AN: Sorry for the lack of updates. Working 12 hours a day 7 days a week really get to you. Ontop of that my computer crashed, lucky i sent a copy to a friend so i didn't have to retype it. Look for a new chapter by Wensday. That should be it for now.
The boys woke up early Saturday afternoon. As they opened their door from their bedroom they noticed that the suite was abnormally quiet. They both started at each other and wondered where their mom took off to. After further investigation of the suite they found the note laying on the counter.
Boys,
Moseby is having me sing at a wedding tonight. Unfortunately I don't have a formal white dress so I have to go out shopping for one. I'll be gone most of the afternoon and night so I want you two to BEHAVE, that means you Zack. Here is some money for carry-out and I'm having Maddie or London check up on you around 6.
Love,
Mom
"Sweet" both boys said after reading the note. Normally they were left alone for a couple of hours as Carey sung downstairs but this was almost an entire day. Not knowing what to do first, Cody took off towards the bathroom for a shower and Zack walked into the kitchen to find something to eat. Soon after Cody emerged from the bathroom his brother went to take a shower as well.
Zack emerged from the bathroom to see Cody laying on the couch watching the Discovery Channel. Figuring he had nothing better to do, Zack walked over to the couch and stared at Cody, hoping that he would get the hint to move his feet and allow Zack to sit down. Unfortunately Cody was too engrossed into the program and thus made Zack grab Cody's feet and flipped him backwards off the couch. Once the obstacle was removed Zack then sat down on his side of the couch and turned the channel to wrestling.
Cody soon emerged from behind the couch and aimed a well place punch at his brother's shoulder and sat back down. They watched wrestling until it was over and then Zack flipped it to ESPN. About an hour later they were both bored of TV so they got dressed and walked down to the lobby.
Upon entering the lobby they notice the entire place was almost deserted. Moseby was at the front desk, Esteban right next to him and Maddie at her counter. Other than the employees there were only two people in the lobby, and that just so happened to be Zack and Cody.
"Where is everyone?" Cody asked Maddie as they approached her counter.
"Moseby said that this weekend was probably the slowest so far this year." Maddie mumbled as she flipped the pages in her magazine. "If it stays like this, Moseby is letting me off."
Just as she finished her sentence Mr. Moseby walked over and dismissed Maddie from her job. The boys figured nothing exciting was happening in the lobby and walked back to their room. There they sat back on the couch and thought of what they could do. It was Cody who broke the long silence.
"Want to go up to the pool and swim some?" he asked his brother.
"I guess so, it's something to do isn't it?" Zack replied and took off toward their room to change. Waiting until his brother walked out of their room, Cody went in and changed into his suit as well. Moments later both boys were up on the top floor and ready to swim. As they walked into the pool room they noticed it was completely deserted.
"I guess its a slow weekend, this place is normally packed." Cody said kicking off his sandals and pulling the shirt over his head.
"No kidding." Zack replied, also taking his shirt and sandals off.
They messed around in the pool for a couple of hours, then just as they were about to get out and head back down to their suite Zack stopped playing and looked at Cody.
"What?" Cody asked, confused and wondering what his brother wanted.
"How about a little race?" Zack answered as a grin spread across his face.
"Sure, but I'm going to smoke you," Cody said swimming up to his brother.
"Oh, so sure are you?" Cody nodded his head. "Alright little brother, how about a little bet on it then?"
"Sure, what will this bet consist of?" Cody asked hopefully, he knew he was going to smoke his brother.
Both sat silent for a little. It was Zack who broke the silence this time.
"Alright, how's this? The loser of the race has to walk through the park across the street in only their underwear?" Zack said as the grin on his face grew.
"Sure," Cody said confidently, "but how about the winner gets to choose the underwear that they wear?" Cody said trying to suppress a chuckle, he could picture Zack walking through the park in a pair of white briefs.
"Deal" Zack said extending his hand, and Cody took it and shook.
"Now the race is from this side of the pool to the other and back." Zack said stretching his hands over his head. Cody nodded and he also was stretching out, there was a lot riding on this race. They lined up on the one side of the pool about 5 feet from each other. Zack counted down from 5 and they were off.
Cody was a great swimmer and had a fairly good lead as the reached the far end. Then came disaster, as Cody went to turn around he lost his sense of direction and it took a minute to get it back, this allowing Zack to take a slight lead. Cody swam as fast as he can chasing his brother, but unfortunately there was not enough pool. Zack beat him by just an arm length or two. Cody thought of trying to talk his way out of losing, and blaming it on something that he had no control over, but decided to admit defeat.
After the race the boys stayed in the pool for a little longer then finally decided to go back to their suite and order some food. Once back in their suite, they both changed and sat in the kitchen debating on what to order. Moments later the decision was set on pizza and the order was placed. As they waited they sat on the couch and watched some TV.
About thirty minutes later the doorbell rang and Zack got up, grabbed the money and answered the door. Surprisingly enough it wasn't the pizza guy, but instead it was Maddie. Zack invited her in and they sat in the living room talking. Maddie asked them their plans for the night and they said they were going to head to the park after dinner and maybe play some basketball. Maddie agreed, but asked them to stop by the candy counter when they came back and let her know that they were back. She then got up and walked to the door and opened it only to come face to face with the pizza guy.
Zack then said goodbye to Maddie and paid the pizza guy. Then he took the pizza to the kitchen and both him and his brother started to eat it. After dinner in front of the TV, the boys clean up the kitchen and went into their room to get their basketball for the park. After grabbing the basketball Cody walked out the door leaving Zack still in their room.
"Not so fast there, buddy." Zack said leaning around the door frame.
"What?" Cody asked acting dumbfounded, but he knew what his brother was thinking.
"Well I did win that bet." Zack said as Cody emerged back into their room.
"Yea, so what? We're not at the park yet."
"Don't you remember that last part of the bet, the one that you came up with?" Zack said staring at the now blushing Cody.
"Yea, I remember." Cody sighed.
"Well what are you wearing down there?" Zack said, he wanted this to be embarrassing for his brother.
Cody didn't say anything but instead pulled the waist of his shorts down to reveal a pair of checkered boxers.
"Ohh, I see you are trying to take the easy way out of it huh?" Zack said. "No those won't do, let's see what we have here." Zack then proceeded to Cody's dresser and started looking through the top drawer to see what he had to work with.
All Cody could do was sit there and watch his brother dig through his organized drawer looking for what he assumed were going to be the most embarrassing pair of underwear. Cody's fear was soon realized when Zack let out a audible laugh as he pulled out a pair of Power Ranger cartoon briefs.
"Why do you still have these?" Zack asked between his giggles.
"I actually forgot that those were in their. You see though Zack, I can actually keep underwear a long time, unlike you, who seemed to go through a ton of underwear about a year ago." Cody said, trying to gain some more respect before he lost it all later. He was hoping that comment would hit his brother hard but Zack didn't seem to flinch.
"Ohh, don't make me bring up your incident in fifth grade." Zack said shoving the underwear at Cody. "Here you go, put these on."
Cody took them from his brother and shoved him out of the room as he changed. He emerged moments later and motioned to his brother to go. Zack wouldn't move, but instead raised his eyebrows looking at his brother.
"Yes Zack, I'm wearing them" Cody said. "See" he then pulled down the back of his pants to revel the Red Power Ranger. Satisfied, Zack followed his brother out the door. Both of them walked shoulder to should to the elevator, through the lobby and out the front door. They crossed the road and headed straight for the basketball court.
They shot hoops for a while, then decided to play some one-on-one. Cody obviously lost because he wasn't as good as his brother, but he thought that he put up a good fight. Then they walked back towards the bathroom and drinking fountains to get a drink.
"I'll tell you what." Zack said as his brother was taking a drink. "Instead of walking around the whole park, if you go in the bathroom and take off your clothes and come out in your briefs, run to that slide and slide down it, I'll call us even."
Cody just sat there for a moment and thought. It wouldn't be as embarrassing as the whole park, and there was no one around. After quick deliberation, Cody agreed and walked into the bathroom. All Zack could think was that he was actually going to go it.
He soon snapped out of his phase as he heard the door open. Then all of a sudden Cody came sprinting out of it at full pace. He made it to the slide in no time, however had difficulty climbing the ladder. After that he made it down and spirited off back towards the bathrooms. He arrived there to see Zack on the ground laughing as hard as he has ever seen it, then he rushed back into the bathroom to get changed.
When he emerged from the bathroom minutes later, Zack was still on the ground laughing, and Cody had no choice but to join him. They both laughed on the way back to the hotel. Once they arrived they both walked to Maddie's counter to tell her that they were back.
"What's so funny?" She asked at the sight of the two laughing brothers.
"Nothing, nothing at all." Zack said "Well we're heading back up to our suite."
Minutes later the door to their suite opened and the boys walked in, and head for the couch once again.
After deciding to watch Lord of the Rings, Cody took off to the bedroom to change into some shorts. Zack sat in front of the TV searching for the DVD. As soon as Cody emerged from their room he found it, put it in the DVD player and took off to change.
Cody then went to the kitchen to make some popcorn. Zack emerging from their room before the food was finished joined his brother in the kitchen. As soon as the timer went off, Cody opened up the microwave, pulled out the bag of popcorn and poured it in a bowl. Cody then grabbed the bowl and started walking towards the living room, closely followed by his brother.
Zack couldn't help resist as he saw his brother walking with his hands full. So he quietly got up behind his brother and reached for the bottom of his shorts. As soon as Zack felt cloth he grabbed and pulled down as hard as he could.
Cody was rather startled by this action and nearly dropped the popcorn. He was able to save it and set it on the ground next to his brother who was once again rolling on the floor with laughter. Once he had his hands free he was able to pull his shorts back up, and give his brother a hard punch in the shoulder.
"I can't believe that your still wearing those." Zack said. The picture of Cody with his pants around his ankles and Power Ranger briefs still on his mind.
"Yea, so what, they are dirty now so I figured I'll wear them till the morning." Cody said as he picked up the popcorn and sat down on the couch.
He was soon followed by Zack. For the rest of the night they both watched the movie and ate the popcorn. After the movie was over, they both took of to their bedroom. They both undressed, which caused another laughter attack from Zack after seeing Cody's underwear, and jumped in bed. They both fell fast asleep.
Me Again: Incase your wondering i get some sort of dry humor of people running around in their underwear, soo um, yea, just thought i would throw that out. Just don't think I'm weird.