Hi, everybody! This is my first Suite Life story and I'm so excited to post it! I'm not the best at writing romance, but I'm going to give it a try, so if it turns out I suck at writing romance, you can yell at me!
"Ok, boys, remember to wear your helmets, kneepads, wristpads, eblowpads, hold hands while crossing the street, and look both ways." Carrie says, being overprotective, as usual.
Zack glances longingly out the window. It's been raining for the past five days, and it has finally stopped, but at this rate, Zack and Cody will be inside all day, listening to Carrie's safety lecture.
"Mom, can we go now?" Zack says, impatiently.
"Alright." Carrie says. Her sons leave, but she calls after them. "If you go to the bathroom, use the buddy system, don't stay out past dinner and if it rains again, come straight home!"
"Yes, Mom." Zack and Cody say in unison as they make their way to the door with their stake boards in their arms.
"Oh, and no shake boarding in the lobby! You know angry Mr. Moseby gets when you do that!" Carrie calls from across the room.
"Yes, Mom, we know." Cody says, reaching for the doorknob.
"Can we please go now?" Zack asks.
Carrie nods. "Have fun."
Zack pushes Cody out of the way. They try to squeeze through the door at the same time. Carrie sneaks up behind them and gives them both a kiss on the helmet.
"Mom!" Zack exclaims. "You're embarrassing us!"
"You're stuck in a door frame." Carrie points out.
A cute girl walks down the hall, spots Zack and Cody, then walks away, giggling.
"No, wait! Come back!" Zack exclaims, extending his arms after the girl.
After a while, the twins manage to get through the door. They race to the elevator, then head towards the lobby. They disobey Carrie and get on their skate boards. They head towards the door, when they hear a voice behind them.
"And what do you think you're doing?"
"We were just leaving." Cody says, getting off of his skate board.
"And what were you doing just before you were leaving?" Mr. Moseby asks.
"Skate boarding." Zack says.
"And what do I think about skate boarding in the lobby?" Mr. Moseby asks. Before Zack or Cody can answer, Mr. Moseby talks again. "Oh, never mind. Boys will be boys. Go to the park and have fun."
Zack and Cody exchange confused glances.
"Did he just let us go?" Cody asks.
"Yeah, cool! Let's go!" Zack exclaims, racing towards the door, but his brother grabs onto his arm.
"Isn't that suspicious?" Cody asks.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Can we go now?" Zack asks, trying to pry Cody's arm off of him.
"But that's just not like him." Cody says.
"Since when do we care about him? Now, let's go before it rains again!" Zack exclaims.
At that moment, a flash of lightning lights up the sky, followed by a rumble of thunder.
"Great, just great!" Zack says, sounding annoyed. "You just had to wonder about Moseby, and now we're stuck inside, again."
"Well, I've been studying the rain, and it should only rain for about three hours, then the rest of the week should be sunny with slightly overcast skies." Cody says.
"What are you, a meteorologist?" Zack asks sarcastically.
"Well, this rain will give us plenty of time to work on homework!" Cody says excitedly.
"This is Saturday, the day we don't do homework." Zack says. "And I was wondering, I'll give you my allowance if you do my homework for me."
"You spent your allowance already." Cody says.
Before Zack can answer, London shuffles into the lobby. It looks as if someone threw a bucket of water on her. Maddie can't help but laugh at that scene.
"I'm all wet!" London cries.
"No, really?" Maddie asks, walking across the lobby to her.
"Yes, look, I am." London says, turning around. Maddie rolls her eyes. Why does she even bother with sarcasm? "And look." London pulls Ivonna out of her bag. The dog is just as wet as London. "Ivonna's perm is ruined."
"Oh, no, that's horrible." Maddie says unsympathetically.
"Well, I'm glad someone thinks so." London says.
"Whoa, what happened?" Cody asks, going up to London.
"Jump into a lake?" Zack asks.
"No, it's raining." London pouts. "I'm going to my room to get dried off."
As London heads for the elevator, Mr. Moseby heads towards the empty candy counter.
"Maddie!" Mr. Moseby irritably calls.
"Watch out, Moseby's been acting strange." Zack advises her.
Maddie walks back to her candy counter.
"Now Maddie, is there any reason why you're not working?" Mr. Moseby asks.
"Well, London was all wet, so I went to...comfort her!" Maddie says, her eyes darting everywhere but at Mr. Moseby.
"Well, now, Maddie, you know that I like you working, but you can take the rest of the day off!" Mr. Moseby cheerfully says.
Maddie stares in shock as Mr. Moseby leaves. Zack and Cody run up to her side.
"Did you just see a ghost?" Cody asks, waving his hand in front of her face.
"Ok, you're right. Mr. Moseby is acting strange. He just let me have the rest of the day off, and I just started working." Maddie says.
"We have to get to the bottom of this!" Cody declares.
"Agreed." Maddie nods.
"Well, if you need me, I'll be over there, doing something useful with my life." Zack says, sitting in one of the chairs.
"Like what?" Cody asks.
"Watching you two run around." Zack says, propping his feet up on a table.
"Aren't you going to to help us?" Maddie asks.
Zack pauses, then waves his hand in front of his face. "Nah."
"Why?" Cody questions.
"What's in it for me?" Zack asks.
"Knowing you've helped someone in their time of need." Cody suggests.
"Like I said before, nah." Zack says, leaning his head back.
"You know, Zack, girls just love boys who help out others." Maddie says flirtatiously.
Zack jumps up. "What are we waiting for? Let's go!"
Zack runs, but Cody grabs his arm.
"Where do we go?" Cody asks.
Zack pauses. He never thought of that.
"London! I'm sure she'd like to help, and we could spy with her." Maddie suggests.
Zack and Cody nod in agreement.
"But where would she be?" Cody asks.
"Well, she was soaking wet. She'd probably be in her closet. I'm guessing right now, she'd be in Shoeland." Maddie says.
"To...Shoeland!" Zack exclaims.
I hope you enjoyed it! Chapter 2 should be coming shortly. Please review!