Author's Notes: Hey everyone, thanks for checking out my Fanfic! I just wanted to let everyone know that this is my first Suite Life fic and the chapters will all probably be around this length. Another note: The screennames found are obviously made up. If anyone who reads this and has these screennames, let me know and I'll do my best to change them or something. Unless you don't mind of course. XD I simply made them up based off of the names of the characters, as you can probably see. Also, as you can see, Bob speaks in chatspeak. Obviously, Cody and Maddie don't. I wanted to personalize the way the characters IM eachother and the only way I could see that working was if I made the way they write obviously different. Anyway, besides that, please enjoy! )
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Irresistible Charm
A "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody" Fanfiction
Chapter 1
Ladiesman1: hey did you hear about the new candy counter girl?1!
"Zack, you don't have to IM me when I'm sitting right in front of you."
Zack shrugged. "Sorry, I just saw you were online and figured I might as well tell you that way."
Cody rolled his eyes and put up an away message, turning off his monitor and walking out of the room the boys shared. He walked slowly into the kitchen, his socked feet hardly making a sound on the shiny wood floor. It was time to bake. Now.
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Forty minutes later, Zack walked into the kitchen, his nose in the air. "Ooh man. Whatever you're cookin' sure smells good."
Cody looked up, staring at Zack blankly. "Good. It better. Because if it didn't, I would probably have to jump off the building."
"Whoa-hoho! What's up, Cody? Why such the depressing talk?" Zack took a few steps and reached Cody, putting his arm around his twin's shoulders.
Cody turned his head and stopped stirring the brownie mix he had in the stainless steal bowl he was holding. He stared at Zack, Zack smiling like a loon. "Wouldn't you like to know? Oh wait! You already should! But being the conceited, jerk you are, you didn't even notice!" Cody dropped the bowl he was holding in his arms and pulled away from Zack. He stared at him a few more minutes, glaring and shaking his head slightly. "I'll be back later." Cody threw off his apron and slipped into his shoes on his way out, slamming the door behind him.
Zack stood in the middle of the kitchen, his brow furrowed. He didn't have much of a clue what he had done. Unless it had to do with the new Candy Counter Girl. "Nah!" He thought aloud, smiling. Zack looked down at his shirt. "Ooh. Brownie batter!" He wiped off a large splatter of Brownie batter off of his shirt with his finger. He stuck his finger into his mouth and his face lit up. He started grinning and bent down, picking up the mixing bowl and going off, back to his room.
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Meanwhile, Cody hit the down button.
"Why does it always take so long," Cody thought, looking around the hall. He hoped no one would walk down it at the moment. He was too angry with Zack to be even the slightest bit polite to anyone.
Fortunately, he was lucky this time. No one did come down the hall and the elevator soon reached the twenty-third floor with a ding.
Glancing over his shoulder, Cody stepped into the elevator, hitting the Lobby button.
Unfortunately, Cody's luck ran out. The elevator stopped at the second floor and the doors opened, revealing an older woman. "Would you mind holding the door open for me, young man? I seem to have forgotten my purse in my room." She gave him a large smile. Cody smiled back but it was a fake smile, one of those thin lipped ones. But he was a "good kid" when it came to these kinds of things. He held the door open for the older woman, waiting.
And he was waiting for a long time.
After waiting for almost fifteen minutes, the woman showed up. "Thank you young man." She gave him a smile and slowly stepped into the elevator, hitting the Lobby button. Finally, the doors opened to the Lobby. And… Cody had to wait for the woman to get out. And she was slow. Super slow.
Cody stepped into the lobby and looked towards the candy counter. There she was, the new candy counter girl. Emma.
Sighing, Cody exited the hotel and walked to the park, collapsing against the Liberty Tree. He hugged his knees to his chest and rested his head on his knees, and for the first time in a long while, Cody wished he didn't have a twin.
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He didn't know how long he slept, however, it was almost dinner time and he could tell—his stomach wouldn't stop rumbling. The young man sighed and pushed himself up. He brushed the grass off of his backside and looked towards the door of the Tipton. He squinted, trying to make out the figures by the Candy Counter. Slowly he crept towards the hotel and pulled the door open quietly, hopping behind the couch nearest the door. He got on all fours and crawled closer to the counter, hoping to hear. It was his mom, Carey, and the Candy Counter girl.
"Yeah, my dad was such a huge fan of your stuff!"
"Really?" Carey sounded extremely happy. She hadn't heard this many times and it always was nice to hear.
"I remember when you came to where I used to live, my dad was so excited and he took me to the small concert with him. I think he asked you out to dinner after that because I remember playing with a little boy… I seem to remember him being your son or something."
Cody watched as Carey's eyes widened and a smiled lightened up her face.
"I remember that!" She smiled even wider. "Your father was such a gentlemen."
"So it was your son?"
"Well, one of them at least." Carey's brow furrowed.
"There's more of one?" Cody saw the girl's head tilt to the side. He couldn't see her face so he couldn't read her expression. What did she feel about there being more than one?
"Oh yeah, twins." Carey grinned and shrugged, nodding a few times.
"Oh! Really?" If Cody could see the girl, he would know that a smile had flitted across her lips.
"Yeah. I do believe you played with Zack. Cody was too shy to come and play. He wanted to stay on the bus with piano player. He wanted to learn to play so he decided he would rather stay with Jules." She shrugged again.
"Zack?" The girl was quiet a moment. "Oh! I met him today!"
"Oh really?"
The girl nodded. "He came down for some candy."
So she didn't remember him. Cody sighed, looking at the ground. Zack always got the girl.
