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Thursday 11th August 2033, 4:30pm
"Are we going out for dinner?" Daniel asked as he entered the kitchen to grab a bottle of beer and a glass of wine but Tom stopped his son before even a drop of the alcohol hit the glass.
"No, you're mum was going to cook something. But why don't you take Elodie out for dinner to that restaurant at the plaza?" Tom suggested as he got his wallet out.
"Really?"
"Yeah. You've been good and I said I'd give you extra spending money if you got on with your sister while we we're here and you've not argued with her half as much as you do at home so go on, go and have a night out." Tom stated as he handed his son two £20 notes.
"Cheers dad." Daniel smiled.
"No worries."
"So you can buy a glass of wine at the restaurant for Elodie, use that glass for me." Sam quipped and Daniel laughed as he poured a glass of chilled white wine from the tall wine cooler and then handed it to his mother.
"Thanks." Daniel said again before he went to his bedroom to tell his girlfriend the good news whilst Ella had just come out of her bedroom.
"I gonna go and change into my PJs." Tom announced as he jogged upstairs leaving Sam and her daughter.
"What's up?" Sam asked.
"Did you bring any ibuprofen?" Ella asked.
"You know you can't take that; it'll thin your blood." Sam warned.
"No, it's not for me. Ivy's got cramps. But please just let me take it to her, she didn't want you to find out and I said I wouldn't tell you." Ella pleaded.
"Fine, but tell her to have two and then bring the packet back to me straight away. Yes?"
"Yeah." Ella nodded so Sam reached up into the spare kitchen cupboard that to she had put their first aid kit in - as well as Ella's contraceptive pill box which she was on so that they would always know when to give Ella's clotting factor, and she took out a box of painkillers. Sam handed Ella them, along with a cooled bottle of water before Ella disappeared into her bedroom leaving Sam to take a well needed gulp of wine.
"Here you go." Ella gave a sympathetic smile to her girlfriend who was lying on her side on her single bed with one arm wrapped around her lower abdomen.
"Thanks." Ivy croaked as she slowly sat up and then swallowed two tablets with a gulp of water. "What did your mum say?"
"Oh, nothing. She wasn't there so I just took them. I'd better go and put them back before she comes down." Ella added as she took the box and went into the kitchen. She said a quiet thanks to her mother before she went back to the bedroom and sat on her single bed, opposite her partner's. "Are you still going to be alright to go swimming tomorrow?" Ella asked curiously. "We can forget about it if you want."
"No, I should be alright in the morning." Ivy stated.
"I'm pretty sure after consuming several glasses of wine, that this isn't a good idea." Sam slurred as she stumbled into the steaming hot tub that was illuminated by lights surrounding the tub. It was pitch black outside but the lights made the area feel cozy. The tub itself was also surrounded by a circular logged fence so no one from the cabin could see. And besides, Daniel and Elodie were out and Ella and Ivy were watching a movie anyway.
"Well, I originally didn't think that having sex with you while you was in labour with Daniel was a good idea but I actually quite enjoyed myself." Tom replied drunkly as he rather abruptly pulled Sam, who was in her black bikini, onto his lap. But even though he was quite rough with her, she didn't complain; she was out of it.
"Yeah, I think your enjoying yourself now aren't you?" Sam quipped as she felt something beneath her, between both his and her legs.
"And?" Tom questioned.
"And, I think I should do something to ease the blood flow to it." Sam replied.
"Do you now?" Tom grinned.
"Mm. At least in water, we don't need to worry about a lubricant." Sam said rather loudly, though Tom just laughed as she clumsily did a 180° turn so that she was still on his lap, but facing him, before they passionately made love in the hot tub.
Friday 12th August 2033
"We shouldn't have done that." Sam croaked as she sat on the side of their bed, clutching her head.
"What? The god-knows how many bottles of wine or sleeping naked?" Tom questioned and it wasn't until he had said that that Sam realised she wasn't wearing anything and her dripping wet bikini was on the floor besides the bed.
"Neither. I meant what we did in the hot tub." Sam stated. "Or at least, what I think we did in the hot tub." Sam replied questioningly. "The kids go in there, and we-"
"Sam, the chemicals in there would've killed any bodily fluids, plus I'm sure there've been worse in that hot tub." Tom replied.
Ella and Ivy had just spent a couple of hours in the heated indoor tropical swimming pool that had water slides, flumes, a lazy river, a beach and a wave pool before they went to the busy changing rooms.
"Damn, I've left my shampoo back at the lodge." Ivy exclaimed.
"It's alright, you can use some of mine." Ella stated as she took out shampoo, conditioner and shower gel from her locker and then they went and had a shower to clean up after spending so much time in the water and childishly building a sand castle which meant that they had to rinse the sand off of them too. Then they grabbed the rest of their things from the lockers and went to the changing rooms to find that they were all being used. "Um, I'm not using the communal changing area. I'll wait but you can go if you want." Ella offered.
"No way am I getting changed around a load of kids. I'm staying with you." Ivy smiled. Suddenly, a woman came out of a changing room leaving it vacant and there didn't appear to be any sort of queue for the changing rooms so the girls both went into the changing room and put their bags down on the bench. After getting changed, they brushed their hair and dried it as best as they could with their towels before they began the walk back to the lodge. "So what do the rest of your family think about you being gay?" Ivy asked curiously.
"What do you mean?"
"Well, your mum and dad seem cool about it. I mean, mine are but my grandparents are awful. My parents had to stick up for me because they said I'm messed up in the head or whatever, and now we never speak to them."
"I don't have any grandparents." Ella admitted. "I mean, technically I do but I don't know them. Mum fell out with her parents because they were old fashioned and didn't support her when she said she wanted to be a doctor so she left home when she was 16. And my dad was put into care when he was a baby, and then adopted so he never knew his parents who would've been my grandparents." She explained.
"Oh, right."
"I have Uncle Fletch and he's genetically, not my uncle because he and my mum are best friends so I've just grown up calling him uncle fletch and he doesn't care about me being gay. He just treats me like he always has done which I suppose is what I want; I hate being treated differently because of it."
"Me too." Ivy nodded.
"Remember at our primary leavers disco when we went together and the teachers just looked at us like we were a piece of dirt on the ground."
"Mm. Though the students weren't much better because that was when we both came out in public." Ella smiled at the memory. "I think it was a good idea though because it gave people the summer holidays to take it in and decide whether they were going to accept it or not."
"Do you know what college you're going to yet?" Ivy asked curiously.
"Probably Holby Community College. Daniel said it was really good there and they've just had all of the science labs done out so - even thought it'll still be two years until I go - hopefully, they won't be too graffitied by that time. What about you?"
"Yeah, Holby Community as well."
Saturday 13th August 2033, 5pm
Everyone was getting showered and ready to go out for a meal together when there was a knock on Sam and Tom's door.
"Hang on." Sam shouted as she had just come out of the shower. She dropped her towel and pulled her dressing gown on before she opened the door. "Ella, what can I do for you?"
"Can you plait my hair for me please?" Ella requested. She was awful at plaiting her own hair, especially from the back and she loved it when her mother did it for her because Sam could do almost anything when it came to plaits.
"Yeah sure. Just let me get dressed and then I'll come down to your room because your dad'll be getting out of the shower in a minute and he'll wanna get changed in peace." Sam stated.
"But I thought you'd just gotten out of the shower." Ella stated confusedly.
"I have but you know what men are like, they're in and out in three minutes and it takes at least ten minutes to do your hair so go on, I'll be five minutes." Sam stated and once Ella began going down the spiral stairs case, Sam let out a sigh of relief as she shut the door and Tom came out of the shower after they had just finished making love when there'd been a knock at their door.
"I would say you should've let me get it but..." Tom smirked as he looked down at the towel around his waist where there was a large bulge and Sam just shook her head at him but she couldn't help but smile.
Meanwhile, Daniel had just come out of the ensuite shower with a towel around his waist where he found Elodie in just her black and dark blue lace bra and matching thong brushing her shoulder length dark brown hair.
"We've still got plenty of time to get ready haven't we?" Daniel questioned.
"Yeah, we've got half an hour." Elodie replied innocently before she squealed because Daniel pushed her back on the two single beds that they had pushed together to make a double and he planted his lips on hers. "Daniel I seriously don't want to be late for your parents." Elodie protested as they pulled apart.
"We won't be. Besides, when they say half an hour, that really means an hour to Ella and Ivy so we're fine." Daniel grinned before he kissed her again and reached behind her back to unclip her bra. He pulled it off, and dropped his towel on the floor too so that he was completely naked before he slid her thong down her legs and threw that off of the bed too. He grabbed a condom from the stash that they'd hidden under his pillow just in case their parents came snooping, and then they made love in the form that their generation would call, a 'quickie'.
"Right, what plait do you want?" Sam asked as she came into Ella and Ivy's room wearing a floral sun dress that was a pale blue colour with roses dotted on it.
"Um... Waterfall?" Ella questioned.
"Sure, sit on the bed." Sam ordered so Ella did so and then handed her mother the small purse she had that was filled with hair grips and hairbands as well as her hair brush before Sam began to plait her daughters's hair. "Ivy, do you want me to do yours after?" Sam offered.
"Yes please."
"What one do you want?"
"Er... What's that one that's similar to French but it goes backwards?"
"Dutch." Ella stated.
"Yeah I can do that." Sam nodded.
Sunday 14th August 2033
Tom had driven back from Centre Parcs after a fantastic week's holiday but before he went back to his house, he was dropping Elodie off who had fallen asleep in the back seat next to her boyfriend.
"Did you wear her out last night?" Tom joked half heartedly as he pulled up outside Elodie's house and got out to help with the suitcase.
"Dad!" Daniel protested before he proceeded to wake his partner up. "Elodie... Earth to Elodie..."
"What?" Elodie grumbled without opening her eyes.
"You're home." He smiled as he tucked a bit of her hair behind her ear.
"Hi." Tom smiled as Elodie's mum came out of the house to greet her daughter.
"Hi. How was it?" She asked.
"Yeah it was great thanks. Though someone fell asleep on the way back." He smirked as Elodie slowly got out of the car and then had a big stretch but before she could finish, her mum had engulfed her into her arms.
"I missed you so much." Her mother whispered.
"Yeah, I missed you too." Elodie chuckled before she pulled apart. "Thank you very much Tom, I had a really nice time." She said gratefully.
"No problem."
Once the family had finished unpacking - though Ella, Tom and Daniel had just chucked their entire suitcase's contents into the washing basket because they couldn't be bothered to sort it out - they had a takeaway for dinner and Ella practiced her skills on her trampoline after being away from it for a week whilst Daniel went up to his bedroom to text his girlfriend about how he was missing her already. Sam and Tom just waited until their kids went to bed, before they ran a bath and shared it together to relax in.
"I love you." Tom whispered as Sam laid on top of him under the lukewarm water, though she was weightless so he just enjoyed the skin-to-skin contact with his wife.
"Mm, I love you too." Sam smiled as she laid her head on his chest, looking up at the ceiling. "We've got work tomorrow morning." Sam grumbled.
"We could, always pull a sickie." Tom suggested as he trailed his fingers in swirls around her abdomen, getting higher and higher until he caressed her breasts.
"Both of us sick, after a holiday? Get real." Sam scoffed.
"Well we could say we got sick on the last few days of our holiday and we're still recovering." Tom stated.
"We can't because I'm pretty sure Ella has been giving daily updates on Facebook of pictures of our holiday, and yesterday's pictures are going to involve all of us going out for dinner, and you eating an entire rack of ribs." Sam stated. "I think she's got Zoe, Fletch, Robyn and Cal as friends as well."
"Alright. We'll just stick to cubicles then and keep a low key so we don't get called into resus to avoid the mayhem."
"Shot gun working with Fletch." Sam said quickly.
"Fantastic." Tom said sarcastically. "If I get put with Robyn again, I will cry." Tom stated adamantly.
"I'll cry too. But it'll be out of laughter." Sam smiled before she stifled a yawn. "Can we just sleep in here? I can't be bothered to get out." Sam joked halfheartedly.
"Well, the sooner you get out, the sooner we can go and get comfy in bed." Tom stated.
"Fine." Sam huffed as she reluctantly climbed out of the bath and wrapped a towel around her. She let her hair, which had been tied up in a tight bun to prevent it from getting wet, down and it cascaded over her shoulders whilst she watched Tom pull the plug out and then get out himself. Then they both got into bed and cuddled up under the covers before she got a good night's sleep.
Coming up: The final chapter of The Kent Family where Sam sends her daughter off to university and so both of her offspring have flown the nest and Tom comes up with an idea to cheer her up.
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