Author's note: Hope all you Bropez shippers enjoyed the last chapter :D:D:D I know I did. And OMG, IT'S SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY SOON! (it's a month away, but still!) (Oh, and I'm looking at you, Miss Larrah xxx)
Disclaimer: I don't own the characters in this story as they are real people existing in the world, and I (sadly) don't own Starkid. None of the events in this fan fiction are based on real life events amongst Team Starkid. Apologies if these things actually happened
ENJOY MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE :D:D:D Love you all xxx
Chapter 7- sink or swim
The ride to the closest water park took, surprisingly, one whole hour.
Predictably, Lauren was next to Brian. To be precise, in-between Brian and Jaime ( was sitting at the back of the bus again) But because Jaime wanted to sit next to Joey, Lauren insisted on sitting on Brian's lap. Jaime thanked her, and Joey sat down next to Jaime, who rested her head in his lap and curled up into a ball.
Meredith was driving, Dylan sitting next to her in the passenger seat, and the whole ride, Jaime was afraid the car was going to crash because most of the time Dylan and Meredith were holding hands.
Behind them was JoMo and Julia, next to them, Walker all by himself, insisting that Joey should come and sit next to him. He refused, so Walker asked Lauren, but it just so happened her and Brian were having a tickle fight. He gave up, and plugged into his Iphone, listening to music the whole ride.
"You are such a loud snorer, Joe" Julia scolded into JoMo's ear.
"Which one?" Walker asked ,taking out one of his headphones.
"Both of you!" Julia laughed.
"Well, you'll be out of our way soon" JoMo laughed "And just a fair warning: Joey snores louder than me and the other Joe. Combined"
Both of the Joes' were laughing hysterically at the look of horror on Julia's face that came afterwards.
"Love you, Juls" JoMo laughed, hugging Julia, who hugged him back grudgingly, but still laughing at the same time.
"Love you too, Joe-Joe" she replied, kissing his cheek.
Joe had to admit, when she kissed him on the cheek, he had a good feeling in his stomach. He couldn't quite place his finger on what the feeling was. All he knew that it would bug him forever.
Meanwhile, Lauren and Brian were having a tickle fight.
"Bri! Please stop!" Lauren roared with laughter, hitting at Brian's arms. She gave up trying to get him to stop; it was never any use.
"NEVER! MWAHAHA!" he yelled evilly.
All of a sudden, without thinking, Lauren kissed him in an attempt to stop him from tickling her.
During the kiss, she was kicking herself. This is literally the second time they'd kissed in the past ten minutes. What was happening with them? No, scratch that. What was happening to her?
Neither of them pulled away for a while, and they would have been kissing for a lot longer, if Joey hadn't interrupted.
"Nothing? Right…" Joey chortled at Brian.
"Please don't tell me you're on about that still!" Brian sighed as he pulled away from Lauren. Joey put his hands up in surrender.
"Now, what was that, Miss Lauren?" Brian asked, turning her head in Lauren's direction, to see her cheeks were tinging a bright red.
"Just getting you to stop tickling me" she giggled.
He laughed and hugged her, kissing her on the nose.
Next to them, Joey and Jaime were chatting.
"Did you see that?" Joey asked.
"See what?" Jaime asked tiredly.
"Lauren and Brian with their lips literally glued to each other?"
Joey grunted in pain as Brian elbowed him in the stomach.
"What?!" Jaime squealed.
"Umm, Jaims?" Lauren started. Jaime turned to her. "Yeah, we're right here" Lauren put her hand up as she continued "And I only kissed him to get him to stop tickling me, because every other way wasn't working" Lauren nodded at the end of the sentence and Brian snickered at her.
"Right" Jaime agreed sarcastically, dragging the word out with an unconvinced look on her face.
"Jaime!" Lauren whined, pinching her friend on the arm.
"sorry, Lo, but when was the last time two people who weren't a couple kissed each other to stop them from tickling each other?"
"About five minutes ago with me and LoLo" Brian retorted, patting Lauren on the shoulder.
"I'm sorry, but I believe I was talking to Lauren" Jaime snarled, looking over to Lauren.
"Ugh! What he said" Lauren moaned "Now can we please just drop the subject so I can ask you why you were snuggling with Joey in his bed this morning?" Lauren grinned wickedly.
Both Jaime and Joey froze, causing Brian and Lauren to vent into fits of laughter.
"We're about 5 minutes away, guys!" Meredith called from the front seat.
"Yaaaay!" Everone roared in unison, save Joey and Jaime, who were glaring at Lauren and Brian.
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"We're here! Come on, Bri! I don't want to be late!" Lauren squealed eagerly, grabbing Brian's hand and dragging him out of the bus, cutting through anyone who tried to get in her way.
"LoLo, we can't be late; it's a theme park!" Brian whined, on the verge of literally being dragged.
"It is possible; your fat ass is so damn slow, you'd get to the theme park hours after it closed"
"Was I not Superman in Holy Musical B man?" Brian smirked "And Superman beat B Man's plane in a race, did he not?"
"You weren't Superman, you were Captain Marvel" Lauren stuck her tongue out at him, and by the time that was done, they were in front of the theme park, the rest of the StarKids behind them.
"Let's gooooo!" the girls yelled, all of them grabbing the boy next to them and dragging them into the them; Lauren grabbing Brian, Meredith grabbing Dylan, Julia grabbing JoMo, and Jaime grabbing Joey.
The rest of the boys (Walker) moped along.
They all paid for their tickets, Lauren insisting that they say she was a child so it would cost less money, and they all sprinted into the water park.
Not even 10 seconds later, they all heard a splash from behind them , save Lauren, who was the person who caused the splash. She bobbed up, gasping for air, and smiling at her friends and waving.
"Come in! The water's fine!" She squealed, splashing water in their direction. "Lo, we only just got here" Julia whined "Shouldn't we take a look around first?"
"Aww, but I wanna stay here!" Lauren moaned.
"Ugh, fine! Brian, can you look after her while we take a look around?"
"Sure thing, Juls" Brian smiled, canon balling into the pool, landing right next to Lauren.
"You two children play nicely" Julia smirked, remembering the pillow fight from earlier.
"And no kissing!" Joey called.
Both Brian and Lauren stuck their middle finger up at Joey in his wake, laughing at the same time
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"WATER FIGHT!" Lauren screamed, lunging at Jaime and tipping a bucket of water over her head. Jaime immediately turned around to face Lauren, gaping sarcastically. Before Lauren could run, Jaime picked her up and threw her over to Joey, who caught her. Then a game of catch was made using Lauren, who became harder to throw sometimes because of her giggling.
Brian caught her, and kissed her on the nose before lunging her across the pool to Jaime.
Lauren was giggling maniacally as she continued to be thrown. The next time Brian caught her, the events were a bit more disastrous; he dropped her. And the pool was shallow.
Lauren felt a thud and a pain shot through her right leg, restricting her from rising to the surface. She tried to push herself up with her left leg, but she was in too much pain; she was too weak. She felt herself running out of breath. Her eyes were just about to close, when she felt a pair of hands grabbing her by the waist and pulling her towards the surface.
Once she rose to the surface, she gasped for breath, tears streaming down her cheeks, as Brian, who had picked her up, was cradling her, hurting her leg.
"Lo, are you okay?" Brian asked.
She tried to speak, but she couldn't, so instead she shook her head.
"What's the matter?"
"My…my leg" she managed to say, tears flowing to her mouth as she spoke "It really hurts"
Brian, and everyone else, froze. Lauren usually had a high tolerance of pain. This was bad.
