[karana]

Chapter 11: Commercial man and bikinis

The next morning, after breakfast, the whole family wanted to go to the beach. Luke and William were already waiting impatiently, while Lorelai was still changing. Laila was whining about her hair and Sara was looking for a way to work the stuffed animal, she wanted to bring, into her backpack, because Luke had told her not to bring it.
When Lorelai finally came down the stairs in a black skirt and blue top, with black flip-flops, William and Luke both gave her the same unnerved look.
“Mr. Grumpy and his grumpy son standing grumping in a corner...” she sang to tease them.
“Mommy, my hair isn´t looking good. Daddy did the pig-tails all wrong.” Laila whined and stood in front of Lorelai to show her.
“It doesn´t matter anyway, because your hair will get wet and then it will look strange no matter what!” Luke told her.
“But I need to be pretty.” She argued with him.
“Princess you are pretty, but let me fix this.” Lorelai said, opened the pig-tails, pulled them up a bit higher and Laila was content.
Sara came out of the living room then and one leg of her stuffed-animal dog was hanging out of the back-pack, but she was confident, that Luke wouldn´t notice. He did.
“Sara, I told you that this dog stays here at the house!” He told her.
“No, he wants to come!” Sara said and stomped with one foot on the floor.
“No way, he will get dirty and wet and then I will have to clean this stupid thing.” Luke said and took the backpack out of her hands.
“He is not stupid you are!” She yelled at him.
“Watch your words! You will not talk to me like that or you can stay here with him.” Luke scolded and took the dog out of the bag.
“If I have to leave him here I won´t wear my shoes.” Sara yelled at him.
“That´s fine by me, you will step in the stones and burn your feet on the hot sand, not me. And now go, we want to leave.” Luke said and ushered her out of the house.
“Mommy please!” She pouted and whined.
“Stop it , Missy, you heard what your father said and now shoo!” Lorelai agreed with Luke, who slung one arm around her waist and together they walked to the beach.
Sara had really left her shoes behind at the house and although the stones hurt her, as did the hot pavement, she was too stubborn to complain and kept jumping from one leg to the other.
Luke and Lorelai watched her for some time, but when they reached the beach with the hot sand, Luke, who had taken the shoes with him, gave her her shoes.
“Put on your shoes now. No discussion.” He said and Sara obliged, but with an insulted expression. Lorelai just smiled at Luke, because of their stubborn daughter, while William and Laila skipped ahead.
“Here?” They would yell every few seconds, to know where they could lay down their towels.

After ten minutes they had found a nice spot on the beach and the kids immediately threw their towels in the sand, pulled off their clothes and wanted to run into the sea, but their parents stopped them.
“Hey, stay here, you can not swim and you won´t go in the sea without your water-wings! Will, one should think you´ve had enough underwater experience.” Lorelai said and the kids moaned disappointedly.
“Then hurry up.” Laila sighed and rolled her eyes.
“Well, you can fold your clothes in the meantime and get them out of the sand and in one pile.” Luke ordered and again they moaned, but obliged. Luke and Lorelai meanwhile blew up the air-wings.
The kids wanted to run off again, but again they stopped them.
“Here are the rules: One, you stay where we can see you. Two, you won´t go any further into the water than when it reaches your ankles. Three, no throwing of stones or mud. Understood?” Luke asked.
“But daddy, we can´t learn how to swim when we can´t go into the sea.” William complained.
“You can learn how to swim when we are with you or in the pool. It´s too dangerous out there with the waves. “ Luke explained.

While the kids built sand-castles near the sea Luke and Lorelai undressed. When Luke turned around and saw Lorelai his eyes nearly popped out, because she was wearing a black bikini which left nothing to the imagination.
“Is this new?” He asked when he had found his voice again.
“Uhuh. You like?” She asked him seductively, slid her arms around his neck, and pressed her body against his.
“Can you rub my back with the sun-lotion, I can’t reach it!” She whispered in his ear and placed a kiss on his throat.
“Of course I can.” He whispered back and kissed her. She lay down on her towel, and he opened the clasp of her bikini-top. He dripped some sun-lotion on her back and started to rub it into her skin. He had decided when she had asked him, that he would give her a little bit of her own medicine and so he did not rub it in her back with both hands, but stroked lightly with two fingers over her back, her shoulders, her neck, her hips, and down her legs.
“Luke, my back.” She moaned and goose-bumps broke out on her skin. Luke kept stroking over her skin and she kept moaning from time to time. After a while he leaned towards her and whispered in her ear.
“Not that pleasant when someone get´s you all hot and you can´t release, huh?” She turned her head a bit and looked into his grinning face.
“You are an evil man, Danes!” She said and smiled, then placed a kiss on the tip of his nose.
Luke started rubbing the sun-lotion in her skin, for real this time.
“It´s not my fault, that we are both so sexually frustrated at the moment.” Lorelai told him.
“Well, mine either.” Luke said.
“I think we should wear them out today, so that they just fall into bed. Hope we won´t have anymore drama today, they are healthy again ... I think our chances are good for a little Luke and Lorelai alone time this evening, and tonight and tomorrow morning...” She grinned.
“You´ve got it all planned out already, huh? Let´s hope your plan works.” Luke grinned back and kissed her before he helped her up and they made their way over to the kids.

“Wow, are you building a new house for us?” Lorelai asked.
“No, that´s a house for Meeko when he wants to visit the beach some day.” Laila explained. William was the first to look up.
“Mommy, what are you wearing?” He asked her and Lorelai looked confused at Luke, who looked just as surprised.
“My bikini. Why?” She asked him.
“You really shouldn´t wear a bikini, but a bathing-suit” William said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“Why? I got my figure back after the pregnancies and nothing is wobbly!” Lorelai defended herself.
“Mommy how old are you?” William asked and put his hands on his hips.
“Forty-two.” She said and mirrored his position.
“Women at forty-two don´t wear bikinis anymore.” William said and nodded once to emphasize his statement. Luke was shaking with laughter already, which brought him a slap on the chest from his wife.
“Who says so?” She asked in a high-pitched voice.
“The TV-commercial. They say that women over forty don´t wear bikinis anymore and that´s why they are making such nice bathing suits for older women now.” William explained. Lorelai gasped.
“They... you... I... I´m not...” She tried to say something, which caused Luke to laugh even harder.
“You don´t know anything about that, because you are not a woman over forty!” She said with an outstretched finger pointing at his face.
“But the man in the commercial does!” William shot back.
“Pff, a man!” Lorelai rolled her eyes and stomped off.
Luke laughed, and the kids kept building their castle, while Lorelai sulked on her towel while flipping through a Glamour magazine.

Still smirking Luke stopped by after twenty minutes and asked her to come into the water with them. She needed a little wooing from his side to agree, but kept pouting all the way into the water.
The kids were happily splashing around them, and Luke and Lorelai swam a little, dove a little, and played with the kids and the waves.
“Aaaah, another huge one!” Lorelai yelled and threw herself in Luke´s arms, which caused him to fall over, taking her with him they fell into the sea. The kids laughed about their parents’ clumsiness, which caused another water-fight.
When they lay on the ground, Luke on top of Lorelai now, she grinned at him and then squeezed his butt with both hands. She kept them there and he groaned.
“A little payback for your attack with the sun-lotion earlier. I see, or should I say feel, you like it!” she said. Luke started to grin also, then rolled them over and farther into the sea, so that she was completely under the water. She gasped when he pulled her back up.
“I saw, or should I say felt, that you needed a little cooling off!” He told her. She tried to to dunk him under the water, also, climbed on his back, pulled at his legs, but he just kept laughing. The kids came to help her and finally Luke gave in and let himself fall into the water. The kids and Lorelai screamed out their victory.

They bantered all morning and afternoon on the beach, built one castle after the other, and everyone got their fair share of water and sand in the face, the eyes, ears, and everywhere else.
Lorelai kept teasing Luke with her bikini, but he found ways to tease her back.
They all took a shower or a bath when they arrived back at the house and decided to eat out that day, because Luke wasn´t in the mood to cook and Lorelai said, that it is fair because he cooks on holidays, too.

They ate at a good fish restaurant, which caused Sara to whine because she didn´t like fish. But Luke and Lorelai were lucky, because they found some spaghetti on the kid’s menu.

When they arrived back at the house again, the kids were asleep and Luke carried William and Sara while Lorelai had Laila in her arms.
“God, they are getting heavy.” She groaned and placed Laila on the bed. Luke smiled and walked past the room, first lay Sara in her bed, then William.
“You are complaining, I carried two!” He said when he was out in the hallway again.
“Oh, my poor husband. But should I carry them or what?” She asked him.
“We still have to change them.” He ignored her comment.
“You really want to change them?” She asked him.
“Of course, they can´t sleep in their clothes.” He said. Lorelai stepped towards him and started to play with the buttons of his dress-shirt and opened the first.
“But if we change them now, then maybe they will wake up again and then we have to read to them and sing and wait until they fall asleep again, which reduces our special alone time to some extent.” She said, her gaze fixated on the buttons she played with. When she looked up at him, his lips immediately crashed down on her own.
Luke pressed her against the wall in the hallway and she unbuttoned his shirt. It fell on the floor, when he slipped out of it.
“Up.” She mumbled breathless against his lips, before she kept kissing him again. He lifted her up and her legs wrapped around his waist, and his hands on her butt, which caused them both to moan. She started sucking on his neck, while he first nibbled on her earlobe, then took the clips out of her hair, so that it fell freely on her shoulders.
“Bedroom.” He groaned and stumbled with her into the bedroom, kicking the door shut. They fell onto the bed, still kissing. Lorelai rolled them over and straddled him and grinned down at him.
“Finally.” She whispered just seconds before their lips crashed together again.
“Too many clothes, mister.” Lorelai murmured and started to unbuckle his belt.
“You´re one to talk!” He smiled and started to unbutton her blouse. But the urge to kiss each other once again took over and she lay down on top of him, kissed him again, before she sat back up and he followed her. He resumed unbuttoning her blouse and had reached the fifth button when the door-bell rang. They stopped, stared at each other, their lips still connected.
“Tell me that I miss heard. The doorbell did not ring!” She said, but Luke didn´t need to answer, because the doorbell rang again.
“I don´t believe this! Has the whole universe decided to form a unit against us? What have we done, Luke, what?” She whined and started to rebutton her blouse.
“I don´t know, but what stupid idiot rings the doorbell at this time of night. This better be important, otherwise I´m gonna kick his ass!” Luke fumed and rebuckled his belt.
“Kick him no matter what. The sooner the better, so that we can finish what we started three days ago! Is it really too much that I wanna have mind-blowing, earth-shattering sex with my husband?” Lorelai asked.
“Where is my shirt?” Luke wanted to know and the bell rang again.
“God, yes you idiot, wake up the kids, so that we don´t get a chance at all tonight!” Lorelai nearly yelled frustrated. Together they walked into the hall and Luke picked up his shirt from the floor and slipped it on.
“Daddy, who is it?” a sleepy William asked and came out of his room.
“Great.” Luke groaned and he and Lorelai shared a desperate look and when he had buttoned his shirt Luke picked up William, who yawned loudly.
“We don´t know, but we will check now.” Lorelai said aggressively and they stomped downstairs, William still on Luke´s arm and Lorelai threw the door open.
“Hi.” came the simple greeting from the other side, together with a smile. The three of them just stared and Luke was the first one who found his voice again.
“Rory?” He asked.
TBC