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CHAPTER 5

...THE NEXT MORNING...

(In the hallway in front of Paris and London's suite)

Still a bit groggy from just waking up, he could here a familiar vioce calling his name. Cody looked down to seethe girl of his dreams fast asleep. Her head resting on his lap, as her arms were wrapped around his waist. She shivered. Cody stroked her hair gentley, not wanting to wake her up just yet. Somebody called out his name again. It was Carey Martin (his mom).

Carey and Zack ran down the hallway towards Paris and Cody.

"Hi, mom."

"You went to Paris's and never came back." she said to her son.

"I'm sorry, we were talking and we fell asleep."

"Well, at least your alright."

Cody looked up at Zack. His arms were crossed, as he stared at Cody and Paris with a disturbed look on his face. Paris's limp body stirred a bit, as soft smilespread across her face. Taking in a breathe of Cody's faint but still noticable cologne, the teen sat up and stretched before ruffling her coco brown locks.

Paris opened her eyes and looked at Carey and Zack.

"Oh my gosh... Where am I?" Paris said rubbing her head.

"We fell alseep in the hallway." replied Cody.

"Oh..." Paris quickly shot back up. "Uh. Hi Zack."

"Oh. You must be Paris." Carey said with a smile. Zack grunted a little before waving at Paris.

"I'm Carey. Zack and Cody's mother." Said Carey as she and Paris shook hands.

"It's really nice to finally meet you. But, I better get going."

"Ok. Well, it was nice to meet you to."

The brunette slowly turned towards the door, still trying to shake off her sleepiness. But, her eyes brightened as soon as she heard Cody's vioce.

"Wait. Uh, mom can I talk to Paris alone for a minute?"

"Yeah, of coarse." Carey shrugged, yet still curious on what exactly happened last night.

"Uh, me too mom." pipped Zack.

"Ok." said Carey as she walked away.

Cody and Zack turned to Paris. He knew that he should have brought this up a long time ago, but his temptations were holding him back in all sorts of diections.

"Uh, Paris when I saw you yesterday crying in the hallway. You and Gerardo were hugging." started Cody.

"Yeah. And you guys were talking to eachother a lot at school. Wait a minute you were crying?" said Zack quickly.

"No offense but I don't see the point here." Paris replied with a yawn. But, she sounded a little sarcastic. Obviously her two faced personality was starting to shine.

"Are you guys dating or something?" asked Cody.

"Yeah. Or "hanging out?"" Zack finished off, making little qoutation marks in the air.

"No... We're just friends. And so far he's the closest friend I've had in a long time. Well... Besides you Cody." Raising a brow at Zack, shesmiled a bit, beforetugging on her side swept bangs. It was always a habit to do so, especially when she was nervous. For some reason her heart was racing, wanting to run away.

"Ok. Then I'll talk to you later then?"

"Yeah." Paris tried her best not to stutter, from the sound of Cody's vioce.

As soon as Cody walked away, Zack made his own conversation.

"I'm sorry."

"Huh?" Questioned Paris.

"I'm sorry that I lied. I'm sorry that I told Gerardo, Cody, Max... Tapeworm... and Bob, that me and you kissed. I just couldn't tell if you forgived me or not 'cause you were mad at me at school but then in the hotel lobby, it was almost like you forgot about the whole entire thing." Zack said as fast as he could, spilling almost everything he wanted to say.Afterwards he let out a sigh of relief.

She nodded in response, with a smirk as if she couldn't believe that he was apologizing. She wasn't used to the fact, that people acually did "care" about how she felt. But, it eventually turned into a good feeling, as her heart raced once again.

"Ok. Still friends right?" Zack had a owrried look planted on his face.

"Of coarse."

Paris quickly pulled Zack into a fairly tight embrace, but it was one that you could still enjoy. It was just one of those things that killed so badly inside, but for some strange reason you just can't let go. Zack's emotions errupted with temptation and confusion, as she whispered in his making him shiver in response.

"Your such a great guy Zack."

Zack just smiled and pulled her in tighter. He wanted to kiss her,but didn't dare doing so.Although he did love her big personality change, he couldn't just take advantage of her like that. Another thought that was running through his head was the talk of "The Birds And The Bees" with dad. But, before Zack could even say good-bye Paris went straight back into her suite. From his piont of view, it was somewhat breathe taking. Zack zoned out for a few moments to re-think everything that had happened.

"Yes!" Zack whiserper-yelled as he somewhat danced down the hallways.

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