A/N: I'm sorry it's been so long! And to answer your question anon, I post rather sporadically. I try to write at least every day and as soon as I have a reasonably sized chapter I post it and there is absolutely no way I'm going to abandon this story! I tried to make this chapter long to make up for my lack of updating! Enjoy!

Chapter 21

"No kidding!" Liz exclaimed as Bex and I smiled at our two best friends.

"Did you have fun at the drive in?" Bex teased.

"How did you know about that?" Macey asked laughing.

"We got the boys to tell us what you were up to." I said with a wink.

"Ugh. Can Cam and I change? These sweat pants are really hot." Bex asked pulling the collar of her shirt away to hopefully help her cool down.

"You can after you shower." Macey said.

"When can we shower?" I asked.

"When I'm done interrogating you. Now, tell us, what did you do? Start after you turned off your bugs we already watched the footage." Macey instructed.

Bex began "Well, they took us out to the van and they had completely remade the van, it was comfortable and different and I'm sure you'll get to see I think they'll leave it like that. Anyway, Grant drove us to this manor-"

"Which was terrifying by the way, he's a very scary driver." I put in.

"Yeah, anyway we get to this huge manor, it's like ¾ the size of Gallagher. The boys casually mention that we might play a game like hide and seek then see what we want to do from there and Cammie, being Cammie, immediately plots a way for us to get out of the there so we bolt for the stairs and we're playing this insane game of hide and seek and when the boys finally found us like forty five minutes later, Grant decides he wants to dance."

I took over the explanation. "We danced for hours, every kind of dance we ever learned and then some. It was so much fun. About half way through our dancing we took an ice cream break and Bex and I overheard some really weird conversation about them breaking into our files and how they had a ton of stuff they didn't want us to know about them. Really weird."

"We'll get there later, keep going." Macey said moving us on.

Bex picked up where I left off. "Anyway so after the weird conversation we danced for another hour or so and then the boys are all like 'its time for stage two' and me and Cam were all like 'nooooo' but they sent us upstairs where we changed into these in a really fancy room, and when we came back downstairs they had transformed the ballroom into this really romantic movie watching sort of thing-"

"They tried to convince us that they had done it by themselves but we saw the other people leaving when we took our dresses to the car." I put in.

"It was so funny. We watched the princess bride and Zach played with Cam's hair the whole time and it was totally sweet. Then they carried us out to the car and we came back here." Bex finished with a flare.

"Aww that's so sweet, it sounds like you guys had a lot of fun." Liz said "Now what's this about them breaking into our files?"

Bex and I relayed the conversation, practically verbatim and they both got this really thoughtful look on their faces.

"Liz, get your laptop we're breaking in." Macey said as she scooped her hair up into a ponytail.

"I don't know Macey, it sounds like they really don't want us to know…" Liz argued.

"Liz, for all we know the thing they don't want us to know is Blackthorne's secret." Bex said reassuringly.

"Hold on a second." I said stopping everyone in their tracks, generally I was the one convincing the others to do something insane. "It sounds like they're going to tell us. I mean, from Grant's tone and Zach's resignation at the end, I'd bet my buttons they're going to tell us whatever it is and soon. Probably tomorrow."

Macey thought it over. "Okay, we wait twenty four hours and then if they don't say anything we break in."

Bex reluctantly nodded agreement.

"Well, what did you guys do tonight?" I asked turning the conversation in a different direction.

"I thought you already knew." Liz teased.

"We knew what was planned, not what actually happened." Bex said as she flopped on the mattress.

"Well, it was really great. We went to see this old black and white movie and ended up breaking into the wireless connection between the player and projector and changed it so the language of the movie was russian. We laughed the whole time and they never managed to change it back." Liz said with a lovestruck look. She went into this tangent about how Jonas manages to do something nerdy in a really attractive way (well, at least according to Liz) and it was kinda cute.

"Aww cute." Bex commented. "What about you Mace?"

"Preston took me on a scavenger hunt all across town and we talked for hours. It was so sweet, he rented out one of my favorite places and we spent most of the night there then went on a walk along the beach under the stars. After words we may or may not have snuck into a closed Ice cream parlor for some mint chocolate chip. It was a great night."

"That's so sweet." I said as Macey got a dreamy look in her eye. It looked like she was about to jut off about how Preston managed to scoop ice cream."

"Isn't it?" Bex said before she had the chance.

"Alright, I've got a question. What was up with the million texts?" Liz asked.

Macey, Bex, and I burst into laughter.

"My phone kept vibrating and I was trying so hard not to let on to Jonas and he started to look panicked and I couldn't tell him it was my phone and I thought you were all dying!" We laughed harder. She kept going.

"Eventually I told him I had to go to the bathroom so I could check my phone and it was just a bunch of random things! I mean-really Bex? Going over all the members of the royal family? Seriously?"

We roared with laughter. Macey was the first to regain the ability to speak.

"I'm sorry Liz, we were bored and it seemed like a good idea at the time!" We laughed a little bit more and after another five minutes, we had calmed down enough for the exhaustion settled in.

"Can we go shower now?" Bex asked, crazy as it may seem we'd already been back for about an hour.

"Sure, just try to hurry I want to go to sleep." Macey said yawning.

"Awesome." Bex bolted for the bathroom and less than five minutes later she appeared back in Grant's t-shirt and in her pajama shorts.

I stood up and crossed the bathroom, showering faster than I ever had before. I was exhausted. I pulled Zach's shirt over my head and tugged on some shorts before crossing back to my friends. I checked my phone one last time for the night to see if Zach had said anything and when there wasn't a message I plugged it in and collapsed next to my friends. I imagined we would all sleep in very late tomorrow.

We slept through like half of the next day. We finally woke up at around twelve thirty, each and every one of us more tired than when we went to bed.

"I will never leave this bed again." Bex complained as she shoved her face into her pillow.

"You will have to leave this bed today because I want food." Liz said as she pulled the blankets off of Bex.

"Since when do you need me to get food?" Bex asked pulling the blankets back.

"Since today." Liz said once again pulling the blankets off of Bex.

"I wonder if Grant's awake." Bex wondered.

"Well if we get up to get food, I bet we'll find him." Liz persuaded.

Bex groaned. "All right, let's go!" They rolled to their feet and crossed to the door.

After we heard the door shut behind them I rolled to look at Macey.

"Did they just leave without us?" I asked her.

Her head popped off the pillow to look at me. "I believe the did."

"They didn't even try to wake us up." I complained.

"Rude. I want to get food, but I feel like giving them the silent treatment until they apologize." Macey said.

"I agree. But I'm seriously hungry." I said as my stomach growled.

"Alright, I'm over it they were just trying to be good friends let's go get food." Macey said jumping to her feet.

"Agreed." I followed her and we quickly made our way down the stairs and into the kitchen.

"Alright heathens what do we have to eat?" Macey asked as Liz and Bex came into sight.

"We're going for sandwhiches. Meatball subs sound good to you?" Bex replied.

"Heathens?" Liz asked.

"Yes, heathens. Meatball subs sound perfect." I answered as we reached the bottom steps.

"Do we have any cheese to put on them?" Macey crossed to the fridge. "Yeah we do, we're good." She answered her own question.

"How many meatballs do we have?" I asked.

"A whole box." Bex said holding up a full box.

"Are we sharing with the boys?" I asked.

"Nah, they're still asleep. They can make something when they wake up so it's fresh." Bex answered.

"How long did it take you to come up with that excuse?" I questioned her.

"About as long as it took to walk down here." Liz replied with a smile.

I rolled my eyes but grinned.

"Is the oven preheating?" Macey asked. "I'm starving."

"Yeah but it might take a while." Liz replied gesturing to the oven.

"What can we eat while we're waiting?" I groaned.

"I think there's some cereal." Bex said crossing to the cupboard.

I went and got milk, Bex got cereal, Macey got bowls, and Liz got spoons. We met at the table and each made a huge pile of sugary goodness. We stuffed our faces only pausing to put the meatballs in the oven, and after we had momentarily silences our hunger we addressed what should have been obvious.

"Where are mom and Solomon?" I wondered.

"Dunno. Is the car still here?" Macey asked.

Liz sat up in her seat to check. "It's still here, are they outside?

Bex straightened in her seat and looked up out the window. "Um...yes. It looks like they're surfing. How kind of them to let us sleep in." Bex said settling in to stuff her face again.

"What day is it?" I asked curiously.

"I dunno, June probably." Macey said filling her bowl once more.

"Like...Monday I think…" Liz said thoughtfully.

"Very nice. Aren't we supposed to go shopping this week?" Bex asked.

"Yeah let's go tomorrow." Macey said perking up.

"You know I'm starting to regret my choice to redo my look already." I put in.

"Eh, no need we're going to make it comfortable and hot." Macey said reassuringly.

The timer beeped and I popped up to pull the meatballs from the oven.

"You know I'm kind of surprised that the smell hasn't pulled the boys from bed. They must be exhausted." Liz said glancing at the stairs.

"I'm surprised too. You think they'd be starving." I added as Bex and I began to assemble our sandwiches.

"I don't care. More food for us." Macey said putting her bowl in the sink and crossing to make her own sandwich.

"Ow. Careful they're really hot." Bex said as she tried to take a bite.

"You literally just pulled them from the oven." Liz said as she put the milk back in the fridge.

"What are we going to do today?" I asked as I waited for my sandwich to cool. "And what are we going to do the rest of the week?"

"These need marinara sauce." Macey said as she went to grab some from the cupboard. "We could always plan what we're going to buy tomorrow. Save us some time."

"What about the rest of the week?" Bex asked.

"We could go to the beach. Try to teach the guys to surf better and work on our tans." Liz suggested.

"Yeah, we could go to the boardwalk a few times too and see what the local are up to." Bex added.

"What like Sawyer and the guys?" I asked when she emphasized locals.

"That'd be fun. The guys would get along great." Macey said. "At least I hope they will. It could be fun."

"I say we go for it." Liz suggested.

The back door opened slowly as my mom and Solomon came back inside. We didn't fail to notice that Solomon was shirtless and very buff.

"Hello girls, glad to see that you're awake." My mom said as she stepped carefully inside.

"Mmmm it smells good in here. I hope you're willing to share."

"We made a ton, you're welcome to help yourself." Bex said politely, Madame Dabney would be proud.

"Thank you Miss Baxter, I believe we will." Solomon said as he and my mom entered the kitchen.

"Are the boys still asleep?" My mom asked.

"Yeah, we haven't heard a peep out of them at all today." I said.

"I should go wake them up." Solomon said as he took a huge bite out of his sandwich.

"Nah let them sleep a little while longer, they need it." My mom said stopping him from going upstairs. "What are you girls planning on doing today?"

"Well we were planning on getting ready to go shopping tomorrow, or whenever you're willing to take us. We want to go over what we're going to buy so we can hopefully save some time when we finally make it to the mall." Macey said.

"Tomorrow sounds great. Are we still planning on redoing Cammie's wardrobe?" My mom asked.

"Yeah, I think we're planning on redoing all of our wardrobes. Hence the need for planning." Liz added.

"Well then I think planning is a wonderful idea. I'll help you with it if you like, I have quite a bit of experience in this field." Mom said with a wink.

"It would be a huge help. We kinda wanna start after lunch." Macey said as she grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge.

I coughed. "Macey kind of wants to start after lunch." I clarified.

"Well what else would we do?" Macey defended.

"Point made." I said after a moment's thought.

"Hey Cam are you done?" Liz asked me as Macey made another sandwich and I put my dishes in the sink.

"Yeah, why?" I asked.

"Come here, I need your help with something." She jumped up and ran to the stairs and I followed.

"What are you guys doing?" Bex yelled after us.

"Show you in a minute!" Liz called back to her.

She led me to our room and quickly grabbed her laptop. She opened it up and pulled up the footage from our bugs.

"So why am I here?" I asked as she set up all four streams side by side.

"Oh, I need you to get the boys phones for me. I have an idea, a pretty great one if I do say so myself, but I want it to be a surprise so I need you to get their phones without waking them up." She explained.

"Okay, do you want me to get them now?" I asked.

"If you would." Liz said as she began to fast forward to the part of the footage she wanted.

"Well then I'll be right back."

"Remember, it's imperative that they don't find out what we're doing." She warned.

"Gotcha." I said as I slipped silently into the hall.

Getting into the boys rooms wasn't at all hard, they're really light sleepers out of necessity but I'm a silent walker when I want to be, there wasn't even a sign that they might have heard me. I was feeling rather good about myself, I grabbed all four of their phones and slipped quietly back into our room where Liz was sitting with about a million windows on her computer open.

"Got 'em. What on earth are you doing?" I asked as I sat next to her on our massive bed.

She explained her plan to me. "Well, I got the idea last night while me and Mace watched the footage from the bugs. Of course the boys had the cutest reactions ever to seeing us and Macey kind of half mentioned how she would like a picture of Preston's face as her screen saver and when I saw Jonas' reaction I definitely wanted my wallpaper to be his face when he saw me because-"

"Because it was absolutely adorable." I put in.

"Exactly. So I got to thinking, we all made kissy faces at the bugs at the camera and such and what if we set their wallpapers as us winking at them."

"That would be so cute." I said with a grin.

"I thought so too, so I needed you to get their phones while I did...this." She showed her computer screen to me and I saw four pictures side by side.

The far left had the picture of Liz just before she broke the bug, her lips puckered and her eyes smiling with a black and white filter. Next to Liz was Macey with the sunsetting behind her making a gorgeous backdrop despite the fact that it was in black and white. Next to Macey was Bex whose eyes were half closed as she blew a kiss at the camera, once again black and white. I was on the far right, one eye winking at the camera while I blew a kiss, and just to keep the pattern up it was also black and white.

"Wow Liz they look great. Have you done the pictures of the boys too?" I asked.

"Yeah, that's where I got the idea to do the black and white filter. Do you think you could get your mom to send us the pictures she took of the couples?" Liz asked.

"Yeah definitely, I wanna see the pictures of the guys first though" I said and she pulled up the pictures.

First up was Jonas, of course. His eyes were crinkled at the edges and his grin was huge. There was a sparkle in his eye that was unmistakable despite the black and white filter that covered each of the pictures. The picture of Preston was next to Jonas. He looked like a model, he was grinning of course and his thumb was touching one side of his nose with his hand half covering his smile as if he didn't want to show how much he liked Macey's outfit. It was precious. Grant's picture was next his, his hand were both pressed over his mouth but you could tell that he was grinning. His eyes were glued to what I knew was Bex, he looked like the happiest man alive. Zachs picture was last and I was in love with it. The frame Liz caught had Zach in a similar pose to Preston but still different she caught him just as his hand had twitched toward his face and when his grin was at its widest. His eyes were locked on mine and one side of his smile was higher than the other giving it a completely Zach feeling. It was perfect.

"Holy crap Liz, these are incredible. Will you send me that picture of Zach while I talk to my mom?" I asked.

"Of course! Go get Bex and Macey too, I want to show them."

"They'll definitely want to see them" I smiled. "We need to try to hurry though, I don't know when they're going to wake up."

"Well than hurry!" I laughed and ran from the room.

I took the stairs at a sprint and jumped over the last four and turned towards my mom.

"Hey mom, will you send me all the pictures you took of us last night? Of all the girls." I asked quickly.

"Sure, hand me my phone." She said gesturing towards the counter.

I grabbed her phone and handed it to her then turned to Macey and Bex.

"Liz has something to show you guys, it's really important and she needs you like right now." I said. They glanced at each other and took for the stairs. "Quietly!" I called after them and they quieted their steps.

I waited impatiently as she sent them to my phone and the second she told me that they had sent and were delivered I took off for the stairs once more. I ran up them quickly and quietly. I reached our room and ran to get my phone before sitting next to my friends.

"Alright I got them." I informed Liz, she nodded. "What did you guys think of the pictures?" I asked.

"We loved them, I can't wait to see the ones your mom took." Macey said with a smile.

"I sent you the picture of Zach, Cam." Liz said. "Will you send me the pictures of me and Jonas?" She asked.

"Sure, send me the pictures of the four of us?" I replied.

"Yeah." She turned to her computer.

"I want them too." Bex said.

"Yeah, me too." Macey added.

"Mmmkay." Liz said absentmindedly.

I scrolled through the pictures that my mom sent me and quickly sent each of the girls their pictures before looking at the pictures of me and Zach. They were adorable. The first picture was the one where I kissed his jaw and she accidently caught the perfect moment. He was looking down at me and smiling while my lips were pressed firmly to the underside of his jaw and my hands were gripping his lapels. The second picture was when Zach kissed my neck. My eyes were closed but my smile was one of pure bliss and I kind of loved it. When I saw the third one, I noticed that my mom did catch me looking at Zach and not only that, but Zach had looked at me at the same second. It was a gorgeous picture.

"Hey Cam, wanna send me that picture of the two of us with Zach and Grant?" Bex asked.

"Sure thing. Hey Lizzie will you send me the frame of me and Bex blowing kisses at the camera together?" I asked.

"I want it too." Bex put in.

"Yeah sure. Do you want it in black and white?" She asked.

"Nah send it in color." I asked after Bex and I had a silent conversation.

"Cool." Liz said as she quickly tapped at her computer.

Finally we all had the pictures that we wanted and we set about changing our boyfriends wallpapers. Macey started on Preston's first.

"Uh-oh. Minor problem." She stated staring at Preston's phone.

"What's wrong?" Liz asked.

"Password." Macey said.

"Can't you crack it?" I asked.

"Maybe. The problem is that it isn't a simple four digit code, it's one of those more complicated could-be-two-letters-could-be-30-characters kind of passwords." She explained.

Bex and I nodded in understanding, none of us were very good with the tech stuff, hence our need for Liz. Liz however just looked thoughtfully at the phone then reached her hand out for the phone, Macey complied.

Liz plugged it into her computer and after exactly one minute had cracked the password and handed it back to Macey.

"Holy hannah Liz, that was really fast what was it?" Macey asked taking the phone back.

"'M&P4ever'." Liz answered simply.

Bex and I aww'd and smiled at a grinning Macey.

"Do either of you guys have passwords?" Liz asked Bex and I. We both quickly tried to open their phones and were met with password screens similar to Macey's. Without a word we handed the phones to Liz.

She grabbed them from our hands and plugged them into her computer. She cracked Bex's first, it took her less than a minute to crack but Zach's phone took longer. She frowned at her computer after a couple minutes she grinned victoriously.

"Bex, Grant's was 'britishbombshell' no caps or spaces." She handed the phone to Bex then turned to me. "Zach's was pretty obvious, I can't believe I didn't get it." She handed me his phone.

"What was it?" I asked curiously.

"Zammie." She said with a smile. I raised an eyebrow at her and started to explain but Macey beat her to it.

"It's your couple name." She said with a smile.

"Our what?" I asked wide eyed.

"Your couple name. You know, both of your names put together to make a couple name, kind of like Brangelina." She elaborated.

I raised my eyebrows as I turned to his phone. "I didn't realize we had a couple name."

"Of course you do!" Bex exclaimed.

"Do you guys have couple names?" I asked as I sent the pictures I wanted as his wallpapers to his phone.

"Yeah." Macey said doing the same with Preston's phone.

"We do?" Bex asked surprised.

Macey just gave her a look that said 'Are you really surprised?' and turned back to Preston's phone. Bex taking the hint that she wasn't going to say any more on the subject, turned to Grant's phone so I picked up Zach's and waited for the pictures to deliver.

I didn't have to wait long, seconds after we fell silent his phone vibrated with a text from 'Dove'.

"Well, Zach apparently has quite the interesting secret nickname for me." I announced to my best friends.

"Oh really?" Bex asked leaning forward in interest. "And what might this secret nickname be?"

"Well, according to his phone, it is 'Dove' what do you suppose that means?" I asked.

"I've had guys call me 'dove'" Macey said. "It's generally because they find me fragile."

We all snorted in disgust and made faces at the phone as if that would change anything.

"Oh, get this, according to Grant's phone his secret nickname for me is 'Kitten'" Bex said in horrified disgust.

We all groaned at the horrible nickname. Did he not know her at all?

"Mine is doll." Macey said in a sickly sweet voice and we all booed at the horrible name.

"Jonas put my name in as...'Muffin'." Liz said in a quiet voice but she had to force the name out, and I tried very hard to hold back my laughter I really did, but it just burst out.

Bex, Macey, and I all burst with laughter. The name was so horrible. So so so horrible and it didn't fit Liz at all! Is this really how the boys saw us? If so, we needed to change their view, starting with the absolutely terrible nicknames.

We started suggesting new nicknames for each other, each one more wild than the one before. We had to do it quickly and we had to do it quietly. We swiftly decided on K-9 for me, Snake Eyes for Liz, Kill Switch for Bex, and Thrasher for Macey.

We switched our names in their phones and set to work on changing the wallpapers. I changed Zach's lock screen to the picture of my blowing a kiss and his home screen to the picture of me kissing his jaw. I swiftly changed my own lock screen to the picture of Zach when he saw me but kept the home screen as the picture of the four of us.

Bex, Macey, and Liz all finished at almost the exact same time I did and they passed the phones to me to return to their places. I crossed silently into their rooms once more and put them in the exact same place that I found them before returning silently to the rooms we all shared.

"Alright, it's done." I said as I plopped down onto the mattress next to Bex.

"What are we doing now?" Liz asked.

"Well we need to plan what we're going to buy tomorrow with Mom, I guess we could go do that." Macey said from where she lay on the bed.

"Yeah…I don't know if I want to go all the way downstairs though." I said.

"You do, come on." Bex said pulling me to my feet.

I groaned but got up then turned and pulled Macey up while Bex grabbed Liz. We all grabbed our phones and notebooks/laptops then stomped our way carelessly down the stairs. Unfortunately we tripped (well, Liz let out an "Oopsie daisy!" and pulled the rest of us down with her) about halfway down the stairs and we all tumbled to the bottom.

We landed in a huge pile at the foot of the stairs, with Liz apologizing and the rest of us laughing.

"Are you girls okay?" Mom asked from where she sat at the table with Solomon.

"Yeah, we're good." Bex said as she climbed to her feet pulling Liz up with her.

"Aww man there's really no good place for Liz to be when we go down the stairs is there?" Macey said jokingly as she climbed to her feet and reached a hand down to pull me up with her.

I laughed. "Apparently we need to-Ow!" I cried as I put my weight on my ankle.

"Cam are you okay?" Bex worriedly as she and Liz whirled around to look at me.

Macey immediately put her arm around me to support me on my bad ankle and began escorting me to the couch. Mom and Solomon were on their feet in a second and followed us to the couch so they could examine my ankle.

"Oh man Cammie, I'm so sorry." Liz said wringing her hands.

"I'm fine Liz, besides it's not your fault." I reassured her.

Macey helped me settle on the couch and I stretched out my leg to where Mom was waiting to examine it. She gently felt around the bone trying to test if it was broken. I answered her questions honestly and after carefully testing the joint she decided it wasn't broken, just badly sprained and went to get an ace bandage.

"Cam, I am so sorry!" Liz exclaimed guiltily.

"It's not your fault Liz!" I said waving off her apology.

"I feel so bad." She admitted.

"There's no need to, it definitely wasn't your fault, we all fell. Besides, Macey was the one that fell on top of me." I defended.

"See Liz, it's my fault." Macey said trying to take Liz's guilt. "Sorry Cam." She looked at me with a sober expression. We kept our straight faces for a good ten seconds before all four of us burst into laughter.

Mom cracked a smile as she came back with the bandage to keep my ankle secure. She wrapped it tightly and expertly while I did my best to keep my expression neutral to make sure Liz didn't feel bad. Mom wrapped it gently however so it wasn't too difficult to keep the pain off my face and I was sure that as long as I stayed off it the best I could, I would be fine in no time.

"Well, this puts a damper on the shopping trip." Macey said as she sat next to me and held my hand.

"We're totally still going." I said waving off their protests. "There are plenty of places to sit while shopping, and the sooner we get this over with the better."

"We'll see how it feels tomorrow and then we'll see." Mom said with a stern look on her face.

"It feels fine now." I said innocently.

Solomon looked at me from where he stood at the end of the couch. I knew that he knew that I wasn't completely telling the truth but I also knew that he wasn't going to say anything about it.

"Not to mention that everything that we planned on doing for the rest of the day involves sitting anyway. I'll give it plenty of rest today to build up its' strength for tomorrow." I reasoned.

"I can honestly say I've never heard Cammie so eager to go shopping." Bex said in a baffled tone.

I shrugged then smiled at my three best friends. "Let's get planning."

We piled onto the couch, me and Liz in the middle with Macey on my right and Bex on Liz's left. My ankle was resting on a pillow on the coffee table and Liz had half of her laptop resting on my leg. Bex and Macey had their notebooks open and pens at the ready.

I didn't really see how much there could be to discuss, but apparently there was a lot. We started with styles. I honestly didn't see how there could be so many, but there was chic, girly, edgy, edgy chic, hipster, fashion forward, punk, rock, goth, tomboy, grungy, and about half a dozen others. Macey had already had a bunch of ideas of who she wanted in what.

We quickly decided that Macey's main look would be hipster, Bex was going for grunge, Liz was going to be girly, and I was going to have an edgy look which contrary to popular belief is very different from grunge (according to Macey).

After we decided whose style was which we could narrow down which stores we were going to go to and which areas of the mall we could avoid completely. We quickly discounted a majority of the brand name stores, Macey was still sticking to her boutique-only shopping phase, so there were only a handful of stores in the mall that we could actually shop at. Macey was convinced that we could get everything we needed from the eight stores on the list. The rest of us were skeptical.

We had been planning our shopping trip for about an hour when the boys finally woke up. Well, when Jonas and Preston woke up. We heard a thump and a groan before a bleary eyed Jonas appeared at the top of the stairs. He stumbled down the stairs and made for the fridge and after he filled a bowl with sugary cereal he came and sat on the couch opposite us.

"Hey guys." He said before shoveling food into his mouth.

"Hey Jo." I said without looking up.

"Sup Jonas." Bex mumbled biting her pen, frowning at the paper.

"Hi Jonas." Macey said glaring at her phone. I think she was doing something involving math.

"Good morning Jonas." Liz said with a grin and a wink. He grinned back.

"What have you lovely ladies been up to this morning?" He asked in between bites.

"We're planning a mega huge shopping trip." Liz overexaggerated.

"I think I'm busy that day." He said and we all stopped what we were doing to glare at him. "Maybe I'm not busy that day." He amended.

"It doesn't matter. It's not like you guys are necessary for us to go shopping." Macey said obviously.

"Well don't tell Zach or Grant that, it will definitely cement their need to go." Jonas pleaded.

"Where are they?" Bex asked.

Jonas shrugged. "Sleeping probably. You guys wore them out." He got up to refill his bowl while Bex and I slapped hands.

We heard a stifled curse from the top of the stairs and looked up to see Preston clambering down the stairs.

"You okay Preston?" Jonas asked.

"Fine. Hungry." He said crossing to grab his favorite cereal. He sniffed the air hesitantly "Do I smell meat?" He asked shooting an accusatory glare at Jonas.

"It wasn't me!" Jonas defended carefully.

"It was us." Bex said nonchalantly from where she sat on the couch.

"Did you save us any?" Preston asked crossing to search for the food in question.

"Nah, we decided you guys would want to make it fresh for yourselves." Macey said ever so generously.

Preston shut the fridge and shot us a glare. "Thanks." He said sarcastically.

"Anytime." I replied distractedly.

He filled up a bowl with cereal then went to sit next to Jonas on the couch opposite us.

"Hey, what happened to your ankle?" Preston asked pointing to my left ankle with his spoon.

"How did I miss that?" Jonas mumbled with wide eyes.

"We fell down the stairs." I answered shortly.

"All of you?" Jonas asked disbelievingly.

"Well Liz kind of tripped and-" Preston cut Bex off.

"That's all I needed to know. Are you okay?" He asked turning to look at me.

"Yeah, a small sprain. Nothing to be worried about." I said waving off his concern.

"Mmmkay." He turned back to his cereal and took another bite before turning to Jonas. "How DID you miss that?" He asked. "Her foot is wrapped in an ace bandage and propped up against the table. How long have you been down here?"

"Only like five-ish minutes longer than you." Jonas defended.

"You worry me." Preston said squinting at Jonas worriedly.

"I worry me too." Jonas admitted.

"We should talk to Solomon about getting you some extra lessons." Preston said before turning back to his cereal.

Jonas' eyes grew to twice their size. "Please, anything but that."

"I'm afraid it might be necessary, dear Jonas." Preston teased.

Jonas groaned. Macey and I caught each other's gaze and rolled our eyes before returning to our previous tasks.

"Hey Macey, do you think this would fall under Cam's category or Bex's?" Liz asked showing a picture of a really cute black lace dress to Macey and me. Bex strained to see the item in question.

"Both. It depends on what they accessorized with." Macey said after looking at the picture carefully.

"What are you guys doing?" Preston asked.

"Planning a 'mega-huge' shopping trip." Jonas answered.

"Yikes. I think I'm busy that day." Preston responded as he got up to get more food.

"We already went over this, we don't need you guys to come. We're entirely capable of going shopping on our own." Bex said absentmindedly.

"Just don't-" The girls and I cut him off.

"Tell Zach and Grant that." We finished in unison.

"Yeah, we got it. Thanks." I said as I continued to watch Liz look up items on her laptop.

"Macey should we buy bathing suits?" Bex asked.

"Probably. Cam only has two." She answered.

"I have three!" I protested.

"Two of which I lent to you!" Macey retorted.

"Fair point. I concede." I said running a hand through my hair.

"Appreciated. We also need to look for shoes, makeup, accessories, and maybe look into new hair styles." Macey added.

"I'm drawing the line at hair." I said.

"I'm with Cam." Liz added.

"Forget the hair. That means we're going to spend more time in less desireable stores." Macey said shooting a look at me and Liz.

I made eye contact with Liz and I knew there wasn't a doubt in either of our minds what store she specifically had in mind. I was starting to believe it was her favorite.

"Hey Preston I'm going upstairs to grab my phone, you want me to get yours?" Jonas asked.

"Yeah thanks." Preston said grabbing both their bowls and crossing to the sink.

Bex, Liz, Macey, and I looking subtly and conspiratorily at each other.

Jonas made great time getting the phones, seconds later he was at the top of the stairs both phones in hand. "Hey, maybe we will go shopping with you guys so we can get new cases for our phones." He tossed Preston's phone to him from halfway down the stairs.

"You know tha-whoa." Preston said as he saw his new lock screen wallpaper.

"What?" Jonas asked. Wordlessly he held out his phone for Jonas to see.

Jonas quickly checked his own phone and smiled. I nudged Liz and she glanced up to see Jonas' grin. She blushed lightly. Jonas held his phone out for Preston and they gave each other a look.

Both boys walked over behind the couch and I waited for the inevitable interrogation. I was surprised, instead of questioning us they just leaned over and kissed their girls on the cheek. It was incredibly sweet. Bex and I looked at each other and grinned as Liz and Macey kissed them back.

"Wait until you open your phones." Bex hinted as she turned back to her notebook.

The boys quickly pulled away and typed in their passwords and grinned once more at their screens.

"How did you guys get those pictures?" Jonas asked with a smile.

"Never mind that how did you get into our phones?" Preston asked without a hint of anger.

"It wasn't hard. Your password is very cute." Macey said pinching his jaw with her forefinger and thumb. Preston grinned and kissed her.

"I'm glad you think so." He said pushing a piece of her hair back.

I glanced at Liz and Jonas on my other side. Jonas had Liz's head resting on the back of the couch and he was gazing down at her, stroking her hair. I caught Bex's eye and we smiled.

I pulled Liz's laptop off her lap and continued looking up items that we might have to find the next day while she and Jonas had her moment. Their soft conversation floated into my ears even though I tried to ignore it.

"Where did you get those pictures?" Jonas asked once more.

"The bugs we all had." Liz replied. "It was Cammie's idea."

"I'm glad she did."

"Me too."

"The other picture is the one Mrs. Morgan took right?"

"Yeah. Well, she took other ones but that one is my favorite." Liz admitted. "Well, my favorite of us."

"Any picture of us is my favorite." He said sweetly and I grinned for my friend.

"Mine too." She replied. I glanced subtly at Bex to see she was grinning as widely as I was. We made eye contact and silently said 'aww'.

"Hey Cam?" Liz said looking at me.

"Yeah?" I said preparing to hand her laptop back.

"Will you have your mom send us those other pictures of us? I know she's been taking them the whole time." She asked.

"Sure thing." I replied. "I'll text her now. I doubt she'll see it for a while though."

"Where did she and Solomon go?" Liz asked.

"Back outside to surf some more. I might just wait for them to come back in." I replied.

"Smart move." Bex said jumping into the conversation.

Macey squealed and I whirled to look at her. She was covering her face and laughing while Preston looked anxiously at the stairs, a smile on his face. I gave Macey a questioning look and she responded with a 'tell you later' hand wave.

"Man. They are out." Preston said turning to look at me and Bex again. "What did you guys do to them?" Bex and I made eye contact and grinned.

"Sorry, can't say. Trade secret." Bex answered. "You may want to go see if they're actually still alive though." She teased.

"I'm starting to think that's a good idea." Preston said nudging Jonas.

They walked swiftly up the stairs. The girls and I turned to each other and burst into laughter.

"Dang Mace, what was that about?" I asked still smiling.

"He tickled my neck, you know how that is. Are they seriously going to see if they're still alive?" She asked incredulously.

"I don't see why. We didn't wear them out that much!" Bex protested.

"At least, I don't think so." I agreed.

"They probably just went to wake them up." Liz said reasonably.

"Ugh. They've been asleep for so long." I said running a hand through my hair. "How much more time can we spend planning this?" I asked. I was totally done.

"We just need to set a budget then we're done but we should wait for your mom for that." Macey said. "So I guess we're done. Anybody down to watch a movie?"

"I really just wanna go run a mile or so." I suggested.

"You can't, you have a sprained ankle." Bex pointed out.

"Right." I sighed.

"Why do you always get the most restless when you get injured?" Liz asked.

"Because I can't do anything when I'm injured. It's irritating." I said squirming. I sighed again. "What if I ran on my hands?" I suggested.

"No." Macey said immediately. "We can watch a movie or plan outfits for tomorrow or...clean up the bathroom." I sighed again.

"What if we baked cookies or something?" Liz suggested.

"We'd probably burn the house down." Bex pointed out. I breathed heavily

"We could do that painting stone thing." Macey mentioned.

"No paint." I shot the idea down. I went to sigh again but Bex stopped me.

"Cameron Ann Morgan, if you sigh one more time I swear-" She was cut off by the sound of four groans.

"What do they keep running into?" I asked exasperated there was nothing to hit.

"That's really a good question." Liz said confused.

"What do you guys keep running into?" Bex called as they stumbled down the stairs.

"Nothing." They all answered very very quickly. We'd have to search for the mysterious object later.

"Cammie what the heck did you do to your ankle?" Zach asked worriedly as he lept over the side of the railing on the stairs, landing perfectly balanced on his feet, and ran to examine my injury.

"We fell down the stairs and now it's slightly sprained nothing to worry about." I explained as he picked it up gingerly and felt the bone through the ace bandage.

"Yeah, right." He mumbled as he rested my foot on his lap, taking place of the pillow it had rested on before. He rested his hand on my shin and rubbed his thumb along my skin. "I still look good on you Gallagher Girl." He said gesturing to my shirt.

"Thanks." Macey replied and I laughed.

Zach let out a huff and gave me a look that said he was trying hard not to throttle Macey.

"We still have no intention of giving these back." I informed him.

"I am completely okay with that." Zach said running his fingertips along my leg.

"Hey Zach guess how long it took Jonas to notice that Cam hurt her ankle." Preston teased.

"Oh come on, now you're just being mean." Jonas retorted with a grin. "It isn't really that funny." Jonas directed at Zach.

"Oh now you definitely have to tell us, I'm really curious." Grant put in, slipping his arm around Bex. Surprisingly enough, she let him.

"How long did it take, Preston?" Zach asked.

"At least five minutes. The girls could give you a more accurate time count." Preston said with a smile.

Grant started laughing. "Seriously? Oh come on Jo."

"Here's the kicker, he was sitting on the couch right there eating his cereal having a conversation with them and he honestly didn't notice." Preston added. Grant laughed harder and Zach started chuckling.

"Oh yeah, ha ha ha." Jonas said sarcastically. "I bet you yahoo's didn't notice what's on your phones."

"What's on our phones?" Zach asked and Jonas gave him a look that said there was no way he was going to tell them.

Grant and Zach exchanged a look and Grant shrugged.

"We'll be right back." Zach said gently setting my ankle back on the pillow. He kissed my cheek and then followed Grant up the stairs.

I looked at a grinning Bex. I grinned back and look around me to see everyone else was waiting anxiously to see their reaction.

"Way to give it away Jonas." Preston said with a cheeky grin.

"Oh please, the girls want them to notice it." Jonas said going to sit on the couch once more.

We didn't have to wait long for them to reappear. Grant was in front of Zach on the stairs, which was to be expected since his room was closer to the stairs, but Zach made it down the stairs first by once again jumping over the side of the staircase.

"You know if you keep doing that you're going to hurt yourself." I lectured.

He crossed over behind the back of the couch and tilted my head back. He pressed his lips to mine in a spiderman style kiss. I could feel his nose touching my chin and felt my own scraping against the stubble he'd yet to shave off. I wrapped my arms around his neck holding his head to mine, just a little longer when he tried to pull away.

He brushed my hair back, still behind me so he seemed to be upside down. He grinned and shook his head before pressing his lips once more to mine. I smiled into the kiss. His reaction was much better than I had hoped.

"Do I even want to know how you got into my phone?" He asked with a grin.

I laughed a little. "Probably not." He grinned at me before kissing my forehead and going to reclaim his place on the coffee table to hold my ankle.

"Okay, we've planned all that we can for tomorrow. Can we go do something now? Can we at least go sit by the pool or something?" I begged.

"Hold on a second, what's tomorrow?" Grant asked.

"We have a shopping trip planned." Macey answered, no doubt anticipating the answer that was going to follow.

Zach and Grant both broke into excuses. "I think we planned something tomorrow, didn't we Zach?"

"Yeah, we did we planned that, that, running thing with Solomon. All day."

"Please don't say it." Preston begged under his breath, but Macey ignored him.

"It's alright if you guys don't want to come, we don't need you to come shopping with us. We are entirely capable of doing things on our own." Macey said emphasising the word need.

Zach got a glint in his eye, ever the over protective alpha male. "You know what Grant, I do believe we can reschedule our training." He said in a manly tone.

"I do believe that we can as well." Grant added in the same tone as Zach. I could tell they believed we were challenging their manliness. "Would you ladies mind if we accompanied you?" He asked.

"You can come, but only if you want to. You don't have to prove anything." Bex informed them.

"Of course we want to come. Why wouldn't we want to spend the day with you?" Zach defended trying to seem like a caring boyfriend.

"Well great. Can we go outside now?" I pleaded.

"Cam, you can't do anything. You have to rest your ankle for tomorrow." Bex reminded me.

"I can sit on the beach, feet in the water. I won't be putting pressure on it, so it's okay." I reasoned.

"How do you expect to get out there?" Macey asked.

"I will crawl if necessary. I've never felt so restless in my entire life." I admitted.

"What about that time you broke your leg?" Liz reminded me.

I groaned. "Except for that time. But even then you and Bex pushed me around the halls in the wheel chair."

"And got us all in to detention for disturbing the peace." Bex added.

"I don't think that's what got us into detention. I think it was more along the lines of endangering other students." Liz corrected.

"Well we did both, so it was probably both that landed us there." I mused. "Can we go outside now?"

"Oh my word, I want to go outside just to get Cammie to shut up!" Macey said jumping to her feet. "Bex, help me get Cammie upstairs to change."

"I got her." Zach said pulling me into his arms, carrying me bridal style.

"Thanks." Bex said running for the stairs. I could tell she was racing to beat Macey to the bathroom.

Macey and Bex sprinted up the stairs while Liz stayed behind to walk by Zach and me. Zach deposited me in the room we used to change in, setting me down where Liz directed on the dresser. He left to go change with the guys and I waited for Liz to go and grab a swimsuit for me.

"Macey instructed me to give you this one to wear. She says you've worn the pink one too many times." Liz said handing me the black boho bikini I wore when we went to the water park.

I sighed but took the articles to change into. Beggars can't be choosers. I executed many years of training as I kept my balance and changed while sitting on the dresser. Well, at least that's what I would tell Bex and Macey, but I hopped down and stood on one leg to change. Liz kept watch for me.

We had to wait for Macey and Bex to pack bags for us to take to the water's edge (they only put in fresh towels, we still hadn't unpacked from our early days at the house) and then we had to wait for Macey to braid her hair. After that we had to wait for her to pack her iPod dock and iPod, before finally, finally, we were moving to go down to the beach. At least we almost were.

"Hold up, we need aviators." Bex said running to grab everyone's sunglasses. I stuck mine on my head and then we were on our way.

Zach was waiting at the door to carry me down to the water, I was too eager to do something to mind needing to be carried. He set me down by in a chair by the pool and Bex set my bag down next to me.

"Okay Cam, you're outside. Now what." Bex questioned as the boys jumped into the pool.

"Now, we take the wrap off." I said reaching for my ankle.

"Oh no you don't, the wrap stays on. That's what's going to make your ankle better." Bex said stopping me.

"Well then, the wrap is going to get wet. Help me put my feet in the pool." I said as I moved to climb to my feet. She jumped to keep me from injuring myself further.

"You can put one foot in the water, the uninjured one." She instructed helping me sit on the edge of the pool. I scowled but set my injured ankle to the side.

"You're no fun." I teased splashing her with water.

"You say that like you wouldn't do the same for me." She said with a wink before jumping in the pool.

Macey set up her iPod and dock before coming to sit next to me by the pool. She slipped her feet into the water, but didn't get all the way in.

"Why aren't you going to swim?" I asked.

"All this salt water is damaging my hair. Sitting with you gives me an excuse not to get in." She said with a smile as she rubbed suntan lotion onto her arms and legs. She offered the bottle to me.

"Glad to be of service." I said taking the bottle.

She threw her head back and laughed. "You're funny Cam." She informed me. I flashed my teeth in a smile at her. "And this is one of my things on my list." She said with a grin.

"The summer one?" I said referencing the one she told me about last week.

"The very same." She said with a nod.

"What specific part of this is on the list?" I asked.

"Suntanning with my best friend." She said nudging me and I grinned.

"What else is there?" I asked.

"Shopping, which we're doing tomorrow. Um...a paint fight, messy twister, night swimming, a summer fling with guys that are also best friends, fireworks, star watching, a fancy photoshoot, fancy camping," I cut her off.

"Sounds fancy." I teased.

"Very fancy." She grinned then continued. "Go to the zoo, ride roller coasters, and pull an all-nighter." She finished with flare.

I nodded, thinking over the activities. "Well, we've done a lot of those already. I think the only ones that are left are paint fight, messy twister, star watching, photoshoot, camping, zoo, and roller coasters." I said. "That was a longer than I expected. But we're going to do all of them, every single one." I promised.

She smiled. "Thanks Cam."

"Hey Macey, aren't you going to come in?" Preston called.

"Nope, I'm gonna keep Cammie company." She replied. He frowned and came to pull her in.

"Ohmygosh!" Liz squeaked from where she was swimming by the stairs. "Bex!" She called as she swam to where Macey and I were sitting. She reached us rather quickly, Bex hot on her heels.

"Um…" Liz said uncomfortably looking at Preston. Liz clung to the wall in between me and Macey, Bex treading water behind her.

"Beat it Preston." Bex said none too gently. Preston gave her a look that might have been threatening.

"Sorry Preston, Liz just wants to keep this private." Macey said soothing his ego. He nodded once and swam to where the boys were congregating. They probably wanted to discuss our strange behavior.

"What's up Liz?" I asked curiously.

"Don't look now, my right. Four extremely attractive guys." She said breathlessly.

I slipped my sunglasses on over my eyes and twisted to look in the direction that Liz pointed but made it seem like I was having a conversation with Macey.

"Aww come on Liz, in case you didn't notice there are four extremely attractive guys a whole lot closer" Bex said shaking her head but I didn't fail to notice that she too turned to look.

"Can you see them Mace?" I asked, she could hopefully see them through the reflection on my glasses.

"Tilt your head a little to the right." She instructed running a hand through her hair.

I obliged then set out studying them. "Mace are these the guys you saw that first day?" I asked.

"Yep. The 8.5, 8.75, 9.2, and the 9.5 was I right or what?" She answered.

Oh she was so right. They were also on their beach so they were shirtless. There was a blonde, two brunettes, and an in between. All four were very tall and had very flattering faces. One of the brunette's had amazing cheek bones, the other had an amazing jaw. The blonde had a smile that made me want to swoon from an incredible distance and the last one...wow. The last guy was almost indescribable, he was something from a movie. His entire aura just made you want to be his friend and he had very kind eyes.

"Wow. I wouldn't believe those ratings unless I had seen them myself." Bex said as she completed her study.

"I know." I sighed.

"Uh oh. We may have a problem." Macey said as she snapped us from our study. "Our boyfriends may have caught on to our subtle study." She ran a hand through her hair and I raised my sunglasses from my eyes.

I glanced to look at where the boys were staring at us then across the yard. I caught Zach's eye and gave him a grin and a small finger wave. He narrowed his eyes. Dang it. I kept smiling though.

"They're looking at us." Bex noted.

"Who?" Liz asked.

"The hot ones." Bex said.

"That clears nothing up." I replied.

"The ones across the beach." She clarified. "Well, I guess all of them are. Our boys have been staring us down practically this whole time."

"Hurry, someone say something funny. When we laugh look at those guys over there like we're laughing at them." Macey instructed.

"Grant looks constipated." Liz said not long after and we burst into laughter.

We all looked at the boys across the beach as we laughed then laughed harder. As I glanced subtly at our boys again, they were all looking intently at Preston as if he was explaining something.

"I think we're clear." I said lowering my glasses over my eyes again and turning more towards the pool.

Macey watched our boys just a little longer before giving her nod of approval. We were all good.

Despite our precautions, our boys were apparently still feeling possessive because they swam over to where we still sat, chatting. Grant wrapped his arms around, perhaps a little higher than he normally would've. Jonas set his arm around Liz confidently and pulled her under his arm. Preston and Zach popped out of the pool, Preston laying his head in Macey's lap and Zach pulling my leg over his lap. His hand rested just a tad too high on my leg for it to be nonchalant. I glanced at Macey, begging to her say something so I wouldn't have to.

"Hey guys…" Macey said slowly.

"What's up?" I added.

"Nothing. Just wanted to come see our girls." Zach said nudging my face in his direction so he could kiss me. He was tense and on edge, like an animal on the hunt.

"You okay?" I asked softly.

"Absolutely." He answered flatly. He was lying. He knew that I knew he was lying.

"You sure you don't want to come swim with us Mace?" Preston asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure." She replied calmly.

Grant was staring the boys across the beach down. His grip on Bex tightened and she gave me a look that seemed to scream 'do something!'. I had no idea why she thought I could do something, but I had to try.

"Hey Grant." I said trying and failing to gain his attention.

"Hmm." He replied absentmindedly.

"Oi! Granty boy! My face is over here." I said waving my arms.

He reluctantly looked away but Zach took up his post. "Yes Cammie?" He asked overly patient.

"What are you staring at?" I asked bluntly. Better to get this out in the open.

"Nothing." He lied.

"You suck at lying." I said. "Okay, well maybe not but you can't lie to me."

"I was just watching those guys over there. Thought maybe they'd like to hang out, maybe surf with us." He said calmly.

Bex snorted. "Yeah, right." I grinned.

Zach's grip on my leg tightened and I turned to look at him. He was scowling like it would change something. I followed his line of sight and saw the light haired guy across the beach looking at me. We made eye contact and he grinned. I held back a blush and looked away.

"Well if you want to surf with them, why don't you go over there and ask them." Macey suggested playing with Preston's hair.

"Nah I don't wanna surf that bad." Grant said changing his mind.

"I do!" Liz said jumping from the pool.

"Whoa, Liz!" Jonas said rushing to follow her.

Liz quickly grabbed a surfboard and ran across the beach to where the four guys were standing. She let her hair down as she ran, making her look like an absolute beach babe. Jonas was hot on her tail. When they reached the four guys, Jonas carefully slipped his hand around Liz's waist and I could feel her try to avoid boiling. Seconds later, they were all headed out into the surf where mom and Solomon were dominating the waves.

"Well, they're already out there. I'm going." Bex said wrestling herself out of Grant's grasp and going to grab a board with Grant following closely behind.

"Preston, you and Zach should go surf too." Macey suggested.

"Yeah, go show off and be impressive and manly." I said nudging Zach. "But first you have to help me get down to the water's edge so I can watch you show them who's boss." I fluffed Zach's ego trying to get him away so me and Macey could talk.

Macey caught on and followed suit. "Seriously Preston, you could totally out surf these civilians and send them home nursing their pride. Cam and I will watch from shore so you have to do some pretty impressive things if you want us to catch them."

It worked like a charm. "Well...Maybe we should." Preston said turning to look at Zach.

"Yeah...I guess." Zach said watching the four guys with Liz, Bex, Grant, and Jonas.

"Cool, let's go." Macey said climbing to her feet. "I'll carry a board down for you Zach." She and Preston went to go and grab a couple boards as Zach pulled me up into his arms once more.

We walked, well Zach walked, down the beach and he set me down a few feet from where the water licked the shore. I smiled a thank you as we waited for Preston and Macey to catch up. They reached where we sat seconds later and the guys got ready to go out to the water.

"Hey Cam." Zach said as his feet entered the water.

"Yeah, what's up?" I asked.

He threw his board down next to me then dropped to kneel over me and kissed me. I had laid back onto the sand completely and he followed me down. He pulled away slowly and I giggled.

He chuckled and pushed a piece of my hair back behind my ear. I strained my neck up to kiss him one more time. Funny how I was one of the shyest in our group, but Zach and I seemed to spend the most time lip-locked.

"Maybe I'll just stay here." He said nuzzling my neck.

I laughed. "Oh no you don't." I said pushing him off my slightly and sitting up. "I want to watch you surf. Go on, impress me."

He grinned at me once more before getting back up to go surf. The very second they were out of earshot, spy earshot not civilian earshot, I flashed the light off my sunglasses three times calling Liz and Bex back to shore.

"What they heck was that?" I asked Macey.

"My dear Cammie, I do believe we have just witnessed our boyfriends in their jealous state." Macey informed me.

"Well that was certainly" I searched for the word "...enlightening."

"If that's what we're calling 'completely insane' now then yes, that was very enlightening." Macey agreed.

"Why on earth were they so jealous? Are they really so insecure?" I asked.

"We'll discuss in a minute, here come Bex and Liz." She said.

"Well?" Macey asked as they came close enough.

"Well what?" Bex replied.

"How was the surfing going? How were the interactions?" Macey clarified.

"Well, they're certainly trying to show off. Trying to prove they're better than the others. It makes going for waves like a dangerous gamble but Solomon shut that down with one sharp look. I want to hear what Liz was thinking when she took off like a rocket for the four." Bex answered.

"Yeah Lizzie, how did that go?" I asked.

She sighed. "It went very well on their part. Jonas was acting like a leopard protecting his young. But that was even before we got over there."

"We'll get there in a minute, more on the conversation." Macey said.

"Well when I first walked up to them, I told them I was Liz and I introduced Jonas-"

"As your boyfriend?" I asked.

"Yeah." She replied.

"Good, continue." I said gesturing.

"Then they introduced themselves, the one with cheekbones is Cole, the one with the jaw is Peter, the blonde one is Karter he specified that it is with a K, then the light haired one is Will. I asked them if they wanted to surf with us and they agreed and I think you saw the rest."

"Alright and what happened when you guys got out there, Bex?" Macey asked.

"They introduced themselves, I introduced Grant and I as a couple and then that's all we really said." Bex informed us.

"Okay, now can we talk about how possessive the guys were? Do they really distrust us so much?" I asked.

"I don't think that they don't trust us so much as they don't trust them. It wasn't really jealousy so much now that I look back on it, I think it was more staking their claim." Macey said thoughtfully.

"Yeesh I would hate to see what they look like when they're really jealous." Bex mumbled and I agreed.

"So do we need to talk about this with them?" I asked Macey.

"No I don't think so, its just a male dominance thing that they need to do. Like how birds puff up their chests when someone comes to try and steal their mate." Liz put in.

"I would agree with that statement. But I do not want to go back out there." Bex said. "I'm going to go get our bags."

"I'll come with you, we should get the guys stuff too." Liz said and they climbed the few feet back up the beach.

"I'm glad we came out here." I said as I watched Zach surf, the water reflecting off his muscles.

"Me too. We can probably get a good tan out here too." Macey added.

"I'm probably going to a weird tan line from this stupid ace bandage." I said shaking my foot.

"Oi! Careful, you could make your ankle worse and we have a lot we need to do tomorrow." Macey said nudging my arm.

"Ugh. Sorry. So do you think after this encounter it would be safe to take the guys to hangout with Sawyer and the guys?" I asked as Bex and Liz returned.

"Probably. With all that ego fluffing we did, it should be safe to take them to a Calvin Klein event." Macey added sarcastically and the girls and I laughed.

"We'll see if we run into them. I didn't get anyone's contact info." Bex said.

"I did, I have Sam's number." Macey put in. "I can see if they want to come over some time this week and make s'mores and go night swimming or something."

"That would be a ton of fun! We would have to warn them not to tell the guys about the party. I think the real story of how we met would satisfy the guys." I suggested.

"Sounds good, but how would Liz have met them?" Macey asked.

"I didn't really talk to any of them but Sawyer, and if we told them not to mention the party it could just seem like we really hit it off. It would be fine." Liz said.

"Let's do it! I'll ask Mom as soon as she comes to shore." Macey said laying back on the sand. I pulled out my towel and did the same. This summer could not be going better.