[Zack,Flyzik,Natalie} Swimming With The Sharks

[Katy Alexis Sutton]

Kat pulled on a t-shirt and shorts over her bikini before she crawled back into the bunk and buried her face into the pillow by Flyzik. “ Dude… does he know that he is making us wake up at 6 am on our day off?” she asked before she lifted her head and crawled the few inches over to where Flyzik was. She smiled as she watched him and tilted her head. “ How are you going to take orders all day without your handy dandy little headset?” she asked before she gave him a quick kiss. She jumped when there was a large hand smacking at the side of the wall and an uncomfortable cough. “ Uh guys.. It’s um.. time” Zack said awkwardly before he walked away and then came back, sticking his head inside. “ Sorry to interrupt” he added in such a serious way that it made Kat laugh. Every other guy on the bus would have said it to be an ass about Flyzik and Kat. Zack was genuinely sorry.. and uncomfortable. Kat took in a deep breath and sighed, crawling out of the bunk before she looked over at Shane’s, slapping him across the cheek as he slept before she headed off of the bus and spotted Zack.

“ So Zack.. you beautiful.. piece of shit at six am in the morning, why in the fuck am I awake? “ she asked, placing her hands on her hips as she looked over at him, engulfed in his phone. Working on last minute details for their phone? Obviously they weren’t all going out for the traditional dinner and a movie date. It was six am. And she was told to wear a bathing suit. She looked over shoulder, waiting for Natalie to come off the bus. Seriously. Were people even fucking ALIVE at this hour? She didn’t even wake up this early for school. Or for God. But she sighed, looking at Zack. He looked so excited. He had to be the most energetic out of everyone this morning. But let’s face it, he usually woke up this early anyways, went out for a morning run, did some exercise. He was dedicated to that body. And all Kat could think about was how much she wanted to be dedicated to Flyzik’s. In their bunk. Instead of awake at six am, hanging out with Zack’s dopey ass.

[Zack Derrick Grant]

Zack smiled sarcastically at Kat as she called him a beautiful piece of shit. But instead of responding to her, because why would he, he just looked back down at his phone. He wanted to make sure that their plans were going to go off with a hitch. He hadn’t told anyone what their plans were, well.. he told Flyzik. But he had yet to tell Natalie or Kat. But he thought they might be excited about it. “ Here,” he said offering a cup to Kat who took it happily. After taking a sip she spit it out, throwing her hand over her mouth. “ What the fuck, Zack. Who gives someone straight orange juice at six am?” she asked, tossing the cup onto the ground. Zack shook his head out at the girl who was more offended by regular orange juice at six am than she would be by a spiked drink.

Once the car pulled up that was going to take them to where they were headed he walked over to talk to the guy who was driving over their rental car. He wanted to be able to drive everyone around and not worry about a cab or anything. Plus he didn’t want to take the bus because he didn’t want the other guys to see what they wre doing and decide to come along. . If anything, maybe the girls would get scared. He really didn’t think him or Flyzik would have a problem with being the knight in shining armor. But then again they probably wouldn’t. More realistic story would be him and Flyzik getting scared and Kat and Natalie trying to play with the sharks. When he was done hammering out the details with guy from the rental company he took the keys and headed back over to the bus to wait for everyone else to meet him outside.

[Matthew Tyler Flyzik]

Matt was still lying in his bunk when he knew he had to get up and get ready to go. Zack had already told him that they were going to go swim with sharks, so he was actually pretty excited, he was just having a hell of a hard time getting motivated to actually stand up. Kat had gotten up at least and he assumed had gotten dressed before crawling back into the bunk and laying down beside him, burying her face in the pillow and wanted to know why on earth they had to be up at six in the morning. Matt just grunted his reply, he didn’t fucking know. But Zack was making plans and he was excited about spending the day with a girl so Matt was all for it. If Zack was pumped and not all nervous and freaked out, then Matt wasn’t going to be the person to spoil it for him. Matt however, did smile when Kat mentioned his head set, “I’ll live.” It was a day off, he was actually glad to be without it. He grinned still when she leaned down to kiss him and climbed back out of the bunk, chuckling when he heard a smack and a disgruntled Shane, probably even a ‘fuck you’ in there somewhere. Matt was sure he heard Kat head off the bus so he got up, remembering his instructions to wear a swim suit, so he dug out his board shorts and pulled them on. After a moment of standing there in a daze he heard Natalie coming his way, pushing him toward the door and down the steps, “Come on Flyzik, rise and shine dude.” It was a little chilly but it’d warm up in no time at all. Matt saw that there was a rental car already there, standing beside Kat and placed his hand on her back, rubbing his face with his other, trying to wake himself up.

[Natalie Paige St.John]

Natalie pulled on a sweatshirt over her clothes and over the waistband of her shorts, having already put on her bathing suit. It was really, really early. And yesterday had been St. Patrick’s day, so that made the earliness a little worse. But Zack had planned some sort of fun day for them and Natalie was going to go along with whatever it was that he had planned because last night he had kissed her and it was perfect and more than she could have hoped for seeing as he had blushed red as a tomato right after. The fact that he was excited to plan something for them was sweet anyways. Natalie walked the length of the bus toward the other end, finding Matt standing like he was sleeping standing up and gave him a light push toward the door before shoving him down the steps and told him to wake up. Natalie hopped off after him, closing the door behind her and yawned quietly, looking tiredly at Zack who was of course wide awake. He was so used to being up early the way he put effort into being fit and all that. Which was fully appreciated she would happily admit. She didn’t really know where she and Zack stood on the relationship front because he moved at a turtle’s pace and she didn’t want to rush him and make him uncomfortable. She had a feeling being patient would pay off, she knew he was a great guy. She just didn’t know how much more patient she was required to be. Sometimes she was like, I can’t be this patient, she just wanted to lay one on him. But she didn’t. And she’d waited. And he’d kissed her, finally. But she still remembered it, and how it had left her wanting more and she knew that was as much as she was getting. Frustrating. At the same time though, it was more special too. She’d just have to wait and find out she guessed. And maybe since they were off the bus and away from mostly everyone, he’d be a little more comfortable by themselves. She didn’t really know what to expect from him when they were alone. Nonetheless, she smiled at him, trying to look awake, though she genuinely was excited for whatever he had planned.

[Katy Alexis Sutton]

Kat shook her head at Zack as he enthusiastically rambled off their itinerary for the day. He was like a walking travel agency ad or something. Throwing out times that they were supposed to be at destinations, where they would be stopping for lunch, how much time they had exactly. “ Did you factor in time for a quickie when Natalie pulls you into a roadstop bathroom stall?” she said, smiling satisfactorily when Zack turned about ten shades of red and looked down at the keys in his hand, fumbling them before he started talking about the ‘unlikelihood of that’. “ Uh huh,” she said, putting her hands on her hips with an audible sigh. Oh to be asleep right now, in Flyzik’s arms. She looked over her shoulder when she heard the tour bus door open and smiled seeing both Flyzik and Natalie. “ Should we do a head count and make sure everyone is here before we head out for our field trip? Everybody buddy up,” she said sarcastically, tilting her head at Zack before he flipped her off. She started to smile but then tensed instantly as Flyzik put his hand on her lower back. Yeah, she had kissed him in his bunk. But come on… he couldn’t just be throwing those hands out on her body like that. Didn’t he know what he did to her? She didn’t have time to prepare herself. Holy shit… is this how Zack lived his life? She wiggled a bit, trying to physically accustom herself to Flyzik’s fingertips being just sheer fabric away from the skin of her lower back. “ Okay enough of this wasting time let’s get in the car!” she said, clapping her hands quickly as she moved away from Flyzik’s hand so that she could at least catch her breath for a second before she went to the car and climbed into the backseat. Yup.. he couldn’t touch her there. Kat scrunched her nose and looked up at the ceiling of the car. Damn you, Flyzik. Damn you to hell. She smiled as Zack opened the car door for Natalie and walked over to the drivers side and got in. Well that was kind of cute. He was trying to be a gentleman.

[Zack Derrick Grant]

Zack shook his head at Kat. Did she need to be so difficult in the morning? It was early yes, but it wasn’t bad. You had to wake up at some time. Not a big deal, get your shit together. Plus she was mocking him, when he noticed that she had the same reaction to Flyzik touching her as he did whenever Natalie was around him. “ Uh huh,” he said , clicking his tongue and shaking his head at Kat so she, and probably Flyzik as well, knew exactly what he was referring to. He smiled at Natalie, glad that at least she seemed excited that they were hanging out today. At least she had a good attitude about it. Unlike the sleepy ones to the side of her. “ Good morning, guys… today’s gonna be great!” he said happily, not really expanding on what they were going to be doing. Why explain? He watched as Kat walked away and then made his way to the car, opening the passenger side door for Natalie before she could reach it for herself. “ You uh… “ he started, coughing uncomfortably. “ You look nice,…pretty” he said, flickering a quick nervous smile before the blush crept across his cheeks and he looked away, going to the drivers side. Once he was in the car he waited for Flyzik to get in before he started it and turned the radio down. “ Okay, none of you guys have any serious fears, right?” he questioned before he pulled the car away from the tour us and headed towards the interstate so he could head to their destination. He pulled his sunglasses off of his shirt and placed them on. He had kissed the girl, surely he could hold her hand. But it would be easier if she couldn’t see his eyes. He scratched the back of his finger against the side of his nose out of nervous habit before he reached down and took her hand in his right one, interlacing their fingers before he licked his lips and looked straight ahead, keeping his eyes on the road. Don’t look at the pretty girl, don’t blush. Don’t look at the pretty girl, don’t blush…

[Natalie Paige St.John]

Natalie smiled at the group after she'd stepped off the bus. Kat and Flyzik would probably whine about it being so early in the morning. But Natalie was still kind of on cloud nine, even though she felt kinda yucky after last night. She may have drank too much but Zack had kissed her last night and she wasn't about to lose hope now. Sure he moved at an awfully slow pace, sure he was kinda bashful, but he was such a gentleman. Natalie had not been treated like the way Zack treated her since like, middle school. It was like boys has forgotten how to chivralous. But Zack hadn't. She couldn't help but grin when he beat her to the car door and opened it for her, telling her she looked nice. She felt like hell but the way she was grinning when he was around probably made her look her best. "Thank you, Zack," she smiled at him, unable to wipe the stupid grin off of her face. So fricken charming, he was. After they'd pulled away and Zack mentioned that he hoped no one had any fears, Natalie was going to respond except that he'd reached over and taken her hand in his.

Natalie stopped, mouth wide open since she had been about to say something but quickly closed it. She just looked over and glanced at him, her face showing that she was obviously tickled. And he was trying so hard not to look at her. It was funny. Here she was, grinning at him like he was the cutest person, and he was just looking right out the window. Natalie gathered her thoughts, looking herself back out the front window, "So, where exactly are we going then? Somewhere that involves something fearful?" Natalie glanced back at Kat who was trying to get as far away from Matt as possible. They were such a dysfunctional group.

[Matthew Tyler Flyzik]

Matt was confused. Kind of. Kat had just acted like his hand was on fire and was now sitting as far from him in the back seat as possible. Had they not grown up together, had they not known each other for practically their entire lives? He supposed, it wasn't as if they were particularly close growing up, they more or less were just around each other a lot. Matt had spent much more time with Mason growing up. But they weren't strangers, that was for sure. Surely Kat hadn't forgotten the fact that they'd slept together that one time in high school. Yes they were drunk, yes it was just the one time, yea they had blown it off and they'd been fine since then. They didn't avoid each other, nor did they become any closer. They were just two people who had known each other forever and hooked up, no big deal. They didn't have some profound relationship that had gotten ruined or anything. So the fact that Kat was acting like he had cooties confused him. They'd probably taken bathes together when they were toddlers and yet she was acting like he wasn't this guy she'd known forever.

Okay the part that wasn't confusing. If she really did have real feelings for him, he could see how her mannerisms might change. It just seemed so drastic. Did he really have that kind if effect on her? Matt shook the thoughts from his head. The only way for her to be more comfortable around him was going to be to just spend more time together. Which was what they were doing and was why Matt wanted to make things as unweird as possible, "yeah where ARE we going Zack?". He knew damn well where they were going but he could play along.

[Katy Alexis Sutton]

Kat tapped her hands against her knees as she looked out the window uncomfortably and listened to the conversations happening around them. Matt had been best friends with her brother for as long as she could remember, and honestly she wasn’t even sure if he had ever told Mason that they had.. well.. ‘been’together. She took in a deep breath and sighed, looking back at everyone as they seemed to be focusing their attention on where they were going. Oh right, they were going somewhere. She smiled hesitantly as she looked back at Flyzik and scooted about an inch or two closer to him. “ Do you know where we’re going?”[/b] she whispered, since he seemed to be playing along a little too well with Zack. Kat looked down at Matt’s lap and picked up her own hand before hovering it over his own , and then pulled hers back in her own lap and stared down at his hand like it was confusing. Seriously, she had never been shy around men before. She dated rockstars for christ’ sake. Tyson and Shane.. she could do this. Kat gave a small nod before she reached over and grabbed Flyzik’s hand.

About two seconds later she took in a quick gasp and let go before looking at him. “Wait is that okay? Because we haven’t really discussed.. things.. and if we’re just going to kiss and do whatever like in high school that’s one thing, but holding hands is something that’s completely different and on a whole new playing field and sort of gives off the impression to other people, hey I care about this person and I think they might care about me too. But the thing is we’ve never really discussed it. It’s this whole ideal that we’re giving off to people when all I really want to say to you is ever since we moved to New York and you’ve sort of monopolized my attention and I feel like I’m always on the edge of my seat around you because I don’t want to miss a thing,” she whispered out as quickly as she could, probably sounding like a hushed auctioner,…and maybe a little crazy. " And you're my boss. I can't say that I have feelings for my boss. But it's stupid to deny them , too. I've had a crush on you for half a year. It hasn't gone away yet and that's because I don't think it's going to anytime soon, I've known you almost all of my life. There isn't anything I don't already know that could potentially scare me off and that's kind of scary, right? I mean.. this is all new to you. You just found out that I liked you. And you're potentially just now seeing me as something other than a 'taboo performer' or 'shane's ex' or 'masons sister'.... right?" she asked while still whispering, but by now she had moved closer to him to keep herself quiet.

[Zack Derrick Grant]

Zack tapped his thumb against the side of Natalie’s hand in beat to the music as he held onto it while driving. Her hands were so soft and delicate.. kind of like she was. She was outgoing and he figured some people might see her as abrasive. But she was just sort of this ideal perfect woman in his head. Her hair was so soft and always smelled like vanilla or lilac. Her skin was unimaginably soft and he was pretty confident that her smile might be the one that artists dreamt of when they were trying to master their finest work. And for some reason, she still chose to smile at him. Some grungy, guitar playing, skateboarding punk in a band got the attention of what he could only imagine was a modern day princess. “ Well kids,…” he said, since they were asking where they were going. Well, Flyzik was being facetious. “ I thought we would take a day off from the norm and go swimming with some sharks.” he said before smiling enthusiastically.

Zack made a slight face, looking in the rearview mirror. Kat was whispering to Flyzik and he couldn’t pick up what she was saying because of the music but she looked like she was on fast forward. He shrugged it off, figuring if it was important than he would somehow find out later. He pulled off of the interstate and looked through the windshield like he was lost, cause right now he sort of was. After a few turns he found his way back on the right road. And just in time too because it seemed like whatever Kat was rushing out was over. He parked the car, letting go of Natalie’s hand before he got out and went to the other side of her car to open the door for her. “ Want to take a swim with me?” he asked nervously before he looked down at the ground and smiled.