"Umm…"Esteban stuttered while leaning against the kitchen table "You remember that lady who broke up with her 'fiancé' at the dance?"
"Yeah…" Maddie answered with slight confusion "Why?"
"Well" Esteban began "I need to tell you something…"
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"You see" Esteban said awkwardly "We kind of…um, used to date...her" Maddie sighed and threw up her head.
"Esteban, I already knew that. I don't know what the problem is here" Maddie announced "I've dated other people that you know, like Lance? How is this a problem."
"Well…I was wondering if…well… wouldyoubemadatmeif… Ijusttalkedtoher… andcomfortedher? Esteban spat out quickly and winced "I mean…we used to be friends too, she needs help…I just do not know what to do."
Maddie raised an eye brow and laughed "Esteban, really" Maddie giggled "I trust you with all of my heart, what were you thinking? That I'd be mad? You are so cute!" Maddie mussed his hair while pinching his cheek playfully.
"So, you do not mind if I just helped her get back on her feet…it is okay?" Esteban asked eagerly
"Well," Maddie began "I don't mind…but I'd think it be best if we do it together…just in case she gets any ideas."
"But Maddie" Esteban retorted "You said that you trusted me?"
"Of course I do silly" Maddie smiled while placing a kiss on Esteban's hand "It's just her I don't trust. Wasn't she the one who insisted that you cater to her every need and want while she stayed here?"
"Yes Maddie" Esteban smiled back while squeezing her hand back "but I'm trying to forget that."
"Yeah" Maddie laughed "She whipped you pretty badly."
"Maddie" Esteban said a little stern "I think we've had enough…"
"You're like a bendy straw…bendy, bendy, bendy…"
Esteban tackled Maddie to the floor playfully and held her arms firmly with a smile on his face.
"Miss Maddie, now who is the bendy straw?" Esteban challenged flirtatiously
"You are" Maddie giggled as she flipped Esteban over easily and sat on his stomach "Yey! I win, what's my prize?"
Esteban leaned up and kissed her lips "That a good enough prize Maddie?"
"Yes Esteban" Maddie confirmed while tapping his nose lightly "that is a good prize."
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Cody suddenly awoke from his dream to find that he was looking in the pitch dark of his bedroom. Cody quickly reached over and turned on the night light near his tableside and looked across the room.
"Well" Cody whispered to himself "that must be why I woke up."
Zack had apparently knocked over his alarm clock and it was buzzing slightly. Cody walked over silently and turned it off and looked back at Zack. He wasn't sleeping good, either that or he was having what looked to be a horrible nightmare.
"I wonder what he's dreaming about" Cody yawned as he went back to bed "I wonder"
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"Stupid field of fog" Zack yelled as he walked through the dormant lands of wherever he was. He looked around but couldn't see anything through the thick fog that crept along the grass to about 5ft above the ground.
"Hello?" Zack asked as his voice echoed throughout the land "Hello?"
Nothing.
Nothing but thick clouds and his own echoing voices. Well, that is until he heard a soft whisper…so soft that he couldn't hear it at first but it grew and grew."
"Zack.." the voice cooed, almost as if it was directly in Zack's ear "Zack…I must know, do you love me?" Zack thought for a moment. What was the harm of saying yes? After all, with such a beautiful voice, how couldn't he love the owner of the voice.
"Yes" Zack answered "I love you, I guess."
"You guess?" Thevoice replied in question, sounding even more beautiful than before "How can you guess that you love me?"
Zack looked around and couldn't spot the voice's owner but he was suddenly hypnotized by the radiance that the voice glowed from. He wished he could of apologized for being so rude to the voice. "I love you because you're pretty and nice" Zack drawled out slowly.
"But Zack…" the voice continued "If you really loved me, than you'd find me…I am to your left. Trust me, go to your left and walk this way…"
Zack started to turn until he heard yet another voice permeating through the lands.
"Zack" the voice asked, sounding much less magnificent as the other but warmly familiar "Don't listen to her, it's a trap"
Zack shook his head at the less beautiful voice "I must follow the other voice…it wants me to follow it…"
"Zack…if you follow something you don't know, you might get hurt…" The voice warned "Trust me…turn to your right and face me. You trust me."
"Zack…" the voice called once again "Choose me…NOW!" By now Zack was completely transfigured into a bumbling dolt…unable of reasonable thought. But in his mind he knew not to take the path to the left…and yet…
"I'm coming pretty voice" Zack drooled as he walked towards his left. What was he doing? His brain said no but his feet were still moving. After going a total of two and a half steps…
Zack fell into a large black crevice.
"No!" Zack tried to scream but all that came out was a soft murmur. The wind shot through his ears as he was vigorously thrown from safety into this vast pit of despair and doom.
"Why?" Zack yelled finally while almost missing a sharp point sticking out of the crevice wall. "I said I loved you!" He shouted to the beautiful voice that had led him to the path that he was falling down at the moment.
"Because" the voice answered simply as Zack started to close his eyes "You only loved me for my beautiful voice, and not for who I am..."
"Not for who I am…" The voice echoed.
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Zack jolted up in bed in a cold sweat. It was a dream. Just a dream.
But for some reason…he felt like it related to him, some importance, but he didn't know how. He looked at the alarm clock by his bed. It was a quarter to two. Well, it's no better time like this to wake up Cody.
"Wha?" Cody complained as Zack poked Cody's shoulder repeatedly.
"I need to talk to you" Zack whispered "It's important." Cody rubbed his eyes and pulled the covers off of him and yawned.
"What Zack?" Cody yawned.
"Well, I had this dream and I was wondering if you could do your smart thing and decode it, can you?" Zack asked pleadingly.
"Fine! Whatever gets you to bed sooner. What was it about?"
"Well" Zack began "I saw…or I heard two voices. One was a pretty voice but there was no face to the voice. The other was a less pretty voice, but more familiar"
"Was there a face to the less pretty voice?"
"No" Zack answered "But anyways, both voices told me to go different ways. For some reason I chose the pretty voice's path, even though I didn't trust her."
"Her?" Cody intervened
"Yeah, they were girl voices, what else would they be?"
"Well it's just a crucial part to the analysis of your story…continue"
"Anyways," Zack informed "I listened to the pretty voice and I fell down a large pit…"
"Which would explain the kicking and screaming" Cody interrupted.
"Huh?"
"Nothing. Continue." Cody tried to cover up. Zack eyed Cody and frowned
"Back to the story, I fell and I asked the voice why it betrayed me because I told it I loved it and it said 'you only loved me for my voice.'"
"Well, did you love it?" Cody asked
"Not really, I just didn't think there was anything wrong with saying I loved the voice…it was a pretty voice."
Cody considered Zack's dream for a moment and quickly came to a solution.
"Well," Cody began "I can tell you what that dream was about, but I just don't know why you don't see it."
"See what?"
"That it's about Maddie and Max."
"What?" Zack sputtered "How is it about them."
"Here it is in a nutshell" Cody figured "Maddie is the pretty voice. You've only liked her because she's the ideal girl, not because deep down you love her. Max is from your heart and if you don't keep on to that you'll lose her and your damaged soul will fall for ever into a deep black hole."
Zack looked at Cody and blinked.
"Argh!" Cody sighed "You like Max, not Maddie, so go to sleep." Cody jumped back into his bed and fell asleep, hoping Zack would get the idea and do the same.
For a moment or two Zack stood there.
Cody had a point. Maddie was the ideal girl to Zack. She was pretty, smart, and nice…but the fact was…
He didn't love her. And she didn't love him.
But Zack did love Max. They were soul mates and best friends. They knew that they were there for each other and also, just like the familiar voice, because…
She cares for Zack.
Zack slid into his covers and smiled while closing his eyes. She cares for me, he thought.
And I care for her.
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One more chappie left…sorry for taking so long…this was hard to shorten…well, the final chapter is gonna be really long and at the end guess what? You'll finally know who wrote the note and know who it's for. Yey! Stay tuned and R&R
-SolidGoldHeart