"What do you want?" Zack asked sounding heartbroken. Cody instantly noticed Zack's sad expression, and regretted coming in here. Even without looking at him, Cody could tell that Zack was very upset with him. "Well? What did you come in here for?" he repeated. "I wanted... I wanted to make sure you were okay.." Cody mumbled, knowing it was a stupid thing for someone to say after they just let their sibling take a punishment for something that they didn't do. "Make sure I was okay? Really? Really, Cody? Yeah I'm just fine. Thanks for caring so much! Thanks for caring enough to let mom know who really wanted to taste that stupid cigarette!" Zack replied in a sarcastic tone. "I..." Cody started. "Leave me alone, Cody!" Zack threw a pillow in the direction of his brother, missing because of his horrible mood. Not that he really cared. He just wanted to be left alone. "But Zack, I.." he tried again. "GO AWAY!" Zack yelled, leaping off his bed and pushing Cody out the door, and shutting it afterward. "Zack, I'm sorry" Cody whispered to the door.
Well that went well Cody thought to himself. He leaned his head against the closed bedroom door, cursing silently. It's just like I thought. He's never going to forgive me. At least... not for a long time. Maybe I will have better luck later? Yeah right, he was super upset. I bet the only way he'll forgive me is if I tell mom the truth. I'm not even sure he'd forgive me then. Sighing, he let his legs carry him to the couch. He turned on the T.V and started flipping through the channels, not really watching any of them. He had just finished watching a 3rd episode of The Suite Life of Bob and Charlie when his mom came in through the door.
"Hey Sweetie, Sorry I took so long, there was a really long line. Zack still hasn't came out yet?" his mother asked him. Cody just shook his head. "Well he's gonna have to come out soon, because it won't be to long until dinner's ready. I'm making spaghetti! How does that sound?" she asked her younger twin. "Great, mom." Cody replied unenthusiastically. Carey began preparing dinner.
Hearing his mom come in and mention dinner, Zack jumped into his bed and pulled the covers up over his head. He really didn't feel like being social at the moment. Maybe if she thought he was asleep she wouldn't tell him to come eat dinner.
Approximately 25 minutes later, Carey opened the bedroom door. Seeing her son sleeping, she walked over to him and sat on the end of the bed. She pulled the covers off of him and gently rocked him to wake him up. "Honey, dinner's ready. You have to get up okay?" Zack looked up at his mom and tried his best to sound sick. "Mom, I'm not feeling so well. I think I should skip dinner tonight." He pulled the covers back up over his head. Carey pulled them back down. "No, honey, get up. You don't have it eat it all, but I want you to try and eat some." She stood up, waiting for Zack to get up too. Zack just sat there. "Zack, come on, Cody's already at the table waiting for us." Still, Zack remained rooted onto his bed, hoping that his mom would just give up and go have dinner without him. "Zack, get up right now, and go sit at the table. I'm not asking you" His mother spoke to him sternly. Zack glared at his mom, not meaning to. "I don't want dinner" he replied. Getting annoyed, Carey walked over to her son and grabbed him by the arm. She started pulling a very uncooperative Zack off of the bed. Zack stiffened his entire body, trying his best to not move from the bed. "Zackary! Stop this, this instant!" She yelled at him, while dragging him towards the door. Finally she got to the table, and pushed Zack down into his chair, and watched as he sulkily sunk into it.
Carey sighed to herself as she watched Zack sink into his chair. Maybe he's still upset about me spanking him with a brush. I know I've never done that before, and it was bound to upset him, but I didn't think it would effective him this much. However, thats no excuse to willingly disobey me. It hurt me just as much as it hurt him to have to spank him. But I can't allow my children to smoke. That is just unacceptable. I haven't seen him act like this and be so disobedient since he was 6. I'll have to have a talk with him, perhaps after dinner. Carey sat down in her chair and began eating dinner.
The table was completely silent, if you didn't include the forks hitting the plates. "Zack, eat your dinner" Carey said, as she watched him pick at his food. Zack slowly brought the fork to his mouth, looking up at his mom as he did so. Carey couldn't understand what had her son so upset. Yes, she had spanked him, and yelled at him. But that had been over 3 hours ago. Usually, he would be over it by now. Cody was the one to usually get upset after being yelled at, or punished. She glanced at her younger son. He hadn't taken his eyes off of his plate since the moment his brother had entered the room. What is going on with these two?
Carey noticed her youngest son's plate was completely free of spaghetti, and so, cleared his and her plate from the table. When she returned, she sat two plates of chocolate cake down. When Zack reached for one, she pushed his hand away and gave him a stern look. "You lost your chance at dessert when you decided you were going to fight me. Don't ever do that again, do you understand me?" She asked him. Zack's face fell. Chocolate cake was his favorite dessert, and his mom hardly ever bought any. And the one time that she does, he's not allowed a piece. I can't believe this! Mom knows how much I love chocolate cake.. I HATE Cody! If it weren't for him, none of this would be happening to me. Why did I have to walk in right when he was lighting that cigarette? Why didn't I just let him do it? But noooo.. I had to play the role of a good big brother. I had to take it from him, and then I had to get punished for taking it from him. Zack stared angrily at the table, while muttering "Yes mam", to answer his mothers question.
Cody's guilt just kept growing and growing and growing. It was bad enough when he had let Zack get spanked, and blamed for smoking. But that on top of this? Now he was being denied his favorite dessert! This was getting ridiculous. He had to do something. "Zack, its okay, I don't really feel in the mood for chocolate cake, you can have mine." He told his brother, pushing the plate towards him. Carey, hearing what Cody said, spun around just in time. "Not so fast. Zack isn't having dessert, remember? If you don't want it Cody, I'll put it in the fridge for you." she said looking down at her boys. Before another word was said, Zack lost control and had angrily flipped the plate up and knocked it onto his mother. He hadn't meant for it to land on her, he was just so angry that he had to lash out at something. And it just so happened that the plate of cake had been the closest thing around.
