Hello! Welcome to the first chapter of my story Here We Go Again which is a sequel to my last story Back on Deck. Now I realized that I screwed up with the ages of my characters from the last chapter. I made most of them turn 17 in Back on Deck which means they would be graduating this year. So please bear with my mistake haha and get ready to witness the gangs last year on the S.S Tipton.

Zack's point of view

"Come on boys we got to go or else the ship is leaving without you," Mom called from the car.

"Alright we're here," Cody laughed as we hurried out of the hotel and got into the car.

"So boys are you disappointed summers over?" Mom asked.

"Maybe," Cody said looking out the window. "A little."

I knew Cody was lying. He was so excited to see Bailey it was unbearable. They talked to each other constantly threw the summer and Cody even went to visit her in Kettlecorn for a week after his summer program. When he got back he told me that Bailey had gone to NYC to visit Lily during July.

"How about you Zack?" Mom asked looking at me from the rear view mirror.

"I might miss a few things," I answered honestly.

It was true I would miss not having to do school work or dealing with teachers for that matter but I knew that summer coming to an end meant so much more. I meant being with the girl I loved again. We did talk during the summer but never got to visit each other like we had planned, just because of bad timing.

I ended up putting my iPod on to drown out the noise of Cody telling mom about his latest physics experiment. After about 2 hours we were finally at the docks.

"Sorry I can't go with you and get you settled this time boys," Mom said while hugging us. "I have to get back for wedding I'm supposed to sing at."

"Its okay mom," I said taking my bags. "We understand."

"Alright, goodbye boys." She said getting back into the car. "Call me, be good, learn something and have a good time."

"We will," I laughed. "Love you."

"Bye mom," Cody waved. "Love you."

"Love you boys," She said then drove off.

"Ready Cod-" I turned and saw Cody already running onto the ship. "Alright then."

I walked up onto the ship laughing as Cody ran, dropped things on the way and tripped a few times. By the time he was actually in the lobby I had caught up to him, and I was walking.

"We should probably sign in and get the books." I said walking over to the table where Miss Tutweiller was standing.

"Hello Cody, Zack," She said writing something down on her clipboard. "My you guys always seem to come back to us looking different."

"Yeah well that's what happeneds," I laughed as she handed us our books.

"Hey Miss Tutweiller is that a wedding ring?" Cody asked pointing to her left hand.

"Oh well engagement ring," she laughed looking at her hand. "Yeah my boyfriend proposed over the summer."

"That's great," I said. "Congratulations."

"Yeah that's awesome!" Cody said.

"Thank you," She smiled. "Well I will see you in class next week."

"Bye," We said walking down to our rooms.

"Its crazy how we have the same roommates as last year," Cody said.

"Yeah," I laughed. "You don't mind being with Woody again?"

"No I've gotten used to him," He said. "I know how to deal with him now."

"Alright I'll meet up with you a little later," I said unlocking my door with my key.

"Yeah sure." Cody said as he walked away.

"Zack attack!" Travis said when I walked into the room.

"Hey Travis," I said. "What's up?"

"Not much just psyched about being a senior," He said while unpacking some stuff.

"I know its crazy," I agreed setting my stuff down next to my bed.

"Did you see Lily yet?" He asked.

"No," I said." I'm going to go find her now, I'll see you later."

"Yeah for sure," He said putting some stuff into a drawer

I walked down the hall towards the sign in desk.

"Miss T."

"Yes Zack can I help you?"

"Do you know if Lily's here yet?" I figured she would be the best person to ask since she had the room keys and stuff.

"Yes she was here a few minutes after you left," She smiled. "Here room number is 22 in the corridor next to yours."

"Thanks," I smiled walking down one of the hallways.

"Oh my you've gotten older," I heard a voice say from behind me. I turned around and saw the old lady who would always somewhat hit on me while on the ship.

"Oh my god," I said under my breath. "Hey you're on the ship again."

"Oh yes I love it here," She smiled. "I'm so glad to see you back here."

"Ugh yeah," I said awkwardly as she continued to flirt a little.

"Tisk, tisk Zack," I turned around and saw Bailey and Cody walking hand in hand down the hall towards me. "Cheating on your girlfriend are you?"

"Haha very funny Bailey," I laughed. I turned to say something to the women but she was gone. I sighed knowing she would be around later. "So you know were my girlfriend is?"

"Yeah she's in our room," Bailey smiled. "Were roommates this year!"

"You and Cody?" I teased.

"No no silly," She laughed. "Lily and I."

"That's great," I said walking down the hall with them.

"Ok well our room is right there," She said pointing at the room with the 22 on the door.

"Come on Cody let's go see Travis."

I walked over to the door and stood in front of it for a second. This was it, I was finally going to see my girl in person for the first time in months. I knocked on the door and heard faint footsteps coming closer. When it opened I was so happy to see Lily standing there. She was wearing a purple/black/white print tank top, denim shorts and her black converse sneakers.

"Zack," She laughed as we hugged each other. "Ugh I missed you."

"I miss you too Lils," I said letting go of her. She closed the door and guided me further into the room. "So how's it going?"

"Wait."

"What?" I asked wondering what could be wrong.

"I have to do one thing I've been waiting all summer to do," She smiled.

"Ughh sure," Before I could ask what that was she threw herself onto me, crashing her lips to mine. It felt so good just to kiss her again, even to be close to her again just felt amazing. After a good while of kissing we broke apart and sat down on her bed together.

"Well I wanted to do that all summer too but there is another thing I wanted to do," She nodded and I reached up with one hand and ran my fingers threw her long hair.

"That was something you missed?" She laughed.

"I missed everything but yes I did miss touching and playing with your hair," I smiled

"Oh Zack," She laughed.

"So how did the redecorating go?" I asked.

"Great," She smiled waking to her bag and pulling out her camera. "Its kind of the same as my old room but it has some different touches."

"It looks great Lily," I said looking through the pictures.

"And my favorite part!" She smiled showing me the next picture of a huge wall with pictures on it. "I have an even bigger wall for my pictures."

"You and your pictures," I laughed. We looked at pictures and just talk for at least an hour or so.

"So shall we meet everyone and get a smoothie?" I asked getting up from the bed.

"We shall!" She said jumping up in excitement. Then she grabbed my hand and started dragging me out of the room. "To the smoothies!"

Cody's point of view

"So do you think its going to be weird not having London as a roommate this year?" I asked Bailey as we walked away from Zack.

"Yeah," She laughed. "Its going to be strange but I'm excited to be rooming with Lily."

"Yeah you guys will have fun," I said as we sat down and looked out onto the water.

"So how bad was he all summer?" She asked leaning her head on my shoulder.

"Who? Zack?"

"Yeah."

"Not as bad as I thought it would be," I explained. "At first he admitted missing her a lot but once he started work he wasn't as upset."

"That's good," She sighed. "Lily was still kind of upset when I went to see her but Nathan was trying to keep her busy."

"I bet," I agreed. "We were lucky, I got to visit you."

"I know it was so much fun," She smiled kissing me. "I loved having you on the farm, you should come down more."

"I would love to," I smiled. "It was a great time."

"Even thought the cows stampeded at you?" She cringed.

"It wasn't that bad," I lied trying to shake the memory from my head.

"You started crying," Bailey reminded me.

"Shhhh," I said quickly. "No one needs to know that."

"Its ok Cody it will be our little secret," Bailey smiled leaning in to kiss me.

"How about we go back to your room and..."

"I have a roommate remember, we can't just sneak away to my room like we did at my house," Bailey laughed.

"Just a warning you now, your probably going to be walking in on a lot," I laughing remembering something.

"Zack and Lily?" Bailey looked at me confused. "No I'm sure it will be fine."

"Think about it Bails," I smiled. "They haven't seen each other all summer, Lily always had a room to herself last year and sometimes they would run off and we wouldn't see them for awhile."

"That's all true." She said biting her lip. "We will see how this goes."

"If you need help I'm here," I laughed taking her hand again. "Wanna go meet up with everyone at the smoothie bar?"

"Sure."

We walked back to the smoothie bar and everyone was there waiting for us, just like last year but minus London.

"Hey it's Cody and Bailey," Travis greeted as we walked over.

"Hey Travis," We both said.

"Everyone ready for another awesome year?" Bailey asked as I ordered our smoothies.

"With you guys yes, school work no." Zack said.

"It's going to be so different without London here," Woody said while chewing on a donut.

"Yeah but I talked to her yesterday and she said she would probably come and visit." Bailey said.

"That's good." I said handing Bailey her smoothie. "Hey did you guys here Miss Tutweiller is getting married?"

"That's awesome!" Bailey and Lily squealed.

"Is this to the guy she met online?" Travis asked.

"Yeah I think so," Zack said. "They were still dating when we left for summer so it must be him."

"Well I'm happy for her." Lily smiled. "From what you guys told me she wasn't having very much luck with love until this guy came along."

"Hello kids." We turned to see Mr. Moseby walking over in his cruise uniform. "Oh I'm sorry young adults."

"Hey Mr. Moseby!" He all said while laughing.

"I'm glad to see you all back." He smiled.

"Really?" Zack asked with a shocked expression.

"In some ways." Mr. Moseby laughed. "Oh Lily may I have a word with you?"

"Sure." She said as she hopped down from her stool and walking away with Moseby.

"What's that all about?" Woody asked and we all turned towards Zack.

"I don't know," Zack said sipping his drink. "I just hope its not more bad news, we can take more of that."

"I'm sure every things fine." Bailey said trying to reassure everyone.

After about 15 minutes of talking and catching up we decided to go hang out in the game room and maybe watch a movie after dinner.

Zack was hesitant about leaving at first but I reassured him that Lily would text him if she had problems finding us. The guys started playing Call of Duty while Bailey read a magazine. After a few minutes Lily came into the room. An: I know nothing about video games so if I say anything wrong I'm sorry

"Hello all," She smiled. "What goes on?"

"Call of Duty," Woody mumbled still staring at the screen. "Must win."

"Reading about Brad and Angelina." Bailey said from the arm chair next to the couch.

Lily started walking around the back of the couch, as to not get in the way of us and the TV to get to Bailey. I heard her make a small noise and looked back to see that Zack had grabbed her arm.

"Come here for a minute." He said softly. I paused the game since Zack would be paying attention to Lily and would end up losing the game for us. She walked around the couch and sat in front of Zack.

"What did Moseby want?" He asked

"Oh it was nothing," She shrugged.

"Everything alright?" Bailey asked sitting next to Lily on the floor.

"Yeah he just wanted to make sure everything thing was alright." She said and we all looked confused so she continued. "At home and such."

"Oh I see." Bailey said.

"Yeah he said it might be good for me to go see the psychologist for awhile." She explained.

"That might be good." I told her.

"Yeah I'm going to think about it, were gonna talk more about it next week." She said leaning against Zack's legs and resting her head on his knee. I figured that meant she didn't want to talk about it anymore (I've learned a lot from Bailey) so I changed the subject.

"Alright back to the game?" I asked everyone.

"Let go!" Travis and Woody yelled excitedly.

"Yeah sure." Zack said as he patted Lily's head

_Later that night_

Zack's point of view

After dinner we went back to the game room and watched Ghost of Girlfriends Past. We talked until about 1am and I saw Lily was getting tired.

"Time for bed Lily?" I laughed.

"Yeah I think so." She said standing up and taking my hand.

"Night guys," We said leaving the game room.

"You up for a little walk before bed?" I asked.

"Yeah sounds good."

We walked along the side of the boat, talking about summer and everything we did. When we got to the sky deck she stood by the rail and looked out at the water. I stood behind her and placed my arms around her. The wind was blowing her hair to one said so I leaned down and kissed her neck slowly.

"I missed you so much Lily."

"I missed you too." She turned around so she was facing me. "I'm just glad the school year started so I could see you in person."

"Are you saying you didn't enjoy our phone calls?" I laughed.

"Of course did." She said. "But I can't kiss you through the phone."

"I think there's a song about that actually." I said thinking.

"Besides the point." She laughed. "The most important thing is that were together, you and me right now."

"I think that's a song too." I pointed out.

She started laughing and walked away from me.

"You know what else I missed Zack?"

"What?"

"Our races," Before I could process what she said she took off running down the hall.

I started to run after her, I must have chased her around half the ship. Whenever we ran down the stairs I got a strong sense of déjà vu and hoped she wouldn't fall. Finally she ran into her room. When I got into the room it was empty, no Lily and no Bailey. I walked in further and...

"Rawr!" Lily yelled from behind me. I jumped and tripped, making me fall and hit the floor.

"Oh I'm gonna get you for that!" I said getting up. She let out a small yell and tried to run but I grabbed her arm and we both fell back onto the floor. She got up quickly not wanting me to get her.

"Ohhh!" She yelled as I grabbed her by the waist so she wouldn't run again.

I was about to say something to her but she jumped at me and started to kiss me causing me to hit my back against the wall. We continued to make out against the wall for at least 15 minutes. I turned and started to walk backwards without breaking our kiss. I was trying to move towards Lily's bed but my foot caught the side of the desk and I fell

backwards, causing Lily to fall on top of me.

"Well that was fun." I laughed.

"Oh yeah it was great." She smiled then turned back more serious. "I should probably get off you."

"Why?" I wrapped my arms around her mid section so she couldn't get off. "I don't mind this at all."

"Oh really?" She leaned down and kissed me again.

"See Bailey?" Lily broke off the kiss and I tilted my head back to see that it was Cody talking in the doorway with Bailey. "I told you you'd walk in on some interesting things."

Lily quickly got off of me, I could tell she was kind of embarrassed. When we both got up and headed for the door Bailey and Cody were still laughing.

"Ha-ha," I teased punching Cody lightly on the arm. Then I took Lily's hand and pulled her towards the hall. "Come here for a second Lils."

"Okay." She said quietly. "I'll be back in a minute Bailey."

"Okay." Bailey answered.

We didn't go far, just in the hall right beside her room. We both leaned against the wall facing each other. Lily had her head down but I could see she was biting her lips, another sign that she was embarrassed.

"Hey," I said touching her arm. When she looked up at me she smiled. "You okay?"

"Yeah I'm fine but I'm a little tired," She said. "Goodnight Zack."

I placed both my hands on either side of her face and looked into her eyes. "Goodnight my beautiful Lily. I'm so happy that were together again and I can see your bright smiling face every morning. It feels so good to have you back in my arms and to kiss you again," I leaned forward and kissed her lightly on the lips. When I pulled away she smiled and hugged me.

"I'm glad you feel that way." She whispered while hugging me. "Because one of the places I feel the most safe is in your arms."

"Then I'm doing my job right." I laughed letter her go. "Now go get some sleep missy."

"Okay." She laughed walking back into her room.

I started walking away when I heard Lily's voice coming from her room.

"Really guys?" She laughed. "This is payback for what just happened isn't it?"

I laughed and continued to walk down the hall. Cody and Bailey must have been making out or something. It was things like this that made me happy to be back on the ship with everyone.

AN: Soooo how did you like it? Click the little review button and let me know! In my opinion it isn't the greatest chapter but it will get better I promise. Also if you have any cool ideas for the story let me know! I have quiet I few but hey I can always use more :) The next chapter will hopefully be out next week but I do still work so stay with me. On the bright side I leave for my cottage mid July so that means I will probably write a lot while I'm down there. Thanks everyone!