My Life as a Soap Opera

Carmella smiled, amused that they had both been thinking the same thing. "I agree," she said in response, looking up from her computer. "I've actually been looking into places that we could travel. I want to go somewhere exotic, with a lot of sun." She could already picture them traveling in the jungles of Africa, or on the beaches in St. Tropez. Not to mention aside from the sight seeing it would add some much needed fun to their sex lives.

" I am glad you are picking out places. I had no idea where yet" he laughed. He was so glad he had a wife like her. Made life a little easier in the debate area since they generally agreed with one another. " I got something for us to try in bed tonight" he said pulling out some little things for her to see.

Carmella blinked. "What are those?" she asked quietly. Interestingly enough the two had never really been into anything kinky with toys are anything like that. They had dabbled in food play a little bit but there was no handcuffing someone to a bed and dribbling hot candle wax on them.

" Just some new condoms to try and KY jelly. And some arrousal massage oil. " he smiled.

Carmella laughed at how nonchalant he said this, though she was relieved that it wasn't anything too wild. "Alright. We'll save that for tonight." she said, winking and then laughing softly. Getting up and walking over to the coffee pot she refilled her cup and then asked if he wanted any.

Darrick wasn't one for that sort of wildness. He liked love to be the bases for their bed, not lust. He sat down with a cup of coffee and sipped it. " Sometimes this house gets too quite. " he murmured " I miss our kids." he admitted. " I know I told Damien I was going to make his bedroom into a indoor swimming pool once he left..but......maybe I should've told him how much I would miss him. I miss making pancakes on saturday for them...." he sighed. Somedays it was hard for Darrick. He loved their kids with all his heart.

On most weekends they had their grandchildren visiting them but Carmella knew that deep down this wasn't enough for Darrick. He loved being a father. When Damien and Lizzy had first graduated from high school Carmella remembered Darrick hinting at wanting another child. She had tried to lightly explain why they couldn't do this but she knew it was still hard for him.

Darrick did struggle with it. Deep down he longed for another child but he understood she didn't want to go through the whole raising thing again not to mention they were grandparents now. It would look odd. But to Darrick who used their vampire status as a cushion always defended the fact they were normal people. But he respect Carmella's wishes even though he felt saddened.

Carmella understood his desire for children especially since as vampires they would be eternally youthful and would have the energy to. Despite this however she knew that it went against regular social norms. Perhaps one day they would consider becoming foster parents or accept a foreign exchange student.

It wouldn't be the same for him. He would settled for adoption because he adopted Clover as his daughter in a heartbeat. But Darrick figured he would get over this baby phase. Call it a weird vampire mid eternity life crisis? weird sounding but none of the less, Darrick sort of wanted to feel youthful again by having another baby around the house. There were more reasons beyond feeling youthful, of course!!! but it was an underlaying cause to his emotions.

It was hard to be irritated with a man going through his midlife crisis when part of it was that he just wanted to be able to show her yet again how much he loved her. As Carmella went through travel spots she clapped her hands together happily. "Oh, Darrick look at this! Spain looks so lovely this time of the year." she sighed dreamily.

" It does look enchanting" he smiled looking at the pictures. Too bad cars didn't give him the same thrill as babies did. Dressing them in cute clothing and making little toys for them at christmas....... he sighed softly as he went to get another cup of coffee. " What other places would you like to see, my love?" he said sipping his coffee.

"Well as I mentioned before, Africa looks very interesting. We could join a safari, the information is all on this website." She noticed the lack of anticipation in his voice and knew that he was still in one of those moods. If ever there was a man who was born to be a father than it was Darrick. Getting up from her laptop she went to him and gently placed her hands on his. Looking up at him, she softly kissed him.

He kissed her back gently. " Africa sounds like alot of fun. i want to chase the kitties x3 "

Carmella pulled back and laughed as he mused on about chasing "kitties." It relieved her a little to see him smiling. "I've always wanted to go there. It's so exotic and there's so much for us to see." She wanted to have a nice summer with Darrick, enjoying her time with her beloved.

" We'll go see the world" he said

Carmella smiled, "I wouldn't want to do it with anyone other than you." she said softly, kissing him on the lips.

He kissed her back gently. " We'll have to inform the kiddos that we'll be away and to house sit for us." he said gently. " you think Nicky would mind? "

"Nah, I think he'll have fun with it. I know that the boys love it here and it will just give Lila and excuse to go through the old pictures- She loves seeing how her daddy used to look in high school!" Carmella chuckled.

Darrick chuckled, " ah yes. Our dear granddaughter, Lila. She is very attached to her Daddy." he chuckled gently. " Well I don't think Nicky would mind at any rate. I chose him because his house is the closest to ours." Darrick thought about their kids. Two boys and two girls. " Have you heard from our other kids?" he asked " How is Lizzy doing? Damien? Clover?"

Carmella was thoughtful for a moment and then shook her head. "I'm sure that Damien and Kim might have mentioned something about Spencer's upcoming wedding. Oh my, he is so young though." she mumbled. Was he trying to top his father in marrying young? Chuckling a bit she thought back to their other children and sighed. Lizzy was having the usual squabbles with her son and it was thanks to Ryan that she could get through the day without starting a fist fight with Emmett at times, though she loved him dearly. As for Ryan she knew that while he was happy with their one son John he wanted another kid with Lizzy. Clover was starting to take over the wolf pack from her father Charles while also trying to move up in her position at the hospital.

" they have all their busy lives" he said gently. Most of their grandkids were grown up as well. " I hate that babies have to grow up"

"But as they grow up you get to know them better. Babies are cute but eventually its nice to have someone to talk to." Carmella interjected, shaking her head a bit. Tenderly kissing his forehead, she smiled. He just loved to be around children.

" I guess so." he shrugged and nuzzled her gently.

Carmella smiled and tenderly kissed his cheek. "Let's just have fun with one another, dear. I want to see the world with you. I want to have an adventure with the one I love." she caressed his cheek as she said this and kissed him once more on the lips.