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So, da ich nicht recht weiß, was ich zu den reviews sagen soll, außer "Danke", werd ich es auch dabei belassen.
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Chapter 3

„Luke, I could teach Sam how to swim“, Kirk informed him while they walked to the pool, after their stop at the toilets.

“He is two years old, Kirk” Luke replied.

“You can never start early enough. I could show you stats about the swim-training of babies. It’s a shame you never took him to one of my baby-swim classes”, Kirk mourned.

“That’s because it’s your swim-classes”, Luke muttered.

“Luke can I go over to the really deep water?” Davey asked and interrupted Kirk who had just opened his mouth to reply.

“No, you better stay here where I can see ya. I can stand here, you can’t so you can swim around here”, Luke told him and got slowly into the water with Sam on his arm, who squeaked excitedly.

“But I can swim”, Davey insisted.

“I know you can, but your mother will kill me with one of her knives, or all of them for that matter, if you would drown over there while I am all the way over here. So the kids pool with your sisters or the lower side in here. Chose”, Luke replied through clenched teeth because the water was so cold.

“Aw man”, the boy muttered, but then jumped into the pool.

“Young man it is prohibited to jump into the pool from the side”, Taylor suddenly appeared out of nowhere to lecture Davey.

“Leave the boy alone, Taylor”, Luke said immediately.

“If he jumps on a swimming person then…” the town-selectman started.

“They are all way over there”, Luke said and pointed to the deeper side of the pool. ”The only one here are Sam and me, so leave us alone, before you will be in here with or without the vest for what I care”.
Taylor gasped, but then marched off without another word.

“S’ut up Taylor”, Sam giggled again and started to splash into the water with his arms.

~*~
“Sooo, you got Luke to come to the pool with you”, Sookie said and wiggled her eyebrows suggestively.

“Not really, he just suddenly showed up, I had not nothing to do with it” , Lorelai replied, but her smile gave her away.

“Uhuh, come on. Tell me, what did you do?” Sookie tried to whisper.

“Well, I might have tried on my bathing- suit at home and then showed him while he made breakfast”, Lorelai grinned.
“Oooh, so you did it in the kitchen again?”, Sookie asked excitedly

“Sookie!”, Lorelai said, but laughed. “Sam was right there wanting his breakfast”, she informed her friend.

“Aw, so no kitchen sex?”

“No, no kitchen sex”, Lorelai shook her head and looked over to the kid’s pool where Sookies daughters were playing.

“Hey is Martha allowed to use her water-wings to make bubbles in the water?”, she turned back to Sookie.

“Martha! Stop that and blow up your water-wings again!” Sookie screamed from the blanket to the pool, but Martha just laughed.

“Martha! Right now! Stop that or I will get you! Martha! I will come and get you” Sookie yelled and Lorelai patted Kaira’s back soothingly when the baby started to fuzz.

“Princess, you know that aunt Sookie is always yelling and squealing… no big deal”, she whispered in her daughter’s ear and kissed her head. When she looked back up she found her friend staring at her with a wide smile.

“What?” Lorelai asked confused.

“It’s just so nice seeing you like this”, Sookie shrugged.

“Like what?”

“So… I don’t know.. happy I guess”.

“I’ve been happy before Sookie”, Lorelai laughed and blushed.

“But not like this. Since you got married and had Sam and Kaira.. I don’t know”, Sookie trailed off and shrugged again.

“Yeah, well.. it’s what I always wanted and now I have it. After all this time with just Rory and me I somehow feel like I am finally having a family. I mean we had a family before, Rory and me, but it’s not the same. I might never be Kaira’s best friend, but I was her mother from the first second and she has a father to watch over her as well. It’s just... sometimes I can’t believe it all… and then I get sad because he was right there all these years and I was just too ignorant to see him. We could have had this years ago”, Lorelai said, her smile gone now.

“Do you think it would have lasted?” Sookie asked her.

“What do you mean?”

“I just don’t know... maybe you needed all this time and the mistakes that came with it to get here”, Sookie wondered.

“Maybe you’re right”, Lorelai replied and smiled when Kaira started to suck on her shoulder.
“You can’t be serious, honey”, Lorelai said to her daughter when she took her from her shoulder and looked at her.

“Seems like she inherited your appetite”, Emily’s voice could be heard suddenly and Lorelai looked up.

“Mom, dad… what are you doing here?”

“Well, you were raving about the opening of the pool so we thought we could join you. We thought we could spend some time with our grandchildren”, Emil explained while Richard placed a blanket and chairs on the ground, together with a pick-nick table and several other things.

“Where is Sam?” Emily asked after looking around.

“In the water with Luke and Davey”, Lorelai said and gave Kaira her thumb to suck on, but it wasn’t what Kaira wanted and within seconds she was starting to fuzz and cry.

“Oh kid, you’re gonna eat me alive”, Lorelai said and took the blanket out of the bag and lay it over her shoulder and her chest so she could nurse her daughter.

“Uhm, I think I am going to find Luke and Sam”, Richard said uncomfortably and walked off, when he heard the smacking sounds Kaira made on Lorelai’s breast.

“Richard you forgot you cap” Emily called after him, but he waved her off and walked away as fast as he could without running.

“What is his problem?” Sookie asked and held out a towel for her youngest daughter who had just come out of the pool.

“I guess he is not too fond of seeing me breast-feed Kaira”, Lorelai laughed.


~*~

When Richard had found Luke, Sam and Davey he watched Luke and the boys for a while until Sam saw.

“Grandpa!” he screamed excitedly and tried to swim to his grandfather, who stood on the edge of the pool, but Luke held him tight and slowly walked over to his father-in-law.

“Hey Richard. Didn’t know you were coming”, he greeted him and handed him Sam, who was dripping wet.

“Yeah, well… Emily decided that the opening of the pool would be a nice opportunity to pay you a visit”, he explained and handed Sam back to Luke, his beige trousers already soaked.

“It’s good to see you again, but the pool isn’t really worth it. I think the one you have at home is bigger than that one”, Luke shrugged.

“It is not that big, but Lorelai is very enthusiastic about the little festivals in this town, so it is nice to experience one ourselves.”

“Lorelai is exaggerating. It’s just loud and annoying and crowded…” Luke started.

“And still you are here”, Richard stated.

“Yeah, well…” Luke shrugged.

“Grandpa look! I dive”, Sam interrupted them and splashed with his face into the water, like Luke had shown him. Seconds later he came back up, gasping, giggling and dripping.

“Really good Sam”, Richard nodded approvingly while Luke whipped the water out of Sam’s face with his hand.

“Grandpa look!” Sam said again and dove under again. Suddenly something splashed, Richard found himself in the pool, Luke couldn’t see anything for a moment.

“I got him! He is save! He is save” Kirk yelled and held up Sam, to show that he was okay. Because of his lifeguard job, he had thought that Sam was drowning, had jumped into the pool, had accidentally thrown Richard in with him and had disturbed Sam’s diving show, what caused the boy to cry now.

“Kirk! Give me my son!” Luke roared and took Sam from him.

“I saved him Luke!” Kirk insisted.

“He was diving, you idiot, not drowning!”

“But the water is deep over there and I had to save him. It’s my job as a lifeguard”, Kirk insisted.

“You can’t even swim Kirk!” Luke yelled at him and got out of the pool with his son, Davey and Richard following.

“Daddy, dive”, Sam cried.

“Later, buddy, You can dive later when this id… guy is gone”, Luke told him and held him tight.

“Hey, what happened, honey?” Lorelai asked, still nursing Kaira when the men came back.

“Kirk “saved” Sam”, Luke snorted.

“I dive mommy”, Sam whined.

“Oh, poor thing”, Lorelai smiled and stroked over Sam’s hair. Luke lay him down and got him out of his wet trunks, put on a diaper and his bathing-robe and then grabbed a towel for himself.

“Grandma”, Sam exclaimed when he saw Emily and jumped into her arms. Her nearly made the chair on which she was sitting topple over.

“Sam, pay attention! You’re grandma will use it against you for the rest of your life if you make her fall now. Although it would be hilarious to see”, Lorelai lectured him, but couldn’t contain a smile.

“Oh Lorelai please! I’m not resentful”, Emily said and rolled her eyes, while she adjusted Sam on her lap.

“You? Not resentful? You’re still angry with me because I spilled juice over a dress when I was barely a year old”, Lorelai huffed.

“It was a really nice dress”, Richard added.

“Mommy, I wan’ juice”, Sam said.

“We don’t have juice here Sam, but we brought tea”, Lorelai replied.

“But I wan’ juice, mommy”, Sam started to whine.

“Sam, stop yammering!”, Luke said, gave him a stern look and Sam went quiet.

“Tea daddy?” he asked and smiled brightly.

”You’re such a charmer, baby”, Lorelai laughed when she saw his smile. Luke got up and got the bottle with tea out of Sam’s diaper bag and handed it to him. Emily took off the cap for him and he snuggled against his grandmother while he nursed his tea.


~*~
The rest of the day passed without any other incidents and Luke gave Taylor his microphone back when they left the pool. After another round of bickering and a dinner together Emily and Richard had driven back to Hartford.

“Is he asleep?” Lorelai asked when Luke came back into the living-room without Sam, who he had been bathing.

“Yeah, he’s out. I guess the swimming made him tired”, Luke said and plopped down on the couch beside her. He leaned back against the couch cushions and closed his eyes for a second.

“Tired, hon’?” Lorelai asked him and stroked with her left hand up and down his neck.

“Yeah, Sam’s diving was wearing me out”, he sighed, but smiled.

“Well, you taught him how to do it”, Lorelai said.

“Yeah, big mistake. Once he started I thought he would never stop again”.

“Uhuh”, Lorelai said and started to smile at him, while her hand was still massaging his neck.

“What?” he asked when he saw her smile.

“Kaira is asleep. Absolutely exhausted. She feel asleep mid-nursing”, Lorelai informed him.

“Yeah I’m beat as well. We should go to bed”, Luke said and slowly got up.

“Luke”, Lorelai said slowly and got up as well.

“Huh?” he asked and turned back to her, because he had been walking towards the stairs already. Loerlai remained silent and just dropped the bathrobe she wore to the ground.

“Why are you still wearing this? I thought you took a shower?” Luke asked when he saw that she was wearing the bathing-suit underneath the bathrobe.

“I thought we might come back to the discussion how spectacular they are…” she said and slowly walked towards him, the looped her arms around his neck.

“You know exactly just how spectacular they are”, Luke said, but smiled and looked to her chest.

“It can never hurt to hear it again…although at the moment I would prefer you to show me”, she grinned back.

“I guess I could do that”, he nodded, looked up to her face and leaned in, kissing her slowly.

“Good”, she nodded when they broke the kiss and hugged him for a second before they walked upstairs to explore just how spectacular they found each other.

The end
(for real this time)