Sorry for the long wait ... I had trouble with this one. I had wanted this one to be long and for the feelings between Bob and Zack to be mutual ... but it ended up like this, short and one-sided. I hope you guys still like it though!

Not A Date

Pairing: One-sided Bob/Zack

Warnings: None really.

Description: Why did Bob keep saying it was a date?

Based off of the Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode "French 101"

As soon as his mother left, he smiled his mischievous smile, the one he got when he had an idea and picked up the phone, dialing Bob's number.

"Hey, Bob, you busy tonight?"

"No," Bob answered from the other end of the phone.

"You wanna come to the club with me?"

"As your date,"

Zack's face twisted in disgust.

"No, not as my date," He spat out.

Zack pulled the phone away from his ear, looking at it like it had offended him somehow.

How could Bob even think that? They were both guys for Christ sakes! ... Was there something Bob wasn't telling him?

"I still can't believe Cody locked you in a closet with a bag of snakes, you know, that just doesn't sound like him." Bob said in disbelief.

"It's all an act! He's vicious, I tell you vicious! Now are you with me?" Zack asked in annoyance.

"Ok, but next time you're taking me to a movie." Bob said.

"It's not a date!" Zack yelled, getting more than annoyed that Bob kept saying it was a date.

What's a matter with him? Zack thought crossly.

"But, hey isn't that Zack dancing with your girlfriend?" Bob informed Cody.

He knew he shouldn't have done that. He told Zack he was going to distract Cody … but he just couldn't any longer. He knew he was being selfish, he knew, but he couldn't help it.

He didn't want Zack to win the French girl.

He knew he told Zack he was on his side and was willing to help him … that's just what best friends do.

But, seeing Zack all over that French girl was just too much for his heart to bear. He was jealous. You see he was in love with his best friend. He doesn't know how it happened or when it happened, but he knew for sure it was love.

He liked to think of Zack as his, but he knew Zack will never be his. Zack was a hundred percent straight. He loved girls and flirted with them all the time.

The truth was bittersweet.

He got his hopes up tonight though when Zack invited him to go with him to this club, because for some reason it sounded like a date to him.

He really wanted it to be a date, so he kept telling himself it was, hoping that if he said it enough times it would actually be one… but Zack crushed that by getting angry, the look of disgust on his face every single time he told Bob it wasn't a date.

Zack didn't know how much he had broken Bob's heart each time.

Coming up next - A Zack/Cody Oneshot based off the Suite Life of Zack and Cody episode Loosely Ballroom.