Danny and Rocco soon arrived at the beachfront bonfire. Rocco looked pensive, but Danny told him that they just needed to blend and grabbed two drinks to help them do so. “You don’t have to drink it. Just hold it. Everybody has a cup in their hands.
This is how we blend,” Danny cheerfully said before they began talking to two girls. Rocco stood off to the side while Danny made a new friend who wanted to play volleyball.
Emma and Gio made their way to the bonfire with Josslyn not far behind. Emma spotted Vaughn approaching them in a swimsuit and immediately asked who this man was. He told the kids he was just there for his daily cold water swim. He suggested that Emma try it, so she asked Gio to go with her, even though they didn’t have swimsuits.
Emma checked that her flash drive was still in her shorts pocket before she and Gio stripped down to their underwear and cold plunged into the lake. Joss took the opportunity to grab it as soon as nobody was looking. However, Josslyn and Vaughn were stuck when Joss wanted to replace the corrupted flash drive while Emma wanted to put her shorts back on.
As Vaughn and Joss argued about how to get the flash drive back to Emma, Josslyn turned around to see Danny standing there. Josslyn gave Danny a look and said, “Neither one of us was here,” so Danny knew to just walk away. They didn’t realize that Rocco had made a friend and drank, so he was passed out in an isolated area.
At Lulu’s place, Dante pointed out that the incident with Drew had gotten Lulu some offers, “so maybe you don’t have to write about the adoption thing.” Dante asked her to drop the story for him. Lulu refused.
“No, I’m a journalist and I’m not going to let Brook Lynn dictate who or what I write about,” Lulu said, before wondering if Chase had asked Dante to talk to her. Dante said that he did because Brook Lynn was hurt by the article, whether Dante felt it was justified or not. “Why can’t you just entertain the thought of using another idea?” he asked.
Dante pointed out that Chase and Brook Lynn were struggling with infertility the same way that he and Lulu had all those years ago. After an impassioned plea from Dante, Lulu seemed moved, but she wasn’t going to drop the story. Dante said he knew this was all about the fact that Dante and Brook Lynn had a teenage fling. “Because…you’re still in love with me,” he said, shocking Lulu.
Lulu tried to play it cool. “I mean, I’ll always love you. We have a child together,” she said. Finally, she admitted she was still in love with Dante, who told him that Maxie filled him in on what Lulu planned to say right before she fell into a coma. Dante thought she had moved on with Dustin. “I didn’t mean to fall in love with Sam. It just happened. Are you saying I should have waited for you?” he asked.
Lulu felt that Dante had to move on. “As hard as it is for me to imagine you moving on without me, I’m truly glad that Sam was there for you and Rocco,” she said. She admitted she wasn’t jealous of Brook Lynn. She was jealous of Sam, who had saved her life. Lulu wondered if she was a horrible person, but Dante told her she wasn’t, but he wouldn’t pretend he wasn’t in love with Sam.
Lulu cried that she needed to get on with her life. “But the painful truth is, I’m still in love with you,” she said. “Well, I’m still in love with you, too,” Dante replied.
