A/N: Thanks so much to everyone who read chapter one, and especially those who reviewed! I absolutely love reading your comments. I'm pretty sure Cody and Bailey will always get advice from Zack and London, despite the fact that it's almost never good! Enjoy part two (otherwise known as: the part where things really get ugly)!


Bailey spotted her boyfriend across the Sky Deck talking to Zack, who was behind the counter at the juice bar. Summoning her courage, she approached slowly. I hope he's not mad at me. "Hey Cody."

He looked over nonchalantly. "Hey Bailey. What's up?" he said coolly.

She bit her lip nervously. Just apologize and get it over with. "Nothing really." she answered. "Can we talk about last night?"

Cody looked over Bailey's shoulder at Zack, who was shaking his head and mouthing no. Zack was right- the only way to get past the I-love-you debacle was to avoid emotional conflict and pretend it never happened. "No." he said.

Bailey's eyes widened. He didn't even want to talk to her? "Cody, please, I just-"

"Look, Bailey, no worries, everything is cool." Cody cut her off. "Just forget about it."

"But aren't you-"

"Great." Cody said, clapping her on the shoulder. Behind Bailey, Zack was giving him the thumbs up.

"Uh... great." Bailey said, confused and hurt by Cody's casual brush-off. They both sat down at the smoothie counter. "Hey Zack. What's going on with you?"

"Not much." Zack said. "Just testing out some new smoothie flavors." he handed her a brown smoothie and she eyed it doubtfully. "Try it and tell me what you think." he glared at his brother. "Cody won't help me."

Cody raised his hands. "If you knew what kinds of stuff he's tried to feed me in the past you'd know why."

"Zack...what's in it?" she asked suspiciously.

Zack folded his arms. "Have some and see for yourself."

"Fine." Bailey took a small sip. "Mmm."

"Yeah?" Zack said upon seeing her smile. "I call it Cokiwerry."

"Coconut, kiwi, and cherry!" Bailey identified with a grin, taking a longer sip. "This is really good, Zack."

"You like it?"

"I love it!" Bailey replied. Cody winced slightly at her use of the l-word. "...Although you might want to work on the presentation a little. It looks like mud."

"Yeah, I know." Zack sighed. "But the red and the green make this nasty gray color, and then when I add the coconut... I'll have to work on it."

"You should really try it." Bailey said to Cody. "It's better than it looks." She offered him a sip from her straw.

Cody leaned over to take a sip, but, at a look from Zack, grabbed his own straw and plunked it into her cup. "Not bad." he agreed.

Bailey was taken aback. Cody could be a bit of a germaphobe at times, but he'd never been afraid of her germs... at least he wasn't when he was kissing her last night! It felt like a signal- maybe he didn't want to date her anymore, after she wouldn't say she loved him... "Cody-"

She was cut off by the sudden arrival of Addison. "Hey, Bailey, Cody, Zack, what's up?" the gangly girl said cheerfully. "So Bailey, a bunch of us girls were going to do a get-together for Becky's birthday next week and I was wondering if you wanted to come?"

Bailey smiled. "Sure, I'd love to!" she said. As much as she enjoyed hanging out with Cody, Zack, Woody, and Marcus all the time, it was always nice to have a girls' night. "Just let me know what time and I'll be there!"

Cody flinched again and Zack sent him a warning look.

"Well, we don't have all the details planned out yet." Addison admitted. "But I'll totally keep you posted."

"Thanks." Bailey replied as Addison turned to go on her way. "Oh, and Addison I love your shoes!"

Cody's eyes widened in petulant disbelief.

Addison's face brightened. "Really? Thanks Bailey!" She hummed a little to herself as she bounded off the deck.

"I guess I should get going too." Bailey said after a moment, sliding off the stool and pushing the rest of the smoothie over for Cody to finish. "I promised London I'd help her paint her name on her fingernails." She looked at Cody hopefully. "Want to hang out later?"

Cody did, but he couldn't seem desperate in front of Bailey. "Oh, I don't know." he said. "I've got a lot of homework to take care of."

Bailey looked disappointed and suspicious at the same time. "No you don't, you do all your homework weeks in advance."

Cody blushed and shrugged. He should have known she would call him on that stupid excuse. "How do you think I stay weeks in advance?"

Bailey looked at her feet. "Oh. Well, if you get the time, come find me."

"Yep. See ya, Bails." Cody said coolly. He waited until she left before complaining to Zack. "I hate being cold to Bailey! That was hard."

"Geez, you are desperate."

"And what was up with her today? Love, love, love!" Cody exclaimed. "Smoothies, shoes, get-togethers! She loves everything but me!"

Zack rolled his eyes. "Come on Code, she always talks like that. Everyone does." he pointed out. "She doesn't mean it."

Cody rested his folded arms on the counter and buried his head in them. "Why couldn't she not mean it about me?" he whined.

"Well she might have meant it about the birthday party... after all there'll probably be cake there." Zack smirked.

"Shut up."

Zack snapped the rag he was using to wipe the counter at his brother's head. "Go be pathetic somewhere else, you're scaring off the customers."


Bailey took a deep breath and knocked on Cody's cabin door. "I love you." she burst out as it swung open.

To her dismay, Woody was standing before her, grinning like an idiot. "Well thanks, Bailey, I think you're pretty swell too." He waggled his eyebrows at her and she made a face.

"Not you. Cody." she clarified, pushing Woody aside and moving into the room. Cody was reclining on the back legs of his chair with his feet propped on his desk, his nose buried in a textbook. He didn't even look up during Bailey and Woody's exchange.

"Hey, Cody, Bailey says she loves you." Woody relayed.

"Yeah, thanks Woody." Cody said, continuing to read.

Bailey folded her arms, upset. "Is that textbook really more interesting than me standing here telling you I love you?" she questioned.

Woody reached behind him, grabbing a box of chocolate covered peanuts off his desk and proceeding to munch on them while watching the pair intently. "I doubt it." he answered. "I'm riveted."

"Not you." Bailey said, rolling her eyes. "Cody. You've been avoiding me all week."

"We hung out just yesterday." Cody pointed out.

"Yeah, but we didn't talk. Not like we usually do." Bailey retorted.

Cody shut the book and stood up. "And you thought that marching in here and declaring your love for me would fix that?"

"Actually, yes!" Bailey said, starting to get angry. "Don't even try to tell me that's not what you're all bent out of shape about."

"Oh boy..." Woody murmured, looking back and forth between the couple.

"I'm not bent out of shape." Cody said calmly. "I was just turning down the emotional heat so you would be more comfortable."

"But I like the emotional heat!" Bailey protested.

"Ooh..." Woody raised his eyebrows suggestively. "Wow."

"As much as you like cake?" Cody shot back.

"Oh no he didn't!" Woody cried.

"Woody!" Bailey and Cody exclaimed together. "No one is talking to you!" Cody finished in exasperation.

"You don't have to make fun of me, Cody. I know it was a stupid thing to say." Bailey said angrily.

"Then why'd you say it? We weren't even talking about cake! Are you just always thinking about cake when we're together?" Cody asked accusingly.

"No! Of course not!" Bailey cried. "Look at yourself! You're jealous of cake!"

"What? You're the only one who's allowed to have feelings for cake?!" Cody returned. "I mean... wait, I'm not jealous!"

"And I'm not in love with cake, I'm in love with you!" Bailey spat.

"Oh, that's really nice, that's just how I imagined this moment." Cody sniped. "The venom in your voice is really tugging on my heartstrings."

"Oh, that is it!" Bailey shouted, stamping her foot like a child having a tantrum. "You're a worse boyfriend than Moose!" She turned and stomped out of the room.

Woody leaned towards Cody and asked, "Was she talking about Moose like her ex, or mousse like chocolate pudding?"

Cody folded his arms. "Who knows?!" he yelled so Bailey could still hear him. "We all know how strongly she feels about dessert!"


A/N: Oh snap. Stay tuned for the third and final part! Coming soon!