Ghost

Beach Day

AN: Like I said before, I have a full-time job so I try to complete these as fast as I can. Just as with the Save a Horse chapter, I have had this particular chapter in mind since the beginning. I wanted to showcase how Madison really does Charlie in. I tried to be careful and not seem as if I was objectifying Madison as I wrote this out. The comments at the end are supposed to be what it really is like on IG. And yes I may have went a bit overboard with the emojis, sue me. Anyway...Enjoy!

French/Spanish in this chapter:

Bienvenue à Parlée Beach, mon petit chou= Welcome to Parlée Beach, my little cabbage.

Tu baves= You're drooling.

Siéntate= Sit down.

Por favor= Please

mi bebé= my baby

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Charlie parked the Subaru and looked over at Madison. "Bienvenue à Parlee Beach, mon petit chou."

Madison smiled at him, her adorable tooth gap on display. "I can't believe the lobster statue is that big. This is going to be so fun."

Ghost barked excitedly in Madison's lap. Madison had put him in red swim shorts with white lining. Madison lived for dressing up the Jack Russell Terrier. "Relax, Ghost. We have to get everything out first," Charlie said to the dog who was already scratching at the window to be let out.

"I'll get the volleyball net out from the top," Brody said in the back seat behind Madison's chair." He hopped out of the car to open the roof rack.

"I'm going to find an area to set up," Meghan said in the seat behind Charlie. She got out on her side and hurried to get a good spot.

Charlie started grabbing things to put in Madison's beach bag. "Pop the trunk so I can get the cooler out." Charlie nodded and pressed the button so the rear of the car could open.

Ghost practically had his face squished against the window in his desire to get out. "Ghost you are going to fall when I open the door. Move back." Ghost just grumbled. Madison rolled her eyes. "Suit yourself, boy." Madison went around him and pulled the inside door handle. The door opened and Ghost unceremoniously flopped to the ground like a sloth. Charlie leaned over to see Ghost his face almost in the ground. He and Madison waited with baited breaths. Ghost popped up a few seconds later and shook himself off and proceeded to bark and run in circles.

"We really got the defective one, didn't we," Charlie whispered to Madison.

Madison jabbed him in the side. "He works well most of the time." Madison turned back to the hyped up dog. "Ghost, you have to carry something. You can't just run around on the beach. Ghost looked up at her with his gray eyes all sad. "Nope. Here. Take Mommy's bag." Ghost opened his mouth and held onto the strap of the small beach bag. "Go find your aunt." Ghost barked through the strap and trotted away to find his paternal aunt.

Charlie shook his head. "You know he isn't going to come back after this. He'll try to launch himself into the water as soon as Megs turns her back."

Madison smirked at him. It made Charlie feel uneasy. That wasn't the kind of smirk he liked from the Puerto Rican beauty. "Oh I know. That's why he has Daddy to look out for him." Oh fuck! Charlie scrambled to take off his seatbelt and get out of the car. Brody watched the older man race onto the sand.

"What did you say to him," the firefighter in training asked, completely bewildered by his girlfriend's brother.

"Oh nothing. Do you need me to help you get the umbrellas down, too," Madison asked casually as she stepped out of the Subaru.