I am VERY sorry for the incredible lack of updates. School and everything else has just taken this away from me…updates are very infrequent nowadays.

The only thing I can say for sure is that I will update this. Probably not soon, but I will update it. Eventually.

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The days came and went, with Max stopping by every day to chat and hang out. She had began school with them, as her mother felt it was best for her to continue with her education (as all mothers generally do), and so she once again went to school with the twins. Good for her. She still felt some weird attraction towards Zack, but had dismissed it as just being happy to see him again. She was really glad that she'd gotten to come here for three whole months. For once, she was glad to go to school. It meant more time to hang out with her old friends again.

+POV: Max+

I was happy to be with Zack and Cody again for three months. I'd missed them when they moved…it was rather unfair. Tapeworm and I had tried to prove that those photos were faked, we really had. We were on Zack & Cody's side. I just know that someone had wanted them out of the school…pretty badly. I wasn't sure who did it, and it didn't matter now. It'd been two years. Nobody cared anymore, except those who really knew him. The rest had forgotten…completely.

+POV: ZACK+

Max was back. I could finally be happy. I'd missed her. A lot. But it didn't matter now. The empty feeling I'd been having was gone now. It could be left behind, and never touched again. It was sort of freaking me out, how much I'd missed her. I wasn't sure why…it shouldn't have been scaring me that much…but it was. It was almost as if…I loved her. But, that was stupid. I loved Cody, right? Right?

POV: Third Person

A few hours later, they were standing outside their new school. It was better…but perhaps that was only because they'd left behind their relationship. Nobody wanted to leave it…but it had to be done.

"Hey, Zack, Cody! Who's the new kid?" Their newfound friend, Colin, ran up to them.

"This is Max." Cody told him. "She's visiting for a while."

"Hey, what's up?" Max asked.

"Man, I can't believe spring break is over already. School's started up again." Colin replied.

"Two seconds." Cody said.

"What?" Zack asked. He hadn't been paying attention. The bell rang.

"Now it's started up again." Cody replied.

"Oh…you're a freak, you know that?" Colin asked.

"If only you knew…"Cody sighed under his breath, and headed into the school with Zack, Colin, and Max.

3:25PM…later that day.

+POV: Cody+

I didn't know what to do. I could hardly breathe, and it was only getting worse. It felt like my chest was about to explode, and I could feel my heart pounding…pounding, pounding, pounding. Faster and faster and faster and faster…we were at the hospital, all four of us. Me, Zack, Max, Colin…and Carey. They'd insisted I go after I complained that my chest hurt. The doctor couldn't see anything wrong with me…but I could feel it.

"Damn, it hurts…. faster. It's going faster."

"What is? What's going faster, Cody?" The doctor asked me. Doctor…Wakeman, I think it was. Yea, his name was Wakeman.

"My…. my…heart. Faster. It's speeding up…. a lot faster." He hurriedly put me on some type of machine that was supposed to measure my pulse.

"Holy…we gotta do something…" He muttered.

"Wh-wh… at's wrong…with…" I couldn't stay conscious anymore. I blacked out. The last thing I saw was my pulse. It read 176. My last thought was 'Holy shit…way too fast.' The normal pulse rate of an average healthy person was only 72 beats per minute.

POV: Third Person

"What's wrong with my brother?" Zack asked Dr. Wakeman.

"His pulse is about 2.5 times that of a normal, healthy person. What's wrong with him?" Dr. Wakeman asked himself.

The doctor took off Cody's shirt, and immediately noticed a stab wound just below his rib cage.

"Wh…has anybody seen that before?"

"I never knew…but why…why wouldn't he tell…any of us?" Zack wondered aloud.

"I think I know what might be wrong with him…but if I'm wrong…he's going to die. Somebody had me a scalpel. Now." Dr. Wakeman ordered.

Max terrifyingly handed him the sharp metal object. He put on glasses and doused the side of Cody's chest with some kind of brown liquid. Then he made a cut.

Yep…end of chapter. Whee…I'll update sooner than I did. Really! Also, sorry the chapters are so short. I can't write very much when it comes to these types of fics. Never knew why…

-ARK