**Author's Note: Enjoyed the first two chapters? I'm glad you did! She's amazing, no? Now, I'm going to try to write as good as her! I write a bit differently, so you're going to see a change of writing styles. Hope you enjoy!**

Zack woke up slowly, straining his eyes to open.

"Zack! Oh thank goodness, are you okay?"

Zack glanced at his worrisome brother, who helped him get to a sitting position. Looking around carefully, Zack was surprised to find himself at the nurse's room. He'd never come here before. He wasn't the nerdy chump during P.E. that kept getting hit by a dodge ball. He was usually the one throwing the ball at them.

"Dude, what happened? Why am I here? In the nurses' room?" Zack said that last statement as if he had a bad taste in his mouth.

"What do you remember?" Cody looked at his brother with concern.

"Uh... I remember going to help Maya with the roses and then...all these girls with huge orders...then well...nothing..."

"You went into a coma soon after and I brought you here, to the nurse. It's a good thing you remembered everything."

"Into a coma? Wow that was embarrassing."

"Mm..." Cody answered, but his mind was on something else.

The way Bailey had just walked behind Maya, that look she gave him. No emotion whatsoever. She didn't seem to care about much these days. At least, not with him around. He found it annoying that she was still mad over his stupid play, but deep inside, he knew she had good reason to.

Was she ever going to forgive him? That was the frustrating part.

Cody gritted his teeth.

But how she just did something as reckless as that. To his brother? Ignore him for weeks, sure, but do something like that to Zack?

He hated to admit it, but he and his brother did look out for each other at certain times.

"Hey, you still on the planet, Earth?" Zack stared at his brother's expression. One look said it all.

"It's Bailey, eh?"

"No, its...well..." Cody stammered uncomfortably.

"Its okay man, I ain't going anywhere." Zack reassured.

"Yes...yes it is."

Zack gave a satisfied smile. He knew his brother thought about her more than he was willing to admit, and as strange as Zack might think of his brother, he felt sorry for him. Love was tough to come by, that he agreed with. I mean, how did he even get stuck in this hospital bed? Because he was trying to get closer to his girlfriend, Maya.

"I just can't believe Bailey would do something like this...to you." Cody spilled. "I mean, she's so different now, after the play. She's not herself. Actually, she's been acting strange ever since the break-up. And...I don't know Zack. I've always had feelings for her, and they never went away. I thought they would, but they didn't. And now-"

"Wait...wait a minute. Bailey did this?" Zack asked, confused.

"Yes, she did. She even willingly admit it to my face. Saying it was even now."

Zack thought to himself. He was almost certain Maya had asked him to take over, not Bailey. But he couldn't remember what she was saying. It was a fuzzy memory, a clear blur. His head strained to remember, but all he received was more confusion. So Bailey had asked him? Both their voices blended together in a revolving mess inside his mind. Then more voices, roses, yellow, pink, friendship, love, slurred and spun into a dizzy jumble.

Zack sighed, falling back onto his pillow.

"Hey, you alright?"

"Yeah. Just...trying to remember something." Zack answered quickly.

Maya was now officially annoyed. She tried telling Cody the truth, but every time she came close to him, Bailey gave her a stern look, warning her to not continue.

She hated this. Hated this feud both of her close friends were having towards each other. Hated how they were fighting over a misunderstanding. She only had heard from Zack that they were once in a loving relationship, but broke up on the Eiffel Tower. At first, Maya had found this funny.

"In Paris, France? The city of love?" she choked out after Zack told her. This was a few weeks past, during their walk around the sky deck.

"See how much of a nut job my brother is?"

"Well, what happened?"

"Simple. Cody tried to make their anniversary date perfect, so he rehearsed it with London. Not a clever choice, because then Bailey saw this and seeked some lame painter on the street for support. Bam! Karma! Cody finds out about this, and thinks his girlfriend's cheating on him. They have this huge fight, blah, blah, blah, then declare its over, Bailey runs away crying and I land on top of my brother with Woody after we got chased by this French painting stealer. The end of their tragic story." Zack said with a smile, like it was some funny story to be told again and again.

Maya laughed at her boyfriend's humour, but stopped abruptly.

"Sometimes I wonder how they could just be friends after what happened to them. I mean, sometimes, when you watch carefully on how Cody smiles at Bailey, it's not hard thinking he loved her once. And sometimes, when Bailey hears Cody's name, you could almost see her face light up. And when she's talking to him, her eyes sparkle. I would really love to see them together again."

Maya smiled. She really would like to see them together again. All she's seen ever since Cody returned with Zack from the nurse office is glares from the both of them, or mostly how they just ignored each other.
She looked at her locker one last time before she turned to go back to her cabin. On the way back, she finally saw her boyfriend alone on the sky deck, casually drinking a smoothie. Must not be his shift right now.

Immediately, she had an idea.

Sprinting to Zack, she almost pushed him out of his chair.

"Whoa!" Zack said in surprise. "I know you're excited to see me back, Maya, but no need to be that excited!"

"Zack, it wasn't Bailey's fault!" Maya exclaimed.

"Um...what's not Bailey's fault?"

"The roses. The selling. You. The whole you passing out because you couldn't handle anything. That incident." Maya brilliantly explained while trying her best to catch her breath. "That. That was my idea. Bailey just covered for me, and now Cody's all upset over her."

"Not just upset." Zack added.

Maya glared at him. "Not helping."

Zack thought this over. "So my girlfriend tricked me into selling a bunch of duct tape roses just for entertainment, and ended me up in the hospital."

Maya sighed.

"Yes." She said quietly. "I'm sorry."

Zack smiled. "I don't know Maya. Maybe I shouldn't forgive you. Maybe..."

"What do you want?" Maya asked simply, knowing what Zack was trying to do.

"A date."

"That's it?" Maya said in surprise.

"Yes. You, me, tomorrow, dinner date." Zack listed. "Look Maya, I really want to spend more time with you, and now that you and Bailey are so crazy over this Valentine's Day thing, you're always so busy."

Maya took this into consideration.

"I'll make a deal with you, Zack."

"A deal? I thought I was the one making the requests!"

Maya held a hand up. "Let me finish." Maya looked around to check if either Bailey or Cody were in radar, then continued. "I will let you take me on this dinner date. In fact, I we will go to Neptune's Paradise, the best restaurant on board the ship, and we will split the check."

Zack smiled, hanging onto Maya's every word.

"However..."

Zack moaned. He hoped Maya wasn't going to set him up with those hysterical girls again. One of them actually grabbed onto his hair in a lock, demanding her order first. It wasn't easy making his hair look this good.

"We have to help Cody and Bailey get back together. Just in time for Valentine's day."

At first, Zack thought his girlfriend was kidding. But judging by her facial expression, she seemed just as serious as ever.

"No way. Not a chance." Zack stood up from the lounge chair and gave his drink to the waitress.

"Come on, it can't be that hard. They loved each other before, they'll do it again. We just need to light that spark in between them." Maya protested.

"Look, did you see them during class? It'll be easier to arrange a date between Marcus Polo and a monkey."

"Marco." Maya corrected him. "And don't exaggerate. I'm sure we'll come up with something." Then Maya caught her breath. "I mean, I'll come up with something."

Zack shook his head. "No deal. Its not going to work, and at the end, they'll be even meaner to each other."

"But Zack..." Maya tried her pout again. And of course, her award winning expression won over.

"Argh! I hate that. Last time I saw that look I ended up unconscious."

"Don't worry. This is going to involve no passing out whatsoever. So here's the game plan..."

Bailey closed her cabin door behind her, and sighed. The orders were countless. Some of their classmates took forever to choose what flower they desired for their crush. Some chose friendship. Others spent long stares at the two flowers with a hopeless choice. Then there were some that came up with a confident smile on their face, buying a dozen 'Love' flowers for their special someone.

Bailey had recognized that look. She could almost swear she would be doing the same, if it wasn't for their break-up.

"Watcha thinking?"

Bailey turned in surprise of her roommate, sitting casually in her desk chair, playing with her nails.

"None of your business." Bailey brushed off.

"Actually, I had absolutely nothing to do today. I want to hear about what you're thinking about Cody this time."

"I wasn't thinking about him at all!" Bailey informed her.
"Really."

"Really." Bailey confirmed.

"Then mind telling me what you were thinking about?"

"London why do you even care?" Bailey sat down on her bed, confused why London was acting nice all of the sudden.

"Again, I told you I had nothing to do today. So entertain me with your poor people miserable talk."

"London, we had school today."

"Why would we have school the day before a holiday?" London rolled her eyes.

"Actually, you go to school on Valentine's Day too."

London gasped. This was news to her. "What's next, there's school on Friday's?"

"Well..."

"I had enough bad news today." London cut in.

"Then you don't want to hear my thoughts." Bailey said simply.

"Aha!" London jumped up, nearly making Bailey fall out of her seat.

"What?"

"You are thinking about him!"

"...Indirectly, but yes." Bailey muttered.

"I knew it! I'm always right!" London hopped around, doing a little happy dance. "Right, right, right!"

"Yeah London, let's celebrate." Bailey added sarcastically.

"Oooh! That'll be great! Do you think we could rent out the sky deck and –"

"London!"

"What? You said we could celebrate!"

Bailey couldn't help but chuckle at her roommate's excitement over this one event.

"Soo...are you going to give him a red flower?"

"No."

"White one?"

Bailey sighed. "I'm getting him a yellow flower."

"Friendship?" London said in surprise. "But you think about him all the time! Don't you think that deserves at least a white flower?"

"No." Bailey said quickly. "There's no point anyway. We've become friends and," Bailey played with her fingers. "We're going to stay that way."

"You're soooo lying."

"I'm not!"

"Cody's nose crinkles when he lies, your fingers fidget when you are refusing to be truthful." London so accurately pointed out.

"How can you even know this stuff about us?"

"I've been stuck with you losers for 4 years. Trust me, I know how to have some fun."

"Okay, fine." Bailey admitted. "Maybe I am lying. I don't want to just be friends with him, but...how can I even help it? I already said that we weren't going to talk to each other from now on, since he wrote that stupid play, and now after I lied for Maya, he's mad at me. Maybe...maybe I should just give up."

"And die an old spinster?" London added, quoting from the play. Immediately, she began to laugh at her own joke, until she saw the distraught look on her friend's face. "Sorry."

"I mean, sometimes I wish the old Cody back. The one that took me to dinner twice every month, the one that opened the door for me whenever we entered a room, the one that always thought of me first before he made plans," Suddenly, Bailey's eyes turned dreamy. It was almost like a clear, black and white image in her mind, whenever she thought of this touchy subject. She also found herself ungrateful at the time of what she had. It is what's she's missing now.

"You also mean the one that can't start his own apple, or can't chew gum without crying, irons his underwear, and actually practiced dated with me on your anniversary."

Bailey sighed.

"Now...that way he looks at me...it's like I'm worthless. Like I'm nothing to him! He could at least try to be friends, but noo...all he gives me are glares and remarks. And using that stupid play as revenge for that night, which I refuse to believe is anything but his fault."

"Maybe you shouldn't have framed yourself." London suggested.

"Like that would have any changes to this situation!"

All of the sudden, the cabin door was pushed roughly open, and there stood Maya, blushing for her rude invasion. She had heard some of the argument that was going on in this room, and she was supposed to come to talk to Bailey anyway. Guess its better late than never.

"Bailey, I know Cody still has feelings for you. It's so obvious, the way he looks at you, if you dig deep enough." Maya protested.

"I just want the old Cody back, is that too much to ask?" Bailey blew out, then collapsed onto her bed, putting her pillow on top of her face.

"I just want the old Bailey back, is that too much to ask?" Cody exclaimed in conclusion of his one – hour long presentation that bored his poor brother to sleep. He was supposed to help change his brother's mind and set him up a date with Bailey, but it seemed he could only be capable of doing one of those things in this late hour. He was surprised at how much his brother can talk about one girl, but he supposed that this was a perfect time for him to explode all his thoughts out.

It was just too bad he was the one receiving all of the complaints and thoughts that escaped his brother's speech.

"Zack, are you even bothering to listen?"

Zack automatically sat up straight from his lightly dozed off nap, and yawned.

"Of course. I at least tried, I supposed. For the first thirty minutes. Then after that, I kinda tuned out."

Maya was wrong when she said it had no relation to falling unconscious. He had just fell asleep for an hour, listening to his brother's boring talk. And sleeping is just as bad as being in a coma...at least he thought so. It didn't matter, he desperately wanted to have that date with Maya, and, if he and Maya succeeds, that would mean a whole less more talking of this matter.

Cody glared at his brother in pure annoyance.

"Look, look, look. I know I didn't listen to most of it, and I don't know if this is going to help at all, but Bailey didn't trick me into selling the flowers on my own."

"Sure it was. She even admitted it." Cody immediately denied. He could remember Bailey's expression so clearly. So emotionless, so careless, it was like nothing mattered to her in the entire world, including him. He hated that side of Bailey. In fact, he've never seen that side of Bailey before the play.

"See, that's the problem. She was covering up for Maya, so...well I don't know why she would, to prevent her to get yelled at by you? I don't know. All I know is that Maya told me she framed herself."

Before Cody could say something in argue, Zack cut in.

"I also remember it very clearly. It was Maya. She dragged Bailey out of the table booth, and they seemed like they were having an argument before I passed out. And I'm willing to bet that Bailey was arguing Maya to stop me from selling the flowers."

Cody let a moment to let this sink in, and sat onto his cabin's trunk.

"You...you're saying...you're saying that Bailey was just covering up for Maya? That she had no involvement, whatsoever?"

"Dude, you just rephrased what I said ten seconds ago."

Cody's face fell into his hands.

"Aw, man. I just accused Bailey for nothing? She was so innocent...so innocent, that to make sure her friend won't get the blame, she put it on herself." Cody breathed out, feeling the absolute weight of guilt overflow him. "I have nothing to hold against her. Absolutely nothing."

Cody's eyes widened.

"That must be what Maya was trying to tell me all afternoon! But Bailey kept stopping or interrupting. I found that irritating, but now I understand." Cody closed his eyes. "What have I done?"

"Well...at least I know that it helped..."

"Helped?" Cody remarked. "I have to find her. I have to apologize, for this, for everything."
Cody was just about the get his sweater when he came to his senses and looked at his alarm clock.

"I can't. She's probably asleep." Cody sat back down in frustration.

"Oh, dude, don't be like that. It could happen to anybody." Zack paused. " I'm not saying it'll happen to me... but you know...anybody else."

Cody sighed. His brother did have his own way of support, but it wasn't the best method to cheer someone up.

"Look, why don't you buy her a white rose tomorrow. You know, the one that symbolizes secret admirer?"

"I can't do that! Bailey probably hates me, and she has every right too. I'm just going to stick with the yellow flower."

"The one symbolizing 'Friendship'? Dude..."

"It's the only safe way. I don't want to get her a red one if she returns with a yellow 'friendship' flower. You know, if she even bothers to give me one." Cody stated. "And besides, if fate really was on our side, it'll work out."

Zack looked at his brother, about to argue, before saving his breath. This was almost as hard as he predicted it to be.

He and Maya would have to play fate for this round.

To be continued...

**Author's Note: What do you think of my writing style, compared to Larkyn's? I don't know, I like her's better. I hope you like the story so far! It's a pretty long chapter, so if you're reading this, then wow, I love you so much! You actually read it to till the end! *smiles* Thank you!**