Chapter 25

Again, I don't own any of these characters

The next morning, Cody and Bailey are still asleep in Bailey's bed. However, it appears during the course of the night, their positioning had changed. Bailey is now on her side facing London's bed with Cody lying behind her spooning her with his arm wrapped around her protectively. The clouds part and the sun finally starts to stream in through the porthole and gently falls on both of their faces.

Cody still has his eyes closed and mumbles into Bailey's ear, "Good morning, Sweetie..."

Bailey too has her eyes still closed and snuggles closer to Cody. "Good morning to you too, Cody..."

After a few seconds, both of their eyes fly open and both shout at the same time, "Morning?"

Cody and Bailey untangle from each other and both sit straight up. They look at each other and both ask, "What are you doing here?"

Bailey pauses to trying to clear her mind. "Me? This is my room."

Cody looks around and sees that she is right. "Okay...then what am I doing here? (concerned) What happened last night?"

"(pauses) Well, we had pizza and pie...then we were watching TV. That's the last thing I remember..."

"(thinks) Yeah, same here...We must have fallen asleep."

"Yeah, that has to be it..."

Cody mind starts to race. "Bailey, I want you to know, I didn't plan this..."

"(smiles) I know. I didn't either. It was just an accident, that's all..."

"Yeah...What time is it anyways? Maybe I can sneak back to my room without being noticed..."

Bailey looks at her rooster alarm clock. "10 AM..."

Cody sighs. "There goes that plan...I'm sure by now Woody has noticed I never came home last night..."

"Maybe he slept in?"

"Not a chance of that...They're having breakfast burritos this morning..."

"So, what do we do?"

"Maybe I can say I came in after he was asleep and left before he got up?"

"You think that will work?"

"I don't know...probably not though...I think we only have one other option..."

"(nods) I think I know what you're going to say..."

"Yeah?"

"(sighs) Yeah...Go talk to Mr. Moseby and face the music..."

"(nodding) Yeah...(takes Bailey's hand) No matter what, we'll deal with this together."

"(smiles) Yeah. We better get out of bed and put our regular clothes back on..."

Cody can't help himself, and begins to laugh. Bailey realizes what she said and blushes profusely.

"Don't worry, Bailey...I know what you meant. I'm sorry I laughed."

"It's okay...If Woody knows you didn't come home last night, I'm sure he might get the same impression."

Cody lifts Bailey's chin so he can look into her eyes. "If that's what he thinks, I will correct him. I don't want anyone questioning your virtue."

"(smiles) Thank you. A lot of guys would take something like this and run with it."

"(smiles) Well, I'm not like most guys..."

"I know. That's one of things I love about you."

"Come on, let's go get this over with..."

Meanwhile, on the sky deck

Zack is working the Smoothie Counter, when Cassie comes up and sits down.

"(smiles) Good morning, can I get you anything?"

"(smiles) Sure, a banana fofana please..."

"Coming right up. So, what did you get into last night?"

"I crashed early. My body told me I needed sleep (laughs)."

"Tell me about it. I was playing a video game and I fell asleep in the middle of it."

"Its been a long week..."

"You can say that again. That and I'm ready to have solid ground under my feet again."

"I think I heard we are supposed to be Japan by next weekend."

"Thank goodness...The long crossings of the oceans are always the worst. Boat fever can get pretty bad..."

"(laughs) Nice to know I got it over with early."

Woody and Addison come up and sit down next to Cassie.

"Plywood...You're up early today."

"(grins) Breakfast burritos today"

Zack grimaces. "Thanks for the warning."

"Hey Zack, did Cody crash with you and Marcus last night?"

"No, why?"

"(shrugs) He never came back to the room last night and still wasn't there when I woke up..."

"(surprised) He didn't?"

Cassie chimes in. "You think he's okay?"

Zack thinks. "Hmmm...He's probably fine...but we should go find your cousin to make sure..."

"(questioning) Bailey?"

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure if we find her, we'll find Cody too..."

Zack heads off to find his brother with Cassie following close behind.

Mr. Moseby's Office

Cody knocks on the door to Mr. Moseby's office. After hearing a "Come in", Cody and Bailey enter.

"Cody, Bailey...What brings you to my office this early?"

Cody starts. "Mr. Moseby, we need to talk to you..."

"Is everything okay?"

Bailey answers. "You might not think so..."

"Alright...tell me what happened."

Cody begins timidly. "Well, London was gone yesterday, and after midterms and the dance, we decided just to hang out in Bailey's cabin last night..."

"Go on..."

Bailey continues. "We got a pizza and we were just going to watch London's satellite TV...(pauses) Neither of us meant for it to happen..."

Mr. Moseby is concerned now. "Didn't mean for what to happen?"

Cody begins to stammer. "It was an accident....We...We..."

Mr. Moseby feels his stomach begin to knot up.

"...We fell asleep..."

"(confused) You what?"

Bailey speaks up nervously. "We were both just watching TV and we ended up falling asleep. We didn't realize what happened till we both woke up this morning."

"(sighs) Alright, let me see if I have this straight. Since London was gone, you both just hung out in Bailey's cabin. You got a pizza and watched TV...and you both fell asleep."

Bailey nods. "Yes, Mr. Moseby."

"And you're sure nothing else happened..."

This upsets Cody. "Of course not, Mr. Moseby. Bailey is a lady, and I would never do anything to put that in doubt."

"(smiles) Settle down, Cody...I believe you. I'm just wondering why you both decided you had to come to me with this..."

Bailey answers. "Well, you mentioned that those with the privilege of no curfew were responsible for the success of the program. We didn't want what we did to affect others. We're ready to accept the consequences of what we did."

Mr. Moseby sighs. "Officially, as your chaperone, I can't condone a male and a female sleeping together in the same room. However, I admire both of your forthrightness in coming to me with this immediately. So, what I am going to do is pretend like you two never came to me with this. I never had a worry about the two of you, and you've both proven me correct."

Cody answers. "But...we..."

Moseby smiles. "It was an accident. No harm was done. Believe me, I know you two. I know you two care very deeply for each other. (pauses) Now, if this had been your brother, I'd probably lock him in the brig..."

Bailey smiles. "Thank you, Mr. Moseby."

Moseby smiles. "And unofficially, the next time this happens...don't tell me..."

Bailey and Cody look at each in surprise.

To be Continued...