Its time to Party Beach Style!

[Gaby.Lily.Kaci.Eva.Cam♥]

Time to have fun in the sun beach bunnies! Come on down to the hot sand with your best bathing suits and your beach towel, but don't forget your suntan lotion because we can guarantee you'll be burned. And remember, if you stick around long enough, then you can join us for our huge bonfire tonight. Yup, that's right, a bonfire on the beach fully equipped with s'mores and sing alongs. Okay, we can drop the sing alongs, but were keeping the s'mores. Throughout the day we will be having tournaments down by the stage like hula hoop contests, egg races, and the necking game...plus many more!
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Tiny footsteps ran down the sand as larger one's followed after them. "Don't go into the water yet." a voice called to her little ones. One girl giggled, being devious as she was and ended up splashing obnoxiously in the shallow water. An identical looking girl decided to follow her sister lead and ended up joining in the disobeying of her mother. "Hey, that's not fair..you have me outnumbered." the playful mother responded as she ran over to her daughters. "Okay McKenzie, come on out..your my first victim." Gaby(the mother obviously)remarked as she lathered warm suntan lotion into her hand. McKenzie dragged her feet all the way over to her mother, saddened that she had to put her splashing fun on pause. Gaby smoothly spread the suntan lotion all over her daughter, being delicate when she reached her daughters face. With a playful smack on the butt she sent her daughter back to the shallow ocean water.

"Your next McKayla." she called as she once again poured suntan lotion onto her hand. McKayla ran over to her mother, anxious to get it over with. Gaby then did the same thing as before and spread the suntan lotion all over the two years old body. With another playful smack on the butt she sent McKayla back into the water. "Me next." she told herself as she lathered the suntan lotion into her own skin.

Once everyone was protected from the sun's damaging rays she walked over to her daughters and splashed around with them in the cold ocean water. Meanwhile Lillian and her four year old daughter and her three year old daughter arrived and joined them in the water as well. Lillian hadn't even thought about suntan lotion, the thought completely passed her by. Eva however, who was now sitting in Gaby's beach chair, had not forgotten about sun protection so she called her two nieces up and applied it to their skin. The next one to arrive was Kaci. All she wanted to do was get a good tan on the beach. "No suntan lotion for me." she told her 'Aunt' Eva.

[nathaliewarner]

Oh Yes, the good 'ol summer is here and it's time to be at the BEACH!! Nathalie loves the summer and today was the perfect day to be there.

So when she got there she set the towels down and her and r Robert layed down in the warm sand and let the water skim their feet. They are so much in love in fact they have a little secret to reveal to Gaby and the others.

As they were lying down, Nat noticed someone out of the corner of her eye. "Hey Gab is that you"?? It has to be she thought because of all those people with her.

[nikadawson]

Nika watched her husband Matt, who was glaring at the bags and folding chairs that he and Tony were grudgingly carrying down the beach. Matt and Tony really didn't want to be at the beach, but Maddy really wanted to go, and she wanted to teach Jaime to swim a bit. The four year old was bouncing up and down excitadly, he loved water, and he was hoping to see a real, live sea horse, his favorite animals. He was though, unexicted about the prospect of swimmies, he was complaining loudly to anyone withen hearing distance that the swimmies made his arms hurt. But Nika wasn't even think about letting him near the water without the proper swim gear, and she had told Maddy numerous times to make sure he didn't wander to far from the shore. She would have preferred going out there with him herself, but being almost nine months pregnant would make that a little difficult, as Matt was leery of her swimming in her condition. But he would be swimming with Maddy, and he assured the worried mother he wouldn't let anything happen to Jaime.

So, she was going to stay, suntanning on the beach. She wasn't wearing a bathing suit, she wasn't exactly comfortable about wearing any with all the extra weight from her pregnancy, though Matt still called her the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, and assured her even if she was as big as a house she always would be to him. Jackie was crawling around on the beach, looking for sand, and busily making small, clumsy looking things that might pass for sandcastles.

Tony had brought along his surf board, siting the fact that he had to do something at the beach. He was missing his girlfriend Eva, and had tried to call her earlier to see if she wanted to come to the beach with them, but no one had answered the phone. So, he was stuck surf boarding, since he really had nothing else to do, and had no interest in sunbathing with Nika.

[Gaby.Lily.Kaci.Eva.Cam♥]

As Gabriella splished and splashed about in the cold but warming up ocean water she heard a familiar voice from a small distance away. Shielding her eyes from the sun with one hand she squinted to see who it was. "Nat?" she answered. "Nat is that you?' she continued. She turned to Lillian and asked her to keep an eye on the twins while she went over to her friend. After Lillian nodded in understanding Gabriella stood up and made her way back towards the hot sand. "Hey Nat, it is you. How have you been doing?" she asked as she wrapped her beach towel around her. She was afterall just about nine months pregnant and she was less than comfortable about showing it to Robert.

In fact, Gaby wondered why she had put on a swimsuit at all. She couldn't exactly stay in the water for long periods of time because of the pregnancy annoyances. She tired easily and was definitly not up to swimming, not at all. She had only came down to the shore because of her two little ones who had been begging her to go there for the day for the past X number of months. She also came because of the invite from the town asking her to attend their annual beach party. And she had only gone in the water with her girls because she failed to remember to bring their swimmies and was afraid to leave them even in the shallow ocean water unattended.

As Gaby waited for Nat's response, her attention was drawn to more familiar voices. She could just barely make out the whines of a small boy and an anxious girl. She turned her head to see if she knew them and was very suprised to see Nika and the whole gang. "Hey Eva, look who's here."

Eva looked up to Gaby and then over to where Gaby was looking. Her eye was caught by a familair looking guy who appeared to be carrying a surf board. Could it be? Was it really? Did he surf? Yes it was! "Tony!" she yelled as she immediatly stood up and ran over to him. "Tony, I can't believe your here!" she said as she stood with him, arms opened.

Meanwhile, Gabriella pointed Nathalie over to where Nika was before motioning Nika over to come and join them. "Come over here Nika." she called. "Nat's here too." she mentioned. Gabriella looked at her stomach and then at Nika's. They both looked like balloons that were ready to pop any second.

Kaci was entrigued for a moment of her 'Aunts' romance life, but quickly became bored with it since she was single, and decided to play with her neices in the water to occupy her. This made Gaby smile, knowing that her twins in the water were in good hands. Since Kaci had like no social life, she babysat them all the time. Lillian meanwhile carried the fussy Kylie out of the water and into the sand. She began assisting Kylie with building a toddler sandcastle while Haylie swam with her swimmies under Kaci's watchful eye.

[nathaliewarner]

Nathalie realized it was Gabs."Oh my gosh, hi, I've been doing ok, how about you? I havent seen you in like forever." As they were talking Nat put up her hand to Gab."Im engaged!"

She hoped Gaby would be happy for her because her family is not happy with the idea of marriage at all. So what do you think? "asked Nat with a hopeful look.

"Oh and I see you are almost due, I bet you are excited to have the baby and better yet not be pregnant anymore"she said with a laugh."I am very excited for you, I can't wait till you have it"

[nikadawson]

Tony dropped the surf board in shock as he saw who was running towards him, calling out his name. His lips split into a happy smile at the sound of her voice and the sight of her, and he ran to catch her, wrapping his arms around her waist and spinning her in circles. Stopping after a few spins, he set her down, kissing her. He hadn't seen her in so long, it was like his life had been on autopilot and was just now becoming manual drive again.

"Hi kitten, I didn't know you were hear, god I've missed you so much. I love you, how have you been," Tony said, placing kisses all over her face, first her nose, than her eye lids, than her cheeks, than the corners of her mouth, before finally giving her a proper kiss. He was almost laughing from the exhilaration.

Matt rolled his eyes in amusement from his brothers antics. He dropped the chairs haphazardly near Gabby's spot, and than went over to help his slightly waddling love. He could see her frustration building up from the fact that she couldn't walk correctly. Privately, he thought their was never a time that she was more beautiful to him, than when she was pregnant and irritated, screeching at him. He just loved her so much, and the fact that she was carrying a life inside her that they had made together, even after two times before, overwhelmed him. The love of his life was carrying his little girl. He loved his boys, but he had always wanted a daughter, and that he was finally going to have one, made him very happy. He walked over to her, wrapping one arm around her waist and the other under her knees, picking he up bridal style and carrying her over to her friends.

Nika squealed slightly when she felt Matt pick her up. Her face burned, but she didn't know she wanted to shout, or laugh. Her eyes were twinkling, but she fixed a mock glare on her face.

"MATTHEW HUNTER, I CAN WALK, I AM NOT AN INVALID, PUT ME DOWN RIGHT NOW," she yelled, but Matt just laughed.

"Sorry luv, I like carrying you to much to do that, but if you insist," he said, and made the pretense of almost dropping her, but caught her before she hit the sand. She screamed, but he also saw the laughter she was trying to hide in. He started to tickle her sides, getting her to laugh.

"Admit it, you love it," he teased. Nika smirked and ruffled his hair into the poodle curls he was born with, making him adorable in her eyes, but since he hated them it was all the more fun to make them that way.

"Never," she said, her mouth curling up into a smile, kissing him, as he finally placed her down near Gabby and Nat. "Hi guys, how have you been?"

Maddy rolled her eyes at the antics of her two brothers, and picked up Jackie, who seemed to think that eating a shell would be good for his health. "No, Jackie, no eating that." Jaime was pulling her along, but to her confusion, he didn't seem to be pulling her towards the ocean, where he had been so excited to go to before, but towards a little girl.

Jaime had spotted Haley after Eva had called out his uncles name. His eyes lit up on seeing her. He had somewhat of a small crush on her, and he really wanted to introduce Maddy to her.

[Gaby.Lily.Kaci.Eva.Cam♥]

Eva's face lit up like the sun as Tony finally held her again. She felt so safe and so loved in his arms. She couldn't wait to be introduced as Mr. and Mrs. Tony Hunter. "Ya know babe, I've been thinking and I really feel that we should set our wedding date." she told him after being smuthered in kisses, returning them back to him of course with just as much love. "And to answer your other question..." she kissed him. "Good answer huh?"she playfully flirted.

Gaby's attention was drawn to Nika and Matt's playful love antics. She wished now more than ever that Justin would miraculously appear and sweep her off her feet like Matt did for Nika. She wondered if she'd ever see him again. It's been two months with absolutly no communication. Where was he? She looked down at her stomach again and wondered if he'd miss the birth of their son. She giggled as Matt adoringly placed Nika down on the ground next to her. "What I wouldn't do for a man like that." she kidded to Nika. "I've been as good as a nearly nine month, absent fiance, pregnant woman can get." she told Nika in response to her question. "I'd ask you how you've been but from the looks of it your life is good." she continued.

Gaby smiled at Nathalie, "Your what?" she finally answered. "Engaged?" she asked, wondering if Nat would be mad at her delayed reaction. It was strange, Gaby had heard Nat say it but for some reason it haden't registed until that moment. "I am so happy for you!" she told her as she hugged her in a congradulatory way. "When's the wedding?" she asked as the questions began pouring out. "How'd your folks take it?" she continued.

Haylie removed her swimmies at the sight of Jamie. She wanted him to think that she was a big girl. In her mind only babies needed the assistance of swimmies. She smiled as she walked closer and closer to her, waving her arm flirtishly at him.

The twins and Kaci however, had decided to go a little bit deeper into the ocean and were now trying to swim around in Kaci's arms. "No, no little girls, no swimmies equals no swimming." she told them. They pouted and began splashing around in attempt to be freed from Kaci's grip.

Meanwhile, Lillian had spotted Nathalie and Nika and politely waved to them out of habit. Lillian didn't exactly like them, but since motherhood she had become more polite, so she waved. Modeling seemed to be going down the drain for Lillian since she had been wanting to spend more and more time bonding with her daughters. I guess that long talk she had with Elise was paying off. Kylie began fussing at the realization of not having her mothers attention so she began kicking her mother in the leg to get the attention back. Lillian frowned and yelled at Kylie for misbehaving before resuming their sandcastle building.

[nathaliewarner]

"Oh so you are happy for me? I was afraid you weren't going to be. Nat was relieved. In their conversation Nika poped up out of no where."Hey, how are you?, we always seem to all the time have these little reunions in the strangest of places, have you realized that.?" she asked Nika. "Well other than almost being in labor Gabs, whats new with you and you? and you too Nika."

Robert layed down in the sand so oblivious to the whole conversation so Nat kicked him so he'd get up.

"Oops, sorry Natty, so how are you ladies today?, having fun with the family I see."

[Gaby.Lily.Kaci.Eva.Cam♥]

Gaby raised an eyebrow, "Why wouldn't I be anything but happy for you? Our little innocent Nathalie is finally growing up." she kidded. "By your tone, I'm guessing the folks didn't take it well, huh?" she asked with sympathetic eyes. "I kinda can relate, I mean my parents still won't meet their granddaughters. It's just not fair." she remarked as she looked out to her two innocent angels in the ocean with Kaci who she knew would be deprived biological grandparents(since they refuse to meet their grandchildren)

"I finally finished moving everything into the house, I finished the new babies nursery so it'll be ready for him when he decides to detach himself from mommy's belly, and my engagement with Justin is going down the drain. Other than that not much has been happening." she replied to Nathalie. "Anything else new besides the big engagement?" she asked.

Gaby then turned her attention to Robert for a moment, "Congratulations." she told him. "And yes, I am out for the day with the family." she answered. "How have you been?, I mean... other than the engagement too." she asked him.

[nikadawson]

Tony had been thinking the same thing for months. He didn't want to end up being engaged for years because he kept putting off the wedding date like Nika and Matt. Everyone knew they would eventually get married, but for now they didn't care about an official piece of paper that said they were in love. They felt being together was more about your actions, and living together day to day, and having fun, rather than a large ceremony. That didn't mean Nika and Matt didn't eventually want to get married, since they had been engaged for nearly two years, but it wasn't a pressing need for them. They were already married in their hearts, so they didn't feel the obligation to make it legal yet. But Tony really wanted to go through the ceremony soon. He wanted to see his bride in a white dress, their family making a fuss over them, the butterflies in his stomach from nervousness, the vows, the I do's, the whole thing.

"You're right love, we should. When do you prefer to have the wedding," he asked her, wrapping a strand of her hair around his fingers.

Nika smiled, looking at the love of her life. Besides her boys, there was a no more beautiful sight to her than him. It wasn't the first time she realized how lucky she was to have a man like him, and it wasn't the first time someone had told her. She didn't know how she had gotten so lucky. Sometimes she wondered how he put up with her, for the last month she had tended to be snappish with him, probably because of the hormones, only with him, because she would never tolerate herself being snappish with the boys. Suddenly, the back aches, the irritability, the stomach aches, everything seemed to pale in comparison to Gabby's pregnancy. She could never imagine being alone and pregnant, and with Matt there, she had never had to.

"Yeah, my life is good," she murmured softly, smiling at Matt, whose nearly white hair, from all the bleach he used to make it platinum blonde, was almost shinning like a halo around his head from the sun. He smiled back at her, wrapping his arms around her waist, and she rested her head on his shoulder. "You haven't heard from Justin at all," she asked, worried for her friend. It really wasn't fair for the girl to have to go through another seemingly absentee father of her child.

Than Nika remember what Gabby had said to Nat, "Your engaged, really, that's great." She was happy for her friend. She remember when she had gotten engaged, and so did Matt, because she could hear him chuckling.

"Remember when we got engaged," he teased. She mocked glared again, giving a playful swat to the back of his head, which was more like a caress to his hair. She thought in amusement about the incident. They had been at the beach, it was night, and they had thought they were alone. After the engagement, they had decided to impulsively, and reckless, skinny dip in the ocean, among other activities, and didn't notice a boat, full of people, with bright lights shinning on them. Nika had been so humiliated at the time, she and Matt had quickly swam away before someone on that boat could call the police. Now, thinking back, it was probably one of the funniest moments of her life.

"Yes, well, we won't be doing that ay this beach, it's day, and we actually know people are here this time," she laughed.

Jaime looked at Haylie, smiling. "Hi," he said brightly. He noticed the swimmies that were tossed to the ground, "You got the wear those things to huh? I hate 'em, they only for little kids, but Mommy makes me wear 'em. Does your Mommy make you wear 'em?"

Maddy decided that Jaime wasn't going to be swimming any time soon, not with the way he was looking at the little girl, so she decided that she would Jackie build sandcastles. "Okay little guy, want your Aunt Maddy to play with you." He giggled and smiled.

[nathaliewarner]

"Yeah, the family didn't like it at all, so I think since I graduated and everything I'll move in with Robert, we talked about it and we think it's the best we can do for right now, you know?"

"Well the only thing going on now is just planning for the wedding...HEY...you wanna help m?, i was going to put you guys in the wedding anyways?"

Robert replied.''No nothing too big going on with me except for all that she is tellin you. That just about sums it up."

[Gaby.Lily.Kaci.Eva.Cam♥]

Eva smiled, she always loved it when she was told that she was right. Having it said from her fiancee's mouth made it even better. Guys never admitted when they were right usually so finding one that did made him all the better. "Well I'm not sure. I didn't want to just pick any day so I was thinking Valentine's Day would make a special day even better. What do you think?" she asked him as she ran her fingers through his thick brunette hair.

Gaby turned back to Nika, "I haven't heard from him in over two months. I'm worried, I haven't told you guys yet but...he's became suicidal. I already stopped him from hanging himself but after that we had a fight and he drove off into the night, I haven't heard a word from anyone around him since." she explained, tears nearly forming in her eyes. "You know, I've already went through pregnancy alone once, I really don't want to do it again." she said, her tone of voice weakening as she saddened. "Your so lucky you guys, to have true lovers. Especially you Nika, you'll never have to suffer through pregnancy alone. And Nat, being engaged is wonderful...I do sincerely hope yours doesn't fall apart like mine did." she remarked open heartedly.

Gaby wiped a tear from her eye and became curious about the joke Nika and Matt were hiding. "What about your engagement?" she asked them, wanting to be in on the joke. She wondered what could be so funny about an engagement. Engagements are romantic, not funny. "And just at the curiosity, how did Robert here propose to you Nat?" she asked. She flash backed to her engagement. It had been perfect. It had the full element of surprise, a fancy restaurant, a beautiful diamond...the works. It was a shame that she was falling out of love with him.

Haylie blushed at Jamie's realization that she had to use swimmies. "yea, my mommy makes me wear em'. i don't like them though, they stupie." she replied. "we should hide them forevrer." she suggested sneakily.

Gaby's attention then focused only on Nat for the moment. "I'm so sorry that you also have unsupportive folks. It could be worse though, they could've thrown you out of the house with not so much as a dollar to your name." she told her. "And at least your not pregnant, right?" she asked just to make sure. "I totally agree with you guys. Moving in with your fiancee is risky, but your love appears stronger than mine so I say go for it." she said. Then she paused. I don't think Gaby would be the best wedding planner. Her emotional state is just to unstable. What with the pregnancy hormones and the absent fiancee. "I'm really sorry Nat but I'm not sure I could handle assisting you with planning your wedding at this time." she softly replied.

"But I'd be honored to still be in your wedding. I wouldn't miss it for the world. I can attend it and all, I just wouldn't be much help what with planning it per say." she explained again.

Kaci carried the twins over to Lillian and allowed them to build a sandcastle with her. Kaci needed a break and she really needed a restroom. She motioned to Gaby that the twins were now with Lillian before she ran up to the boardwalk.

[nikadawson]

Tony thought carefully. Valentine's Day. It was almost like she had taken the thoughts right out of his head. Of all the dates he had thought, he had always seemed to come up with Valentine's Day as the best one to have the wedding. For many reasons. One, it seemed the most romantic, and two, it was also the date of the day his parents had gotten married. It might seem a bit cliche to have the wedding on the same day as his parents, even if it was twenty-five years later, but for some reason the dat seemed right. He smiled, and tried not to focus on the pleasant sensation that her fingers running through his hair was giving him.

"I think that's perfect," he said, and contemplated telling her about his parents, "Did I ever tell you that, Valentine's Day is the day my parents got married?"

Nika smiled sadly at what Gabby was telling her. She felt a little sorry at what it seemed Justin was going through, but she was more focused on the carefully hid misery of her friend. She unwrapped her self from Matt's arms, and slid over to Gabby, hugging her, hoping to give the girl some comfort. Gabby was right, Nika would probably never have to suffer through pregnancy alone. Matt was not the type to leave. He was the type to stay, for better or worse, till death do them part. She knew that it was kind of silly to assume they would be together till one of them was no longer in the world, but she just knew that she was right. If she ever believed in soulmates, she believed he was hers. She had felt something for him from the moment she had met him, when he had dropped a book on her head.

Matt was thinking much the same as Nika. He felt for Gabby. He could never imagine leaving Nika alone and pregnant. He would harm himself before he ever thought to do that to her. He could never imagine leaving her. He had almost lost her once before, he never wanted to think about his life without her. The moment he first saw her, glaring at him, he had known that she would be the only woman he would ever love. He would never love another, even if she fell in love with someone else, he would let her go, to make her happy. He wrapped his arms around her again when she pulled away from giving Gabby a hug, nuzzling her hair.

Nika choked when Gabby asked about the engagement, and Matt starting to silently shake with laughter into her hair. Oh god, she couldn't imagine telling Gabby about this. But maybe it would help cheer her up a little bit. How was she going to get this out? She and Matt had never told anyone about this before. Her face started to turn red, "umm...well..you see..what happened.." she stuttered, her voice cracking.

"It wasn't...exactly typical," Matt started for her, hoping to ease her stuttered, but it just made her face go redder. Was she actually going to tell it, or just change the subject?

'I-It was on a beach, in New York, umm, it was at night, and we-well...you see...well I was happy...and than Matt," Matt glared at her at this, "Okay...and than I...suggested that we....skinnydipintheoceanandalsohavesex...and we didn't think anyone was around, and there were, and well, it was mortifying back than...but kind of funny now," she finally managed to choke out. She wondered what Gabby's reaction would be.

Jaime grinned at Hailey as an idea came to him from Hailey's comment of hiding the swimmies, "Do you want to?" He hoped she said yes, it was a really good idea.

Maddy didn't think Nika would object if she brought Jackie down to the water to splash his legs in a little bit. She would have a firm hold on him the whole time, and wouldn't even really go in, just letting the water touch their feet. Jackie was giggling at the feel on the sand on his toes. She noticed Gabby's sister, what was her name? She was playing in the water with the twins.

Matt decided to rub his love's back before the girl hyperventilated. "It's okay love, breath," he said, his voice going lower, in a soothing way, the English accent making his voice husky, and Nika almost swooned. She really loved his voice. She had a bit of an English accent to, but her's was tinged with a Brooklyn one, and his voice was so deep, and loving when he talked to her. It was the most pleasant voice she had ever heard. Her face was losing some of it's red color, as she calmed down from telling the story.

"I could help you if you want Nat, with the wedding," Nika offered, though she didn't really know how much good she'd do. She and Matt had been engaged over two years, and the only thing she had planned for her wedding was that it would at some point in her life happen, and that they wanted it to be on the beach, where they had gotten engaged. She rubbed her stomach, feeling her baby girl kick. She smiled, and grabbed Matt's left hand, placing it on the spot where their girl was kicking.

"Feel her," she said, and Matt nodded, placing his head against her stomach, listening to their daughter's heart beat and feeling her kick against his head. Nika amusedly thought that by the time they actually married, they might have six kids!

[Gaby.Lily.Kaci.Eva.Cam♥]

Eva's eyes had a hopeful, yet nervous look in them. She wasn't sure if she was being too forward what with announcing they be married on the most romantic day of the year. What if he had already planned something? She'd hate for him to have to cancel their plans. But you know, a wedding is the best plan of all on any given day, even more so on Valentine's Day. "Your parent's were married that day? That's so sweet. That makes our wedding date that much better." she replied. "I so don't deserve you." she said before placing a gentle kiss on the corner of his mouth. Then another one right on his lips.

Gaby almost wanted to cry again as she watched Nika and Matt so much in love. "Justin and I never experienced such a strong love like you two have. It's funny how you can think that you love someone more than anyone can love someone...until your proven wrong with a stronger couple like you guys. I'd give just about anything to have what you and Matt have." she told Nika. Justin popped into her mind again and this time a few tears managed to escape, dripping down her cheek.

She was comforted by Nika's hug a little bit, but no hug has had much effect on her since the moment Justin hugged her. It was if no hug was good enough, no hug could ever heal her except the one from her fiancee. If he didn't fix it soon then he'd be her ex-fiancee rather quickly.

Her tears disappeared when laughter kicked in from Nika's nervous stuttering mixed with the story. It was just too hilarious. "You? skinny dipping? That's too much." she began. "And then you did the IT thing in the water and people kind of saw? That's priceless!" she pushed out in between giggles. "You must have both been mortified, horrified, most embarrassing moment of your lives huh?, well so far I mean..." she was cut off by more, louder laughs. That story sure made her forget all about Justin for now.

Then the moment of happiness disappeared like the wind due to Matt and Nika's overwhelming lovingly ways. They were just too much in love it was making Gaby sad. She was most saddened with the realization that she'd never be able to experience such overwhelming love. Even if she and Justin split up, she could never love another man. Justin had given her a wound that could never heal.

Gabriella was relieved to hear that Nika had offered to help Nathalie plan her wedding. She felt bad that she was too weak to lend a hand to one of her best friends. Perhaps after the pregnancy she would be in a slightly better emotional state. Maybe she was just feeling so love-less mainly because hormones. She'd hate to discover that her love-less feelings would last way past pregnancy. Blaming pregnancy was all that could keep her together. "You understand, right?" she asked Nat.

Meanwhile Lillian spotted Jackie and Maddy in the water. She waved to Maddy, not just out of politeness but also because Maddy had never done anything to tick her off, yet. "Hey, Jackie is looking bigger and bigger every time we see him." she told Maddy as she carried Kylie out to the water and over by them. "How old is he now?" she asked. "Kylie's three, in case you were wondering." she explained. Kaci on the other hand had returned back from the bathroom and carried the wandering twins over to Lillian. "Forget something?" she asked Lilly in an annoyed tone of voice. "No, what?" Lillian replied. "Um..let's see...how about Gaby's twins. You were watching them, remember?" she yelled. Lillian blushed, "You have them now, I'm busy." she rudely replied. Kaci responded by rolling her eyes and moving away from them, still allowing the twins to be in the water.

Haylie on the other hand began digging a hole to hide her swimmies. "i do want to hide em'. see." she replied as she handed Jamie one of her sandcastle building shovels. "owr mommys can't never find em' here." she told him with an innocent smile.

[nikadawson]

Tony kissed her back, and than again, and again, and again. It was about to turn into a full out make out session before he remember where they were. He pulled back, but didn't let his arms leave her waist. "Of course you deserve me, you deserve so much more than me. And it does make the day special, my parents would love it. They're coming next week, would you like to meet them? They and my brother Ricky, he finally dug himself out of the hole he was residing under in some country in Africa. Matt and him don't really get along, neither do me and him really," he told her. He hoped asking her to meet his parents wasn't to much.

Nika thought about what Gabby had said about love. She had never really thought that she had loved Matt more than anyone could love someone. She did think that she loved Matt more than she could possibly love another man, but sometimes there were doubts in the back of her mind. What if he ever found another girl? Someone prettier, smarter, better tempered. But than he would look at her, and he wouldn't even have to say the words, because his eyes would say everything, and she knew that she was the only girl in his life. She didn't know if it would ever change, but she was happy right now, and she couldn't think about what ifs. She also knew that Gabby probably thought that she would never love anyone else, but Gabby was also still a young, vibrant, intelligent, beautiful woman. It could happen again. But she hoped, for Gabby's sake, that Justin came back. The question would be if he did, would Gabby want to take him back.

She decided to try to cheer her up a little more, by telling the rest of the story of their engagement, "Oh, that wasn't all. See, they had lights, and we weren't that far from the beach, and when we got out of the water, naked, some old women are yelling to Matt, that he has a nice butt, and a couple of pervert guys are whistling at me. Than, after we finally got out of their line of sight, we remembered that we had taken are clothes off near shore, and after we searched for about a half and hour again, we figured out that the tide had carried them away. So, we had to walk naked, hiding behind trees and bushes, trying not to come into contact with anyone else, to the car, where luckily Matt had kept are coats, which were long enough to cover us on the drive home. Plus it was the end of March, so it was still a little cold, so we ended up getting colds."

She laughed. It had been so long since she had laughed at that night. Matt's mom and her mom had both sworn up and down when they saw the sight of the two of them that night, freezing, wrapped only in coats, and dripping wet. The two had managed to stutter excuses without telling the whole story.

Matt decided right than that it was time to take off his t-shirt. The sight of her love's chiseled six pack abs would have almost certainly caused a reaction in her she didn't want to act on in front of other people is she hadn't been laughing.

"Honey, showing off, not that I don't think you hot like that," she teased. Matt grinned, his blue eyes twinkling.

"You know I'll only ever show off for you love," his grinned, stretching, making the muscles in his stomach tighten, and was it just her, or was it getting hotter, "No, just thought I'd take up sunbathing."

"Well, you'll need a lot, since your as pale as a ghost," she teased, giggling. He wrapped his legs around hers and pulled her down to lay with him.

"We can sunbathe together," he whispered in her ear, but she was currently glaring at the numerous girls on the beach who appeared dazed, looking at her love's half naked form in admiration. She wanted to growl at them, but he had just placed a kiss under her ear, so she decided to focus on other things.

Maddy wasn't sure if she should wave back to the girl, but she did out of politeness. Maddy usually wasn't very good with people, she hoped she wouldn't stutter if Lillian said something to her. When asked how old Jackie was, "Oh, he's almost ten months now." She smiled at Kylie, she was a cute little girl. Jackie had decided he liked tugging on her hair, so she had to softly pull his little fist away before he cause he scalp damage. Listening to the argument between the two girls, she wondered if she should move away. Was it private?

Jaime loved the way Haylie's mind work. She and him had set to the task of burying the dreaded swimmies. There was a twinkle in his eyes at the thought of getting rid of them. "Never, ever find them," he agreed with her.