"Zack I'm sorry." Max said.
"Damn I'm not ready to be a father yet." Zack started.
"Zack, don't." Max said, cutting him off.
"Let me finish." Zack interrupted. "I'm not ready to be a father yet, but it looks like I don't have a choice."
The statement got Zack a hug from her. "So are you sure that you're pregnant?" Zack asked.
"Well I need to go to the doctor." Max said. "I just took a test."
"I think I'll go with you." Zack said. "But I hope to God that it was wrong."
"Me, too." Max said.
"So does anyone else know?" Zack asked.
"Just Bailey. She's the one who bought me the test." Max said.
"Well I don't think we should tell anyone else until we know for sure." Zack remarked.
"That sounds like a good plan." Max agreed before she hugged him. "Zack I love you."
"Okay that's pretty big too." Zack said before thinking to himself. "Oh what the hell, I love you too."
"Do you really mean that?" Max asked.
"Yeah I wouldn't still be with you if I didn't." Zack said. "Max, you're first girl I've ever loved."
"I can't help thinking about what everyone will say. What will my parents think? What will the people at school think?"
Before Zack could answer, Kurt Martin walked in through the door.
"Hi Dad!" Zack said.
"Did I miss the wedding?" Kurt asked.
"Yes you did but there's still the reception." Zack said. "Dad, this is my girlfriend, Max."
Max held out her hand. "Hello, Mr. Martin." She said.
"Oh please, call me Kurt." The man said. "Well it's a good thing that I didn't miss the whole thing. Where's your brother?"
"He's at the reception with everyone else." Zack said.
"So how do you like the car that I got you?" Kurt asked.
"It's nice but it kind of sucks having to share it with Cody." Zack said. "Especially when we both have to work on the same day"
"So what your saying is you both you need your own cars." Kurt said. "Okay I can do that. I'll take you to pick out a car, tomorrow."
"Tomorrow's not a good day for me. Why don't you take Cody instead?" Zack said.
"Okay that will work." Kurt said as he left to find his other son. Zack wasn't relieved he didn't find out about the situation.
"So I didn't know that your dad was that Kurt Martin." Max said.
"Yeah most people don't. They usually don't believe me when I say that he is." Zack said.
At the reception, Cody was dancing with Bailey.
"So Cody, how did you become such a good dancer?" Bailey asked.
"Well this is going to sound kind of silly." Cody said. "Basically when we crossed the International Date Line we were stuck in a time loop caused by lightning striking the ship. We had been there three times already by the time that we actually crossed. I was the only one who remembered anything."
"As fascinating as that is, what does it have to do with your dancing?" Bailey asked.
"I was getting to that. You see I wanted us to start dating at the dance. By the third time I took a dance class and I almost succeeded but just as we were about to kiss, the day had started over again." Cody explained.
"So that's why you screamed 'no!' in the middle of class." Bailey deduced. "So what did you do about it?"
"I figured that being with you wouldn't be worth it if you kept forgetting, so I spilled a drink on the console so we wouldn't be there when the lightning struck." Cody said.
"Well I think you made a good decision. I've seen 50 First Dates and it didn't look fun." Bailey said.
Then Kurt walked up to them. "Surprise!" He said.
"Hi dad, I didn't know that you were coming." Cody said.
"So is she your girlfriend?" Kurt asked.
"No" Cody said. "This is my wife, Bailey."
"Can I borrow my son for a minute?" Kurt said as Bailey nodded.
Kurt and Cody walked over to a corner. "Did I hear you right? Did you say wife?" The patriarch asked
"Yes I did." Cody answered. "We got married two months ago."
"I see and why did you get married? You're only 16." Kurt asked.
"Well we met on the boat; she was from a little town in Kansas. When the semester ended, we didn't want to break up, so we got married." Cody explained
"That's certainly different." Kurt said. "Well anyway your brother said that you two were annoyed with having to share a car."
"Yeah a little" Cody responded.
"So I'm going take you tomorrow to get your own car." Kurt said.
"Wow thanks, Dad." Cody said.
"Now I'll leave you to get back to your wife." Kurt said. "And by the way, I pity you right now."
Cody walked back over to Bailey.
"So what does your dad do?" Bailey asked.
"He's a rock star. His spends a lot of his time touring." Cody said. "He's not big on married life."
"Oh I see." Bailey said.
"He's also getting me my own car." Cody said.
"That's great." Bailey said. "Now we don't have to double date anymore. I mean it's fun but it would be nice to have some time to ourselves."
"Yeah I definitely have to agree with you about that." Cody said as the pair resumed dancing.
The next day, Max arrived at the Tipton. She wasn't looking forward to the trip to the doctor. Luckily she knew that Zack would be going with her so she felt better.
Zack walked out of the elevator. "So are you ready to go?" He asked.
"As I'll ever be. I hate going to the doctor and I'm going to detest this even more." She said "Thanks for coming with me. I don't know what I'd do without you."
"Well right now we need to hope for the best and prepare for the worst." Zack said
"How did you get to be so insightful?" Max asked.
"I heard that line in a movie before." Zack said as he took her to the car. They drove to a clinic that they didn't expect anyone to know they were at.
The receptionist gave Max some forms to fill out. Once she did they still had to wait.
"Maxine Baker." A nurse called.
Zack and Max got up. She walked in first.
"Are you family?" The nurse asked Zack.
"No." Zack answered.
"Then I can't let you go with her." The nurse said.
"I want him with me." Max said. She whispered to the nurse.
"Fine, go ahead." The nurse said.
"What did you tell her?" Zack asked.
"The truth." Max said. "I told her that I think I'm pregnant and you're the father."
They were taken to a room where they had to wait for a while.
"Hey they have ESPN the magazine." Zack said. "Wow it says that Alex Rodriguez tested positive for Performance-Enhancing Drugs."
"Can we focus right now?" Max said.
"Sorry I'm just trying to help you take your mind off of it." The blonde teenager said.
There was a knock on the door. The doctor walked in.
"You must be Maxine." The doctor said. "I'm Dr. Redding"
"I like to be called Max." The girl said.
"What seems to be the problem?" Dr. Redding said
"Well I took a pregnancy test and I need to clarify it." Max said.
"And let me guess, he's the would-be father." Dr. Redding said, referring to Zack.
Max nodded.
"Well we need you to change into this gown so we can run some tests on you." Dr. Redding said.
Max changed and they ran all of the tests. Then after a period of waiting, he returned.
"Well I'm not sure if you'll be happy about this but it looks like you are pregnant." Dr. Redding said.
