The Switch: An Allstar Weekend Fanfic

Chapter Twenty-Two

A/N Update! I just spent the last three hours on this, so I hope it's good. I was on a coffee buzz, but I freaking loved it.

“So Zachary, what have you been up to lately?” Glenn asked from across the dinner table. It was Sunday night and Abby’s family wanted to have an outdoor dinner on a picnic table in the backyard. Cameron looked up from buttering his roll and tried to think of a decent answer. Somehow he didn’t think ‘I switched bodies with my best friend and I’m not actually your daughter’s boyfriend’ would have a great response.

“Not much,” he said instead. “The band is starting on a new project. We left our record label a while back and we just released a small EP. Now we’re just in the process of writing new songs and trying to go on a tour soon.”

“A tour, that’s awesome!” Chris inserted. He’d become something like Cameron’s shadow ever since yesterday at the barbeque. Cameron smiled at him now, happy with the boy’s enthusiastic personality.

“A tour will certainly keep you busy. What will my daughter do while you’re away?” Kay asked. She passed around a bowl of asparagus as she spoke, but her sharp eyes never left Cameron’s

“Uhm,” he looked at Abby. She gave him an encouraging smile, but Cameron just interpreted it to mean that he was on his own. “She can come with us if she wants. Or my parents will be fine with her staying at our house until we get back. They like her a lot, but that’s probably just because you guys did such a good job raising her.”

He was kissing ass and Abby knew it. He elbowed her gently in the side when she started to quietly laugh at him.

“I was going to ask you about that,” Glenn directed the conversation. “Where do you two sleep when you’re with your parents?” Cameron knew that Glenn was not Abby’s biological father, but wondered how long he’d been married to her mom. It was obvious that he loved her like a daughter.

Cameron’s mouth went dry. “Well, we um, we sleep in the garage.” He took a drink of his water. Abby began shaking with the effort not to laugh at him.

“As in you both do?” Glenn asked.

“Yes sir.”

Kay shook her head slightly. “Your parents allow that?”

Cameron opened his mouth to respond, but Abby couldn’t be quiet anymore. “Mom, Glenn, I’m not a virgin.” Cameron panicked. Had she seriously just thrown him under the bus like that? He wasn’t even the one who’d done anything with her! “Zach and I had sex three months after we got together,” she continued.

Kay and Glenn didn’t move for a minute. And then the entire table erupted into loud laughter. Except for Cameron.

Abby was the first to recover. “Relax Zach, we’re playing a joke on you! I told them about us a long time ago! Oh my god, your face was priceless.” She started laughing again.

“It was a joke?” he said quietly.

Glenn’s shoulders were shaking and he pounded the table with his fist. Kay was laughing so hard that she wasn’t making a single noise, her face contorted in something that looked almost like pain. Finally she said, “We didn’t get to do it to you last time you were here Zach! Abby didn’t tell us until much later, when we were on the phone. It’s okay, Glenn isn’t going to hurt you or anything.”

Cameron started laughing with the rest of them. Now that he realized he wasn’t going to be murdered, the entire thing was actually hilarious. He could imagine what his face did look like; he’d seen Zach panicked enough times in the past ten years to picture it in his mind.