Cody walked into the ballroom and looked around.
"Wow," He said. "Max is going to have so much fun. I wonder who is coming."
Meanwhile, a busload of all Max's friends came in through the lobby and ran Cody over as they went into the ballroom.
"I'm ok," Cody mumbled as he tried to get up.
Zack ran in and stepped on Cody's leg.
"Ow, ow, ow, ow." Cody got up with a bruise on his head and arm and hopped out of the room.
When he hopped into his suite, he saw his mom there with Maddie talking about babysitting him and Zack.
"So, is Sunday ok?"
"Yea, sure. Because you know, Saturday, I have to work."
Cody didn't feel like hopping anymore, so he got on the floor and crawled over to a chair and sat down.
"I'm hurting..." Cody mumbled to himself.
"Cody, you must be hurting!" Carey walked over to Cody.
"Thanks, Captain Obvious." Cody sarcastically answered.
"Cody..." Carey gave Cody 'the look'.
"What?" Cody asked.
"What happened? Maddie, could you get three ice packs out of the freezer?"
"Sure," Maddie answered.
"Well, I was just looking around at the beautiful view of the elegant ballroom-"
"Cody..."
"Sorry. I was in the ballroom and all these kids ran over me. Then Zack stepped on my foot. It made a loud cracking noise, whatever that means."
"Oh-my-gosh! Cody! You probably broke your leg!"
"You mean Zack broke my leg?"
"Cody..."
"Sorry. Ow." Maddie had just put the Ice pack on his leg, which was propped up on the coffee table, and she put one on his face and his arm.
"I got to take you to the nurse office."
"Not the Nurse! She hates me! I wasn't the one who put frogs in the bed! It was Zack! And Zack did the cockroaches in the medicine cabinet... and I have no clue who popped her stress ball 3 weeks after that day..."
"WHAT?" Carey stared at Cody.
"Oops..." Cody slouched in his chair.
"That boy is in trouble. Mr. Moseby made Miss Nissan pay for all that!"
"Ow, ow, ow... sharp pain..." Cody grabbed his ankle.
"Ok, let's just take you to the ER. You might miss Max's party, but we'll see what we can do about that."
Maddie and Carey carried Cody out the door and down the elevator.
In The Lobby:
"Jake, come here." Zack said.
"Yea? Where's Max? When is she coming?" Jake twitched and looked impatient.
Zack looked at Jake weirdly, "are you ok, dude?"
"Yea, why?" Jake stopped twitching and looked at Zack as if nothing was wrong.
"You're looking a little mercurial today, you know what I mean?"
Muriel walked up, "Did you say my name, Zack? By the way, your pantry is out of food."
"No, I said 'mercurial', not 'Muriel.'"
"What's the difference?" Muriel asked.
"One's changing moods, and one's changing rooms." He said, as he shoved Muriel away.
"Well?" Jake asked.
"She's going to be a little late. Like, an hour. She has to practice this dance that her mom made her make perfect before she left. She's going to show it to us, but she doesn't know it yet. So she'll be about an hour late."
"An hour?" Jake said.
"Yea..."
"So, When is Max coming?" Carey comes up behind Zack carrying Cody.
"An hour and 15 minutes. What happened to Cody?"
"Ow, Ow, Ow... sharp pains..." Cody said still clutching his foot.
"You stepped on his leg and broke it." Carey said to Zack.
"I did? Woops. Sorry, bro. Forgive me?"
"Yea, ow... ow..." Cody said.
"You have a brother? And you broke his leg?" Jake asked.
"Yes and I guess." Zack answered.
"Hey, Cody. I'm Jacob Smith."
Cody looked at him stunned.
"J-J-Jac-c-cob S-S-Smith?" Cody stuttered.
"Yea."
"Oh my Word! You are awesome! One day I wanted to be just like you and the next day Zack was like, no dude im Jacob Smith and we were having this big old fight about who is a better skater and actor and I obviously won in both fields and then I was skating around and I almost could do that one thing you did in that one- ow.. ow... sharp pains..." Cody grabbed his foot tighter and was taken out the doors.
"So, Cody won both fields?"
"Not the skating one, he won as a better actor. Even though I can cry on cue."
"Have you guys ever acted?"
"In drama class."
"And you cried in drama class."
"No, but I can fake cry! I'm really good! Want to see?" Zack pretends to Cry and is doing a horrible job.
"Ok. Cool. Nice. I'll be in the ballroom setting up." Jake left Zack in the lobby.