Summary: Zack and Cody meet a family that could possibly destroy everyone around them, including themselves

Summary: Zack and Cody meet a family that could possibly destroy everyone around them, including themselves. When Cody falls into a love far beyond his wildest dreams, Zack is trying to make himself more visible to Maddie, hoping to impress her. Will Zack's plan work? What will happen to everyone around the Martin boys? Read WHISPER.

A flash. All around me. Suddenly I'm in a place I've never seen before. I'm not in Boston, anymore. I'm somewhere else. I only get a few seconds to take in my surroundings before another flash takes me somewhere else. This time, I recognize the place. It's my suite. It's the kitchen area. Though I can barely tell because of the mess. All of the cabinets are wide open, with all of the contents on the floor, the counter, and some of it in the sink. I looked down at my feet and saw something red. I bent down to take a closer look. It was blood!

Blood was oozing from the now full sink and onto the floor. Then all of a sudden, an ear-piercing, blood-curdling scream came from nowhere. I jumped and quickly spun around. A tall, muscular figure stood over a smaller figure. Suddenly, I realized that the smaller figure was... Zack!

I tried to let out a cry to him, but nothing came out. The larger figure took a menacing step towards Zack. I couldn't move or scream, all I could do was watch in horror as I waited for something to happen. Something I couldn't do anything about.

"Cody!! Cody!!" Zack yelled. "Cody!!"

Before my dream, or nightmare, was over, I was shaken awake. I opened my eyes to see Zack shaking me and yelling at me to wake up. "Cody, wake up!!"

I sat up just as he had walked off to go get dressed. I looked over at the clock 6:40 AM. Still much to early. Then, why was Zack up right now? Besides going back to that unexplained nightmare, I decided to get up as well. I gathered some clothes and walked out of the bedroom Zack and I shared. I stood outside of the bathroom, waiting for Zack to get out. Finally, Zack walked out and then we passed each other without saying a word. This is our daily routine. Zack and I don't talk to each other until it's almost time for school.

At around 7:15 AM, Zack and I headed down to the lobby of the Tipton Hotel, where we live. As we exited the elevator, I noticed a family over at the check-in desk. There was a man and a woman, two teenage boys that looked to be around 16 or 17, a fifteen year old girl, two teenagers, a girl and a boy, that looked to be 14, and a girl that looked about 17 as well.

"Hey, who do you think those people are?" I asked Zack once I realized he had noticed the newcomers as well.

"I don't know." Zack shrugged. The girl turned to look around and then our eyes met. Her eyes were a golden color with brown flecks in them. I looked away after I noticed I was staring. It was like her eyes hypnotized me.

"Cody, come on." Zack pulled me along.

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Normal POV-

In chemistry class at Buckner Middle School, I was alone today. Zack was usually his partner, but today, Zack got sent to the principal's office.

Big surprise, I thought resentfully. My thoughts were interrupted by a slam of a door. I looked up and saw the girl that he saw today at the Tipton. She whispered something to the teacher and looked over to where the teacher pointed. As it turns out, the teacher had told her to sit in the seat next to me. She walked gracefully towards the seat she was assigned. As she walked by, guys followed her with their eyes and girls glared at her.

The teacher began her lesson and I noticed that gradually the girl scooted more and more to the edge of the table. I also noticed that she never took her eyes off of me, watching me like a hawk.

I wonder why she's watching me like that, I wondered, trying hard to pay attention to the lesson, but I wasn't having much luck. The girl's eyes on me kept taking my mind off what the teacher was lecturing about.

The bell rang and the girl quickly stood up and walked quickly and gracefully out of the room. She made it out before anyone else did. I stayed back to talk to the teacher about something.

"Um, Mrs. Rochester?" I asked when everyone else was gone.

"Yes, Cody?" Mrs. Rochester looked at me.

"Um, who was that girl that sat next to me today?" I asked.

"That was," Mrs. Rochester said. "Mae Avalon"

Mae, I thought.

At lunch, I met up with Zack and my other friends. After sitting at our usual table, everyone except me began talking. My eyes had caught hold of the girl that had sat next to me in chemistry; Mae was her name, sitting at a table with four others.

There was a boy that looked to be around the same age as me with light brown hair that came down to his chin. He had brownish gold eyes that shone when the light from the ceiling hit them.

A boy with reddish-brown hair and looked to be around seventeen, was the one talking. But his lips were moving so fast that I couldn't read what he was saying. The boy caught me looking at him and stopped talking. The others turned to see what the other boy was looking at and were all looking at me now. I looked down at my plate. I could still feel the group's eyes on me. I risked glancing up to see that they had gone back to talking amongst themselves.

A girl that looked to be around seventeen as well was the one talking now. She had long, straight blonde hair that matched the color of her eyes. She wore deep red lipstick that was a little to dark for her skin tone, which was pale with just a small bit of tan. Come to think of it, all of them had the same skin tone and the same eye color. Weird, I thought.

Another boy I guessed was about sixteen with dirty blonde hair had taken his turn talking was playing with his food instead of eating it. Not one of them was eating. They just sat and quietly talked to each other, not drawing any attention, well except for me.

And a girl about fifteen with blackish- brown hair was drawing something. I wanted desperately to know what the teens were talking about. They couldn't be heard by anyone but themselves and the others in the group.

I was snapped out of his trance by his friend, Max, asking me something.

"Cody, Cody?" she asked. "What are you looking at?"

I shook his head. "Nothing. It's nothing." I sighed and rubbed my head. For some reason, I was getting a terrible headache. When I looked back to the group I was studying, I noticed that the girl, Mae, was looking at me intently.

I stood up, threw my lunch away, and left the cafeteria without saying anything to my brother or friends, despite their questions.

As soon as I got out of the lunchroom, my headache disappeared. "Huh, weird." I said to myself. I turned to go back to the lunchroom, but stopped when I saw the group of five teens that were the subject of my wondering coming down the hall. They were kind of bunched together to where they were kind of a big huddle. I stepped out of their way so they could make it through. Mae glanced at me but kept walking. I went back to the lunchroom and sat next to Zack.

"Hey, where were you, man? You just missed a great story." Zack told him.

"Um... bathroom." I replied, cautiously looking around.

"What's the matter?" Tapeworm asked, noticing my jumpy and nervous behavior.

"Nothing. I'm fine." I assured my friends. They all gave me questioning looks, but eventually went on talking about something else.

The bell rang and everyone got up and went to class. Right before I entered my classroom, I noticed the teens moving slowly and cautiously towards the door. They were going to skip school! I was about to go stop them, but eventually decided not to. Why risk getting in trouble over them skipping the last three hours of school? So, not worth it.