Chapter 16. This chapter concept was actually a request from anonymous reviewer Amanda. I did my best with the concept. It is no the kind of think I usually write but I think that I did okay in the long run. So yea… I hope you like it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Kate or Abby

Spoilers: And it is still AU

"Remind me one more time why we are doing this," Kate demanded of her sister.

"Because you wanted to go sit on the beach," Monica replied innocently.

"Yea," Kate said slowly, "but last time I checked we had our own beach."

"Ah," Monica replied, "but our beach does not come with the most essential part of beaches on which one wants to sit."

"What would that be?" Abby asked as Kate rolled her eyes. She had a sneaking suspicion where Monica was going with this because Monica was…Monica.

"Boys," Monica told them gleefully.

"You dragged us out here to see if you could pick up a date?" Kate asked. She was annoyed, not shocked, but annoyed. She sometimes questioned whether Monica saw boys as humans or as fun talking toys.

"No I," Monica paused considering for a moment, "Actually yes. I told Mom and Dad that you wanted to go to one of the pick public beaches and they said have fun. If I had said that I wanted to go they would say no."

"You used us," Abby told her, "I'm not sure how I feel about that.

"Look at it this way," Monica told them, "You still get to go to the beach and I get a chance to flirt mindlessly. We all win."

"Alright," Kate agreed suddenly and Abby looked at her shocked.

"Thank you," Monica told her sister sincerely and walked away towards the center of the beach, eyes scanning for her first target.

"Okay," Abby demanded curiously, "Why did you change your side in the middle of the argument."

"Because 'flirt mindlessly' is a term she generally only uses after a messy break up," Kate explained, "remember when I was talking about Pete?"

"Yea she said she was still with him," Abby replied, "and then she made you stop talking." She was not sure where this was going.

"Well my guess is that Pete did something highly intelligent like," Kate paused considering, "slept with her best friend." It was only and educated guess but Kate knew her sister. She all so knew her sister's taste in men. Monica always managed to pick up all the weird ones and most of the dangerous ones.

"Moron," Abby commented. That was her acceptance of the events that had transpired.

"So that leaves us to do one of two things," Kate told Abby, "We can sit on the beach or we could go swimming."

" Or we could flirt with boys," Abby said as she silently teased one of the boys closest to them. Kate realized what Abby was doing.

"Okay swimming it is," Kate decided that it would hopefully get Abby away from any guy that she might consider setting Kate up with.

"Alright," Abby agreed. She winked at the boy and pointed to a floating raft a little ways from shore, "Why don't we go to the raft?"

"Sure," Kate agreed, "That works for me." Together they swam out to the aforementioned raft. It did not take long after they arrive for Abby's little friend to appear.

"Hey," he said climbing up on the raft where the two girls were standing, "I'm Landon."

"Well hello Landon," Abby told him with a smile.

Kate rolled her eyes. She did not have to sit and watch Abby flirt. Abby probably did not want her to anyway, and there were other things Kate could be doing. She turned around and tied to dive into the water. The problem was she had not realized that there was another human being there. So instead of diving in gracefully, she sent both of them sprawling into the water. They both surfaced at the same time.

"I am so sorry," Kate told the boy as soon as she had taken a breath.

"Hey," the boy told her, "Don't worry about it. I'm Mason."

"Hey Mason," Kate said with a nervous smile, "I'm cute. Kate, I mean, I'm Kate, not cute." She turned red realizing her mistake. Normally she could deal with boys just fine but apparently not today. She had done two things and she had screwed both of them up.

"Nice to meet you, Kate," Mason told her, "and you're pretty cute, too."

"Are you flirting with me?" Kate asked him with a coy smile. 'Better,' she thought to herself, 'better.'

"Any reason I shouldn't be?" he returned half teasing and half really asking.

"I can't think of one," Kate replied with another smile.

"Great because you are really cute," he teased her. He thought she looked especially cute when her cheeks turned pink.

"You're not half bad yourself," Kate replied. He was actually really cute and she had a hunch that if his hair were dry he would be even cuter.

After about a half an hour of conversation Mason and Landon had to leave because they were late for an appointment. Kate and Mason exchanged phone numbers, as did Landon and Abby. Then the boys left.

Kate and Abby, who had swum to shore with the boys, now walked out to the end of the dock and sat with their feet hanging over the water. They were both lost in their own thoughts.

"I think we should invite them to our Fourth of July cookout," Kate said suddenly.

"Seconded," Abby replied quickly.

"Thirded," Monica said coming to sit down on Kate's other side.

"Good time?" Kate asked her sister.

"Oh most defiantly yes," Monica replied, "It was an absolutely wonderful refresher course in flirting and what men can be like."

"What happened with Pete?" Kate asked suddenly.

"He cheated on me with my best friend," Monica told them and for once Kate took no pleasure in being right. There was silence then Abby spoke.

"Boys," Abby started.

"Can't live with them," Monica added.

"Can't live without them," Kate finished.

There was a pensive pause while all three thought about the brutally true statement. Then Monica turned to the other two.

"Who wants ice cream?"

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