Chapter 14

Disclaimer: I do not own any Suite Life on Deck characters; I just own the plot and Travis, Daniel, Tiffany, Lily and their parents.

AN-Hello all! Well I'm a day or two past the one week mark, but I didn't hit go past two weeks so that's good. I have also been home sick yesterday and today so bonus for you guys because it gave me more time to write :] Enough of moi! Get to the reading...

Lily's point of view

"Me? No, never." He replied sarcastically. Then just to prove his sarcastic point he started kissing my neck.

I laughed then turned my head so I could get his lips on mine. After a few minutes of this I must say things started to get kinda heated. I was rather enjoying his when...

"LILY?!"

I tore myself away from Zack to see my brother walking rather quickly over towards us. Uh oh, this was not good. I looked around quickly, thankfully there weren't to many people and none I knew to see my brother have his outburst.

"Nathan." I said in a cautious voice.

"Hey dude, what do you think your doing ?" He asked Zack. Zack was basically looking at me very confused. Before he could say anything I stood up in an attempt to explain things.

"Nath-." I started but he cut me off.

"And what were you doing Lillian?" Once again before I could say anything he started up again.

"You think you can just walk over and start mackin' on my little sister?" Nathan asked turning back to Zack.

I had to laugh because knowing him all my life I knew this was a rare act for Nathan. He was usually very laid back with most thing but like I said he can be very over protective of me.

"Hey! Okay you know what? I think we need to talk." I said getting between Nathan and Zack but talking to Nathan.

"Yes we do." Nathan said in his attempt at a parental voice, which I must admit was getting better.

"And I will talk to you later." I said looking up at Zack with apologetic eyes. He nodded but didn't dare touche me. I laughed mentally at that as I walked away.

We walked in silence all the way to my room (because it was closer) but right when I closed the door Nathan started.

"So what are you the kissing booth of the ship?" He said trying to be serious, although I could tell he was teasing me.

"No, you really think I would do that?" I sai half laughing. "One of the things that I have yet to mention to you was that I have a boyfriend."

"Oh..." He said looking down."So I kinda over reacted?"

"Kinda?" I laughed sitting next to him on my bed. "I think you might have scared him off."

"I'm sorry Lily, but your my little sister and I'll always be protective over you." He said putting his arm around me.

"I know you will be and I wouldn't have it any other way but next time tone it down a little?" I said. "That or talk to me first."

"Sure thing." He laughed. "So whats this guy like?"

"His name is Zack Martin, he has a twin brother that also goes to school here and hes 16." I paused, raking my brain for more basic info.

"How long have you been dating?" Nathan asked.

"About 2-3 months."

"Cool."

"Yeah and he's really funny, sweet, nice. Oh and so is his family." I said thinking of Carey and Cody. "His brother is awesome and his mom Carey is so sweet and just amazing." I smiled.

"Wow you met the family already?" He laughed.

"Yeah well just when all the parents came."

"Oh, did he meet Dad?"

"Yeah, Zack and Dad got along really well actually." I smiled at the thought. I like that Zack was on good terms with my dad and he would be soon with Nathan.

"That's good, I know how close you and Dad are so if he likes Zack he must be a good one." He smiled.

"Yeah, but I want you to meet and like him too. Your really close to me too."

"Yeah but I just feel like I don't see you enough."

"I know." I said looking up at him."But we will make time to see eachother when I get off school."

"Yes we will." He said, he had the look in this eyes that meant it was a promise. "So can I formally meet Zack now?"

"Yeah sure, let go." I said getting up and walking to the door.

We got back to the sky deck and I looked around for Zack. I finally spotted him getting a smoothie across the way. I pointed him out to Nathan and we walked towards him.

"Hey Zack." I said sitting on the stool next to him. He turned around to look at me, then his eyes got a little wider when he saw Nathan.

"Hey Zack I'm Nathan." Nathan introduced, shaking Zack's hand. "Sorry about before I get protective of Lily sometimes and I didn't know about you two."

"Oh its no problem." Zack said a calm expression taking over his face.

We sat and talked for a few minutes. I smiled seeing that Zack and Nathan were really getting along. I looked at my watch and saw that it was 6.

"Hey guys we should probably go meet everyone for dinner."

We walked to the cafe and saw everyone sitting at the table already. We got our food and sat down with them.

"Hey guys this is my brother Nathan." I said pointing at Nathan then pointing everyone out as I called their name. "Nathan this is London, Woody, Bailey, Cody and Travis."

They all exchanged hellos we started eating. Some small talk with Nathan happened but other than that not much. Then we got into a wonderful topic once we were finished eating.

"So Nathan, got any interesting stories about Lily for us?" Travis asked with an evil smile on his face.

"Oh I believe I have a few." Nathan laughed looking over at me."Let me think...Oh! There is the Marilyn Monroe story."

"Oh my." I started laughing I remember this story.

"This should be interesting." Bailey laughed.

"Alright so it happened when our Mom still lived with us. Lily would have been 6 or 7 and I was about 16. My Mom was hosting a dinner party and was upset with Lily for playing and messing up the house. So Lily thought of a plan to make mom happy. One of my Moms idols was Marilyn Monroe, so Lily took a picture mom had of her and went on with her plan. I was downstairs helping Mom so I had no idea what she was doing until, right in the middle of the dinner party Lily comes down. She was wearing a white dress, the selves tied around her neck to look like a halter dress and she stuffed top of the dress with oranges for boobs. She also found a blond wig Mom had for an acting job and put that on, she didn't put it on well so you could see a lot of her actual hair though. So she walk into the middle of party and tells everyone shes Marilyn Monroe and started to sing." Nathan laughed.

"I remember that." I laughed. Everyone seemed to be enjoying this story, they were all laughing.

"Then there's the clown story." Nathan said.

"Oh no." I said as my head fell into my hands.

"Sounds like a good one." Woody laughed.

"Well one night I was watching the movie It (Based on the Stephen King book, scary!). And I being a stupid 15 year old let little 6 year old Lily watch it with me. For those of you who don't know It is about an evil clown named Pennywise and he is pretty creepy. So Lily got totally freaked out and had bad dreams about clowns for weeks. Then Dad decided to take us to the circus one day. After it was over we went to get Lily a balloon, while we were at the balloon stand a clown comes up behind Lily and she turned around and just stared at him in total shock. He asked her if she was lost and since she didn't say anything he picked her up to go find her family. Then Lily lets out one of the loudest screams ever. That's when Dad and I turned around along with everyone else in there. The clown was surprised and didn't know what to do, before he could put her down Lily punches him right in the face. Dad and I ran over and took her from him and told him we were her family and said sorry about the punch. Lily cried and has never liked clowns since." Nathan finished.

"Nice job." Cody laughed along with everyone else as I rolled my eyes.

"I'm with you there Lily." Bailey said. "I'm not a fan of clowns either. Although I've never punched one."

"That's my girl. Anyone gives her a hard time knock em out." Zack said putting his arm around my shoulder.

"Oh this story always haunts me." I said burying my face in Zack's shoulder.

Then Zack leaned over and whispered in my ear."I love a girl who can throw a punch when she needs to. I think its really hot." I laughed as he put this hand on my knee.

"Hmm what other memories can I share?" Nathan said tapping his chin.

"Hey here's an idea!" I said quickly. "How about we don't share anymore stories at my expense?"

"Nah." Everyone replied in unison then laughed.Oh well it was worth a try.

"Alright I think its time for the Mimi story." Nathan said looking over at me.

"Sure why not?" I didn't really mind any of these stories, they were funny. At least he wasn't getting into any really embarrassing stories, he knew better.

"Who Mimi?" London asked.

"Oh just wait." Nathan laughed. Everyone looked at each other confused, I just laughed.

"One time when Mom and Dad went on a business trip they left Lily with a family friend of Dad's. That night Dad's friends Lisa was putting 4 year old Lily to bed when she started crying like crazy for Mimi. Lisa had no idea what to do because she didn't know who Mimi was. She didn't want to call Mom and Dad because she knew they were busy so she tried to ask Lily were Mimi lived. Lily told her that Mimi lived in the house with us, that just confused Lisa even more. After an hour or two Lisa decided to call me, I was at my friends house. Once she told me what was happening and how Lily was really upset, she put Lily on the phone so I could talk to her. Once I knew she couldn't find Mimi I started to laugh thinking about how confused Lisa must have been. I then told Lisa that Mimi wasn't a person it was a blanket that Lily's had since she was born. Mom must have put it in the wash so I told her to check on top of the dryer and there it was." Nathan said.

"Aw that's cute." Bailey smiled.

"Well time flies I better be off." Nathan said looking at his watch.

"What time is it?" Cody asked.

"8 o'clock." Nathan answered.

"Wow." Travis said. "I better get on that Math homework then." We all got up from the table ready to go our separate ways.

"Night Lily." Nathan said touching my shoulder. "Later guys."

"Later Nate." I said looking up at him.

______2 Days later (Day Nathan Leaves)_____

Zack's point of view

Currently I was sitting in class. Miss Tutweiller was going on about Math, so I wasn't really paying attention. Once in awhile she would through in a comment about some students that were from a fancy private school that were on the ship today. They weren't in our classes they were just here for a fun day.

I looked over at Lily, she had kind of a bored/sad expression. Ever since I met her this morning she had that look. She was a little upset that Nathan was leaving today. We had an awesome passed couple of days with him around. After our rocky start we got along real well, I found out that Nathan was really cool. We also found out we have something big in common, we're both Red Sox fans. And as promised he told us some cool stories about him and Lily.

"Zack?" I snapped out of my trans hearing Lily talking to me.

"Yeah?" I asked

"You okay? You kinda zoned out there." She laughed.

"Lil, its math its nothing new."

"Yeah that's true."

"Alright class." Miss Tutweiller said. "Do questions 1-5 on page 34 for homework, have a good day." Everyone got up and headed to the door.

"So what do you guys wanna do now?" Travis asked as we walked out into the hall.

"I'm going to my nail appointment." London clapping then walked away.

"Lily and I are going to show the private school students around and answer questions about being on the ship." Bailey said.

"Oh that's right, lets go Bails. We'll see you guys later." Lily said walking away with Bailey.

"Well I guess it just the four of us." Woody said.

"So game room?" Cody asked.

We all agreed and headed there. We spent and hour there talking and playing games. We got a little bored and decided to do some homework. At about 5 we decide to head to the sky deck for awhile, we sat down and ordered smoothies. Not long after we saw a group of people come in with Bailey and Lily.

"Alright guys, this is the sky deck." Lily told them.

"You guys can walk around and do whatever you want now, Hope you guys had a great time on the ship today." Bailey said.

The people all started to walk around the sky deck. I knew the girls had a couple of things to do (Lily told me) so I didn't go see her yet. I turned around when I heard her talking to someone.

"Hey Mike." Lily said not really paying attention to the guy standing next to her. He was my heights and had black hair.

"I just wanted to say thanks for showing us around for the day." He said putting his hand on her back. I sat up a little bit, what was this guy doing?

"Uh no problem." Lily said shrugging his hand off. She then handed some papers to Bailey. "Here Bails."

"So you wanna get some dinner with me." He smiled taking her hand.

"That's nice of you Mike but I don't think so." Lily said taking her hand away. Lily was trying to be nice as she always is but I could tell she was getting annoyed.

"Awh come on baby." He said following Lily as she walked a little further away towards the hall.

Before she got to the hall Mike grabbed her arm and pushed her against the wall. He got really close to her and started putting his hand on her waist pulling her towards him.

"Oh I know your just playing hard to get babe." He laughed moving his hand from her wait to her hips and back again.

"I'm not playing anything now get your hand off of me." Lily said raising her voice trying to get his hands off of her.

Enough was enough I had to do something. I walked over and knocked him into the wall so he wasn't touching Lily anymore. I pulled her behind me so he wouldn't try anything anymore.

"Hey, what do you think your doing with my girlfriend?" I asked.

"Your girlfriend? Really? Well I think she was giving me some signs." He said looking over at Lily.

"You think? Well you need to learn how to read signs better." I told him.

"Maybe you need to know your girlfriend a little better." He laughed. "How do you know, maybe she goes out every night and does a strip tease for the hotel."

"Oh that's crossing the line." I said punching him in the jaw. "Stay away from my girlfriend."

"Zack! What is going on? Why are you harassing one of our guests?" Mr Moseby said running up to us.

"Mr. Moseby this guy tried to come on to Lily and had his hand all over her, then he basically called her a slut. I'm sorry but that drew the line for me." I told him.

Mr Mosby took one look at Lily and I and nodded his head. "Come Mr. Edwards I think we need to have a little talk with your teacher." He said walking away with Mike.

I turned around and looked at Lily for the first time since I got there.

"You okay?" I asked putting my hands on her shoulders and looking her in the eyes.

"I'm fine, thank you Zack." She said with a small smile.

"He didn't hurt you or anything?" I asked. I know I saw what happened but I just wanted to make sure.

"No, no just touching me." She said shaking her head.

"But not to worry, my hero came to save me." She laughed rapping her arms around my neck and kissing me. I put my arms on her waist pulling her closer.

We broke apart and I placed my forehead on hers. "I'll always be here for you."

"That's fine with me." She laughed and I placed one final kiss on her forehead before we broke apart to join the others.

Nathan's point of view

I was all packed up and ready to leave. I had a blast the passed few days with Lily and her friends. It was nice to get away from work and see my little sister again.

As I started walking out to the sky deck I started thinking more about Lily. She had a boyfriend now so at least when I left she would still have someone. Zack was a cool guy, he seemed to care for Lily and if Dad approved he must be good with her. But I don't know I just couldn't get this little worry out of my head, what if something happened to her. Lily had never really had a boyfriend before because oh Dad and her moving around a lot.

I turned the corner and started down the hallway right by the sky deck. I stopped because about 10 feet from me I saw Lily and some guy walking behind her, she looked really ticked off. Then he pushed her against the wall and started touching her. Oh not with my little sister buddy, I thought running down the wall to knock some sense into that guy. I stopped about a foot or two away because Zack beat me to them. I stood and watched to see what he would do.

He knocked the guy off Lily and pulled her back so he was between them.

"Hey, what do you think your doing with my girlfriend?" Zack asked him.

"Your girlfriend? Really? Well I think she was giving me some signs." The guy said looking over at Lily.

"You think? Well you need to learn how to read signs better." Zack said.

"Maybe you need to know your girlfriend a little better." The guy laughed. "How do you know, maybe she goes out every night and does a strip tease for the hotel."

At this point I really wanted to go punch this guy out for saying stuff like that to my sister.

"Oh that's crossing the line." Zack said punching the guy right in the jaw. "Stay away from my girlfriend."

Yeah that's the way Zack. I said to myself, mentally cheering him on. He used nice force on that punch I must say.

"Zack! What is going on? Why are you harassing one of our guests?" Mr Moseby said running up to them.

"Mr. Moseby this guy tried to come on to Lily and had his hand all over her, then he basically called her a slut. I'm sorry but that drew the line for me." Zack told him.

Mr Mosby took one look at Lily and Zack and nodded his head. "Come Mr. Edwards I think we need to have a little talk with your teacher." He said walking away with the guy.

Zack turned around and looked at Lily.

"You okay?" He asked putting his hands on her shoulders and looking her in the eye

"I'm fine, thank you Zack." She said with a small smile.

"He didnt hurt you or anything?" He asked.

"No, no just touching me." She said shaking her head.

"But not to worry, my hero came to save me." She laughed rapping her arms around Zack's neck and kissing him.

They broke apart and put there foreheads together. "I'll always be here for you." Zack told her.

"That's fine with me." She laughed. He kissed her forehead then they walked back out onto the sky deck.

As I watched them leave I knew that I didn't have to worry about Lily anymore, Zack could take care of her. I picked up my bags and headed out to where everyone was.

"Hey guys." I said walking over to the smoothie bar where they were.

"Hey Nathan." Everyone said back to me.

"All ready to leave?" Lily asked with a pout.

"Yeah Im all set. I should be gettin off in about 3 minutes."

As if on cue the loud speaker came on telling us that we were docking right now.

"Well this is my stop." I said. "It was nice meeting all of you."

I said goodbye to all of Lily's friends then went over to Zack, Lily was with Bailey so she couldn't hear me.

"It was great meeting you Zack."

"Yeah you too Nathan." He said smiling.

"I saw what happened back there with that guy." I said pointing behind me. "Thanks for looking out for Lily."

"No problem." He said smiling.

"Oh and keeping with tradition.." I laughed. "Hut my sister and any way and I will hurt you."

"Of course you will." He laughed. "I would expect you to."

I laughed then walked back over to Lily. "You coming with me?"

"Of course." She said. "I'll be back guys."

We walked down to were the passengers got off the ship.

"I'll see you later Lils." I said picking her up and hugging her.

"You better." She said with a few tears in her eyes. "I miss you too much."

"I will try and get more time to see you and Dad I promise." I told her putting her down.

"Good. Bye Nate."

"Bye Lily."

So? What do you guys think? Sorry Nathan wasn't on the ship for long but don't worry you will see more of him later. The next chapter will be skipping a month or two and it will have more Cody and Bailey for those of you who love them :) I will also have more of Travis, Woody and London in the next chapter also. Please review! It makes me very happy and inspires me to write faster haha. Next chapter coming soon!