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Sorry for the wait. Here goes nothing!
Cody woke up an hour before his alarm clock was set to go off. He wasn't sure if it was because he was nervous about his first actual practice or if he was just excited. After laying awake for over twenty minutes, he finally gave up on going back to sleep and got up. Figuring that he would start his day early he grabbed a change of clothes to take a shower.
As he started undressing, he realized that he had not changed some of his clothes in almost two days. 'Whats wrong with me?' he asked himself. 'I'm starting to act like Zack, never changing or showering.' As he turned on the hot water and climbed in, all thoughts left his head as he stood there with the warm water raining down on him.
Carey woke with a startle. 'Did I oversleep?' she asked herself hearing the shower running. With a quick glance at her clock she realized that in fact, she didn't oversleep. Figuring that it would be hard getting her boys up and around today, being Monday, she got up and headed for the kitchen. As she pulled out the package of bacon, she heard the shower shut off and moments later Cody waltzed out of the bathroom door.
"Did I wake you up?" Cody asked, realizing that it was still before the alarms were set.
"Yea, but don't worry about it, I needed to wake up early anyways." Carey lied, in fact, she wanted more sleep, but that could wait till she got the boys off to school.
Cody went to his room and dropped his dirty clothes into their laundry basket. After this was done, he went back out to the kitchen to talk with his mom.
"Hey Mom, could you do laundry while we are at school, our basket is full." he said walking into the dining room and sitting down at the table.
Carey sighed,'There goes the sleep I wanted' she thought to herself. "Yea, I can do that as soon as you guys leave, I have to be back by 11 to sing for lunch." She said, breaking an egg against the side of the bowl. Ever since last month, Mr. Moseby had Carey working both lunch and dinners, however she was getting paid extra for singing at lunch.
Just as Carey poured the eggs into the pan she heard the boys' alarm go off. Hearing a loud thunk, and the alarm shutting off she figured Zack threw it against the wall.
"Cody, can you go wake up your brother? Carey asked stirring the eggs in the pan.
Cody jumped up out of the chair and headed to their room to wake Zack up 'the good old fashioned way' as Cody liked to think of it. As he arrived near his brothers bed, he noticed that the glass that was normally full, was now empty. He also noticed the little note taped to it saying 'Not this time!'. Cody then spun himself around and walked into the kitchen, only to return with a pitcher of water. Cody let out a small laugh as he poured the water on his brother, the ice he added was only making it better.
Zack woke up in an instant, and figuring out what happened he had more then a few choice words for his brother. Satisfied, Cody walked back out to let Zack change out of his soaking clothes.
"You really should stop doing that." Carey said, as Cody emerged out of the room. "He has to learn to get up without water." All Cody could do was smile as he put the pitcher back.
Zack came out of his room just as the eggs were being put on the table. Carey laughed at his impeccable timing for breakfast but sat down to join her two sons. After they finished, Zack took off to the shower, Carey clean up the dishes, and Cody watched TV. This was one of the days that should have went down in history, the entire Martin family was ready for the day ahead, a full half hour before normal. 'This doesn't happen often' Carey though as she sat next to her boys on the couch. They sat there in silence for another twenty five minutes before someone spoke.
"I'll make you two a deal, if you help carry the laundry to my car, I'll take you guys to school." Carey said to the two bored looking boys next to her.
They both agreed and took of to their room to get their dirty laundry. Cody laughed at Zack when he started smelling his clothes trying to figure out what ones were dirty and what ones were not. After squaring everything away, they each grabbed a basket and headed to the parking garage.
Carey arrived in front of the school five minutes before the buses would and wished her boys a good day at school. She then took off around the block heading to the laundromat. Carey arrived at the laundry mat five minutes later to find it completely empty.
She stared Zack's laundry first, knowing that it would be the hardest to sort. After it was all done she then moved to hers, then to Cody's. She picked two washers and separated the colors and whites and stated one of her many loads, She then sat down and picked up the newest Cosmo magazine.
As the boys headed for the front doors of the school someone yelled out Cody's name. He turned around to see Ben waving his hands franticly trying to get his attention. Seeing who it was Zack just continued walking.
"Whats going on?" Ben asked as he ran up to Cody.
"Nothing too much, how about you?" Cody asked as they continued to walk into the school.
"Same." Ben replied "Are we still on for today after practice?" Ben asked referring to Cody coming over.
"Yea I asked my mom, and she said as long as you can take me home she wouldn't have a problem with it." Cody said, arriving at his locker.
"Alright, cool, see you later then." Ben replied, heading off towards his locker.
Cody the grabbed his books he needed for the next class and heading towards room number 203. The day seemed to fly by and before he knew it Cody was at his locker again, but this time it was at the end of school. Just as he shut his locker, he heard a voice that he recognized behind him.
"Have fun running around with your friends in practically nothing," Zack said playfully.
"Oh, I will, have fun doing nothing with none of your friends." Cody replied. He didn't want it to sound that way, but he couldn't help it. Zack left before Cody was able to see his reaction. "Was he mad?' Cody kept asking himself as he walked down into the gym.
That question ran through his head while he was sitting on the bleachers. Thats all Cody could think about, that is until someone nudged him.
"Martin!" he heard his coach shout. "C'mon, son, get up here and take your uniform and change."
He walked up and grabbed the box that contained his uniform, he also noticed how empty the bleachers looked. He just shrugged it off and went down to the locker room, there he caught up with Ben.
"Where is everyone?" Cody asked setting his box down on the bench and opening it.
"Well, if you didn't space out..." Ben played. "Everyone who was on the team last year already had their uniforms so the coach told them to change and head to the pool, leaving us new people here alone." he said pulling out the black wind pants and black wind breaker.
"So did I miss anything important?" Cody asked, also pulling out his warm up clothes and digging further into the box.
"No not really." Ben replied digging in his box.
Both boys found their suits at the same time and the same look spread across their face. They soon both had them on and looking a themselves.
"Don't leave nothing to the imagination huh?" Ben joked, putting his warm up clothes over his suit.
"No kidding." Cody replied, doing the same.
Soon the eight new team members were all standing around their coach. After running their ten warm up laps around the gym, they found themselves next to the pool. They noticed the upperclassmen on the other side of the pool running sprints and such.
"Alright boys," the coach started. "Get in the pool." It took a minute for them to register what happened but soon enough there was eight boys, floating in the pool. For the rest of the practice they ran short races across the pool, normally one on one. After each race the coach would instruct them on what they did wrong or what they needed to work on. Finally practice was over and they all headed for the locker room.
"Get your school clothes and lets go." Ben yelled at Cody as he closed his locker. With a confused look on Cody's face Ben decided to elaborate.
"We're heading to my house to swim, so just keep on your suit and warm ups and throw your street clothes in your bag." Ben said, doing so as he spoke. He was soon packed up and out the door.
Cody, not wanting to keep him waiting, threw his street clothes in his bag and ran after Ben. Once outside, Cody found Ben leaning against a black car, and started to run that way. Once arriving at the car, they both got in and the driver took off.
They arrived at Ben's place about ten minutes later, once inside they headed to Ben's room. They decided to play video games for a little bit, as they had just gotten out of a pool. After about an hour, Cody got tired of having Ben beat his butt in Mortal Kombat, so they decided to swim.
They each got a towel and headed towards the pool. Once inside, they kicked off their shoes, and pulled their warm ups off and jumped into the warm pool. They messed around a little, going off the water slides and doing weird jumps off the high dives, but things soon got to business.
They reminded each other what the coach told them and had mini races. Cody could tell that he was way faster then Ben but said nothing to him. After about a hour of racing, Stacey, as Cody had been instructed to call her, came in and told them to get out, that it was time for Cody to go home. They got out and dried off, it was not until now that Cody realized how fast his suit actually dried. Figuring that he would change at home, Cody threw on the warm ups again and headed downstairs to go home.
As Cody walked through the door of his suite he could smell pot roast, this was his favorite. As soon as he walked inside Carey stated bombarding him with questions about his practice and wanted to see Cody; uniform. Finally getting out of his mom's way he headed to his room.
As soon as he walked in he knew he was not alone.
"Hey swimmer boy." Zack said playfully. "Mom did all of your clothes, but she refused to put them away." Cody then looked at his brother then to where he was pointing. On top of his bed, on top of this covers, was a large pile of clothes, all freshly laundered.
Cody started putting away his clothes on his bed, then the ones still in his book bag. Finally after he was done he sat on his bed to relax. After a few minutes of watching Zack read his comic book, Cody decided to change into some normal clothes. Figuring his bother was too engrossed with his comic, and that he wouldn't care Cody took off the warm ups in the corner of the room.
"Wow there's Mr. Sexy." Zack joked as he looked up from his comic book to his brother standing there in a black speedo.
"I know. aren't I?" Cody replied, he then took off his suit, pulled on a pair of briefs, shorts and a shirt, before heading out to the living room. Dinner was already sat on the table and about ready.
After dinner Cody went into his room, and did the homework that somehow he remembered to pack. After that Cody crawled under his covers and fell asleep, ready to do the whole thing over again.
Hope you enjoyed, more to come soon, hopefully!