Zacky pulled you along beside him as he dashed and you tried your best not to fall from the odd angle you were being pulled at. Zacky's balance seemed to be working for him for once, till he placed a faulty step on a rolling tube. Zacky went down and pulled you with him. Lucky for you your balance was a bit better and you managed to only bend at the waist, though you were close to eating rolling tube.

"Up, up, up," you said reaching down for his hand.

Grasping his hand you hoisted him back up as the cackling voices came in closer to you. You ran, trying to masterfully jump the rest of the rolling tubes that made up the first part of the floor. But as soon as you hit the treadmill floor part you went flying madly towards the wall, slamming into it in a pile, Zacky following suit and crushing you against it.

"Baker you giant oaf, you're killing me," you squeaked out as you pushed him.

"They're coming, they're coming," he said as he righted himself and hoisted you up this time.

The two of you placed calculated jumps from treadmill section to treadmill section. Just as you about made it through them you saw, and heard, the other guys reach the room.

"We've got yo... What the hell is this bullshit?" Jimmy shouted when he saw what the room looked like.

"They're getting away," Johnny yelled loudly, pointing at the still standing still you and Zacky.

"Nooo," you yelled as you looked back towards the remainder of the room.

The treadmill sections were starting to dip and lift instead of just being flat. Taking a deep breath you made a mad dash. You fell constantly, but the only saving grace was that Zacky, as well as your pursuers, were having just much trouble. You even paused as you picked yourself up off the ground to laugh at Syn who had face planted on the last of the rolling tubes. But your laughter died as Matt made a grab for your leg, barely missing your foot.

"Zacky, go. Save yourself," you shouted dramatically as he was ahead of you and the guys were closing in on you.

Zacky turned back around at your shout only to be clocked by a stiff leather bound foam piece as it shot up from the ground. He went down, but amazingly got right back up again. His little stunt bought the two of you time since the others had paused to laugh hysterically at his rodeo clown antics. Zacky made a quick dash back towards you and grabbed your arm, pulling you roughly to your feet and forward.

"I won't leave you. No man left behind," he shouted, just as dramatically as you had before.

"I'm a woman you dolt," you shouted, smacking his hand that was on your arm pulling playfully.

"What? Well in that case then," Zacky said as he dropped your arm.

"You're on your own sweetie," he said while making a mad dash for the end, that was only mostly in sight.

You groaned, but laughed as well as you picked yourself up and continued dodging the weird movements of the room. As you got near the end, where Zacky was having massive trouble with the spinning room, you paused to laugh hysterically as Syn got tossed by one of the sections that came out from the side. He had missed judged the timing and had made a mad dash right as it came out and connected with his side, sending him down once again.

You turned to face forward just in time to see Zacky jump free of the crazy room and do a victory dance on the grass. But your little pause cost you dearly as you felt arms wrap around your waist and pick you up completely off the ground.

"Ahhh," you screamed as whoever it was dashed to the end, still carrying you on their shoulder like a sack of potatoes.

"Matt," you screamed as your brother did nothing but laugh evilly as he made his way successfully through the spinning room at the end.

As Matt jumped out, still carrying you on his shoulder, he laughed as he spun you in circles. You closed your eyes so as not to hurl all over the place, but you couldn't help but laugh along with him. Then you felt yourself being passed to someone else and you opened your eyes. Jimmy was now carrying you on his shoulder and he continued the spinning in circles.

"Jimmy put me down I am no wench to be tossed from man to man," you laughed, eyes still closed tight as you hit his back playfully.

"Don't think so wench," Jimmy teased as he passed you off.

You sighed and continued laughing as you were passed from Jimmy to Syn, all the while being spun in crazy circles, and even though your eyes were closed you could hear the other guys laughing hard as well. You knew you were given to Johnny when you felt yourself being dropped some distance, he being the shortest of them all.

Finally you felt yourself being passed one more time and opened your eyes to see who it was since you figured you were done being passed. Opening your eyes you saw the familiar backside of Zacky. But rather than complaining you continued laughing as he spun you, laughing right along with you.

"My tummy huuuurts," you yelled between your laughter.

What you didn't know, as you had closed your eyes again and were laughing so loudly with Zacky was that the other guys had stopped. They were in fact all standing and watching the two of you, different expressions on each of their faces as they silently watched the two of you spin farther and farther away from them. Jimmy simply had a knowing look on his face as he cracked half a smile and looked over at Matt who was frowning slightly, knowing it was all too good to last. Syn and Johnny were both slightly shocked, Syn's mouth was in fact hanging open slightly as he watched the two of you.

"Too bad it won't last," Jimmy sighed before moving to go to you and Zacky.

"But it was nice for just a little bit. We almost seemed normal again," Matt replied with a sigh of his own as he followed.
-xXx-
"What next?" Johnny asked after Zacky had finally put you down.

You and Zacky were both standing next to each other, Zacky bent over panting as he tried to catch his breath while you were doing the same, only holding your stomach from the pain of it being mushed to nothing by everyone's shoulders. When you finally got your breath back, which was considerably sooner than Zacky as he had been the one carrying and spinning you, while laughing none the less, you looked up.

"Pirate ship?" you asked hopefully.

"Agreed," Syn said, sounding like the adult in this group of once again sixteen year old hooligans.

"Ahoy you scurvy dogs, to the pirate ship with yous or else it's to the brig with you swine," Johnny shouted in a fake pirate voice as he brandished his hand in the air, curved like a hook and squinted one eye shut.

"Ahhh it's Captain Shrimpy Hook," you shouted, poking fun at his height.

"You'll be swabbing the poop deck with your tongue you will," Johnny shouted, brandishing his fake hook at you.

You laughed out loud and then suddenly jumped onto the back of a now standing Zacky, which not only shocked him, but Jimmy as well who was expecting you to jump onto his.

"Run little lost boy, run. Evil Captain Shrimpy Hook is gonna catch us," you shouted, arms wrapped around Zacky's neck tightly.

"Can do Peter Pan," he shouted before taking off.

As Zacky ran the two of you towards the pirate ship ride you "crowed" like Peter Pan at the top of your lungs as you gripped to his back. Johnny chased after you, "argh"-ing loudly like a pirate as he brandished his hook and squinted one eye shut like it had a patch over it.

Jimmy simply laughed as he followed with Syn and Matt, who had turned to look at him as he lifted his tightly crossed fingers up. Jimmy nodded and then jogged after the three of you that were escaping.

"Six," you said as you hopped off Zacky's back at the line to the ship ride.

"One of you will have to stay, we can only take five more," the man said.

"Awww," you whined, bummed that one of would have to stay out.

"What?" Matt asked as he got to the three of you.

"One of us will have to stay out, they can only seat five more," you pouted.

"Can she sit on one of our laps?" Jimmy asked the guy.

"Well I'd probably lose my job over this, but go ahead," the guy said, ushering you all in.

"Yes!" you shouted as you ran in.

"Who's lap will I be flattening this time?" you asked looking back at the five guys.

"Zacky's," Jimmy and Matt both said simultaneously.

"Fine," you said as you waited for them to all pile in.

As they all got in you scooted in onto Zacky's lap and held onto the silver bar that went over all of your laps. You started to bounce excitedly, drumming a random rhythm onto the bar as you waited for it to start.

"Can you not," Zacky said through clenched teeth.

"What?" you asked, confused at his change in demeanor, almost as if you had forgotten completely that this was not you all back when you were younger and things were civil.

"Move. Just don't move," Zacky said quickly.

You huffed and turned to face forward and stopped your bouncing around, though your fingers didn't stop their drumming.

Notes

It was so awesome while it lasted!!!
So such a short period of time it was good again!!!
Poor Zacky had to go and get all cranky again simply because he couldn't stand Kales bouncing up and down on his lap!
HA!