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"Hey there" – speech

Hey there – thoughts

-GIYOS-

Chapter 2: Reunions of English Terminology:

After far too many hours together in close quarters, the Bakers exited their vehicles to take a look around the place that the majority of them hadn't visited in years. True to his word, Tom and Charlie really had cleaned the old (but still large) cabin up. There was even a tyre swing held up by a brand new rope attached to a sturdy looking tree by the front porch. The cabin had been repainted and even the old, rickety rocking chairs had been repaired and given a new coat or varnish. Not even Lorraine could find anything to immediately complain about.

Tom slung an arm around his eldest son's shoulders, "I think we did good, Charlie-boy, I think we did good. Even Princess over there hasn't said anything."

Lorraine just gave her father a withering look and walked back to her car to start removing her luggage. Tom and Charlie laughed good-naturedly before turning to follow her lead.

"Alright, guys! Get your bags so we can get you into your rooms! Boys, north! Girls, south!"

Having already extracted her suitcase and black canvas Valo messenger bag from beneath Lorraine's mountain of "necessary" luggage, Sarah stood off to side, at peace with the chaos around her and staring lazily in the opposite direction of the Baker cabin. A small tug on her leg brought her out of her thoughts as she looked down to see her three year old nephew gazing at her with impossibly wide, blue eyes. She smiled at him and picked the boy up into her arms.

"What lookin' at, Sarah?"

Sarah smiled at Tommy's childish speech pattern before directing the boy's gaze out across the lake. Tommy's eyes amazingly grew even wider.

"Is dat Disneylan'?"

Sarah chuckled, "Not quite. That's the holiday home which belongs to my friends' family. They're really rich so it's a lot bigger than our one."

"Wow!" the boy refused to tear his gaze from the pristine buildings which made up The Boulders.

Sarah smiled again, "You know, if you promise to be on your best behaviour, I'll take you over there to play."

Tommy turned his head to face her so fast that she thought he might get whiplash.

"Really?"

"Really, really." Sarah confirmed with a nod of her head.

Tommy beamed and hugged her tight around the neck. Sarah laughed before putting him down on his own two feet. She held his small right hand in her left and took a hold of her suitcase with her right.

"Now, come on. Let's find a room and unpack!"

Tommy and Sarah grinned at each other before heading off towards the cabin, neither noticing two pairs of eyes watching them happily.

Nora smiled at the two, happy that her son got on so well with her sister, before turning to face her mother while stroking her protruding stomach.

"Mom, I'm glad Sarah got that sport scholarship into Royal Trinity Boarding School. We may not get to see her as often but she seems so much more content with herself now."

Kate put the straps of Nora's remaining bag onto her shoulder, as Bud already had his arms full, and put an arm around her eldest child, supporting her all the way into the cabin. A smile emerged at the memory of the smiles on her third eldest daughter and grandson's faces.

"So am I, Nora. So am I."

-GIYOS-

Several hours of enthusiastic unpacking, difficulties with bed sheets and arguments over who had called dibs on which room first, later and it was still light enough for the Baker clan to decide on having dinner outside. Kate did eventually convince her husband not extract the barbecue from the depths of the shed until the next day though.

Kate took Sarah and Lorraine to set places to the large wooden table which would house the Baker brood. Nora followed them, if only to recline into one of the rocking chairs, while Tommy coloured quietly on the floor next to her. Nora's due date was getting close and the size of her bump made it hard for her to even get up or down the stairs without getting out of breath.

Sarah stood at the end of the table, facing the cabin, surrounded by boxes of plates, cutlery and glasses. As per her mother's instructions, she wiped each piece of tableware clean of any dust or dirt before handing it to either Kate or Lorraine who would set it in its place on their respective sides of the table. Lorraine of course grumbled the whole way through about possibly damaging her manicure.

"Aunty Lowaine", Tommy called.

"What is it, sweetheart?"

"Come, look at what I drawed for you!"

Nora gently corrected her son on his grammar while Lorraine left the table to sit next to her nephew on the porch and look at the lovingly crafted artistic masterpiece.

Nora smiled gently while continuing to look out towards the lake. The sun was setting slightly now, causing a wonderful glow to reflect off of the water's surface. Continuing to rock slowly, Nora hummed as she saw a figure walking up the dirt path towards them. She squinted to try and get a better look. The figure was definitely male but didn't look like her father, Bud or any of her brothers. Nora nudged her sister to get her attention.

"Hey," she whispered, "do you know who that is?"

Lorraine looked up and also squinted at the male figure as he came into focus. Tanned skin, dark spiky hair, chiselled feature, fairly well built as well. He was definitely a teenager though. Maybe in his late teens? He wore a black t-shit and brown, Hawaiian flower-print board shorts and flip-flops.

"Wow, he's hot." Lorraine whispered back to her sister, "Too young for me but still hot. I wonder what he's doing here. I definitely don't recognise him."

They continued to watch as the boy came closer, Kate also eventually noticing his presence. With her back towards him, Sarah appeared to be the only one unaware of the boy. Nearing them now, the boy grinned at the older females and held a finger to his lips as he stealthily crept up behind Sarah. The women and Tommy were understandably puzzled but kept silent as he didn't seem very threatening. Now directly behind an unknowing Sarah, the boy raised his arms up as far out as they would go and was just about to go in for the surprise bear-hug attack when –

"Elliot Lucas Murtaugh, if you so much as contemplate going through with what you're about to go through, I swear down, I will castrate you with a wooden spork!"

The boy promptly deflated, rather like an untied balloon in fact. Kate, Nora and Lorraine stared unsure whether to be more shocked by Sarah actually being aware of the boy behind her, apparently knowing his identity or the fact that she just threatened him with castration via a wooden spork (which they weren't even sure if they owned). Tommy just sat there; blissfully unable to work out what was actually going on.

The boy, now known as Elliot, moved to stand beside Sarah and stared incredulously at her. Sarah turned to look at him for the first time and raised an eyebrow.

"How? How did you know I was there? How did you know it me?! I was trying so hard to be stealthy!"

Sarah turned back nonchalantly to the glass she was wiping down, "What can I say? You get subjected to something enough times in three years and you start to develop a sixth sense for it."

Elliot continued to gape at her while the older members of their audience tried to grasp the fact that the two teens obviously knew each other. Sarah turned to face Elliot and gave him a grin.

"Chill, I'm just joking with you." She gestured towards the table covered by their shadows, "I saw your shadow."

Elliot blinked at the table for a few moments before groaning loudly and collapsing onto the bench beside the table, pouting and glaring witheringly at her.

"Spoilsport."

Sarah grinned teasingly at him, handing him tableware to set out on the side he was sitting on.

"As Mrs Williard would say, pouting is most unbecoming of you, sir."

Elliot just continued to glare at her, valiantly trying to stop his lips from twitching. It became too much for him however and a smile erupted onto his face as he stood up to capture her in the bear-hug he had been attempting to do moments earlier.

Nora and Lorraine watched the scene astonished. This girl was their tomboyish, though admittedly still pretty, sister and this boy was HOT. How do they know each other and, more importantly, why do they seem to be so close?

Nora turned to her sister, also known as the Professor of Love, Attraction and Flirtation.

Lord knows she's been in enough relationships and had enough crushes to earn that title.

"Was it me, Lorraine, or was there some flirting going on between those two?"

Lorraine was silent for a few moments.

"…Nah." She replied while turning to face the boy and her younger sister before quickly whipping around to face Nora again with wide eyes, "At least I don't think so. I didn't think Sarah knew how to flirt."

By this time, Kate had emerged from whatever stupor she was in and approached her daughter and the boy, who still had an arm around her shoulders, laughing at something one of them must have said.

"Sarah, dear, would you mind introducing us to your, err, friend?"

Sarah grinned at her mother, pulling Elliot forward to stand in front of her and closer to Kate. Elliot smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck nervously.

"Sure. El, this is my mom, Kate Baker. Mom, this is Elliot Murtaugh. His holiday home is that great, big, beautiful monstrosity across the lake."

Elliot smirked down at her, "Beautiful monstrosity? You bringing out the oxymorons, girl?"

"Working my way to bathos, bitch." Sarah replied without missing a beat.

"Ooh, got to love that alliteration." Elliot shot back, his voice lowering into an alluring growl while trying to hold back laughter.

"Children!"

Elliot and Sarah turned back to Kate in surprise. Both had forgotten that they had an audience.

"Language!"

"Sorry." They replied in perfect unison.

Everyone was silent for a few moments before Sarah broke it with a smirk.

"We spend far too much time in English."

"Way too much time." Elliot agreed with an identical smirk.

-GIYOS-

And there we go! Chapter 2 is finished and Elliot has made an appearance. Kudos to anyone who understands the English terminology references (if you've taken English at AS or A2, you'll definitely get it!)