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They have a long breakfast and afterwards put the rest of their food back in the car to not attract wild animals.

Jade and Beck finally go shower and dress themselves while the others brush their teeth one by one.

They all meet up again around the fireplace and talk for another while before they finally deem it warm enough to go into the lake.

They each change in their tents, before Robbie asks: "What are we doing with our stuff?"

It's the first time since they set up that they will be all away from their tents at the same time.

Beck shrugs. "There isn't anything important in the tents, is there?"

Nothing worth stealing. Just some clothes and sleeping bags. They all left their money in the car.

Andre looks over to it. "The instrument are still in there, yeah? And it's locked?"

Beck nods.

They of course have brought instruments and want to put in a jam session later. They are all musicians after all.

Robbie has brought his guitar, Andre a keyboard. They haven't gotten them out of the car yet.

Everyone still seems to think for a minute if there is something else worth stealing but everyone decides there isn't.

"Well, everything is alright then," Tori decides and then checks with the others: "Everyone has everything with them they need?"

They have, pretty much only need their towels and the car key which is in Beck's hand and will be stashed under his towel later when they are all in the lake.

Everyone nods and together they walk over to the lake.

While they do so, Beck looks to the spot where the other boys were set up earlier."Where are those guys anyway?"

"Oh, they left already," Andre answers and Tori of course has to add, more in a teasing way: "You would have seen if you woke up on time."

She notices Jade rolling her eyes but Beck just smiles: "Yeah. Well..."

"I'm glad they left," Cat chips in.

"We all are," Tori says and the others nod.

Tori doesn't know how else they could have gone swimming. They probably would have hung around and tried to hit on them some more. Maybe, the guys would have acted as their boyfriends, not just Beck as Jade's which he was, but also Robbie as Cat's and Andre as Tori's. After all, there is definitely something going on with Robbie and Cat and they do like each other a lot – and Robbie and Andre probably both would have wanted to help them.

But Tori doesn't know if that would have helped much. Yes, they did go away yesterday but Tori has some experience with guys like that.

However, they are gone now and they can be totally relaxed.

The little family is also in the lake, and a few other people are on different sides, closing in on the lake from other camp sites. The lake is big enough and they put their towels down in a completely deserted spot and slowly wade into the water.

"It's so cold," Cat screams but keeps going.

It really is cold but also refreshing and Tori knows, it won't feel all that cold anymore as soon as they've been completely in. It still takes some time to overcome the coldness to even get that far.

When Tori stands waist-deep in the water, she just goes for it. She takes in a deep breath and plunges in.

"You're crazy," Robbie claims when she emerges again but Andre copies her promptly. Beck goes in a little deeper before he does as well.

Cat and Robbie take a little more time though Cat is extremely excited. Jade just goes in and starts swimming, doesn't dive her head under however. But she also doesn't show that it is cold at all. Figures. It was either that or her complaining about the coldness loudly and somehow blaming every one of them for it. Tori is glad she chose this route.

They all swim around for a while and Robbie, Cat, Andre and Tori just start talking about how they haven't brought a ball or anything and if they could improvise or ask some of the other campers for theirs when Tori turns around to look for Beck and Jade who haven't joined the discussion.

Jade seems about to get to them to also make a suggestion but in that moment, Beck approaches and with one move punches the water in front of her so hard, it goes all over her.

Tori is sure she will get angry and tell Beck off for that. She does scream Beck's name. But there is actually a big grin on her face as she does, and suddenly, she tackles him, puts her hands on his head and pushes him under water.

He doesn't fight her much and lets it happen instead but as soon as he is fully immersed, she screams again and is pulled under water as well. Obviously, he has grabbed her and for a few seconds, Tori can only see broken water, then they both get out again, pretty much holding each other. They breath in, push their hair back and both laugh in a way that makes Tori automatically smile.

Then, Beck picks Jade up like a bride and rocks her in his arms in a way that makes her head go back into the water time and time again, while he dances around with her.

She holds onto him and pushes herself away from him at the same time somehow, and when she finally is able to push him away, so that he has to let her go, she claims: "I hate you."

She forms her laugh into a pout but he keeps laughing and pulls her close again and they share a kiss.

"Tori?"

Tori turns around and sees Andre watching her. "Uhm... What?"

"I just said: Looks like they've found us a ball. But you seemed like you didn't even hear me."

"I was just distracted there for a second," Tori claims and well... it's true. It wasn't just for a second but she was distracted enough to not notice Cat and Robbie actually going to the family which is here with them and has a beach ball lying by the side. She hasn't even heard them decide to do it. But they now come back with big grins and the beach ball in their hands. Apparently, the family has lent it to them.

But it's natural for her to get distracted. It's rare to see Jade like this. To see her so... child-like. Tori actually never has seen her like this in person.

She realizes that Jade only becomes a child around Beck. She knows Jade wouldn't be close to this if it was just the girls and they were playing around. Maybe she would also agree to a water fight or something, but she wouldn't laugh like this, wouldn't show her absolute enjoyment so openly, wouldn't pout like that because of something they had done.

Tori remembers she has noticed that a little bit before, that she has just never fully appreciated it. There is that video though on TheSlap where Beck and Jade claim to give relationship advice. It's a few years old now but Tori has watched it back then and remembers how Beck has given Jade noogies and how extremely young Jade had looked then, how child-like. And how much Beck had enjoyed that.

Apparently, that's another thing in their relationship. Beck can actually make Jade behave like a child playing around. It's quite cute if Tori thinks about it.