Okay hey everybody, hope everyone enjoyed the Final episode of The Suite Life on Deck. I've not watched it or the prom episode yet so no spoilers, lol.
Just want to clear something up. After the accident in Episode 6 Luck O the Irish, Zack now has to use a cane for walking as a sharp rock when straight through his legs and caused irreversible damage that impairs his walking.
Enjoy
Suite life on deck 2
Back On Board
Episode 9: Out In London
It took a few days for the buzz of what had happened at the Halloween party to die down. Since the party the story of both Martin twins had had been passed from student to staff to passenger. Everywhere they went there was someone talking about it and if they weren't when the boys arrived they were soon afterwards.
While most of the details of Cody's story was well known, Zack's story was shrouded in mystery, no one involved would talk about what had happened before the older twin was caught kissing Anna out on the deck. Neither twin was particularly popular with many of the female students although Cody was eliciting more sympathy as many felt he had been tricked although some felt he was lying.
It was the following Friday and Molly was in her cabin packing her bag with some pencils and a sketch pad into her bag. She zipped it up and turned to the bottom of her closet. She reached inside to pull out a pair of sneaker to wear, as she pulled out her white sneakers they snagged something on the floor and it was pulled out with the shoes.
The red and blue fabric fell from the shoes into a pile on the floor in front of her. Molly reached down and picked the costume up ready to throw it back into the closet but instead found her holding on and staring at it. She thoughtfully traced the web pattern with her finger the way Cody had just a week before.
She barely noticed the knock at the door, as they got louder she was momentarily distracted and shouted "Come in." never taking her eyes of the costume in her hands.
Kyle entered the room and joined his sister by the closet. "Are you ok?" he asked taking a seat on the bed and looking over her shoulder.
"Yeah I'm fine." she replied automatically throwing the costume back into the closet. Molly suddenly realized who it was sitting on the bed with her and turned to her brother, "What do you want?" she asked bluntly as she slipped on the sneakers and tied them up angrily.
Kyle was taken aback by her attitude but replied as if everything was fine. "I'm going into London early there's this store near Victoria that I haven't been to yet, I thought maybe you'd like to join me."
The young girl moved away from her brother slightly giving him a look replying, "And why would I want to do that?"
There was no pretending to miss the hostility in her voice this time. "Oh I don't know, because you're my twin sister and we've barely spent anytime together lately apart from in class."
"So? Just because I got stuck with you for a brother doesn't mean I have to spend time with you." Molly said coldly.
Kyle shook his head, "Fine," he said sadly standing up and moving towards the door, cut by what she had said. "I guess I'll just see you on the London eye then." And he left the room without looking back, wiping his eyes as he went.
Molly stared at the door for a few second after he had gone, before screaming and grabbing her bag to throw against the door.
The corridors were emptying as Kyle moodily stomped back to his cabin. As he entered a disheveled and rough looking Cody appeared from the bathroom. Since the previous weeks drama apart from school the blonde teenager hadn't left their cabin, leaving Kyle and Zack to cover his shifts on the sky deck.
"Oh, hi Kyle." Cody said as he noticed his room-mate entering.
Kyle returned the greeting as he grabbed the desk chair and sat down dropping his head on the table.
"What's up?" The blonde asked as he fidgeted with his won desk straightening the pencils, although they didn't need it. All the time Cody had spent in their cabin, he had tidied it so much the dust wasn't even landing as he caught it in mid-air. The room had been organised and reorganised four times and looked more like a showroom that the living area of two teenage boys.
Kyle sat up and swung around on the seat resting back replying, "Molly was being a bitch." he noticed Cody suddenly pay him full attention as soon as he said his sisters name. "I just asked if she wanted to go into London before this afternoon."
"And she didn't want to?" Cody asked knowing the answer.
Kyle smirked, "Well you could say that" he said before thinking and adding, "Hey why don't you come with me?"
Cody once again busied himself with the pencils and shaking his head.
"Aww c'mon you've not left the ship for a week. You can't just sit in here like the tin-man from the Wizard of Oz"
Cody turned to his room-mate confused, "What?"
"You know stuck in one place singing if I only had a heart." Kyle said singing the last part and laughing at his friend.
"Okay, but your buying lunch." Cody said as Kyle laughed louder agreeing.
As they walked the streets of London Kyle was happy to see Cody smiling again. They weren't huge smiles, not even particularly big ones, just enough to show he was enjoying himself. Even when the rain started and they were standing in Trafalgar square under an umbrella, Cody was still happy although slightly bemused at Kyle who seemed just a little bit too happy as they huddled together under the umbrella.
Luckily the rain didn't last long and they soon found themselves in the probably the only comic book store Kyle hadn't been to yet. He quickly found some boxes of comics from the 70's that he flicked through looking for ones that interested him.
Cody not having read comics for a few years instead slowly walked around the store looking at the action figures, busts, statues and memorabilia from lots of different comics, TV shows and movies. There weren't many people around and the boys were able to see each other from anywhere in the store.
It was closing in on half past one when Cody noticed the time. He spun around looking for Kyle, who he saw leaning against a book shelf at the back of the store. In his hand he was holding a few old comics with yellowing pages, they were threatening to fall from his hand as he seemed more interrupted in staring in a daze to where Cody was standing.
The comics in his hands finally slipped but were caught just in time once Kyle was knocked out of his daydream as Cody moved towards him warning him of the time.
"Sorry, what?" he asked as he straightened up the comics in his hands and looked around as if nothing had happened.
Cody shook his head at his friends absent mindness and reminded him. "We're meant to be meeting the class at half two and you still owe me lunch."
Kyle nodded and left to pay for his comics. Cody followed him and waited by the door watching the girl that his friend had been spying on as she stood standing next to Cody when he was browsing the shelves.
Kyle joined Cody a few moments later and they went to leave. The blonde boy looked back to see the girl waving and giving him a wink as they left.
They grabbed a bus going towards the London eye and retreated to a small café about 5minutes away. They both opted for some ham sandwiches and sat down at on of the tables outside.
"It was a while later when Cody suddenly mentioned the girl from the store. "So you like blondes then?" he said laughing.
"What?" Kyle replied alarmed.
Cody smiled, "That girl you were checking out at the store. Or were you not looking that high?" he asked laughing again.
Kyle returned with a nervous laughter and a deep drink from the bottle in front of him. "I wasn't looking at the girl." he replied softly and he started to slide his hand across the table towards Cody's
They were just about to touch when Cody's cell-phone started to ring and Cody pulled his hand from the table to pull it from his pocket to answer not realising what Kyle was about to do, or noticing the hand sliding back across the table.
The phone call was over quickly, it was Zack asking them why they were going to be late. The boys quickly grabbed their bags and left. Rushing across the road laughing at the drivers who had to break suddenly and were pushing their horns.
Zack shielded his eyes from the sun as he stepped into the pod. He looked around for his friends, many of the students avoided his eye or moved away as he scanned the crowd. He carefully looked for his brother, the one person that wouldn't treat him differently, but he wasn't there.
He pulled his cell out of his pocket and scrolled through the names looking for Cody's and phoned his younger brother. "Cody, where are you? He asked once his brother answered. "We're already on the wheel." He frowned as his twin told him he was going to be late and would get the next pod and meet them afterwards.
The doors closed and the started to to move. Most of the class were still avoiding him as he limped through them with his walking stick to tell Tuttweiler what had happened, and as he returned to the centre of the room and flopped down on the bench in the centre.
Tabitha was carefully circling the room, she felt uncomfortable as she felt Zack's eyes follow her. It reminded her of the creepy old men who would stare at her as she passed them when she lived on the streets. She turned to confront him but when she did he turned his gaze away and he was looking so sad and pathetic that she couldn't bring herself to do it.
There was a good few feet between him and anybody else in the pod. It was rather pathetic to see and Tabitha could feel her heart breaking as she watched her ex moodily play with his cell-phone.
The normally social teenager seemed to be deliberately avoiding his friends and the other students. He wasn't even checking out the other girls. The only things he seemed to focus on were his cell or Tabitha who he kept sneaking glances at over his cell checking to see if she was still looking.
Her over-riding drive was to sit down and comfort him, but she restrained herself. His betrayal was only a week ago and the wound was still fresh. Tabitha finally pulled her gaze from Zack to Molly sitting crossed legged on the floor sketching something on the paper in front of her.
Tabitha slid up beside her and spied over her shoulder at the sketch.
"I'd prefer it if you didn't peer over my shoulder." Molly said suddenly.
Tabitha jumped as she spoke. "Sorry, it's just I wanted to ask you something."
Molly didn't even look up from the paper, "It's been a week, why now?"
"It's just I know why I broke up with Zack, but Cody was tricked everyone knows that, but you didn't even give him a chance?" Tabitha whispered not wanting others to listen in.
Molly sight and dropped her pencil, she placed her hands over her eyes and rubbed them. "Tab, he kissed someone and then bragged about it."
"But he was tricked he thought I was you, it just doesn't make sense that you'd dump him.
Molly turned to her friend and frowned. "Cody is a great guy, but there was something missing. I just needed an excuse to do it"
"That makes even less sense, if he was such a great guy why dump him."
"I like him I do, but there's someone I care about who likes him more and it was hurting them to see us together." Molly said down at the next pod to where she could see her brother and Cody talking on the bench.
"So was it?" Tabitha asked bringing her friend back from her daydream.
The twin shook her head, "It doesn't matter, I just knew me and Cody hurt them and I couldn't let that happen. Now can we please move on."
Tabitha nodded and stared out over London. "So is Kyle kissing Cody the reason your not speaking to him."
Molly head jerked violently, she almost spat the water she had just drank over her drawing and she turned to look at Tabitha wide eyed. "What the hell, what makes you think it was Kyle."
"I lived on the streets for two years." she started, "with a lot of runaways, and a lot of them were gay, you get to notice stuff. Also he's the only person your close to that you would hurt yourself over."
"Just because you knew some gay kids doesn't mean that my twin brother is!" Molly hissed nervously looking around.
Tabitha smiled coyly. "Don't worry, I've known since I met him. I once spent a month or two living with this Mayors daughter, she ran away because she was struggling with being a lesbian she just didn't know it. I knew before she did."
"I didn't think he would do that though." Molly said taking another sip of water.
Tabitha smirked, "He's your brother, your twin brother. You probably know him better than anyone and he still surprises you." she said pulling Molly into a hug.
The Younger girl smiled, "Don't tell anyone, he obviously wanted Cody more than I thought if he's willing to do what he did."
"Ok, but you need to talk to him, get him to tell Cody the truth." Tabitha said as she picked up a pencil and handed it to Molly. "Now go finished you doodle."
Molly faked a shocked reaction and playfully slapped Tabitha's hand. "It's not a doodle its art." she said grabbing the pencil adding, "Philistine!" before both girls erupted into laughter.
Kyle was happily staring out over London. He and Cody had reached the London Eye just as their classmates had boarded and the two boys boarded the following pod. Cody had caught site of Molly shortly after boarding and quickly regressed to the mopey, depressed Cody that Kyle had spent the last week with.
Cody retreated to the bench and sat down in the same way his brother had in the forward pod. Kyle leaned back against the window and watched his friend. The sun cast the younger boys shadow over Cody who scowled at the floor.
"I wish I knew who it was." Cody said suddenly still scowling at the floor.
Kyle frowned nervously at the words. "Try not to think about it."
" I wish I could, but that kiss, that kiss was…"
The younger boy cocked his head as his friend spoke. "What about it, what was it?" he asked urgently taking a seat next to Cody.
Cody looked at his friend closely scanning Kyle's face not seeing Molly's as he had for the previous week but Kyle's and replied. "It was perfect, I've never been kissed like that" a smile played across his lips as he spoke, "But it cost me everything, it cost me my girlfriend."
"It was perfect." Kyle said happily under his breath leaning back.
Cody grabbed Kyle by the shoulders ad collapsed against him pulling the younger boy into a rather awkward looking hug. Kyle smiled slightly as his friend took hold and gently patted him on the back as Cody started to sob, but there were no tears just muffled sobs.
Kyle continued to pat Cody's back, looking around at the other passengers who were all being very British and eyeing them sneakily from the corner of their eyes.
"Ok, Cody, little bit weird now." Kyle said as he shifted uncomfortably from the looks they were getting.
"I don't care." Cody replied as he lifted his head
Kyle leaned back to look at his friend "Everyone is staring at us."
Cody shook his head, "I don't care, I just want to know, I want to know who kissed me, I just want to know."
Kyle looked around the other passengers who were still looking but not as closely as before. He swallowed hard and took a chance, "It was me!"
Cody's grip loosened immediately, his eyes locked on the to Kyle's face and a veil of anger descended across them. "You? You were the one who kissed me."
"Yeah, it was me." Kyle replied smiling, "and it was perfect for me too."
Kyle leaned forward to hug or kiss whatever Cody went for. Instead he felt a violent shove in his chest as Cody jumped back.
"Stay away from me." Cody hissed, before retreating to the side to look out of the pod.
Kyle stared at his friends back in shock. Many of the passengers were now openly staring at the boys confused as Kyle mouth, "But it was perfect." over and over again.
A few minutes later and both boys disembarked the pod and rejoined their classmates. Kyle did try to talk to Cody as they did, he put his hand on Cody's shoulder who pulled away and walked off to join his brother and Woody.
Kyle dragged his feet as they made their way back to the ship. He was mentally kicking himself, calling himself and idiot and going over the thing in his head. I ruined it, I can't believe I actually thought that anything good could happen. He thought to himself as they neared the Tipton.
Once back on board Kyle rushed to his cabin to change and made his way to the sky deck for his shift at the juice bar. A five hour shift didn't seem as good an idea as it was when he agreed to it.
It was almost over when Molly appeared from the fiesta deck, sketch pad in hand. She sat down and was immediately confronted by a large drink that was placed in front of her. She looked from the drink to her brother.
"Peace offering?" he said as he went back to wiping glasses. "It's on the house." he added as she looked at the drink suspiciously.
"Ok," Molly said smiling, "I'm still angry with you though."
Kyle sighed as he replied, "Yeah? Join the club."
Molly took a drink and raised her eyebrows. "Why, who else have you pissed off?"
"Well I'm pretty angry with myself, and I told Cody it was my fault that you too broke up." Kyle said avoiding his sisters eyes.
"So you told him you kissed him?"
Kyle stared at his sister, "I suppose I should be surprised you know, but after this morning."
"It would be nice if you could pretend," she replied with a laugh adding, "I am sorry about this morning, I didn't mean it."
"I know." Kyle nodded
Molly leaned forward over the counter and said, "So why did you tell him?"
Kyle shook his head again as they put a tray of clean glasses away. "He said it was perfect, the kiss was perfect."
"And you told him, I guess you really are an idiot." Molly said giving her brother a knowing smile as he shook his head in protest. "Just what did happen then?"
A customer approached the counter distracting Kyle while he served the teenage boy who smiled at Cody just a bit too much. His sister eyed the boy suspiciously as he retreated with his drink. Kyle returned with a curious grin on his face that faded as Molly stared straight at him with a questioning look.
"What?" Kyle asked innocently
"Nothing, just waiting for you tell me what happened." Molly replied just as innocently.
Kyle sat down on the stool on his side of the counter letting out a sigh as he relaxed. "He said the kiss was perfect, I told him it was me. I thought he'd be happy, you know finding the person who he shared the perfect kiss with."
Molly frowned, shaking her head. "So you told a straight guy that his perfect kiss that led to him getting dumped, that his perfect kiss was with a guy?"
"well when you say it like that, it sounds stupid." Kyle said as he looked up at the sky.
"Your lucky he didn't punch you, any other guy would have." Molly said shaking her head at her brothers stupidity.
Kyle joined in the shaking of heads, "Ok I didn't think it through properly." He said grabbing the a cloth and wiping down the counter.
"As far as he's concerned you tricked him and I think you should talk to him and apologise." Molly said after finishing her drink.
Kyle continued to wipe the counter although it didn't really need it as he thought about her words. "Your right." he said starting to remove his apron, "I have to talk to him." he threw the apron at his sister who caught it and looked between it and her brother. "Finish my shift for me." he added as he backed out from behind the counter and off towards the student cabins.
"I said apologise to him," Molly said as he ran off, realising he wasn't listening and she was still holding the apron she looked down at it and shouted after him again "And I didn't say I would do this!"
She waited for a few seconds for her brother to reappear when he didn't she grumpily moved behind the counter. "Leave me to do your work, typical." she said grabbing the cloth and grabbing a few empty glasses left on the counter.
Cody stuck to his brother for the rest of the day, deliberately avoiding his room-mate who on the trip back kept trying to talk to Cody.
The older twin noticed his brothers peculiar behaviour but chose not to say anything until they were alone back on board the Tipton. Once back on board most of the class made their way to the restaurant deck. A few hours later Zack and Cody made their way back to the Zack's cabin on their own. Leaving Woody to continue eating with Bailey and Alison.
Cody flopped down on the desk chair, while Zack dropped his bag on his bed before taking a seat on the end of the bed. "So you want to talk about what's bothering you?" Zack asked as his brother let out a heavy sigh.
"Kyle…" Cody replied looking up from the floor to his brother, "Kyle said something to me."
Zack sat confused watching his brother. "What did he say?"
"Nothing, it just got me thinking." the younger boy replied.
Zack nodded agreeing to drop it, "Ok, I'm just wondering why you've been like this since we got off the eye."
Cody shook his head, "Like I said it's nothing."
"Yeah cause nothing makes you all miserable for hours." Zack started moving from the bed to sitting on his desk next to his brother adding, "Please, just give me something?"
The younger twin bit his lip before replying, "You know that whoever got me behind that curtain, kissed me right?"
"Of course, everyone does." Zack said pulling his legs up onto the desk.
"Yeah well what people don't know is what the kiss was like." Cody added looking at Zack who raised his eyebrows in a questioning manner. "I can only describe it as perfect Zack, just perfect."
Zack looked around I surprise. "And your upset because it wasn't with Molly?"
Cody nodded, "Kinda, more that I don't really know who it was with."
"I'm guessing Kyle told you who he thinks it was and you believe him?" Zack asked paying proper attention to his brother.
"Sort of." Cody replied leaning back in the chair.
"Well if you have a name and its was as good as you say I think you should give it a go and see what happens." Zack said smiling at his brother.
"Really?" Cody asked taken aback by his brothers encouragement.
Zack nodded, "Yeah of course. I kind of know what its like to be in love and have that perfect kiss thing and it hurts to have it taken away. He finished bitterly.
Cody stood up and squeezed his brothers shoulder reassuringly. "I never thought I'd say this but, your right. I've gotta try."
Zack nodded and took a seat in the desk chair his brother had just vacated. "The go, go find your perfect kiss."
"You gonna be ok?" Cody asked as he gripped the door handle and watched his brother nod. "Yeah, I'll see you later." He added as his little brother left.
Kyle was making his way along the deck watching the sky as he neared his cabin. He bumped into woody who was still stuffing his face with food as they reached their cabins. Cody was just exiting his brothers cabin as they arrived and Kyle froze on the spot as he caught site of his room-mate.
Cody noticed Kyle's sudden stop and froze himself after letting Woody past into his own cabin leaving the boys alone in the corridor. Both boys stood silently in the hall, sizing each other up.
Kyle finally broke the silence saying. "I know you said not to talk to you but we're room-mates, we have to work something out."
Cody had a smile form on his face as Kyle spoke and nodded signalling towards the door of their cabin. The blonde boy opened the door and stepped inside closely followed by the younger boy who was confused by his room-mates current behaviour.
Kyle shut the door and leaned back against it, watching Cody make his way over to the closet and kicked his shoes off into the bottom of it.
After removing his shoes Cody returned to the centre of the room and both boys went back to their silent staring contest. Both tried to talk but neither knew how to start. It was a good five minutes before Kyle broke the silence again with, "I'msorryItrickedyou." he blurted out to fast for Cody to understand who looked at his room-mate with a blank expression on his face.
"I'm sorry I tricked you." Kyle repeated slower so Cody could understand before continuing. "I'm sorry I tricked you, I'm sorry I lied to you, I'm sorry I kept it a secret and I'm sorry I kissed you."
Cody fidgeted with his hands as he listened to Kyle and once he was finished the blonde boy stared straight into the other boy's eyes and took a step towards him. The younger boy braced himself against the door not sure what to expect, but definitely not expecting what did happen. When Cody replied, "I'm not sorry you kissed me."
Kyle swallowed hard, "What? Your not sorry?" he asked not sure whether to smile or not.
"No." Cody replied to his shocked friend. "I was angry when you told me because I didn't expect it. I've never thought of myself as gay or anything so I have no idea what I'm doing."
Kyle moved closer and took Cody's hand in his own and squeezed it. "I'm not sure I do either," He laughed.
Cody reached out for Kyle's other hand and smiled as he took hold feeling the sweat on them as they nervously moved closer together. "The kiss was perfect and I've been told I should at least give this a chance, so here goes." he said nervously taking one last small step forward.
Kyle was about to reply but Cody's lips connected with his own before he had the chance. They both closed their eyes and sank into the kiss. Cody was the first to open his mouth slightly allowing a small moan to escape and his tongue to slide into Kyle's. He carefully massaged the younger boys tongue with his won and slid his hands up his arms and pulled him even closer.
The ships horn suddenly went off, disturbing the boys, who broke the kiss. Kyle eyed Cody nervously as he placed his hands on the Blonde boys waist. He watched nervously as Cody raised his head and smiled. "Still perfect."
Well that's another episodee in the bag and I hope everyone enjoyed it. i will admit i had a great moment of great moments thinking alike when i saw the twister episodes of TSLOD and Cody was the tin man in the wizard of oz dream, a few days after i wrote the same thing in this, not important but it made me smile.
Episode ten is coming soon and so is something I'm majorly looking forward to. From episode 13 theres going to be a seperate seven part story continuing the story of one of the character from Back on Board who will be leaving the main story to star in the spin off.
Starting with this episode there will be references to things that will be important to that story, and also what will happen post the character leaving. Anna from the previous episode and the un-named boy in this one are just the first of some new characters that will be making frequent appearances in the coming episodes.
I think I've said to much…
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Ok finished for now, seeya in a few…