It was 6 o'clock and Maddies' shift ended early. She headed for the hotel limo to go and pick up her friend at the airport.

"Here you go, Miss Fitzpatrick," the chauffeur said opening the door.

Maddie climbed into the warm and cozy limo.

"Where to?" the chauffeur asked.

"Uh, the airport please," she said opening the mini fridge to get a soda, "I'm picking up my friend, Mitchell, from the airport. He's coming back from Paris. He was studying over there and goes to college at Stanford. I can't wait to see him!"

"Great to hear that," he said closing the door and heading back to the driver seat.

Maddie clicked on the TV to see the news on.

"The latest news, here on channel 16, is that the ferris wheel at the carnival in town has broken down and there are people on it. No one got hurt, yet, and not many people were on it. Some kids from Buckner Middle School are on it and everyone is trying to fix this gigantic wheel to go back to normal," the announcer said.

"Oh-my!" Maddie said in shock, afraid that Zack and Cody were on it, remembering her conversation with Cody and Zack as they walked through the lobby, not very interested.

Flashback

"Hi Maddie!" Cody said walking to the candy counter with Zack beside him.

"Hey guys," Maddie said not looking up from her magazine.

"We're going to the carnival," Zack said.

"Mm-hm."

"Well, gotta go…" Cody and Zack said walking away, knowing she wasn't interested.

End Flashback

"DRIVER, TO THE CARNIVAL!" Maddie practically spat to the wall, spitting her soda

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"This is what I get for lying" Cody mumbled to himself.

"What?" Nikki asked, whipping her hair which hit him in the eyes.

"Uh, nothing…" Cody said looking down from the ferris wheel.

This night could not get any worse. He would get seen on the ride with a girl, while his girlfriend is there.

Zack and Max were sitting in front of Cody and Nikki, and Janis and Jessica were behind Cody and Nikki, so Nikki and Cody were in the middle.

"How much longer are we going to be on this thing?" Zack asked, turning his head facing Nikki and Cody.

"The fire department said at least another hour…." Nikki said.

"Oh, okay," Zack said, turning around and started talking to Max.

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"Hey, Cody?" a voice said, "Zack?"

"Huh?" they both said at the same time.

"Is that Maddie? The candy counter girl?" Max said looking down.

"Maddie! We're up here!" Zack yelled.

She waved.

"What are you doing here?" Cody yelled back at her.

"This is all over the news, so I rushed here when I heard,"

"Oh, thanks Maddie!" Zack said.

"Didn't you have to go pick up some guy from the airport?" Cody asked. Zack went back to talking to Max.

"Oh, thanks Cody….I forgot to call him. It's 7! Oh…I'll be right back" Maddie said walking away flipping open her cell phone.

"You just had to mention it to her….didn't you?" Zack asked Cody.

"What? You still like her? It's been like a year since you've been crushing on her and yet you're on the ferris wheel without her, with your girlfriend? Pick a side!" Cody said.

Zack stuck his tongue out at him.

Zack flipped open his brand new cell phone and hit speed dial #6.

"Hang on a sec Mitch, I gotta another call…" Maddie said changing calls, "Hello?"

"Maddie, what are you doing here when you should be at the airport?" Zack asked and hung up.