Lauren is 12 years old and Josh is 5 years old.

Beach Day

"Skul, I've got an idea"
"What is it Val?"
"Let's take the kids to Sea Houses to go surfing"
"Yeah okay"

Next Saturday...

Josh and Lauren were asleep in the back of the had bought the 'Midnight Beast'
when she had wanted her own car. So Skulduggery still had his Bentley and Valkyrie had her midnight
blue Lamborghini. So far they had been in the car for 3 hours only 1 left. Skulduggery and Valkyrie
had been swaping places; one driving the other one in the passanger seat. At the moment Valkyrie
was in the passanger seat and Skul was driving. Behing them Tanith, Ghastly and Harley were in their
black Range Rover.
"Muuummm!"
"Oh Josh, your awake." She turned around in her seat "What's up?"
"I'm hungry!"
"We'll be there soon" She turned back to the front and saw her husband smirking
"What?" He glanced at her from the corner of his eye.
"I didn't say anything"
"You were smirking"
"So?"
"Why were you smirking?"
"Am I not allowed to smirk?"
"Your you, you never smirk"
"Can't I start now?"
"No, just tell me why you were smirking!"
"Okay, okay calm down I was smirking because I was thinking that you were born to be a mother like how you are with your sister aswell"
"Ummm yeah I guess your right"
"I'm me, I'm always right"
"Yeah whatever" He chuckled as she leaned over and gave him a kiss.
"Ewwwwwww!"
"They're both awake then" He whispered to himself.

40 minutes later...

"Are we there yet?"
"No"
"Now?"
"For the 150th time in the past 20 minutes, Josh, NO!"
"Sorry mum" Skul looked at her.
"I was right, you were born to be a mother"
"Shut it you" He smiled and pulled off the motorway.
"Josh?"
"Yeah dad?"
"We're here" They parked up in a car park next to the sand dunes. They all got out and waited for the others, finaly they did.
"Harley!" Josh ran up to Harley and gave him a massive hug as soon as he got out of the car.
"What's gotten into you?" Josh pulled away but kept his hands on Harley's shoulders. He looked into his best friend's eyes.
"You can never EVER leave me with my family on my own again!" Harley chuckled. Tanith and Ghastly were next to him laughing.
"I know your mum is annoying but we've put up with her for decades!"
"TANITH BESPOKE YOU BETTER NOT BE SAYING STUFF ABOUT ME TO MY SON OR I AM GOING TO KISS YOUR ASS"
""WOULDN'T DREAM OF IT VAL!"She shouted back to the other car where Lauren was texting on her Blackberry and Skulduggery and
Valkyrie were getting the surf boards, from the top of the Lamboghini, and towels. They walked over and when they had the
picnic their boards and towels started to walked in between the sand dunes.
"Skul, the last time I went surfing was in Cyprus with the Dead Men!" Ghastly shouted to the front of the group. Skul responded with...
"Ahhh yes, the good old days!"
Valkyrie looked at him "Are you saying these days aren't good?"
"No, of course not. In 50 years when we're talking about his day I will say 'ahhh the briliant old days!'" He responded. Everyone
laughed and agreed with him.
"Daddy, who are the Dead Men?" Ghastly looked at his son who was walking next to him.
"The Dead Men, son, were a group of soldiers in the war"
"Who were in it?" Asked Lauren.
"Me, your dad, Uncle Vex, Uncle Ravel, Uncle Shudder, Hopeless and Larrikin."
"Uncle Vex fought in the war!?" Josh sounded amazed.
"Yes I was ,Josh, don't sound so astounished about it!" They all turned around to find Vex, Ravel and Shudder walking towards them wearing
suits and shirts.
"What are you guys doing here?" Asked Tanith and Valkyrie in unison.
"Hello to you too girls" Ravel said sarcasticaly
"They're right, guys what are you doing?" Skulduggery stepped forward.
"Okay we'll tell" Anton gave in. He looked at Vex.
"So... Ravel was bored sitting on his throne" That earned him a glare from Ravel. "Shudder's hotel was on the blink and is getting repaired in
Roarhaven and I wanted to visit a beach so we decided to come and see our best friends" He finished with a massive smile.
"How did you get here? Did you follow us all the way here?" Asked Tanith. Shudder looked shocked.
"Are you kidding? I could never spend 4 hours in a car with them two!"he pointed at Vex "Especialy him!"
"Thanks alot mate!" He looked at Tanith "No, Fletcher teleported us here but had to leave to spend time with his new girl friend"
"Okay, okay should we just get to the beach?" Valkyrie asked and everyone agreed.

10 minutes later...

They got to the beach and layed out their towels. Vex, Ravel and Shudder had boarder shorts underneath their suits. The rest had wetsuits under
their clothes. It was a hot day but not too windy. As soon as Skulduggery was ready he picked up Josh who was now squealing , and ran to the edge of the sea and through him into the water. Everyone laughed but laughed even harder as Josh had sent a wave of water Skulduggery's way.(a/n there is no one on the beach)
SPLASH!
Skulduggery was soaking his hair stuck to his scalp. He shook his head and looked like a wet dogs shaking it's fur. Valkyrie walked up to him and flung her arms around his neck and gave him a long kiss. He responded by putting his arms around her waist and kissing back.

"EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!" Everyone turned away.

30 minutes later...

After surfing with her mum, Lauren sat down in between her dad and Uncle Vex. All the guys were on their towels, Josh and Harley were messing around with Tanith and Valkyrie in the sea. Her dad had the top half of his suit pulled down around his waist. Ghastly had taken his suit off because he had board shorts underneath. Lauren had her bikini top on with her wetsuit rolled down on her waist. She picked out her phone out of her jacket and started texting, her wet hair dripping on the screen. She smiled at her text:

Have fun falling off a board into salty water! xxx

Vex saw the message and snatched the phone out her hands and stood up. She immediatly stood up trying to get it back.

"Uncle Vex give me my phone back please?"

"Nope" He turned his back on her to look at the messages "Ohhhhh who's James?"

"No one!" She was getting frustrated with him now

"Is that Ravel's son James?" Ravel looked at him and so did the other guys. Lauren's cheeks turned red.

"No! now give it back!" She reached over his shoulder to get it but he dodged.

"It is isen't it? Ohhhh Lauren and James sitting in a tre-" Suddenly there was a ball of fire in Lauren's hands and she was holding it close to Vex's hair

"If you don't give me my phone back now I will burn your hair off" She warned deeply, her voice was so deep its was scary.

"Okay here" He handed her the phone and she grabbed it and stormed away.

"Ahhhh that's my girl" Said Skul with a smile. Vex sat back down. That's when Valkyrie, with Josh on her back, and Tanith holding Harley's hand walked back over.

"What have you guys done to Lauren now?" Valkyrie asked the group of men in front of her who were laying back leaning on their elbows.

"Vex took her phone and she threatend him with fire then walked over there somewhere" Skul answered. She sighed and looked at Vex.

"You are annoying sometimes"

"I am what I am..." He started signing.

"Skul take Josh while I go talk to Lauren" She put down Josh.

"Why do I have to take Josh?" He whined

"Because he's your son" Josh jumped on his father's chest. Skul grunted and sat up.

"Flipping kids"He muttered to himself and started to play with Josh.
Valkyrie walked off while cursing Vex.

Tanith next to Ghastly and took her wet suit off she had a pink and blue bikini underneath. She put Harley on his dad's lap.

Ghastly un zipped his wet suit so the scars on his left shoulder were visible . Harley had board shorts on too. Harley jumped up and ran across the beach

"JOSH COME ONE! LET'S DIG A HOLE!" He shouted over his shoulder. Josh jumped after taking his wet suit off and ran fast to catch up with his best friend.

"I am never having kids" Anton concluded

"Oh yeah your the only one with out a girlfriend or wife and kids" Vex sat up.

"And I love this life!"He smiled

"How are you and Rachel, Vex?" Tanith asked from her position of leaning on Ghastly's chest.

"Bloody marvelous!" he said cheerly "Daniel is being a pain in the neck as always but lifes good!" He layed back down and closed his eyes.
Valkyrie and Lauren came walking back and both had ditched their wetsuits and had bikinis on. Valkyrie layed next to Skulduggery and Lauren layed on her towel.