"What do you have to say for yourself?" Carrey was asking the question again, following Zack and Cody up the stairs and into the elevator. "I can't believe you would do this Cody, and you Zack; you followed his lead and now look what happened."

Zack was having a wonderful day, with a few mishaps. Besides it should be the best day ever: the last day of eighth grade.

First his teacher told him he was going to have to take an algebra course online since they could not afford summer school, and that would turn out to be worse than school. He already knew from last summer having to make up physical science. Next, Cody came up with the best prank ever. Zack thought it was ingenious and he made it happen.

All of Zack's friends, of course, are pranksters just as he is. And when they all heard about the plan, it was in action. First, Cody was going to stay in the restroom pretending to be throwing up while he's actually dumping a bag of soup everywhere, and then passes out. Zack was then to sneak into the room across the hall. That room had all fo the schools back-up energy generators, power supplies, control of internet connections, and best of all, the schools plethora of servers that saves all the information on each student and teacher's account. He would make sure the coast was clear and let his computer geick friends inside to have fun.

Cody at one point in time acquired a photo of the principal's butt, and that was about to go onto the desktop of every student's desktop. Better yet, the school's internet site would be completely removed from the internet. Everything was going well, and the prank was complete. The ambulances arrived and took Cody away, and he would suddenly wake up on the way to the hospital. And the rest of the kids would return to class.

At the end of the day, everyone was filled with smiles and the principal would not leave his office. The school's computer staff was trying to fix the mishaps and Zack was bragging to some girls about his plan. Cody was just then picked up at the hospital and Carrey was coming to get Zack too.

But just while his name was called on the intercom, it was to go to the office. He did and found out that one of his friends told the assistant principal. Cody was there and he had to tell them it was his plan so now they're both in hot water.

When the boys got into their suite on the twenty-third floor, they were sent to their room. Cody was in tears, and Zack was trying to cheer him up. Nothing worked because they couldn't use the computer all summer, and that was Cody's prime source of information and entertainment. Zack was happy to hear he wasn't banned from the candy counter, but that didn't matter because Maddie was taking the week off.

Finally, Cody cracked a smile and that made Zack a lot happier. They went into the living room to apologize once more and to write a letter to the principal, when something was out of alignment in the suite.

Lying on the sofa was a blood spot, that Carrey was viciously trying to scrub off. Before it was covered with a towel but now it was uncovered.

Carrey's eyes widened, and the boys were in shock. Where could that blood come from? They ran past their mother and out into the hallway without any interference from Carrey, and made their way to the stairs and rushed down the spiral.

The boys were in shock for a few minutes, hiding in the laundry room, and neither spoke. Finally Cody asked, "Was that blood? It could've been wine, right? Or... maybe it was ketchup."

"Mom hates red wine and you can't spill that much ketchup. I dunno, but I'm not going back up there."

Cody agreed to that, "Should we tell anyone? What should we do?"

"I'm thinking. I have a few ideas but neither of them are fool proof. We don't want our mother in jail, so we won't tell the police. Moseby would just kick us all out if we told him. We don't have any close friends we can talk to about this since school's out."

"Yeah." Cody though for a while too. He realized Zack was being serious and thinking more logically than normal. It was a difference since the last crisis. "We should probably..."

Tell me what you think so far. I know it's awful when someone won't finish a story; at least it kills me, so I'll try to update it every other day or so. It will get better than you may predict. But please review and email me opinions to My name is William.