Hours had passed by and it five. Many people were returning to their homes, apartments and for some back to their hotels from last minute Christmas shopping. Maddie arrived back the Tipton by five thirty and went up to her hotel room to wrap some presents that she got for her friends at the hotel. Cody and Bailey came back to the Tipton ten minutes after Maddie. When they got back inside the lobby, a nice elder woman commented on how cute they looked together with their outfits that looked very similar to each other. Cody and bailey had thanked the elder woman and then she left them with a smile on her face. The elderly woman was correct on how Cody and Bailey looked together. Both Cody and Bailey had red shirts on and green sweaters but Bailey had black vans on instead of green ones like Cody. The young couple had agreed that they would have go separate ways from each other for the necessary task of wrapping one another's gifts. Although, before they left, Cody fished out a Santa hat from his shopping bag and nicely placed it on top of Bailey's head. He patted the hat on her head to make sure it was on, kissed her forehead and then pressed the up button for the elevators. Since they stayed in rooms on the same floor, Cody wanted to give enough privacy for the both of them by letting Bailey go up first and then he go after her. Cody backed away from Bailey as an elevator opened up and Bailey walked in with a slightly sad look on her face that she couldn't go up the elevator with her Cody. When she got inside the elevator, the doors closed and a noise could be heard that indicated that it was moving up. After a while Cody was able to go up to 23rd floor and go inside his family's suite.
When Bailey was done wrapping and making a few of the gift, she headed over to the Martin family suite. She knocked on the door and Zack opened it. He had let her in and she asked if Cody was around. Zack lamely replied that Cody wasn't around. Bailey was about to leave the suite to go find Cody but Zack asked her stay so that they could bond a little more as friends. Zack convinced Bailey to join him on the couch and watch some TV. Bailey felt very weird and uncomfortable being alone in the same room as her boyfriend's twin brother, Zack. Just as things were getting very awkward for Bailey, a knock could be heard from the door. Bailey stood up and opened the door, only to greet Maddie. Zack came over as soon as he could when he saw Maddie's face.
"Hi, Maddie. What are you doing here?"
"I thought that maybe I could just hang out with Zack and Cody before Christmas Eve dinner. What are doing here, Bailey?"
"I was wondering if Cody was here. I was going to leave but Zack wanted me to stay so he could some company. He's bored and wanted to become better friends with me."
"Sounds harmless enough. Could I hang out with you two?"
"Sure, Maddie."
"Thanks, Bailey."
Maddie, Bailey and Zack walk back to the couch. Zack plops himself in the middle while Bailey and Maddie sit on either side of him. Zack turns on TV and does some channel surfing. He stops on the Nick channel and ends up a programming block of The 90's Is All That. A re-run of Hey Arnold! pops on the time slot. Usually, The 90's Is All That would have occurred later in the day but they were having a special that day. After thirty minutes of four Hey Arnold! Episodes, Maddie explains that she has some loose ends to tie up in her schedule and bids Bailey and Zack and goodbye. Bailey was about to leave when Zack stopped her because he just remember something about Cody that Bailey probably didn't know about but maybe should know about. He was reminded by one of the Hey Arnold episodes that they watched.
"Wait, Bailey."
"What is it now, Zack?"
"I think you might want to see something in my and Cody's bedroom. There's something in there that might help you have a better understanding of how Cody felt while you two were…separated."
"Zack, I don't think that it necessary. Besides, I'd rather not dwell on the past and just try to find Cody now."
"Okay. You don't need to dwell on the past. You just need to let me show you this one thing of Cody's."
"Zack, I don't think that I should."
"What's the harm? I mean you are his girlfriend."
"Yeah but that doesn't mean that it's right for me to go through some of his stuff that he doesn't want me to see without him knowing."
"So? Couples eventually do this type of stuff each other anyway."
"Fine. But only so that you stop bugging me about it."
"Yes, finally! Come on, Bailey."
Zack walks over to the door that leads to his and Cody's room and opens it. He beckons Bailey over, which she does come over but feels like dragging her feet. Zack guides Bailey to foot of Cody's bed and points to a chest.
"What about the chest?"
"It's what's inside that matters."
"What's inside?"
"A shrine of you."
"Zack, you're lying."
"No, I'm not. I'll prove it to you."
"How are you going to do that?"
"Just you wait and watch."
Zack bends down and attempts to unlock the lock by using his and Cody's mom's birthday but it doesn't work. Bailey sees that Zack has failed and smirks at Zack. He makes a frustrated noise and shakes his fist in the air.
"Darn it, Cody. You changed the combination."
Zack tries to think and then an idea comes into his head. He looks over at Bailey.
"Bailey, what's your birthday?"
"Why are asking about my birthday?"
"Just give me the date of your birthday."
"No,"
"Ugh! Fine, I'll think of another combination."
"Zack just give up."
"No. I'm going to try again."
Zack then thinks about the day that Cody found out that Bailey was a girl, which was their first day on the S.S. Tipton. Zack grinned at himself and then used the date as a combination. The date that he used as a combination had worked. Zack smirked at Bailey as if he was silently gloating at her as she rolled her eyes and then he opened Cody's chest. Bailey hesitantly walked behind Zack and lurched over his shoulder to see, in fact, a miniature shine of her. She was in awe as she saw some items that he probably was planning to give to her for their one year anniversary but never got the chance to, a bunch of cut out photos of her face framed in paper hearts and a green leather book. Bailey didn't know whether to be freaked out or to feel appreciated by the shrine. Bailey was curious about the green book and so she pointed at it.
"Zack, what's that green book?"
"That it the six month plan that Cody made to win your heart the first year we were on the boat. By the end of the six months, you apparently fell for him too and became his girlfriend."
"Oh! That's why he shouted 'Yes! My six month plan worked!' when he excused himself for a moment I kissed him."
"That sound like something Cody would say. Anyways, I tore out some pages because I was trying woo Maya. Cody got mad because he said that the six month plan was bounded by genuine Italian leather and 'love'. Whatever he meant by that."
"And this shrine is important because he had this when he and I were broken up?"
"Duh."
Bailey felt a wave of grief and relief wash over her whole being. She didn't of she should feel terrible or absolutely giddy that her Cody truly, deeply does love her. But then again she wondered if he still loved her if he found out that she looked through his shrine of her. She was worried now. She took one last lingering look of the shrine, but especially the six month plan and the straightened out her body so that she was standing up straight. Bailey then backed away from behind Zack.
"Zack, I think I've seen enough."
"Okay."
Zack closes the chest up and puts the lock back on.
"I don't feel so good. I think I'm going back to my room."
"Do you feel sick?"
"No, Zack. I don't feel good in an emotional sense."
"Well, you're on your own then. I'm not good about helping people with their emotions."
"Goodbye, Zack."
"See ya later, Bailey."
Bailey walked out of Cody and Zack's room and then left the suite all together and went back to her hotel room. When Bailey got back to her hotel room, she sat down on the couch and thought about Cody's shrine of her. What shocked her the most was that he had made that shrine while they were broken up and when they would occasionally fight with each other. She felt absolutely terrible. Bailey was considering of convincing Cody to just break up with her and not take her back but then she remembered what Cody had said that the past was the past and what mattered was now. Bailey wiped some of stray tears that were at the brim of her eyelids and calmed herself down. Bailey collected herself and breathed in and out in a steady rhythm. Bailey stood up from the couch, determined to calmly confront Cody about the shrine at an appropriate time. Bailey had set herself out to go search for Cody one last time. Hopefully she would find him before the Christmas Eve dinner. With a goal set in her mind, Bailey left her hotel room to go find Cody.
