A/N: Same as always, my peeps!

Thank you so much for reading these, guys! You don't know how happy it makes me :D *happy dances* I'd also like to thank my reviewers! *clears throat* Thank you to: fantasyluver714 and yayaya19. Love you guys!

"Come on, Zack, I know you can do better than this," Miss Tutweiler was telling Zack. She was holding up his latest test, an F.

"Miss T, I just don't think that I can do math good," Zack replied.

"I know he can do better, he just doesn't want to do the work," Lenny supplied as his student tutor.

"How do you know?" Zack shot back at Lenny.

"I don't know, maybe it's because somehow you always seem to give me the best advice on spending my money?" Lenny retorted.

"Maybe I just use my common sense!" Zack yelled back.

Lenny was about to defend her dignity when Miss Tutweiler interjected, "Stop! Zack, Lenny, we are not in a debate! Which, by the way, you should both join. Anyway, Zack, your grades better go up or else you will be forced to leave Seven Seas High!"

"What?" Zack exclaimed, "You can't do that!"

"I'm sorry Zack, you know the rules. At least a C average in everything or else it's out for you," Miss Tutweiler apologized. Zack stormed out of the room. "Lenny, I know you're doing your best. Sometimes they just have to learn on their own," she said.

"But," Lenny began.

"Lenny!" Miss Tutweiler silenced, "It's okay. You haven't failed." Lenny shuffled sadly out of the room. "That sounded like something from a Star Wars movie," Miss Tutweiler muttered to herself. "I've got to get out more!"

"Zack, just concentrate!" Lenny urged. "This is simple algebra. I know you can do this!"

"Alright, so I use SADMEP, right?" Zack asked.

"We've been over this millions of times – it's PEMDAS here," Lenny replied.

"This is hurting my head, can we take a break?" Zack whined.

"We're still on the first problem, it's been two minutes," Lenny pointed out.

"Still! That's one minute too many!" Zack announced.

Lenny groaned, "Zack, sometimes I wish you would just be smarter!" With that, Lenny left the room, "Do your own homework, maybe you'll actually get it done!"

Zack looked genuinely hurt. He lay down on his bed in defeat. "Why didn't I just try the stupid problem? What would my life be like if I were smart?" he muttered. He lay a bit longer, before he was off in dreamland.

"What happened?" Zack asked himself. He saw another one of himself and Cody was approaching. "What is this?" Zack pondered. He walked up alongside Cody, and tried tapping him on the shoulder, but Cody didn't seem to even feel it.

"Morning, Zack!" Cody greeted the other Zack.

"Good morning, Cody!" the other Zack replied. "You look exceptionally happy this morning."

"Yes. And it's all thanks to you! I'm so happy that I have a brilliant brother, a great role model. Thanks to your great advice and intelligent coaching, I was able to ask Bailey out – and she said yes!"

"I sure did," Bailey agreed, walking up and giving Cody a peck on the cheek.

"I could never have done it without an older brother as smart and confident as you," Cody said to his brother.

"Well, that's what I do," the smart Zack replied. The real Zack watched Cody and Bailey walk away from him.

"Well, that was cheesy. I think I like my real life better," Zack commented.

"Hey Zack!" a girl said, bouncing up to the smart Zack.

"Lenny!" the smart Zack exclaimed, giving her a hug. "How's my girlfriend doing today?"

The real Zack balked. "Girlfriend? Never mind," Zack said, "Hey!" he shouted at himself, "Can we switch? Can I live here?" Zack felt a shaking, as if the ship were on a tsunami, but… wait, how did he know that? Zack looked around, Lenny was hugging him! His head… He felt… smart?

Lenny giggled, she had apparently felt nothing, "I'm doing fine."

"Care to show me that I'm your boyfriend?" Zack said, but it felt as if it were coming from far away. Apparently his smart self didn't lose his mischief.

"Sure," Lenny said, and gave him the shortest peck on the cheek.

"Come on! Lightning takes longer to strike than that, and lightning strikes sixty thousand miles per second!" Zack teased.

Lenny rolled her eyes, "I thought we agreed to take it slow, Zack." Apparently she had not changed a bit either.

"Alright," Zack agreed, "But only because statistics show that relationships last three times longer when taking it at a slower pace. By the way, care to remind me why I'm your boyfriend?" This was the actual Zack's question, he had no idea what had happened.

"Well, first of all, you asked me after I proudly showed you the A I got on my math test that you helped me study for. Moreover, it's because you're funny, scheming but sweet, caring, and above all, smart," Lenny said, looking at Zack with admiration.

"Let's get to class," Zack said, taking Lenny's hand.

"Now, class, we're going to be studying the Phylum Arthropoda today. Can anyone name an arthropod?" Miss Tutweiler asked the class.

"A centipede," Lenny supplied.

"Pill bugs!" Cody exclaimed.

"Oh, spiders!" Bailey announced.

Zack raised his hand. "Yes, Zack, my star pupil," Miss Tutweiler said proudly.

"Crabs, lobsters, and all other members of the Class Crustacea are Arthropods, as well as all Insects and Arachnids," Zack answered.

"Correct," Miss Tutweiler beamed, "As always."

"Wow," Cody marveled, "That's why I look up to my big brother."

"Hey, Cody," Mr. Moseby walked up to Zack.

"I'm Zack," Zack replied.

Mr. Moseby stopped, "Oh, sorry. You two are so much alike…"

"We are not at all similar!" Zack argued.

"Really? You have the same last name, you look the same, you're both smart… I'd say you two are very much alike," Mr. Moseby replied.

"Hey Zack! Could my amazing big brother help me pick out what to wear for my date?" Cody asked.

"I'm sorry Cody, I need to study for the test on It's a Wonderful Life tomorrow. But what you're wearing is great," Zack replied.

Cody left, but soon, Bailey walked in. "Zack! I need your help. You're smart. According to the color wheel, do my brown eyes look better with blue, or pink?"

"Well, there actually is no brown on the color wheel," Zack replied.

"Then what in the world should I do!" Bailey asked Zack.

"I would go with blue since brown is close to orange and the compliment of orange on the color wheel is blue," Zack said.

"Thanks Zack, you're a life saver," Bailey said. "You're still tutoring me on Thursday with Cody, right?"

Zack nodded, "Yeah, yeah, yeah!" he called out as Bailey left.

Zack continued reading through his analysis until Lenny walked in. "Hey! I'm planning to get a picture of Cody and Bailey's first kiss for them!"

"Don't you think they want a little privacy?" Zack said, annoyed.

"I think they also want to remember it for forever!" Lenny argued.

"So, what's your plan?" Zack asked.

"I'm going to hide behind the Juice Bar and zoom in!" Lenny announced.

"You're never going to be able to zoom in that well without it getting all fuzzy," Zack informed her.

"What do you suggest?" Lenny asked.

"Lenny! Can't you see that I'm trying to study here? Go do whatever, it's amateur!" Zack screamed. Lenny ran out, obviously mad and hurt.

Zack felt the shaking again, and saw his smart self studying. He sat down on the bed. "I'm not sure that I like this so much anymore… I'm just the same as Cody, nothing makes us different – I'm not Zack anymore! And then I'm not even paying attention to what I'm saying! I'm agreeing to things that I probably won't do, even as smart Zack!, I'm also so smart, that I'm not doing what I really enjoy! And worst of all, the absolute worst, I'm so arrogant with my knowledge that I hurt one of the only people who actually cared about me – who cared about me enough to insist we take it slow, who actually cared and stayed, not just said something meaningless and left! I… I want my old life back… I want to be me! I want to be me!"

"I want to be me! I want to be me!" Zack was shouting in his sleep.

"Zack! Zack! Zack wake up!" Lenny shouted at her friend, giving him a hard push and accidentally knocking him off the bed. "Zack! Are you okay? I'm so sorry!"

"That was a great wake up call," Zack said as he got up, rubbing his head. "You saved me from the worst nightmare ever."

"Zack, I just wanted to let you know, I'm so sorry! I never should have said that! You are smart, in your own way. You just don't always put in the effort and that makes me frustrated. I was just so upset and didn't want to even think about you and Cody leaving and… I'm very sorry Zack. I wouldn't blame you if you went to Miss Tutweiler right now to ask for a new student tutor. I'm so sorry," Lenny babbled.

Zack was silent for a minute before saying, "Okay. See you." He walked out of the room.

Lenny was sitting on the bed, looking a bit down. "Well, I guess I deserved that," she said.

Zack came back into the room, startling Lenny. "I'm just messing with you," he announced, smirking. "Lenny, you are the only tutor that I want, the only tutor that I need," he started.

"Oh yes, indeed?" Lenny asked, getting up and raising an eyebrow.

"Indeed," Zack agreed. "Now, I think you were helping me with some math?"

"Of course," Lenny replied.

"Hey, just out of curiosity, is intelligence something you look for in a guy?" Zack asked Lenny. "As well as a guy who takes it slow?"

Lenny looked shocked by the question, but responded, "Uh, yes, of course. I mean, I don't want to be having conversations with someone who has no idea what I'm talking about. As for taking it slow… I wouldn't even think of giving my boyfriend a kiss on the cheek until the fifth or even tenth week of dating!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch half of that," Zack said. Lenny gave him a look before they both laughed.

"Okay, I think I found a way to get you to actually do math," Lenny told Zack.

"I wouldn't count on it," Zack replied.

"Take this proportion. You want this laptop. It's normally $2576. But today, Sprouse Bros. is having a 43% off discount. How do you solve this?" Lenny asked Zack.

"Well, first I need to see how much of the original price I'll be paying. 100 minus 43 is… 57! So then… since $2576 is my "100%", I put that on the bottom, x on the top, then 57 over 100. Then… I multiply 2576 by 57 and get… 146832. Then I need to divide this by 100… $1468.32! The laptop is $1468.32!" Zack exclaimed.

"Great job! And you even did that all in your head!" Lenny congratulated.

"Money is easy, math is what's hard," Zack replied modestly.

"Money is math!" Lenny exclaimed.

"What?" Zack asked.

"You just did a simple proportion – and you didn't even know it!" Lenny announced.

"I did… math?" Zack clarified.

Lenny nodded. "I'm so proud of you!" she exclaimed, giving Zack a happy hug.

"Man, she's good," Zack muttered, "She got me to do math!"