A.N: Sorry this took so long, I originally had a majorly different idea for it, but it me and my cohorts couldn't get it up in running and by the time I scrapped the idea... well, you know the rest. Most of this was written on Wenesday when I was skipping school to go to the doctors. What fun~ anyway, I hope you like this chapter, and forgive Katie and I if the next update is really slow... you'll see why. :)

Brooke's Zen of the Day: Let me turn on the part of my brain that gives a damn.

Brooke

I woke up one morning and it was hot! Like, why use the stove when you have a sidewalk hot. And to make matters even better, my phone told me that it wasn't even ten o'clock yet. Holy shit; today was going to be a scorcher.

Getting out of bed, I shut all the windows both upstairs and down before doing the one thing only she-who-controls-the-thermostat can do, I turned on the AC After turning on the fan in the living room, I turned on the TV and waited for the house to cool down.

One hour later, a very cold looking Grimmjow barged through the basement door and glared at me.

"Why the hell is it so cold downstairs?" he demanded as I stared back at him blankly.

"I turned the AC on." Yeah, funny thing about the AC, because of the way the air flows through our house, and this is probably true for most houses with basements, it's difficult to make everything comfortable. Meaning, to get the downstairs at a comfortable temperature, the basement will be at least fifteen degrees cooler.

"Either way, you're up now and can go hitch up the boat to the blue beast… and by that I mean my sister's car, not you." I explained. You see, Katie, Fran and I thought that since school was going to be starting in less than a month, we wanted to go on the boat. Lucky us, we happened to plan for it to be today so we were going to have perfect boating weather.

"Why can't you do it?" He demanded, sounding really grumpy from getting woken up.

"Cause, I'm supervising."

"But I have no idea how to do that, so you're going to need to do it!"

"…."

"What?"

"Um…."

"You have no idea either, do you?"

"You could say that…" I answered sheepishly, rubbing the back of my head with one hand, "though I'm sure that the two of us could figure it out…"

"What's going on?" Katie asked as she walked into the room looking beat.

"Thank god! Someone who will know what they're doing!" I cheered only to get a severely confused look from Katie and a deadpanned one from Grimmjow.

"What happened to 'I'm sure the two of us could figure it out'?" The blue 'Spada demanded, only causing me to crack up at his stupidity.

"Oh come one Grimmy, did you actually think the two of us even had a chance at figuring it out? I mean seriously, we probably would have broken the boat and the car, then where would we be?" He glared at me only to get a cheerful smile in reply.

"Wait, what am I doing?" Katie asked as she rubbed her eyes sleepily.

"Hooking the boat up to the blue tank that is my sister's car." My curly haired friend rolled her eyes before walking to the kitchen to get her morning coffee seeing as she can barely think in the morning without having her morning coffee.

"And you two can't do it because you just barely have a brain cell to share between the two of you." She insulted though I've been around her for so long that it didn't even faze me. "Fine, but you're going to help me. To hell if I'm going to let you sneak your way out of working."

"Alright with me, let's get going!" I declared before pulling Katie out of the house by her wrist, almost making her spill her coffee! Oh no!

It took us only thirty minutes or so before we had my dad's speed boat hooked up to the van and ready to go. Then, after racing Katie back into the cool air of the house, we found that Fran was the only other person to have gotten up.

"Morning Fran!" Katie greeted, feeling like much more of a morning person now that she'd had her coffee, a.k.a the reason she was so short.

"Hey, what's up?" She greeted as we walked in.

"Brooke and I were just attaching the boat to the van." Katie told our psychic friend as she went to get her second cup of coffee. Yes, she had a problem, but she's still in denial.

"Yup, hey, who all has gotten up yet?" I asked as I searched for some form of noise in the surprisingly silent house. It was eerie given that usually you're lucky if you can hear your own thoughts while downstairs; or in Fran's case, other peoples thoughts.

"No one to my knowledge… I think that needs to change." Fran said, getting an extremely evil look on her face as she thought of how to go about waking up our freeloaders.

"Can I watch?" I inquired hopefully causing her to laugh.

"Yeah, let's go!"

We made our way down to the basement and stood in front of everyone's rooms. I leaned against the wall as Fran closed her eyes. It was quiet for a moment before there was a slight yelp and a thud behind one door as another slammed open to reveal a rather pissed off looking Nnoitra.

"What the hell was that!" He demanded angrily, glaring fiercely at Fran for the undoubtedly horrible image that went through his mind, waking him up. Faced with Nnoitra's 'I'm-a-gonna-kill-cho!' face, Fran merely laughed before answering.

"What? I was just trying to train a little. Ulqui-Kun said I need to work on my image placement technique; I must've use the wrong image on accident… My bad Nnoitra." She apologized sounding completely earnest about it as I struggled not to crack up. Nnoitra scowled at us before stomping away like an upset child.

As the two of us started cracking up as Grimmjow came out of his room looking severely disturbed, his normally gelled up blue hair was sticking out sporadically.

"I should've guessed." He groaned as he facepalmed, only making us laugh harder.

"Well that's what you get for going back to bed; there is work to be done!" I scolded as a third door opened up.

"Ulqui-Kun! You're up!" Fran cheered before hugging the stoic man who didn't look disturbed at all, meaning that one of three things had to of happened. Either, 1) Fran hadn't used whatever scary picture to get him up, 2) He had already been awake and wasn't affected, or 3) Ulquiorra is already so disturbed that it didn't even faze him. I have a feeling that we will never truly know the answer to that.

"I'd hate to ruin this beautiful moment but if we don't get upstairs soon or else Katie might get irritated and come down here to get us, and that would be a very bad thing." I stated honestly.

"She doesn't scare me." Grimmjow said, rolling his eyes at the idea that he would be scared of little O' Katie.

"Fine then, you stay down here, and we'll all go upstairs and live. Bye Grim-Grim!" I waved as I ushered the other two upstairs. Once upstairs, Katie had us getting ready to go out on the boat. It took sometime seeing as no one really put any effort into it but we were finally ready around twelve thirty. That is, until we realized we had a problem.

"Um, guys? We don't have any snacks." Lilinette pointed out just as we were about to leave, getting multiple gasps of horror at the statement.

"Crap… Um, we don't really need snacks do we?" Katie asked as we sat in the driveway trying to figure out what to do. Of course, in reaction to her question, I reached over from the passenger seat, and hit her upside the head.

"And you called Grimmjow and me stupid." I muttered under my breath as she glared at me.

"Well then, what do you figure we should do Einstein?" she demanded.

"I have an idea. Why don't Brooke and I go to the store in your car and get snacks while you, with the help of the 'Spada, get the boat in the water and ready to go?" Fran suggested. What? Just because neither Fran nor I ever drive, doesn't mean we can't, it's just easier to make Katie do it.

"What? Well, um- I don't. Um…." Katie stuttered, trying to think of a reasonable excuse as to why the plan wouldn't work. "Fine, but it I find one scratch in my car, I will kill you both." She said, finally admitting defeat.

"Ey Ey captain!" I saluted as we climbed out of the van and walked towards Katie's car. The brunette gave her car one last, worried glance before pulling out of the driveway, boat in toe.

"Sweet, let's go!" Fran cheered once we were in the car, before driving towards our new destination, the store. Once at the store, we busied ourselves with finding all the snacks we wanted/needed. Just as we were about to check out, Fran looked over at a nearby isle and smirked.

"Nnoitra's an ass, and I think I've just find away to get back at him." She smirked as she grabbed a box and put it in the cart.

"Sweet, two birds, one stone." I laughed, instantly getting her plan.

"But isn't that kind of mean?" she asked, almost sounding like she was having second thoughts.

"Naw, it's not like we're actually going to be throwing stones at birds or anything, so I say we're good." I confirmed before she laughed evilly and we checked out to go meet up with the gang. Once at the docks, we saw the boat drive up with Katie at the wheel, which explains the speed.

"Hey guys, ready to go?" She asked as she pushed her sunglasses up, smiling happily.

"Hell yeah we are!" I agreed as we loaded up the food and got in.

We pulled out of the docking area and trolled out to open waters. From there Katie floored it, sending us almost skipping over the waves. Sitting up in the front, Fran moved herself to the very nose of the boat before rising up on her knees and spreading her arms out as if trying to give the air a hug.

"I'm King of the World!" she yelled goofily before almost being swept off by the strong winds. Luckily Emocar grabbed her and kept her from being blown away.

"Aww, thanks Ulqui-Kun!" Fran laughed. Covering my eyes at the sappy moment, I turned around to see that Stark was fast asleep in the tube. Smirking, I slid down to the back of the boat and over to Katie, who hadn't noticed seeing as she was too engrossed in being a speed demon.

"Hey Katie, stop the boat." I told her, only causing her to look at me with a 'WTF' expression.

"I think Lazy Ass over there wants to tube." Glancing over, I saw her smile happily before nodding and slowly slowing down the boat. Once stopped, we got Grimmjow (who was sulking in the back like a poor kitty) to carefully put the tube in the water. As soon as Stark was secured, Katie started the boat back up, and we were once again skipping across the water like a rock.

It took Stark a surprising amount of time to wake up, but once he did it was rather comical the way he flailed around. Everyone on the boat was cracking up as we saw him freak out while he tried to figure out what in the hell was going on. When Katie took a particularly sharp turn, Stark almost fell out, but was able to hold on for dear life behind the tube halfway underwater.

Once everyone had a good laugh at Stark's expense, we stopped the boat and hauled his lazy ass back in. It was at this point when we decided to tube some more and got the second tube in the water. Lilinette and I went first and had Katie drive around at full speed while we tried to knock the other one off their tube. Sadly for me, Lilinette eventually one and I found myself in the drivers spot as Katie took a crack at it. Once again, Lilinette was victorious and this cycle repeated itself as Lilinette beat off anyone who tried until, after our third try each, she was defeated by, drum roll please….

ULQUIORRA!

Dude, that guy can do almost anything and make it seem easy, it's not quiet fair.

Lilinette finally defeated, we decided to anchor off somewhere and swim for awhile. As everyone got out I realized that, once again, the only non-participants where Stark, and Grimmjow. Fran had even got Ulquiorra in the water. Stark was on the boat sleeping, which must've been hard seeing as Katie and Lilinette kept trying to wake him up by shooting streams of water out of those epic water pumps. Grimmjow, on the other hand, was just being plain ol' grumpy, like normal. Tired, of Grimmjow being a party pooper, I decided that as his 'pupil' it was my job to get his Kitty-Cat-Ass in the water!

"Hey Grimmy! Come up here would ya?" I called after hauling my own ass up onto the front of the boat.

"what the hell do you want?" He demanded from the back of the boat, barely stirring from where he was.

"Just get your ass up here for a minute will ya?" I asked from where I was, getting slightly irritated by his crabby attitude. I heard him sigh as I crossed my arms over my chest and waited. Eventually he got up and walked to the front of the boat.

"Fine, I'm here, happy now?" He asked crossly, only for me to smile happily at him.

"Mmhmm!" Smiling up at him, I answered before tackle glomping him out of the boat (do not attempt) and straight into the water below. Cracking up as I resurfaced, I couldn't help but laugh harder as Grimmy came up spiting up water. Glaring at me, he pushed me under. "Hi Grimmy!" I laughed after a swam back up and spit water at him.

"Why the fuck did you do that?" He demanded angrily, only causing me to laugh harder.

"Because you're a party pooper." I told him, "Oh, and I wanted to see if you could even swim, seeing as you are a sneaky puma, and cats hate water in all…"

"I am not a puma, I'm a panther." He growled, tired of me calling him a sneaky puma.

"Same thing."

"It is not. Anyway, just because I'm a cat doesn't mean I can't swim."

"It doesn't?"

"Idiot." Grimmjow sighed at my 'stupidity.'

"Fine. Hey guys! Grimmy's in the water!" I yelled to Katie and Lilinette, who stopped trying to wake up Stark only to swim over and piss off Grimmjow.

Once we were done swimming, it was almost four o'clock so we decided to head back home. Getting the boat out of the water was easier than I thought it was going to be, and before I knew it, we were home. Walking in the door, I saw Lilinette poking her reddening skin, obviously someone had forgot to put sunscreen on.

"Wow Lilinette, your really burnt." Katie noted, making for of our Arrancar friend.

"How is it possible, Ulquiorra didn't put on any sunscreen either and he's not burnt!" Said Arrancar friend complained, glaring at the still ghostly white Emocar.

"Well he's just… Special." I laughed at Fran's wording as she hugged the pale child.

"Looks like someone was too stupid to put on sunscreen." Nnoitra laughed at Lilinette causing all four of us to glare at him.

"Hey Fran, didn't you get something for Nnoitra at the market?" I asked her, remembering our 'extra purchase.'

"Oh yeah, why don't I go get that." She smiled before leaving out the back door.

"Spoony, you need to go outside to get it, Aizen said we can't bring it inside." I told him, lying my ass off seeing as I don't even know if Aizen has the slightest clue what we do. Though I wouldn't be surprised.

Looking at me skeptically, he slowly left the room. A couple moments later I heard a crap ton of mew-ing and started cracking up. Slightly confused, Katie and Lilinette looked out the window only to join me in laughing our asses off.

"What's so funny?" Grimmjow asked, walking into the room, still slightly grouchy from our day on the water.

"I wouldn't go outside if I were you Grimmy, just don't do it." Lilinette laughed. This, of course, just made him look out the window to see what the three of us had already seen. Nnoitra was running away from all the stray cats that live around my house, (which we seemed to have more whenever Grimmy-kitty was around) while Fran chased him with a box of catnip.

"You are all ass holes, you know that?" The blue haired 'Spada declared.

"What? We just wanted to be sure that you wouldn't join the group of Nnoitra's Fan-Cats." Katie laughed as he stalked off before Fran rushed in and locked the door behind her. Smiling evilly, we quickly rushed around and locked every possible entrance, keeping Nnoitra locked outside. The rest of the day we spent watching Spoony run away as he tried to avoid the catnip crazed cats, (not including Grimmy-Kitty of course).