Thank-you to everyone who has read the story so far, I'm so glad that people are enjoying it.

Just so everyone knows the terrible awful thing (IF ANYONE CAN GUESS WHERE THIS SAYING IS FROM YOU WILL GET A SNEAK PEEK AT THE NEXT CHAPTER) that happened on the show the other night will not be happening in my story because I've already cried enough.


"Up, up, uppity, up, up, up!" Stef yells as she goes around the top floor throwing open everyone's bedroom doors.

"Breakfast is in five minutes and if you want to know where we going for vacation you better be there." As Stef finishes everyone immediately jumps out of bed excited to find out where we are going.

A few minutes later everyone is downstairs sitting around the table waiting patiently, an odd sight in this house. Stef and Lena are also sitting at the table smiling, and torturing us by not saying anything.

"So as you all know this is the last real summer vacation we will have before Brandon and Callie graduate, and we have decided that means we are going to make it the most memorable family trip in Adams-Foster history." Stef begins trying to pump up the excitement.

Lena is the one who finally tells us what is going on. "This year we have decided that we are renting a RV and going to Boston to stay at a resort that is built for families and has special areas for teens and kids that don't allow adults and then drive back, what do you guys think?"

For a moment we all sit there shocked. Personally I'm excited, it is a real family trip, something I have never had before but this trip is going to be at least three weeks and holing six Adams-Fosters, including one who is a moody pregnant woman, and one Jacob up together for three weeks is asking for trouble.

After our initial shock everyone started talking at once and no one could actually hear what everyone was saying. Stef, who always had a little bit of cop in her took charge and told us that everyone would have their turn to say what they thought, but that it also didn't matter what we all thought because we were going anyway.

We decide to go from oldest to youngest to share our thoughts on the trip so Brandon is the first one to go.

"I think it could be a lot of fun, we hardly ever have time all together and though it will be cramped I'm cool with it." Brandon's opinion isn't really shocking, he has always been the laid back one and usually went with whatever the moms said.

"I'm cool with it, Brandon's right an RV might be cramped but whatever. I've never had a family vacation before; I want to see what people get so excited about." I tell them, opening up to the family a little, which is still difficult for me to do sometimes.

"Well I think it will be great! The road trip might be a little sucky but resorts have spas and you can relax and be treated like a princess." Marianna starts to gush about massages and facials and hot guys.

Jesus cuts off Marianna's gushing and tells everyone what he thinks; "A road trip means road trip food and I like road trip food and a vacation that actually gives us a small amount of privacy for a time seems like a great idea."

"Well now that we all know how the teenagers feel, what do you think Jude?" Lena asks, Jude still has trouble speaking up, a habit formed from many years of living in places that told us 'children are to be seen and not heard'

"I want to go, like Callie said we've never had a family vacation before. It's pretty exciting that we're getting the chance to go now, with a family that loves us rather than a family that just tolerates us."

"Good, I'm glad we're all on the same page, now we're going to finish breakfast and then get the luggage down. We bring the RV home tomorrow, pack it up and leave in two days' time.

A few hours later Stef and Lena call all of us into the living room. It takes a few minutes to file in and sit down. In the middle of the living room sits five large sets of luggage and two wrapped presents that are the same size as the luggage, one present has 'Callie' wrote on it and 'Jude' is on the other.

"Since you two have never been on a family vacation before and the luggage you brought with you has a lot of bad memories we decided that you each deserved a new set of luggage of your very own. Lena says speaking directly to Jude and I who are sitting on the couch.

I begin to protest, I want to tell them that this is too much but Stef stops me; "No, don't say it's too much or that it is unnecessary. You guys needed luggage for the trip and besides Brandon and the twins all got new luggage for Christmas a couple of years ago so it's only fair.

Jude and I each thank them over and over again and then open our gifts. We each got a three piece luggage set that is the same style everyone else has. The designs on each set is different so we know which ones belong to different people; the moms both have grey ones, Brandon has a dark blue one, Jesus's is also dark blue but his has a few different shades of blue and is checkered, Marianna and I both have ones that are the same as Jesus's but hers is dark pink and mine is dark purple. Jude got one that is solid like Brandon's but dark green.

After we are all in possession of our luggage we go upstairs to make sure everything we want to take for clothes are clean as well as decide on what books, games, and movies we want to take on the road with us. When we are all done we go downstairs and have dinner as a family and despite our begging for Kraft mac n' cheese we have chicken burgers and a salad. After our meal we all sit down to watch a movie.

A few hours later, the credits of the movie are rolling across the TV screen and a very tired; pregnant Lena is lying across the couch her feet in Stef's lap sleeping peacefully. All of us kids quietly head upstairs to go to bed so we don't disturb Lena while Stef is cleaning up.

As we are climbing into our beds Marianna begins talking; "So the RV is going to be cramped and Mama is going to be cranky which is all go to suck but at least this resort sounds cool." She goes on and I lay there occasionally nodding my head or mumbling an agreement before drifting off into a deep, restful sleep.


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Just to warn people I'm Canadian so words like grey or colour will be spelled the Canadian way, and some weird Canadian words may turn up because I tend to forget other people don't use them.