Chapter 3
No one but me
Disclaimer: I obviously do not own "The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody" If I did I would be filming episodes right now but I do own the song "Why Now" since well I wrote it.
Last Time On A Lost Past: Zack is on a collision course with his past as he decides to bring his daughter to a theatre musical, not knowing that Maddie was an actress on the play. But Things don't always turn out the way you expect them to.
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Now onto the story
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As Zack finished playing his guitar some people were already giving money and leaving the pub.
"I'm impressed kid" stated the bartender as he was cleaning out one of the glasses.
"Yeah" Zack answered as a short period of awkward silence took place until the bartender asked "How would you like being a regular here?"
"Are you offering me a job?" Zack curiously asked as the bartender turned around from the glass shelf.
"Yea I mean the pub could use some publicity and a good musician, and you kid your talented enough to provide both." The bartender replied as he saw Zack's young face wondering if he should go for it.
"Well sir, I'm parenting alone and in quite a bad situation so I guess I'll have to be rash enough to ask how much this pays." Zack sarcastically said as he saw the old stout man walking from one end of the counter to the other.
"I'm thinking due to your condition and your skill were talking 30$ an hour per 4 hour show." The bartender said as he tried to convince Zack.
"Um… I don't know." Zack said, but almost as soon as he said so the bartender suddenly blurted out "Okay I'll make sure you have the show floor every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday and you will get 2 shows from 8-12 PM and 2-6 AM I'll make sure of that."
"Yeah but what will I do during the times where there are other performers during my time." Zack asked but then the bartender replied "You could stay here until they finish and then continue, I'll even give you a discount on drinks."
"What a generous offer, I'll take it!" Zack enthusiastically answered afterwards the bartender promptly introduced himself "I'm Mike and you are?" he asks.
"I'm Zachary Martin but you can call me Zack." Zack answers
"Well Zack say you start the day after tomorrow, Friday." The bartender asks as he looked at Zack who apparently was packing his guitar.
"Sure, well see you on Friday."
"Yes!" Zack yelled out as he came out the door of the pub celebrating the fact he finally got a job.
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Meanwhile in Maddie's dressing room at the back of the theatre
"You're pulling it too tight!!" Maddie shrieked as a hairdresser was working on her hair; the hairdresser was obviously inexperienced as she pulled and curled Maddie's blonde locks.
"I'm sorry, I'm still getting used to your hair." She replied with a smirk as she tried harder on it
"I have to look great for the dress rehearsal tonight" Maddie said excitedly to her hair dresser as she replied " Yes I'm glad to work in such a successful production, who knew Two Summers and a December in Iraq would be such a hit."
"Yeah except Dmitri can be quite stubborn, He thinks just because we're a couple on the musical that he and I are meant to be." Maddie told her as she was listening so attentively that she was actually messing up her hair.
"Well have you even bothered considering the fact that he maybe the one?" The girl asked curiously already expecting the answer to be "No".
"I mean he's nice, funny, smart, handsome and creative but he just doesn't seem to be the one." Maddie answered only to be answered by "Why not?"
"Well, I haven't told this to anyone but I guess I can let it slip this time, but you promise you won't tell right?" Maddie said as she got ready to tell her.
"I'll be silent as the grave." She replies almost as if it's the cue for Maddie to start.
"Well it was about six years ago, there was this boy who fell in love with me for more than 5 years. His name was Zack, he was sweet, kind, funny and a great kisser." Maddie said before she was interrupted by a question "There's a but right? Since you didn't get together in the end."
"Yes, yes, yes I was getting on that. The only problem is that he's three years younger." Maddie stated before she was once again cut off.
"But ma'am three years isn't that much of a gap now." She asked abruptly.
"It is when you're fifteen and he's twelve, and can you stop these questions, it's disrupting me. Now where was I, oh yes when I was twenty and he was seventeen we decided to hit it off because I promised five years earlier that I'd go to his prom. But there was a problem, he had to move the day after, so he did the unthinkable." Maddie said before she paused expecting her to ask.
"What?" she asked as Maddie predicted and quickly said the answer " He proposed to me on the night of the prom."
She then paused since she was regretful of what she was about to say next.
"I rejected him, and from that night on we didn't get to speak to each other again since he moved without saying goodbye." Maddie finished as tears started to form in her eyes.
"Ma'am, I mean Maddie, I'm so sorry for you but I still don't get how this is preventing you from going for Dmitri." She asked slowly.
"The thing is Zack moved to New York and I was hoping of meeting him again." Maddie hopefully replied only to get a negative answer "But ma'am there are millions of people living in this city and there's a high chance he just forgot about you and moved on." The young hairdresser stated.
"Honey, you are too young to have experienced the love he gave me, he wouldn't have forgotten me. But come to think about it my mother told me that when I told her about Trevor and she was right." Maddie answered before the girl could ask her another question.
"Now who's this Trevor?" She teasingly asked only to be answered with " That is a different story, for a different time, cause right now you have to stop ruining my hair." Maddie answered as the two girls started to laugh at what the hairdresser did to Maddie's hair, as she was distracted by her story.
During that time they didn't realize that Dmitri was listening to their conversation through the door.
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On The Theatre Stage Itself On Rehearsals
"Oh what form of deceit has my dear Louisa done, she has not written to me in weeks and rumors are about that she has been taken away by some other man." Dmitri's character Joseph stated to his close friend, Willy.
"Dude, stop being so dramatic about it just say two words like everyone else: Screw It!!" Willy replied as he tried to send some sense to his friend.
"It's all my fault, if only I didn't volunteer into this mess I would still be with her." Joseph rashly stated not expecting his friends answer.
Suddenly all the action stopped the spotlights then pointed to Dmitri as he started to sing his piece called "Why now?"
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"You trusted me
You cared for me
You helped me
When I was lonely
With your smile"
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"What about now
Did I stray too far?
I know why you turned me down
I can see it in your angry frown"
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"Why did I screw up now?
Why did I let you down?
You have always loved me first
Through the best and through the worst"
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"If I did something wrong
Why now…
Why now……"
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"I saw you go
You saw me come
I looked at you
You stared at me
With your smile"
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"What about then
Did I cramp your style?
We were just too crazy then
We could be what could've been"
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"Why now…
Why now……"
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"Why did I screw up now?
Why did I let you down?
Now you love me even more
Your heart's like an open door………"
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"Your sight I see
Your feel I touch
Your scent so sweet
Your kiss so warm"
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"Did you love me?
Did I love you?
Was it us
Was it the moment"
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"Things were just too perfect then
If only we could do it again"
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"Why now……
Why now…………"
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"C'mon you didn't volunteer in the first place, you were drafted." Willy then stated out loud as he tried to shake him off his song.
"Great Willy way to kill the mood" Joseph then said as he stammered off.
The curtains then closed for the next scene
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Outside the theatre
Zack was walking by to buy his ticket, as he promised he'd take Kylie to a theatre musical this Saturday. Now that he has the money from his first day of work.
As he walked to the ticket booth he asked the booth lady "Is this play really that good?"
"One of the best around sir, Two summers and a winter in Iraq has sold out in three cities. It's a miracle you came here so early to buy tickets otherwise you would've been swamped." The booth lady answered.
"Yeah I know how much it sold, what I'm talking about is the acting." Zack hastily and rashly replied only to be given an answer with someone he never knew would be in the subject.
"The acting is superb sir especially the two leads played by Dmitri Kosolov and Ms. Madeline Fitzpatrick, their chemistry is like magic." The booth lady answered to a dumbfounded Zack who then quickly asked "Madeline Fitzpatrick, The Madeline Fitzpatrick um I meant Maddie."
"Yes, but only her friends call her Maddie. Why are you so interested?" The booth lady asked only to be given a harsh answer.
"I have no time for more questions lady just sell me the dang tickets." Zack quickly answered only to tone down a bit for the next part of his sentence which is "How much are they?"
"60$ each take it or leave it." The lady also rashly answered as Zack started counting the coins in his pocket.
"Here! Just gimme the tickets." Zack said as he pushed the money up the table of the booth.
As Zack got the two tickets he ran off with joy, celebrating but as he skipped down the pavement he remembered something.
"Wait a tick, would Kylie be okay with the idea?" He said to himself.
"Shit!!" he yelled out as he realized she wasn't cool with the idea of him getting back with Maddie.
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Two Hours Later As They Finished The Rehearsals
"Okay that wraps it up people!, Get enough sleep, tomorrow night we go, Good job people." The director said along with the writer of the play.
"Nice performance Maddie." Maddie heard from her back as she turned around she saw Dmitri "Oh hey Dmitri, um you too." Maddie replied before Dmitri pulled her in for a deep kiss.
As he kissed her deeply she started pushing him away till he let go.
"What's the matter Maddie, don't you love me as much as I love you?" Dmitri asked only to get a shrieking reply from Maddie when she said "No! When will you get it? I'm not interested in you. Now buzz off!" afterwards she stammered off.
"Maddie!"
"Maddie!" he yelled out, to no avail.
"Darn, my horoscope said it would work." Dmitri then murmured.
She then went back to her dressing room and started dressing in her regular clothes as she prepared to go to her flat.
As she walked out of the theatre door she thought about what Dmitri tried to do and about Zack.
She wondered as she looked at all these buildings, walking on the pavement where Zack was in this large city, if he ever thinks of her and most of all if he still loved her.
As she walked by she came across a corner, as she walked by a man who was running bumped her.
As they got up the man said "Sorry Ma'am" while Maddie replied "Be careful next time you run okay."
As they stood up they gave each other a quick stare then went there separate ways until Maddie thought to herself "Didn't that guy look familiar." At the same time that man who was actually Zack started thinking, "Didn't that woman look familiar." Afterwards both murmured to themselves "Nah"
They then walked away not knowing they both found what they've been looking for.
"Man I'm tired maybe a quick drink at the pub." Maddie thought to herself as she walked in the pub but at the same time Zack walked in through the backdoor to prepare for his 2 AM show.
As Maddie entered the pub there were many people, watching the stage apparently because of a hit show.
She found a vacant seat next to the counter and sat on it.
"I would like a shot whiskey please." Maddie requested the bartender.
"You look new lass, did you hear our local singer sing yet. I tell you with a voice and looks as good as his angels will fall from the sky to catch a glimpse of him." The bartender added.
"That maybe an overstatement sir." Maddie replied as the bartender stood up to go on stage to introduce the performer.
"Ladies and gentlemen, Lads and lassies may I please welcome the star of the show Zack Martin! C'mon up now Zack." The man said proudly as Maddie had her mouth agape.
"Thank You, Thank You." Zack said as he stared at the audience.
As he stared he saw the same woman he bumped into, with closer examination he murmured "Maddie?"
At the same time as Maddie heard Zack's name called out all she could do was look at him onstage and murmur his name once.
A/N: Well that was the third chapter of "A Lost Past" I hope you guys liked it.
I made it longer to make up for the long time I wasn't able to update, a virus killed my computer and I only fixed it last week.
Thanks for all of you who review, please review even anonymous ones will do it gives me a sense of purpose.
I know the end was a bit of a nasty cliffhanger but the next chapter will be up in a couple of days.
The next chapter will also have the first edited scene so for any of you who are old enough like 16 maybe you can PM or review me for the uncensored copy.
Well that's about it, thanks to all of you who've read
Diego
