Marni and Stella are at the kitchen counter, Marni is looking through a wedding dress magazine..

"This is harder than I thought" Marni says "isn't the wedding this weekend?" Stella says looking at the magazine "Yes! And I still haven't found the dress" Marni says.

"Well, it's a beach wedding in the worst case, get married without a dress, just wear a white thong" Stella laughs, Marni glares at her, Stella stops laughing.

"Yeah It wasn't funny" Stella says, Marni sighs "Relax, I'll help you" Stella says hugging Marni "Thanks" Marni says.

Charlie, Will and Ben enter the house "Hi honey" Charlie says going to kiss Marni, Stella makes a disgusted face and walks away.

"where were you?" Marni ask "Did you know that your fiancé is an excellent fisherman?" Will makes fun of him "Did you guys really spend the morning fishing?" Marni says.

"yup!" Ben puts the bucket of fish on the table "the biggest bore of my life!" Ben says.

"If you want action? throw yourself into the sea, hopefully you'll find a shark" Stella says in an aggressive tone "I don't need it when I have you right here with the same extinct killer!" Ben says in the same tone.

Aston comes down the stairs with a volleyball "people! I have an idea" Aston says "Basketball?" Stella smirk "does it look like a basketball to you young lady?" Aston laughs.

"Dad, I don't know if it's a good idea" Charlie says, Richard enters "Oh dad, no, don't turn Charlie's wedding into an Olympics" Richard says "it's just a volleyball match!" Aston says.

"I'm in!" Stella says "me too" Ben says, Stella looks at him irritated "really?" Stella says "yeah, what happened Pretty girl? afraid of losing?" Ben says "To you? Of course not" Stella says.

"Okay then" Charlie says "that's fine with me" Will says "Rich?" Stella asks "and do I have a choice?" Richard says "No!" Charlie chuckles.

"What about you Marni?" Aston asks "no thanks, I need to plan the wedding and I'm not good at sports" Marni says "huh, Stella doesn't either but she's still going to play!" Charlie says.

"Charlie!" Stella says irritated, Ben chuckles "sorry" Charlie says.

"relax we'll go easy on you" Ben says, Stella rolls her eyes and leave.

"Is she always like this?" Ben asks "moody and explosive? Sometimes, but she's a good girl" Aston says "She's usually like that when she has a reason!" Richard says slightly aggressively, Ben frowns and Charlie lightly hits Richard.

"Great, since everyone is in agreement, I'm going to the beach to prepare the field so we can play" Aston says and he leaves.

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Later Charlie is helping Aston with the volleyball net, Ben watches them he is standing in front of the pool.

Richard is drinking a beer on the porch of the house when Stella appears at the door in a bikini a shorts and a jacket tied around her waist.

"I thought you didn't like bikinis, I never saw you wearing them" Richard says "I... decided to try it" Stella says, Richard gives a slight smile.

"and this has nothing to do with what we talked about yesterday?" Richard asks "of course not, don't be a fool" Stella says "Sure, you look beautiful" Richard says "thanks" Stella says.

"I'm sure he'll think the same" Richard says "shut up" Stella says irritated "If it has nothing to do with him, why do you seem so worried about walking out that door?" Richard asks.

Stella sighs "I'm worried because...it's a lot of sun and I didn't use sunscreen" Stella says, it seems like an excuse "you'll survive" Richard teases her.

Stella takes a deep breath and unties her jacket from her waist, leaving her only in her bikini and shorts and she leaves.

"this has nothing to do with him!" Stella says "I can only believe it by seeing it!" Richard says, Stella makes an angry face.

Ben is still in front of the pool when he sees her, she is angry about the situation she sighs impatiently.

"damn, the beach is for relaxing, you know that, right?" Ben says "how can I do this with you here?" Stella says "with me" Ben smirks, Stella frowns.

"are you saying you want me to relax with you?" Stella questions "honestly I don't see much of a way out" Ben says "I don't see that happening" Stella says.

"Look, you're making a big deal out of nothing" Ben says, Stella shakes her head "and it's so hard for you to leave me alone, we don't even need to be talking to each other right now!" Stella says.

Ben shrugs "maybe it's difficult" Ben says "what?" Stella says "obviously we don't even need to look each other in the face but what if I want to?" Ben says.

"Do you want it?" Stella crosses her arms "yes, you know family parties are suck sometimes I need a distraction" Ben smiles "I'm not a clown for you to laugh at" Stella says.

"I didn't say that" Ben says "that's what I understood, you like to annoy me just to laugh in my face" Stella says "that's not what I meant" Ben says calmly.

Stella tilts her head "so what do you mean?" Stella asks "well... you look beautiful when you're mad" Ben smirk.

Stella frowns in surprise at his response, his response broke the rhythm of her anger, she looks at him in the eyes trying to understand if the comment was sincere or not.

"Nice try Olsen" Stella says firmly, Ben smiles "is that a no to my invitation to relax?" Ben asks "Oh well you go relax! You can start now in the pool" Stella says passing him and pushing him in the pool.

Ben falls into the pool "Oops!" Stella laughs and walks past him "Oh really? So it's going to be like this!?" Ben says in the pool.

Stella sits on a beach chair and picks up a magazine, Ben watches her from the page with a not very happy face.

Ben gets out of the pool, completely soaked, he fixes his hair and looks at Stella sitting in the chair and completely dry.

Stella laughs lightly seeing his situation "Are you cooler now?" Stella asks laughing "and aren't you hot?" Ben asks "no, I'm fine" Stella says and continues reading the magazine.

"Let's see" Ben says he takes off his wet shirt, He takes a towel and dries his hair quickly, she takes his wet shirt and goes towards Stella.

She doesn't look at him because she is reading the magazine, Ben puts the shirt in the pool water once again and twists the shirt above her, causing a lot of water to fall on Stella's head.

Stella gasps in anger "Ben!" Stella says irritated, Ben throws the shirt over his shoulder "Oh my bad!" Ben smiles sarcastically seeing Stella wet.

Stella looks at him irritated "oopsy!" Ben says he throws the shirt in her face and goes to the beach, Stella gasps irritably taking the shirt off her face.

Ben going to the beach looks back with a smile and sees Stella looking back at him irritated, he smiles to himself thoughtfully remembering the moment he said she's beautiful when she's mad and thinking that it really isn't a lie.

[{As this story is in development, I would love suggestions and opinions about what could happen or what you would like to see in the next chapters, please comment, I would love your guys help🥰]}