Lakehouse Love

Secrets Revealed

After hoisting the American flag up the pole on top of the boat house, and releasing the now fully recovered bird that Lamonsoff hurt on the group's second day, the woman and Rob's daughters head back into the lake house to finish their cheer uniforms for the basketball rematch. Lenny, Rob and Lamonsoff sit inside the boat house play shoots and ladders while gambling peanuts with Nate, Jay and Umbra relaxing on the roof in deck chairs.

"I am tired. Marcus, your snoring kept me up all night long." Jasmine shouts from the dock.

"You're a dead man. Get back here." Rob shouts making the trio on the roof sit up seconds before Marcus comes running up the stairs. "Come back here, That's my baby girl. I thought you were my friend."

"Leave me alone. Drink your maize." Marcus yells throwing the pile of inflatables down at the main who received an arrow to the foot the same day his daughters arrived at the lake house.

"You're gonna pay this time." Rob announces reaching the roof of the boat house while Marcus climbs the railing beside the flag pole, neither noticing the two eighteen year olds watching in confused amusement. "You bastard. I'll show you how to be nice."

"Bad turtles."

"You evil pig." Rob spits smacking his friends legs with a board game as Lenny, Kurt and Eric charge up the stairs to break up the fight.

"Robbie. Robbie. Robbie, wait." Lenny attempts to defuse the situation as Nate and Jay move to put themselves between Rob and Marcus. "Stop. Stop."

"Hey, break it up, man. Jeez, guys." Eric comments as Jay and Nate step back at his silent direction.

"All right."

"Calm Down." Marcus tell his friend. "Buddy. Buddy. What's the problem?"

Everyone cringes when Rob kicks Marcus in the balls with his injuries foot.

"How could you do that? That's my daughter." Rob questions his friend as the teen duo take a few more steps back.

"Do what?" Marcus presses still confused.

"Shake the bed with her." Rob clarifies making Nate and Jay both whistle lowly.

"You think I would do that to you?"

"Out of any of us, you'd be the one to do that." Lenny explains.

"You did sleep with Stimpson's mother." Kurt adds earning a round on nods as the rest of the guys agree.

"I don't even known that guy. He was your friend. I barely knew him." Marcus exaggerates defensively. "She grabbed my wiener, I told you guys. That's his daughter. It's different."

"Me and him?" Jasmine asks joining the group on the roof. "Okay. Maybe I flirted with him but that was just to get your attention."

"Well, what about his snoring?"

"I heard it too?" Amber adds also joining the group.

Lenny makes a buzzer noises prior to Rob kicking Marcus in the nuts for a second time with his injured foot.

"Wasn't he asleep in the closet in the main area of the house?" Nate whispers to Jay, who had found the man before leaving for her sunrise run that morning.

"Yep." She answers, eyes fixed to watching the scene play out.

"We heard it from three rooms away." Bridget says stepping onto the roof and ultimately clearing everything up.

"What happened to your head?" Rob asks his blonde daughter.

"When I was changing into my PJ's I got the feeling that some perv was looking through my window so I went to close the shade when I tripped and hit my head." Jasmine explains and no-one notices Jay and Nate look to the staircase where Greg and Andre are shrinking back in guilt.

"Yeah, dude. That's your daughter. I'd never be with her. You're my best friend, man. And Jasmine'd never be with me, because I'm me. Higgins apologises seconds before the mums and Gloria come up the stairs. "Sorry I don't have my whole life together like Lenny."

"Oh, together, like Lenny." Roxanne repeats as the mothers reach the top of the boat house. "Please. I answered your phone, hipócrita. It was your assistant. I asked him if he canceled the flight to Milan. He said he did. Before we even come here?"

"He said that? Why would he say that? I mean..." Lenny attempts to defend himself only for Roxanne to cut him off.

"So he just made that up, huh?"

"I'm not saying he made it up. I think. In his head he believes it's true."

"Don't you agent me, Lenny." Roxanne snarls stepping almost chest to chest with her husband. "Stop trying to handle everybody and everything-"

A sharp, high-pitched whistle pierces the tense air, causing the undermining argument to pause and all attention to turn to Jay. Dropping her fingers from her mouth, aggravation clearly decorates Jay's expression with a gleam of disappointment evident in her ivy eyes.

"Are you two really arguing over a stupid flight to a country we have been to countless of times, to attend an event we go to every year. Just because dad cancelled it before we got here?" Jay questions angrily as her eyes flicker between Roxanne and Lenny. "I leave for Miami in a month and the only thing I wanted before I moved out, was ONE family holiday without anything to do with either of your jobs. I guess even after eighteen years, I'm still never gonna get that."

Sending one last glance towards her parents, Jay's shoulders drop before she walks off and away from the boat house; Umbra quickly staring from his sunbathing spot on the dock to chase his human into the woods.

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Sat on the outlook rock behind the rope swing, Jay stares through the clearing of trees to the forest lining the opposite side of the lake; her hand subconsciously scratching Umbra's neck as he lays beside her. The white noise of nature surrounds the pair until the crunch of fallen leaves and sticks shatters the comfortable atmosphere.

Keithie climbs up onto the rock and sits beside his older sister, snuggling into her side when Jay curls her arm around his shoulders. The white noise doesn't get the chance to return as Greg and Becky emerge from the forest line in search of their siblings. Becky steps over Umbra to curl up on Jay's lap, the five year old's head resting on her sister's collarbone while Greg moves to sit beside Umbra until the K-9 moves. Copying his brother's position on Jay's right side, Greg rests his other hand on Umbra's head following the rescue setting his muzzle on the boy's thigh.

"Your really leaving?" Keithie is the first to speak out of the siblings.

"You guys are still stuck with me for another month till that happens." Jay comforts her little brother, squeezing her arm around his shoulders slightly.

"How far away is the university?"

"Little over a day and a half drive from home, Greggie."

"I don't want you to leave."

"Don't worry, Ladybug. I'll come back fro the holidays, I promise."

Feeling some comfort by their older sister's words, the three younger Feder siblings snuggle closer to her as the white noise of their surrounds over takes the air.