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Chapter One
The S.S Tipton was making its way lazily through the oceans as it was bound away from Mexico. The ship was a bit behind schedule, due to an unscheduled stop at Florida the week before. The stop had come about because Cody, one of the two Martin twins who was on board the ship, had found that his ex girlfriend, Bailey, who he happened to still be in love with, had been lied to by her ex boyfriend, Moose, in a twisted attempt to keep Bailey in Kettlecorn, and away from Cody. However, Cody had found out what he was up to, and he, Zack, Marcus, London, Maddie, Moseby, and Miss Tutweiller had all travelled across America just to get her back. When there, Cody and Bailey had gotten back together and both of them were making the most of this.
Meanwhile, Zack's girlfriend Maddie had left the ship and had gone back to Boston to work at the Tipton hotel, under Esteban and the twin's mother, Carey. Zack however had promised to remain loyal to her when she had left the ship as he still had a few more months of school left. Marcus and London were now dating frequently, as were Moseby and Tutweiller.
All in all things were quite good on the ship.
That was until London woke Bailey up at nine o'clock one morning. This in and of itself was odd, because Bailey was normally the first up, but she had had a date with Cody last night, and she had gotten back to her room late.
"Bailey, wake up! I might need your bed!" London said bossily, poking at her friend.
Bailey opened her eyes blearily and saw London standing at the foot of her bed, tapping her foot irritably.
"What? Why the feathers would you want my bed?" she demanded.
"Didn't I tell you? My cousin Melbourne is coming on board! And she might want to stay in this shoe box, so she'll be taking your bed!" London said brightly.
Bailey rolled her eyes.
"No London. She is not getting my bed. Besides, if she did get it, where would I go?" she asked.
London gave her one of those eerie grins that made Bailey think London wasn't quite as dumb as she pretended to be.
"Wherever you were the other night I assume." She said with a grin.
Bailey went scarlet. She and Cody had snuck out after curfew and had fallen asleep under the stars. Awaking to find her sweet boyfriend with his arm around her had certainly made her very happy for the rest of that day...
"I told you I was outside!" she said, and London grinned.
"Sure you were. And Cody just happened not to be in his room that night too..." she said with a wicked smile, and Bailey went an even darker shade of red.
"Quiet you. Anyway, who is this cousin? You never mentioned her." Bailey said as she very reluctantly got out of bed.
"Her name's Melbourne, and she's coming to stay at the school for a year, so she can finish the same time as us!" London said brightly.
Well, finish the same time as me and Cody maybe. You, Zack and Woody on the other hand, Bailey thought, then had to suppress a grin at that thought.
"Yeah, well she's coming today, and we can go shopping, have girly fun and dress up and all sorts of stuff!" London said excitedly.
Bailey shot her a bemused glance.
"You do know you can do that with me and Maddie?"
"Well Maddie isn't here, neither of you has any style and neither of you has enough money. She has all the money that I do!" London said brightly, then headed to the bathroom to fix a rogue eyebrow.
Bailey shook her head.
"Great, just what we need, another ditzy billionaire heiress." She said grumpily and proceeded to get dressed.
XX
"Hey Zack." Cody said, taking a seat at the smoothie bar, and his brother came out of his reverie, as he had been staring off into space.
"Hey Cody. What's up?" he asked, though he still looked slightly distant.
"I'll have a Prune Sensation. What's wrong, you feeling ok?" Cody asked, looking at his brother in concern.
Zack sighed.
"Well I was on the phone to Maddie for three hours last night, and now..."
"You miss her like crazy?" Cody asked with a grin, and Zack nodded.
"Yeah! I mean I missed her enough before but now I miss her even more. And I can't stop thinking about her! Is that normal?" Zack asked in a whiny voice.
Cody wondered whether or not he should lie to his brother, then decided to be nice to him.
"Yeah, when you're in love with someone it is. Zacky's in love!" Cody sang in annoying voice, and Zack glowered at him.
"Yeah, that might be, but that sort of sappy thing is what you're meant to do, not me!"
Cody shot him a look and Zack looked slightly guilty. Ever since Zack had found out how much his negative comments had affected his brother all these years he had promised to make fun of him less and by and large he was doing quite well.
"Sorry. But I am doing better aren't I?" he asked hopefully and Cody nodded as Zack handed him his smoothie.
"Yeah you are." Cody said with a grin.
"So...did you and Bailey manage to make it back to your rooms ok last night?" Zack asked with a wicked grin.
Cody glowered at him.
"Quiet you. And yes we did. And that was a one time thing!" Cody protested.
Zack grinned.
"Aw I'm only winding you up, no need to have heart failure. And I don't see why you're so embarrassed about it. You and Bailey were bound to wind up doing something like that eventually anyway, everyone can see how much the two of you love each other." Zack said, happy that his brother was back with his girl.
Cody was about to respond when a cry cut across the sky deck.
"Melbourne!" London cried in delight.
"London!" she cried.
Both boys turned around to see a beautiful girl, the same age as London with pale white skin, full red lips, dark brown eyes and long curly brown hair with red streaks running through it, running towards their friend. The two of them then hugged and air kissed, while Bailey came up beside Cody.
"Good morning." She said, stifling a yawn.
"It is now." He said, kissing her cheek.
"Who's that?" Zack asked curiously, nodding at Melbourne.
"That's London's cousin. Another airheaded heiress." Bailey said sniffily as Zack passed her a smoothie.
"Now now Bailey, don't be judgemental. Look at Cody, people wouldn't expect him to be able to even cause Moose pain, but he made the jerk run off." Zack pointed out and Cody blushed a little bit.
After Moose had tried to grab Bailey and force her to stay in Kettlecorn, Cody had smacked him, and had somehow managed to make him run off. His knuckles were still slightly bruised from where he had smacked the large hillbilly.
"And you must be London's friends!" Melbourne said in cheerful greeting as London approached them.
"Yep. That's Bailey and her boyfriend Zack, or is it Cody, oh I don't know, one of the twins anyway, and that the other one." She said, pointing at Zack.
Bailey rolled her eyes.
"Cody's my boyfriend. This is Zack." She said, as Melbourne shook Zack's hand.
Melbourne then smiled at Cody as she took his hand and shook it.
"Very nice to meet you." She said, flattering her eyebrows at him, and he grinned awkwardly at her in response.
Bailey watched this, and Zack eyed her hands untrustingly, as they started to clench and unclench. While she would deny it, she very easily got jealous of anyone trying to get their hands on Cody.
"Um, nice to meet you too." He said, and London linked arms with her cousin.
"Come on, let's go shopping! For sparkles!" London cried excitedly.
"You'll need to excuse her, she's a little hyperactive." Melbourne said, rolling her eyes, and then she was yanked away by her cousin.
"She seems nice." Zack commented to try and break the frosty air that had just developed.
"Yes she does doesn't she? She would be a lot nicer if she would keep her eyes and hands to herself!" Bailey grumbled and squeezed her smoothie cup so hard it shattered.
Cody grinned at her.
"Aw come on Bailey, it's not my fault Zack and I are irresistible to women..." he said, and both Bailey and Zack looked at him in surprise.
"Yeah, it doesn't work when I say it. It does when he does though!" Cody protested, pointing at his twin, while the other two grinned in amusement.
"Uh huh..." Bailey said, still not quite calmed down.
"Aww come on Bails...this is what broke us up in the first place. It's you I'm in love with, and I'm not going to forget that just because some heiress flashes her eyebrows at me. I love you Bailey bunny." He said with a pout that he knew she wouldn't be able to resist.
"Oh alright. I love you too Cody kitten." She said, and the two smiled and rubbed their noses together.
"Geez, get a room!" Zack moaned as he cleaned up the mess Bailey had made.
Bailey smiled and then pulled Cody to his feet and led him away.
"Bye then." Zack said irritably as he put the plastic shards into the bin.
"Hi there." A female voice said from above him.
"Be with you in a sec..." he said and came up above the counter to see a beautiful girl looking at him.
She was small, slim and pretty, with long brown hair and bright blue eyes. Mentally, Zack shook himself. He wasn't like that anymore, he had Maddie.
"What can I get for you?" he asked.
"Well you wouldn't be a bad start." She said with a grin.
Zack was taken aback, and for the first time ever, could feel a blush coming to his cheeks. That was the sort of thing he would normally say to a girl in his position.
"Um, thanks, but I'm, well sorry, but I'm seeing someone." He said.
She looked disheartened, then smiled.
"I'm Maya." She said, holding out her hand.
"Zack." He said, and he couldn't take his eyes off her as they shook.
"So you have a girlfriend. Don't worry Zack, you'll find I can be...very...persistent." she said with a smile, and waved to him as she walked off.
What the hell was that? It was like dealing with a female version of himself...or at least of how he used to be. And why had she had such an effect on him? After all he was in love with Maddie, he shouldn't even be giving her a second glance. Shuddering, he served the old woman who seemed never to get off the ship, Mrs Johnstone.
He had a horrible feeling he was in trouble.
XX
"How the hell have I got 'sparkle' in my shoes?" Melbourne demanded as she tipped a load of glitter, which was a relic of an attack from London by a glitter gun, out of her shoe.
She looked up in shock as the door opened, then relaxed when she saw that it was Maya.
"For goodness sake, I thought you were London." She complained, as she emptied her other shoe of glitter.
After leaving her friends on the sky deck, London had dragged Melbourne around all the shops on the ship, including her own one, which she had two unfamiliar staff running. Melbourne didn't like that she didn't know who this two were, but London assured her that they were just two of the staff from the hotel part of the ship. Now, Melbourne was relaxing in her room, as London had gone back to her room in order to allow Melbourne to get settled in.
"Sorry. Zack rejected me." Maya, who was also her roommate along with being her friend, complained as she sat at the desk across from Melbourne's bed.
"Maya, he isn't just going to fall for you straight away. Even he isn't that bad. And he does have a girlfriend, so he will try to remain loyal to her...at least at first." She said.
Maya took a look around their student room and wrinkled her nose.
"London puts up with this? She must be made of stronger stuff than you realised." She commented.
Melbourne scoffed.
"Don't be silly. The only thing that keeps her here and putting up with it is the fact that her father will send her to military school if she doesn't. And the only thing that keeps her from losing her mind is her friends." Melbourne said in a silky voice.
Maya grinned.
"So, onto your problems with Zack...he isn't going to fall at your feet at the first opportunity. As a matter of fact he can't anyway. But...keep at him. He'll cave eventually." Melbourne said, then looked out of her porthole musingly.
"What's up with you?" Maya asked curiously, as she inspected all the stuff Melbourne had bought.
"Cody. He's a lot cuter than I thought he would be." She said with a wicked smile.
"Oh?" Maya asked with a smile.
"Yes. So I am away to find him. Put that stuff away would you?" she asked, and then left Maya standing in the room with a disgruntled expression.
XX
London was in annoyingly good mood. Having her cousin on board had clearly done a lot to improve her mood, and Bailey wasn't complaining about this upturn in her roommate's attitude, but it was rather annoying when Bailey was relatively annoyed herself. Fair enough, Melbourne did seem nice enough, and they could already see that she was brighter than London...mind you the average dung beetle was brighter than London. But if Melbourne wasn't bright enough to keep her hands off Cody...
The two of them had been through so much, and it was just exactly a situation like this that had broken them up in the first place, and had driven Bailey to leave the ship. She knew she shouldn't be jealous, as she had only flirted with Cody a little, but Cody was her guy. And the thought of someone trying to take him from her after everything they'd been through just ripped her up.
"So what do you think of Melbourne?" London asked as she hung up a new outfit.
"She seems nice." Bailey said stiffly.
She knew she should be in a good mood. She and Cody had went to the water slide and had stayed in the pool all afternoon, and spending the afternoon with her swim wear clad boyfriend was enough to make her heart flutter certainly, and the feeling of him holding tightly onto her as they had gone down the slide together had been great. But still, the thought of someone trying to muscle in on her guy...
"Oh, you aren't still annoyed she flirted with him are you? It was harmless!" London scolded.
Bailey arced an eyuebrow at her friend.
"Oh yeah? And what would you say if she made a pass at Marcus?" she asked, and London flushed.
Just last week she had shoved someone overboard 'by accident' because they had tried to flirt with Marcus.
"She wouldn't do that, she's my cousin. There's a thing, who's the girl Melbourne's sharing a room with? I haven't seen her before."
Bailey cast her mind back.
"Her name's Maya. She arrived a couple of days ago. She was in class, but as you were getting a pedicure at the time you missed them." She said irritably.
London sighed and looked at Bailey.
"Look Bailey...I'm going to tell you this as your friend. Don't make a big deal of Melbourne flirting with Cody! All you'll do is push him away. You saw him when she flirted with him, he was all awkward, even more so than usual. It's because he wasn't interested in her. You're the only girl he's interested in. He loves you, trust me." She said with a smile, and Bailey smiled back.
"Yeah, you're right. Thanks London."
"You're welcome."
XX
Zack had just changed into his normal clothes when the door went. He opened it, and was horrified to see Maya standing there.
Ok, this goes beyond stalking, he thought worriedly.
"Maya, hi...what are you doing here?" he asked.
"Well I wanted to see you. Is that so wrong?" she asked with a pout on her face and she slowly advanced into the room.
Zack was finding it hard to breathe. This girl was persistent...a little more than he was, but persistent all the same.
"How did you find me?" he asked in a weak voice.
"I just asked around. A lot of girls know where you live after all." She purred and cornered him, forcing him towards the wall.
Zack was aware of how close she was getting, how easy it would be to lean over and kiss her...and she was certainly beautiful, and she certainly wanted him to kiss her. His breathing was hard and he was beginning to sweat.
"Um look Maya, I'm in love with Maddie!" he protested as she raised her hands and trapped him against the cupboard.
"Maddie isn't here though is she? And what she doesn't know...can't hurt her." She said with a coy smile.
She was coming in to kiss her, and she was so close...
Then the phone rang. Thanking whatever God that was watching over him, he answered it.
"Hey honey!" Maddie said in her beautiful voice, and Zack's mind cleared.
"Hey sweetie. Can I phone you back? I've got something I need to deal with ok?" he asked.
"Sure." Maddie said, sounding a little put out, then hung up.
Zack put his phone back in his pocket, then took Maya's hands off of the cupboard.
"Look Maya...you're a great girl. You're beautiful, you're forward...but I'm not interested. I'm in love with Maddie. Not you. So, please go?" Zack said, aware that he was actually blowing off a girl for the first time in his life.
Maya smiled sadly.
"Hmm...you're not quite what I heard from other passengers. I'm impressed. But don't worry Zack...I'll leave you alone for now. But...as I said earlier, you'll find I'm very persistent." She said with a mysterious smile, and left his room.
Zack shuddered. What the hell? She'd only been on board for a few days and she already wanted some of the Zack magic? Well, he was a one girl show now. Speaking of which...
Zack smiled as he punched in Maddie's number.
"Hey sweetie, sorry about that...just had to get rid of a fan." He said, which wasn't quite the truth but wasn't quite a lie either.
"One of Marcus'?" Maddie asked.
"Yeah, one of his. I love you Maddie." He said with conviction.
"I love you too." She responded.
XX
Cody was waiting for Bailey on the sky deck. She had seemed to have had fun earlier, but he had a feeling she was suppressing a lot of annoyance over the fact that Melbourne had flirted with him. While Melbourne was very beautiful, seemed to be a lot cleverer than London, and was also very rich, she didn't interest Cody in the slightest. He only ever had eyes for Bailey, ever since he had first met her. And he certainly didn't want some swish heiress over his little farmgirl.
"Hi Cody." Melbourne said as she appeared at his side.
"Oh, Melbourne hi. You enjoying the ship?" he asked politely.
"Yes, I think Maya and I will fit in quite well. I've spent the morning shopping with London." She said tiredly.
Cody grinned.
"Yeah, shopping with that girl would take it out of an athlete. Marcus is the only one who seems able to withstand it." He said.
"I've still not met him...but then again you are here...perhaps you could give me a tour of the things aside from shops?" Melbourne asked seductively, using her fingers to act as a spider up his chest.
Cody's eyes widened. She really liked him? This was new. But...he knew who he belonged to.
"Melbourne...I'm flattered that you like me. Really. But I'm in love with Bailey. So I'm sorry, but I can't show you around the ship." He said with a small smile.
Melbourne took a step back, then nodded.
"Alright. I'm sorry if I made you uncomfortable. It's been a while since I found someone relatively decent and also clever. The people I hang around with...try to imagine male versions of London." She advised, and Cody laughed.
"Oh god know. Look Melbourne, you seem like a nice enough girl. There's plenty of guys on board who don't have girlfriends. Try one of them. You might be surprised." He suggested.
She grinned.
"Thanks Cody. See you later!" she said cheerily and headed off inside.
Cody breathed a sigh of relief, which was cut short when he looked up the stairs and saw Bailey standing at the top of them, her hands threatening to crush the metal bar she was holding onto.
"Uh oh..." he said under his breath, and headed up the stairs to her side.
When he got there he saw that there was a murderous look in her eyes.
"Well...you've gotten more mature." He ventured bravely, considering she could probably do a lot more damage to him than she could to the bar.
"What do you mean?" she asked in a dangerous voice.
"Well last time you saw me with another girl you left the ship." He pointed out, and he smiled as her grip relaxed a little bit.
"Alright. Maybe I have matured. So...what did she want?" she asked in a deadly voice.
Cody turned and looked at her.
"It doesn't matter what she wanted. Because I sent her packing." He said simply.
Bailey let go of the bar and looked up at him.
"What do you mean?"
Cody smiled sadly and stroked a bit of her long brown hair behind her ear.
"I told her I wasn't interested. You're the only girl I'm interested in Bailey. After all, I wouldn't have brought the entire ship halfway across the world just to get you back if I wasn't in love with you would I?" he asked with a grin, and she smiled beautifully, making his heart beat a little faster.
"True..." she said ruefully, not meeting his eyes.
"And besides, even if I was interested, which I definitely aren't, she's way out of my league." He said matter-of-factly.
"Oh, so you'll just have to settle for me?" Bailey asked, her eyes flashing dangerously, and Cody could see danger signs brewing.
He shook his head gently.
"No. You're way out of my league too...but for some reason you're mad enough to see something worth dating in me." He said in a soft voice.
And with that, the anger diffused completely.
"Aww, Cody..." she said, touched, and she hugged him and kissed his cheek.
"You're the only girl I can love Bailey. I love you." He said, cupping her cheek in his hand.
"Oh Cody...I love you too." She said and Cody bent down and kissed her, his tongue edging into her mouth slightly, which she moaned a little in response to. After a minute or so they reluctantly broke apart.
"I'm sorry. I just see other girls making moves on you and...and I see red! I can't help it." She moaned, pouting and looking at her shoes.
"Bailey, you need to trust me honey. You do don't you?" Cody asked uncertainly.
Bailey looked up at him, thoughts of Paris and Home Economics class running through her head...both times she had seen things that weren't there. And never had Cody been tempted. She realised something she should have seen long ago...Cody loved her too much to cheat on her.
"Yeah. I'm sorry Cody. How about I buy dinner to make up for being a jealous great idiot again?" she asked, and he grinned at her and kissed her cheek.
"Ok." He said with a smile, and linked his arm through hers and they went off to the restaurant.
XX
Melbourne smiled. Yes, they would fit in quite well here. Quite well indeed. And everything was ready for their next stop at Cambodia. Yes...coming here was a brilliant idea. Smiling, she headed to get her own dinner.
Hello again!
Well as promised, here is the first chapter of my new Suite Life story. A little change, and we have a new character, Melbourne Tipton. And yes, that is Maya from Season 3. Insistent isnt she?
Hope you like, apologies for the shortness of the chapter, but this chapter was mainly just to introduce whats going on. Next chapter, something unexpected happens in Cambodia. There is more going on here than meets the eye...as some of you may be able to guess.
So until next time, please read and review! Enjoy!