At five minutes until six, Dana left the girls in the suite and headed down to the beach where Logan was waiting.

Zoey, Nicole, Lola, and Quinn only managed to wait a minute before they too left their suite to head out to the beach to watch Dana and Logan. They stopped just outside the door to their building because they saw that Dana was not that far ahead of them. They tried to keep an unnoticeable distance behind her.

As she descended the stairs to cross campus on her way to the beach, the girls saw something move in a bush Dana had just passed. They paused to see if it would move again. As soon as Dana was out of sight Chase and Michael leapt out from behind said bush. They seemed to be arguing about something and didn't notice the girls.

An idea popped into Nicole's head about how she could help her friend. She turned to Zoey and said, "You want to figure things out with Chase, copy what I do, only with him."

Zoey's brow furrowed in confusion as Nicole took of running in the direction of the boys. Though she had no idea what was going on Zoey ran after Nicole. Nicole had a considerable head start, but she was not as fast as Zoey, so Zoey was close on her heels. Suddenly Nicole tackled Michael. Things were not clicking in Zoey's head and she simply threw herself at Chase in an embrace that almost knocked him over.

"It's great to see you too Zo," Chase said after the shock wore off.

Zoey suddenly felt awkward and let go of Chase and took a step back. She tried to ignore her odd behavior and asked, "So how was your summer?"

"Good," Chase replied slightly puzzled. He continued politely, "And yours?"

"Good," Zoey said glancing down at her feet wondering why everything between them was so weird. She caught sight of the bracelet still around her wrist and decided current revelations concerning it must be the cause of the awkward tension. She voiced the thought that dawned on her, "What are you guys doing out here hiding from Dana?"

"Probably the same thing as you guys. Heading down to the beach to see what happens between Logan and Dana," Chase answered while wondering what was going on with Zoey. Something was off.

Meanwhile, unnoticed to Chase and Zoey, Nicole was explaining to Michael.

Getting up from on top of him and extending her hand Nicole said, "Sorry. Zoey was supposed to do the same to Chase so..."

"So they could have some little moment and maybe one of them would finally admit their feelings," Michael said jumping in as he took Nicole's hand, stood up, and brushed himself off.

"Yep, but she didn't do it," Nicole said not at all surprised that Michael got what she was trying to accomplish. With their best friends spending more time together they had too. Usually they spent their time trying to get Chase and Zoey together; it was really the only interest they had in common.

"They aren't gonna make this easy on us are they? I said I'd still help you try and get them together this year and I'm going to, but this is my last year. If they're not together with all our help after three years, I'm declaring it hopeless," Michael said firmly.

"We definitely have a lot to do this year then," Nicole said determined to have her friends together by the end of the year.

Nicole and Michael moved closer to Chase and Zoey to catch him telling her why they were out and where they were headed to. At that point Lola said as she and Quinn walked passed them, "Then what are we waiting for? Let's get to the beach."

They all headed for the stairs that Dana had disappeared down only moments earlier. As Zoey started heading towards them Nicole held her back.

"You were supposed to copy me," Nicole hissed in a whisper.

"And give Chase a bump on the head like Michael's gonna have?" Zoey questioned still not getting it.

"No," Nicole began as they started heading towards the beach a considerable distance behind the others, "You were supposed to tackle him, which would have landed your face on his. If there is anything between you two, which I think there is, you probably would have had one of those moments you want."

"Thank you for trying to help," Zoey said sincerely, "but how was I supposed to know that giving Chase a head injury was supposed to result in that?"

After pondering it for a second Nicole answered, "I don't know. I just saw an opportunity and I was trying to help you take it."

"Well, thank you again," Zoey repeated still sincerely, "but next time you have an idea, let me know what it is first…and make sure it can't potentially hurt anyone because if Michael's head landed like four inches higher than it did it would have hit pavement instead of grass."

"Alright, from now on no more spur of the moment, not completely thought out ideas," Nicole agreed as they caught up to the rest of the group causing their discussion to cease from continuing.

As they saw Dana approaching Logan they quickly snuck around a near by sand dune to hide behind. It was a fair distance away from Dana and Logan, but the gang still hoped that they'd be able to hear as Quinn muttered something about "should've remembered my bugging device." They waited in silence.

Before much was said between their friends, Zoey and Chase snuck away, followed closely by Nicole and Michael, and then Lola and Quinn. Chase walked along side Zoey in silence, he knew why she left and he agreed with her. The other's were a little confused as to why they were suddenly heading back to school. Lola asked, "Why'd we leave? It was just starting to get good."

Chase answered, because he knew Zoey, "It was too personal to spy on. Whatever happens it's between them and they'll tell us anything they want us to know. All the rest of it, the intimate details of their relationship, we shouldn't know any of that." Zoey turned around and continued walking back to the dorms with a smile, because he understood her.

They all followed up to they girls' new room and discussed what they did over their summers and what they predicted would happen between Logan and Dana. Though, they had different theories about what exactly was happening, they all agreed that for the better of everyone, they needed to come back together, rather than apart.

A/N: Please don't hate me, but this is it for Chase and Zoey for this story. BUT, I will be writing a CZ one-shot sequel, that will, of course, have slight DL since it will be coming from this DL centered fic. Look for the sequel to be out by April. I'd tell you a title to look for, but I'm undecided for now.