Heat Wave

Banana bana bo

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"Ok, so Kendra and Walter get the King-size, since Kendra won this trip. Cindy, are you SURE you can't share a bed with Sketchy?" Max looked at her hopefully

"Not a snowball's chance in hell Boo, but you're welcome to share with me!"

Max and Logan exchanged glances and said at the same time

"We'll take the couch"

"Suit yourself. Original Cindy is going to go take a long bath before going down to the beach"

"We should unpack" Logan suggested

"Yeah, then we can all go downstairs together" Max grabbed her suitcase and opened it. She started arranging her clothes in neat rows on the small closet.

"Ok, we're going to go and change" Kendra took Walter's hand in hers and guided him to their room, closing the door behind her.

Sketchy shrugged "I think I saw a candy machine downstairs, I'll go check it out"

"You do that!" Max encouraged Sketchy.

Once they where alone, Logan opened his own bag and joined Max in the process of unpacking.

"You know, Zack would kill me if he saw me doing these" Max chuckled

"Why?" Logan asked.

"Well, an unpacked bag kind of ruins his whole 'be prepared' motto"

It was Logan's turn to smile. "Have you heard from him?"

"Last thing I knew he was in Texas."

"Texas? Doing what?"

"Helping one of my brothers out, wouldn't say who. He said he's just being careful but the truth is he obsesses!"

The door opened then and the room became silent. Sketchy walked in carrying a handful of candy bars. "Chocolate anyone?" He offered.

Max shook her head

"Ok, more for me. Let's go swimming!" Sketchy ran into his room, flung his suitcase open, extracted a blue bathing suit and ran to the spare bathroom to change.

"What's going on here?" Cindy came out of the bathroom wearing a hot pink bikini

"Sketchy ate too much sugar, apparently. Weren't you going to take a long bath?" Logan asked, a big smile on his face as he looked around for his bathing suit.

"The tub is full of sand, I hate getting sand all over me when I'm trying to get clean."

"Well, then you are just in time. We where about to go downstairs!" Max tossed Logan his bathing suit and changed into hers while Logan changed in the privacy of the bathroom.

Max wore a long white shirt over her suit, not giving anyone the chance to look at it.

Once everyone was properly dressed and ready to leave Original Cindy knocked on Kendra's door. "Girl, we're going downstairs! You coming?"

"We'll catch up with you in a while!" Kendra answered, slightly out of breath.

"Damn, lovercop really tires her out doesn't he?" Cindy commented while the rest of them headed out the door.

"Cindy, please, I can feel my breakfast rising to my throat!" Max grimaced and locked the door behind them.

"Aww Max come on! They are in love!" Logan joked.

"Yeah well, couldn't they take their love elsewhere?"

"This is their trip you know?"

"Which side are you on?" Max slapped Logan's arm playfully and pushed the elevator button

"Ouch! Hey! That was uncalled for!" Logan rubbed his arm.

"Yeah, right, like it actually hurt!" Max mocked him.

Original Cindy and Sketchy laughed so Logan joined in.

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"Miss! Miss! Can I get you a palapa?" a young boy wearing white pants and a white shirt rushed over to them as soon as they stepped on the beach.

"A palapa?" Cindy raised her eyebrows.

The boy guided them over to something that looked like a large umbrella made out of dry palm trees and branches. The beach looked cool and tropical with all the small 'palapas'.

The young boy chose one for them near the water. He left them there and came back a few minutes later dragging two nice big wooden beach chairs.

"Do you need more chairs?" The boy asked.

"No thanks, we'll manage," answered Max.

Logan gave the boy a generous tip and he left. Cindy spread her towel on the hot sand and laid down on her stomach. "Well, time to soak up the sun!"

"Yeah!" Max reached for the hem of her shirt but stopped suddenly when she felt her hand shake.

"Hum, I left my sunscreen upstairs. I'll just run and get it!" She turned around and walked away before anyone followed her.

"Hey wait! I'll go with you!" Logan called after her. Once they where out of their friend's view Logan asked "Max, are you ok?"

"I'm fine, just a little sha... Oh my god Logan what happened to you?" She pointed to a bruise on his arm.

"You, I think," Logan stared at the bruise "You did get me pretty hard back there."

"I'm sorry" Max apologized sincerely. "I need to go get my pills, be right back."

"Want me to go with you?" They where now standing on the pool area.

"Naw, wait for me here. If I don't come back in 10 minutes come get me ok?"

"Ok, I'll just get us something to drink." He pointed at the bar in the pool and Max nodded.

"I won't take long"

"You better not"

Max nodded again and walked away.

"Hey Max?"

She stopped in her tracks and turned around.

"I love you"

She smiled "I love you too."

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Logan dove into the pool and swam over to one of the stools. He ordered a piƱa colada for himself and chocolate milkshake for Max.

"Hey!" A female voice called. It wasn't Max's so Logan ignored it.

"Hey you! Handsome in the black trunks"

Logan turned at that. A pretty girl with slightly curly red hair and huge bright blue eyes wearing a small red bikini was standing next to him. She sat on the free stool to his right.

"Can I help you?" Logan asked her.

"You can! Will you rub this on my back? I don't want to get sunburned" She handed Logan a small brown bottle that smelled like coconuts and turned her back to him. Logan frowned and sighed.

"Aren't you supposed to be dry before putting on this thing?"

"Oh but I was wet as soon as I saw you!"

Logan had to stop himself from snorting. The forwardness of the girl actually disgusted him.

"You know, I'm with someone" Logan informed her.

"Well cool, can you do my back now please?"

Logan groaned inwardly and opened the bottle. The bartender handed him his drinks then.

The girl stared at the milk shake "Who are you with, your daughter?" She asked.

"Nope, he's with me" Max was now standing on the edge of the pool, as close to the bar as she could get without going into the pool.

The girl giggled "Close enough. Now I see why you didn't buy her alcohol. She's not even legal!" She stared at Max's baby like skin and soft complexion "What are you twelve?"

Max gave her a tight smile but didn't answer.

"Look boy," She slipped a piece of paper into Logan's shorts, making him jump "My name is Laura and there's my phone number. Just in case you want to date someone you can legally sleep with" Laura winked and stood up to leave.

Max's smile widened. She grabbed the hem of her shirt and pulled it over her head.

She was wearing the smallest bikini, black of course. It revealed her totally amazing body, giving a peek at her full, soft breasts and her beautiful strong thighs without looking trashy.

Every male around stopped what ever they where doing and stared at Max, her beauty was like a magnet, attracting the eyes of the guys and quite a few girls.

"You know Max, I've seen you with less clothes on and you still stunn me" Logan whispered once he was able to think coherently again.

Laura turned around and left without glancing back. Max dove into the pool perfectly and quite a few men sighed. Once she resurfaced she sat besides Logan and flipped her wet hair around.

"Who was that?" Max asked him

"Who was who?"

Max laughed and grabbed her drink from him.

"How are you feeling?" Logan asked her.

"Better, shakes all gone! See?" She held up her steady hand.

"Yeah, which is more than I can say for most of the male population here."

Max laughed and drank her cold shake.

"Maybe we should go back, see what OC and Sketchy are up to." Max suggested.

"Sure, why not?" Logan picked up his drink and wrapped and arm around Max possessively.

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When Max and Logan reached the palapa Sketchy was nowhere in sight and Original Cindy was baking in the sun.

Logan sat down on one of the beach chairs and Max climbed into his lap.

"You know, you look really amazing in that tiny bikini of yours."

"I bought it just so that you could take it off." Max said seductively.

"MANGOS!" A man carrying a wooden board lined with mangos on sticks walked around the beach.

"No thanks, I've got my own mango right here." Logan said out loud.

"I taste just as sweet too." Max told him.

"I know."

Original Cindy groaned from her spot on the sand. "Either you get a room or you chill because Original Cindy doesn't need to be hearing this things."

They laughed together.

"Ok, ok, let's think about something else." Max said

"For example..."

"Mmmm a chair!"

Logan smiled and played along "A chair, you on a chair..."

"AHEM!" Cindy cleared her throat.

"Ok, not a chair what about a fruit?" Logan suggested.

"Strawberries! Chocolate covered strawberries... chocolate covered Logan..."

"Guys!" Cindy raised her head and scowled at them.

Max laughed "I'm sorry I just can't think of anything..."

"Think about something gross" Cindy told her.

"Like what?"

"Like mould or... OH MY GOD!"

Max looked in the direction of Cindy's gaze, her eyes went as wide as saucers.

Kendra was walking towards them wearing a purple bikini with yellow polka dots, behind her was Walter wearing...

"What the hell?" Logan frowned.

"Hey guys, I was just... Oh for the love of Mike!" Sketchy came up behind them dripping wet and immediately discovered the cause of everyone's bewilderment.

Walter was wearing a leopard patterned thong.

"So much for thinking about disgusting things." Max said under her breath.

"Hell with that image in my mind, you'll be lucky to get any by Wednesday." Logan whispered to Max.

"Hey guys, sorry we took so long. So, what have you been up to?" Kendra plopped down on the sand next to Original Cindy.

"Humm, I was just going for a ride on the banana!" Sketchy jumped up.

"Yeah, so where we!" Logan chipped in.

"What's a banana?" Walter asked.

"Yeah, what's a banana?" Max whispered to Logan, who shrugged.

"You see those huge inflatable bananas over there? Being pulled by that boat with people straddling it? That's a banana." Sketchy pointed to a couple of bananas.

"Oh yeah, looks like fun!" Max smiled and grabbed Logan's hand.

"Come on, let's go" She told him.

"Hold on, we'll go too!" Kendra took Walter's hand.

"We are?" Walter asked but Kendra ignored him.

"Cindy you coming?" Sketchy asked.

Original Cindy sighed, "Why the hell not? Oh but Sketch?"

"Yeah?"

"Don't you EVER say 'for the love of Mike' again or I'll smack your ass. If I'd wanted to hear things like that I would've brought Normal."

Max laughed all the way to the banana.

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"So, you're supposed to wear life jackets but we don't have any so you have to sign this." A very tanned man with blonde hair handed Max a sheet of paper.

"What is it?"

"Oh just some legal stuff, basically it says that we're not responsible for your safety, if you drown it's your problem. Don't worry about it."

"Isn't that dangerous?" Kendra asked.

"Not really, no one has drowned in like... five years or something."

Kendra visibly paled.

"Oh come on you guys, it'll be fun!" Max took the pen from the guy and signed. Logan sighed and signed after her. Sketchy and Original Cindy followed. Finally Kendra and Walter signed too.

"Good. Now, the boat will pull the banana until the water is about waist high and then you can all hop in. Scream if you need anything, if you fall I'll stop the boat and you can climb right back on ok? Just... try not to fall near the rocks." The guy told them quickly and ran along to the boat.

"Ok, let's do this!" Max told everyone once the water was waist high.

Walter took the rear, Kendra sat in front of him, then Sketchy, Original Cindy, Logan and finally Max at the front.

The banana moved through the waves, carefully and slowly. Everyone started to get bored.

Walter shifted his weight and the banana rocked a little. He raised an eyebrow with interest and moved up and down. The banana rocked more forcefully.

"Walter, please don't do that." Kendra asked him, but Sketchy had caught on and was now moving up and down himself.

"Sketchy, that can be dangerous!" Original Cindy slapped his leg.

Max thought it was kind of fun so she moved up and down too.

Seeing that Max was into it Sketchy moved faster. Walter got a little scared and stopped but Max and Sketchy kept moving. The banana rocked from side to side.

"Max, don't do that." Logan placed his hands on her hips trying to keep her still.

"Aww come on Logan, let's have some fun!" Max rocked harder.

"No Max, don't do that, we're going to..."

At that moment Walter regained his courage and gave one big jump. That was when Max saw the big rocks right below them.

"Walter don't!" She yelled but it was too late, the banana tipped over sending everyone flying into the air.

Walter, Kendra, OC and Sketchy managed to land away from the rocks. Max held on to the banana with her heels and staid on but Logan wasn't so lucky.

"LOGAN!" Max yelled as he landed head first on one of the rocks and his body went limp.

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Hey, sorry it took so long for me to update but I was away. I'm sorry if some facts aren't 100% accurate, I haven't been to Mazatlan in like four years or something.

Oh I wanted to tell you guys something, THIS STORY WILL NOT TURN OUT M/A!!!! Alec won't even appear in it since this story takes place some time during season 1 so please don't stop reading just because you think he might pop up out of no where.

Ok, now please review, help me make this story better and I'm sorry about the cliffhanger but what can I say? I love them!