said to his daughters. He was used to be in charge and so Lorelai´s offer surprised him at first.
"Why don´t you two get your clothes and do some male bonding while I am bathing these two?" she proposed.
"Okay" Luke said slowly, but smiled when he realized that this was also a step in the right direction.
"Nooo, mommy! I don´t wanna!" Sara cried, while Laila was still brushing her teeth.
"Sara, we need to comb your hair now, otherwise there will be knots in it tomorrow when it´ll be dry and we can´t go through it anymore and have to cut it!" Lorelai argued with her. She had already had the same fight with Laila minutes before. The girls were sick and tired which made them whiny.
"Nooo, it hurts!" Sara cried. She was standing between Lorelai´s legs, while Lorelai sat on the closed toilet.
"I am extra careful, baby" she reassured her daughter and let the comb glide through the wet curls of her daughter.
Sara was still crying when she finished and Laila had started again, because her nose was clogged. Lorelai scooped them both up in her arms, and although they werepretty heavy, carried them in their bedroom. She gave them their medicine before she lay down on Sara´s bed with them and held them until they fell asleep.
She loved those moments when they were asleep after a bath and would cuddle up to her. Their hair smelled like the baby-shampoo she used and she would breathe them in every time. She had done that since the day they were born and over the years these moments got rare. They were growing up so fast and she had less time for time for them.
With Rory she had done that for a very long time, sometimes she would still breath her in when they hugged, although she wasn´t smelling like the baby-shampoo anymore.
With William she had stopped that a long time ago. When she had found him sleeping on the floor a few days before it had been the first time in years. She didn´t know why. She didn´t understand why it had come that far. She only knew that she had to fix it.
She untangled from the twins, placed Laila on her bed and kissed them both good-night, before she walked into the bathroom once more, where Luke and William were sitting in the bathtub now.
"Wow, two sexy men in a tub, must be my lucky day!" she grinned. Both of them just rolled with their eyes, what caused her to laugh.
"Are the twins asleep?" Luke asked when she had calmed down and kneeled next to the tub.
"Yep, they were really tired".
"I know. I could hear their whining in the bedroom".
"And you didn´t come to rescue me?" she pretended shock.
"Nah, didn´t feel like it. What was is this time? The hair-washing or the combing?" Luke grinned.
"Both! Nooo, mommy, the shampoo hurts my eyes, wooohooo, mommy, don´t! The water is too hot. No, now it´s too cold! Don´t comb my hair! You´re hurting me! Woooohooo" she imitated the twins.
"Girls!" William huffed.
"Hey you, Mr. Hero, I don´t see any water in your hair until now", Lorelai teased him.
"I can do that alone, mommy" he declared.
"Ha, I don´t believe you. You´re just bragging" Lorelai said and winked at Luke. William gave her a pointed look, dove down to make his hair wet, came back up, took the shampoo, rubbed it in his hair and dove down again.
"See" he said proudly and wiped the water out of his eyes.
"Such a big boy. But you still have all that foam in your hair, hon´." Lorelai giggled. She let both of her hands glide into his hair and combed it to one side.
"Now you look like the king" she laughed.
"The King?" William asked her.
"Oh my god, what did your father teach you? The king: Elvis Presley. No more Bellamy Brothers for you two!" she said.
" I am not listening to that!" Luke argued with her.
"Reggae Fever"
"Duran Duran"
"Jimmy Buffet"
"All 4 one"
"Johnny Cash"
"Barry Manilow"
"Now it´s getting ugly!" Lorelai laughed and splashed some water into Luke´s face. Then she resumed playing with Williams hair. She pulled it up in the middle.
"Now you´re looking like a real rock-star!" she told him.
"Yay! But which one?" William asked.
"Mmmh, let´s see" Lorelai said and bend her head to one side.
"Nick Carter?" she laughed then.
"Since when is Nick Carter a rock star and in which way does Will look like him?" Luke asked with raised eyebrows.
"Well, he is blond and has blue eyes" Lorelai was still laughing.
"How do you knowwhat this guy looks like? I thought you hated boybands?"
"Boygroups, Luke, boygroups. And where do you know from, that he is in one?" she shot back.
"You did not answer my question!"
"Neither did you! Confess!" Lorelai said. William started to giggle.
"What?" they asked both at the same time
"You are funny", he laughed.
"Are you laughing about your beloved parents? Your rockstar time is so over!" Lorelai said grinning and ruffled through his hair. Then she took the spray and rinsed out his hair, while he held his head back.
"Come on Poseidon, let´s get you out of the water" she said then to William, grabbed a large towel and held it open for him. William stood up and she wrapped him in the towel and lifted him out of the tub and into her arms. She hugged him tight and for some seconds William relaxed in her arms.
"Mommy, put me down!" he told her then and wriggled to get away from her. She was disappointed and hurt, but put him down and tried to smile. Luke gave her a reassuring smile and also got out of the tub.
While he dressed himself for the night, Lorelai creamed William, helped him dress and dried his hair. When she was finished William yawned, walked to Luke and held his arms up. Luke took him and William lay his head on his shoulder, already asleep.
"I put him to bed. You take a shower and we meet in the bedroom?" Luke asked her.
"I´m coming with you. I promised I would be there when he goes to bed."
"He´s already asleep and you are here." Luke told her. She sighed and kissed William on the head, buried her nose in his hair for a moment. Luke then put William in his bed and Lorelai took a shower.
When she came into the bedroom,dressed in a black, short and silky night-gown, Luke was already lying in bed reading some sports-magazine.
She stopped and watched him lovingly.
"Stop staring at me and come to bed woman" Luke said after some seconds, without looking up.
She laughed, closed the door behind her, then walked over to him, straddled his lap and threw the magazine on the floor.
"Hey, I was reading that!" Luke complained, but his hands were already settled on her hips, stroking her hipbones with his thumbs. For some moments, which were like hours for both of them, they just sat there staring and grinning at each other. Then Lorelai leaned over and slowly her face neared his.
Her lips brushed softly against his, one time, two times, then a third time, before she deepened the kiss. Luke´s hands moved away from her hips and one went to the back of her head and tangled in her hair, while the other lay on her back, pressing her tightly against him.
Their tongues played with each other, causing them both to moan. She nibbled on his lower-lip and his right hand found it´s way from her back under the night-gown, causing her to moan once again.
When they had to break the kiss from the lack of air, she pressed her forehead against his and smiled.
"This is crazy" she whispered and shook her head.
"What?" he wanted to know, while his hand was still gliding over her skin.
"We are married for nearly six years, have been together for eight and you´re still driving me crazy with a simple touch." she told him.
"Right back at ya!" Luke grinned, rolled them over so that he was on top of her and kissed her passionately.
Lorelai pulled Luke´s shirt up and over his head, then pressed her lips against his bare chest. Luke pulled the straps of her nightgown down and placed kisses on her collarbone,then slowly moved south, pulling her gown down with him. Lorelai gasped when she felt his hand on her breast, placed one hand on the back of his head and pressed him tightly against her skin.
"Daddy!" Sara´s sniffing could be heard a second later and the two jumped apart. Lorelai pulled her gown up, covering her breasts, and Luke was fire-red in his face.
"Sara, god, what are you doing in here?" Lorelai asked breathlessly.
"I am sick and Laila threw up on her bed." the girl cried and started to gag a second later. Lorelai jumped out of the bed, took the girl and ran with her into the bathroom, just in time.
Luke appeared in the doorway, moments later, with his shirt on.
"You got it covered? I go change Laila and the sheets" he said.
"I got it" she told him and stroked over her daughters curls while she held her up over the toilet.
Sara was exhausted from the vomiting and feel asleep in Lorelai´s arms. She was still sitting with her daughter on the bathroom floor when Luke came in with the sniffing Laila, who was only dressed in her panties.
Luke gave her some water to rinse her mouth, after she had thrown up one more time, this time in the toilet, though.
Lorelai lay Sara in their bed and got another pajama for Laila. She took the sheets and the dirty nightgown with her and threw it int washing-machine on her way back.
Laila was asleep on top of Luke in their bed when she arrived and she dressed her carefully.
They placed the girls in the middle of their bed, then looked at each other.
"I think that was our night of passion", Lorelai smiled sadly.
"There are six more nights left!" Luke smiled.
"And six more days!" Lorelai grinned and gave him one last kiss before she lay down and switched off the lights.
TBC
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