'Don't Daydream in class'

Tuesday Morning


Zack was sleeping peacefully on one of the many tables in the science lab as Cody, Riley, Rhuben, Bailey, Woody, and London walked into the classroom, the next morning. Cody glanced at his brother but didn't say or do anything as he walked over to his spot and started to unpack his backpack, organizing everything on his desk.

"What's wrong with him?" London asked as she walked over to him and poked him on the cheek. "He's not dead is he?"

"No, London, he's breathing." Bailey pointed out as she walked up to her roommate. She giggled a little bit as he made a snorting sound and rubbed his nose before turning over onto his other side. "Actually, he sounds like Porkers."

"That's a great compliment," Rhuben stated as she rolled her eyes. "Being compared to a pig," she snorted. "But for him that's probably a compliment." She walked over to Zack's feet and pinched his Achilles tendon, causing him to instantly wake up and curl his legs in towards his body, holding onto his leg in pain.

"Did you have to do that?" Zack asked as he glared up at her. Rhuben shrugged and smiled smugly as she walked around to his other side.

"No, but it was funny," she shook her head, still chuckling a little bit before slamming the palm of her hand down onto the table by his head. "Get up; you don't want to get in even more trouble when Miss. Tutweiller gets in here."

"Whatever you say, sweet thang." Zack replied and got off the table. Rhuben froze and raised an eyebrow. Cody whipped his head over to his brother and looked confused. Riley just stared at him, unblinking. "What?" he asked when he noticed the silence.

"What did you just call me?" Rhuben asked slowly.

Zack scratched his forehead. "I don't know, what did I just call you?"

Rhuben cleared her throat and looked at Zack as he if had just sprouted two heads. "Why did you just call me sweet thang?"

"I'm pretty sure that I didn't call you that."

"Even Cody heard you."

"What's wrong with being called sweet thang?" Bailey asked as she held a confused expression on her face. She looked around the room. Woody and London weren't really paying attention to the conversation as London was looking at her reflection in a compact mirror and Woody was staring at her with a dazed expression on his face. Zack, Cody, Riley, and Rhuben all looked uncomfortable. "I don't get it."

"Don't worry about it, Bailey," Riley finally spoke up. "It was like I was telling you last night, Zack has a lot of things that he uses to get girls to date him…and most of them don't work."

"Wow, that's gotta be a knife in the back." Cody muttered to himself.

"On the other hand," Rhuben spoke up and turned to Bailey as their classmates walked into the room. "Whenever Cody gets a girlfriend, it's because he's nice and sincere."

Cody smiled at his friend before turning his attention to Miss. Tutweiller to learn about the many oceanic creatures from around the world. Well, he wasn't going to learn about them, he was going to add more onto his intelligence.

Now if only he could ask Bailey to the dance.

A funny expression slid onto his face as he rested his elbow on the table and put his chin in his hand. Of course, he was daydreaming and not about getting the Nobel or the Pulitzer Prize for whatever scientific advancement that he was going to make. No, it was a dream about Bailey and what it would be like at the dance that Friday and when he finally told Bailey how he feels about her and asks her out.

"Hey Bailey, can I talk to you for a second?" Cody asked, practically shouting into her ear as the music was really loud. He could feel the bass vibrations in his stomach and it was making him a little sick. Bailey turned towards him with a confused look and held a hand behind her ear, cupping it, showing him that she couldn't hear him. He took a step closer and moved closer to her ear. "Maybe we can go somewhere quiet? To talk?"

"Sure, this music is getting kind of loud, anyway." Bailey replied and set down her cup of soda on a table before following Cody out of the ballroom. She gave a small smile in relief when silence reached her ears. She let out a little giggle. "Man, I don't think they really need to play the music that loud."

"I guess they just want to give everybody headaches so they can't forget it." Cody replied lamely and took a deep breath before taking Bailey's hand in his and looking into her eyes. "Bailey…I wanted to talk to you about us."

"What about us?" Bailey replied, in the same quiet tone that Cody was using. "What's going on Cody?"

"There's no need to be alarmed," Cody said quickly. "I just have to tell you the truth about something. You see, I know that you know that I used to date Rhuben. And while she was here, I told her, well, she actually figured out herself that I like you a lot." He took a quick breath. "As in, more than a friend and she decided to try and help me to get the confidence to try and tell you this."

He decided to refrain from telling her that Rhuben, along with her brothers and sister, had pretty much compliment or brought up Cody around her whenever they could to try and get her to fall for him. He wasn't sure how she would react if he told her that, she he decided to wait until later to tell her…if things went right.

"Cody, tell me what?" Bailey whispered.

"Bailey….I love you." Cody finally said after a second of hesitation.

Bailey wiped away a tear from her cheek with her free hand. Inside his head, Cody was panicking, not sure whether of not she was crying from happiness or if she was getting ready to attack him or something.

"Cody…I love you too." She replied.

Cody couldn't help but beam, although mentally he didn't really let those words sink in. It was until Bailey gave him a hug and started to move forwards to kiss him that he understood.

"Cody."

Cody briefly opened his eyes, but closed them again when he saw that Bailey was still moving towards him.

"Cody!"

"CODY!"

Cody opened his eyes and let out a scream when he noticed that he was extremely close to kissing Woody, who had been assigned to be his lab partner, along with two other male students, without him realizing it. Their classmates were staring at him strangely, and Miss .Tutweiller wasn't paying attention as she was writing down instructions on the board. She only got alerted that something was wrong when Cody let out a scream and backed away from Woody and stumbled into a table that held a fish bowl.

As he fell to the ground, the bowl was jostled and it spilled over, causing water to land on his head and the fish to land on his pants, flopping around.

"Cody, are you ok?" Bailey asked from where she was standing next to him.

Cody got to his feet, picking up the fish, and dropped it into another bowl before shaking his head, little droplets of water flaying everywhere. He looked over at her face and blushed when he saw that she had a concerned look on her face.

He could feel his cheeks burning red as everybody was now staring at him. He looked over at Miss. Tutweiller and raised a hand meekly. "May I go to the bathroom?"

"Looks like you already did." She replied and chuckled a little bit as his classmates, all but Zack and Bailey, started to laugh at the large wet spot on the front of his pants.

"Look!" London practically shouted as she pointed. "It looks like he peed himself." Some students looked at her oddly, as she had just pointed out a fact that Miss. Tutweiller just said. "Cody, you look so funny! Oh, I should put this on Yay Me!" With that, she whipped out her cell phone and started to take a video.

"Hey, leave him alone!" Zack declared as he walked over to his brother and glared at his classmates. "Would you like to be laughed at if this happened to you?" they fell silent and he looked over at Miss. Tutweiller. "And not to be rude, but I don't think it was very appropriate for you to have made a joke like that."

Miss. Tutweiller looked shocked, along with everybody else, as Zack had never really spoken to anyone like that before. Especially a teacher. Usually he is the one that would sit back and watch his little brother get teased and even get in on the jokes, he did that a lot when they were back in Boston, but now, he was actually standing up for his brother.

"I'll walk him back to his room." He added and grabbed his brother's elbow and started to lead him out of the room. As he passed Riley, Rhuben, Bailey, and London, he caught Riley's gaze and her eyes widened when he glared at her. Shaking his head, he refocused his gaze and left the classroom.

"Zack, slow down." Cody cried as she tried to keep up with Zack's frantic pace. Zack slowed down after a few seconds but still had an annoyed expression on his face. Cody rubbed his elbow and looked at his brother in wonder. "What's gotten you so mad?"

"The fact that everybody was picking on you." Zack replies sharply. Cody snorted and rolled his eyes.

"You used to start it all the time ,why is now so different?" he asked as he faced his brother, a serious expression in his eyes.

Zack frowned in reply. "The fact that we're older and that people should be more mature, that's why."

"That's not it, is it?" Cody guessed after a second of silence as he studied his brother's eyes. "There's something bothering you."

"There's nothing bothering me, Cody," Zack replied and then smiled a little bit. "Actually, there is something I need to tell you."

"What's that?" Cody asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"Don't daydream in class."

Cody laughed and held out his arms, water droplets dripping off of the ends of his hair, his arms, and rolled down his shirt and pants. "I think I've figured that out." He lowered his arms again. "But if there were something wrong, you'd tell me, right?"

"Right." Zack replied, avoiding his gaze. "I promise."