Hey I'm back! I didn't think I was going to get this good of a reaction! Well, maybe okay I did, but why not? This is the kind of reaction I've been getting from the rest of my fics. Thanks everyone who reviewed! All I could do was smile afterwards. This chapter, I'm taking something that was used in "Phil of the Future". You'll know when it happens. I'm sorry for using it but I couldn't think of any other way of pulling this part off. Now on with the fic!

Chapter 2 – The Strength of a Brother

Zack knew who he was looking at. It was Cody. "Cody? Is that you?" He questioned the apparition of his dreams.

"Hey Zack, how're you doing?" Cody asked him casually, as if nothing happened.

Zack's face immediately lit up. "Oh CODY! I'm so glad to see you!" He jumps up and gives Cody a hug. However, he goes right through Cody and falls down.

"I'm sorry Zack, but I'm not actually here." Cody told him after turning around.

Zack was getting really confused. "But, but, you're standing right there!" He then noticed Cody beginning to fade a little.

"I know, but I just had to see you one last time before I…" Cody finally disappeared.

Zack instantly got up. "Before you what? Cody! CODY!" Zack then woke up in the middle of the night with his eyes wide open. "Wha.. what happened?" He then remembered the dream. "Co.. Cody?" He looked over and saw the empty bed. Unable to sleep, he lay there for the rest of the night crying at the loss of his brother. What he didn't notice was a little sparkle in the night sky.

The next day, "Zack? Are you awake?" Carey came inside.

"For about six hours." Zack responded, eyes bloodshot.

"What happened?" Carey asked. Zack was thrown off by her question.

"Isn't it obvious? I miss my little brother!" Zack nearly yelled, wiping his eyes.

"Little brother? Zack you don't have a little brother." Carey tells him. Zack's head snapped directly towards where Cody's bed should be. There, he saw an empty bed and all of Cody's stuff gone.

"What? Where? Where's Cody's things? What did you do to them!" Zack was now yelling.

Carey looked at him with a very confused look. "What are you talking about? Who's Cody? Last I checked you were an only child." She got up and gave him a kiss. "Now get ready for school, you're weirding me out right now." Zack thought he was confused, now he was out of his mind.

"(This can't be happening! What happened to all of Cody's stuff? Why does Mom keep on saying that I don't have a brother?)" He finally got the sense to check all pictures he had of him and Cody.

When he gathered them, every single picture was just of him either with mom or dad, but no Cody. "What? How is this possible?" He felt like he was losing his mind. He wasn't so sure exactly what happened, but he wasn't going to stop believing that he had a little brother. He then started getting his stuff together. He noticed that he stinks, "(I better take a shower. Cody wouldn't want this room messy. It's one way I could do to make sure I remember him.)" He fixed up his stuff then went to take a shower.

When Carey saw him coming out of the bathroom with just a shower robe on, she was shocked. "Zack? Did you just take a shower?"

"Yeah, why?" He was curious what she'd say.

"Oh, I was just surprised because you rarely take showers." She resumed cooking breakfast.

"(Well, at least I'm the same person to her.)" Zack got his stuff ready and ate breakfast. If his own mother believed that Cody never existed, Zack wanted to see what his friends thought. After finishing breakfast and telling Carey bye, he went downstairs to talk to Mosby for a bit. "Hey Mr. Mosby!"

"Yes? What is it?" He asked with a slight frown.

"How would you feel if I had a twin brother?" Zack cleverly asked.

"Well, for one, I'd probably be in a mental institution." Mosby responded.

"(Well, another who believes that I never had a twin.)" He then went on his way to school. Over there, everyone greeted him normally, Max even chatted with him a bit. No one seemed as if Cody had just died and that Zack was taking it very hard. "(It's like Cody's existence was wiped out of the planet!)" But no matter how much it seemed like Zack didn't have a little brother, he refused to believe otherwise. "(I have a brother, and his name is Cody Martin. Nothing is going to make me forget him.)"

In class, the teacher got up to make an announcement. "Class, I have an announcement to make." Everyone's heads looked up at her. "We have a new student today." Zack wondered greatly who it could be.

"(What? I don't what some loser filling up Cody's seat!)" When the kid came in, Zack's eyes widened completely in shock.

"Please welcome our new student, Randy Davis."

Zack stared at the boy momentarily and the first name that came to his mind, "Cody," he whispered softly.

The teacher then directed Randy to sit in the seat if beside Zack. All of Zack's emotions started piling up on him as he saw his little twin brother coming to sit beside him. The moment Randy sat down, the room froze and Zack was already tearing up.

"What? What now?" Zack turned behind him and saw Carey. "Mom? What are you doing here?"

"I'm not your mom Zack. I'm just an image of whom you are most emotionally attached to. You could call me….. your guardian angel." She said.

"But, how is this all happening?" This was by far the weirdest thing Zack had ever experienced.

"I did it. I froze time so I could speak with you." She started.

Zack was keeping his cool. He knew freaking out would not be wise. "Okay, if you're my guardian angel, how come no one remembers Cody?"

"I felt that it would lessen the pain if everyone forgot about Cody. You apparently did not forget. I saw how you reacted last night and I thought it was only fair to test your love." She replied.

"What do you mean?"

"If you cared about Cody enough, you wouldn't never forgotten about him or pushed your memory of him aside. And what better way to test that by making everyone else forget and wiping out all traces of him." She continued.

"But what's this?" He pointed at Randy.

"Well, that's the next part. When I saw how well you persisted and refused to let go of Cody, I decided to give you another chance at living life with your brother."

"You mean I can get Cody back?" Zack was getting excited.

She then gives him the face as if it's not what he hoped. "Not yet. I can't forget that it was you that caused his death. For now you must live with the fact that Cody is now named Randy and has no memory of you or anyone else. You are just another student to him."

"But won't people notice that we're twins?" Zack then wondered.

"No. In fact, you're the only one to see Cody as your twin. Everyone else will see another face."

"So how will I get Cody back?" Zack asked.

"I won't tell you now. I don't feel that you deserve it yet. You must prove yourself to me first. For now, the most you could do is befriend Randy. But," she then drops a bomb on Zack, "to further test your love, you must never call him Cody or tell anyone especially Randy that you have a little twin brother. The moment you break these two rules, you'll lose all memory of Cody and you'll see Randy as everyone else does."

Before finishing, Zack needed to ask one more question, "So what happens if I succeed?"

"If you succeed, Randy will become Cody again and everyone's memory and all traces of Cody will be restored. You will be the only one who'll remember Cody ever dying. With that much said, good bye Zack until you prove yourself to me is when we'll meet again." She disappeared and everything went back to normal.

Randy sat down and Zack immediately greeted him. "Welcome," he stuttered a bit, trying very hard not to say Cody, "Randy. Hope you enjoy here. My name's Zack Martin."

"Please to meet you." Randy smiled at him. Seeing him smile reminded Zack that he had nearly forgotten what Cody's smile looked like. Right then he knew this was going to be the hardest thing he will ever have to go. It was already hard on Zack having someone he cares about hate him, but having his own brother not even knowing him was taking its toll on Zack.

Randy looked at Zack and noticed, "Zack? Are you crying?" Zack snapped out of his trance and thought of an excuse.

"No, my eyes are just watery. That happens whenever I yawn." He then does a good fake yawn.

When lunch started, Zack continued to stick with Randy. "(I need to get used to the fact that he's not my twin brother, for now at least.) So Randy, where do you live?" Zack started a conversation to see if there's anything different about him.

"We haven't found a house yet, so right now we're staying at the Saint Mark's Hotel." Randy replies.

"(Perfect!) Really? I'm staying at the Tipton. If you ever want to go there and hang out you could." Zack offered.

"Really? That'd be great! The Saint Mark seems more like a rich people hotel. What's the Tipton like?" Randy then asked.

"It's more of a family hotel, but it is really fancy."

"Okay, I'll ask my parents after school and see." The bell rang signaling everyone to go back to class.

"(This is a good start. I hope all I have to do is to just be close friends with Randy and I'll get Cody back. I need to hurry, the longer I get treated like this from Cody the more I get hurt.)" Zack told himself before reentering class.

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AB-angel: My second chapter! Finished because of the lovely reviews I received.

Dylan: You should thank me, since most of those reviews were about me.

Cole: I'm the one they were sad for!

AB-angel: Calm down both of you. We all share the same amount of credit.

Brenda, Kim, and Ashley: What about us?

AB-angel: Kim's important too I guess, but Ashley and Brenda are merely extras.

Brenda and Ashley: Hmph!

AB-angel: So there you have it! I tried finishing this chapter within the day I checked my reviews. Please tell me what you think of the story now! If you have any complaints you are encouraged to tell me, so I can improve on it. Thanks for reading and please reviews!

Here's a sneak peek at Chapter 3 – The Real Test

"I'm not telling you everything Zack. I do stay at the Saint Mark, but only because my father's some kind of slave there. I was transferred to your school when I got a scholarship to go there because of my intelligence. Even though I'd want a nice life and a house to stay in, the thing that I'm wishing for the most," he paused then looked at Zack, "is a brother."