A/N: Sorry it took SUPER LONG to update this story, my computer had a bunch of technical difficulties. Looks like I'm the one in need of help. Oh well… Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own TSL or any of its characters, but when I win the lottery I'll consider it as my first investment.

If You Give Arwin a Girl…

The twins' Help Stand hadn't even been up for a whole day and already they had failed in helping anyone with their problems. The boys sat behind their stand, wiped out a frown painted each of their faces. In some cases this may be called "twin telepathy", but in this case it was clear that each twin knew that the other was secretly considering throwing in the towel.

"You know what, let's just forget this and go upstairs to play video games," Zack suggested.

"We can't!" Cody protested, "We're doing this for a cause!"

"Cause Shmause; we're broke"

"Come on Zack, just give it a chance. We could really do some good." Cody continued.

"Fine, we'll give it five minutes, but that's it" Zack agreed.

Amazingly, it didn't even take that long for the next Tipton catastrophe to walk right into the lobby.

Arwin came rushing in to the lobby, panicked.

"What is all this yelling in my lobby?" Moseby scolded Arwin. Arwin began to calm down almost immediately

Within seconds the boys hurried over to Arwin to see what all the noise was about. "What's wrong Arwin?" asked Cody.

"Well, my mother is coming tomorrow to the Tipton to visit" he informed them.

"And…?" Cody wondered, "What's wrong with that?"

"Enough said Arwin, moms are such a drag" said Zack.

"Hey! Our mom is the greatest. Let me remind you where you would be today if it weren't for her!" Cody lectured him.

"Ummm… I'd be upstairs playing game after game and wolfing down and ice cream Sundae the size of Mount Everest" Zack replied.

"You wouldn't even be alive, dummy!" Cody retorted.

"No, that's not it, see until last year I was living with her, and now she's coming to check up on me. And the worst part is… she thinks I have a girlfriend. She wants to meet her! If I don't show her I'm capable of standing on my own to feet she'll drag me back home with her." Arwin finished, almost out of breath.

"That's horrible!" Zack said trying to hold down his enthusiasm for a new customer, "and for a flat fee of five bucks we can solve this problem."

"That would be great!" Arwin announced thrilled.

"Arwin, you go back to your office, I have an idea and once everything is taken care of we'll come back to let you know," Zack assured him. And with that Arwin skipped off.

A few minutes later the twins were outside their hotel suite.

"Okay Cody, just follow me lead," he told Cody right before they walked into the room.

"Hi mom" Zack said, "We have something to ask you."

"Shoot," their mother Carey replied.

"Remember when you told us that if a friend ever needs your help you should try to be as good a friend as they are and help them with their problem?"

"Ummm… yeah. Where is this going?" she wondered.

"Well do you really believe that?" Zack continued questioning.

"Of course I do."

Cody began to take over the conversation, "Well a friend of ours really needs our help and we think it will be a shame to let him down, don't you?"

"It sure is, especially if this guy is a good friend," she responded.

"Good! Then we're glad you volunteered to help him" Zack finished up.

"Wait! What? How exactly did I get myself into this one?" she asked herself aloud.

Cody carefully explained, "Well see Arwin is a good friend of ours, and he's your friend too, and well…"

Without stalling Zack quickly took over, "—His mom is coming to the Tipton tomorrow to visit him and his girlfriend."

"Arwin has a new girlfriend? That's great!"

"Ummm… not exactly," Zack replied, "but see, that's where you come in"

"Oh no you don't," she said as she looked at her two sons "I'm not butting in to anyone's personal life, thank you very much"

"But mom, he's your friend," said Cody

"And he has a problem" Zack continued

"And you know he'd do anything to help you"

"And you know what they say… if a friend ever needs your help you should try to be as good a friend as they are and help them with it" Zack finished.

"Oh alright, I'm in" she said giving in. "This is what I get for having to twin boys"

Five dollars are about to make their way into the pockets of Zack and Cody, or are they? Dun Dun Dun…

A/N: wow this is much shorter than I thought the chapter would be, but I'm trying to get back on my feet with this story so I could make the next chapter better. It may be the last. Well please review anyway. If I was a flashlight, reviews would be the Duracell batteries that keep me lit during a power outage. So please review so I can shine brighter than ever.