Soon the thirty minutes were up. "Oh crap. I better hurry or I'll be late meeting Maddie in the lobby,' Zack thought to himself. He ran to the elevator, hit the LOBBY button and waited. When he finally got to the lobby he saw Maddie sitting on a couch.

He jumped over the back of the couch and sat beside her. "Hey, Maddie!" he looked at her. "So whatcha wanna do?"

"Hey Zack! Um, do you wanna go to the Janitor's Closet where we can talk without anyone seeing or hearing us?" she asked.

"Sure, let's go!" he said. They got up and snuck into the closet making sure nobody saw them.

"Ok, first things first, Are we going to tell anyone?" Maddie asked.

"Well, I'll leave that up to you, but I say no," he explained further when she looked at him questionably. "They may not like that your two years older than me."

"Your right, so let's just say we won't tell them unless they find out," she said smiling.

"Ok, next thing, what about Cody? He has already walked in on us once," Zack commented.

"Well, I say if he asks we tell him the truth, otherwise we just act like it never happened," Maddie continued.

"Ok, that's about it right?" Zack asked.

"Almost," Maddie said grinning.

"What do you mean haven't we already-," he got cut off by Maddie pressing her soft lips to his. After a few seconds she pulled away.

"Wow!" Zack said with a dazed expression.

"Wow is right!" Maddie said with a dazed expression on her face also, then to herself. "Yey, my boyfriend is a great kisser!"

"I am, huh?" Zack said with a smirk. She nodded her head blushing. "So, you want mind of I do this?" he said grinning even more putting his arm around her waist and pulling her towards him then kissing her passionately.

When they pulled apart Maddie was smiling. "Zack, as much as I like, no love, to kiss you we better leave. Someone might find us in here," she said.

"Ok, you leave first then in a few minutes I'll leave where it won't look suspicious," he whispered in a hoarse voice.

"Ok," Maddie went to get up and leave but Zack grabbed her hand and pulled her down kissing her softly.

"I love you," he whispered softly.

"I love you, too, Zack, bye," Maddie whispered and left shutting the door softly behind her.

After a few minutes Zack got up off the floor where him and Maddie had been sitting and walked out going to the elevator and going to his family's suite.

After Maddie had left she had ran into Carrie.

"Hey Maddie have you seen Zack anywhere he told me he'd be back in about forty-five minutes and it's been an hour," she said with a worried expression on her face.

"I'm sure he just got busy playing games in the Video Arcade and lost track of time. Look, I'll go look for him in the Video Arcade if you'll go to your suite. If he's still not back within fifteen minutes call me on my cell phone and we'll meet up back in the Lobby," Maddie said hoping she sounded convincing. She hated lying to Carrie but if she didn't Carrie would find out about her and Zack and maybe forbid them from ever seeing each other again.

"Ok, I'll talk to you later, Maddie, bye," Carrie said tiredly.

"Bye, Carrie!" Maddie said sighing in relief. She hadn't suspected anything.

After that Maddie decided she had better go to the arcade where it wouldn't look suspicious and so that if Carrie talked to her tomorrow she could truthfully say she had "looked" for him.

Right after she stopped by the arcade she hailed a cab and went straight home.

When Zack walked into the suite Cody jumped up and grabbed Zack by his shoulders.

"Zack! You're ok!" Cody yelled hugging him. "Where have you been? Mom's worried sick!"

"First of all, get off me!" Zack said shoving Cody off. "Second of all, I was at the Video Arcade and it's only been fifteen minutes, gee!" Zack yelled although not loudly or angrily.

"Ok, ok," Cody said sighing. Just then Carrie walked through the door.

"Cody, Maddie is supposed to be-," Carrie then looked up. "Zack, you're here!" she said hugging him.

"Yeah, what was Maddie supposed to be doing?" Zack asked curiously.

"Oh, I had run into her and asked her if she had seen you. She said you must've lost track of time at the Video Arcade but she'd help me look for you anyway," Carrie said repeating what happened earlier.

"Go Maddie. I never knew you could be so good at lying to convince Mom," Zack whispered.

Cody upon hearing this looked at Zack curiously. "Wait, how did Maddie know you were in the Video Arcade?"

"Um, she had come in there looking for her boyfriend," Zack answered nervously.

"I didn't know Maddie had a boyfriend," Carrie said. "Who?"

"Uh, Trevor," Zack said thinking of her old boyfriend.

"But I thought they had broken up," Cody said confused.

"They were but they got back together," Zack said wishing he could just go to bed.

"How did you find all of this out?" Carrie said knowing that usually Maddie avoided Zack because of his crush on her.

"I know because I walked in on them making out," Zack said grimacing. 'Please forgive me, Maddie." Zack prayed. "Anyway I'm going to bed, g'night," Zack yawned.

"Ok, love you," Carrie said smiling, happy for Maddie.

"Love you, too. Night Cody," he said and headed off to bed.

"Goodnight dear brother, don't forget to brush your teeth!" Cody said and went off to watch the ARTS channel.

When Zack got in his bedroom he shut the door, took off all his clothes except his undershirt and boxers, and climbed into bed. "Maybe when Maddie finds out about what I had to say where she wouldn't find out about us she won't be mad," Zack said out loud to himself.

"What?" Cody asked having walked in ready to go to bed himself.

"Uh, nothing," Zack said quickly, "goodnight."

"Goodnight," said Cody getting in his pajamas and getting into his bed. 'I wonder what's going on with Maddie and Zack, they've both been acting weird lately,' Cody thought. 'Oh well,' he shrugged before he went to sleep.

Zack on the other hand tossed and turned worried about how long he and Maddie could keep up their charade. When he did finally fall asleep it was full of nightmares of everyone finding out and being really mad. Little did he know those nightmares would soon be reality.

THE END

A/N:

Sorry it took me so long to update. I actually have had this written since three days after I wrote the first chapter; I've just been really busy. Maybe I won't take as long next time.

So what will Maddie say when she finds out what Zack said? Will Cody be the first person to find out or not? Find out in Chapter 3!

Please review! Also don't be shy of giving me constructive criticism and ideas for the story; I love it even more when people do that. Also if you have a request for me to write a story on just message me, and I'll see about it.