AN: We're alive! Shocking, I know.

We really are sorry about the length between the last update and this one, and we're also sorry that this chapter is short. It's more of a filler—a preview of things to come, if you will. c; We definitely haven't forgotten this fic at all, and hopefully the next chapter will be out sometime soon. Until then, review! ;D

Also, I've been looking back through this and have noticed some formatting issues in earlier chapters - I'll try to fix those soon, as well. Enjoy!

It was the first day of their summer vacation, and the gang all found themselves waking up on the floor of Astrid's living room, tangled up with each other and in very uncomfortable positions.

Caine, for instance, woke up with Quinn's foot on his head.

When Edilio woke up, the first thing he did was run to the bathroom in a rush, as he'd forgotten to go the night before.

Drake got up and went to sit with his girlfriend on Astrid's couch, who was already wide awake and laughing at something on the laptop screen. It was in Korean, so he had no idea what it was about, the title of the video was "U-Kiss Vampire Ep 9", so he assumed it had something to do with asian vampire pornography

Sam, however, swaggered over to the couch on the other side of the room and fell asleep again.

While Caine attempted to draw a mustache on Sam's sleeping face, Diana pounded on the bathroom door.

"Get out!" she yelled. "You've been in there for like twenty minutes! What are you doing, tunneling back to Mexico? Oh, excuse me, the Honduras."

Edilio responded by shouting Spanish curses at her.

After a good five minutes, Edilio finally finished in the bathroom and let an angry Diana in.

"You guys," Astrid started, rubbing her eyes in exhaustion. "It's our first real day of summer vacation all together and I think we should try to make it the best summer yet... But how?"

"How about we sit at home all day and never do anything?" Sam suggested, his words slurred as he angrily tried to wipe the magic-marker mustache off his upper lip.

"That doesn't sound very fun," Quinn said with a frown as he massaged his foot where Caine had hit it with his emotional side. "Why don't we go to the beach? There's an ocean with a lot of fish—"

"And girls in bikinis," Sam said with a dreamy sigh.

Astrid glared at him, "Why, exactly, are we dating?"

"Because we love each other"

Astrid pinched the bridge of her nose in irritation and got up to find a sheet of paper an a pen as Diana came to join the rest of the crew.

"Okay, the beach," she wrote as the wrote it out on the page. "What else?"

"Are we still going camping?" Kira asked, momentarily glancing up from the computer screen, "We should throw a party, too."

"Hey, I happen to like my neighbors," Astrid said. "I'd rather not traumatize them."

"At least it won't be as bad as my neighbor when she saw Drake in a bra," Caine said with a grin. Drake threw a pillow at him, knocking him off the arm of the couch.

"My parents have been bugging me to go outside more," Edilio added, trying to distract the two boys from an imminent fight. "I like the idea of camping or something."

"I literally just said that," Kira rolled her eyes and reached over Drake to snatch the paper and pen from Astrid

"Okay, beach, camping, party..." What else? Let's at least get one more thing on the list."

Drake turned to her and winked, to which Kira rolled her eyes. "I meant something we can do as a group."

"Then I've got nothing." He shrugged, draping an arm over her shoulders.

"You two are actually really gross." Caine said, twitching a bit.

"At least we're gross together, as opposed to you being gross by yourself," Kira said, sticking her tongue out at him.

"Ugh." Sam rolled over and sat up. "I think my mom was saying something about putting me in some kind of summer tutoring program."

"Just tell her that Astrid is your tutoring program," Drake said with a shrug. "And she even works free. Well, not counting—"

"Shut up." Astrid narrowed her eyes. "And besides, I tried tutoring him, it didn't work. He just stared down my shirt the entire time."

Drake laughed, "Of course he did."

"What about Kira's birthday? Are we doing anything?" Edilio asked with a smile.

"I don't like birthday parties." Kira shrugged.

"We're going on a date," Drake smirked.

"So that's it then? What about the fourth of July?" Kira asked, tapping the pen against the paper.

"We can go watch the fireworks by the lake I guess." Astrid said

"And what about the parade? They'll have candy," Quinn said enthusiastically.

"Yeah, candy for the little kids," Diana said with a raised eyebrow.

Quinn shrugged. "Does it taste any differently? It doesn't matter, brah."

"Parades are early," Sam protested weakly. "Who wakes up early in the summer?"

"Okay," Kira said, scribbling down one last word. "That's enough summer fun for me. No offense, but if I have to go bungee jumping with you guys or something, I'm out."

"So I guess that's it then?" Diana asked monotonously.

"I suppose so." Kira said, folding up the paper and stuffing it in her pocket."Sounds like a great summer."

Quinn smiled. "Indeed it does."

And so it came to pass, the beginning of the summer that ended the world.

Kidding. But it was certainly an eventful season.