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Chapter 8

As Cody and Shannon hung out together for a while, Kristi spent her time in her room crying. She missed Zack so much, and everything about him. The way he laughed, they way he smiled, the way he kissed her. She couldn't understand how this happened. She didn't do anything wrong. Eric was the one who kissed her, and Zack got mad at her for it. Eric was still staying at her house, but she wouldn't speak to him, or even look at him. She positively hated him. He broke her and Zack up, and she would never forgive him for that. She wouldn't come out, no matter what. Not for dinner, to go out. Anything. Her door was constantly locked.

Zack knew he had made a huge mistake. He didn't mean to break up with Kristi. He loved her more than anyone. He was just so angry. More at Eric than anybody, but he just got caught up in the moment. But he felt so stupid going over to her apartment, yet he really wanted to. He didn't know what to do. And then he also thought about the fact that she might not take him back, after all the he did. Then he cried. He wished Eric never came into the picture, or that he ever broke up with Kristi. Nothing seemed to matter in his life except for Kristi. He got sharp pains in his stomach every time he thought about the way Kristi looked when she left his room after they had broken up. Her eyes were full with tears, and she just looked so hurt. He was angry at himself for making her feel that way. Then, slowly, he got up and walked over to Kristi's. He knocked on the door and Eric came to open it.

"What do you want?" he asked snobbily.

"My girlfriend back," Zack said. He punched Eric in the nose and it started to bleed. Eric ran to the bathroom to wash it out. Zack approached Kristi's door slowly. Then he tried to open it, but it was locked.

"Kristi, open the door. It's Zack. We really need to talk." He waited for a moment but she still wouldn't open the door. He knocked on the door harder. Then he finally heard the lock shift and the door opened.

Kristi had black mascara lines running down her face. Her hair was rumpled and her eyes were big an red. Her face was blotched with red patches all over, obviously from wiping her tears so much. Zack felt awful. He wanted to just give her a big hug and tell her he loved her. He reached his arms out for one, but Kristi pulled herself away. She just slowly walked passed him, dazed like a zombie. Zack walked in front of her. "Wait.." he heard himself mumbled.

"Zack, I've been waiting...too long." Then she ran past him, down the stairs, and out of the Tipton Hotel, into the cold, pouring rain. Zack ran after her. He had no idea where she would go. He ran out after her. He couldn't see her anymore. Then he spotted her run across the highway, almost getting hit by cars zooming past. He dashed after her. He was chasing her up a steep cliff, deep into the woods. Then he stopped when he saw her standing at the edge of the drop.

"Kristi! Don't jump!" he yelled.

"What do you think I'm crazy?" she turned to him and asked him. He was pure dumbfounded. "I'm not gonna jump off the cliff. I come here to think when I am depressed," she told him sadly. Zack walked up to her. He touched her arm. She yanked it away. She was obviously ticked. "Zack, why would you do this to me? I love you more than anyone I've ever known...loved...love...I just don't know you anymore, Zack..." her voice trailed off down the distance of the cliff.

"I wish I didn't...I love you. It was all a big mistake. You and Eric kissing just kept replaying in my mind...I guess I just loved you so much that it hurt so bad when I saw that." They were both saturated by the rain. Puddles surrounded them. Zack walked up to her. "Kristi...I have never made a bigger mistake in my life than hurting you...and now I know...I would rather die than ever hurt you again...I am truly sorry. I really, really am. I can't live without you..."

Kristi saw that Zack was truly sorry. And she loved him so much. She couldn't let him go.

"You're just lucky that you'll never have to," she said. Zack didn't know what she meant by that. Then he thought of the last sentence he had said. She was taking him back.

He pulled her close and pressed his lips against hers. He was so happy! "I love you," he told her.

"You better!" she joked. "I love you, too." The rain poured around them as they kissed each other. Then they walked down the cliff huddled together, trying to keep the rain off them. When they made it back to the hotel, they were soaked.

Cody got to hang out with Shannon all the time now. He was glad that she was back. They were sitting in the lobby playing cards, when Zack and Kristi came in soaking wet.

"What happened to you?" Cody asked them. Kristi spotted Shannon and ran up to her and gave her a hug.

"I thought you went home! And now, your back!"

"Yeah," said Shannon.

"We got a little wet," Zack told Cody.

They chatted for a moment, then Kristi and Zack each went to get dry clothes and change.

"I'm so glad that we're back together," Zack told Kristi in the elevator.

"Me too." Zack kissed her as the door came open. "I missed you so much."

Kristi went off to her apartment and Zack went off to his. They both got changed in a matter of minutes and met up with each other again in the hallway. They went back to Zack's and played video games. After a while Kristi had to go home, as it was getting late. She still wasn't talking to Eric, and Zack was glad.

The next morning, Kristi and Zack both came to find that they had terrible colds. So they rested together at Kristi's place, snuggled up in blankets and both wearing their PJ's. They ate chicken noodle soup, watched movies, and napped, as the whole time, the garbage cans (they each had their own next to them as the both needed to use so many tissues) overflowed with used tissues. They both talked very nasally, too.

Cody and Shannon continued to spend all of their time together. They would go to the park, the pool, hang around the lobby, in their apartments...basically anywhere. They never got tired of each other or bored. They felt sorry for Kristi and Zack being stuck in the house with colds while they were out having tons of fun. But they knew they could all hang out when they got better.

The only problem with that was that Zack was recovering from his cold, but Kristi wasn't getting any better. At first, it seemed that her cold wasn't even as bad as Zack's. But as he began to get better and she began to get worse, everyone knew that something was wrong. Eric had already left for home, still not on speaking terms with Kristi. Kristi's parents were worried about her, but she refused to go to the doctor.

"I'm fine, I just need to rest, really that's all," she would tell them. Until one day when she was walking to get food from the kitchen with Zack, she got dizzy and passed out. Zack had never been so nervous in his life. Mr. Moesby and Carey (twin's mother) came running when they saw what happened. Cody was there too, and ran upstairs with Shannon to inform Kristi's parents of what happened, so they could be there with her in the ambulance. Someone had called 9-11 and they loaded her onto a stretcher and placed her in the back of the ambulance as she was still unconscious. Oxygen masks and all sorts of wires were hooked up to her.

"Mom, we've got to go!" Zack cried. "We've got to go to the hospital! I've got to be with her! Let's go!" Zack was panicking. He didn't know what was going on. He didn't know whether she was going to die or be ok. Carey, Zack, Cody, and Shannon packed into Carey's car and took off after the ambulance to the hospital.

Chapter 9 coming out soon! Review please! Love, Boop