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When Carey, Zack, and Cody entered the Tipton, Carey made her way to the elevators. She needed to hurry to up to the Martin suite so she could get ready for her show. She was going to sing for another wedding. Zack and Cody went to the candy counter.

"Hey Maddie," said Zack. Cody waved.

"Are you feeling alright, Zack?" asked Maddie.

"Yeah, sure. Why?"

"Because you didn't even try to come onto me."

"Yeah well, there's this hot girl in my class, and I don't want to ruin my chances of not being able to go out with her just because I hit on you."

"Oh. So what do you boys want?"

"Well, I'll have a pack of gum and Cody will have," Zack paused to look back at his brother who was pointing towards the chocolate bars. "Cody will have a chocolate bar."

"Alright. That will be $1.06." Zack handed Maddie the money where she quickley put it in the register. "Have a nice day."

The boys went to their suite. Cody was feeling a little tired. He still wasn't used to moving so much. He went in his room to lay down. Zack sat down on the couch to watch T.V. He was flipping through the channels when Carey called his name,

"Zack. I need to talk to you," said Carey.

"I didn't do it!"

Carey looked at Zack. She had no idea what he was talking about. "I don't know what you did, but I will find out sooner or later. What I really need to talk to you about is Cody."

"Is something wrong with Cody? Is he going to be alright?"

"No, nothing's wrong with Cody. It's just that he's still not talking. When Kathy talked to me, she said that Cody won't start talking unless we ignore him when he doesn't actually talk."

"What! I can't just ignore him!"

"Zack. Quiet down. You'll wake Cody. You need to give it a chance. Don't you want Cody to get better?"

"Well yeah, but it will kill him. He'll go crazy!"

"Kathy thinks that this is the best way. I think we all need to listen to her. We also have to tell everyone else at the Tipton to ignore him too. When I go to my show tonight, I'll tell everyone there, but I want you to tell Maddie and London."

"Okay. I will," said Zack. This was not going to be fun. How was he going to ignore his own brother? While Carey was getting ready to for her show Zack left to tell Maddie and London. He found them both in London's suite. London was letting Maddie try on all of her clothes.

"I guess some clothes are only ment for rich people. All of these look terrible on you," said London shaking her head.

"They do not! I look awesome. It must be nice being rich," Maddie replied.

"Oh. Believe me. It is." London was smiling to herself when Zack knocked on the door to her closet. "Come in."

"Hey. I have to talk to you two."

Seeing the troubled look on Zack's face, Maddie and London sat down of on the couch. Somehow the knew thatwhat they were going to hear wouldn't be good news. Zack sat down across from them.

"Mom talked to Cody's phyciatrist today. She said that Cody won't talk because he doesn't need to. She thinks that the only way Cody will start talking again is if we all ignore him. Can you believe that?"

"Oh. That's so sad. So if Cody doesn't actually talk, we have to pretend that we can't understand him?" asked Maddie.

"Yup. That's exackly what I mean."

"Oh. Poor Cody," said London.

"Well, I better go. Cody's sleeping and I don't want him to wake up when no ones home. Bye," said Zack as he left for his suite. He knew that tomorrow would be a very long day.


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