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The time had reached 4.45pm and Zack, Cody and Maddie were waiting in the Martins suite for London to arrive so they could head off to the mall.
"While we wait, we should decide what we want to do?" said Cody
"Well there's that new movie with those twins out…what's it called…?" said Zack
"Kings of Appletown" answered Maddie, "that looks ok" she continued.
Cody looked up the session times on his laptop, "there's one on at 7.30, should we aim for that one?" he asked, Zack and Maddie agreed.
A few minutes later London arrived and after informing her of the plan they headed down to the lobby, where London had her limousine waiting, as she had refused to take the bus as they had originally planned, the other 3 didn't have any objection to taking the limousine however.
Upon arrival at the mall in downtown Boston the 4 friends began a period of window shopping, with Maddie and London mostly paying attention to the boutique clothes shops, whilst Zack and Cody preferred to look at the electronics and sporting shops. Conversation was friendly chatter amongst the friends, Cody and Maddie felt they needed to keep their conversation down to a level Zack would understand which was fine, however lowering all conversation to a London-esq level would have been an impossible feat.
Around 6pm all were becoming hungry and so they headed for the food court
"What do we all want?" asked Maddie
"I'm getting a Big Mac" replied Zack
"That's disgusting" replied Maddie, "do you have any idea what they do to those poor animals before they become your dinner?" Maddie was obviously appalled at Zacks desire for McDonalds, "Calm down, Sweet Thang" was his only response.
"I'm going to get some Asian food" Cody cut in, not wanting to have the evening devolve into an argument over food morality. Maddie and London decide to go and get salads and Zack and Cody went to their respective choices, with all 4 arriving back at a central table not long after leaving.
Cody could not help but notice how good London looked that night, before his work on Yay Me! He had only ever had the occasional feeling for London, which he chalked up to his adolescent hormones, but ever since becoming his producer he had began to have stronger feelings, even though she made him do stupid things.
Cody suddenly snapped out of a trance when he realised Zack and Maddie had noticed he was staring deeply at London, while she was oblivious, she had been to busy concentrating on eating her dinner. Zack and Maddie gave each other a knowing glance, but there seemed to be an unspoken agreement not to speak out and embarrass Cody, Zack knew he was pretty shy with his feelings.
With dinner finished Zack, Cody, Maddie and London headed over to the cinema on the other side of the mall at around 7.00.
"Maddie and London you go and get the popcorn and stuff, Zack and I will go and get the Tickets" Cody said upon their arrival.
Zack decided this was his chance to talk to Cody about his feelings for London, He decided that this conversation would require his own brand of subtlety.
"Hey Cody, do you like London" asked Zack
"Of course I do, why would I have invited her tonight if I didn't" Cody knew exactly what Zack meant, but he decided to be evasive.
"You know that's not how I meant" Zack replied
"Yeah, I do know that, and the answer is, I don't know, do you still like Maddie" Cody thought he could avoid the conversation by changing the topic to Zacks own love life.
"She's my Sweet Thang Cody, but I find some of the ladies at school are a bit more…open to my advances if you catch my drift" Zack smiled as he said that, whilst raising an eyebrow.
"What, you mean, like they put out for you?" Cody asked, suddenly interested in his own brothers experience.
"Well, they don't let me go all the way, but some these hands have the Midas touch, so do some of the girls come to think of it…" Zack chuckled at the last part, Cody looked slightly crestfallen
"Oh, I didn't really know you'd done anything like that, I was hoping I would beat you to it" Cody said
"Pfft, like there was ever a chance of that!" Zack replied smugly.
"Yeah…" Cody trailed off, sounding more than a little depressed.
Zack gets to have all the fun, I wonder if he'll ever get together with Maddie thought Cody, he also felt how he longed to be with London in the same way Zack had been with the sluts from their school.
By now the twins had reached the front of the ticket line and they asked for 4 tickets to the Kings of Appletown.
A few minutes later Zack and Cody had met back up with Maddie and London and they had taken their seats in the Cinema, they chatted for about 5 minutes until the previews started, and then the movie followed a few minutes later.
"Have you ever noticed how the twins in this movie look exactly like Zack and Cody?" Maddie asked them all, getting some chuckles from them all.
Half way into the movie Cody decided that now was the time for him to make his move on London, and, plucking up the courage he grabbed her hand gently.
London was very taken aback by Cody's sudden advances and she discretely signalled to Maddie what was happening
"Um, I need to go to the bathroom...but I don't know the way, can you show me Maddie" London said
"Why of course" Maddie replied and they left, leaving Cody very confused and hurt, with Zack oblivious to all that was going on.
"OH MY GOD MADDIE, did you know Cody liked me?" London was talking excitedly in the Bathroom with Maddie
"Not really, I might have noticed something at dinner though, do you like him back?"
Replied Maddie
"Well…" started London, but just as she started to speak they were interrupted by the most deafening, earth shattering noise, followed by the appearance of flame and the sound of screams. It seemed like the whole world was being destroyed. Maddie and London were thrown to the ground and for them, the world went dark.
Back in the Cinema Zack and Cody had been sitting and watching the movie, well, Zack was watching, Cody could hardly concentrate on it, when the same flames and earth shattering explosion had rocked the cinema as well. Zack and Cody were also thrown about amongst the rubble and shrapnel now flying through the building. It was obvious something terrible had happened, and with the four friends all knocked out none knew if the others were alive, or indeed if they themselves were either.
Well there you are chapter 2 done, thanks to everyone who's reading and reviewing, I appreciate greatly all comments. The next chapters will probably be slightly shorter but I won't tell you why just yet, you'll have to read and find out!
New chapters will be up in the coming days, possibly another one in a few hours depending how much therapeutic writing I feel I need to do tonight!