.::AU::. Gilbert's BBQ Party - 2

After about two hours of shopping, the group of seven girls finally made it to Gilbert's house with an hour to spare. On the way here, everyone agreed that Allison would be the one to ring the doorbell rapidly until someone answered. Upon arriving at the fairly large house, Isa could smell the food being cooked in the backyard. She nearly started drooling, but held herself back from doing so.

Everyone began ringing and knocking on the door like crazy, waiting for someone to answer. There was a lot of shouting and crashes, but the door finally opened up to reveal an annoyed looking Gilbert. Zoe started wiggling her arms and fingers above her head, walking around Gilbert like a supposed creeper.

"We came an hour early just to prove you wrong about us girls, yo!" She stuck her lips out, making duck lips at him, while squinting her eyes at him. "What now, Gilbo?"

Gilbert looked at Zoe like she was insane and let everyone in behind her, closing the door behind the last girl to come in, who happened to be Cam. There was music playing faintly in the backyard, causing Allison and Zoe run into the back almost immediately. Gilbert sighed heavily and turned back to the remaining five girls, which was actually remaining three. Geety and Rosie followed after the two girls ahead, leaving Marisol, Cam, and Isa behind.

"Sheesh, you guys can go to the back without my help. It's not like you haven't been here before." Gilbert snorted and smiled slyly at the three girls. Isa shrugged and made her way to the back, possibly to greet Ludwig before doing anything. Marisol looked between Cam and Gilbert for a couple moments before blushing shyly and making her way to the back quickly, mumbling to herself.

With Cam and Gilbert in the house, possibly talking about nothing in particular, Allison was already in the pool, making a dramatic entrance by throwing her bag across the pool and doing a cannonball into the water. The water surrounded the pool and got water in everyone's drinks who were already sitting by the pool. Lovino was cursing loudly, searching for his towel, while Antonio was laughing like crazy at Francis' pained expression. He immediately began to whine about his magnificent hair and how he had suntan lotion already on him, so he couldn't get wet. This made Antonio almost keel over from the pain of laughing so hard.

Zoe and Rosie got wet, sure, but they were just giggling about Allison's epic entrance. Rosie began searching for her towel from her bag to dry off a bit, while Zoe was just sitting next to the house, smiling to herself about nothing in particular, but probably because Lovino was acting so childish right now. Geety looked around, probably searching for where Feliciano was, but was pushed into the pool by Isa. She began laughing as Geety arose from the bottom of the pool, her curly hair sticking to her face when she took a breath. She turned to Isa, who was holding her sides from laughing so hard, and tried to act like she was angry. Before anyone knew it, there was a laughing fit between Geety and Isa about the previous ordeal.

Allison began to swim around the pool like nobody was around, causing everyone to look at her. She seemed to be off her in own little mind because she didn't even make eye contact with anyone. The next thing that happened, music was blaring loudly through speakers, which were literally nowhere to be found, and Gilbert came out, grinning like a dork.

"If this is a pool party, we need some music to go along with it!" Antonio began cheering with Gilbert, Ludwig pinched the bridge of his nose in irritation, and Feliciano came out the backdoor with a goofy smile on his face.

"Is Geety here? I heard somebody come in, but I didn't know if it was just Arthur or Eduard!" Feliciano turned his attention to the pool and, if it could possibly get wider, his smile grew. He took off his shirt and ran over to the edge of the pool, jumping in right beside Geety. When he jumped in, the waves he made pushed the girls a bit, causing them to laugh at his childish acts. Zoe, being the one with the short end of the stick, had Feliciano's shirt thrown in her face, and threw it in the garden in anger.

"Hi, Geety!" Feliciano's head popped out of the pool suddenly, causing Geety to jump in shock. She turned around and giggled when he swam towards her, leaning on the pool edge next to her. Smiling, she waved shyly at him.

"Hi, Feli! You're sure energetic today!"

"Well of course! I can see my best friend Geety again!" He smiled cheerfully at her, causing her to blush shyly. Everyone began to laugh quietly to themselves at the cute couple before them, Feliciano and Geety completely obvious to the laughing going on. They probably thought a funny joke was told, but they didn't hear it.

"Sheesh, you guys have the music up so loud that I can hear it from all the way down the street. You really should turn that down, you know."

Everyone's gaze averted from Feliciano and Geety, to the figure who had just stated something rude. Arthur and Eduard stood there, each holding a plate or two of food. Gilbert let out a whistle, probably to mean, "Man, we're going to be so fat after this party". He walked over and took the food from the two and grinned at Arthur.

"We're havin' fun, Arthur! Don't bum us all out with your boring ways of boring!" Gilbert then went over to the snack table and set the food down by all the other ones. He took one quick glance and grinned evilly. "Hey, brother! We're gonna need the other table! Take Isa with you because of how heavy that damned table is!"

Ludwig's face flushed a bright red color before he quickly made his way into the house, Isa following after him to help with the table. Gilbert and Francis were laughing to each other as Antonio made his way over to Allison, who was currently sitting on the edge of the pool, relaxing for a moment. He smiled at her and they started up a random conversation.

Arthur plopped down next to Rosie and sighed, rummaging through his bag, possibly for his book or something. Rosie smiled softly at him, taking the sunglasses off of her face and set them atop her head. "Rough day for you?"

Arthur looked at her with the look that said everything, and leaned his head back, looking up at the blue sky above him. "I really don't want to be here, is all."

Rosie rolled her eyes playfully and leaned back as well. "I know exactly how you feel about that."

"Hey, Zoe! Where's your bathing suit? This is a pool party, not a stay-in-your-clothes-for-the-whole-time-party!!" Cam ran over to Zoe and started examining Zoe's outfit. She really couldn't find out where Zoe's bathing suit was.

Zoe giggled and turned her back slightly. "It's under my clothes. You can see the strap right there."

Cam grinned and pulled the string that connected the halter top together, causing it to fall forward and reveal Zoe's bathing suit. "Well, show it off! Don't just hide in this stupid outfit all day!"

Zoe held the shirt back up immediately, going red in the face. She shook her head rapidly, going to tie the halter back together so she isn't holding it for the rest of the night.

"Aww, come on, Zoe! Don't be the party pooper of this barbeque and take off the clothes! You can't swim in those!!" Geety pouted at Zoe in a cute fashion, which she knew would ease Zoe's mood a bit.

Zoe gaped at her and averted her eyes to Rosie discretely. "I-I am not a party pooper!!"

Rosie covered her mouth to hide her smile, pulling her sunglasses over her eyes, mouthing to Zoe, "Deal with it". Zoe pouted and shook her head, crossing her arms over her chest and moving her head to look the opposite direction. "You guys aren't persuading me!"

"Don't make us do it by force, Zoe!" Gilbert chimed in, grinning like a dork.

"Yeah, and you don't want that to happen!" Isa shouted from the food table to Zoe.

"What are you guys doing to poor Zoe over there?" Allison looked up from her conversation with Antonio and looked at everyone like they were interrogating Zoe for something.

Cam waved her arms, motioning to the brunette beside her. "Zoe isn't taking off her clothes so she can get in the pool with all of us!"

Allison looked at Zoe, then Rosie, then tried to hide her giggle. "Well, you know, she is a bit insecure about her body…"

Zoe threw her hand up in the air. "What Alli said!"

"…But that doesn't mean she's exempt from having fun with all of her closest friends today." She grinned slyly at Zoe, who was currently gaping in defeat at her.

Almost everyone in the backyard began yelling at Zoe to take off her cover up clothes, making her face go as red as possible. She looked down at her lap and made a quiet noise before letting out a loud groan. "Alright, fine!! I'll take them off, just don't pressure me!!"

Once Zoe was only in her bathing suit, she pulled her legs up to her chest and pouted. "I feel so naked…"

Everyone's eyes, besides Zoe's, turned to Lovino, who was sitting on the other side of the pool. He looked up and went red faced immediately, glaring at everyone who was looking at him. "W-What the hell are you staring at!?"

Gilbert grinned and stood up, taking off his shirt and pulling out a pool ball from his bag of toys and trinkets. "I say we all play a nice game of pool volleyball!"

Arthur stated bluntly, "I'll pass that offer." Rosie rose her hand in a way of saying, "me too". Gilbert turned his head to Marisol and Eduard, who were currently discussing something about the Hunger Games. He sighed and looked back to his group and counted.

"This means we have nine people who are possibly playing. We need an even amount of teams, though." He frowned at the group. "Sheesh, why are some of you such party poopers!?"

Francis raised his hand. "I can quit so you have even team numbers. I'll be the referee."

Gilbert snapped his finger and pointed at Francis, a grin plastered on his face. "Great idea, buddy! Alright, I call my brother and his girl on my team, along with the awesome Cam! Antonio and Alli are on the opposing team, with Zoe and Lovino!"

Zoe and Lovino let out a groan at the same time. "Do we really have to play!?"

"If you don't play you'll be stuck outside in the woods for the rest of the night." Gilbert's tone sounded harsh, as if threatening.

Allison smiled to herself, getting up and making her way over to Zoe. She put a hand on her shoulder and smiled. "You can do this; I've seen you play volleyball before! You have a hard hit, which is useful for getting someone with as big as an ego as Gilbert to shut up for once!"

Zoe pouted before sighing and turning her gaze the other way. "If I slip and fall, I'm gonna need lots and lots of watermelon and ice cream."