Hey-hey! I'm back! :D

Yeah, I know, I haven't updated in, meh, a while, but I'm here now, so don't y'all worry :) The reason for my overdue update is all mrpuppy's fault. Haha, joking. But she asked me to make a Zosh chapter. I had planned out what would happen after Abby's birthday (I even mentally wrote it), but I thought it would be best if the Zosh chapter came now before we get into the Channy parts that we'll all ADORE!

So, this chapter is dedicated to mrpuppy, because it is written especially for her, and all those Zosh fans. I am one myself, but I found them hard to write, or not as easy as Channy, so apologies for the length of this chapter. Trust me - the next few chapters will hopefully be a good length, and an awesome plot line! (hate to toot my own horn, but...) And mrpuppy? I shall get Lovey Horse sent to annoy those math teachers asap ;)

Here's the disclaimer... I don't own pie.

Channy: Ek-hem?

Me: *sigh* Or SWAC.

Chapter 42 - Zosh, The Mischief Couple

Josh's POV

I wake up on the morning of Abby's birthday, happy at the memories of yesterday. Zora and I were hanging out at her house, pranking her brothers. It was so much fun, especially when I found the Wii in her room and we played Sports (mainly Boxing… which she was, like, a pro at!). I then asked her what she's doing today, and she said just hanging at the studio, since she's got nothing better to do with her day off. So, I'm hoping Chad will let me spend the day with her. As much as I love my little sister (sue me) and wanna spend the day with my family (ditto), I also wanna spend time with Zora (who isn't my girlfriend, before you go crazy. Me, having a girlfriend? Gross).

So, I go downstairs, and hear Chad and Abby already up, in the kitchen, having breakfast. I go into there, sitting in a free chair, and Chad notices me straight away, looking up from his phone where he's just been texting (probably to Sonny…).

"Hey, sport." He says, putting the phone in his pocket and smiling at me.

"Hey." I say, before randomly asking out of the blue, "How's life?"

Chad tilts his head at me quizzically (I know how he feels… I have no idea where that came from either), before saying, "Uh… great. You?"

"Awesome." I say. I then feel Abby touch my arm from her seat and turn to see her grinning, caked in syrup. Hmm, Chad gave her a shortstack again, I guess.

"Happy birthday, Abby." I say to her, which makes her smile, before giggling happily.

Chad looks at me, confused, blinking a couple of times. "Who the heck are you?" He asks jokingly, and I roll my eyes.

"Very funny." I say, before deciding to ask the question… "Can I spend the day with Zora today?"

Chad frowns a little, before he grins, realisation striking his face, and he smirks. "Sure." He then adds, "You spend time with the love of your life."

I roll my eyes again at my brother's sarcastic tone, hitting him with a dishcloth I find on the breakfast table. He smirks, passing me the leftover pancakes.

After we're all ready, Chad picks up Sonny before dropping me off at Condor Studios. Before we get there, we have a weird interrogation session on my 'relationship' so far with Zora. It finishes with Sonny warning me that soon enough, Zora and I may get really close, like she is with Chad.

"Disgusting." I say, rolling my eyes, and Sonny and Chad smirk.

"Well, you may be this disgusting someday," Chad says in a lovey-dovey voice, before turning to Sonny, "Am I right, beautiful?"

"Indeed you are, handsome." She replies in the same tone, before they kiss lightly. I roll my eyes again and pretend to throw up.

"Not likely." I whisper to myself. There's no way I'd be that crazy and weird. No way.

We arrive at the studio, and I get out of the car and head to the Prop House, since that's where Zora probably would be. I collect a visitor's pass and walk past Stage 2, where the large poster of my brother is up on the wall. I smirk at it, before walking over to Stage 3, aka So Random.

I arrive in the Prop House to see it empty, and so decide to just sit and play video games until Zora arrives. My guess – she's in the vents.

So, I'm waiting for ages, and when she finally arrives, it's through the vents. Ha, I know her so well…

She falls through the vents, landing next to me with a thud.

"Hey there…" I say, smirking a little, "How are you, Little Miss Tumble?"

"Ugh… in pain." She groans, "I need to give up that whole obsession with the vents, or it'll be the death of me."

I laugh, "We can't have that now, can we?"

"No, we can't…" She grins, "Hi, by the way."

"Hi." I say.

"So…" She says, "Whatcha wanna do?"

I shrug, "Don't mind."

"Video games?" She suggests.

"Na, I can't be asked." I say. Yes, that's right. For the first time in history, Joshua (Ugh… Joshua) Aaron Cooper doesn't feel like playing video games. Zora's just as surprised as I am.

"What have you done with Josh?" She asks, and I glare at her.

"Very funny." He says.

At that moment, we hear a thunder-ish sound, and turn to the door to see the two guy Randoms (why am I calling them Randoms? Chad's infectious… ugh!) run in, barricading the doors. Zora sneers when she sees them.

"Who've you annoyed this time?" She asks, and the boys wince.

"Big, scary guy…" Nico says.

"Flirting with his girlfriend…" Grady continues.

"It wasn't pretty…" Nico adds.

"All his fault." Grady says, pointing to Nico, who scowls at him. "It was!" Grady protests, "You were the one who called her a hottie."

Nico rolls his eyes, "Whatever." He then turns his attention to us, "But, just so you know, if you see a very tall, very wide, angry man looking for us… we're not here. And we were never here."

"So…" Grady says, changing the subject, "What's going on here?" He looks to me, smiling slightly, "Who's that?"

"Josh," Zora introduces me, "Chad's brother."

"Oh…" Nico smirks, before winking at Zora, "The guy you're dating…"

"Not dating, technically…" Zora says, and I nod.

"Yep, just hanging out." I add.

The boys look to each other like they know something we don't, before turning to us, grinning, and chanting, "Zora'a got a boyfriend! Zora's got a boyfriend! Zora's got a boyfriend…"

Zora glares at them, and I do the same, getting them to shut up. You'd think they'd stop after that, but they don't.

"Who would've thought we'd see the day?" Grady asks, as Nico hands me a remote control.

"You might need this, buddy." He says.

"What does it do?" I ask, and he presses the button, which dims the lights and puts on romantic music. I groan as Nico grins at me.

"It helps me a lot." He says.

"Well, the girls who come running and screaming out of the Prop House day in and day out would beg to differ." Zora points out, which makes me laugh. I high-five her, and the boys leave, whispering about us and laughing.

Zora looks at me deviously. "Josh… I know what we're gonna do today."

I smirk, "Been watching Phineas and Ferb again?"

She nods, "You thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Revenge?" I ask, and she grins.

"You know me too well."

So, we plot our revenge. Okay, so it's not an extremely elaborate plan. Just one teeny-tiny prank. I know I should try to stop pranking people, but it's just natural instinct. Plus, it's fun, especially with Zora (Don't "aw").

Zora sets out a plate of meatball sandwiches, sneering. I tie string to the plate, setting the trap.

"You sure this is gonna work?" I ask, tying the other end of the string to the sarcophagus as she puts down a piece of paper next to the sandwiches.

Zora laughs, "If I know Nico and Grady right, which I do, they love meatballs more than their mommies. And for those two, that's saying a lot."

I laugh.

"Plus, have I ever been wrong before on a prank?"

I think it about it. "No." I say, "You haven't."

After all the setting up, we hide behind the photo booth, watching the sandwiches on the table, bored.

"Remind me how long this is gonna take." I moan, and Zora glares at me.

"It will take how long it needs to take," She whispers, "Besides, they're not even here yet! So shut your trap!"

"Ouch." I smirk. "Meanie."

"Yeah," She snickers, "And I can be meanie-er, so watch it."

Right then, we hear a door open, and turn to see Nico and Grady walking in. We duck behind the photo booth, watching, waiting. The two are talking about random stuff, but sooner or later, they notice our little trap.

"Check it, G!" Nico grins, "Meatball sandwiches!"

"It's not even Meatball Monday!" Grady beams, before pausing and turning to Nico, "Is it?"

"To be honest, I don't care." Nico shrugs, running to the sandwiches, Grady following. At this point, I nod to Zora, which gives her the signal to pull at the string attached to the plate. This pulls the plate along the table, leaving the boys stood there, looking at it in confusion.

"Weird…" Nico says, "Maybe someone's pranking us…"

I look at Zora in horror. Crap! They're onto us!

"Yeah…" Grady says, "But I'm too hungry to care."

Nico nods in agreement, following the sandwiches across the table as Zora and I try hard not to laugh. The sandwiches then land on the spot that we set the trap up on. The boys reach for the sandwich, but Nico's hands hit the button. There's a crash, a bash, and suddenly, a large net lands on their heads. Zora and I grin at each other, high-fiving each other, before coming out from our hiding spot, laughing.

"Okay…" Zora says, in between laughs, "That's what you get for messing with us…"

"Enjoy the sandwiches…" I say, before deciding to use my brother's signature "Peace out suckahs!" to get out of there, Zora following close behind, giggling.

"The look on their faces…" She smirks, wiping a tear of laughter from her eye, "Priceless…"

"Yup." I say, giving her one last high-five.

"You know who else I wanna prank?" She asks.

"No, who?"

"The Falls cast. Chad may have the day off for Abby's birthday, but I think the others are still working."

I grin. The Falls cast… those guys are so annoying – I've met them before. They're a bunch of bigheads. Sure, Chad was like that before, but he's mellowed since Sonny and him started dating. The same can't be said for his cast mates though. This should be fun…

Zora directs me to where she keeps all her pranking props. Whoa… she's, like, the keeper of the prank props! She picks up two paintball guns, she passes one to me and holds the other, loading it with little paint balls.

"Don't these hurt a little?" I ask her, loading my gun warily, and she smirks.

"Well, Josh…" She says, "Have you gone soft?"

I sneer, "Zora? Are you questioning that I, Josh Aaron Cooper, have gone soft?"

"Yep." She winks, which prompts me to laugh. She has a point – a few years ago, I would've jumped at the chance to shoot my brother's annoying cast mates with paint balls. Ugh… what have Chad and Sonny done to me?

I finish loading my gun with a grin and wink at Zora. "Let's do this." I say.

An hour or so later, Zora and I are in Marshall Pike's car, listening to him explain how silly we were to do attack the Falls with paintball guns and makes us promise not to do it again. After mine and Zora's little surprise attack earlier, the place looked like it had been the scene for a major battle. The backdrops for the sets were covered in different colored paint splotches, and some of them are ripped, considering those ones were made of some kind of sheet material. Yeah… oops.

None of the cast members were still hanging around when we left though. They were probably all either home or in their dressing room, washing up.

The scene was quite comical though. People were running around, trying to fix things like it was the end of the world. Seriously, dudes, it's a TV show! Honestly…

But, because of our "awful behaviour", Zora and I had been scolded for the last hour by the producer of Chad's show and Marshall Pike, So Random's producer. They were pretty peed off… but it was worth it to see the looks on those drama snob's faces.

We arrive back home, and a few minutes later, Chad, Sonny, Abby and Tawni arrive, asking Zora to stay for a little while, and she agrees, to my pleasure. Hmm… but one thing's for sure – I'll tell Chad about the whole paintball thing tomorrow. I know he'd have a fit and that would ruin Abby's birthday (though it would probably be funny).

A few hours go on, and it's time for the Random girls to leave (sounding more like Chad… ugh…). Zora pulls me to the side, smiling.

"I had fun today." She says.

"Me too," I reply, "It was so worth everything."

"Yeah…" She says, her eyes going kinda googly, before going back to normal. Huh… weird. "Well, I guess I'll see you around?"

"Sure."

She smiles, before pulling me into a quick hug and leaving in a hurry, leaving me feeling slightly weaker than before.

Whoa… I finally get Chad and Sonny.

Zora's POV

Whoa… I finally get Sonny and Chad.

Just before I left Josh's house, I hugged him… and it felt good. Not friendship good, but… different good.

"Someone seems dazed." Sonny laughs to me, when we're driving home in Tawni's car.

"Ooh, I know why…" Tawni smirks, before putting on a lovey-dovey face a voice and saying, "She's in love with Josh!"

The two squeal, and I roll my eyes. "I'm not." I say.

"Uh-huh…" Sonny says, "Don't deny it, Zora… you've finally met your match! It's so cute!"

"Don't." I groan, "Just don't."

Luckily, we get to my house at that point. I get out of the car and run straight to my house before they can interrogate me anymore. And I hate myself for admitting that… they might be right.

Heehee, well, there you go. Hope you guys enjoyed it! Especially you, mrpuppy! :D

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