Cece and Rocky were prepared to leave early in the morning on the day of their flight to California. They had their suitcases waiting by Cece's door and a quick breakfast laid out on the counter.

Cece scrambled out of bed, threw on the clothes that she had set out yesterday, and hurried to the bathroom to finish getting ready.

As soon as she was done, she peeked into Georgia's room. "Goodbye, Mom."

"Goodbye, Cece," Georgia replied from her bed. "Have fun in California, but not too much, okay?"

"Okay," Cece agreed, then hurried to Flynn's room. She pushed the door open a little and quiet shouted "Goodbye Flynn!"

"Goodbye already!" Flynn shouted back. "You could have just called at a reasonable time and said the same thing."

Cece laughed and opened the window, just as Rocky clambered down the fire escape.

"Ready?" Rocky asked.

"Always," Cece answered.

They grabbed their breakfast, picked up their luggage, and raced out of the building. They sat down on the front steps and ate while waiting for the Hessenheffers.

Before too long, the Hessenheffers pulled up in their car. Gunther was driving and Tinka was in the passenger seat beside him.

The girls exchanged excited smiles and piled themselves and their luggage into the backseat.

"Another day, another drive to the airport," Rocky sighed, leaning back in her seat.

"We haven't been there since we picked your brother up for spring break," Cece informed her.

"Yeah, well, it feels like yesterday at this time in the morning," Rocky replied.

Cece just shrugged. She was too busy going over her mental list of what she had packed to listen as the other three chatted with each other.

They reached the airport, waited for their flight to be called, and boarded the plane.

Rocky and Cece sat next to each other with Gunther and Tinka across the aisle. Cece was a little disappointed that she'd had to decide between Rocky and Gunther for who to sit next to, but she knew that she and Rocky would have plenty of fun together for the duration of the trip.

Rocky had packed some magazines and other stuff for them to do together on the flight. They immediately settled into their usual BFF mode and the time flew by. Before they knew it, they were landing in California.

"Straight flight there, but we'll have to catch a couple connections on the way back," Gunther informed them as they found their suitcases on the baggage carousel.

Only a few minutes later, Ty loudly greeted them as he spotted their group.

Tinka rushed to meet him and they immediately began their greeting ritual.

"Déjà vu," Cece sighed.

Rocky groaned. "Must they do that whenever we're around? It's a little bit embarrassing and uncomfortable to be watching."

Gunther laughed. "I may have to go somewhere far away just so Cece can be so excited to see me."

"Dream on," Cece rolled her eyes at him.

"Hey guys!" Ty smiled at the rest of them, once he and Tinka resurfaced. "Want to go check out my new ride?"

"You have a new car?" Tinka looked excited.

"You bet," Ty scratched the back of his neck. "You see, I got to write a commercial jingle. It will be airing on tv soon enough."

"That's amazing!" Rocky shouted. "Why didn't you tell us earlier?"

"I just got all the loose ends tied up," Ty answered. "I didn't want to get you and Mom and Dad excited before I knew for sure that they were going to be using it."

"Understandable, but commercial jingles, wow!" Cece praised him.

"It's a long way from recording my own professional cd, but it's progress," Ty conceded.

Ty brought them out to the parking lot and happily presented his shiny, black, new SUV. "What do you think?"

"Awesome," Gunther nodded. "4 Wheel?"

"4 Wheel Drive it is," Ty grinned proudly.

"You probably spent all your money that you earned from the commercial on this," Rocky looked like she was mathematically calculating the cost of the vehicle.

"Pretty much," Ty sighed. "But, I'm hoping that I'll be getting more offers from now on."

"Now you can take us to that place you rented out for the next 3 weeks, right?" Gunther pointed at Ty. "You said it was really nice. I forwarded you all that money and I hope you didn't use it all on this car."

"Course not, bro," Ty answered. "This place I got for us is amazing. But, I'm not going to show it to you, until after we eat."

"I just realized that I'm starving," Cece laughed.

"Me too," Tinka agreed as she hurried to claim the passenger seat.

Cece didn't mind that Tinka took the front, she always sat next to Ty anyway. Cece was content to sit on the bench seat in between Rocky and Gunther.

Ty started the car up and blared rap music all the way to the restaurant.

The restaurant turned out to be a seafood establishment that overlooked the ocean. Cece felt her breath taken away by the beauty of the sight. "That is one gorgeous view."

"I don't know," Gunther smiled. "The view where I'm standing is even better. Cece, silhouetted against the ocean."

"Yeah, right," Cece made a face at him, but she could tell that he knew she was pleased with his statement.

Cece grabbed Gunther's hand as they walked into the restaurant and kept a hold on it, until after their food arrived.

Ty filled them in on everything they could look forward to over the coming weeks. Even though his college was north of where they were, he'd been here on a few different weekends and knew his way around.

They finished eating and headed back out to Ty's car. They piled in and headed off to wear they would be staying.

Rocky and Cece exchanged amazed looks when Ty pulled up to a beachfront house. "We're staying here?" they exclaimed together.

"Sure thing," Ty smirked at them. "Nice, huh?"

"Nice enough to cost almost all my savings," Gunther frowned at the other people around him. "So we'd better win that dance competition to regain some of the money."

"Dancing's what we do best," Tinka tossed her hair. "Of course, we will win for you."

"There's a monetary prize? I thought they were just going to televise the winning dance and that's why you wanted to do it," Rocky argued.

"True, that is why I wanted to do it," Gunther nodded. "The monetary prize simply convinced me that we could live in luxury while we're here."

"Boys, they spend money way too fast," Rocky scoffed.

"You're one to talk," Cece teased her.

Rocky made a face at her and they both jumped out of the car, laughing together.

While the others were exploring the house, Cece headed straight for the back porch that overlooked the beach. There were a lot of people out there and in a little over a week, there'd be a dance competition somewhere out there on the miles of shoreline.

Cece wasn't surprised when she realized someone had joined her. She turned her head to the side and found herself looking into Gunther's eyes. "So, you ready to win a competition?"

"Why else would I come?" Gunther laughed.

Cece laughed with him. "You and your overconfidence."

"Aw, but you love that about me," Gunther leaned in and the two shared a passionate kiss on the back porch of the beach house.

A/N: It took me forever to get this one posted. I'll try to be faster with the next one, but it's been really busy lately. -_-

In other news, I have two more stories in the works, so you should be seeing those in the future as well.

-CoS