The bus ride home was fairly silent, Zack listening to his MP3 player and Cody reading a book from the library. This continued until they arrived at the hotel. There, they sat in the lobby and talked with Maddie and London. Then they took the elevator to their floor and then walked in their suite to see their mom sitting on the couch watching TV.
"So how was your first day boys?" She asked, taking her attention form the TV to her kids.
"Ehh" was Zack's only response while Cody's was "Great"
"Oh and before we forget, we have papers you need to fill out" Cody said as he and Zack simultaneously pulled envelopes out of their backpacks and handed them to their mom.
Carey took them and flipped through them. "Zack, not doing basketball this year?" she asked.
"No I think I'll try a new sport this year."
Carey nodded her head, "and Cody, Swimming?" She asked half confused, half surprised.
"Yea, I also want to try something new."
"OK, well I'm gonna fill these out so you two go play." Carey said reaching in a drawer and pulling out a pen.
The boys then went to their room and emerged soon after with pockets full of quarters. "We're heading to the game room" they yelled as they walked out the door into the hallway.
As soon as the boys left, Carey got up headed over to the couch with the papers, turned on the TV, and started filling them out during commercials. Carey was so engrossed in Extreme Home Makeover that after the hour long episode was over she hadn't even filled out the first paper of Zack's permission form. Knowing that the boys were coming back soon, she set them aside and started dinner. Like clockwork, as soon as Carey put the noodles into the boiling water, the boys waltzed back in the room, a lot lighter then when they left.
Dinner was fairly quiet like it normally was. Carey would try to start casual conversation with her boys, while Cody just stared off into space, and Zack was too engrossed in his food to realize anything going on around him. Carey often wondered if a fire were to suddenly break out in their room, if either one of her boys would realize it. So Carey continue talking, but slowly she started going into more ridiculous stories. Finally she was talking about Moseby kicking a family of nudists out of the lobby because their game of kickball was getting out of hand. As she finished the story she looked at her boys and still noticed the blank stares on their face. Finally giving up, Carey finished eating in peace and quite.
After the boys were done, they cleaned up their plates and retreated into their room. This left Carey alone to do the rest of the dishes and finish filling out the forms so the boys could turn them in the next day. Once again Carey sat in front of the TV and started filling out the paperwork. It took a lot longer than she anticipated because it was nearly ten o'clock before she got done with Zack's papers. Guessing that stopping and watching TV wasn't a big help on the time factor, she turned off the TV and sighed, she still had Cody's forms to fill out. Figuring that it might take equally as long to fill the second set of papers out, she went to the kitchen and started a pot of coffee.
Returning back to the couch she thumbed through Cody's forms and realizing that the were a lot more intense. Not only were there medical forms, standard school sport forms and uniform order forms, there were notices bout upcoming meets, more forms about team traveling, and about a physical that is required before the first meet. Slowly but surely, Carey worked her way through the folder of forms. Before she knew it she was done and exhausted, all she could do was lay down on the couch and then she fell right asleep.
She was suddenly awoken by the sound of a creaking door, she jolted up and hurried to turn on the lights thinking that someone just broke into her suite. As soon as she flipped the switch she immediately heard the highest screech she had ever heard. Her eyes quickly scanned the room and then came upon the figure of her son, clad in only white briefs. His hands quickly shot down to try to cover himself. Carey was relieved that it was only her son, and not a robber. Cody however was not as relieved, as he thought everyone was in bed and therefore was going to dare going to the bathroom without putting on his shorts. Telling himself that he should check to see if anyone is in the living room before he does this stunt again, he walked into the bathroom ready to relieve himself. Carey, seeing her son walk back into his bedroom, deiced that she needed to sleep on her bed as well so she walked into her room and fell fast asleep.
When morning came, everyone was late once again. Both boys barely had enough time to take showers, let alone bush their teeth and do their hair. Both of them however were glad that they were twins because they didn't have a problem showering while the other one was brushing their teeth. After the quickest morning routine in quite a long time, everyone made their way down towards the bus stop. Making sure that both of the boys picked up their forms from the table. Carey waited for the bus to come and pick them up. As the bus was pulling up she told Cody that she would be there at five o'clock to pick him up from conditioning and then they were all off their separate ways.