Waking up, I felt lips kissing my shoulder. I could feel a warm body spooning me from behind. I slowly smiled, I wanted to wake up every morning with one of my guys in bed with me. It gave me a sense of security and reminded me that I was no longer alone. I reached over my shoulder and my hand came in contact with a stubbly cheek. For some weird reason I always like the feeling of that on a man's cheek.

"Sorry my face is so scruffy. I need to shave." Chase said.

"Mmmm... don't worry about it. I like it." I told him.

"You like that?" he said as he dragged his face across my shoulder.

It made me shiver. "Oh yeah..." I groaned as he nuzzled his cheek against my neck. Slowly I turned onto my back and let his continue to rub his face lightly on my body. He lifted his head up to survey my body.

"I think that I have to stop that now. Your skin is turning pink in places."

"Aww... really? It doesn't hurt."

"No sweetheart, it will later if I continue. No rashes for you! I have a better idea, let's shower together."

I perked up and nodded eagerly. I haven't done that before! He took me into his bathroom and it had no bathtub. Instead there was an extra large walk in shower with stone bench seats and nozzles from the three walls and a lovely glass wall/door. Chase turned the water on to heat it up and we brushed our teeth quickly before stepping into the shower. It felt nice!

Chase showed me a shelf in there already with a pink razor, soap and some girlie shampoo and conditioner. The soap and shampoo set was scented in cinnamon. "Did you plan this ahead of time?" I teased him.

"No, but I did hope!" he said laughingly while tilting a fog free mirror so that he could shave his face. He put shaving cream on his face and started to scraping away with his razor. I got my hair wet and shampooed and conditioned before soaping and shaving my body. I really liked having the seats in the shower because it made it so much easier to shave my legs. Wondering how I was going to be able to shave my bikini line in front of Chase without being too embarrassed, I decided that since he's seen all of me anyways, it didn't matter. I went ahead and did it. When I was done I looked up and saw that Chase was looking at me with a grin.

"It's interesting to see a woman's shower ritual." he explained to me.

I just shook my head. "What's so interesting about it?"

"Well, I think that men don't realize how much work goes into women shaving themselves. Most men just complain about having to shave their faces everyday. Women have to do much more!"

I grinned at him. "One of these days I'll break down and try laser hair removal."

He laughed and said, " I think that I want to come along for that appointment!"

Then we were done and the water was turned off and he handed me a towel. Drying ourselves off we talked about his uncle and aunt. "I thank God everyday for Phil and Mavis. I don't know how I would have turned out if they hadn't been there for me. My own parents were just lost in their own lives and I think that they only had me because they were expected to have children. My aunt and uncle were always watching me on weekends and even weekdays. They helped me get into the Academy and it kept me straight. I'm the only kid though and my parents were killed in a car accident when I was 18, so other than my aunt and uncle, my family is everyone in this house."

I gave him a hug and a kiss saying, "Well, you'll always have me. I'm not going anywhere."

Chase smiled and hugged me back, "Good!"

I threw on the pajama set that he had given me last night to wear. "You know, you don't have to wear anything at all. We don't mind you walking around nude." Chase teased me.

"I really don't feel like doing the walk of shame completely naked!" I exclaimed.

I gave him a little peck on the cheek and then headed off to my own room to get dressed. I carried my dress, underwear and shoes in my arms and left the jewelry in his room to get later. Lexine wasn't in the bed when I opened the door and I felt a momentary flutter of panic. I suppressed it reminding myself that the guys would never let her disappear or wander off on her own. After all the bed was made so one of them had been here with her. A knock sounded on my bedroom door and I called out to whoever it was to just come in.

Wyatt stepped inside. "Hey just thought that you might want to know that Lexine is downstairs with us. We let you and Chase sleep in since you guys were up late last night."

"That was thoughtful of you! Thanks." I said as I opened my underwear drawer and looked over my options.

Wyatt came closer to look in the drawer too. He pointed to a bright red demi cup bra with matching string sided panties. "Wear that," he told me with a smile. I gave him an amused glance. "It's because it matches the way you smell. Like a red hot candy." 

I had to laugh. It was pretty funny. I knew which candy he spoke of, I remembered eating them as  kid. "Sure." I told him and threw them on the bed. Wyatt sat down on the bed and stretched out while I went into my closet and grabbed some dark blue jeans and a dark red top. I grabbed the hem of the top ready to pull it off and then hesitated looking at Wyatt.

"Nothing I haven't seen before darling." He said with a grin. "I'm staying for the show."

I rolled my eyes and then stripped off the shirt. Going for broke, I dropped the pants as well and stepped out of them. His grin widened and his eyes roved up and down my naked body. He wanted a show? I'd give him one. Apparently he had learned nothing from the hallway incident! I casually picked up the panties and bent over to step into them so that he got a great view of my butt. Standing up straight and pulling them up, I made sure to wiggle and make my breasts bounce around. I swore that I saw drool on his face. Instead of putting the bra on next I decided to stay topless while pulling my jeans on with plenty of boob bouncing action.

Sneaking a look at him from the corner of my eye, I saw that he had his phone out! "You had better not be recording this!" I screeched at him. He started laughing and I tackled him on the bed trying to wrestle the phone from his hand. Of course I had no wrestling skills or upper body strength to match Wyatt's so he managed to flip me over and pin my hands above my head with one hand while taunting me with his phone in the other hand.

"Well, this feels familiar." He said with a wicked grin at me.

"Please tell me that you weren't recording me getting dressed!" I begged him.

His grin grew even wider. "Maybe I did, maybe I didn't."

"Wyatt! Seriously."

"No darling, I didn't. My phone is off. Since you were teasing me, I thought that I'd tease you back. I'd never film you naked."

I relaxed slightly and he put his phone back in his pocket and let go of my hands. Remembering that I was topless, I blushed and draped an arm across my chest to cover me from his intense gaze. He pulled my arm off and said, "You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Don't hide from me. I swear that you can stare at me all you want when I'm naked just to make things even."

That made me laugh and push at him to get off of me so that I could finish getting dressed. I got my bra and shirt on with no further interruptions. I brushed my hair and put it in a haphazard twist with a clip and went downstairs with Wyatt.

He looked down at my feet. "No shoes?"

"Nope! Not unless we are leaving the house."

Wyatt just smiled at me and shook his head while we entered the living room where everyone else was at. Lexine ran up to me and I swept her up in my arms and gave her a big hug and kiss. She hugged me back and then squirmed down to grab my hand and pull me towards the backyard. I gently stopped her and explained. "I know that you want to play in the backyard but Mommy hasn't eaten yet today and I have no shoes on."

Wyatt came to my rescue and said to her, "Hey, let's go outside while your mommy eats ok? We'll play on your playground." She nodded eagerly and took the hand that he held out for her. They went outside and Chase and I went into the kitchen to find food with Preston and Jake trailing after us. After looking in the fridge and conferring with each other, we decided that we didn't breakfast because it was closer to lunchtime. Opting to each the leftover Korean food from our midnight snack, we sat down at the table with Preston and Jake to tell them about last night.

They tried to hide a smile when they heard about Melinda and Brenda and what Sang and I had said to them. Jake's smile grew tender when Chase told him about my request to make sure that Melinda was ok. "That's my girl." he said warmly to me. Preston nodded in agreement.

"Aunt Mavis and Uncle Phil loved her just like I thought," Chase said smiling, "Aunt Mavis was bugging her to make some more babies with us. She also said that we needed to get together and Delphine asked her for stories about us."

Preston froze for a second then let out a huge groan. "She does have some wild ones of us. Things that I would like to forget."

Jake started laughing and said, "Maybe she won't tell her some of the juicier ones."

I just giggled and said, "I can't wait to hear them!"

"What did you tell her about having babies?"Preston asked me.

"I said that I planned on it! Mavis seemed really excited about it. She wants more babies to spoil."

"She does love babies. Ours would be spoiled beyond belief with love." Jake said.

I smiled at that thought. Who's baby would I have first, I wondered. A little girl with brown hair and brown eyes like Brady? A little boy with blonde hair like Jake with my eyes? The possibilities were many. Touching my stomach absent mindedly, thinking about having another baby filled my heart with happiness. I loved being a mother.

I came back into focus when I realized that Chase was waving his hand in front of my face. "Where did you go off to?" he asked me affectionately.

"Oh, I was thinking about babies. Our future babies."

Chase, Jake and Preston exchanged glances and smiles. They looked pretty happy at the thought of our future children too. "I wonder if the first baby will be a girl." Preston pondered.

"It's a fifty, fifty chance that it will be a boy." Jake countered.

"There's a chance of one of each if the father has twins running in the family." Chase said.

Jake and Preston looked dumbfounded at that. Both of them thought about it and shook their heads. "Unfortunately, there aren't any in my family background." Jake said.

"Nor is there any in mine that I know of." Preston remarked.

I gave them both a smile and changed the subject. "Well, I'm done eating. What are the plans today?"

Preston spoke up. "Well, there isn't any real plans for today than just taking it easy and hanging out at home. Is there anything in particular that you would like to do?

"I think that thanks to you guys, I have gotten to see quite a bit of Charleston. Um, Halloween is coming up soon. I always take Lexine out trick or treating. Since there aren't really any neighbors here, I'm assuming that you don't need to buy any candy to hand out."

"We haven't really done anything for Halloween since we were kids. The only I have to look forward to are the idiots that manage to hurt themselves that night. They do get themselves into some interesting messes." Chase said.

"We really should take out Lexine to go trick or treating. I'll find a nice neighborhood for us to go to that night." Jake offered.

"That would be great! I still need to get a costume for Lexine though. I wonder what she wants to be this year."

"Why don't we go shopping for a costume? There's a few costume shops that I know of in Charleston. We can let Lexine pick out something." Preston suggested.

"I wish I could go but I have to work for a few hours today," Chase said a looking a little disappointed. "You guys go have fun and I'll see her costume tomorrow."

I grabbed his hand and gave it a little squeeze. "How long do you have to work till?" I asked him.

"Oh, probably through late tonight. I switched shifts with another doctor to get yesterday off. Don't expect me home for dinner sweetheart."

I gave him a sympathetic smile and kissed him on the cheek. "I had the best time last nigh with you." I whispered in his ear.
He smiled and me and said, "Me too."

Standing up to clean up the table and throw the boxes away, Jake and Preston helped me clean up while Chase got ready for work. I went upstairs to get my socks and shoes on and then came back downstairs with my everyday purse and phone in hand. Wyatt had brought Lexine back inside and since she looked excited, I was sure that they had told her where we were going. Jake took my hand, led me out the front door and the others followed us to the family car.