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"Are we there yet?"

"Libra shut up."

"mAkE mE!"

And then Scorpio slapped her.

"Ow!"

"Ha."

The zodiacs were packed into one long, bus-like car, on their way to the beach. The seating was as follows, from left to right in each row:

Front Row: Capricorn (driving) & Pisces (shotgun)

Second Row: Libra, Scorpio, & Sagittarius

Third Row: Leo, Virgo, & Gemini

Back Row: Aquarius, Taurus, Aries, & Cancer

"How much longer?" Leo asked.

"Time." Capricorn snapped.

"Gee, thanks."

They'd been in the car for an hour so far. Leo & Gemini kept on trying to talk, but Virgo wouldn't let them. Earlier during the drive, they'd just ended up roasting her, and if they did that again she'd literally roast them over the fire pit back home.

Taurus had fallen asleep, his head on Aquarius's shoulder. Aquarius, in turn, had fallen asleep on Taurus's head.

Cancer & Aries were lowkey shipping it and talking in the back about the sleeping two. It wasn't like they had anything else to do.

Pisces had her earbuds in and was jamming to her own music since she hated the boring junk that Capricorn was playing.

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Once they were at the beach, Virgo and Capricorn needed both Cancer & Taurus's help to make sure no one ran away without sunblock on. They didn't wanna deal with their whiny asses if they got burnt.

"I don't need it!" Libra complained.

"I'm going first!" Aquarius shouted.

"No way! I am!" Aries shoved her out of the way. Aquarius shoved her back, and Leo shoved them both out of the way.

"Me!!" He smiled.

Sagittarius managed to slip out of the herd they had become and ran for the water. Who needed sunblock?! The water would protect him from the sun just fine!

In the end, they all eventually got covered in sunblock, though none of them liked the sticky sensation. Gemini, Leo, & Libra ran off into the water before anyone could stop them.

"Oh," Virgo mused. "that sunblock is coming off in the water."

"Big time." Capricorn agreed.

"Should we stop them?" Cancer asked, concerned.

"Nah." Capricorn shook his head. "They'll learn their lesson."

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Aries was making little balls of semi-solid sand and chucking them at Leo whenever she could. Cancer tried to stop her, but when Leo chuckled soggy sand at her face, it was game over for him.

Scorpio was building another sandcastle. Sagittarius had knocked his first one down, so Scorpio followed the proper, reasonable procedure. First, he tackled Sagittarius before he could getaway. Then, he made him his slave and made him go get buckets of water & dig a moat.

Taurus was fighting the seagulls after one of them tried to steal his soft pretzel from the concession stand. He was kicking sand at them & screaming for them to go away. No one messes with his five-dollar soft pretzel.

Gemini was helping Leo not die via an angry Cancer. He splashed water at both Aries & the blonde girl, aiding Leo in running — or swimming, I guess — for his life.

Libra and Aquarius were jumping into the waves, and getting that nice, painful salty water in their eyes. But whatever, at least they didn't step on that kid — oh wait, never mind.

Capricorn had to go and get Libra & Aquarius away from the Karen that was yelling at them. He just kinda waddled over, scooped them up, and left without a word.

Virgo was vibing on the side, watching Taurus get attacked by seagulls, and laughing.

Pisces was, ya know, actually just swimming in the water. Because she liked to. She even watched some tiny fish swim around her feet.

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Leo was running from Aries and Cancer, and he sprinted out of the water, running over to Virgo. "Help me, Mom!"

"Excuse you?!" Virgo retorted, giving the blonde boy a look. He just scrambled behind her chair, Cancer and Aries giving him a glare that could kill him 57 times over.

Capricorn waddled over, with Libra thrown over one shoulder, and Aquarius over the other. He was definitely struggling to carry them both but said nothing.

He set the blonde & black-haired girls down in the shade, next to Virgo, between Leo and his potential murderers. Speaking of whom, kept on throwing sand at each other, getting Libra & Aquarius covered. Leo tried his best to throw sand back at them.

Now, you're probably wondering where Gemini went. Well, that's a bit of a wild ride to explain. Which sums up Gemmy pretty well, actually.

The red-haired air sign had somehow befriended a bunch of little boys & girls, around 5-8 years old. He told them about how he wanted to mess with his friends and made them all a muddy sand ball.

Marching his troops up from the water to where Virgo was lounging, they all stood behind Aries and Cancer, who were still hurtling sand at Leo. Libra perked up when she saw Gemini and leaned around Cancer to wave & talk to him. That caused Cancer to turn around, which also caused Aries to turn around.

They were made with wet, clumpy sand to the face.

"SCRAMBLE!!!" Gemini shouted, and he & the kids all ran in different directions, and the girls chased the green-eyed boy.

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Pisces and Capricorn were just kinda floating & talking in the ocean, talking about who knows what. It could be anything with those two, to be honest. From the meaning of life, to why cheese smells so weird.

Scorpio and Sagittarius were just bickering like an old married couple.

"But I wanna build!" Sagittarius whined.

"No!" Scorpio shot down. "I don't want your grubby little fingers all over my work of art."

"But Scorpyyyyy."

Scorpio just shook his head. Sagittarius pouted.

"Fine then. But you won't get any water from me, or my bucket, ever again." Sagittarius stood up and left, leaving sad lil Scorpio to regret his life choices.

Sagittarius went over to Taurus, who was fighting an uphill battle against the seagulls. The purple-haired fire sign decided to join in on the fun and screamed at the seagulls some no-no words that are too bad to repeat.

Rather than just let Sagittarius and Taurus scream profanities at these water chickens, Virgo made her way over to make them shut the hell up.

"Ow Virg - ow! That's my ear!"

"Ha!"

"You're next Taurus," Virgo warned. Taurus stopped laughing after that.

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On the way home, they were all pretty quiet. Well, other than Leo and Aries, with the only thing preventing them from killing each other was the seat in between them & Virgo. But even she was too tired to even attempt to shut them up.

Capricorn just blasted his horrible music.

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A/N

Hello! Thank you so much for reading this! I really do appreciate it!!

Hello! Hoped you liked this train wreck of a chapter

There's a lot of extra sarcastic commentary in this one bc it was 2 am on three separate nights of writing this XD

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