Chapter Three: Searching

Zack and Cody found themselves driving from their hotel room very early the next morning.

"Where should we go first?" Cody asked.

"Well, I'm thinking we should go to the bar mom was singing at that night." Zack took a left turn.

"What about Maddie? How do we even start to look for her?" Cody asked.

"Why do you have so many questions? We'll find them. Okay?" Zack asked loudly.

CAREY'S POV

I'm so sick. I haven't got anything to eat for six days.

"Hello Carey." A harsh voice spoke.

"Let me go. Please. It's been years. My babies need me. I'm begging you sir." Carey started to cough. Small amounts of blood poured from her mouth.

"Now, you know I can't do that. Besides, your kids are looking in all the wrong places. They'll never look here." The man walked over to a barred window and looked out.

They were in the Tipton! In a section of the basement that was no longer used.

"They will. They are smart." Carey choked up more blood.

MADDIE'S POV

"Where are you Zack?" Maddie wondered aloud.

"I should have never let you break up with me. I love you so much. I need you." Tears poured from Maddie's eyes.

"I had no idea how much you meant to me, until it was too late. They want to fatten me up. Said I'd look better. I refuse to be fat, but I do eat enough to keep my weight up." Maddie coughed a raspy cough.

"I'm not going to make it much longer, Zack. You have to hurry. For me, for Carey." Maddie continued to cough.

NORMAL POV

"Shouldn't you have taken a right turn?" Cody looked at the large map in his lap. Half of it hanged out of the window.

"No, Cody. I think I know how to drive." Zack frowned.

"That doesn't explain how we have completed yet another circle." Cody ran his hand through his hair.

"Well, give me the damn map." Zack said in a scream ripping the map from Cody's hands.

"So...?" Cody asked.

"So what? Your right once. Once! Leave me alone. I'm tired." Zack said taking the right turn that he had missed so many times.

"Maybe we're looking in the wrong place." Cody thought.

"What are you talking about now?" Zack asked harshly.

"What if this guy is testing us? What if they aren't even here?" Cody wondered.

"Cody, your crazy."

"Am I?" Cody asked in the most serious tone he had ever used.

A/N- Sorry for its shortness, but I didn't have time to write a huge chapter, and I wanted to update it since I didn't get to yesterday. Thanks for reviewing!