Macaroni and cheeeeese! Is the beeeeeeest thiiiiing on eeeeeeeearth! La la la la la!!

I just had mac and cheese. YUMMY!! And I'm going to the mall! For the first time since I can consciously remember! YAY! Soon. Not today, but soon. Tee hee!

Okay, so, I'm watching Fruits Basket (via Google Video) while I type this and I'm at episode 16. There's this one part where Shigure manipulates Tohru into coming on a trip with him and Kyo and Yuki. In the background, you see Kyo and Yuki stand up and flip out. It's like,

KYO AND YUKI: Have you no shame?!

SHIGURE: No, not really.

And of course, Tohru's completely oblivious. Then when they're at the lake house…

SHIGURE: The mood's too tense in here. I know, I'll call Aya!

YUKI: You call Ayame…

KYO: …and I'll make you eat that phone.

DRAMATIC TRUMPETS: Buh buh buh buuuuuh!

And you see Kyo and Yuki looking extremely scary in the background and a frightened Shigure hanging up the phone.

And now back to the previously scheduled author's note.

My goodness! I have toooo much energy. And guess what? (says with weird southern accent) My shpoon is too big. My SHPOON is too big! My SHPOON is TOO BIG!

KENNY: I am a banana! Who lives in the clouds!

ME: I, obviously, have spent too much time on YouTube.

Anyway, here's the long awaited chapter!

The only things I own are the things you don't recognize.

000

"Oh, my God! Where are they?!" Davis exclaimed, going through his backpack. "I can't find them!"

"What can't you find?" Jack asked, confused as he pulled on his Nikes.

"My goggles! The ones Tai gave me! They're gone!"

"My money's on Lara," Willis said somewhat dreamily.

"Are you okay, Willis?" TK asked as he shoved his book into his bag and zipped it up.

"Yeah, I just had… well… um… a weird dream," he said nervously, running his hand through his blonde hair.

"What kind of dream?" Tai asked.

"Um… one of those kinds of dreams."

"Really? With who?" Jack asked excitedly.

"You perv!" Davis said, and whacked the other boy with a pillow.

"No fighting in the cabins," Tai said in his sternest voice as he separated the two. "I don't want any injuries today. Or any other day, for that matter."

"Fine," Davis sighed. "I just hope it wasn't with Kari." He threw a glare in Willis' direction.

"It wasn't, trust me."

On the inside, Jack was worrying. "I hope it wasn't with Ginny… wait a second! Ginny? What the hell am I saying? Pull yourself together, boy!" he thought, fighting with himself and slowly (but surely) losing.

"Let's go, slowpokes!" Yolie shouted from outside the cabin.

"Aw, shove it up your ole wazoo!" Davies shouted back. "Where are my goggles?!"

"I've got em!" Yolie called.

Davis bolted out of the cabin. "You homo!"

"Excuse me?"

Everyone was staring at him.

"Sapien. Homo sapien. That's what I meant." The goggle head was blushing furiously as he reclaimed his prize.

"Sure, Daisuke, sure," Lara said as she passed, swiping him upside the head.

"Owww," he complained. "That hurt."

"Come on, guys, we have waterfront! Let's get going, I need to get into the water!" Ginny urged as she approached. Her flip flops clicked rythmatically and when she passed the boys' cabin, Jack's heart fluttered just the slightest bit.

Was it a schoolboy crush?

000

Matt turned on the boom box on his lifeguard's chair and popped in the latest Death Cab For Cutie album, "Narrow Stairs". As the music started, he risked a glance over towards the dock at Mimi. She was startlingly beautiful. When did he start looking at her as, well, a woman, instead of Mimi, one of his closest friends?

Her hair was pulled up in a sloppy bun and she donned a straw hat to shield her pale face from the sun. She wore a pink cover up and was currently trying to take out her earrings.

"When I was young, lying in the grass
I felt so safe in a warming bath
Of sunlight
Of sunlight"

Matt dwelled on this sudden revelation as the lyrics of the song pounded through his brain. But then he shook the thought out of his mind. He was still set on Sora. Or at least, he thought he was.

"Fast open sky could do no harm
Like an embrace of a mothers arms
In sunlight"

"Oi, Matt, Mimi! You ready for us?" Tai yelled as the group approached the beach.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever," Matt muttered and turned his music up.

"With every year that came to pass
More clouds appear until the sky went black
And now there's
No sunlight,
No sunlight.
And now there's
No sunlight,
No sunlight anymore."

"This song is familiar," Ginny said, laying her towel down carefully on the sand and slipping off her sandals.

"Yeah, it's Death Cab For Cutie's song "No Sunlight," TK replied.

"I KNEW I heard it somewhere!" she said and took off her tee-shirt. "Last one in the water's a rotten egg, second-to-last has to eat it!"

She bolted down the beach and made a giant splash in the water.

"Oi, don't get the CD player wet!" Jack shouted and followed her lead.

"You disappeared with the same speed
The idealistic things I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight

"You disappeared with the same speed
The idealistic thing I believed
The optimist died inside of me
No sunlight
No sunlight anymore."

Tai smiled and laid down on the deck, sunglasses on. The sun felt so good, it had been forever since he could just lie down and listen to children being children, music blaring from a boom box… It was rather refreshing. Maybe… when he got a little bit older and he and Sora got married, this would be everyday. "No, wait, shut up, little voice!" Tai scolded.

Meanwhile, Sora swam up to the deck where Matt was situated and sang, "I know something you don't know."

"Sure, Sora, of course you do," he scoffed, pulling his sunglasses down from the top of his head to his face.

"Oh, but I do," she said evilly. "It has to do with TK…"

"What!?" Matt exclaimed loudly, causing Mimi and some of the campers to glance at him.

"Shush, we don't want the whole world to know, now, do we?"

Matt gave her a glare. "Fine," he whispered. "What did TK not tell me?"

"He's been kissing Kari," she said with a sly look on her face. "That's all I've seen him do, anyway. Who knows what goes on when we're all asleep?"

Matt's face turned red with a blush. "He wouldn't."

"I don't know, he's a teenage boy, after all, and with the raging hormones…"

"I know my brother, Sora. He wouldn't pull that kind of thing."

"So you thought. I heard someone sneaking out last night. It may have been just to pee, or it may have been… something else."

Matt's face was redder than the sunburn on Kari's shoulders. "Oh my God. I've gotta tell Tai about this…"

Sora smiled smugly and watched Tai on the opposite end of the deck. He looked so peaceful. Of course, she knew he wouldn't a moment later, but still, it was nice while it lasted.

Tai was shaken out of his daydream by Matt's firm hand. "Whaddya want?" he muttered, squinting into the light.

"TK and Ka ri! It's TK and Kari!" Matt said, still fuming.

Tai sat up. "What did he do to her?"

"It could have been, well…." He whistled as he made a circle with one hand and put his other index finger through it.

"WHAT?!" Tai stood up and jumped into the pool screaming, "You're DEAD, Takaishi!"

"Huh?" TK said before he was tackled by a livid Tai.

"Get off of him, no, stop, get off!" Kari shouted, swimming over and trying to pull her brother off of her boyfriend. "What did he ever do?"

"He stole your virtue, Kari!" Tai shouted, readying his fist for a punch.

"He didn't! He just kissed me, that's all!"

Tai pulled TK up and righted him. "Sorry."

Kari dragged her brother away, yelling at him and slapping him occasionally on the shoulder.

"That was frikkin awesome!" Sora murmured to herself.

"Did you say something?" Davis asked, looking at his sister figure curiously.

She smiled sweetly. "No. Nothing at all."

He shrugged and swam to tackle Willis.

Sora giggled before climbing up onto the dock. Oh, was it worth the look on Tai's face! Of course, TK or Kari would figure out she told Matt who told Tai in the first place, but… whatever. She didn't really mind.

000

After waterfront, the group trekked back to the cabins to change.

Lara tossed on a green boy's tee that said "YOU CAN AGREE WITH ME OR YOU CAN BE WRONG" in big bold lettering as she chatted on about how she thought that she'd had a (whistle) dream the night before.

"We don't need to know about your desires, Lara," Yolie said. "But… who was it with?"

"Willis."

"WILLIS?!" everyone shouted.

"Why don't you shout louder? I don't think the people in Australia heard you."

"Sorry," Kari said, blushing. "But Willis? Of all the boys I thought it would be Davis!"

"WHAT?!" Yolie shouted, dropping her jeans around her ankles.

"Put some pants on, wouldja?" Lara said, wishing she could erase what she'd said.

Yolie pulled up her pants again and firmly tightened them around her hips. "Jesus, Lara… Willis…"

"I think you two are a cute couple," Ginny said quietly from her corner bunk.

"Me too," Kari said thoughtfully, tying a tail off of her giant Hogwarts shirt and tucking it underneath. "He'll be asking you out any day now, I'd swear it."

"You really think so?" Lara asked, pulling on striped leg warmers before pulling her hair into a side pony.

"Are you going retro-80's or what?" Yolie asked.

"Hey, I'm an eighties child! Don't make fun of the eighties!" Sora snapped as she pulled on knee-length toe socks, glaring at her camper.

"Sorry, I was just commenting on the whole leg-warmers-side-pony thing," Yolie grumbled.

"Whatevs…"

"THINGS ARE SHAPING OUT TO BE PRETTY ODD!" somebody hollered from the next cabin, very out of tune.

"Isn't that the opening line to that Panic At The Disco song?" Lara asked.

"Yeah," Kari said, brow furrowing as she nodded. "I remember being over at TK's and his brother was blaring it on his stereo. Stupid Matt…"

"He's not stupid!" Ginny exclaimed before gasping and clasping her hand over her mouth. "Crap, I did not just say that!"

The others stared at her as some noisy laughter floated in from the boys' cabin.

"Hey, awkward silence! Let's name it Frank," Lara laughed.

Everyone gave her blank stares.

"What, you've never heard that saying before? 'Every time there's an awkward silence, a gay baby is born'," Lara said matter-of-factly. (Sorry, but that really is how the saying goes! I mean no offence to anybody.)

"Nope, never," Yolie said.

"No," Sora and Kari replied and finished dropping stuff into their bags.

"Um, well, I thought I heard my brother Eric say that once," Ginny said. "When he was with his friends, but I don't really remember him that much."

"What do you mean?" Sora asked.

Ginny sat on her bed. "He was in high school when I was seven and he died in a drunk driving accident when he was sixteen. He wasn't drunk, but the person he was driving home was and the drunk boy hit him in the head because he wanted to drive and crashed the car."

"Oh my God, I'm so sorry I asked," Sora said rushing over to her camper. "I had no idea!"

Ginny smiled weakly. "That's okay. I didn't know him very well, anyway. But I remember that everyday when he got home from school he'd hug me and give me a Twinkie. He loved Twinkies."

"I love Twinkies," Jack said from the door, poking his head in. "You aren't talking about me, are you?"

"Ah! Jack, you perverted homosapien!" Yolie yelled, throwing her shoe at him.

"Leaving, leaving!" he exclaimed, ducking out of the path of the flying sneaker and letting the door creak shut behind him.

"Pervert," Yolie muttered again, crossing her arms and fetching her shoe.

Ginny smiled. It was nice to have friends like these.

000

IN THE BOYS' CABIN…

"So you had a (whistle) dream, eh?" Davis asked, nudging his friend in the gut.

"Our little Willis is growing up," TK said with a (mock) sigh.

"Soon you'll leave old Tai for a girl, oh, what a sad day!" Tai wailed, crushing Willis in a hug.

"Awkward much?" Jack said, cocking an eyebrow.

The way those four boys interacted… They hadn't just met Willis, that was for sure. Jack wondered how they all knew each other.

"Okay, okay, get off of me, dammit!" Willis growled angrily.

The three boys whined, but let go of their buddy.

"Thank you," he said, breathing a sigh of relief and throwing on some dry boxers and jeans.

"I think I might cry, look how much you've grown from when we first met you! Now your obsessed with girls and having (whistle) dreams and thinking about how you can catch the biggest fish in the sea!"

"No, Tai, that would be you," Davis said.

The group laughed obnoxiously and loudly as they continued to get dressed.

"What do we have after this, onii-chan?" TK asked.

"Hey, just cuz you're dating my little sister, it doesn't mean that you can call me 'onii-chan', okay?" Tai growled.

"Fine, Tai. But what do we have next?"

"Program, whatever that is. We have to go down to the pavilion."

"We have a pavilion?" Davis asked, looking up from his messy pile of clothes.

"Yeah, you didn't notice it? It's right in between the mess hall and the rec hall," Jack said, "so there's no way you could possibly miss it."

"You can miss anything if your name is Daisuke Motomiya," TK said flatly and yanked on his sneakers.

"Mr. Unobservant," Willis added.

"The biggest ko-baka on earth," Tai threw in.

"Don't call me a dumb child, Tai! I'm not the only idiot in the room!" Davis snapped, putting his goggles on over his soggy hair.

"Your shirt is on inside-out," TK said blankly, pointing at the offending article of clothing.

Davis narrowed his eyes and put his shirt on the right way so that the lettering saying, "MY LLAMA IS SMARTER THAN YOUR HONOR ROLL STUDENT" was on the outside, rather than on the inside.

"The world's biggest living idiot!" Tai laughed. "Bigger than me, even!"

Nobody noticed that Jack had snuck out of the room. Or, well, until they heard Yolie shout, "Ah! Jack, you perverted homosapien!" and a loud thud from the next cabin.

"What did he do now?" Tai sighed, going towards the door.

"He tried to sneak a peek," Davis said with a smirk. "Nice."

"That's not nice, Davis," TK said, a bit of anger affecting his voice.

"He's right," Tai sighed. "We need to respect the girls' personal space."

"Since when did you become a saint?" Davis asked, shocked that Tai would say such a thing.

"Since Kari went into high school and e-mailed me with complaints about guys. She answered every question about girls I ever had. I learned that girls want their boyfriends to respect personal space and to keep the perversion on the down-low."

Both TK and Davis stared at him. "Seriously?" they asked.

Their counselor nodded. "I've learned that girls are not just playthings. They have feelings just like us and want us to respect those feelings."

Davis' eyes were wide. "Really?!"

"Yes, really," TK said, sighing heavily. He was such an idiot.

"Now let's get going, we have to be at program in less than ten minutes!"

000

Okay, this is the last chapter I'll be able to post before I head off to camp again. It just hit me – it's been almost a year since I've started on FFN! Cause for a celebration! I might post a challenge to commemorate my one-year anniversary!

Now that I'm done, press the pretty purple button and tell me what you thought.

Laterz!

--BANDGEEK--