Well, it's the moment you've all been waiting for! This has definitely been my favorite chapter to write so far. Why? Because of all the shippings! That's right, it's "All You Need is Cake" which was requested by a guest reviewer. Hope it satisfies all your Corney and Jackin needs!

Chapter 10

Take the Cake

Just an ordinary Wednesday afternoon in the garage. The members of Grojband were lying around bored out of their wits. Laney was sitting on Tracy's car, Kon was laid out on the couch, Kin was on the coffee table, and Corey sat on their rehearsal stage. They were all taking turns sighing.

Jackie came in the garage having just returned from school and greeted her band.

"Hey guys. What's up?"

But they just sighed in reply as if they didn't see her. Jackie put her backpack down.

"Aw, c'mon guys. Why the long faces?"

Corey leaned his head over the stage.

"My brain feels like…" he made a raspberry sound.

Jackie smiled picking up the remote control. "I know what'll cheer you guys up! Check out this news report!"

The brown-haired manager switched on the TV to the news.

"And now for 'What Dat?' with Buster Newsworthy." Destiny introduced her partner.

"Thank you Destiny Providence!" Buster was standing next to a giant sized cake outside. "Dat would be the tallest cake in all of Tranquil Town!"

"What dat?!" all four of the band members cried.

"One hundred stories of flaky bakey sugar cakey! Mm-hm!"

Laney scoffed. "If the cake was really that tall, we'd be able to see it from-"

Jackie opened the garage and sure enough, the cake could be seen from miles away.

"Cake…" Kin and Kon drooled.

"Friends!" Corey announced. "I vow to you this day that we will eat that cake!"

"To those who would eat that cake…" Buster continued.

"He's talking about us!" Kon pointed to the TV.

"…you can forget it!"

"Aww…" the five moaned.

"Unless you're invited to the wedding of Bake Billy's daughter, Billina Billney!"

"Guys, there's only one way we're gonna eat that cake!" Corey declared.

EAT THAT CAKE TRANSITION!

Jackie and her band made their way to Billy's Bake Barn where construction workers were decorating the giant cake. Kin and Kon continued drooling.

"I gotta say…" Kin said. "There's nothing in this world that I love more than cake! Well, almost nothing…"

The keyboardist had his eyes on his manager who was marking something on her clipboard. Suddenly, Kon jumped in front of Kin.

"Like me! You love me don't you?"

"Kon! Get out of the way!" Kin scolded. "You're blocking my view of Jackie!"

He shoved his twin brother away and continued staring at Jackie. She and the others were talking with Billy.

"So Cake Billy, heard you were looking for a wedding band."

"You know it Jackie! I need a band for my daughter's wedding. She's the sweetest little bride in Tranquil Town!" Billy referred to the blonde woman yelling at one of the construction workers.

"I want more heart-shaped sequins molded into kissing puppies with hearts for eyes that say 'I ruv you'!" Billina demanded. "And then sneeze butterflies!"

"She sure is crazy! About love." Billy explained. "I need some really lovey songs for this wedding, or I don't know what she'll do!"

"We're all about the cake-uh, love!" Corey quickly corrected himself.

"Yeah Billy. We can totally do love songs for your daughter's wedding!" Jackie nodded.

Just then, Tracy came up to the group with Macy. She was wearing a dark green hoodie and her eye shadow was dripping on her face as if she had been crying.

"Jackie? Sing a love song?" Tracy said in disbelief. "Scoff! She's never been in love and totally knows nothing about it! And neither does her band!"

Billina came running up to her father.

"Daddy!" she whined. "Only love wuvers can sing in my wedding!"

Billy put a hand on Jackie's shoulder.

"Sorry Jackie." He sighed. "If love ain't in your heart, it ain't comin' out of your head. We'll find another band."

He and his daughter walked off and Jackie glared at her sister.

"Why did you ruin our gig?!"

Tracy got up in Jackie's face.

"If I can't have love, no one can!" Tracy sobbed. "I used to be in max love with my sweater, Pinkredible! But now I'm into hoodies, and Pinkredible wouldn't change for me! So there's no way you're gonna have something you love when love just did me wrong!"

Tracy pulled up the hood on her hoodie.

"MACY! CUPCAKE!"

Macy zipped over carrying a box of cupcakes and put one in Tracy's mouth.

"Uh…" Jackie awkwardly slipped away from the two friends. Tracy started to cry.

"Tastes like sad…" she sniffled.

Billy was icing the wedding cake when Jackie and the gang interrupted him.

"Billy! Please!" Jackie begged. "You have to give us another chance!"

"Yeah, I can totally crush…uh…cuddle a love song!" Corey explained. "I'm madly in love with cake! I mean-with…uh…"

Laney beamed. She realized that this was the perfect opportunity to make Corey fall in love with her. She embraced the band leader and smiled.

"Me!" she exclaimed. "Corey's in love with me!"

Kin saw what Laney was doing and got an idea of his own. He ran up to Jackie and hugged her.

"Yeah, and not only that, Jackie is crazy about me! Aren't you Jackie?"

Corey and Jackie glanced at each other.

"Whaaaaaaa…." They said in unison. Laney and Kin nodded and smiled. The manager and guitarist looked over at Kon who was smiling and nodding too hinting at them to do it for the cake.

"Whaaaa…hoo!" Corey finished. "Yep! That's what love makes me yell!"

Jackie nodded. "Yeah, we're totally in love!"

"Okay." Billy decided. "But if you wanna play this wedding, you'd better be so in love that it makes me puke!"

"We'll all puke!" Corey promised.

FAKE LOVE EQUALS CAKE!

Soon Corey, Laney, Jackie, and Kin were in the park having a picnic for their first date.

"We've only got a few hours to make you two fall in love." Laney reminded Corey and Jackie.

"For fakesies!" Corey reminded Laney back. "To eat cakesies!"

"Yeah, Kin. We are just doing this for the cake right?" Jackie questioned. "Because, I know I'm just doing it for the cake."

"Oh…yeah…" Kin looked down, sad that Jackie wasn't interested in him. Laney was disappointed as well.

"Total false love…" Laney nodded. "But, we need to know how to do in-love stuff so you know how it feels! For others…"

"And picnics are more lovely than all-you-can-eat cheese fries…because…?" Corey asked.

Laney didn't respond because she was too busy batting her eyelashes at the blue-haired boy. She and Kin both had hearts in their eyes.

"What's wrong with your eyes?" Corey looked at Laney concerned.

Jackie put her finger on one of the lenses on Kin's glasses.

"Kin, I think you may need to clean your glasses."

Suddenly, Kon popped out of the picnic basket.

"You got bugs in your eyes or something?" he asked the two. "You should wash em before they get infected and filled with pus!"

The fat drummer pulled out two bottles of seltzer and sprayed them in Laney and Kin's eyes. This caused Laney's eye makeup to drip and Kin's glasses to fog up. Kon laughed as they turned red with anger.

"BEAT IT SO THEY CAN LOVE US!" they shouted together. Corey and Jackie stared at them confused and they laughed nervously.

"So we can fool Billy…" Laney began.

"And cake can happen!" Kin finished.

"Now we're talking romance!" Kon exclaimed.

Later, the two couples went to the ice cream parlor to share milkshakes.

Corey and Laney were at their own table. Corey sipped the giant shake while Laney stared at him lovingly.

"Sharing a milkshake is super cute." She said.

"But I wanted banana!" Corey complained.

"Chocolate is cuter."

Kin and Jackie were sitting in the booth behind them. Kin was drinking from his straw while also staring at his crush. Jackie looked up at the giant shake and then back at Kin.

"Kin? I don't know if I can drink all of this."

"Don't worry." Kin pointed Jackie's straw toward her. "That's why I'm helping."

"Bubble time!" the four teens heard from above them. Kon put a straw into each of their milkshakes and blew bubbles into them. Soon they were all covered with melted chocolate ice cream.

"You guys are adorbs!" Kon laughed.

Corey and Jackie laughed too while Laney and Kin growled.

Next the four took a walk on the beach bare-footed. Laney and Kin were making goo-goo eyes at their crushes. Corey and Jackie exchanged awkward faces. Then Corey puckered up his cheeks and made a raspberry sound. He and Jackie laughed.

Laney started to splash Corey with water. He laughed and splashed her back. Soon all of them were laughing and having fun together that is, until they spotted a shark fin in the water.

"SHARK ATTACK!" Kon cried as he came out of the water wearing a fin hat and getting Kin and Laney all wet. The two both gave him angry glares while Kon smiled nervously. He handed Kin another fin hat.

"I got one for you too bro."

But Kin crushed it with his fist and threw it toward the ground. He and Laney proceeded to bury Kon in the sand. When they finished, they left with Corey and Jackie. Kon screamed in horror when he saw a cast of crabs coming toward him.

The two fake couples made their way to the carnival to ride the tunnel of love. Laney snuggled into Corey and sighed happily.

"When you're in love even doing nothing at all is wonderful." She said.

Corey shrugged. "I dunno. Feels more boring than-"

Laney put a hand over his mouth and shushed him.

"Wonderful!"

Kin and Jackie were riding behind them. Kin had his arms around Jackie's waist while Jackie was looking bored.

"Kin, this is boring. And I thought you hated rides like these."

"Maybe." Kin said. "But there's something that I do like. And that's'-"

"BUMPER SWANS!"

The two swan boats were suddenly rammed into each other by a gray swan with a lightning bolt across its wing which was controlled by Kon.

"C'mon Lanes!" Corey said to his bassist. "We gotta catch him!"

"Not romantic Core!"

"We'd be ramming into him together!" Corey pointed out.

Jackie giggled.

"You'd better watch out Kon! We're coming to get you!"

Kin stood up from the crash.

"No we're not! We're getting out of here!"

"Aw, c'mon Kin! I thought you liked playing rough with your brother!"

"Trust me, I'm about to get really rough with him…"

"You're not chasing me." Kon said disappointed. "Did I break your legs when I rammed you?"

Laney folded her arms.

"Core, can you ask your drummer to leave us alone?"

"Yeah Jackie!" Kin agreed. "Tell this complete stranger to find his own date to ruin!"

"What? Dude I'm your brother!" Kon shouted then looked at Laney. "And you ask me to leave you alone!"

"STOP RUINING THIS FOR ME!" Laney and Kin screamed.

Jackie pushed her boat toward Kon and Corey did the same.

"Uh, Kon?" Jackie asked. "Can you...?"

"Ram you again? Put flames on your butt? Be awesome buds?" Kon guessed.

"Leave us alone…" Corey sighed.

Kon's smile disappeared at those words.

"Yeah…" he said. "No problem…"

He started to pedal his swan backwards and out of the tunnel. Kin and Laney went back to hugging their true loves.

Meanwhile, Tracy was also riding the Tunnel of Love with Macy.

"Why don't you compliment my hair?" she asked.

"Uh…your hair is so great Tracy!" Macy giggled. "It's like all highlights!"

"I'm talking to my new hoodie Macy!" Tracy replied. "Pinkredible totally complimented my hair! This hoodie hides it…"

"Well maybe a sweater can't take the place of a best friend." Macy pointed out.

But Tracy wasn't listening.

"I probably just need time to bond with my new hoodie. MACY! PRIVACY!"

Macy plugged her nose and jumped out of the pink swan she was riding with her friend landing in the water.

WICKED SAD TRANSITION!

The four lovers finally arrived back home at their garage. They were holding hands and laughing. Kon was sitting on the couch for he had been waiting for them.

"Well, well, well!" he greeted them rudely. "Look who finally decided to come home! And without flowers!"

Laney put a hand on Kon's back.

"Look Kon, we just needed some time to learn what love is so we can fool Billy and his crazy daughter." She explained.

"And so we can nail our super romantic quartet!" Kin added.

"Quartet?!" Kon cheered. "Awesome! It's about time we did something together again!"

"No Kon. You're not in it." Kin explained. "By quartet I mean Corey, Laney, Jackie, and me."

"What?!" Kon cried. "You wanna play a gig without me?!"

Laney and Kin grabbed onto their lover's waists and hearts came out of them.

"When people are in love, they sing duets." Laney told Kon.

"And when there are two couples, they sing quartets." Kin smiled up at Jackie.

"It's uh, like a rule." Corey nodded.

"Yeah Kon." Jackie said. "You understand don't you?"

But Kon didn't understand. He was upset with all of them.

"What happened to you guys? This gig used to be about the music!"

"It was always about cake." Corey reminded him.

Kon opened the garage and stormed outside.

"Bottom line: if I'm out, I'm all the way out!"

And so the fat teen left his former bandmates. He ended up walking to the gazebo in the park and sat all by himself. He pulled out a photo album of all of the memories he shared with the others.

"We had so many happy times…" he said to himself flipping through the pages. All of the pictures that were there were from events that had happened that same day. "It feels like just yesterday. Even though it was today!"

The drummer burst into tears when he found the photo of himself crying on the park gazebo. Then Tracy shoved Kon out of his spot and sat down with photos of her own. All of her photos were of her wearing her old sweater, Pinkredible. Macy was in the pictures as well but she was mostly ignored.

"Oh Pinkredible…" Tracy sighed. "I feel so alone…"

Macy was standing next to Tracy.

"Should I make sweater noises?" she offered.

Back at the garage, the four remaining band members were sitting on stage full of regret.

"So what should we have in our quartet? Because I want-" Laney looked over at Kon's drum set and sighed. "No drums at all…"

"Anyone else know how to play the drums?" Corey asked the others. They all shook their heads.

"What's happened to us?" Jackie wondered aloud.

"I think we let something get in the way of our friendships." Laney guessed.

"True love." Laney and Kin said together.

"Fake love." Corey and Jackie said together.

"I just really wanted this gig!" Corey exclaimed.

"Me too." Jackie agreed.

"And we just really wanted…" Kin started as he and Laney stared at their crushes with hearts in their eyes.

"Just tell him!" Laney thought.

"Just tell her!" Kin thought.

The two were about to confess their feelings until they saw tears coming out of their friends' eyes. As much as they loved them, they couldn't stand seeing them upset like this.

"The gig…as well…" Laney mumbled.

"Yeah…" Kin muttered.

Just then Tracy came into the garage crying her eyes out while holding her pictures of her old sweater.

"Oh Pinkredible!" she wailed. "I can't believe I threw you away! I'm fixing my makeup and I'm getting you back!"

Tracy went to her room and Corey got an idea.

"That's it!" he stood up and faced the others "We need to get something back too! Something named Kon!"

"So what do we do?" Laney asked.

"We need lyrics about lost love! And I know just where to find some!"

Once Tracy was finished with her hair and makeup, she went outside to the trash can where she last had her old sweater.

"Okay, be cool." Tracy told herself. "You're too good for her. MACY! GARBAGE PICKING!"

Macy came out of the trash can and shook her head indicating that Pinkredible wasn't there. Tracy gasped horrifically, threw Macy out of the trash and dove in to look for herself.

"Pinkredible! Where are you?!"

Suddenly, Tracy heard voices.

"That sure is the perfect sweater for you Lanes!"

"Huh?" Tracy popped her head out from the garbage to see Jackie, Corey, Laney, and Kin together. Laney was wearing Pinkredible.

"Thank you Corey!" Laney exclaimed. "I think me and this pink sweater will be together forever!"

"It is so you girl!" Jackie praised.

"Totally!" Kin nodded.

"Pinkredible…what are you doing?" Tracy whimpered.

"Looks like she's moving on." Jackie told her sister. "But you didn't want her anyway, right?"

"But-" Tracy's lip quivered and tears filled her eyes.

The sky became cloudy and Tracy was soon rained on.

"Oh Pinkredible…" she sobbed. "I never should have let you go…"

A single tear streamed down Tracy's face and she slowly slipped out of her hoodie and floated up in the air surrounded by pink sweaters. Her eye shadow dripped from her face as she started writing storm clouds in her diary. Lightning struck her hoodie which set it on fire and it disintegrated. When Tracy finished writing, she held her pen upside-down and tear drops fell from the tip of it. Afterwards, she fell back into the trash can.

Laney had taken off Pinkredible and Tracy's diary fell down to earth. It hit Kin on the head and bounced into Corey's hands.

"Got it!"

"Whoa…sadness diary mode!" Jackie was awed. "That's new!"

"Let's hit that wedding!" Corey ordered.

"Goodbye itchy sweater!" Laney tossed Pinkredible back in the trash and followed the others.

Tracy gasped when she saw that Pinkredible was back in her arms.

"You're my best friend Pinkredible!"

"I wish I was 25 percent polyester…" Macy grumbled to herself.

That night at the Cake Barn, the guests were arriving for the wedding. Kon showed up after he received a text from Corey.

"At least show up for some cake?" he read. "What a jerk! Wonder when we eat it."

The other band members were talking with Billy while holding hands.

"Okay, make me puke from love!" Billy demanded. "Or you ain't gettin' on that stage!"

"Well, in one day, we picnicked in the park, strolled on the beach, shared a milkshake…" Laney listed on her fingers.

"And went through the tunnel of love!" Kin added.

Billy looked at the four still not convinced. Corey continued.

"And we were so in love that we ignored our friend!"

"Which made him quit the band and get mad at us!" Jackie finished. "For no reason!"

Billy had tears coming out of his eyes after Jackie mentioned the last part. He then threw up in his own hat.

"Sounds like love to me!" he decided. "Hit the stage yous crazy kids!"

"Yes!" the friends high-fived and ran onto the stage. Corey talked into a microphone.

"This one goes out to a very special person."

Billina stood in the spotlight thinking that they were talking about her. However, the spotlight moved to someone else in a split second.

"My twin brother!" Kin announced in his own microphone. "Kon!"

Kon gasped when he saw the attention was now on him.

Corey: There used to be a love between us

Laney: Then suddenly that love was gone

Kon folded his arms and looked away from them still angry.

Kin: Now everywhere I turn you're missing

Jackie: Like a hairless cat it feels so wrong

Corey: I let we be about me

Laney: And I let us fall apart

Kin: Wrong is what I know I'll always be

Jackie: Can we de-end and restart?

When Kon heard these words sung, he started to cry. Billina did the same while hugging her new husband tightly.

All: Please come back

Please come back

Corey: My life without you ain't worth jack

Laney: I threw you away

Kin: Like a pile of old stuff

Jackie: I'd take all the blame

All: But I've had enough

I'm nothing without you

Well maybe not nothing but a whole lot less

It's true

Kon stood still with tears in his eyes. The others waited for him to respond and finally he smiled and hugged all of them crying.

"We'll never be apart again!" he cried happily.

Billina was still squeezing her husband.

"Now that is love!" she said as her husband exploded and turned into butterflies. "So beautiful!"

The band members smiled. They were so glad to be full again. Just then, Billy came up to them.

"Yous guys are welcome to play at any of my daughters' weddings!" he referred to three of the bridesmaids.

"Thanks Bill." Corey was holding a slice of cake while also standing in the cake. "But maybe weddings aren't our thing after all."

A spotlight appeared over him as he started to eat the cake.

"You know what they say about love." He took a bite and he started to become incomprehensible. "When you've got it on the inside, you free it to the outside. No matter how much love you have, it's never enough, and you-"

Laney popped out of the cake with a full mouth.

"Core! Those would have made the perfect lyrics!"

"I know!" Jackie said while chewing. "Why doesn't he write this stuff down?!"

Kin and Kon agreed with full mouths.

"Thanks for coming out everyone!" Corey shut the garage door.

Hooray for Corney and Jackie singing! Well, I'm glad I got this chapter out today because I'm going to be taking a break for a little while. For the next few days I won't have a computer with me so it will be kind of hard to get these chapters written up. Hopefully I should be back next week. See you then!