A/N: It's still Saturday where I am so this still counts! I received positive responses to Crazy Steve's guest appearance last chapter. Glad you liked it and remembered him! Next chapter, you'll find more guests from other shows ;) But as for now, this one goes out to my favorite ship. Warning: this is a Cabbie filled chapter. Enjoy!

Two weeks have past; the second half of Camp was ahead of them. It was the weekend a day off for all the campers. Tori and Andre spent a majority of their day off working in the music room, Tori ditching him a few hours at a time to meet with Kojak. He was keen in ensuring Tori would sign with him. She was pretty hesitant but still hadn't said a sure 'no' to him. Ever since the stage fighting/kissing lesson, Hollywood Art's beloved couple had been on rough waters. Sure they would still be around each other, but the silence brought more tension than when they would argue. They refused to speak to one another until one of them owned up to their jealousy.

But that wasn't the case today. All that mattered for Robbie Shapiro was spending his day off with his best friend, Cat Valentine. And what better way to spend time in the sun than to explore the grounds, have a boat ride in the lake and relax at their secret spot.

"Ready for a funtabulous afternoon, Kitty-Cat?!" Robbie exclaimed upon greeting her at her cabin door.

"Yay! Today is going to be so much fun!" Cat squealed.

"What are you two so perky about this early in the morning?" Jade grumbled.

"But it's almost noon, Jadey?" Cat corrected her.

"Just ignore her," Tori said walking out the door, "She's still in a fight with Beck."

"Can it Vega before I make sure you never sing another note again," Jade backfired.

"Scary," Cat mumbled before the three of them stepped out.

"By Jade!" Robbie wailed.

"And if you do anything to get Cat in danger, I'm going to hunt you down myself, Shapiro."

Cat gave Jade a long embrace.

"Noo!" she yelled, but Cat didn't retort, she giggled and walked out.

"I will never understand those two," Robbie told Tori.

Tori agreed. "Where are you two heading off to?"

"Oh you know, just plan on having some fun today. Explore the trails, ride out in the lake, and other stuff, you know…"

"What other stuff?" Tori was skeptical.

"Just stuff," he started to blush. Tori noticed and Robbie grew even redder.

"Ready to go?!" Cat jumped. She absentmindedly grabbed his hand and pulled him away as they skipped off one direction. "Bye Tori! Have fun with Andre today!"

"See ya," she smirked and winked at Robbie and waved at Cat before walking the other direction.

The first item on their agenda was exploring the trails. Cat and Robbie took a leisurely hike on the hills behind the campgrounds. They took in the warmth of the sun and the slight breeze from the fawning trees above them. Cat was so giddy every time she spotted a squirrel or a bird flew overhead. At around two in the afternoon, the two friends decided to hike back down to their secret spot to have a late lunch and wind down. Robbie packed peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and Cat asked Festus for two canteens of iced tea before they left.

"Do you have any… 3's?"

"You know, not a lot of people remember the 3's," Cat told her nerdy friend.

"Yeah I remember you telling us," Robbie stated.

"Hehe."

After a second, "So… about the 3's…"

"Oh! Yeah I do," she handed him her card. He paired his final cards and placed them in the pile.

"I win!" he raised his hands in victory.

"Phooey! That's four in a row. I want to play something else," Cat crossed her arms in defeat.

"Someone is a sore loser," Robbie teased.

"No I'm not, you're just a sore winner," she stuck her tongue out.

"Alright, alright. What do you want to do next?"

"Hm, I don't know," she said leaning back. She rowed back and forth and eventually fell back with a contagious laugh following.

Robbie sat amused, watching his redheaded friend rocking until she fell backwards. She was giggling uncontrollably and the only thing he wanted to do was laugh along and plop beside her.

"Don't you wish every day was like this?"

"Like what?" he asked.

"Simple," she stated.

"Simple," he repeated.

"We didn't have to think much, we had fun, and we were with each other. I'd live this day forever and ever if I could," Cat told him.

So her ideal of a perfect day had me in it? Robbie thought to himself. That's so awesome.

"I had a fun day too," he replied. "Especially since I was with you a lot."

She turned her head to smile at him before looking back up at the clouds.

"When was the last time we had a Cat and Robbie day all to ourselves?"

"When we went baby golfing after seeing my Mamaw the second time."

Cat furrowed her brows. She wasn't one to hate, but Robbie's Mamaw wasn't nice to Cat. "How is your Mamaw, anyways?"

Robbie looked at her, "Are you being serious or just being nice?" he joked.

"Both?" she didn't know which answer was better.

"Well thanks for being nice, Cat. But she's fine I guess. Still… Mamaw."

She giggled. "Well, she may be mean to me, but you care about her so she's ok I guess."

"Thanks Cat. I mean I do tell my Mamaw to be nicer to you, especially in recent events. She's accepted you, but she still thinks you're out to destroy me."

"Destroy you? Robbie, I'd never hurt you," Cat grew worried.

"No, Cat," Robbie tried to explain himself, "My Mamaw thinks, that. I don't. She means that you're a bad influence on me."

"I am?!" she was about ready to cry.

"No! That's not what I mean either," he defended. Ugh, I need to choose my words more carefully, he scolded himself. "My Mamaw sees me as an introverted nerd, and you are a full of life pretty girl. She thinks I'll rebel or something and run off with you."

Cat started to blush. Robbie thought it was because of the rebellious remark, though she was blushing because of the running-off idea.

"But I know you wouldn't intentionally do anything to hurt me. I need the balance, you bring the life out of me," he reassured her.

"Thanks, Robbie," she smiled. "You bring the smart out of me too!"

He chuckled. "You're welcome?"

They cloud watched a few more minutes before there were no more clouds in the sky… for now.

"What time is it, Kitty-Cat?"

She pulled out her pink pear phone and checked. "It's a quarter to five. Wow, we've been out all day!"

"Well, that's kind of the point of an all-day adventure," he pointed.

"Oh, right," she laughed.

"What do you want to do next?" he asked her. "You want to eat some dinner?"

Cat's stomach was currently swimming with butterflies and knots in her stomach, she didn't have an appetite for these emotions. "Maybe later."

"Hm," he thought. He sat up and looked ahead. He saw that many of the campers had gone into the main hall to eat dinner and probably spend time in their cabins the rest of the evening. "We could go for a canoe ride?" he suggested.

Cat's eyes widened and she jerked up. "Yeah! Let's do that!"

And that was what they did. They gathered their things and made their way to the deck. Cat fetched the life jackets while Robbie got a boat ready. After settling in the boat, they rowed a good distance from the campgrounds.

"Robbie, did you bring the bag of bread?"

"No, I left it in a shelf at the dock. Didn't want our stuff to get wet."

"Phooey, I was going to feed the duckies," she pointed to some ducks in the pond.

"Next time, Kitty-Cat."

"Kk!" she perked up again.

"How has Tori and Jade been this week?" he stuck up some small talk.

"Ok. Jade's been busy with Beck problems and Tori seems to always be busy with Andre or music. They fight, but not that much to make me faint."

"I'm surprised you haven't fainted yet," Robbie admitted. He caught on to his words and worriedly glanced at Cat. They met eyes and broke into a laugh.

"Me too," she giggled.

"So what do you think senior year will be like?"

"I don't know. Just the same as all the other years I guess, but just our last. Oooh and then there's the Last Waltz and the senior showcase! And the song and dance and twirls and jumps! And-"

"Cat, you just gave me the run down to High School Musical 3."

"Oh, I watched that the other night with Tori and Jade!"

"Jade watched a Disney movie with you girls?"

"Well, she sat in the room while we watched it on Tori's laptop."

"Figures," Robbie nodded.

"I want our senior year to be like the Wildcats, though."

"Oh yeah? Why?"

"Because they were happy, and it was a happy ending," she simply stated.

"Yeah but there was still some drama," Robbie said.

"Drama is inevitable, Robbie," Cat's intellect started to show.

"Yes, yes it is," he smiled at her knowledge.

"I want that happy ending. The school, the future, the love," she almost whispered the last part. Robbie, however, heard it clearly.

"You will," he patted her knee. They stayed silent for a few seconds, smiling at each other before breaking gazes.

"Robbie?" Cat asked after they doodled in the water with their fingers.

"Yes, Kitty-Cat?"

"Why does your Mamaw hate me so much?"

"I thought we already established this?" he wondered.

"I know, but I just don't understand what I did wrong the first time we met."

"You did nothing wrong, Cat. You're perfect."

"Thanks," she blushed, "but why didn't she like me?"

"Because she didn't want to see her favorite grandson grow up," he sighed.

"Grow up?" she tilted her head, nonverbally asking him to continue.

"Like you know how a protective father never wants to see his little girl grow up, get married, and start a family of her own? Like that. She was afraid I'd do all those things with you." Even though he was only explaining, Robbie blushed at his own words. "My Mamaw thought we were together. She still does, actually…"

"Oh," Cat stifled a smile. "Well, you're grandma must really love you," was all she could muster.

"Don't worry, Cat. I've reassured her plenty of times that we're just friends."

That one stabbed her in the heart. Well, Robbie's too.

"Right, friends."

Robbie sensed the awkwardness so he decided to lighten up the mood.

"Hey, let's play a game!"

"Oooh ok!"

"How about I spy?"

"Me first! I spy with my little eye something… wet!"

"The water?"

"Wow you're good at this game!"

Robbie chuckled.

"Ok, I spy with my little eye something orange."

"A mango?"

"No, Cat, you have to say something around us that's orange that you think I spied."

"Oh, I thought we were just guessing," she genuinely said. It made sense to Robbie since her 'I spy' could have gone both ways; they were in the middle of the lake and water is obviously wet.

"You're so adorable, Kitty-Cat," he said to her.

"Well there's not much around, let's pick another game."

"Ok… hm, how about pirates?! Arrrrg!" he made a fake hook with one of his fingers and scrunched an eye close when making the noise.

"No! I don't want to play pirates with you!" Cat screamed terrifyingly; a little too much because she was so startled that she pulled herself back and away from Robbie as much as she could that he grew unsteady. Before they knew it, their reactions resulted in the boat tipping over and the two falling over board. Robbie and Cat splashed to the upside down canoe to hang on (their life jackets were keeping them afloat, they just wanted something to hold on to). When Cat and Robbie finally settled, she smacked him on the arm.

"Ow!"

"I told you I don't like playing pirates with you!" she scolded him.

"Sorry, Cat. I didn't know you'd be that startled," he chuckled. "Can you forgive me?"

She couldn't get mad at Robbie because one he didn't mean any harm and two his curly locks were a mess and it made him look silly. She decided to chuck a large amount of water to his face.

"There, now you're forgiven," she smirked.

"Oh, we're playing that game now?!" Robbie joked.

For the next few minutes they splashed water into each other's faces and laughed out their energy. They spent the remainder of their time in the water, floating around, making light conversation about anything and everything. Cat's random tangents of her brother's latest news in Idaho and the weird things he's been up to, to Robbie's latest medicinal prescriptions and comedy act with Rex. It was nearing sundown when the two decided to swim back to shore.

They pulled the boat on the dock, tied it up, and started toward the campgrounds.

"I guess we might have to call it a day a bit early since we're soaked from head to toe," Robbie noted. "Despite that the heat is slowly drying us."

"Yeah I guess," Cat giggled.

But they spoke too soon. One minute the area around them was settling into a nice cotton candy filled sky for a beautiful sunset, and the next - rain. No, it poured. That was California for you. Unpredictable weather. Robbie and Cat were surprised by the sudden contact with water again, though they weren't rushing under cover. They figured since they were wet already, what would be the use?

"It's raining!" Cat stuck her tongue out with her arms wide open.

"Don't you think we should get inside?" Robbie said using his arms as an umbrella.

"No," she simply answered, twirling in circles. "I like it out here." Robbie couldn't stop her, nor did he want to. She looked so blissful. He relaxed a bit, then spread his arms out and faced the sky. Rain was pouring over his face and for once he felt tranquil. He smiled. She was right, it was nice.

"Care to dance?" he flashed a lopsided grin and offered his hand. She gladly accepted it and they locked both hands and twirled in circles for what felt like hours but really was only a few seconds. They didn't realize where they were going and they slipped into a huge pile of muddy waters. Only that made their time even more exciting. They threw mud at each other and slipped and slide across that puddle, only to accidentally knock into each other because they slid into each other from opposite directions.

"Robbie look at your face!" Cat barely said in between gasping for air from her fits of laughter, grabbing on her sides from aching so much.

"Look at your face, Kitty-Cat!" He slapped some mud on her cheek.

The two friends laughed until they couldn't bear it any longer, trying to ease each other, and letting oxygen flow through their lungs. Sighing contently, they glanced at each other and smiled.

For a moment, he could have sworn that Cat was looking down at his lips, so he slightly leaned in. Cat noticed and could have sworn he too was looking at her, passion clearly written in his eyes. So she slightly leaned as well. Almost too soon, they both realized where this might have led to so they repelled at the same time.

"This was the best day ever," Cat said.

"Yeah, it was," Robbie agreed.

"Thanks, Robbie," Cat said as he helped her stand up. She gave him a hug and tried to express to him how much the day meant spending it together.

"See you tomorrow, Cat!" he waved before they parted ways to their respective cabins. In truth, Robbie didn't want to let go of her embrace. He didn't want this day to end, but wanting was so different than needing.

That Night

"Hey Robbie, where'd you head off to all day?" Andre asked.

"Oh, just hung out with Cat."

The three guys sat outside their cabin later that evening after the rain had subsided.

"Just hung out with Cat? You say that so plainly," Beck called out.

"Huh?"

"Don't act like you don't know what's going on," the guys teased him.

"But I have no idea what you're talking about?"

"Sure man, if you want to keep your little crush a secret, we'll stop," Andre winked.

"Crush? Whaaa- What?" Robbie grew nervous. "Goodnight!"

He hurriedly went inside and turned his light off.

"That boy's sprung," Andre told his Canadian friend.

"He sure is."

A/N: Song Title - I Think You're Swell - It's a Cabbie chapter. Enough said.