Chapter 8

I'm back!!!! Surprised to have this chapter up so soon? Me too! To my surprise my mother brought her laptop on vacation but we didn't have internet, so I was able to write. When I was bored I would get the laptop out. Plus I am soo excited for the next few chapters. So in this chapter the parents arrive! Let's see how that goes :P

Zack's point of view

Today was the day that our parents were coming aboard the S.S Tipton. We wouldn't be meeting them until after we were done with school for the day. On the bright side Miss Tutweiller let us only have morning classes since our parents were here. So class ended at 11:30.

"Alright class, well its 11:30 so you are free to go and meet your families." Miss Tutweiller smiled.

We all walked out onto the lower deck to see a bunch of parents standing around. We all went our separate ways to go find our parents and said we would meet up after lunch.

"Hey mom." I said once I reached her.

"Oh Zack!" She smiled hugging me.

"Mom." Cody said reaching us.

"Cody!" She hugged him as well.

"So did you get settled in your room yet?" Cody asked her.

"Yes, I've been here for about an hour, so I'm good." She smiled.

I looked around and saw Lily standing there and thought it would be a good time for mom to meet her.

"Hey mom, come here I want you to meet someone." I smiled leading the way over to Lily.

"Hey Lil, someone wants to meet you." I laughed as mom finally got over to us.

"Mom this is Lily, Lily this is my mom." I said.

"Oh it's so nice to finally meet you in person Carey." Lily smiled.

I looked over at mom, she had the biggest smile on her face, she reminded me of the cat from Alice in Wonderland.

"Oh Lily!" Mom said giving her a hug. "You just as beautiful as Zack describe you."

Lily looked over at me and smiled. "Oh really?" I blushed slightly looking away.

"So where's your mom?" I asked once mom let go of her.

"Not sure, I haven't seen her yet." Lily said.

Then as if right on cue. "Lillian!" I looked across the room to see a woman coming toward us. She was wearing a high waisted pencil skirt and a fancy red ruffled blouse and high black heels. I knew that second it was Lily's mother because they looked a lot alike. She has the same dark hair as Lily but it was shorter and cut off around her shoulders. She had brown eyes so Lily didn't get that from her but they had the same skin tone and the same shaped face. You could tell they were mother and daughter.

"Hi mom." Lily said hugging her.

"Oh Lillian look how beautiful you've gotten!" She cooed.

"Thanks mom." She said to her. "You look great too."

"Thank you Darling, the Botox does wonders." She smiled.

"Did you go to your room yet mom?" She asked

"No not yet"

"Ok well then let go now." Her mother turned to walk away and Lily turned back to me and mom."Um I'll see you guys later by the smoothie bar right?"

"Yeah after lunch, we'll meet you there with everyone." I said leaning down to kiss her check.

"Alright bye guys." She said walking away.

"Well let's go find your bother huh?" Mom asked.

"Sure" I replied.

I ate lunch with Cody and Mom. Once we were finished eating we headed down to the smoothie bar. Everyone was meeting us there, Woody, Bailey, Travis, Lily and their families.

We were the first to get there so we just sat on some lounging poolside chairs. Then Travis and his family got there. His dad's name was Jared and his mom's name was Tammy. He was like a perfect mix of them. Then his brother Daniel. He looked like Travis only shorter; he had shorter hair and his eyes where green unlike Travis who had brown eyes.

"Hey this is my brother Daniel, Daniel this is my roommate Zack and his twin brother Cody." Travis told him.

"Cool, sup dude." He said to Cody and me.

"Not much." Cody said.

"So how do you like the ship so far?" I asked.

"It's really cool and the girls are hot! I might have to try my luck with them while I'm here." He said and we all laughed with him.

"So anyone interest you?" Cody asked as Daniel started to look around.

"Umm…Oh her." He said looking behind us.

Travis and Cody looked back and started to laugh. I turned around to see Lily walking down the stairs with her mother behind her.

"Oh bro I wouldn't go after her if I were you." Travis said still laughing.

"Why not? She is fine!" He said not getting it. I couldn't blame him though, Lily was beautiful.

"Yeah, she is." I said staring at her.

"Because that's Zack's girlfriend." Cody said when he finally stopped laughing.

"Wow!" Daniel said with nothing but shock and panic on his face. "Dude I'm sorry."

"It's ok man, you couldn't have known." I said laughing at the expression on his face.

I looked over to see everyone was finally here. We walked over to the rest of the group. They were in the middle of introductions. I got to meet Bailey's mom Deborah, who seems very nice. Cody was a little worried because Bailey was going to introduce him later. Woody's mom Lisa and his dad Andrew. Woody was a splitting image of his dad minus the braces of course. Then I met Lily's mom.

"Hello, I'm Jessica Mitchel." She told everyone. Lily went around all of us introducing everyone, I was last.

"Mom, this is my boyfriend Zack." She smiled.

"Hello Zack." She said with a small smile as she looked at me, almost as if she was judging me.

"Hello Miss Mitchel." I said shaking her hand.

"Oh please call me Jessica." She quickly answered then walked away. Lily looked over and gave me an apologetic smile.

After awhile the parents all got together and talked while the rest of us were next to them talking as well.

"She doesn't seem that bad." Bailey said, talking about Lily's mom.

"Oh you haven't seen anything yet, just wait you will see how opposite mother and I can be." She said resting her head on my shoulder.

"Hey that rhymed." Woody laughed.

"Why does your mom call you Lillian and not Lily?" Travis asked.

"I don't know, my mom the rest of her side of the family don't like it when people aren't called by their real name." She said quietly. "My dad, everyone else in his family and other friends have always called me Lily, it's just them."

We got off the topic of Lily's mother. Just when Lily started to get her mind off her mother, she came into the conversation again.

"Oh Lillian!" Her mom said walking over to us.

"What is it mom?" She asked turning towards her.

"Posture darling." She said pulling her shoulders back and lifting her head with her hand. "Remember just like in the days of the beauty pageants."

Cody, Bailey, Travis, Woody and I all stared at each other. I knew Lily was beautiful but I never in a million years think she would ever be the pageant type.

"You were in beauty pageants Lily?" Bailey asked still a little shocked.

"Yes, when I was younger." Lily said with a fake smile, I could tell she didn't want this to be brought up.

"Oh yes and she was wonderful, back in the good old pageant days." Her mother smiled, you could tell she loved it more than Lily did right now. Then she pulled a glittering tiara out of her bag." My little princess!" She said putting the tiara on Lily's head.

"Oh my old tiara you found were I hid...I mean the dog hid it." Lily said still faking a smile as she took the tiara out of her hair as fast as possible. "Um excuse me a moment," She said before darting out of the room. I ran out after her.

"Lily, hold a sec." I called out grabbing her arm. She had tears streaming down her face.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"Are you joking Zack? That was humiliating!" She cried. "I knew I would never live the pageant life down! I just knew it!"

"Hey, it's ok come on lets go sit out here." I led her out onto the deck and I sat on a lounging poolside chair and she sat next to me."Alright tell me more about this."

"Mom started me in pageants when I was 4 and at that age I never minded being in them, I enjoyed it for the most part. Then when I was 6 or 7 I didn't want to do them but she made stay in them no matter how much I didn't want to. Finally went I was 8 right before the divorce dad finally put his foot down and said no more pageants." She said. "I think he loved the years when I was in the pageants because then I was her dream daughter."

I had no idea what to say at this moment. After she said that I understood what Lily meant about her mother now.

"On the bright side, she's only here for two days then your dad comes." I told her trying to make her feel better.

"Yeah." She said smiling.

"You excited?"

"Very." She laughed. Then I noticed she still had the tiara in her hands.

"You know," I said taking her hand so we were looking at the tiara."Even if you didn't enjoy it I'm not surprised you were good at it."

"Well thank you but you weren't supposed to know about this." She laughed holding up the tiara.

"Why?"

"Because when most people think beauty pageant girls they think stuck up, spoiled brats, who can't get enough of themselves." She said. "I didn't want anyone thinking I was that way."

"Lil you are the farthest thing from any of the things you just said." I said taking the tiara from her and placing it on her head." I think its symbol of your kindness, beauty and everything else you are, every quality of a princess.

"Now that makes it sound better. " She smiled leaning into my side. "Thank you."

"Anytime." I said wrapping my arms around her and pulling her back so we were lying down on the lounge chair. "You know Cody and I were in a beauty pageant."

"Were you now?" She laughed. "Oh I'm going to like this story, tell me more."

"Well we did it to win money for bikes; Cody was dressed as a girl pretending to be a girl named Tirisha Jones. So he got pretty far in the contest and almost won but then he wanted to stop because he wanted a girl he had a crush on to win. Then since he was going to drop out I got dressed like him, locked him in the closet and tried to win the money."

"Oh god, so did you win?" She asked laughing.

"No Cody somehow busted out of the closet and pulled the wig off before I could."

"From all the stories you've told me I wonder how your mother is still sane."

"Trust me I don't know how she does it."

"Well we should probably get back there with everyone." Lily said beginning to stand up but I stopped her.

"I think they can wait a couple more minutes." I said then I leaned down and kissed her.

No one's point of view

Zack and Lily sat there kissing for a good while. Little did they know they were being watched. Jessica Mitchel stood in the archways that lead out onto the opened deck, watching her daughter and her boyfriend.

"Oh this just won't do." Jessica said to herself.

As she walked back to the smoothie bar she passed Carey. Carey hadn't heard anything Jessica said but knew she was looking at someone. She walked over to where Jessica had been standing and saw Zack and Lily.

Carey signed in content. She was very happy that Zack had found a girl like Lily, she was exactly the kind of person Zack needed. She really hoped it would last, she knew how happy Lily made him.

They broke apart from their kiss and Carey turned and quickly walked back down stairs so they wouldn't see her.

:O Miss Jessica is up to something! Or is she? So what do you think of the parents?? Haha Ok so this chapter was mostly about Lily and Zack but not to worry there will be more of the rest of the gang in the next chapter. And Bailey introduces Cody to her mom! :) The next chapter….well it's already done :P so it will be up within the next few days. Please review!