Zack and Cody took the city bus from the Tipton Hotel, to the stop near Martha's neighborhood. They walked a little bit down the street and got to her house. When they walked inside the garage and into the house, the party was already on. People were dancing, drinking punch and eating. They walked over to where Martha and Max were sitting.
"Hey Zack!" Martha said and hugged and kissed him.
"Hey! This looks like a great party already!" he said.
"Hey Zack!" Max said.
"Hey Zack! What's up!" Kenny said. He was one of Zack's friends.
"Hey guys." Zack said to the other two.
No one seemed to notice Cody was there. He was standing not very close to anyone, and he was quiet. Then, Kenny took a look around and noticed Cody standing there.
"Hey! It's the nerd!" he said and everyone turned to look at Cody. Cody got really uncomfortable with the starring.
"Hey Cody!" Max said.
"Max, that's a nerd!" Kenny said to her.
"He's cooler than that! He's my friend, and Zack's brother!" she said to him.
"I never knew you had a brother," Martha told Zack.
"Oh yeah…this is Cody," he said.
"Hey," Cody said to all of them. Kenny had a "whatever" look on his face. Martha was clearly interested in Cody.
"Hi," she said to him.
Cody was a little more comfortable now. Zack was glad that the others were treating him good too. Zack, Max, Martha, and Kenny started talking about random things. Cody listened but he didn't say anything.
"Um….where's the bathroom?" he asked when no one was talking for a few seconds.
"Upstairs, down the hall, the last door," Martha answered.
"Ok, thanks," Cody said and walked away.
The four kept talking while Cody went away.
"I'll be right back too," Martha said and walked away upstairs.
The three left kept talking while she went away. Upstairs, Martha waited around a little bit. There wasn't anyone up there, and no one using anymore bathrooms. Just a little later, Cody came out of the bathroom. Martha went up to him.
"Hey! How come Zack never told me about you?" she asked.
"Um….I dunno. I'm really just considered a nerd at school," he said, feeling very shy.
"Well, you seem cool. Tell me about yourself a little".
"I'd rather not. I'm gonna go downstairs now," after saying this, he started to walk away, but Martha grabbed him.
"Wait!" she said and pulled him over to her too hard, and they both went flying into a room. The room was dark and none of the lights were on. It was Martha's bedroom, and they were both lucky enough to land on the bed near the door.
"Okay, how about we talk in here? In private," she asked.
"I'm not sure. I just want to go downstairs, we don't have to talk here," he said.
"Alright, let's go then," she said.
As they were getting up to leave the room, they saw someone walk by and they looked in the room and looked kinda surprised. They ignored the person, and left downstairs. They went back to the table where they were sitting at before, and now the table was getting more people in it, but Zack, Max, and Kenny were still there.
"Hey bro!" Zack greeted Cody. "I gotta use the bathroom too. You gonna be okay?" he asked.
"Yeah, I think I will," Cody said more confident than before.
"Great! Be back in a few minutes!" he said and took off running upstairs.
Cody went over to the table and tried to stay unnoticed. Even though he was more confident, he still thought that people would just say he's a nerd or a loser and ignore him. So he stayed quiet and out of site.
Upstairs, Zack was running down the hall to the bathroom. He had to go real bad, but he had to wait for someone else to come out of there first. When the person came out, he realized it was his other friend, Joey.
"Hey Zack! What'd you and Martha do in that bedroom?" he asked impressed.
"What?" Zack said.
"I saw you two in there a few minutes ago. You guys were just coming out when I walked by. But dude, why keep the door open?"
"What! I wasn't in there. I've been downstairs the whole time".
"Really? Then who was in there with her. He looked like you".
"Oh," Zack said and wondered.
"Well, I'll see you around, man" he said and walked off.
Zack went into the bathroom. When he came out he started walking downstairs to the table he was sitting at. He wondered who it was that was with Martha. They were in her bedroom and alone. Was she cheating on him?
Zack continued walking and then he found the table. He walked over to it, and saw Cody being invisible to the rest of the people. Then, a thought struck him. Joey said the guy looked like him. 'It must've been Cody that was in there!' thought Zack. 'No! It couldn't have been. Cody doing something with Martha! Why would he do that? Some brother he is!' This all didn't seem to fit, to Zack. What was he going to do now?