Dark Intentions Chapter 1: Caught, Again, a suite life series fanfic

For all new readers! I've noticed that a lot of people come to this first page and stop. Please don't stop! This chapter isn't exactly the greatest but I hold true to what I say at the end! And please don't ruin it for yourself by skipping to the latest chapter to see what's going on. It's very likely that you'll come across a big reveal that you'll regret reading.

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Ok, this is the first chapter in this story. I've never written one of these before, but I'm confident it will work out just fine because I do have it planned all the way through to the end.

I do not own the Suite Life or any of its characters.

Chapter 1:

"Zack! What are you doing?! You can't keep doing that!" mother-like twin brother, Cody, scolded. Zack didn't need any more of those. The one he was already stuck with was more than enough trouble. "What?" Zack asked, playing stupid and trying not to break his rare-to-find concentration.

"Note cards! You're cheating again! Haven't you learned yet?" Cody spazzed.

"Cody, seriously, shut the hell up."

"What are you going to do in high school next year? Where you can't cheat? Where they actually watch you, unlike the teachers here," Cody said, rolling his eyes. He thought it was ridiculous that kids got away with this, in his mind, criminal act of injustice.

"Once again, shut up. And you don't have to worry about–"

"Zackary Martin!" Ms. Turner shrieked. "What makes you think what have to say is more important than what I'm teaching?"

"What I'm saying might actually be remotely interesting," Zack shot back.

The class cracked up while Ms. Turner just gave a blank stare, as usual. "Is that your vocabulary book on your desk? Last time I checked, I teach a math class," the teacher remarked, holding up her math textbook.

"Well, last time I checked, you don't teach math. You attempt to teach it," Zack muttered. Again, the class burst into laughter. Zack had no problem making fun of this new teacher. She didn't know how to yell or get angry. All she did was come up with a lame comeback or make weird faces, which ended up making the whole situation even more hilarious.

Ms. Turner, who was definitely familiar with Zack's rude and undermining remarks, did her best to ignore the class. Trying to croak up a response to his shot at her, she spotted the note card Zack was working on, sitting adjacent to a small, open bright orange vocabulary book. Zack swiftly closed the book and slid it in his bookbag when he saw her eying him out, trying not to draw any more attention.

Ms. Turner thought for a moment, gave Zack a mean look, and then, with a sick smile on her face, she announced, "Class, start your homework. I'll be right back."

"I wonder what she's doing. Did you see the way she looked at you?" Cody observed. "Can't be good."

"I dunno," Zack mumbled in reply, ignoring the fact that he knew exactly what she was doing. Zack assumed she was going to walk down the hall, to Mrs. Thomas' English classroom, and ask if she was administering a test during that day. Zack's pulse began to race. With his forehead sweating profoundly, he wondered what his mother, Carey, would do if she found out about this. Last time he was caught cheating, she grounded him for a month. Zack could hardly imagine what course of action she was going to take this time around. Not to mention all the drama that has been taking place in the Martin family over the past few weeks…

"How do you think the situation with mom and dad will play out?" Zack asked, just trying to make small talk and only half interested in Cody's opinion.

"Well, they are divorced, and sometimes issues with the–"

Before he could finish, Ms. Turner butted in. "Zack, honey, could you please join me in the hall? Bring your vocabulary book too, with the note card."

"Uh oh," Zack thought. "I'm busted now."

As he waltzed out of the room, trying to look confident, all his classmates jeered and laughed; this is the third time he's been caught cheating on a test – in a few different ways, in a few different classes.

Zack's face quickly straightened up when he saw Mrs. Thomas' ancient, mean, ugly face glaring up at him. "Hand me that book, Zackary."

Zack's heart went into freefall mode as she flipped through the book, finally finding the note card. She looked up at him, and with the most serious face he's seen on her so far this year, she said, "This has happened twice before. The first time I just took the card from you during the test, just gave you a simple look. I guess I didn't get my point across. The second time, during the following vocab test, you used your book to cheat. I wrote a note home to your mother saying that I would have to take further action than just communicating with her if anything of the sort happened again. You may remember that she wrote a sincere apology back, telling me that she had a very long talk with you about your punishment and what will happen if you ever do it again. Well, what do ya know? You did it again. And the worst part is that you seem to be less intelligent about how you do it each time around."

Zack just nodded, recalling the all-night shouting contest between him and his mother last month.

"What do you suggest I do this time?" she asked, acting like she would give him another chance.

Zack just shrugged his shoulders while Ms. Turner chuckled.

Following a ten second awkward silence, Mrs. Thomas spoke up again. "Ok, well if you can't come up with something, then I'm afraid I'm going to have to do something about it myself. Go and get your books, we're going downstairs."

"I don't know what his problem is," Ms. Turner whispered to her colleague, loud enough for Zack to hear. "His brother's just so much better than him in, well, everything." Mrs. Thomas nodded her head in agreement. Zack furiously turned around while walking, made eye contact with his math teacher, and cursed her out under his breath.

Besides a few unanswered questions, this chapter is not very dramatic like the rest of the story will be (promise), but it was meant to be an opening scene kind of thing. I already have the second chapter done, and working on the third, so yes, this will be going somewhere and will also be very suspenseful.

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