Chapter 11

We don't any of these characters except ones we create.

The same thought went through Zack's and Jen's minds. James. They knew they had to act fast if there was any chance of stopping the newsletters from going out. First, they turned back to Woody.

"Woodchuck...Repeat what you just said again..."

Woody shrugged. "I just wanted to know how you guys got your birthdays on the newsletter. Did you guys have to ask someone?"

Zack shook his head. "No, we didn't. You said you saw it on James' computer?"

Woody nodded. "Yeah..."

Zack sighed. "I'm going to have to do something I swore never to do. Go talk to Miss Tutweiler outside of class..."

And with that, Zack and Jen were off. Woody stood there staring at them leave before he decided to follow them. After all, he was supposed to play basketball with them. Zack and Jen were almost in a full sprint towards the school deck. Once they got there, they noticed Miss Tutweiler was sitting at a desk working on something. Zack and Jen stormed into the classroom out of breath.

"Miss Tutweiler!"

She looked up and saw Zack and Jen panting for breath.

"Is everything alright?"

"The newsletters...We need you to take our birthdays off of it!"

Miss Tutweiler just looked at them like they were crazy. "What are you two talking about?"

Jen spoke up. "Trust us...You need to take Zack, Cody and Bailey's birthdays off the newsletter. If you don't, bad things will happen..."

"I h ave no idea what you two are talking about, but we don't put student's birthdays on our newsletters...That would cost more money, and Mr. Moseby is tight enough as it is with allocating funds..."

Now Zack and Jen were confused. "But...but Woody said..." Both turned around to find Woody and found him crawling into the class room dripping sweat. "Woody! Get over here..."

Woody pulled himself up slowly and stood there breathing heavily.

"Tell Miss Tutweiler about what you saw."

Woody was still trying to catch his breath. "James...computer...newsletter...birthdays..."

Miss Tutweiler just shook her head. "Woody, catch your breath and then speak."

Woody spent the next five minutes catching his breath. "Alright...My roommate, James, had a copy of the newsletter on his computer and it had Zack, Cody and Bailey's birthday on it. My birthday is October 6th, I want to make sure my birthday is included..."

"I'm sorry guys, the newsletters were mailed out several days ago. You're too late..."

Woody sighed. "Dang it!"

"But like I told Zack and Jen, we don't add birthdays to them. So, I have no idea what James had on his computer..."

Zack and Jen just looked at each other again and nodded. "We need to get in James' room. Woody, come up with us..."

Both of them dragged Woody out of the classroom and towards his cabin.

Meanwhile, in Bailey's cabin, she and Cody were sharing another kiss together.

"You know, at some point, we do need to do our homework..."

Cody grinned. "We're already two weeks ahead..."

Bailey giggled. "Are you saying you want to do this for the next two weeks?"

"Well, I may need to get some Carmex, but I'm willing to give it the old college try..."

Bailey just shook her head at him. "What am I going to do with you?"

"Anything you want as long as you love me..."

Bailey smiled. "That I will never stop doing..."

Cody smiled right back. "Me either..."

"Cody, us being back together like this has been more wonderful that I ever could have imagined..."

"I know what you mean. And to think, we have three more years of this and then off to college..."

"And once we're 18, who cares what our parents think..."

Zack, Jen and Woody were in Woody and James' cabin.

"Which laptop is his?"

Woody pointed to the one of the desk closest to the wall.

"Woody, keep an eye out for James." Zack sat down in front of the laptop and opened it up. However, when the screen came up, there was a prompt for a password. Zack sighed. "Oh well, there goes that..."

Jen rolled her eyes. "Step aside..."

Zack got up, and Jen took his place. She began typing and immediately she was let into to James' desktop.

Zack was impressed. "How did you do that?"

Jen grinned. "Easy. He's obsessed with my sister so I tried her name..."

Zack paused to think. "Huh...Wonder if Cody's password is the same thing..." He shook his head. "Oh well, see if you can find the newletter..."

Jen began looking for it, but was having no luck. On a hunch, she opened up the recycling bin and checked for recently deleted files. Low and behold, there was a document there titled 'ssnwlttr'. She opened up the file and there it was.

Jen sighed. "Well, there it is..." She reached into her pocket and pulled out her flash drive and saved it to it. After that, she hooked the laptop up to the printer and printed out a hard copy.

She turned and faced Zack. "Yeah, it was James who did this. And I bet the fake ones have already been mailed..."

Zack sighed. "We need to go tell Cody and Bailey then. Odds are they will be hearing from our parents soon..."

"I know. This sucks. They were ripped apart for ten years, and I'm pretty sure our parents will do it again..."

"What can we do about it?"

"I don't know...But I do know Cody and Bailey are up in our cabin, we need to tell them ASAP..."

"Right. Let's go."

Meanwhile, back in Boston and Kettlecorn respectively, Kurt Martin and George Martin were walking into their kitchens looking through their day's mail. Both finally get to a letter from Seven Seas High. Both open them and notice its a newsletter. Both sit down at their kitchen tables to see what is going on with the school their children were attending. As both skimmed the newsletter, they came upon the section with Student's birthdays. And both knowing their children had birthday's coming up, both immediately looked for October 14. At the same time, both read the entry under that date.

George Pickett was seeing red. "What the...the Martin twins?"

Kurt had to re-read it a few times. "Bailey Pickett? But that's..."

At the exact same time, they both realized their children had played them.

"Over Cody Martin my rear end! Bailey set this up to be with that no good Martin kid! How dare she betray me and her family like this!"

"Ultimate education experience! I would expect something like this from Zack, but Cody? To knowingly go behind my back so he could be with that Pickett girl? How could he betray me like this?"

To be Continued...