A/N: If I'm correct, you're all probably wondering why I haven't posted anything in almost two months. Well, I'll just say that moving even 15 minutes away is a long hard process. My older brother's laptop got damaged during the trip, so I'm actually posting from a friend's house right now. Luckily, we're getting it repaired and setting up our wireless connection now so I'll have the chapters up more regularly. I owe the updates of my three TSL stories to DarkElements10 as well, for pm'ing me! Especial thanks to them, thanks to all my readers, and I hope you still enjoy the story!

Second chapter is up! (Read and review or I won't know if people are even reading the story!)

Chapter 2

For Better or for Worse

"Let's go!"

"Hurry up!"

"C'mon Tapeworm!" Tapeworm's friends, Cody, Zack, and Max stood impatiently at the airport, Gate B12, as Tapeworm payed for his hot dogs and ran over to join them. Max rolled her eyes, "Did you really need six hotdogs?"

The brown haired teenager nodded, already shoving half of his second one into his mouth. The four hauled their bags to the plane to join their families. They filed into the plane's first class isle. Cody was staring intently at the plane tickets, "So Max and Zack will sit on the right and Tape and I will sit on the left in Row . . . 35." He bumped into Zack who had stopped abruptly and now was gaping at the row of seven seats in front them. Peering around his twin's shoulder, he grinned to see Rikku, Rumiku, Patrick, Noah, Sydney, and Robert Hiroshima already seated in Row 34.

"You never told us you were going to New York too!" Zack exclaimed, dropping his black carry on bag underneath his seat and turning to his friends.

"Dude, that's why we weren't at school yesterday!" Rumiku replied. "We we making reservations at the Manhattan Tipton and packing and stuff. We didn't tell anyone except your mom."

"Sweet! We're all gonna be in New York for two weeks! How can things get better?" Cody grinned. They all took their seats and the plane began its short ascent down the runway. Within a moment they were airborne.

"Goodbye Boston . . . " Cody whispered, watching the city he'd grown up in disappear into the thick gray and white clouds.

Moments later, Zack and Tapeworm were somehow managing to good-naturedly argue over some band across the isle, Cody and Rikku were reading, the adults were asleep, and Rumiku and Max were tossing a basketball back and forth across the isle.

"Hey guys, what are we gonna do in New York?" Cody finally spoke after about an hour and a half, looking up from his thick, brown covered book reading, 'Behind World War II.'

Rikku replied first, closing her surfing magazine, "I guess we'll find the sweetest skate-park in Manhattan first off!" She high fived Rumiku beside her.

Zack grinned, "Yeah. Then I want to see the top floor of the Twin Towers! How awesome will that be?"

Tapeworm laughed. "Yeah, just don't get sick when you look down 100 stories!" He emphasized the '100.'

Sydney poked his head around the seats in-front of them where he sat next to Patrick and Noah. "Does the hotel there have a pool Rumi?" Rumiku ruffled his blue bangs.

"Yeah, there's a rooftop pool, and it's on top of all 50 stories. I think everything is bigger in New York," She replied. Sydney grinned.

"I want to go to the top of the towers and drop a penny to see how fast it falls down. Let's see. I can clock it's time and use that to figure out the speed then by multiplying that by the weight of the penny and-" Tapeworm's eyes widened in excitement. "I think I figured it out!" He bent energetically over the math book he'd decided to pack and began furiously scratching down some numbers.

Even Cody rolled his eyes, as everyone groaned in unison, "Tapeworm!" He looked up sheepishly and ran a hand through his bushy brown hair, blushing. "Sorry, force of habit . . . "

Rikku plugged her portable I-home into a small battery pack in her backpack, and pointed at the song on her I-pod's screen to Rumiku. Silently, they nodded, and showed it to Zack and Cody, who nodded as well, knowing the routine.

Tape and Max grinned when they recognized what the four teenagers were doing and sat back to watch, not feeling like joining in this time.

Cody and Zack began as the music started on Rikku's I-Home.

Cody/Zack: It's too late baby, there's no turning around
I got my hands in my pocket and my head in a cloud
This is how I do
When I think about you
I never thought that you could break me apart
I keep a sinister smile and a hold of my heart
You want to get inside
Then you can get in line
But not this time

All: Cause you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming

Rikku/Rumiku: I feel like a hero and you are my heroine

Sydney, Patrick, and Noah had now caught on and joined in.

Patrick/Noah: I won't try to philosophize
I'll just take a deep breath then I'll look in your eyes
This is how I feel
And it's so surreal
I got a closet filled up to the brim
With the ghosts of my past and their skeletons
And I don't know why
You'd even try
But I won't lie

Sydney: You caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming

Rikku/Rumiku: I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?

Zack/Cody: And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
And I'm feeling like a newborn child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded

All: And you caught me off guard
Now I'm running and screaming

Zack/Cody: I feel like a hero and you are my heroine
Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?

Rikku/Rumiku/Sydney/Patrick/Noah: (I feel like a hero and you are my heroine)
And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
And I'm feeling like a newborn child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded

All: (I feel like a hero and you are my heroine )
And I feel a weakness coming on
It never felt so good to be so wrong
Had my heart on lockdown
And then you turned me around
(Do you know that your love is the sweetest sin?)
And I'm feeling like a newborn child
Every time I get a chance to see you smile
It's not complicated
I was so jaded

By the time they had finished, they were aware of clapping from not only Max and Tapeworm, but most of the plane as well. Laughing, they all high-fived. "Hey, it's just our thing," Zack grinned and took a mock bow.

"That was awesome!" Max smiled, and Tapeworm nodded vigorously.

"Oh, it was nothi-" Rikku began, but was cut off by a loud voice over the plane's PA system.

"Welcome to Manhattan, New York, Flight 366! It is partly cloudy and 74 degrees as we descend into the Port Of Manhattan International Airport. We hope you enjoyed your flight and fly with International Flight Airlines again. Please fasten your seat belts and prepare for landing."

The gang began talking excitedly,while Rumiku leaned against the side of the plane and gazed out the window. She watched the thick cloud cover be whisked away and it revealed a city that seemed to stretch to no end, the skyline rimmed with skyscrapers. She breathed in deeply, before turning back to her friends.

"Well,we're here guys. We're in New York for better or for worse . . ." She announced softly, her purple eyes straying back to the window. When she looked back over, her friends waved her off. Max replied distractedly, "Don't worry so much. Things will be awesome here."

Cody put his hand on her shoulder comfortingly. "Got the feeling something is wrong?"

Rumiku nodded, her purple eyes locking with his blue/green ones. "Cody, something is going to happen. Something disastrous. It's something I can just . . . feel."

Cody nodded back. "You know you can always come to me. If you don't want to, I'm sure Rikku will listen too." He added the last sentence quickly, blushing. Rumiku shook her head.

"You know I trust you, Cody Martin." The plane shuddered as it stopped at the side of the airport. Rumiku leaned forward and gave Cody and quick kiss on the mouth before grabbing her suitcase and walking down the isle into the airport connector. Leaving Cody blushing deeply, but with a soft smile playing across his lips.