Lakehouse Love

Earnshaw Lake House

Driving down the dirt road towards the Earnshaw lake house, with the convertible hood of the SRT Hellcat down, Jay smiles as the girls jam out to Taylor Swift flooding full blast through the radio; Umbra sitting happily between Donna and Becky in the backseat.

Pulling up beside Rob's smart car, Jay smiles at the McKenzie girl sat beside her before sending the same smile into the rearview mirror. Stepping out of the car, Jay unbuckles Becky from her car seat and sets the five year old down on the gravel before releasing Umbra from his car leash. Taking her little sister's hand, Jay leads Becky over to the rest of their family as the group walk towards the lake house.

"It's cute. It'll do for one night." Roxanne tells her husband.

"Yeah? You can handle it?" Lenny rhetorically asks his wife, placing his hand on the small of her back following an infrequent buzzing filling the summer air.

"Daddy, what's that machine doing?" Becky asks looking up at her father.

"This is gonna be good." Jay mutters under her breath letting go of the five year old's hand when Becky moves closer to their parents.

"It's getting rid of the moths, honey."

"Where's it taking them?"

"Hell."

"Don't say that, Higgins." Lenny says as Jay shares a smirk with Nate at the blond male's answer.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Not hell, Mexico."

Fighting back their brewing laughter, the two eighteen year olds make the mistake of looking at each other causing them both to break; quickly covering their laughter with forced coughs when Deanne and Roxanne glare at them.

"No, it's given them electricity..." Lenny attempts to explain. "... so the moths fall asleep electrically."

'It's electrocuting them?"

"Humans did it do each other until sixteen years ago." Jay mutters under her breath, locking eyes with Keithie when he looks up at her.

"They stopped the death penalty when you were two?"

"By the electric chair in California, yeah." Jay fact checks her youngest brother's question.

"It's killing them?" Donna and Charlotte cry out as Keithie, Jay and Nate tune back into the conversation.

"No." Lenny attempts to defuse the situation.

"Daddy, no." Becky whines.

"No, no, it's not." Lenny says rushing up the front porch steps, quickly unplugging the moth killer. "Look, they're all all right, I promise."

"It's dead, dad." Greg deadpans after his father throws a moth corpse in the air, claiming it is 'still sleeping' when it fall to the floor.

"Oh, a porch swing. I know what I'm doing this weekend." Mama Ronzoni cheers waddling up the steps, almost forcing Keithie to the floor if Jay hadn't pulled him back against her stomach.

"Now he's dead." Lenny sighs in defeat.

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"Welcome back to 1978, everybody." Rob greets everyone, as he opens the doors to the lake house.

Following her parents and sibling inside, Jay rolls her eyes when her brothers already begin to complain before glancing to the presence on her left. Sharing a soft smile, then chuckle when Umbra growls warningly towards Nate, the duo turn to Lenny as he walks into the centre of the lounge/kitchen and dining area.