A/N: Same as always! I own nothing! And thank you yayaya19 for the review :) This is for you! I hope more people review this time... :D
"Ah! Cody, Bailey, I need your help," Mr. Moseby said, seeing the two teens on the deck sipping smoothies.
"Sure thing Mr. Moseby, what do you need?" Cody asked.
"Well, you see, I know you two are probably the most reliable teens on this ship, speaking of which, where's Lenny?" Mr. Moseby asked.
"Tutoring Zack," Bailey replied.
"Or at least trying," Cody scoffed.
"Ah, okay. I need you two, and Lenny if she can, to fill in for Connie as the entertainment for a party of children coming in this Friday," Mr. Moseby told them.
"Did her boyfriend dump her again?" Bailey asked him.
"N-Yeah," Mr. Moseby replied.
"I'm not sure… the last time I worked with kids I ended up getting tied up with a jump rope…" Cody said.
Bailey turned to Mr. Moseby, "Well, count me in, I love kids!"
Cody clapped his hands, "What do we need to do?"
"Well, for one they need a clown, plus a singer," Mr. Moseby informed them. "It's a little day care service for the kids while their parents go to a movie… adults only," he stressed.
"You can count on us!" Cody and Bailey said in unison.
"Zack! Quit doing nothing and get over here and do your homework!" Lenny shouted at Zack, who was on his bed, looking up at the ceiling.
Zack waited a second before responding, "Nah."
Lenny sighed, "Zack, come on. Miss Tutweiler put me in charge of helping you get your grade up, and your grade is going to go up! Come on, it's not that hard. If the volume of a prism is length times width times height and you have a cube that is 1 inch along every side, what is the volume?" Lenny asked hopefully.
Zack continued looking up at the ceiling. "Pi?" he asked.
Lenny rolled her eyes and screamed, "ONE! ONE INCH CUBED! ONE TIMES ONE TIMES ONE IS ONE!"
"Wow, you need to calm down Lenny," Zack told her.
"I've been patient with you for three hours. You refuse to do anything but stare up at the ceiling. Come on, it's got to be boring doing nothing all day," Lenny said.
"I do things!" Zack protested.
"Name one," Lenny challenged.
"I go to school," Zack replied.
"That doesn't count," Lenny said, "All you do there is this," she said, putting on a bored, dull, dumb face with a bit of drool and her eyes half closed.
"I do not!" Zack revolted, "It's more of this," Zack corrected, eyes almost fully closed, punctuating it with a snore.
"Forgive me," Lenny said in mock dismay, raising up her hands.
"I bet you couldn't handle being like me for one day," Zack challenged.
"I could be like you for one day and be even better at it than you," Lenny told Zack. "But you could never be like me."
Zack scoffed, "How hard can it be to spout out a bunch of random facts and croak out songs?"
"Hard if you're used to doing absolutely nothing," Lenny muttered.
"You want to bet?" Zack asked.
"You're on," Lenny hissed. "Oh, but make sure that it's on a day when we don't have any tests, quizzes, or homework due."
"How about Friday? We have the day off," Zack reminded her.
"Sure," Lenny agreed.
Bailey and Cody were in the party room, trying to gather all the stuff up that they would need for the next day. "Darn it! This thing won't budge!" Bailey exclaimed as she tried to wheel out the cart of stuff for the clown.
"Here, let me help you," Cody offered eagerly. He walked over and pulled, but it wouldn't move. Bailey leaned over to help him, and the cart finally moved, knocking Bailey onto Cody.
"Having fun you two?" Lenny commented as she helped Bailey up.
"Lenny, thank goodness. Would you mind singing for a group of kids tomorrow?" Bailey asked.
"Oh… sorry. I've got a bet with Zack. We're switching places. Wait… Yes, yes, Zack can sing for the kids tomorrow," Lenny agreed, inspiration striking.
Cody's eyes grew wide, "Isn't that a recipe for disaster?"
"Think of it as entertainment for the children," Lenny said, putting an arm around Cody's shoulders. "You have to admit, it will be pretty funny to watch." Cody shrugged; he had to quite frankly agree. Lenny left, leaving Cody and Bailey alone again.
"Will Zack really sing?" Bailey asked Cody.
Cody scoffed, "No." He cocked his head to one side, "But knowing Lenny she'll probably step in and help anyway, despite their bet, right?"
Bailey nodded. "So… You don't like little kids very much?"
Cody looked incredulous, "Well, I mean… I don't not like them… I just haven't had very… pleasant… experiences with them."
Bailey looked at him skeptically, "Okay… Personally, I love little kids! I've got three sisters back home, and tons of little cousins!" Cody looked at her with a raised eyebrow, "Big families run in my family…"
The next morning Lenny was sitting on the deck, eating an ice cream bar. "Hey, ready to give up the bet?" Zack asked.
"I would, but I'm too lazy to give up," Lenny said, taking another bite of her ice cream, getting some ice cream on her face.
"Uh, you got something right there," Zack said, pointing where the ice cream was on her face.
Lenny waited a moment before replying, "Nah, too much work."
"Man, she nailed me," Zack muttered. "Well, I've like, totally got to get ready for my show," he announced with a valley girl accent.
"I do NOT talk like that!" Lenny said, "Now, if you'll leave me alone, I've got some candy bars with my name on them."
Bailey walked by dressed as a clown and asked, "Have any of you guys seen Cody? He's supposed to be done dressing up by now! What's that all over your face, Len?"
"Ice cream," Lenny replied, mouth full. "Want some?"
"Um… No thanks…" Bailey answered.
"Hey, I'm ready!" Cody announced, "What happened to you?"
"I'm being a hopeless, lazy loser like Zack today, remember?" Lenny said.
"HEY!" Zack shouted.
"Welcome kids!" Bailey shouted to the group of about ten kids that had come to be entertained.
"Are you ready to have some fun?" Cody asked the group of kids. "I'm DumDum and this is my friend BoomBoom. If you want balloon animals, come over here with me!" The kids cheered.
"And who wants their face painted? Come on over!" Bailey announced, motioning to the table where she would be painting faces, a bunch of kids squealed with delight.
"Don't forget, I'm going to be giving you a rockin' concert later!" Zack told the kids. No one said anything.
"I want a doggie!" a little blonde haired girl asked Cody earnestly.
"Are you sure you don't want a snake?" Cody asked the girl in excitement.
"I WANT A DOGGIE!" the girl screamed at Cody.
"Um… alright," Cody said, blowing up a balloon. He tied it shut and tried to twist it into a dog, but to no avail. He handed the straight balloon to the girl.
"This isn't a dog!" the girl wailed. A bunch of the other kids muttered in agreement.
"It's a hot dog," Cody replied with a cheesy smile.
"I know what it is! It's a sword!" The girl screamed angrily, hitting Cody with the sword. Some of the other kids joined in, whacking Cody with whatever they could find.
Lenny was gripping the seat she was on as tightly as she could. "Not so easy to do nothing now, is it?" Zack whispered to her. Lenny was shaking from the effort to stay put in her seat.
"No, it's not hard," Lenny replied. Zack looked down at her. "You have a heart of cold hard marble, don't you?"
Zack thought for a second, "No, I feel bad for him, but honestly, what can I do? It's not like it's any of my business anyway." Lenny and Zack watched as the kids started to head to Bailey and started to crowd around her table as beating Cody up got boring and he went to change out of the clown suit.
As he passed by them, Cody said to Zack and Lenny, "Remind me to do well in school so that I never have to go to clown school."
"No, stop that!" Bailey warned a kid as they started chasing around another kid with a dripping paint brush in their hand.
"Me first!" "No, me!" "ME!" "MEEEEEEE!" a bunch of the kids were screaming at Bailey as she tried as hard as she could to quickly finish painting their faces. She looked to Zack and Lenny hopefully, her eyes crying out for help.
"Where are you going?" Zack hollered to Lenny as she got up from her seat and left.
Lenny came back with a bunch of oranges. "Hey kids! Come here, I've got something to show you!" She started juggling the oranges as if there were nothing to it.
"Whoa!" the kids said in unison. Some of the kids left Bailey's table to watch the show.
"Thank you," Bailey mouthed to her friend. Lenny acknowledged her with a grin and a wink.
After a while longer of these entertainments, Bailey went to go and change back into her normal clothes. Zack got up on the stage and announced, "Alright, so who wants to hear some songs?" The kids cheered. "Who wants to hear the Wibble Wobbies?" Zack began to sing their theme song.
"Wow, he can even make that sound good," Lenny said.
"Are you complimenting Zack?" Cody asked, beside Lenny.
"Well, he's not half bad," Lenny replied, flustered.
"BOO!" a kid shouted loudly. Several others joined him. "That's lame! Sing something else! And dance!"
"What?" Zack called out to the kids. "This is my favorite song!" The kids started to throw some of the food that they had been provided with at Zack.
Before Cody and Bailey even knew what had happened, Lenny was onstage with a mike in her hands. "So, who wants to dance Hokey Pokey?" she asked, "Get into a circle!" Then she started singing, "Put your right foot in, put your right foot out, put your right foot in, and you shake it all about…"
Zack joined in, "You do the Hokey Pokey and you shake it all around, that's what it's all about!"
"Come on Cody, join in!" Bailey said, dragging him to the circle to dance.
"Looks like I won the bet, Lenny," Zack told his friend.
"Oh no you didn't," Lenny replied.
Zack laughed, "Yes, I did. You helped out Cody and Bailey. Zack, he would've sat back and done nothing."
"No, I did what you really would do, Zack," Lenny told him, "I acted like a lazy slacker at first. But when things really got messy, I stepped in and helped because I really do care about others, deep down inside."
Lenny left the deck and once she was out of earshot, Zack exclaimed, "Man, she's good!"
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