MOVING ON:
~CODY~
August 25th 2011. The day had finally come. The official last day of summer for the Martin twins. For one particular twin he had a world of opportunities right in his hands. And it would all begin tomorrow. For the other one, well he really didn't know what was going to happen him next. He had nowhere to go, nowhere to be and no direction in his life. As Cody finally packed his final box to go to college he looked around his once tidy half of the room. It was now empty except for the twin size bed. In the next twenty four hours he was going to be on the drive out to New York City where his dreams would begin. He had accepted an offer from NYU's nursing school the night after graduating Seven Seas High. Sure he was definitely going to miss his little hay Bail but they had promised to call each other every night and he knew that their love was definitely stronger than it was before they broke up. They had both grown as people and learned that each relationship needed trust and commitment right in the center of it. And of course love.
"Wow it looks so different in here." Carrie said as she put on her earrings to complete her outfit for her performance that night. "It looks so empty." Carrie said sadly.
"Mom you know I'm going to be back here during the holidays and I promised you that I would call you every single morning." Cody laughed.
"I know but I'm going to miss my little sous chef around here. You and I both know that Zack isn't that good of a cook." Carrie laughed.
"Not to worry mom I left several homemade dinners in the freezer and I taught Zack the basics this summer and surprisingly he isn't half that bad…" Cody laughed.
"Let's face it there not going to be as good as yours." Carrie laughed.
"At least you still have someone who can cook decently around here. We don't want a repeat of Thanksgiving last year." Cody laughed.
"I swear I thought you had to put the bag of stuffing into the turkey." Carrie said defensively. "And you have to admit my cooking abilities have been getting stronger."
"Yeah but there is definitely still some work to do." Cody laughed.
"What am I going to do with you?" Carrie laughed as she whacked Cody's shoulder with her hand purse. "Anyways I'm off to do my show I promise I'll be back as soon as possible to spend time with my baby…I can't believe your off to college tomorrow." Carrie sighed.
"Neither can I…" Cody sighed.
"Look sweetie I know that Bailey won't there with you in New York City but I promise things will be better in time." Carrie said kissing her younger sons cheek before heading out.
Cody zipped up his last piece of luggage and looked around the small hotel bedroom one final time. It was like he was having some sort of out of body experience. Half of him was excited for the incredible opportunities out there in the big world that he was going to face, and the other half wanted to stay in Boston the city he had grown to love. He felt like his life was suddenly fast forwarding right in front of his eyes and all he wanted to do was rewind back to the simpler and happier times. He was taken out of his thoughts when he heard his phone ring. As he looked at the clock he couldn't help but smile. It was his favorite time of the day.
"Hey Bails." Cody said excitedly.
"Hi Cody…I've missed you so much…" Bailey said sweetly just as happy to hear her voice.
"I just talked to you twelve hours ago…" Cody laughed.
"That's a long time for me. Going twelve hours without hearing from the person that you love the most is a really long time." Bailey said faking her sadness.
"I know. I still can't get over that you won't be there to celebrate my birthday with me tomorrow." Cody said sadly.
"I promise I will make it up to you soon…By the way your birthday present should be arriving at NYU sometime tomorrow just to let you know." Bailey pointed out.
"Can you give me any clues on what it is?" Cody joked.
"Nice try sweetie…But I'm sure you are going to love it. I just shipped it yesterday morning and I promise you sweetie you are going to be forever grateful for this gift."
"Sounds promising." Cody said happily.
"Well I had to go all out for my fellers 18th birthday…" Bailey said happily.
"Whatever it is I know I'm going to love it…But my birthday wish still won't come true though…" Cody sighed.
"Nothing is impossible Cody whishes are granted every single day…" Bailey said optimistically.
"I love how your so optimistic about things…" Cody said lovingly.
"And I love everything about you my love…" Bailey smiled. "Oh gosh I didn't look at the time. I still need to finish packing my last suitcase before tomorrow."
"Promise me you will call me as soon as you land?" Cody asked hopefully.
"I promise. I love you Cody." Bailey said lovingly.
"I love you squared." Cody said as he hung up.
What Cody didn't know was that Bailey was that she was going to be a lot closer to him than he thought. Cody looked at his lock screen and a smile came across his face. It was from the photo booth from prom a couple months back. Cody was taken out of his thoughts when he heard the doors to their suite close.
"Broseph are you still here?" Zack called out from the living room.
"Your home from work late…" Cody said walking into the living room.
"You know how it goes on summer nights over at the ice cream stop." Zack laughed.
"Yeah it also doesn't help that it's right across the street from Fenway." Cody laughed.
"So you ready to bust on out of here in the morning?" Zack said sitting on the couch.
"Almost just a couple of things I still need to pack before I head out tomorrow afternoon." Cody said joining his twin on the couch.
"You know I'm going to have to admit I'm going to miss having you around here." Zack admitted. "It's hard pulling pranks on the hotel staff without my partner in crime."
"Wow Zack that actually means a lot coming from you. I would think that you would be the first one to be dancing with joy once I left for college."
"Well for a while I thought I would be too. But it turns out I've been so used to having you around these past 18 years that I have absolutely no idea where I would be if you weren't there to give me a push most of the time when I needed one." Zack laughed. "I don't think I would have made it through school without you there."
"Well if it's honesty hour I have something to confess too…" Cody sighed. "I am terrified for tomorrow. Before tomorrow there hasn't been a single second that you and me haven't been apart. Except for that week I went away for math camp it was always Zack and Cody and now that I'm moving to the big city I don't know when it's ever going to be just us two again."
"Hey New York City is just a short three hour drive so it's not like your going to school across the country. I can visit you on occasion besides Marcus is up there as well so I'm going to be visiting him sometimes as well." Zack smiled.
"I guess your right…I'm still going to miss you a lot though." Cody stated.
"I hate to admit this to myself. But if we're being honest with each other I'm going to miss you too." Zack said pulling Cody in for a hug.
"Tell you what? Since tonight is our last night together for a while why don't we head out to get pizzas and then I may have gotten these from London today." Cody said flashing two tickets to the Red Sox games against the Dodgers.
"I'm in." Zack said as the two twins ran out of their suite excitedly.
The Next Day
"OK that's the last of them." Zack said unloading Cody's last box from Carrie's min-van
'Perfect timing I just got the keys to my dorm." Cody said emerging from Washington Center.
"Let's just hope I'm not going to have carry these boxes up several stairs." Zack said. "I feel like my arms are going to fall off anytime."
"OK funny story…Turns out that Washington Center doesn't have a functioning elevator today. The generator isn't working today".
"You have got to be kidding me. What's next your going to tell me that your dorm room is on the top floor?" Zack joked.
"Yes…" Cody said nervously.
"Well today is my lucky day isn't it?" Zack grumbled.
"Well it is our birthdays today." Cody laughed.
"Great just how I wanted to spend it." Zack sighed.
"I promise we'll go out for dinner tonight…On me…" Cody said.
"Well there's no arguing about that…" Zack said picking up one of the boxes and walking into the building.
About an hour later all of Cody's stuff was piled into their common room. Zack looked around the dorm room one final time and sighed.
"Finally I think we did a good job here Broseph." Zack said.
"There's still a lot more work I need to do though." Cody sighed.
"You can worry about that some other time right now it's time to celebrate our birthdays. It's too bad we can't see a show tonight though."
"Really your into Broadway?" Cody laughed.
"I admit I have a soft spot for musicals…" Zack laughed.
Before Cody could respond her heard a knock at his dorm door. Both twins turned to each other surprised.
"Who could that be?" Zack wondered.
"It's probably my RA welcoming me to the dorms." Cody said as he opened the door his jaw literally fell to the door.
"Happy birthday Cody!" Bailey said as she threw herself into Cody's arms.
"Bailey?!" Cody and Zack said surprised. "What are you doing here? I thought you were supposed to be up in New Haven by now."
"I turned down Yale…" Bailey said. "Cody I told you that I would go anywhere with you. So I decided to go to a school where we were both accepted." Bailey smiled. "I'm your new neighbor right downstairs!"
Cody kissed Bailey excitedly. He couldn't believe that she had declined one of the country's best Ivy League schools and go to New York University.
"Really?" Cody said excitedly.
"Does this make it more real?" Bailey said flashing Cody her student card.
Bailey smiled as Cody brought her in for a tight hug. Cody couldn't help but smile widely. He couldn't believe that Bailey would leave Yale for him. Although she had told him during graduation that she had wanted to but he couldn't let her do that.
"Are you sure about this Bails?" Cody asked.
"I haven't been more sure about anything in my entire life. Plus there's always graduate school we can try our luck then. But I learned something this summer. An education may be important but you are more important to me. I don't want to be anywhere without you. So moving to the big apple was the best decision I could have possibly made. Because I may not know what the future has in store for me professionally but I do know one thing. You are my future Cody. And I want to be with you forever."
Cody pulled Bailey in for a passionate kiss. As the two reunited lovebirds were being re-acquainted Zack couldn't help but look down at his shoes. He only hoped that one day he would find someone like Bailey who would love him unconditionally. He knew she was out there somewhere. He just had to find her. Or she just had to find him.
To be continued…