Chapter 17: Lilly's date

Lilly walked down the hall, skateboard in hand. She pushed the button on the elevator and got in. While she was riding down, she took a deep breath. The elevator dinged and Lilly walked out.

When she got out of the elevator, Zack wasn't there. She walked over to the candy counter where Maddie was working.

"Hey Maddie, what are you doing here? Didn't your shift end at five?" she asked.

"Hey Lilly, I'm working a double shift, so I'm here until eleven," she said putting her elbows on the counter.

"That stinks," said Lilly.

"No, not really, I need the money, and I'm hanging out with Gabriella while I'm working," she said.

"Wow, that's a nice way to work," she said.

Maddie nodded, "What are you doing down here?" she asked.

"I have a date with Zack," said Lilly.

Maddie smiled, "That's great, but does Zack know you're leaving tomorrow?" she asked.

Lilly shook her head, "No, but I don't know how to tell him! I really like him! More than I have ever liked anyone," (Was that cheesy? I hope not LOL) she said.

Maddie nodded sympathetically, "Well, you have to tell him sooner or later," she said.

Lilly nodded.

Just then Zack came down wearing green camouflage shirt and blue jeans with his skateboard.

Zack ran over to Lilly ignoring Mr. Moseby saying "No running in the lobby!"

"Hey Lilly, you look great!" said Zack.

"Thanks," she said.

"You ready to go?" he asked.

Lilly nodded and put her helmet on, "See you later Maddie," she said.

Maddie waved, "Bye Zack, bye Lilly!" she said.

Zack and Lilly walked out of the hotel.

Maddie sighed, "It's about time he got a girlfriend," she said flipping through a magazine.

Zack and Lilly got on their skateboards and rode to the skate park.

After about five minutes of riding, Lilly asked, "Zack, how far away is the skate park?"

"We're almost there, don't worry," he said. He skated up farther.

Lilly nodded and skated a little faster to catch up with Zack.

About three minutes later they arrived at an indoor skatepark.

"Wow!" said Lilly, "I've never been to an indoor skate park," she said stepping off of her skateboard.

"Really, wow, have you been missing out," said Zack walking through the doors, followed by Lilly.

Lilly walked in and gasped, "Wow," was all that came out.

The skate park was two stories high. On the first floor, there were three half pipes, two huge ramps, and ten rails. (Work with me on this, I have never been skating before LOL) On the second story, there was a huge obstacle course that had things you had to jump over, go around and even go under! In addition, there were about twenty different places to eat also.

Zack laughed, "You ready?" he asked strapping on his pads.

Lilly nodded and strapped on her pads and hand guards.

Zack and Lilly raced each other to the top of the half pipe and started to show each other tricks that they could do. (Again, work with me here, LOL)

"Wow! How did you do that?" asked Zack.

"Easy," said Lilly. "First, you go down the half pipe, get as much speed as you can, the go up and grab then you twirl around," she said. "Watch," she said.

Lilly went down the half pipe, went up and twirled the skateboard around three times and landed safely down on the half pipe.

"That's amazing!" said Zack.

"Thanks," she said. "I have a half pipe in my backyard, so I practice whenever I can," she said.

Zack nodded, "Watch this," he said.

Zack went down the half pipe, went up into the air and picked up his legs and came back down.

"Amateur!" said Lilly.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

Lilly rolled her eyes and did the exact same thing; only she spun as she did it.

"What is it with you and spinning?" he asked.

Lilly rolled her eyes, "Even though I'm a tomboy, I still have SOME girlish instincts," she said.

"Okay, let me try," he said. He came down and went up in the air, but when Zack tried to spin, he fell flat on his back. Lilly burst out laughing.

"Hey, it's harder than it looks! Try this!" he said. He went down the half pipe and went up in the air and did three back flips and came back down perfectly.

"Wow!" said Lilly, "how did you do that?" she asked.

"I'm not telling!" he said. "You try!" he said.

Lilly nodded, she went up in the air, but only did two back flips before she came back down.

"How'd you do three?" she asked.

"When you are up in the air, do them as fast as you can, okay?" he asked.

Lilly nodded and tried again. This time, she did four back flips before she came down.

"H-h-how did you do that?" asked Zack.

"It's all about speed," she said.

Zack nodded and tried again, this time he did four too.

"Great job!" said Lilly.

"Thanks," said Zack.

"Attention! The competition is about to begin! If you want to participate, be on the second floor in five minutes!" came a voice over the intercom.

"Lilly, let's do it!" said Zack.

"Yeah!" she said. She and Zack ran toward the elevator and went up to the second floor. When they got there, they went over to the women at a table to get their numbers.

"Lilly, you are number 36, and Zack, you are number 37," said the lady.

They nodded.

"You are going down, Malibu!" said Zack.

"We'll see about that, Boston!" said Lilly.

"Alright everyone! Here are the rules, no contact between players whatsoever, otherwise you'll be disqualified. If you fall off your skateboard, you are out. The last person still in the game or the first person that finishes wins a trophy a fifty dollars! There are ten obstacles to get around! Everyone ready?" asked the announcer.

Everyone cheered.

"Alright! Get into your places! When you hear the sound, start skateboarding!"

They got in their places, and when they heard the starting gunshot, everyone was off.

There were a hundred people playing, and about fifty of them were out by the first obstacle. By the second obstacle, ten more people were out, but Zack and Lilly were still in the game. By the fifth obstacle, only seven people were left, but Zack and Lilly were still in it. By the eighth obstacle, only four people were left, Zack, Lilly, a girl named Emily, and boy named Dylan. At the ninth obstacle, Emily fell off of her skateboard and Dylan bumped into her, falling off of his skateboard.

"You're going down Malibu!" yelled Zack.

"Yeah right, Boston!" Lilly yelled.

Lilly pulled ahead, but Zack was right behind her. Lilly swerved around a wall, while Zack jumped over it, giving him a lead. Lilly went as fast as she could. She and Zack were neck and neck.

2 FEET FROM THE FINISH LINE!

1 FOOT!

6 INCHES!

1 INCH!

"The winner is, Lilly Truscott from Malibu!" said the announcer.

Lilly started took off her helmet and smiled.

"Nice job Malibu," said Zack taking off his helmet.

"You weren't so bad yourself," she said.

The announcer handed her a trophy and the check.

"Let's here it for Lilly Truscott from Malibu, CA!" said the announcer.

Everyone cheered.

A half an hour later, Zack and Lilly were sitting at a table in the skate park.

"Well," said Zack, "you want to go see the movie now?" he asked.

Lilly nodded and wiped her forehead, "Yeah, I need to cool down," she said.

She and Zack left the skate park and walked out into a cool Massachusetts night.

"So, where is the movie theatre?" asked Lilly.

Zack laughed, "Right there," he said pointing to a huge movie theatre right across the street.

Lilly turned red, "My bad," she said.

Zack laughed, "No biggie, let's go," he said.

"Where did you learn to skateboard?" asked Zack.

"My big brother, he taught me how to skateboard," she said walking into the movie theatre, "You?" she asked.

"Well, I don't remember exactly. We moved around so much after my parents got divorced, I guess my dad," he said.

"Cool! My dad is an accountant, so he was never into sports," said Lilly.

"Too bad," said Zack. "Two for Spy Kids 3," he said to the ticket person. "Is that movie okay?" he asked.

Lilly nodded.

"Here you go," said the ticket person handing the tickets to him along with the 3D glasses.

"Thanks," they both said.

Zack walked over to the concession counter.

"What would you like?" he asked.

"A kid's size popcorn, a kid size soda and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough," she said.

"Okay," he said.

After about five minutes, they got up to the front.

"What would you like?" asked the guy behind the counter.

"Two kid size popcorns, two kid size sodas, and two packs of chocolate chip cookie dough," said Zack.

The guy nodded and brought back the popcorn and the drinks, and then he brought the candy.

"That'll be fifteen dollars," he said.

Zack nodded and reached into his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He looked in his other pocket and didn't find anything.

"Here," she said giving him a five dollar bill.

Zack smiled, "Thanks!" he said. He gave the money to the concession worker and gave Lilly her snacks and took his. They walked into the movie theatre. (Okay, I don't remember the movie at all, so I'll do my best)

The previews started about a minute later.

"I hate these things," she said watching the previews.

"I agree," Zack said.

About ten minutes later, everyone put on their glasses and the movie started.

A girl came in by her twirling ponytails. 'She looks so familiar' thought Lilly.

She started talking to Juni. (This is where, I make things up, LOL)

"Listen Gerti, I don't want to go back to the OSS," said Juni.

"But why?" she asked.

"I'm happy without it," he said.

Gerti shrugged, "Alright, see you later Juni," she said flying away by her ponytails.

Lilly was really into the movie. She had never seen it, but she felt like she had….like she had been there when it was filmed. She shrugged it off though.

Around the middle of the movie, Zack put his arm around Lilly, who blushed.

The movie ended and Zack got up.

"Hold on a second Zack," she said looking at the credits.

"What?" he asked.

"I want to see who played Gerti," she said.

Zack shrugged.

"Here we go! Gerti was played by Emily…Osment," she said, "Never heard of her. Alright, sorry about that Zack," she said standing up.

"No big deal," he said.

"She just seemed so familiar!" she said walking outside.

"That happened to me! When I saw "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus" I thought the boy seemed familiar, but he was played by a kid named Cole Sprouse, along with another kid, but I can't remember his name!" he said.

Lilly strapped on her helmet and started skating.

"Oh well," she said.

They stopped at the Tipton about ten minutes later. Lilly was just about to go inside when Zack said, "Lilly, wait!"

Lilly turned around and Zack kissed her.

"Sorry, I didn't want to do that in the lobby, Mr. Moseby would've gotten mad," he said.

Lilly took a deep breath, "Zack, I have some bad news," she said.

"What is it?" he asked.

"I'm going home tomorrow," she said as she sat down.

"Oh, that is bad news," he said sitting down next to her.

Lilly sighed, "I'm sorry," she said.

"Why are you sorry?" asked Zack, "we can make this work!" he said.

"How are we going to make it work? Malibu is in California!" she said.

"It is? Oh, I thought it was Ohio," he said.

Lilly looked at him.

"Well, we can still make it work," he said.

"How?" she asked again.

"Hello? Have you ever heard on cell phones, IM, text messaging?" he asked

Lilly slapped her forehead, "I never even thought of that!" she said.

"Here," she said taking out a piece of paper, "My IM screen name is Sk8erGrl, and my cell phone number is 555-7863," she said writing all that down.

"Okay," said Zack, "My IM screen name is handsometwin and my cell phone number is 555-1245," he said writing that down.

"Okay," she said, "I'll see you tomorrow right? We leave at noon," she said.

Zack nodded, I'll be in the lobby all morning.

Lilly nodded and stood up, "See you tomorrow," she said.

She walked inside, holding on to the paper for dear life.

Maddie was still working at the candy counter and talking to Gabriella.

"Hey Maddie," said Lilly picking up her skate board, which was hard, because of the trophy.

"Hey Lilly, where did you get the trophy?" she asked.

"Oh, I won a skateboarding contest," she said as she walked over.

"So, did you tell him?" asked Maddie.

Lilly nodded, "He thought Malibu was in Ohio, but after that, we exchanged IM screen names, e-mails, stuff like that," she said.

"Cool, do you want mine?" asked Maddie.

"Okay," said Lilly.

"Okay," said Maddie writing it down, "My screen name is CandyGrl," she said handing her the paper.

"Do you want mine?" asked Gabriella.

"Totally!" said Lilly.

"Okay, mine IM is just-like-kindergarten," she said.

Lilly nodded, "Is it okay if I give these to Miley too?" she asked.

They nodded, "I'm sure Taylor and Troy will give you theirs too," said Gabriella.

Lilly nodded, "Miley and Oliver should give you theirs tomorrow too," she said.

They nodded.

"Well, I'll see you guys tomorrow," said Lilly going to the elevator.

Maddie and Gabriella waved.

The elevator closed and Lilly started to think about the amazing night she'd had.