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Hi guys,
This fanfiction goes under the suspense/drama category. It is based off of the show "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" on Disney channel. In case some of you are not familiar with it, I typed up a little summary that should include all you need to know to understand this:
The show revolves around two 14 year old twins who live in a hotel with their mom. Their parents are divorced. Since their mom is a singer, she was hired for daily entertainment at the Tipton. Their dad is in a band, and neither of the parents are very successful/in good financial condition. Carey especially, we're not entirely sure about Kurt. The Tipton is a hotel, so yes, they live in a hotel.
A few characters and their personalities portrayed on the show...most of these people will come into play later in the story.
Zack: A troublemaker. Tough, doesn't like to listen to anyone.
Cody, Zack's twin: A nerd, more girly.
Carey: The twins' mom. Caring and overprotective.
Kurt: The dad. Divorced from Carey, they do not have a very good relationship. Lives by himself somewhere unknown...is in a band. We do not know much else about him.
Mr. Moesby: Manager at the Tipton. Does not like the twins, mostly because they are troublemakers.
London Tipton: Spoiled daughter of the man who owns the hotels, Mr. Tipton. An idiot.
Maddie: Candy counter girl at the Tipton. Sweet, and Zack has a crush on her. [/i]
I give a few hints and the beginning and end of the chapters because I can tell you right now that this story can get a bit confusing. It's not that it won't make sense or come together, it's just that most of you will have to think outside the box at times. I like it when the writer challenges me, which is why I do it in my writings.
So here is chapter 1...
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Chapter 1:
“Zack! What are you doing?! You can’t keep doing that!” mother-like twin brother, Cody, scolded. Zack didn’t need any more of those. The one he was already stuck with was more than enough trouble. “What?” Zack asked, playing stupid and trying not to break his rare-to-find concentration.
“Note cards! You’re cheating again! Haven’t you learned yet?” Cody spazzed.
“Cody, seriously, shut the hell up.”
“What are you going to do in high school next year? Where you can’t cheat? Where they actually watch you, unlike the teachers here,” Cody said, rolling his eyes. He thought it was ridiculous that kids got away with this, in his mind, criminal act of injustice.
“Once again, shut up. And you don’t have to worry about–”
“Zackary Martin!” Ms. Turner shrieked. “What makes you think what have to say is more important than what I’m teaching?”
“What I’m saying might actually be remotely interesting,” Zack shot back.
The class cracked up while Ms. Turner just gave a blank stare, as usual. “Is that your vocabulary book on your desk? Last time I checked, I teach a math class,” the teacher remarked, holding up her math textbook.
“Well, last time I checked, you don’t teach math. You attempt to teach it,” Zack muttered. Again, the class burst into laughter. Zack had no problem making fun of this new teacher. She didn’t know how to yell or get angry. All she did was come up with a lame comeback or make weird faces, which ended up making the whole situation even more hilarious.
Ms. Turner, who was definitely familiar with Zack’s rude and undermining remarks, did her best to ignore the class. Trying to croak up a response to his shot at her, she then spotted the note card Zack was working on, which was sitting adjacent to a small, open bright orange vocabulary book. Zack swiftly closed the book and slid it in his bookbag when he saw her eying him out, trying not to draw any more attention.
Ms. Turner thought for a moment, gave Zack a mean look, and then, with a sick smile on her face, she announced, “Class, start your homework. I’ll be right back.”
“I wonder what she’s doing. Did you see the way she looked at you?” Cody observed. “Can’t be good.”
“I dunno,” Zack mumbled in reply, ignoring the fact that he knew exactly what she was doing. Zack assumed she was going to walk down the hall, to Mrs. Thomas’ English classroom, and ask if she was administering a test during that day. Zack’s pulse began to race. With his forehead sweating profoundly, he wondered what his mother, Carey, would do if she found out about this. Last time he was caught cheating, she grounded him for a month. Zack could hardly imagine what course of action she was going to take this time around. Not to mention all the drama that has been taking place in the Martin family over the past few weeks…
“How do you think the situation with mom and dad will play out?” Zack asked, just trying to make small talk and only half interested in Cody’s opinion.
“Well, they are divorced, and sometimes issues with the–”
Before he could finish, Ms. Turner butted in. “Zack, honey, could you please join me in the hall? Bring your vocabulary book too, with the note card.”
“Uh oh,” Zack thought. “I’m busted now.”
As he waltzed out of the room, trying to look confident, all his classmates jeered and laughed. This had been the third time he'd been caught cheating on a test – in a few different ways, in a few different classes.
Zack’s face quickly straightened up when he saw Mrs. Thomas’ ancient, mean, ugly face glaring up at him. “Hand me that book, Zackary.”
Zack’s heart went into freefall mode as she flipped through the book, finally finding the note card. She looked up at him, and with the most serious face he’s seen on her so far this year, she said, “This has happened twice before. The first time I just took the card from you during the test, just gave you a simple look. I guess I didn’t get my point across. The second time, during the following vocab test, you used your book to cheat. I wrote a note home to your mother saying that I would have to take further action than just communicating with her if anything of the sort happened again. You may remember that she wrote a sincere apology back, telling me that she had a very long talk with you about your punishment and what will happen if you ever do it again. Well, what do ya know? You did it again. And the worst part is that you seem to be less intelligent about how you do it each time around.”
Zack just nodded, recalling the all-night shouting contest between him and his mother last month.
“What do you suggest I do this time?” she asked, acting like she would give him another chance.
Zack just shrugged his shoulders while Ms. Turner chuckled.
Following a ten second awkward silence, Mrs. Thomas spoke up again. “Ok, well if you can’t come up with something, then I’m afraid I’m going to have to do something about it myself. Go and get your books, we’re going downstairs.”
“I don’t know what his problem is,” Ms. Turner whispered to her colleague, loud enough for Zack to hear. “His brother’s just so much better than him in, well, everything.” Mrs. Thomas nodded her head in agreement. Zack turned furiously while walking to his desk, made eye contact with his math teacher and then cursed her out under his breath.
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Chapter 2:
Mrs. Thomas walked swiftly down the hall in route to the principal’s office, while Zack turtled behind. Mrs. Thomas was sick of Zack’s daily shenanigans. Not only did he goof off in her class, but he also thought he could take advantage of her good nature. Mrs. Thomas did not like when people tried to take advantage of her.
“Although I doubt you’ll care because you obviously have no qualms for anything you do wrong,” Mrs. Thomas blurted, acting like a smart-ass. “We are going down to see Principal Morris about our third predicament in only two months of school. Zack, I’m not the only teacher who’s sick and tired of your attitudes. We just can’t deal with you anymore. It’s too much, and maybe a suspension or something more serious than us scolding you, a detention, or a note home to your mom is the only thing that will do the job. You’re driving us crazy, and we just can’t deal with it anymore.”
Zack let out a little giggle while Mrs. Thomas turned and shook her head slowly, thinking of how ridiculous this kid is. Zack loved pissing people off.
“Whatever Zack. All I know is that I’m not the person who’s going to have to deal with administration.” She paused, waiting for Zack to answer. When no reply came, she added, “Do you have any idea what the consequences for an act such as cheating on a test are?”
“I don’t wanna even begin to guess,” Zack said, rolling his eyes.
“Well, let me enlighten you, even though I feel like we have had this conversation before,” Mrs. Thomas uttered. They stopped outside the main office. The old, mean lady looked Zack in the eyes saying, “If the teacher decides to report you, an offense such as cheating will earn you three detentions. Recall that five detentions in a quarter gets you a suspension. Ten detentions––expulsion. We’re almost halfway through the second quarter and I have given you one detention for throwing a seventh grader in a locker, and another for simply messing around in class. I also know for a fact you have been in trouble with other teachers.”
Zack looked up at the clock while she was lecturing, again, half listening. “Uhhh, only 9:17. It’s Friday, almost the end of the week…can’t wait till this day’s over…” Zack thought. Then he decided to think about it a little bit more. No matter how much he loved to screw around in school, he finally came to realize he just couldn’t keep this act up and not expect there to be serious consequences. Zack’s lucky he'd gotten away with all the crap he's pulled thus far.
Mrs. Thomas noticed his concern, so she put him in the hot seat, acting as though she would actually let him slide. “So, right now, tell me why I shouldn’t march you into that office and tell the principal what you’ve been doing.”
Zack was shocked. Zack was shocked he was shocked. He never really thought about the consequences of his actions. The boy had nothing to offer. She then opened the door to the office, letting Zack walk in first. The principal of Pattison Middle School, Mr. Morris, stepped away from the copier and approached the two. Mrs. Thomas reported the happenings to the principal. “I’ll take it from here,” he replied. “You may go.”
Mr. Morris and Zack stood there, waiting for a hesitant Mrs. Thomas to leave. Something then caught Zack’s attention. Outside, there was a man, someone he had seen many times before. He couldn’t quite place the face…
When she was finally out of sight, big Principal Morris turned to Zack and interrupted his chain of thought, saying, “Follow me.”
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“Did you know fungi can reproduce both sexually and asexually?” Cody asked his friend, Bob excitedly.
“No, but thanks,” Bob said emotionlessly, rolling his eyes.
Zack walked slowly into the room, dragging his feet. He looked upset about something.
“What’s the matter?” Cody asked worriedly. “Are they gonna do anything to you this time?
“Why are you so much better than me?”
“Huh? In what?” Cody asked, entirely confused.
“Everything. I’m sick and tired of everyone saying how much smarter you are. How you’re so much better behaved. How you are the twin who will get somewhere in life, while I’m the one who’ll be living on the street.”
“Zack, who’s saying that? You are better than me in many things. Video games…better sense of humor…you’re more popular…” Cody said, struggling to think of areas Zack actually in which Zack actually has talent.
“No Cody. I didn’t ask you that for a heartwarming list of crap that doesn’t even matter. When it comes right down to it, all that stuff is…pointless. Video games aren’t going to get me into college. My sense of humor or popularity isn’t going to get me a good job in the real world.”
“Zack!!” Mrs. Thomas shrieked.
Zack picked up his books and began walking fiercely out the room. “Where are you going?” Cody asked sadly.
“Where do you think, idiot? Zack said harshly, still walking until he saw Cody’s gloomy face out of the corner of his eye. He hesitated for a moment, until hearing Mrs. Thomas’ whiny voice call for him again. Zack just continued on his path out of the math room.
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“So, Zack, how’s life?” Principal Morris asked as he sat down at his desk.
Zack stared at him. He didn’t seem to be all that mad…
“Uhm, not good,” Zack finally croaked up.
“Really? What’s wrong?”
“Well, besides the fact that I just made another huge mistake that’s going to cost me big time, there’s trouble at home too. With the parents."
Principal Morris sat patiently, waiting to see if Zack was going to expand on that. When nothing came, he asked gently, “Do you want to talk about it?”
Zack ruminated whether or not he wanted to share this information with someone he had only had to talk to when he was in trouble.
“Okay,” Zack said, still pondering the extent of which he should share. “My dad, who left us when Cody and I were really little, came back unexpectedly about two weeks ago. He said he just wanted to see us, but that’s not what we’re––”
Mrs. Friendly, the secretary of the school, interrupted over the loudspeaker. “Please pardon the interruption, but Mr. Favinger, if you could please come to the office immediately. Thank you.”
Principal Morris’ face lit up. That was the code for a code-red lockdown emergency.
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Carey Martin came to a rude awakening on this Friday morning. She had the day off, but she must have forgotten to disable her alarm clock. Without looking, Carey slammed the snooze button, giving her five more minutes. Hearing the ringing in her head again, she flipped over, saw that it was already 9:15 a.m., and decided just to get up. Walking slowly to warm up the shower, the mother of twins continued to wonder exactly why Kurt came back for the first time in years two Saturdays ago. Could it be because he really did want to see the boys and be with them a little more while they grow up? Or did he in fact have dark intentions? As much as she did not want to believe it, the more she contemplated it, the more she thought that his coming back had nothing to do with the boys.
Carey stumbled out of the shower, got dressed, made her coffee and, sipping her morning treat slowly, and turned on the morning news. What she heard next made her cup plummet to the ground, splattering her steamy drink all over the sofa.
“Yes Tom, thank you very much. I am getting news in that Pattison Middle School went into an emergency lockdown situation approximately 15 minutes ago. There are reports of apparent gunshots, and also reports that some students or staff may be seriously injured. We’ll be sure to keep you updated on this most severe developing story.”
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