AN: WE ARE SUCH LAZY LITTLE BUTTHOLES AREN'T WE. God we're sorry xD Neddy has been busy with end of the year stuff and Hannah never feels like writing when Neddy does. So we suck. Yeah. We're sorry. BUT Neddy is on Summer Vacation now and we've assigned Mondays to be our writing days. So no matter what (well unless one of us is M.I.A or something) we will be writing at least once a week. We promise. And if you've stuck with us all this time then we owe you big time. Thank's for not abandoning us and our horrible updates xD We love you all :3
The sun was shining as they waited for the bus. Sam was smiling as he imagined all the girls he'd get to see in bikinis today.
The gang was sitting around on the sidewalk outside of school, waiting for the class trip to start. The teachers were counting off the busses and starting to board half the grade onto the first bus. They were going to a water park. Astrid was the only one disappointed that this wasn't an educational trip.
"You know you look like an idiot, right?" Drake said to the drooling Sam, grinning.
Sam closed his mouth and glared at Drake. "I don't know what you're talking about."
Meanwhile, Quinn and Edilio were off to the side, wondering whether they should have brought their Thomas the Train swimming trunks or not.
Kira, Diana, and Astrid were talking about their plans for the trip. Well Diana and Astrid were, Kira just listened. "Hopefully Caine won't follow me around all day." Diana grumbled. She was still angry about the shrine incident. "Sam better not chase any other girls but me" Astrid said, crossing her arms. Kira snickered. "Its in his job description, Astrid." She shook her head, trying to decide on whether to wear her red and black striped sunglasses or her white ones with neon blue triangles on them.
Finally, they were all loaded onto the bus.
"We should make up a song," Quinn said happily. "A bus song." He cleared his throat and started singing: "We're on a bus, trust us, where are we going? To Toys R Us-"
"Shut up before I shoot you in the face," Drake said.
Kira was stuck in between the window and Drake, who was absorbed in some game on his iPod that involved loud gun shots. Caine was slowly inching closer and closer to Diana in his seat. Astrid and Sam were under their seats, but nobody wanted to know why. Quinn was still mumbling the bus song under his breath and Edilio was wondering why he was friends with him. He truly didn't understand.
"How long until we get there?" Caine grumbled. There was a red mark in the shape of a hand – Diana's hand, actually – on his cheek.
Kira shrugged. "They said it wouldn't be a long ride. We should be getting there soon."
Kira was right, they ended up sitting on the bus for another fifteen minutes before reaching their destination. And no it was not Toys R Us, at which Quinn seemed extremely disappointed, even though he already knew they were going to a water park.
"Alright, be back here in five hours, have fun, don't bother us. Go away." One of the teachers waved them off, and most of the students complied automatically.
Kira and Drake wandered off on their own, debating which ride would be riskier. Meanwhile, Quinn had somehow convinced Edilio to go on the Tunnel of Love ride with him, since it was couples-only and it had always been his lifelong dream to ride.
"Come on," Sam said to Astrid, "we'll wait for them at the end."
After a few minutes, Quinn came out, but he was alone.
Astrid stared at him. "…where did Edilio go?" she asked suspiciously.
Quinn slowly turned to the empty seat beside him and inspected the empty space. He felt around the seat to make sure Edilio hadn't turned invisible before picking up a stick that was lying by the exit and paddling awkwardly back inside the tunnel. "I'M COMING MY LOVE."
Astrid twitched when his voice echoed through the walls.
Meanwhile. Kira and Drake had just pushed an annoying kid off of his floatie in the wave pool and into the water. They'd decided it best to flee the scene. No one knew where Caine and Diana were, or if they were even together.
It turns out Diana had ditched Caine somewhere along the lines of their wandering. Caine had been trying to start up a conversation with her, but Diana was just annoyed, so she walked away to go buy herself cotton candy. Caine decided he'd just sit around on a bench and wait until he had to return to the bus. Hopefully the others were having more fun than he was. Drake and Kira passed by as Caine was tying his shoes.
"Aww, why are you all alone, Cainey?" Kira said. "Did Diana find you sneaking pictures of her again?"
"That was one time," Caine snapped, not in the best mood. He glared at Drake as Drake sat on the bench beside him. "What have you two been doing, anyway?"
Drake smirked and flung his arm over Caine's shoulder. "Well. I would answer that but you probably don't want to feel more forever alone than you already are." He laughed when Caine shot him an irritated glare. "Oh lighten up, I'm just kidding. We threw some kids in whirlpools, the usual."
Kira laughed and poked Caine in the gut "Cheer up Mr. Grumpygills."
"Don't tell me what to do," Caine mumbled. "I don't need any cheering up. I'm having a wonderful time. This bench is...comfortable."
Kira wrinkled her nose. "That's it. You're coming with us. We'll find Diana."
"But I don't wannaaaaaa," Caine protested. "I like this bench and it likes me." He crossed his arms angrily over his chest. Drake rolled his eyes.
"Get up stupid." He grumbled, pulling Caine by the arm as Kira pushed from behind.
Caine refused to move on his own.
"If you don't move," Drake growled, "I will personally knock you out, cut off your bathing suit, and have security arrest you for public nudity."
Caine twitched slightly, but still didn't move.
"And I'll take a picture and send it to Diana," Kira added.
A heavy sigh. Then, "Alright. But I'd stay away from my emotional side, if I were you."
In the Tunnel of Love, hidden in the dark, Edilio was having a lovely conversation with a fish. Quinn was paddling around, trying to find him.
Kira and Drake managed to drag Caine around the entirety of the amusement park, throwing him on as many rides as possible without catching a single glimpse of Diana. Nobody had any clue where she was, but Caine seemed to be in a slightly better mood.
Meanwhile, Quinn had finally stumbled upon Edilio in the tunnel. "MY LOVE." He cried out, tackling him to the bottom of the lake. "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN ALL MY LIFE."
"What's taking them so long?" Astrid asked Sam, as they waited outside the tunnel.
"I don't kno-oh!" Sam suddenly broke out into a grin. "I smell food."
Astrid sighed. "We can get food after we-" But Sam was already wandering towards the smell. She frowned and followed.
Edilio had been trying to pry Quinn off his person for the past five minutes, to no avail.
Meanwhile, Diana was flirting with some guy at the goldfish booth shamelessly and trying to con him into giving her one for free. He was really close to doing so, too.
Right as he was about to hand over the fish, Drake, Kira and Caine came sauntering over to interrupt the moment.
The goldfish seller looked up at the new arrivals. He squinted at Caine.
"Bro," he said, "you look like a salamander."
Caine looked offended and got his emotional side into firing position, but he was distracted by Drake and Kira's laughter.
"Well," Drake said between laughs, "you really do, man."
Caine's likeness to a salamander was only exemplified by his anger. He raised one hand and sent the goldfish man flying back, goldfish falling from his booth. Quinn and Edilio, who were stumbling past the mess, looked horrified.
"The fishies!" Quinn cried, anguished and pulling at his hair.
"OH COME ON MAN." The fish vendor cried, throwing his hands angrily in the air. "Who do you think you are, throwing me and my fish like that?" He picked himself off the ground angrily, heading towards Caine while rolling up a sleeve. Before he could even attempt to strike a punch, Drake and Kira restrained him, using virtually no effort to hold him back, even though he was a bit bigger than both of them.
"Aw come on leave the Salamander alone." Drake teased.
Quinn was running in a circle around the booth, picking up the scattered, flopping goldfish in his palms and throwing them into the large fish tank behind the counter. "THE POOR LITTLE THINGS OH MY GOD CAINE. GO DIE OKAY."
"Maybe we should get out of here," Caine said, looking slightly worried.
Edilio nodded and restrained Quinn, who was still screaming about fish equality. The three of them, along with Kira and Drake, headed rather quickly in the opposite direction of the fish seller. Soon they found their way to a stand selling food, where Sam was eating and Astrid was looking resentful.
"THEY HAVE RIGHTS. THE FISH HAVE RIGHTS." Quinn continued yelling as they approached the remaining members of the usual gang. Edilio sighed.
"If I take you through the tunnel of love again will you stop talking about fish."
"Okay!" Quinn brightened up immediately and hastily pulled Edilio toward the ride that had already proved to be a disaster earlier in the day.
Astrid raised a questioning eyebrow at Kira, who shrugged in response, "Apparently Caine is a salamander and Quinn is an advocate for fishy rights." She said while ordering a cotton candy from the vendor and taking a bite from it.
Drake snatched it from her hand and took an even larger bite of the fluffy pink cloud, which earned him a thump on the head from his girlfriend.
A few minutes later a whistle sounded, cutting through their debate about whether Nigel Thornberry or Spongebob would win in a fight.
"Time to go," Sam,who had finally stopped eating, said.
All of them stood up. "What about Quinn and Edilio?" Astrid asked.
Drake shrugged. "Leave em."
Everybody looked at each other and shrugged, then started towards the bus.
Meanwhile, Quinn had stolen a cardboard sign from a hobo. The original contents of the sign were crossed out, replaced by "SAVE THE FISH". The hobo had then proceeded to hit Edilio with his shoe multiple times, which explained why Edilio was so happy to hear the whistle. He half-dragged Quinn towards the bus.
Quinn and Edilio has just approached the bus as the doors were about to shut, and they quickly boarded and took their seats in the spot next to Sam and Astrid, behind Caine and Diana, and diagonal from Drake and Kira, who were currently trying to eat each others faces off, much to all of their discomfort.
"Guys. Guys can you stop." Caine hissed at them.
"Shut up Salamander." Kira muttered angrily. The others burst into laughter at this comment, but Caine was not amused.
"Not my fault your girlfriend wouldn't touch you with a ten foot pole," Drake said, the went back to making out with Kira.
Caine glared at him, then threw a glance at Diana. "Maybe we should-"
"No."
"Just-"
"No. And if you put your hand there again, you aren't getting it back."
Caine sighed and sunk lower in his seat. Quinn, on the other hand, was practically jumping on his, shoving his sign in the bus window and shouting "SAVE THE FISH" at everyone who passed.
Edilio tore the sign from Quinns hand and hit him over the head with it, making him sit down in his seat again with a pout on his face "But the fish!"
"SHUT UP." Everyone but Drake and Kira yelled at him, causing him to cross his arms over his chest stubbornly and turn his face towards the window angrily.
In the seat across from him, Sam was telling Astrid about the dream he'd had the night before. "-and you were only wearing underwear, and there was a llama, and you gave birth to a chick but the llama ate it. So then-"
Astrid looked thouroughly worried. "Sam," she interrupted, "have you been rolling before bed again?"
Sam froze. "No. Why?" It was obviously a lie.
"Sam." Astrid sighed. "You know it gives you disturbing dreams. You told me you'd stop!"
Sam and Astrid continued arguing back and forth about his rolling before sleep and Drake and Kira continued their own… activities. Quinn and Edilio were still bickering over fish and Caine and Diana sat in relative silence.
"So…" Caine said, earning nothing but a glare from Diana, "uh nevermind…"
Diana pulled out her headphones from her pocket and plugged them in her ears, turning toward the window.
Finally, after what seemed like a very long time, the bus screeched to a halt in front of their school. Diana looked up happily and removed her earbuds. Sam and Astrid fell silent. Drake and Kira kept doing what they were doing.
"I wonder if I can get the teachers to join my campaign!" Quinn mused excitedly. Edilio, having had a very long day, simply sighed and ran his hands through his hair.
Slowly, the entire class filed out of the bus. The eight of them stood off to the side, awkward silence all around them.
"So," Quinn said, still hyper. "Who wants to have another sleepover?"
AN: If you have any suggestions for future chapters, please be sure to leave it in the review section and we'll do our best to incorporate it into the story !