Torpedoes

Summary: Zac and Evie have a 'friendly' game gathering torpedoes in the pool. Of course, Carly and Cam tag along and Zac and Evie may have a few tricks up their sleeves. Set sometime after the end of the second season but not too far into the future from there.

Word Count: 1969

"So Evie, since my parents are out of town this weekend I was wondering if you wanted to come over and we could-"

"Stop," Evie cut him off. "If you're suggesting what is sounds like you're suggesting, the answer is a definite no. We're too young."

"What?" Zac asked, unsure of exactly what Evie was talking about. Evie raised a brow at him and it clicked. "Oh, oooh, yeah, no way. Not now. We're too young for that," Zac said, turning crimson.

"What were you thinking then?"

"You know those torpedo things they have that you can dive for in pools?"

"Yeah."

"What if we got a ton of those and had a friendly competition to see who could get the most points or the most of them in general."

"Why?"

"I dunno, just for the heck of it."

"Are you sure about this, Zac."

"C'mon Evie. Why not be a little weird. Life's no fun if you're normal all the time."

Evie turned and gave him a look that said 'really' since neither of them could be described as normal. She gave in, "Who would be our impartial judge?"

"Cam?"

"Cam is not impartial. He's about as impartial as you are to seafood."

Zac laughed. "Okay, we have Cam and Carly be the partial-impartial judges together. Cam can keep track of my stuff and Carly can keep track of yours."

"Carly's still working."

"Then we'll wait until her shift ends to have the little competition. We can go get some of the torpedoes while she finishes up her shift because we don't have any anymore."

"Okay, then you go talk to Cam about it and I'll go talk to Carly a minute."

"Okay," Zac agreed, he got up and headed over to Cam, his best mates since they were one. Zac explained to Cam about how he was going to crush Evie in the little competition but they needed judges to make sure there was no cheating. Cam was happy to agree to sticking it to the girls to beat them.

"So, do you want to be on my team for this once your shift ends?" Evie asked Carly who was working on filling orders.

"You mean stick it to our boyfriends and show them what girls are capable of?" Carly asked, a grin forming on both of their faces. Evie nodded. "Of course I'm in. We're totally going to beat them, you can take Zac on any day."

"I think he's pretty confident in himself," Evie said, her eyes falling on the guys. Carly followed Evie's gaze and they received smirks from the boys who thought they would win.

Carly and Evie turned away from their boyfriends so they faced each other again. For some reason, they burst out laughing after turning back to each other. The boys were so going down later.

Zac went over to Evie a few minutes later and they started out towards the store hand-in-hand. They entered and headed back towards the water toys section, a place that neither of them had really been to in a couple years, especially not with recent developments.

In the aisle containing the water toys, Zac and Evie found packages with six torpedoes in them. They each grabbed three so they had a total of 36 torpedoes. They also decided to grab a couple water guns just for the heck of it. Laughing like two little kids let loose in a toy store or candy shop, they started towards the checkout.

The lady at the register seemed suspicious of two people in their late teens getting the pool toys but checked them out without comment. Zac and Evie were on their way out a few minutes later with a bag each of the pool toys.

"Should we go back to your place and wait for Cam and Carly or head over to the cafe and wait for Carly's shift to end there?" Evie asked.

"Drop the stuff of and head back to the cafe?" Zac suggested.

"Alright," Evie agreed. The two headed back to Zac's house and the bungalow . They dropped the stuff off by the pool and headed back out towards the cafe.

Upon returning to the cafe, Evie went to go take care of a few things in the shop while Zac joined Cam at a table. Zac and Cam just sat talking while their girlfriends worked. They talked in a whisper, trying to figure out a strategy to win before realizing that there really was no way to strategize; they'd just have to leave it to chance.

"Alright, my shift's done."

"And I've closed up shop. Are you two ready to go?" Carly and Evie had just finished up and had gone over by Zac and Cam.

"Yeah."

"Okay. I'll meet you guys there, I have to go grab my swimsuit on the way over."

"Why?" Zac asked.

"You and Evie are going to be in the water. After Evie wins, I want to go for a swim."

"That sounds like a good idea except for the part about Evie winning, it's going to be Zac. But I think I'll grab my swimsuit too so we can go swimming after Zac wins."

Carly raised her brow in a way that showed she doubted Zac's ability to win. "Even though you have false hope about Zac winning, let's head out," Carly said, leading the way out of the cafe. At the end of the dock, Carly and Cam started towards their houses while Zac and Evie headed for the bungalow.

When Zac and Evie got to the bungalow, they went inside and sat down on the couch to relax while they waited for Cam and Carly to get there. After relaxing for a few minutes they decided that they should go back outside where they had left the torpedoes and open them up.

By the time Cam and Carly arrived, Zac and Evie had laid the torpedoes out beside the pool. The points printed on the torpedoes were every five from 5 to 30. They had also already filled the water guns and used a little magic to get them to rest in the middle of the deep end of the pool so hey could use them to attack Cam and Carly later.

When Cam and Carly arrived together, Cam eyed the pool suspiciously. Because of the refraction of the water he wasn't able to clearly make out what was in the bottom of the pool but he got the feeling that Zac was up to something. Having known Cam for nearly all of both of their lives, Zac could tell that Cam had seen the water guns at the bottom of the pool whether he knew what they were or not.

"So how are we going about this?" Carly asked, breaking the silence.

"You and Cam just throw the torpedoes in then Zac and I collect them. Whoever has the most points once all the torpedoes have been collected wins," Evie suggested.

"Works for me," Carly agreed. Cam and Zac also nodded.

Cam and Carly picked up the torpedoes from the side of the pool and started throwing them into the pool at random. Some of them took off and shot to the other end while others spun around a little by where it had been thrown in before dropping to the bottom. Zac and Evie watched where the torpedoes had gone as best as they could.

"Okay, once you get your collection and need to pass them off, Zac give them to Cam and Evie hand them off to me, obviously," Carly said. "Are we ready?"

Zac and Evie nodded. They went and stood beside each other at the deep end, ready to dive in. Cam and Carly counted down from three together and at zero, Zac and Evie dove beneath the water. Neither could quite tell what the numbers on the torpedoes were so they just grabbed handfuls at random, not wanting to risk leaving any behind.

Both Zac and Evie were forced to go up long before they ran out of air when they could no longer hold the torpedoes they had in their hands. They handed their collections off to their respective best friends when they had to. Carly watched Cam like a hawk, making sure he didn't try to pull anything over on her and Evie, she knew him well enough to know he would do something like that if he really wanted to.

"That's the last of them," Zac said, coming up and handing his last few off to Cam.

"Yeah," Evie agreed.

"What's that other thing in the pool then?" Carly asked.

"Nothing," Zac and Evie answered together.

Carly eyed them both suspiciously and Cam raised his brow. "Why don't we go to opposite sides of the pool and start counting up what we have," Cam suggested.

"Alright," Carly said. "But since it was your idea, you're the one who's moving."

Cam grabbed as many of Zac's torpedoes as he could and Zac got the remaining ones. At the opposite end of the pool, Cam pulled out his phone to start adding up the numbers from Zac's collection of torpedoes. Carly did the same thing with Evie's collection.

When Carly had all of Evie's numbers added up, she turned her phone around to show Evie. They shared a look that said 'let's see the boys beat that.' About that time, Cam finished totaling up Zac's numbers.

"What did you get? Zac asked.

"320, you?"

"310, if I would have gotten another five pointer we would have tied."

"But you didn't so I won."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Zac said. He and Evie then turned to each other, Evie gave Zac a very slight nod that was easy to miss if you weren't looking for it, thankfully, Zac was and he knew exactly what she meant. The couple ducked under the water and flipped their tails, sending water flying in the directions of their confused friends.

"What are you doing?" Carly asked rhetorically, knowing that Zac and Evie could no longer hear her. She stood and turned towards Cam, "What are they doing?"

"Dunno. I think they're getting whatever else is at the bottom of the pool," Cam said, starting over towards Carly as Zac and Evie came up to the surface a little more than a meter away from where they were.

"Ahh!" Cam and Carly exclaimed when they were attacked with water guns a few seconds later. Zac and Evie laughed hysterically while attacking their best friends with water guns.

"Hey, hey, alright, stop it you two!" Cam exclaimed, trying and failing to shield his face from the water; his front was already soaked down to his skin.

"We win," Zac declared, turning and high-fiving Evie.

"Okay, whatever," Cam said, peeling his sopping wet shirt off. Carly also began to take what she had on over her swimsuit off so she and Cam could join Zac and Evie in the water.

The four best friends messed around in the water for a couple more hours after Zac and Evie's attack on Cam and Carly. From that point on they just hung out and relaxed, enjoying each others company and simply spending time together.

They got out of the pool around dinner time to order a pizza. They ate it in Zac's bungalow while they watched a movie. The last movie that they ended up watching was one of Zac and Cam's choice that Carly and Evie found boring, thus, they ended up falling asleep during it. Later on, despite being into the movie, Zac and Cam also fell asleep before the end of the movie. They'd laugh about it in the morning when they all woke up, but until then, they'd enjoy their peaceful slumber.

A/N- Thanks for reading. Again, let me know what you liked and what you didn't so I know how to improve. Thanks to those of you who reviewed and gave me ideas from the last chapter. I'm in the process of working on them but have a bunch one shots already written that I also need to get up. Lots of Zevie stuff because I'm obsessed. But anyway, feel free to PM me or review with ideas and I'll try to work something out with it. Thanks again.

-CrazyHayniac