Chapter 9

The next day, Maddie got up and she was still very disturbed from last night. She thought to herself, "I'm going to talk to Trevor today and make sure that he knows that I would never cheat on him. Ever! But the thing that is bothering me is, who was the guy that I supposedly cheated on Trevor with? He can't be Zack, because he knows that Trevor and I love each other. Even London knows that. That leaves Cody, but it couldn't be him, he's never shown feelings for me. Never!"

Maddie kept thinking this over and over again. She thought that Cody could be the guy, but she didn't believe it. He was her friend. Someone she could count on, he never even showed feelings for her. He was just her friend!

Maddie decided to call Trevor.

"Trevor?"

"Hey Maddie!" Trevor said happily.

"How's your work?"

"Oh, its fine. People just keep coming in. It's like they never leave. Hollister just attracts all the girls!"

"HEY!" Maddie said defensively.

"Well it's true, but I've got my girl!" Trevor said

"Yeah. I know. You know that I would never ever cheat on you right?"

"Of course, although I thought that you were but you really weren't."

"Right."

"Why do you ask?"

"Well…I had a dream that you walked out on me for cheating on you with some guy, but I don't know who the guy is."

"Oh, wow. Well, I know that you would never cheat on me. You love me. Right?"

"Yeah."

(in the background) "Lina! Stop it. Not yet. I'm on the phone with my girlfriend."

(He said girlfriend in a different way.)

"Maddie? Are you still there? Hello! Maddie!" Trevor said.

"oh man, what just happened?" Trevor said as he tried to call Maddie back.

Maddie had hung up on Trevor. She had heard some other girl in the background say, "Come on Trevor. I need you right now! Come on." Then she heard Trevor tell her not yet. She heard him say girlfriend in a different way. Why would he say it like that? She thought he loved her. How could he do that to her? How could Trevor do that with some other girl!

Maddie's cell phone started to ring. She looked at the caller ID and saw Trevor's picture flash on the screen. She pressed the end button. She didn't want to talk to him anymore.

Trevor kept on calling and Maddie kept ignoring his calls.

Trevor left message after message. When he finally stopped calling, Maddie checked her messages. Each message was the same. "Maddie! I know you're there. Why won't you answer my calls? What did I do wrong! Please tell me. I want to know. Please!" I don't understand. Please just call me back."

Maddie never called him back.

The next day Zack and Cody came up to her room, wondering where she was, because she wasn't at her usual post at the candy counter.

"Maddie?" Cody asked.

"Huh?" Maddie said, not even hearing them come in.

"Oh, hey guys."

"Are you ok?"

"What? Oh yeah. I'm fine."

"No, you're not" Zack said. "You can tell us what's wrong."

"Nothing's wrong! Just leave me alone!" Maddie yelled

"well, we can't. Moseby sent us up here to tell you that you're supposed to be working at the candy counter." Cody said.

"So you guys were just doing what Moseby wanted you to do. You don't really care! Just get out!"

"Good going Cody!" Zack said.

"Maddie, just come down. Moseby is gonna get mad."

"Well let him!"

"No. Maddie, you don't need to be yelled at. Now come on!" Zack said.

Zack pulled Maddie off of her couch and dragged her downstairs.

"Maddie?" said a familiar voice.

Maddie turned around.

"What are you doing here?" Maddie asked.