A/N: congrats!! You made it to chapter 30 of Living Arrangements. If you are a long time reader of our story, then you get the Long Time Reader award for sticking around this long! *hands you award* YAY!!! Oh and Happy Valentine's Day!!

Well that's it for now. I have to go torture Grimmy-kitty for being dick and making fun of me.

Grimmy: it's wasn't me!! She made me do it! *points at Brooke*

Katie: uh huh…now what should I use the chainsaw, or how about a pitchfork.

Grimmy: Review or she's gonna kill me!!

Katie: come here Grimmy!! I just wanna kill you! *runs after Grimmy*

Katie

Ok, being in the van with six other people is a weird and violating experience. Yeah I was the one driving, but I really didn't want to. If anyone else was capable of driving SAFELY I would have let them. But, seeing as the other passengers couldn't really be trusted; I wasn't about to give one of them the steering wheel. So you can see the dilemma I was in.

"Ok Brooke stop poking Grimmy in the head." I yelled in the rearview mirror.

"But Katie!!! I'm bored and he's knocked out." Brooke whined. It was at least half way through our trip and Nnoitra and Grimmy had dozed off in the back seat. After we ate and stopped to throw the trash out, Brooke decided to steal Uluqi's seat next to Fran. So the Emo was sandwiched in between a drooling Nnoitra and a snoring Grimmjow. It was all very amusing until Grimmy-kitty's snoring got out of hand and we had to turn music on to drown him out.

Right now I was listening to Ke$ha. She is pretty amazing. Brooke decided that most of her songs could be stripper songs. And I have to agree because they are. But that's besides the point. So I had Take it Off playing and I started really listening to the lyrics.

There's a place downtown,
where the freaks all come around.
It's a hole in the wall.
It's a dirty free for all.

"Hey Brooke" I said into the rearview mirror. She glanced up and I saw why she was being so quiet. She had taken my eyeliner and was currently drawing on Grimmjow's face. A Hitler mustache and little hearts were all that were there at the moment.

"HEY!! Don't use my eyeliner!!" I yelled, not bothering with the well being of Grimmy. Brooke put the cap back on and grumbled something about not being able to enjoy her kind of art and only Deidera and Sasori would understand.

"We aren't in the Naruto universe and Sasori and Deidera have nothing to do with your art." Brooke grumbled some more and tried to hit me in the head with my eyeliner. She missed and ended up hitting Stark in the back of the head. I laughed when he opened his eyes and glared at her.

"It wasn't me I swear! Brooke did it! " I said laughing. He just rolled his eyes and went back to sleep.

"Ok now seriously Brooke, you know the song that I was just listening to?" I asked. She nodded.

"How could I not." I laughed again.

"Well the first verse reminded me of Aizen and his bedroom. Think about it for a sec." I watched as her face went from confused to grinning like an idiot and then laughing hysterically.

"Haha!! He is a freak. But don't tell him, he might throw a fit" we laughed and I turned another Ke$ha song on.

"Wow her songs really are dirty" Brooke said and I nodded. "So now what. I'm bored."

"You're always bored"

"It's not my fault I have a short attention span. I'm just awesome like that" We kept driving until we reached the beach house. I pulled into the drive and Brooke woke everyone up by yelling really loud.

"GUYS!! WE'RE HERE!!!" She sang.

Grimmy and Nnoitra hit their heads against the roof of the car; Stark covered his ears and hit his head on the dashboard. Brooke startled Fran and she nearly gave her a mustache with her charcoal pencil. I started laughing when everyone simultaneously glared at her. After I stopped everyone from nearly killing her, we got out and went into the house. Ulquiorra and Nnoitra were stuck getting the bags.

"Ok so there are eight rooms. Brooke, Fran, and I get our own rooms. Stark and Lilinette are sharing, Ulquiorra and Grimmy-kitty are sharing and Nnoitra and Szayel share one. Aizen and Gin have their own rooms because it's kinda mandatory that they get them. Not to mention that Brooke would call them gay for the rest of eternity if they shared one." Brooke and I starting giggling.

"Why do I have to share a room with that asshole?" Grimmjow burst out.

"Brooke and Fran picked out your rooms" was the reply

"Why the hell would you do that" He said angrily.

"To torture you. Why else would we do that? You aren't very bright are you Grimmy-kitty."

Before Grimmy could get his hands on her, Brooke ran up the stairs to claim her room. I followed grabbing my bag. I reached the landing and randomly chose a room at the end of the hall. I opened the door and walked in. there was a full sized bed with a nightstand, a dresser, and a huge window that looked out the lake. I threw my bag on the bed and left to go see what rooms everyone else picked out.

Brooke's room was next to mine. Her room was similar to mine only she had a balcony. Fran was across from her and had a bigger room than both of us. Stark and Lilinette's room was across from me and everyone else was on the first floor. So while everyone finished unpacking, I went into my room and opened the window. Fresh air and sunlight streamed in and I got the sudden urge to play in the water. So I banged on Brooke's room before barging in.

"Hey you wanna go swimming?" I asked. Brooke was sitting on her bed and had her charcoaling stuff already out. She looked up and nodded.

"Umm yeah let's see if-" she was cut off my Lilinette the lightning bolt blowing into the room.

"What's this I hear about swimming?" a grin was on her face and she was holding a bag that looked really familiar.

"Hey Lilli? Where's that bag from?" I asked pointing at it.

"Oh yeah. Ok so remember when we went to Mackinaw Island? Well I went shopping there and got all of us presents." She said happily. I looked at her wearily.

"It isn't anything dirty is it?" She laughed and I cracked a grin.

"Nope but here ya go. These are Happy Summer gifts!" she tossed each of us a wrapped present from her mysterious bag.

I opened my present to find…a bikini? It was black and purple tie-die. I thought it was kind of a weird gift but hey I got a free bathing suit out of it. Brooke's was blue with white polka dots. We looked over to see what Fran got and found that hers similar to Brooke's was lime green with black stripes

"Umm I guess the politically correct thing would be to say thank you Lilinette…so thanks!" I said. Brooke kicked all of us out of here room so she could change. After all of us were forced to put on those dang revealing things we headed to the back of the house where a set of stairs lead us down to the water. I threw my towel down and headed over to the dock. I looked down at the clear water and saw a fish swim by.

"Hey Brooke! How deep is the water over here?" I said looking back at the beach where Fran, Brooke, And Lilinette we wading into the water.

"I'm not sure. Jump in and find out." She said.

"Ok" I jumped into the water and found that it was about six or seven feet deep from the end of the dock. The water felt great. It was cool but not freezing. Swimming was second nature to me so I was having the time of my life. I swam over to where the rest of my friends were only hip deep in water.

"Come on you sissies! Just go under. It's not that bad!" I swam around them waiting and flicking them with water. Finally Fran started to walk back to the beach.

"Why are you getting out Frannie?" I asked.

"I'm not!" she said before running and jumping off the dock. I laughed as she head popped up and she swam over to us.

"Screw this!" Brooke said and did the same thing Fran and I had done.

We swam until the sun started to sink. So we got out of the water and wrapped in our towels, we watched the sun finish setting.

"Ok I'm hungry so what do you want for dinner?" Brooke asked us.

"Oh my god, BBQ chicken and hotdogs!" I said drooling at the thought.

"YES!!!" Fran yelled and we ran inside to tell the guys about our dinner plans. Grimmjow and Szayel were in the kitchen playing some type of card game. Why you ask? I have no clue; I didn't even know they could play card games. Surprises were everywhere today.

"Hey we're going to the store to get some stuff for dinner. We'll be back later." I said grabbing my bag and the keys. We made a quick stop at a nearby grocery store, we came home with enough food to stock the kitchen for a few days. We all unpacked the food and I started dinner.

"Hey why don't we just build a bonfire on the beach and roast the hotdogs on it. Plus I grabbed some marshmallows and chocolate so we can have s'mores." Brooke conned Grimmy into building the campfire. Hey don't look at me like that I was making dinner. Besides, it was good experience for him! Now if he ever pisses someone off and they leave him in some random forest far away from civilization, he'll know how to build fire.

Fran went and rounded everyone up for dinner. The food was taken down to the fire and set up on a picnic table. Everyone dug in and we a.k.a Nnoitra and Grimmjow got some logs and we placed them around our campfire so we could sit on them. Conversation started as we sat eating.

"Ugg Szayel! Will you cut it out! You aren't going to experiment on anyone or anything here!" Brooke said to the pink haired scientist.

"You might want to watch out. She's gonna put you on a stick and roast you over the fire if you aren't careful Pinky" I said with a mouthful of chicken. God I missed my chicken. Everyone started laughing and even Ulquiorra cracked a small smile. So I decided to announce it.

"Do my eyes deceive me? I do believe that Ulqui just smiled at a joke!" another round of laughter erupted.

Brooke looked at Grimmy and back at me. She grinned at started talking to him.

"Meow!" she said winking at him. He looked at her suspiciously.

"Is that an attempted come on?"

"It's whatever you want it to be" she said scooting closer to him.

"Ugg go away" Grimmy pushed her back across the log and went on eating. Brooke slid next to him again and he pushed her back to her spot…again. This went on for a while before Grimmy got fed up.

"Stay on your side of the log God damn it!! Ugg what am I going to do with you?" He grumbled.

"Whatever you want" Brooke said in a creepy voice. Getting an idea I pulled out my speakers and iPod and flipped to a song. I pushed play and Birthday Sex started playing.

"Well it's not my birthday for a little while longer, but that's ok" Brooke said batting her eyelashes at the poor sixth Espada. He didn't know what to do. Brooke then looked at him for a second and scooted as far away from him as possible without falling off the log.

"What are you looking at you pervert? Why are you checking me out?" She said horrified. I doubled over laughing and trying not to snort my Dr. Pepper.

"What the hell are you talking about woman!" Grimmy said confused.

"You're like a elevendy BILLION years old and I'm like sixteen!! EWW!!" She said. Brooke put her plate in front of her face.

"What is wrong with you. You were just-…but you did-..Ahhh!!!" Grimmjow glared at her while she peaked from behind her plate. Brooke stood up and threw her plate at his head and stuck her finger in his face.

"You sir are a pedophile!" She ran and hid behind me while Grimmy-kitty's face turned red.

"I'm gonna kill you!" Brooke then proceeded to run in circles around the beach.

"AHHH I don't want to be raped!!" She yelled.

"And that is why crack is BAD" I said point at the example in front of us. After we stopped Grimmy from trying to kill Brooke, the dinner mess was cleaned up and people started going in different directions. Fran disappeared with Ulquiorra. Nnoitra left to watch some TV and Szayel went to his room to do some kind of experiment involving a Spork and a shoe. Yeah I don't know what he was doing either. Finally Brooke, Grimmy, and Lilinette left and I was alone on the beach.

I started playing with the campfire, which could have been a bad idea, but I really didn't care at the moment. I made the flames grow higher and higher then so small the fire almost went out. I grabbed a ball of fire and held it in my hand. Why did people think fire was so bad. It was beautiful, but then again very destructive at the same time. Like a piece of jagged stained glass. Pretty to look at but one wrong move and you could lose a hand. The wind picked up and I shivered. Dressed in a tank top and a pair of shorts at midnight weren't exactly dressing for the weather.

I grabbed one of the blankets that I brought out and wrapped it around me. There was nothing better than being on the beach at night with a campfire. I missed home and I was excited to smell fresh air for once. Footsteps could be heard on the path leading from the house. It was probably Brooke coming to tell me I had to come in. Instead I was surprised to see Stark come up and sit next to me.

"Hey, what are you doing up?" I said scooting over to make room for him. He sat next to me and we listened to the waves in a comfortable silence.

"You know, for some reason I can't get you out of my head." He said suddenly taking me off guard.

"W-what?" I turned to face him. The light from the fire illuminated his face. His hand came up and pushed a piece of hair out of my face. His hand rested on my cheek and I felt a small blush creep across my face.

"You intrigue me. Like a butterfly to a flame." His stare captured mine and his icy grey eyes went right through me. "But something held me back from telling you this. I wasn't sure exactly what it was. Probably fear of being rejected." Before I could say anything, Stark bent down and kissed me. His lips brushed mine softly. When I didn't object, he pressed his lips harder. I felt his arms wrap around me and I buried my hands in his hair. Stark rearranged me so I was sitting on his lap. Finally the kiss ended and I looked up at Stark and grinned like an idiot. He raised an eyebrow and I laughed.

"This means I was right all along" I said.

"About what?"

"You love me" I said grinning. He rolled his eyes and tickled my sides.

"O-ok ok! I surrender" I waved my hands in mock surrender. He pulled me against his chest again and held me tight.

"You're right Kat-chan. I do love you" I smiled against his chest and he kissed the top of my head. We sat like that for ages and finally the waves lulled me to sleep.

So everybody what do you think about that for Valentine's Day hmm?? Sorry if it kinda sucks, I wrote it kinda sloppily. But anyways, I hope you liked the chappy! Don't forget to review!!!

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