Cece felt like her life had taken a big turn for the better lately. Sure, she never assumed that she had a bad life, but now, she felt lucky to be herself.

With the help of Rocky, Cece was managing to keep her grades up. Rocky and Cece mixed work and play together so that Cece was able to study and goof off at the same time. With all the crazy comparisons that they came up with together, Cece was finding things easier and easier to remember.

Dancing with Shake It Up, Chicago was still her favorite activity. Gary trusted all the experienced dancers enough to let them choreograph their own solos from time to time. The solos were Cece's strong suit. Lately, she'd been receiving a lot of compliments from the other dancers for her routines. She'd also been told by Gary that there was a lot of fan-mail coming in that referred to her dances. This made Cece especially proud.

Cece's relationship with her mother was becoming even better than usual as well. They'd always gotten along, but Georgia was making extra efforts now. Georgia made time on one day every other week to have a day out with Cece. They went shopping and out to eat together. Cece had been a little apprehensive of this at first, but she now found herself looking forward to the outings.

Flynn was more independent now and involved in a lot of extra activities. Cece and Flynn had less time to spend in each other's company with both of them having their own schedules, but when she was around Cece never forgot to make time to watch a movie with Flynn, make both of them something to eat together, tease him, or engage in other sibling activities.

Then there was Gunther. Cece couldn't be more happy with her current relationship with Gunther. They didn't date, per se. Things were just closer between them. Whenever they worked on their dance segments together, they flirted outrageously. Not to mention, they met up with each other whenever they could in school. All their fellow schoolmates were suspicious of their relationship. Cece didn't mind though.

On this particular day, as Cece walked into school, she noticed that it was actually cooler in the building than outside. Cece smiled to herself. Summer was definitely on its way.

Cece and Rocky met by their lockers and began a conversation. They were laughing about Gary's newest idea for a dance prop, when someone pulled Cece back by her shoulders, making her feel like she was falling.

Cece desperately flapped her arms to try to keep her balance, then suddenly noticed that whoever had pulled her over was still holding onto her and was more than capable of keeping her from falling. Cece smiled up into Gunther's grinning face.

"Gunther! Must you always be so dramatic?" Cece laughed.

"Cece, do you still not know me after all these years," Gunther shook his head. "Of course, I must be."

"I know that," Cece felt Gunther push her back on her feet and she turned around quickly and gave him a push.

Gunther stumbled back, but Cece knew that she probably never could push him hard enough to move him. It was a game they played with each other to overreact to whatever the other one did.

"So what is all this about?" Cece eyed Gunther. He really looked too smug to just be saying hello.

"It is about summer vacation," Gunther spread his arms out to display his summery colored shirt.

"Yes? Are you going somewhere?" Cece asked.

"Yes and so are you and Rocky," Gunther put an arm around Cece's shoulders and led her down the hall. "So, there I was, scanning the internet."

"Oh no, you're telling me a story aren't you?" Cece sighed.

"And I spotted something interesting," Gunther continued. "So, I went to go find Tinka to tell her about it, but she was having a Skype conversation with her boyfriend."

"Ty," Cece interjected.

"Yes, yes, of course, but you already knew that part," Gunther waved a hand around. "So, anyway, I was trying to tell Tinka, but she wasn't happy to have her little Skype time with her boyfriend interrupted. She tried to shoo me away, but then I remembered where her boyfriend lives. At this brilliant realization, I snatched her laptop and ran into my bedroom. As you can well guess, I had to lock the door, because Tinka was quite furious. Ty was also furious, but I told him that I had something important to ask of him. I filled him in on my amazing discovery and got him to go along with my ingenious plan."

"You plan on telling me your plan?" Cece tapped a foot against the floor.

"I'm getting to that, Cece," Gunther answered. "Have a little faith in me."

"I always have the utmost faith in you," Cece shook her head. "I just don't know why I put up with you."

"Because you love me," Gunther leaned down to kiss her, but Cece pushed his face away.

"Don't change the subject, tell me what this is all about," Cece reprimanded him.

"Okay, okay," Gunther gave her a slightly disappointed look and drew in a deep breath. "I have entered all 5 of us, you, me, Tinka, Rocky, and Ty, in a California dance competition that will be held on the beach."

"What? We're going to California to a dance competition? On the beach? Like you mean the ocean?" Cece was shocked.

"Yes, that is all correct. 100% on listening comprehension," Gunther laughed.

"Oh! Don't ruin it with school related stuff," Cece leaped on Gunther and gave him a long kiss.

Gunther eagerly wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer to him.

Cece finally broke it off when she could no longer breathe. "Gunther! You are the best!"

"I know," Gunther smiled back at her. "You want to give me another kiss to prove that you feel that way."

Cece laughed and did as Gunther requested.

A/N: I wrote this a week ago, but haven't been on fanfiction so I didn't get it uploaded. Better late than never, right?

-CoS