Triplets Now
Full Summary: A week before their fourteenth birthday, Zach and Cody meet a new girl whose parents are moving in to work at the Tipton. When they discover the girl shares their birthday, they consider themselves triplets and now best friends. What happens when there are three at the Tipton?
Ch. 1 New Arrival
"Zach! You know I don't want to play handball right now- I'm busy!" Cody complained as Zach dragged him down to the Tipton lobby.
"With what? There is no school, all our friends are at camp, and it's not like you have a date or a girlfriend!"
"With- well, it is a surprise," Cody admitted.
"Oh yeah, our birthday is coming up! But couldn't you take thirty minuets to come play?" Zach complained as Mr. Moseby came upon them.
"Now boys, today some new residents are coming to the Tipton, and they have a daughter your age. Please be nice and show her around, okay?" Mr. Moseby asked.
"Sure! Is she pretty?" Zach asked in Moseby's ear.
"Now boys, none of that! Honestly, I wouldn't be able to tell you anyway. I haven't seen her- only her parents," Moseby sighed and walked away.
Cody was grinning, "This is so cool! A friend who lives in the same 'house'! This is awesome!"
Zach smiled a little too, "I wonder how close in age she is to us?"
At that moment, an older couple and a teenage girl walked in.
"Mom, why do we have to move A WEEK before my birthday? August fourth, you know- or have you forgotten?"
Zach and Cody's eyes widened in surprise.
"Um, the same day?" Cody whispered.
"Honey, I am really sorry, but we had to come now. Don't worry, you get to go back to see your friends on your birthday," the girl's mother sighed.
"Besides, Mags, think of all the fun you'll have here!" her father laughed.
Zach and Cody exchanged excited glances and ran up to the girl. She was the same height as them; with very long, dark brunette hair, hazel eyes, and wasn't fat but wasn't skinny. Wearing a navy polo and blue-striped knee-length skirt, blue flip-flops, and her hair in a ponytail, she looked great.
"Hey, I'm Cody and this is my twin brother Zach. We live here with our Mom," Cody grinned at the girl.
"Oh hi! I'm Meg, which is short for Margaret, and I'm going to live here too, I suppose. Although my 14th birthday is in a week!"
"So is ours, actually," Cody grinned.
"We overheard your conversation. Your birthday is August 4th, um… 1992, correct?" Zach asked pleasantly.
Meg nodded.
"Well, so is ours!" Zach laughed.
"No way!"
"Hell yeah!" Cody cried.
"That is so weird!" Meg laughed.
"That is a little freakish," Meg's mom laughed.
"Does that mean that they're fraternal triplets or something?" Meg's father chuckled.
Meg grinned at Zach and Cody, "We MUST hang out- um, how about coming to our suite?"
"Sure!" both said at once.
As chance would have it, the Dixon's (Meg's last name –not my last name-) suite was next to the Martin's suite.
"This is even weirder," Meg laughed.
"Oh yes!" all three laughed.
"Well, we'd love to have you guys over for dinner!" Carrie, who had come out to greet their new 'neighbors', exclaimed.
"Oh, that would be nice! And maybe the new 'triplets' could hang out- uh, what school to Zach and Cody go to?" Meg's father, Dave, asked.
"Here, we'll discuss this in your suite, while the kids goof off in mine, okay?"
"Sure!" Meg's mom, Andy, exclaimed.
Meg, Zach, and Cody ran off in to the suite.
"This is so cool, living in a hotel!" Meg laughed as all three sat on a couch and watched TV.
"It is pretty cool, especially annoying Mr. Moseby," Zach laughed.
"Oh- you mean the mean manager?" Meg asked.
"Yup!" Cody exclaimed.
"Erg. He creeps me out…" Meg shivered.
Cody and Zach both laughed and (FYI- Meg was in the middle) placed an arm around Meg's shoulder, surprising all 3.
"Erm, sorry," Zach removed his arm.
Cody did too, but didn't say sorry.
"Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy Birthday dear Zach, Meg, Cody! Happy Birthday tooooooooo youuuuuuuu!" All the guests at the birthday party laughed. It was their exact birthrate, and Meg was getting along perfectly with the gang. (She went to visit her old friends yesterday.)
There was (obviously) Zach, Cody, and Meg; plus Carrie, Dave, Andy, Mr. Moseby, Arwin, Estabon, Max, Bob, Maddie, and London.
"Wow! I can't believe we're 14! At last!" Zach hi-fived Cody.
"Thanks boys," Andy hugged them both, "You have helped our Maggie to fit in so well!"
"MMOOMM!" Meg cried, embarrassed.
Maddie laughed, "Don't worry, Meg, you'll be fine." Indeed, Maddie and Meg had become friends as well- both being super-smart, having poor families, and not athletic.
Meg blushed, "so, um… Zach, you go first with the gift-opening!"
Zach obliged and opened his first gift- from Cody.
"Awesome! A skateboard!" he laughed, pulling out the board.
"Okay Meg, now you!" Cody laughed.
Meg opened her first from Maddie.
"Oh my God, Maximum Ride! I've SO wanted to read it!" she squealed.
"Cody now!" Zach grinned.
Cody opened his first from Arwin.
"An invention kit! Cool!"
And so the gift opening progressed until the three were covered in colorful paper and gifts.
All three had received a new bike- Zach's from Carrie, Cody's from Dave, and Meg's from Andy. So, since it was only one o'clock, they set out on their new bikes, laughed.
Indeed, they were triplets now.
Over the course of the next year, the group bonded till they were (almost) attached at the hip. Plus, they were the only kids they knew with Co-Ed sleepovers.
The rule for sleepovers was this: all 3 can have their own bed, or Zach and Cody share. Meg's parents were very strict that she didn't share with either of the boys.
So, Meg began to panic when, on one forced sleepover (Meg's parents were leaving for a night, and locked the suite, and in turn locked Meg out) in mid-February, she had forgotten her sleeping bag.
"This is not good! Carrie's asleep, and you guys don't want to share! Damn!" Meg exclaimed.
Indeed, Cody refused to let Zach soil his bed (like Meg would want to sleep in Zach's be anyway- it smelled,) and Cody, too, hated the smell of Zach's bed.
"Erm… can you sleep on the floor?" Zach asked.
"No! It's freezing!" Meg cried, and banged her head on the wall.
"Listen, Zach- she'll share with me. Your bed smells, and you have to admit- I'm the more trustworthy of the two of us. We'll just sleep far apart from each other with extra clothes on, is that okay Meg?" Cody asked.
"Sure," Meg sighed, better than my alternatives…
Unfortunately, by morning Cody had managed to roll next to Meg and unknowingly place his arms around her. When Carrie came I n to wake them up, she gasped and screamed.
"Nothing happened, Mom!" Cody sighed for the billionth time.
"Why didn't you wake me up to find out where the extra sleeping bags were!" Carrie screamed.
"We're really sorry, Mom," Zach sighed.
"But nothing happened," Meg said for the trillionth time.
"Still, your parents are going to kill me! Well, I feel guilty about this, but we're not telling, RIGHT?"
All three nodded hurriedly.
And so, no more major events occurred until June, right after they graduated from Middle School…
(1, 204 Words) I really do share a birthday with Dylan and Cole! IT IS SO WEIRD… Okay I'm done!
