Maddie crossed her arms over her chest. She was mad. No, she was beyond mad. She was pissed. She was livid. While she was on board of the S.S. Tipton, she was called by her dorm supervisor from Harvard that she and her roommate had been evicted, because her roommate had been caught doing drugs. Since they were evicted, they were also expelled from school. That meant no college for Maddie. That meant Maddie had no way in hell becoming a doctor, like she'd dreamed of since she was thirteen years old.

She jumped, feeling strong arms wrap around her, and although he made her heart melt, nothing could ease her right now. "What's the matter, beautiful?"

Maddie stayed silent for a few seconds, staring at the ocean, letting her curly brown hair slightly fan over her face from the wind. "I just got kicked out of school."

"What?"

She turned around and wrapped her arms around him, burying her face into his chest, letting out a rack of sobs. Her tears weren't sad. They were angry tears. Everything she worked for, everything she dreamed of, it was all gone. Down the drain.

"Maddie, what happened?"

She sobbed again. "My idiot roommate decided to do drugs and she got caught in our room, so we both got evicted and expelled… I wasn't even there, I didn't do anything wrong!" she shouted angrily.

Zack held onto her tightly and he kissed her head lightly. "I'm sorry…"

"I had my whole life planned out, and it gets fucked up because some idiot decided to be stupid, and costed me my career!"

Zack looked around for a few seconds. People were staring at them. He saw Cody and Bailey rushing over, but he looked away from everyone else and ran his hand up and down Maddie's back to soothe her. "Shh… It'll be okay."

"Zack, what happened?" Bailey asked.

"Is she hurt?" Cody asked.

Zack shook his head. "She's not hurt. She's okay, she just has some issues with school. I'll explain later."

Cody watched Maddie continue to sob against his twin brother's chest, and he leaned over, kissing her head in a brotherly way. "We're here for you, Maddie. No matter what."

She didn't respond, but Cody knew she was thankful. She always had been.

"Let's give them time, Cody," Bailey said. She looked at Zack. "Let her know if she ever needs to talk, I'm here."

"I will," Zack said. When Cody and Bailey left, Maddie's sobs had stopped and they'd been reduced to sniffles. Zack ran his hand through his girlfriend's hair, and kissed the top of her head. "Are you okay?" he asked softly.

Maddie sniffled and shook her head. "No," she said, muffled by his shirt. She brought her head away from his chest and sniffled again, staring up at his blue eyes. "But, I will be. I have you… You're all I really need… You're the only thing important to me."

"You know that's not true. School is very important to you."

"I was gonna be a doctor… I was gonna help babies and little kids…"

"You can still do that, babe…"

"I can't… I got expelled, Zack, I-I can't go back to school."

"You don't have to go to Harvard. Go to Stanford. Yale. U of A."

Maddie looked at him, confused. "U of A?"

"University of Albuquerque."

"…Why does that sound so familiar?"

"You look just like the girl that plays Sharpay in the movie," he said, jokingly.

Maddie smiled a little and she let out a little laugh. "I still don't get how people don't think we look alike, we could have been separated at birth."

"I still don't see it."

"You never see it."

Zack smiled and looked at her for a few seconds. "Are you gonna be okay now?"

Maddie nodded and smiled. "Yeah… I've got you. That's all I could ever really ask for."

"Really?"

"Really."

Zack leaned down, kissing her lips lightly. "I love you, Madeline Fitzpatrick."

"I love you, Zackary Martin," she replied.

Maddie took in a deep breath, feeling herself waking up. She stretched but kept her eyes closed, in hopes of going back to sleep, but she was suddenly interrupted when she felt a hand placed on her most private part of her body. She opened her eyes and looked to her right, at Zack and rolled her eyes when she saw he was still asleep. "Only you would try to get me off in your sleep," she muttered, moving Zack's hand from her middle.

She was too lazy to put the covers back on herself. She was chilly, but she just wanted to go back to sleep. Zack would just end up with all of them again, anyways. Turning over, she closed her eyes and finally felt herself dozing off.

Her eyes opened again, after what felt like only seconds of being asleep, to an annoying as hell clucking sound. It was muffled, like it was in another room. What was that? It sounded like an alarm clock, but what alarm clock clucked?

"…Bailey," Maddie said to herself. She shivered and decided to get under the covers again, snuggling up to Zack. Her eyes widened, feeling a lump against her thigh, and she buried her face into his chest, giggling.

"What's so funny?" Zack mumbled.

"Nothing. Go back to sleep, you can take care of Woody when you wake up."

"I don't wanna take care of Woody, he's an adult…"

"Not talking about him, I'm talking about your little buddy in your pants."

"Oh. Okay."

Maddie stared at Zack for a few seconds in slight disbelief as he started snoring lightly. How could he fall asleep again so fast? Maddie sighed. She was already awake and it was clear she wouldn't be falling asleep anytime soon. By the time she did, it would probably be about time to wake up anyway. Even though Zack had graduated, he still had to work at the smoothie bar, so he had to get up at seven-thirty. Maddie looked at the digital clock. 6:02. Eh, what the hell. Another hour and twenty-eight minutes of sleep wouldn't hurt.

Maddie let out a small breath, leaning against Zack as they watched the other people walk around the ship. They were in the hot tub, and thankfully no one else was in there with them, because they really wanted the time alone together.

Maddie smiled, feeling Zack's hand slide over her side. She loved the feel of his big, strong hands on her. She loved the feel of his fingers as they danced across her skin. She loved how gentle his hands were with her, no matter what. Even when he was angry with her, which had only happened once or twice in their six-month-old relationship, his hands were the most gentle she'd ever felt.

"I love you," she said, looking up at him.

"I love you, too," he said, kissing her lips lightly.

"Zackary, Madeline, this isn't a brothel. Zack has work to do," Mr. Moseby said as he walked past them.

"Yeah, yeah," they both muttered.

Maddie sighed and looked at Zack. "We should get out. Your break is over in ten minutes. We can get back in later."

"Or, or, orrr," Zack said, sliding his hand over her stomach. "We can go to our room and take a bath together, and play a very dirty game," he said, kissing her neck.

"Nice try. No sex, you know the rules," Maddie said, climbing out of the hot tub.

"Come onnn, we've been together for six months, we have to do something."

"And that something doesn't have to be sex," she said as she pulled one of Zack's shirts over her.

"Well, when can it be sex?"

"When I know we're both ready."

"I'm ready."

"No, you're not. Trust me. You'll know when you're ready. Just not right now," she said, leaning over and kissing his lips lightly. "I'm gonna change and play with the kids at the daycare. Connie's probably scaring them with her clown getup."

"Connie scares kids without the getup."

Maddie laughed a little. "Get dressed and get back to work. I'll see you later," she said, making her way to the elevator.

Zack let out a small breath watching her leave, and he got out of the hot tub, wrapping a towel around his waist as Cody walked up to him.

"Hey," Cody said. "How's Maddie doing from yesterday?"

"She's better. She's not obsessing about it, but I think she's still pretty upset," Zack said.

"She got kicked out of school and it wasn't her fault. Of course she's upset. Is something bothering you? You seem down in the dumps."

"I'm fine. Just frustrated," he said, starting up the steps with Cody.

"Because of Maddie?"

"No, because of what Maddie doesn't want."

"What doesn't she want?"

"Sex."

"Oh."

"I mean, she acts like it'll be the end of the world to sleep with me."

"Well, Zack, that's a very intimate subject. You know how Maddie is. She's pure and innocent. Untouched. She's probably nervous."

"She doesn't act nervous when we talk about it."

"It's a front. When you guys get right down to it, she's going to get nervous. Bailey was the same way."

Zack raised an eyebrow as he came to his and Maddie's room, and he opened the door, but pulled it closed quickly.

"Zackary!" Maddie snapped from inside the room.

"How was I supposed to know you were going to be naked?"

"I don't close the door unless I'm changing. I'm sure Cody wouldn't have appreciated seeing me indecent."

"I'd get over it," Cody said.

"Come in, it's safe," Maddie said.

Zack opened the door and walked in with Cody. "I thought you were going to see the kids at the daycare," he said, kissing her lips lightly.

"I was in a bikini, Zack. Not exactly the most appropriate attire to wear in front of children."

"Why not? It's just a bathing suit."

"A bathing suit that barely covers what she shouldn't flaunt in front of certain men," Cody said.

"Why are you looking at my woman's body parts?"

"It's hard not to notice. Are you feeling any better from yesterday?" he asked, looking at Maddie.

Maddie shrugged. "Not really, but there's nothing I can do about it. I mean, it's already been done, so I can't get back in."

"I'd just like to get in, period," Zack said.

"That's not a discussion to have in front of your brother."

"He already told me. I told him to be patient."

"At least there's one guy in the world that isn't obsessing over sex."

"Because he's already getting it," Zack said.

"Whatever, I didn't want to know that. I'm leaving now. You two behave," she said, kissing their cheeks. "Zackary, get to work. I mean it, don't be late."

"Okay, Mom."

Zack and Cody watched Maddie leave the room, and Cody looked at his brother. "So. What's your plan to convince her?" he asked.

"There isn't one. Either way, I have to wait until she's ready. I'm not going to ruin anything between us just because of sex. I won't lose her over something that stupid," Zack said.

"She's a smart girl. She's thinking of your futures. You have to think about that, too. I mean, what happens if you rush into it, and she gets pregnant?"

Zack shrugged. "I don't know…"

"Maddie thinks about those things. She doesn't want to rush into something that she knows is going to be life changing. Trust me, a baby is life changing."

"Trust you? You don't know anything about having a baby."

"I will, though."

"What?"

"Bailey's pregnant."

Zack looked at his brother, wide eyed and surprised. "Oh, man… I-I'm sorry, dude. I always thought I'd be the one in your situation."

"We all thought so."

"What are you going to do?"

"I don't know. Right now, we're just worrying financially. We can't raise a baby on my salary. Bailey's going to get a job on the boat, so we'll be okay by the time the baby comes, but afterwards, we don't know what we're doing."

"You're keeping it though, right?'

Cody nodded. "Of course. We just have to prepare ourselves for it."

"I don't know what I'd do if that ever happened to me and Maddie."

"You don't have to worry about that, because Maddie's not going to let that happen. That's why she's waiting, Zack. She's smart. She knows that one little mistake could change your lives in the most drastic way. She's looking out for you, not just herself. She's more mature, she's thought about these things."

"If I were still with Maya, I'd probably be going through exactly what you're going through."

"Maybe. Maya's a smart girl. She's a lot like Maddie. She would have thought about it, too."

"Yeah, but she was actually ready and willing to give it up."

"Then, it's a good thing you're with Maddie and not Maya. You didn't really love Maya, anyway."

"I loved her. I just wasn't in love with her. Maddie's always had my heart."

"And you've always had hers. Listen to what she has to say, man. She knows what she's talking about," Cody said, making his way to the door. "I'm going to find Bailey. Count your blessings."

Zack watched Cody leave the room and he sighed, running his hand through his hair. "I'm so not ready for that mess…"