It's been almost a year since i last posted. I wish i had a proper excuse but I don't, not really. You see i have a sort of chemical imbalnce. basically i get mood swings and feel depressed alot, which completely kills my enthuasiasm to write. This episode has been ready since november. but the thought of typing it up was too much and i avoided it. instead i wrote episode 12 and started on 13. which is more than half way done. The past few weeks have been really good its the first time in a long time that i've felt good or not bad on for more than a few days in a while. basically i'm back as long as the good vibes keep coming.

I want to say thanks to those people who have stuck with this story for the past feaw years, looking mostly at Kyle and Tabitha who helped create those characters aswell. To those that have joined in the past year welcome and i hope you stick around for what i have planned. i'm hopefully getting better as a writer and i'm gonna stop now cause there's 4000 odd words to read and i'm rambling. so here it is, enjoy...

The Suite Life on Deck 2
Back On Board
Episode 11: Take A Bow

The two teenagers stood facing each other. Tabitha covered raised her hand to her mouth to stop herself stuttering.

"Tab please?" Zack asked reaching out for her hand. As his fingers touched her skin, she recoiled and stepped away. As she pulled away from him, Zack felt worse than ever. It felt like someone had thrust a knife through his heart.

Tabitha waited as Zack struggled to take another step but stumbled to the ground. He pulled himself to rest on his knee as she bent down to look him straight in the face "I don't believe you." The knife twisted, "you're not saying sorry cause you are, your saying it cause you got caught."

"But, but," Zack spluttered

"You were good at making me believe that you changed but the curtain dropped Zack." Tabitha said keeping her distance from her ex. "It was a good performance but the shows over. You can take your bow."

The teenage struggled to his feet keeping his eyes on Tabitha. "I love you," Zack whimpered as pains shot up his leg and tears filled his eyes.

"I thought you did too." She said standing up and before spinning on the spot and rushing away faster than Zack could follow leaving him gasping for words.

Cody had just woken up his arm ached from being leaning out over the side of the bed all night. He rubbed at it furiously as he stumbled to the bathroom. He grabbed the towels from the floor no doubt Kyle had woken up in the night and pulled the towels off the wall in a sleepy haze.

Once he was finished in the shower and dried off, he got dressed and was about to exit the room when Kyle burst through the door shocking Cody and sending the blonde teen falling backwards into the shower. "Kyle West, what the hell do you think you're doing? Cody hissed as his boyfriend sat giggling like a child while he sat on the sink.

"Trying to give my boyfriend a heart attack, obviously." He quipped jumping from the sink and leaning over Cody giving him a quick kiss on tip of his nose as the blonde struggled to get up.

"Thanks, now are you gonna help me up?" Cody grimaced as he pushed his still chortling boyfriend away. Kyle shook his head with a smile and an evil glint in his eyes. "Then what are you gonna do?"

Kyle's eye darted upwards and started to reach for the Fawcett. Cody scrambled to try and grab his arms to stop him. "No I just got dressed, this isn't funny he screeched as the water started to rain down on him.

The Juice Bar was incredibly busy when Zack arrived for his shift. He limped behind the counter and immediately starting serving, it was so busy he barely had a chance to catch his breath for the first thirty minutes.

The bar was still busy when an exhausted looking Molly appeared from the direction of the student cabins. She demanded that the blonde teen take a break, his pleas about the bar being busy fell on deaf ears and a few minutes later he was circling the deck with her.

"So I hear you're still hung up on Tab?" she started with a half statement, half question.

Zack was taken back and asked "How?"

Molly almost let out a laugh as she replied, "Well for start I've spent more than thirty seconds with you since you two broke up and two Tab came to see me this morning."

"Oh." He let out nervously as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Look I understand why you want to be with her, but you hurt her." Molly said as she stopped to look out over the railings, "and she doesn't know if she can forgive you."

Zack stopped next to her and grabbed one of the seats nearby, he rested his chin on the head of cane. "I know I hurt her and I can't tell you how much I regret it. More than anything I've ever done but she doesn't believe me. She doesn't believe that I love her more than anything."

"And what reason have you given her to believe you? Cause no offence but you're not well known for your honesty."

Zack banged the cane on the floor in frustration. "Argh, I know but I was always honest with her."

Molly just nodded as she patted his shoulder thoughtfully.

"How can I prove it, that I love her if she won't believe anything I say?" Zack asked staring up at Molly.

She felt sorry as she looked down at the blonde. He looked so pathetic as he begged for help. "Don't say anything, actually do something. Prove that you love her." She replied with a small smile. "Now c'mon you should be getting back to work."

While Zack returned to the juice bar, Molly decided to visit her brother. Thinking perhaps breakfast and a chat might improve their relationship which seemed to have been falling apart slowly since they had come aboard. With their birthday only a few days away it seemed like the perfect time to get everything out in the open.

The short walk to Kyle's cabin was uneventful apart from Woody rushing past with a huge grin on his face. The buffet must be free this morning, she thought to herself as her eyes followed the larger boy up the corridor and around the corner.

Most of the students were either still sleeping or eating breakfast upstairs when molly knocked on the door to cabin D24. It was unlikely either of the boys were still sleeping. Both of them were early risers but she hadn't seen either of them walking around in the usual early morning hangouts. There was no reply and she reached for the doorknob and pushed the door open.

The room was empty but the shower and giggling could be heard from the bathroom. A few seconds later and an annoyed Cody burst out of the small room. His hair and clothes were soaking wet and he was in the middle of pulling of his jeans when he noticed Molly standing in front of him with a cocky half smirk.

"Oh don't stop, it's not like I haven't seen it before." She said confidently with a raised eyebrow.

Cody scowled as he pulled jeans back up. "Not wanting to be rude," he said obviously trying to be. "But what are you doing in my cabin?"

Molly was taken aback by his attitude. "Sorry," she said realising that Cody was perhaps still upset about their breakup. "I just came to see if Kyle would like to have breakfast."

"Oh, well he's in the shower if you want to wait." Cody said his voice softening, "Grab a seat." He added indicating towards the desk.

They had a friendly chat that surprised Cody as he still wasn't sure how to act around his boyfriends' sister who was also his ex.

He politely asked her to turn away while he changed. The clothes were still wet and difficult to remove. He playfully threw his t-shirt at the back of Molly's head.

"Hey!" She exclaimed peeling the wet material from her head. "Cody what was the point, honestly?"

Cody just laughed as he dodged the flying t-shirt coming at him and pulled a dry one out of the dresser. "No point, I just thought it would be funny and it was." He said with a smile.

Molly scowled at her ex as the voice of her brother sneaked into the room from bathroom. "It's nine o'clock on a Saturday." The girl shook her head.

"Did he sing Piano Man in the shower at home as well? Cody asked dropping down on his bed.

"Yeah." She replied, "All the time."

"IT'S A MSTERPIECE!" They both said in unison before bursting into giggles. Both had heard Kyle repeat the phrase many times.

"It is his favourite song and at least he sings it well." She added as the shower could be heard getting turned off.

As Cody stood up to make the beds Molly noticed that the beds had been moved and the pictures on the walls were all of mostly of Cody and Kyle and they seemed to be very intimate in them as well. She looked at the blonde suspiciously as he moved to the other bed and started to fluff the pillows.

At that moment the bathroom door opened and a naked Kyle walked out drying his hair. "Hey babe do you have time for breakfast," he stopped mid sentence as he caught site of his sister sitting by the door. He panicked to place the towel in front of his crotch. "What the hell are you doing here?" He asked angrily tucking in the towel at his waist.

"It doesn't matter why I'm here, you just called him babe." Molly replied angrily pointing at Cody.

The blonde looked like he was going to cry as the two siblings switched their gaze from each other to him and then back.

"I knew you liked him, I know you kissed him and I know I told you to talk to him about but this?" She shouted pointing at the two boys, the beds and then the pictures.

Cody finally spoke up as he shakily replied "I have no idea what you're,"

"You're dating him. You're dating the person, the 'guy' who broke us up." Molly scolded adding, "OH MY GOD CODY YOUR DATING MY BROTHER."

Kyle grunted as Cody rushed past him and collided with his shoulder on his way to the bathroom. He stared at the door before rounding on his sister. "You bitch! Tell me was it your plan to upset people or was it a just a general argument. You wanted?"

"I came to see if we took talk sort stuff out maybe with breakfast." Molly replied taking a step back, "Obviously we have more to talk about than I thought." She let out a heavy sigh.

The young boy mirrored the sigh and slumped down on the nearest surface, his head in his hands.

"K could you please cross your legs." Molly said looking away.

Kyle looked up confused. "Oh right," He said as his cheeks started to turn red. "Look, "He started letting out another sigh. "Meet me in the canteen. I'll be there soon."

"Ok, I'll see you soon." She replied before leaving the room and gently closing the door.

Kyle stayed sitting on the desk as he tried to sort out what he was thinking. He rubbed his eyes and roughly pulled his hands through his. The teen stood up and approached the bathroom knocked softly. "Ba," he started but stopped himself thinking to himself 'that's what got us into this mess.' And instead continues with just, "Cody? It's me, are you ok?"

"Is Molly still here? A muffled replied came back.

Kyle half smiled as he looked around the room and answered, "No, she's gone."

"I didn't think she would be so angry." The blonde stated as he opened the door and fell into his boyfriend's arms. "I guess everyone will know now." He said as he rested his head against the others forehead and felt Kyle's hands cup his face.

"I don't think so, c'mon we both know Molly isn't like that." Kyle said in defence of his sister. "She wants to meet me for breakfast, so I was thinking since you start work in like twenty minutes I will go talk to her and you could meet us after your shift?"

Cody smiled as his boyfriend released him and the blonde replied with an, "Ok." He leaned in for a kiss. "I better get going, I'll see you after work then." He then left exchanging a smile with Kyle as he started to change.

Zack limped down the corridor, he gave a passing warning to Cody about how busy it was and that Moseby had sent him back early because he was too distracted he carefully avoided his younger twins questions about why he was distracted and returned to his cabin and slammed the door behind him.

HE fell back against the wall and slid down with a sigh. He noticed Woody wasn't there and a scrunched up ball of paper with some writing on it was nearby and he reached for it and flattened it out to read the note.

The writing wasn't his or Woody's in fact it was much tidier than either. It was small and tight with little love hearts dotted across the page.

Woody

I really enjoyed our date last night. I'd love to do it again soon. I 'borrowed' the master key to the luxury swimming pool so no one will be able to get in and it will just be us if you want to join me!

Love Addie xx

"Good luck Woodster." Zack chuckled to himself as he pulled himself up and moved to the more comfortable bed.

He lay down and let out another exhausted sigh and turned to look at the picture of himself and Tabitha in green land that was sitting on the table. "What am I gonna do?" He asked the picture hoping the happy little Zack and Tabitha would actually give him some advice. He reached out and stroked it longingly before shaking his head violently and pulling away to stare at the roof in frustration.

"The students must have been out enjoying the early morning soon since the cabins seemed to be deathly quiet. The time seemed to drag as he lay in bed. No idea he had seemed good enough, nothing jumped out at him. When suddenly a light came on above his head and he moved to his laptop as quickly as his leg would allow. At the start of the year Cody had hacked the ship manifest and Zack was now searching it for empty cabins that would could be used and not attract attention.

The canteen was empty apart from a few students who had enjoyed a lie in and Molly who sat at the back in the corner with two trays of food in front of her.

As Kyle entered he scanned the room for Molly. The girl was waving at him to join her. He took the seat opposite and pulled the full tray of food in front of him and immediately started buttering the toast.

"So?" Molly said watching her brother as he busied himself with the food apparently oblivious to her.

"I can't explain it M," he replied finally before taking a bite of his toast.

Molly gave her brother an incredulous look. "Really you can't explain how you ended up shagging my ex?" She asked with a bite and just a little too loudly, leaving Kyle shushing her almost as loudly.

"Molly for god's sake keep it down." He said through clenched teeth, "He's not even told Zack yet." Kyle added in a quieter tone. "And we are not shagging, Christ we haven't even had a proper date."

"The girl sunk in her chair. "I'm sorry but you have to see my point here."

"I do, but it kind of just happened."

"Really that's what you're gonna use?" She started, sitting up and shaking her head. "Look I know your gay, I know you kissed Cody and I was the one who told you to talk to him. I just didn't expect you start dating him." Molly added falling back in her chair.

Kyle chuckled, earning him haughty look from his sister. "Sorry Molly but you didn't expect it, Molly I pinch myself every morning to make sure this isn't a dream."

Molly watched her brother stab at the bacon on his plate as she asked, "How?"

"How did I get Cody to go out with me?" Kyle asked in reply earning him a smirk and a nod. "He kind of came onto me."

"Really?" She asked a hint of disbelief in her voice.

A smile a sneaked across Kyle's face as he answered. "I know it's hard to believe, but yeah he did. He talked to Zack about his whole perfect kiss thing and Zack told him to go for it. He left out who it was with obviously."

"Yeah of course, obviously." There was an obvious bite of sarcasm in her reply.

"Yeah, so Zack told him if he knew who it was to go and be with them, which led to Cody kissing me." he couldn't hide his grin, as he remembered that night. "You know how I felt, wasn't going to say no."

The older girl pushed her tray away and rested her head in her hands. Kyle stared at the top of his sister's head for a few second before reaching out and tapping her gently, "M, what you thinking?" He asked as she raised her head.

She shook her head and held her breath trying to think of what to say, "I don't know, this is weird K."

"I know but look, I've never been happier. Honestly I can't even describe how I feel." Kyle replied swallowing hard as he tried to suppress his smile. "Please, let me be happy."

He didn't need to say how he felt it, she could see it. His eyes lit up whenever Cody's name came up. She hadn't seen him this happy ever. When they were younger he was usually the more reserved one not to obvious with his emotions. This boat, she thought to herself. It changes you. There was a hope in his eyes that she had never seen before and it was this that made her nod and say, "Yeah, ok."

"Kyle erupted from his seat and rushed around the table to pull Molly into a bear hug. "Thankyouthankyouthankyou."

"Kyle I can't breathe." Molly squeaked

He immediately dropped her on her feet with an apology and a softer more appropriate hug.

A while later and the West twins stopped by the Sky deck where Cody was rushing around collecting towels. He smiled nervously as they approached and pretended to busy himself with folding being as nonchalant as he could about the situation.

"The two twins' stopped on the other side of the podium and waited for Cody to finish his folding. "Everything is fine."Kyle stated calmly as his boyfriend finally looked up at their faces and he could sense what the blonde was going to ask.

Cody smiled and let out a huge sigh of relief, he was about to ask what was said had been said between the twins when his own twin appeared and dragged Molly off as he explained something in a hushed tone.

"What's that about?" Kyle asked confused as they watched the two retreating to the cabin.

Cody shrugged, "No idea but if Zack's involved something we don't want to know about. So anyway what are we doing for food tonight?"

"Kyle turned back slapping his head, "Crap I knew I needed to tell you something. I'm doing Nathan's shift in the parrots' bar tonight, so you'll be on your own."

"Oh, "Cody replied. "That's ok." He added sadly.

"I'm sorry, he asked me the other day and I forgot to tell you," He explained.

Cody shook his head, "K its fine, it's not like we have to share every meal together, there's plenty more"

"Aw you're the best babe." The younger boy replied before jumping up to lean over the podium and gave his boyfriend a quick peck on the lips.

"The blonde teen's eyes flew wide open and he jerked back in panic, he looked around for any passengers that had seen the kiss. He was breathing heavily as he scanned the faces of anyone close by for a sign they had saw anything. Kyle was slightly panicked himself and was uttering apologies as Cody angrily turned to him. "What the hell was that?" he hissed at the boy in front of him.

"I, I, I just, I don't know it just felt like the right thing to do." He answered with a smirk.

Cody tried to be angry but seeing Kyle with his cocky half grin, his bangs falling perfectly in front of his eyes which were staring straight into his own. The blue in them seemed to pull him in, all he could do was say, "Just be more careful next time." He replied with his own smirk.

They exchanged another playful grin before Kyle excused himself. "I'll see you when you finish."

The next two days Zack seemed to be on edge. In class he didn't even pretend to pay attention. Tuttweiler spent more time telling him to pay attention than she did on actually teaching the lesson.

"While everyone else was off working or hanging out in the student areas he was holed up in his room planning something. Molly could occasionally be seen entering and staying for long period's obviously an accomplice in what Zack was up to.

A blindfolded Tabitha was being led down a darkened corridor. She recognised the smell in the air it was a weaker version of the smell from the hold telling her she was on the lower decks where the empty cabins were.

An hour earlier Molly, Alison and Bailey had arrived at her cabin telling younger girl to dress up and not to ask question. She had thought they were they for their planned girly night in with Movies, Popcorn and the cake Alison had borrowed from the kitchens.

The entered a cabin and Tabitha grabbed the blindfold and pulled it off. "SUPRISE!" The shouts overwhelmed her as she looked around the room in shock at her classmates and friends. A painted banner that was still dripping with wet paint read, "HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY"

She swallowed hard and tried to back up but was blocked by the girls who gave her a gentle push into the crowd where it seemed that everyone wanted to hug her or wish her happy birthday.

It was closing in on 1 o'clock when Zack arrived back. He had arranged with some of the others to stand on guard for Moseby and to warn them if he was getting close. They had arranged to do it one hour shifts and he had agreed to the twelve till one shift but after the hour Zack was looking forward to finally getting a seat, even if it was an uncomfortable plastic one he had swiped from hold.

Most of the kids had left leaving only close friends and few stray couples still dancing to the slow songs. He smiled across the room at his brother and Kyle the apparently dateless duo off in the corner looking down. I should probably give them more time to get dates next time. He thought to himself as Tabitha suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Zack held his breath as they both carefully scanned the other. Molly says you did this?" she asked breaking the silence.

"Zack had trouble swallowing as he answered, "Y, y, yeah. Well it's your 16th birthday, I know it isn't a sweet 16th or anything but," Zack was cut off by Tabitha's lips colliding with his own. He instinctively deepened it and reached to pull her closer.

His eyes were still wide open as they split apart, ""Thank you Zack." Tabitha said with an innocent smile.

"No problem." He replied between gulps, still in a state of bewilderment. She returned a sweet smile and went to leave when Zack said, "Wait Tab?"

The young girl turned around and asked. "Yes?"

"I did this for you, to prove that I love you and I will do anything for you to forgive me." Zack pleaded, "For you to give me second chance."

Tabitha frowned, "Zack, I'm grateful but it takes more than a last minute birthday party." She started to turn away but stopped and over her shoulder she said, "But it's a start."

By two the last of the party goers had left. Nia had arrived to warn them that Moseby had caught they're lookout and was on patrol. Cody, Kyle and Molly were the last ones staying behind to tidy up some of the mess. Molly had already passed out across some of the seats.

"Well I guess it's time for bed." Kyle said dropping the last of the red plastic cups into an overflowing trash bag.

"Yeah I suppose." I suppose Cody replied from his east on the floor next to the door.

"The brown haired boy frowned at his boyfriend, "You tired Codes?"

"Yeah a bit, I just forgot there would be people dancing."Cody said sadly looking up Kyle. "I realised we can never really do that without getting weird looks from people."

Kyle kneeled down in front of his boyfriend and smiled. "We can dance, anytime and anywhere you want babe." He reached out for Cody's hand and pulled the blonde to his feet."C'mon."

He pulled Cody to the centre of the room and left him to fiddle with his iPod and the docking station on the table.

Cody let out a laugh as the song starts, you like the Beatles too much. Kyle returned with a goofy smile and pulled his boyfriend closer and started to sing. "Oh yeah, I'll tell you something, I think you'll understand, When I say that something.

As his boyfriend sang he dropped his hands down to take hold of his boyfriend's and sang back, "I want to hold your hand."

Next time on the Suite Life on Deck Two Back on Board

It's christmas on board the SS Tipton and the gang are all rushing around trying to find the right presents. Cody struggles with how to come out to his parents as they visit over the holidays, how will Carey and Kurt deal with their son and his boyfriend when they assemble the whole gang for christmas dinner and have some news of their own for the boys. Tabitha see's her perfect present but can Zack afford it? Don't miss this, what presents they all exhanged and of course the mystery couple visiting next month when we invite you back on baord

Sorry for the awful pun but well was it worth the wait. i hope so and look no cliff hangers this time. Coming up is our christmas episode and its where everything begins to change. People's lives are never gonna be the same again. It's fully written just needing typed up so expect that one to be with you in about a month, i'm trying to stay ahead of the game so i can at least keep posting stuf even if i get a writers block or depressed so please don't ask me to post it early. please leave a review, seriously it's lovely hearing what people enjoy about your creation. thanks for reading and i just got a txt message ar twenty past two in the morning so excuse me while i search for my phone.

Jay xx