It was yet again a beautiful morning, not a cloud in the sky the weather was warm and calm. It was a great day for shopping, swimming at the beach and pool. It was seven o'clock in the morning and it seems that the cast aren't awake yet. Well, except for a curly haired teen named Monique. Getting up early at 6 o'clock in the morning because of someone knocking loudly on the door was no fun at all. It wasn't Lucas, Zac nor Corbin but someone! (We'll be having a little flashback here.)
It was a peaceful six o'clock morning inside the girls' room. Three sleeping girls are inside. Seems like Monique is dreaming about something…or someone. Yes, she reached the good part of her dream when suddenly someone interrupted it.
"Open up, open up, open up, open up!" The voice called while hitting the door repeatedly. It sounds like she's annoyed and at the same time…drunk. Lucky for Vanessa and Ashley they were heavy sleepers but Monique was a light one. She growled while sitting up.
"I said open up, Popper!" She yelled banging the door. As she made her way to the door she snickered.
"Who in the world would name their child Popper?" She asked to herself laughingly. As she lazily reached out for the door knob she opened it with force.
"Yes, may I help you?" Asked Monique trying to be polite, the woman…well a rather old woman looked at her up and down. Then she looked at Monique's face.
"You're not Popper!" She yelled. Monique tried to stop from laughing at the site of the drunken woman, and she looks a lot like Corbin (That's too impossible, y'know.)
"Excuse me but who are you?" She asked again.
"Where's my Popper?!" She yelled raising her voice while peeping at the two ladies.
"Those aren't Popper!" Pointing at the two, Monique smiled.
"Right! Okay, have a good day!" She said while slamming the door. The raven haired girl quickly locked the door and opened the curtains of the room. It was bright and early people are starting to wake up, joggers could be seen on the sidewalk and workers are walking down the street. Monique stretched her arms and looked at the two girls, snoring if I might add.
"Oh, for crying out loud." She murmured at the site of the two sleeping actresses. She sighed and shook her head while walking to the kitchen. (Kind of a boring flashback, eh? Well back to reality!)
Monique just finished showering. She picked out any normal clothes and slipped into it. As she was done with her hair she walked to one of her bags and pulled out a mega phone. Knowing that the two sleeping girls won't wake them up by shaking them, yelling at them or even pinching them, so lucky for her, she brought something.
"Wake up, soldiers! Up! Up! Up!" She yelled loud enough for everybody inside the entire hotel to hear her. With that loud call Ashley fell down her bed and Vanessa bumped her head on side table. Monique smiled proudly at her work and walked to the two of them. Ashley sat up slowly while holding her stomach and Vanessa held her forehead in pain. The best friends looked at Monique.
"Ow!" Both of them said at the same time. Monique grinned at the two and nodded her head.
"I know." And she walked away. Vanessa and Ashley looked at each other and shook their heads.
The entire cast is fully awake. It was indeed an exciting day for them so they can't let this day pass. They've planned everything that should be done in the entire day. Of course, the number one task on the girls' list is…shopping and for the boys' they have no chance but to follow them to the large mall at the heart of the city.
"Ash, can we go to the beach now?" Whined Corbin while waiting for a cab on the sidewalk, Monique rolled her eyes and entered the yellow taxi. As soon as all of them are in, they continued their way to their destination.
"So, how long are you three gonna shop?" Asked Zac to Ashley on the front seat.
"In just a couple of hours, it shouldn't take long." She replied while putting on her lipstick. As the taxi driver hit the brakes Ashley's lipstick was smeared across her face and everyone laughed.
"Oh, ha-ha-ha-ha, really funny!" She replied sarcastically as she pulled out a tissue and wiped the lipstick off of her face.
Five more minutes passed and they found their selves inside a huge and wide mall, sitting on a bench while waiting for the girls to pick out their swim wears and extra clothes.
"Are you done yet, Nessa?!" Asked Zac impatiently and Vanessa walked over to Zac grabbing his hand and leading him to another store.
"Wait, where are we going now?" The annoyed shaggy brown haired actor asked to her. As soon as they disappeared on the crowd, Lucas and Corbin brought their heads back on the floor.
"Luc!" Ashley called. Lucas lifted his head lazily and walked over to her muttering something about girls.
"What is it now?" He asked. Ashley drew out to swim wears.
"Which is better? Blue one or pink one?" She asked grinning at him.
"You know what? I'm not really really comfortable picking some girls' clothes!" He exclaimed looking away.
"Oh, c'mon. What's the big deal? Just pick one and that'll be it!" The hazel eyed singer said.
"Fine! The pink one! Happy?" And then he walked away at total embarrassment hiding his red face. Monique giggled at the site of them. She shook her head and continued to browse for something to wear.
While Zac was waiting for his raven haired friend, he leaned against the wall and tapped his foot impatiently. He was about to enter when a fan girl of his popped up in front of him.
"Oh my gosh! You're Zac Efron! I'm a big fan of yours! Can I have your autograph, please?" Pleaded the chocolate brown haired girl holding a pen and paper, Zac couldn't say no so he just nodded.
"Sure." With that he took the pen and signed it. The girl thanked him and walked away happily. Zac sighed and continued his way inside the shop.
"Nessa, are you done yet?" He asked again. Vanessa sighed and rolled her eyes. That was definitely the tenth time he had asked her, and to be honest Vanessa was getting pretty sick of it, but then again this was Zac so she knew he would ask her at least ten times before he would leave her alone. Zac had way too much energy but she guessed that was what everyone though about him.
So, she thought about him practically the same way the others do which also included him being lazy, noisy, hyper and super active actor they have ever seen. And there she went again, starting with cons and somehow ending with pros.
"I hope Ashley thinks of something soon!" She thought to herself.
This was harder than Ashley had thought it would be, sure Lucas was going to help from now on, but still coming up with a plan that would actually work was definitely something that required a lot of thinking. To be frank it was starting look like as if this was a deranged love story that was still under progress in which the author of the story had some sort of a whale sized writers block. And then suddenly as if the writer's block was smashed in to a thousand pieces Ashley came up with a plan and all she could do was hope that Lucas would cooperate on this one.
Finally, the shopping day was over. As they walked out the mall Corbin jumped up while throwing his hands on the air.
"Wow! It feels so good to be out!" He said. The girls' rolled their eyes and stopped a passing cab. After these long 30 minutes, the HSM cast could be seen on the beach while splashing each other with salty water. A blonde haired teen spread the towel on the white sand and sat down grabbing any magazine to occupy her.
"C'mon, Ash! The water feels good today! Let's go!" Said Lucas beside her while Ashley sighed.
"Go to the water yourself, Luc." She replied while getting back on her magazine. Lucas sighed in defeat and went back the water joining Vanessa, Corbin, Monique and Zac. Well, after this 3 minutes Lucas came running beside Ashley again.
"Ash, you seem dead." Lucas said poking his blonde friend. She tore her eyes away from the book she was just reading and looked at him.
"If you don't stop poking me you'll be dead." She replied.
"Let's go swimming." Lucas smiled determined to convince her to come to the water.
"No." She said.
"C'mon!" The dirty blonde haired actor pleaded.
"No."
"Please?"
"The only way you can make me go swimming if the ocean comes to me." She replied.
Lucas grinned and then grabbed a bucket nearby and headed for the water. Ashley then went back to reading her book. When the dirty blonde haired actor came back the blonde haired singer looked at him confusingly.
"Luc…what are you doing with that bucket of water?" Ashley asked him while he just shrugged his shoulders.
"You said the only way to make you go swimming if the ocean comes to you. And all I need is its water." Lucas chuckled as he was about to pour the water on Ashley.
"Lucas Grabeel, don't you even dare." She said stiffly.
"Alright now all we need is a picture!" Monique giggled as she and Vanessa patted the last gunk of sand sticking out from Corbin. They had buried him deep underneath the sand and then the dumb actor, Corbin was still asleep.
"Where are we going to get a camera?" Vanessa wondered.
"Got one!" Zac said as he ran over their stuffs and laughed. The blonde and shaggy haired Zac then handed the camera over to Monique.
"Thank you!" Monique smiled, she was about to take the picture when there was this familiar loud scream.
"Lucas Stephen Grabeel, get your butt back here so I can kill you!" Ashley shouted from behind them. They all turned around to find Ashley socking wet while chasing a laughing Lucas.
"Ash! It was just a joke! C'mon have a sense of humor!" He yelled.
"I don't care! Now get back here!" Ashley yelled back to him.
"But, Ash!" Lucas whined.
"Don't, "But Ash", me!" Ashley said as she kept on running. She was wearing sandals and she accidentally tripped and fell. The dirty haired Lucas ran over just in time to catch her. Lucas slipped his hands on Ashley's waist and she blushed madly.
"Are you okay?" Lucas asked looking at her.
"Yeah. Thanks a lot." She said forgetting about being mad on him. Lucas smiled and then took Ashley by the hand and went over to Corbin where only his head was sticking out of the sand while shouting stuffs.
"Hey guys, let's go water skiing." Suggested Zac while running over to Ashley and Lucas.
"Oh, alright then." Lucas replied while grinning as the whole HSM cast waited for Corbin to respond.
"Five." Vanessa counted down.
"Four." Zac followed.
"Three." Ashley said.
"Two." Lucas replied.
"One." Monique finished.
"Hey, I'm not going to be water skiing!" Corbin yelled throwing his head away from theirs.
"Too bad. Its either you stay in where the old people stay or come with us…" Zac mocked the annoyed Corbin. He gave the actor a death glare and Zac stopped.
"Oh, you have no idea how much I despise you." Corbin hissed.
The day was over and the sun was setting. The HSM gang gazed at the orange and setting sun after going out. The sea breeze was warm and there was of course, love in the air. Monique looked at Corbin and he looked back at her, now they were gazing at each other. Ashley peeked at the two and smiled.
"Well, we better get going." Said Zac standing up while helping Vanessa with the bags, Ashley rolled her eyes and stood up.
"Way to ruin a moment, Zac." She replied while passing through him. The blue eyed Zac sighed and shook his head.
Later that night inside the boys' room, there Lucas was walking around in circles. The actor could honestly not believe that he was doing this, because he just knew that it wouldn't work, the plan was just too stupid, but he went along with it. He stepped out of the room and entered the girls' room and Ashley opened the door.
"Oh, hi." She whispered and Lucas nodded in response as he entered the room shoving his hands in his pocket. There was Zac eating his dinner with Vanessa and at the same time talking. Lucas approached them and grabbed a sit next to her.
"Can I join in?" Asked Lucas.
"Sure." Zac replied as he stood up and washed his plate over the sink.
"So… what are you going to do when we have another day off?" He said while throwing a quick glance towards Ashley, who gave him an approving nod.
'I can't believe I am doing this...I am definitely going to regret it.' Lucas thought while mentally slapping himself.
"Well, I was thinking about going on a shopping spree when I have the time." She said, but at that moment she realized something
'I don't why but I know Luc's up to something.' She continued, "Why are you asking?"
"No reason, just asking." He remembered what Ashley said to him.
"Then how about I, keeping you company while you do some shopping, I'll even carry your stuff around."
'Huh… I didn't even have to trick him into it.' Vanessa was seriously confused for a moment there. Zac had stopped washing his plate for a moment. Vanessa wondered though, 'Why isn't Ash doing anything?'
"Sure, how can a girl refuse to an offer like that?" She answered with a sweet smile.
"I wanna help Nessa carry stuff too, it sounds like fun." Zac interrupted while giving her a smile.
"Zac, having to drag stuff for Vanessa isn't fun at all, and she usually shops for hours." Monique said overhearing their conversation.
"Mon, being with Nessa has to be fun if both Ash and Luc think so!" replied Zac.
Monique gave up on the matter and simply continued on watching her favorite TV show, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody.
'It worked? How does Ash knows how everybody will react with this? Whatever…but now to the next step.' thought Lucas still keeping up the act.
"Well, Nessa, it looks like it that our dear friend, Zac wants to help you more then I do."
"Well, okay." The raven haired Vanessa answered absentmindedly. She was still thinking 'What the heck is going on here?'
A/N: Now..who do you think is Nessa's crush? Is it really Lucas? Or is it Zac? Hmm...we'll know soon. Just don't forget to Rate & Review! Thanks! Bye!