Disclaimer: I'm sorry I do not own Suite Life or any of its characters but maybe if I'm a good lil girl Santa will bring it to me for Christmas.
Customer or not?
"It's almost noon and we haven't even had one customer!" Cody announced kind of complaining.
"Yeah I'm hungry" said Zack as he turned around to look at Maddie.
"Don't even think about it" Maddie snapped
"Oh well" Zack continued "I guess we'll just have to wait for the next big disaster". Right as he said that the elevator pinged and the hotel heiress London Tipton came charging out towards the candy counter.
"Maddie, Maddie, I need help!" London pleaded
"I think the therapist is staying in suite 203." Maddie answered
"Oh no that's okay; daddy already bought me one of those. This is about Evana!" exclaimed London
"Then might I suggest you visit Zack and Cody's help stand," Maddie suggested
"Zack and Cody have a help stand?" London wondered out loud.
"Now they do" Maddie said with a grin on her face. Now she managed to get all three of them out of her hair. They'd all be too busy to disturb her, especially when he got here. All in a day's work she thought to herself quite pleased.
London took a few perky steps to Zack and Cody's little stand. "What do you want?" Zack asked London impatiently.
"No Zack!" Cody jumped in before his brother could say anymore, "This is why we don't get any customers. Try it like this, Zack and Cody's Help Stand, how can we help you?" he finished with enthusiasm.
"Or maybe the reason we don't any customers is because of your fake cheesy smile" Zack rudely replied.
"Or maybe it's because you need a bath!" Cody impolitely continued.
"Or maybe—"
"Can you guys stop it? I need help! Evana's missing!" London said breaking up the argument. "I think she left me this" she carried on, holding up a piece of paper with a few small paw prints on it.
Zack took the paper and looked at it for a few seconds while stroking his chin. "It says right here" he said pointing to the paper "that Evana ran away."
"Oh no!" London began to blubber trying as hard as she could to make sure her makeup wouldn't run. "But why would my precious little Evana run away from me, I gave her everything she ever wanted!" She continued to sob.
"Well living in that bag for starters" Zack mumbled to himself, but Cody heard him and gave him a look.
"Don't worry London we'll make sure you find her" Cody reassured London. "Okay let's see. How about we split up? Zack and I will look around the hotel and you can look for her outside. You know where she likes to go."
"But it's all gross outside. What if I break a nail!" she exclaimed with shock.
"Well you can always get someone to assist you," Cody suggested.
"Yes you're right. I have the power to do that." She said as her face lit up, "Esteban!" she called out. Esteban dropped all the bags he was holding and accidentally tripped over them.
"Yes, Miss London, today is quite busy, what do you need?" He asked in his heavy accent.
"I need you do drop everything you're doing and help me search for Evana, she ran away"
"That little mutt that likes to chomp on my uniform and chase my chicken, just like mother's cow used to back home?" He asked with a tiny hint of sarcasm.
"Don't call my precious Evana a cow! She was a little fat a while ago but after I put her on the Exclusive Slim Puppy Diet she got better and you have no right to call her that now" London answered defensively.
"Don't worry Miss London," Esteban tried to calm her down, "I'll help you look for her."
"Okay we'll meet you guys back her in an hour and a half," announced Cody.
London and Esteban headed for the door and they heard her rambling on about where Evana could be "…or she could be at Doggie's Jewelry, or she could be at the Puppy park, or she could be at Stylish Pup boutique, or…"
"I guess we should get looking" said Cody
"Yeah let's start with the kitchen, and then let's search the arcade" Zack declared while pulling Cody to come with him.
An hour and a half had almost been up and the boys could not find Evana anywhere. As the came out of the elevator they bumped into a young man.
"Hey watch it" he said.
"You watch it" Zack retorted. The guy was dressed in ripped jeans, a T-shirt, a leather jacket and he was holding a guitar case.
"Oh sorry lil guys" he said as he put down his guitar case, put his hands on their heads and ruffled their blond hair. "Do you know where I can find Maddie?" he asked.
"Over there" Cody pointed to the candy counter.
"Thanks" he said as he walked towards her.
"I wonder what that guy wants from Maddie" questioned Cody
"I guess we'll just have to find out" Zack said as he took his brother and they both hid behind the couch to eavesdrop.
"Hi Maddie!" he said as he approached her.
"Not much. What brings you around Brad?" she asked him.
"I'm just passing through. I have a gig in half an hour at a place nearby. I wanted to know if we're still on for our study date tomorrow."
"Oh yeah" she remembered, "actually I'm working but I doubt there'll be many guest, so we can study here in the lobby."
"Sounds great! See ya tomorrow" He said as he blew her a kiss and left.
"Look at Maddie, she's all googley-eyed" Zack told his brother.
"Yeah, looks like she's been bitten by the love bug" said Cody. Cody could easily tell that Maddie was in love with this guy and it was serious but Zack refused to see it.
"Yeah right" said Zack.
Just then London and Esteban walked in all tired and overworked. "Any luck?" she asked.
"Nope" Zack answered.
"My hair is messed up, my nails are chipped, I broke off heel and I still can't find Evana," London once again began to weep, "I'm going to take a nice warm bath with lavender aroma" she whined as she dragged herself upstairs.
Less than an hour later London came back downstairs, nice and clean with Evana in her hands.
"Hey, you found Evana!" Cody exclaimed happily.
"Yeah, she was in her walk-in closet the whole time, choosing an outfit for the celebrity event we have in a few days, and might I say she made a lovely choice." London informed the two.
"Oh of course!" Zack said as he picked up the paper full of paw prints once again, "I can't believe I confused 'ran away' with 'choosing a new outfit', my bad. That'll be five bucks."
"I found her, you're not getting a dime" said London as she marched away.
The boys are off to a rocky start, will they be able to help anyone in their new business?
A/N: Hope this chapter's better. As I said before the last one was short because it was a prologue. Please review! If I was Evana, reviews would be the expensive doggy treats London buys to keep my tail wagging. So I'll just be waiting by my doggy bowl for some treats, I mean reviews.