Chapter 16

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Lily's point of view

So today was the day before Christmas and tonight was Christmas Eve. We've been at the hotel for a day and a half now and everyone is still a little down, which is understandable. I had to do something though I mean I don't want everyone sad on Christmas. So I have a plan, but I needed to get to Mr Moseby so he could help me.

I looked over at the clock and saw that it was 10am which means Zack would probably be here soon. I quietly opened and closed my door. Then I ran down the hallway to Mr Moseby's room and knocked on the door.

"Hello Lily." Mr Moseby said once he opened to door. I had to laugh slightly at the fact that he was dressed in a full suit and tie, as if he was going to work. "What brings you here?"

"Good morning Mr Moseby. I was wondering if you could help me with something?" I asked. He raised an eyebrow and gave me a questioning look.

"Well sure, what do you need?"

"I'm going to try and make this an amazing Christmas Eve for everyone." I started and he smiled. "But I need you to keep everyone out of the lounge and warn me when someone is coming to my room."

"Alright, that sounds wonderful." He said. "But why must I warn you if someone is coming to see you?"

"Because I'm telling everyone I'm sick and need to stay in my room but really I'm going to set everything up." I explained then handed him a walkie talkie. "Here, this is how you can get in touch with me."

"Wonderful, but where did you get these?"

"I got them from Zack's room." I said simply

"But why did Zac-" He started.

"Mr Moseby its Zack." I said shrugging my shoulders and laughing. "Thanks Mr Moseby."

"Your very welcome." He said as I turned and walked back to my room.

When I got back I had to get into the act that I was sick. I went to the bathroom and put some makeup on to make me look more pale, then I curled up in my bed with a hot water bottle AN(one of those things you use on your back if its aching) so I would feel warm. Soon enough I heard a quick knock then my door opened.

"Hey babe you ready for a great Christmas Eve?" He yelled from the other room. He opened the doors to the bedroom and walked up to me.

"Something wrong Lils?" He asked.

"Oh I'mjust not feeling the best this morning." I said with my best fake cough.

"You do look a little pale." He said worried then put his hand on my forehead and neck. "And your kinda warm."

"I'll be fine." I said coughing again and trying to sit up.

"No, no, no Lily." He said gently pushing me back down. "I think you should stay here and rest."

"I would hate to miss Christmaseve with you and everyone else." I said in mock sadness.

"Don't worry, I'll come check on you during the day and if you feel better you can come downstairs with us. Okay?"

"Alright." I said laying back down. "I'll see you later Zack."

"Bye Lils." He said brushing my banges out of my face and kissing my forehead. "Get some rest."

With that he walked out of my bedroom and soon I heard the front door close too.

"Alright its time to get to work." I said out loud to myself.

_____A few hours later___

Zack's point of view

All of us students were down in the lobby, playing games, reading, talking, stuff like that. We were aloud almost anywhere because the hotel was pretty dead thanks to the hurricane. I looked around and everyone seemed to be getting kinda bored and so was I.

"It's too bad Lily isn'tfeeling well." Bailey said. She was playing cards with Cody, Travis and Woody. "She would liven up the day."

"Yeah she would." I laughed lightly. "I think I'm going to go check on her."

As I reached the elevator I say Mr Moseby run up to me.

"Zack were are you going?" He asked.

"Ugh I'm just going to check on Lily." I said confused. Why would he want to know this?

"Oh alright then carry on." He said

"Okay." I said and I got into the elevator

When I got to our floor I stepped out of the elevator. I had to go a double take because I could have swore I saw Lily's door just close. I walked over to her door slowly, wondering if the door actually closed or it was just my imagination. I opened the door and walked over to her bedroom, I opened the door slowly and carefully walked in.

I walked over and saw that she was asleep. She was curled onto her side and all the blankets around her. She looked to have more color on her face but when I touched her cheek she still felt warm. I decided to let her sleep and went back down to the others.

Lily's point of view (before Zack comes to check on her)

"Let me just double check....yeah that should be it." I said handing the list to chef Antonio. "Thank you very much for all this."

"Its no trouble at all." He smiled. "The food will be all ready for you."

"Perfect." I said walking back to the lounge.

I heard a faint beeping noise and picked up the walkie talkie

"Yes Mr Moseby?"

"Lily, Zack is on his way up to your room right now!." He said in a panic.

"Oh um okay." I said as I started to run down the hall. "Thanks."

I went up the starts since I knew he took the elevator and ran to the next floor. I got to the end of the hall when I heard the 'ding' of the elevator, I ran to my door hoping Zack wouldn'tsee me. I was out of breath and could feel my cheeks warm and red from running. I didn't have time to put on the makeup so I ran into my bedroom and jumped under the sheets. I closed my eyes as I heard the front door open then my bedroom door.

My eyes were closed so I didn't know what he was doing, all I heard was footsteps, then I felt his hand touch my cheek, more footsteps, 1st door close then the front door.

I waited a minute before getting out of bed.

"Oh that was way to close." I said walking out of the bedroom

____Hours Later___

Zack's point of view

"What time is it?" Woody asked.

I looked over were he was sitting a second ago and saw the spot was missing. I craned my neck and saw he was lying on the ground.

"About 7 o'clock." Bailey answered.

"When are we going to eat?" Travis asked.

"I dunno Mr Moseby said he would come and get us when it was time to eat." Cody said.

"That was like 2 hours ago though." I said annoyed and hungry.

"I can feel my brain melting from boredom." London said. We all turned to make a comment but she stopped us. "Don't even"

"Zack, maybe you should go check on Lily before we eat." Bailey said.

"Good idea Bailey." I said getting up from the couch.

"No need." Lily said walking into the lobby

"Hey Lils." I said. "Feeling better?"

"Well I have a confession to make." She said biting her lip but still smiling.

"Go ahead." Bailey said just as confused as the rest of us.

"I wasn'treally sick." She said with a sly grin then turning away from us.

"You weren't?!" Cody said as shocked and confused.

"Then what were you doing all day?" Woody asked.

"Come with me." She smiled walking over to the opened none of us moved right away she signed. "Come on guys everyone else is waiting."

"Who's everyone else?" London asked as we walking into the elevator.

"Mr Moseby, Miss Tutweiller and the rest of the students." She replied simply.

"Whats going on Lily?" I asked her.

"Well you see, since were stuck here this Christmas I decided I would make it the best possible."

We all stood there looking at each other wondering what Lily had done.

"Oh don't give me those looks you'll see." She laughed.

The elevator stopped and we walked out to see Mr Mosby and everyone standing by the door of the lounge. We joined the group who like the rest of us had no idea what was going on.

"Alright guys." Lily said walking up to the door of the lounge and opening it. When none of us moved she started laughing. "Go on, don't be scared."

We all shuffled into the lounge. Everyone was looking around with there mouths hanging opened in shock or a smile.

The lounge was decorated with garnish, holly, lights and anything else you could think of that had to do with Christmas. In the corner of the room, hear the fire place was a huge tree. The tree had to be at least 7 or 8 feet tall and it had multicolored lights on it, it also had a bunch of boxesaround it. Further off there was a huge table all set with plates, forks..etc. There was couches and chairs all around the room, a tv was set up on the wall around most of the chair/couches. I also noticed there was another flat screen tv set up on the opposite wall, only it had a frame around it to look like a window. I looked closer at the tv screen to see that there was a video playing of a snowfall, very clever it looked like we were looking out the window to see the snow falling. I looked up to see paper snow flakes hanging from the ceiling and some on the walls, they were all shinning with a touch of glitter.

By this time everyone had took in the view of the room and started commenting on it.

"Lily you did all of this?" Miss Tutweiler said.

"No, no." Lily said hold her hands up. "I had help from the hotel staff and Mr Moseby."

"What are those boxes for?"

"Oh!" Lily said excitedly and rushed over to the box's. "The box's are full of ornaments, there for all of us to decorate this huge tree."

"That's awesome, I miss decorating a tree back home." Bailey said.

"But first, are you guys hungry?" Lily asked.

"Starving!" Most of us answered, Woody was louder than everyone.

"That's good!" Lily laughed. "Sit down everyone."

We all sat down at the huge decorated table. Then we all watched as Lily walked over to the oppositeside of the lounge and opened the door. One by one about five waiters walked in with carts full of food. The stopped next to the tables and put 2 turkeys, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, rolls and a whole bunch of sweets all on the table.

"Thanks guys." Lily said to the waiters as they walk out with there carts. "Tell chef Antonio thanks again."

Dinner was amazing. Everyone had a great time. After we were done we all decided just to relax, some watched tv, talked, etc. We were all sitting on the couches by the fire place.

"Oh that dinner was amazing!" Woody said sitting down on one of the chairs.

"Yeah, much better than the Christmas dinner mom makes." Cody and I laughed.

"I've never eaten so much at Christmas before." Travis said.

"Come on guys, were gonna decorate the tree." Tiffany said walking by us.

"Oh yay!" London said clapping her hands. "I love decorating!"

"Come on Woodchuck lets go." I said.

We started decorating the tree and it was looking pretty good so far. The box's were full of really nice ornaments.

"Look a cookie ornament!" Woody said getting all excited.

"Woody what did we say last time?" Bailey said as she put a Santa ornament on the tree

"Ornaments are for the tree not for me to eat." Woody said hanging his head.

"Good boy." Travis laughed throwing a peanut into Woody's mouth.

I turned around try and find Lily. She was talking with Miss Tutweiller by the table. I walk up to them and placed my hands on Lilys shoulder and kissed her temple.

"Hi there." Lily laughed.

"Hello." I said then look over at Miss Tutweiller who was smiling at us. "Hey Miss T"

"Hello Zack." She said. "Well I'm going to go see the tree."

"So having a good time?" Lily asked turning to face me.

"Yeah." I said leading her over to the couch. "You did a great job with all of this, it really feels like Christmas."

"Good." She said as we sat down and I pulled her closer to her legs were draped over mine. "That's what I was aiming for."

"Lily!" London called from the tree. "I don't know how to put this ornament on!"

Lily just laughed and walked over to her. "London that's the angel that goes on the top of the tree, not the side."

Cody's point of view

After decorating the Christmas tree all of us watched a few Christmas movies and drank hot chocolate, even Mr Moseby and Miss Tutweiller joined us. Then when it started to get late we made a plan to meet back at the lounge to exchange gifts tomorrow morning. We were going to hang out there all morning in our pyjamas and Lily arranged brunch there for everyone later on. Now Bailey and I were walking around the hotel before we went to sleep.

"I'm so excited for tomorrow." Bailey said looking up at me.

"Yeah its going to be a lot of fun."

We walked down the hall to the lobby there was a skylight over head. Bailey walked up to a table under it to look at something, just as she did the moonlight shonedown on her with a silver light. All I could do was smile at her because it had her look even more beautiful then she already was.

"Uh Cody?" She asked.

"Yeah?"

"Why are you looking at me that way." She laughed

"Nothing." I said taking her hand and continuing down the hall.

"No." She said stopping me. "What was it?"

"When you were standing under the skylight and the moon was shinning on you." I explained. "You just looked even more beautiful I had to smile."

"Aw thanks Cody." She said, then the looked up quickly and started laughing.

"What?"

She didn't answer she just pointed above our head. I looked up and yes there was the mistletoe.

"Well then." I said placing my hand on her neck and pulling her into a kiss.

Once we broke apart we heard the big clock in the hall chime, I looked over and it was midnight.

"Merry Christmas my little hay bale." I said giving her a light peck on the cheek.

"Merry Christmas Cody." She smiled.

__Christmas Day__

Zack's point of view

"Guys!!!" I heard a voice say coming from our bedroom door.

"Ughh what?" I groaned

"Its Christmas morning!" I finally opened my eyes and saw Woody standing at the foot of my bed jumping up and down.

"Woody! Its 6:30 in the morning!" Travis said very unimpressed.

"I know but Cody didn't want to listen to me anymore so I decided to come over here." He said still jumping.

"Sorry guys." Cody said as he walked into the bedroom. "When I told him to go away I didn't think he would come over here."

"Its okay Codster I'm sure he would have eventually come over anyways." I said getting out of bed.

"Woody I don't know why you woke up so early, we still have to wait for the girls to wake up." Cody said sitting down.

"I could always just go over an-" Woody started.

"Don't even think about it." I said knowing how ticked off the girls would be if Woody woke them up now.

"Yeah Bailey and Lily wouldn't mind that much but Baileys starting to enjoy sleeping longer and London would probably throw a stiletto at you." Cody explained.

"So since Lily wouldn't mind can I-"

"No." I said cutting him off.

__Half an hour later__

"Its Christmas! Its Christmas! Oh how I love Christmas! I cant wait to open presents! And eat more Christmas treats!" Woody sang rather loudly. He had been running around singing for about 10 minutes but hasn't shut up since he woke us up.

"Ughh will he ever stop?" Cody asked rubbing his head.

"Not until the girls wake up." Travis said. And once again Woody's singing got even louder.

"Woody!" I snapped.

"What?" He asked standing still for once in the passed half hour.

"You have to be quiet, you'll wake the girls." I said calming down a little

"Not to mention the rest of the hotel." Travis muttered.

"I'm sorry guys, I just cant calm down." He signed. "I'm so excited."

"Guys, why don't we just take him into the lounge?" Cody said. "That way he can be loud and excited but he wont wake the girls or anyone else in the hotel."

Addison asked.

"Yeah that's a good idea." Travis said.

So we went to the lounge and Woody was no more calm then he had been before. Now he was watching Frosty the Snowman and signing along with every song that played.

"How much longer until the girls are supposed to be here?" Travis groaned.

I looked at the clock. "Ughh another hour, its only 8am."

"Were gonna die." Cody said.

"Okay guys I cannot take another hour of this!" Travis said.

"Then what do you want to do?" I asked.

"I know its a dangerous plan but i think we should go wake up the girls." He explained.

"Yeah your right." I said and Cody nodded. "It wont be that bad."

"Yeah the only one who will be difficult is London." Cody said. "And we'll leave her to you Travis."

"Uhh why me!" He signed.

"Because we have girlfriends." I laughed.

"Woody, we'll be back." I yelled. "Were gonna go wake up the girls."

"Yes!" He yelled in excitement.

We walked down the hall then went our separate I got to Lily's room I went into her room and saw her fast asleep. I went over and knelt down in front of her and shook her shoulder lightly. Her eyes opened very slowly then she looked up and smiled at me.

"Hey Lils, Merry Christmas."

"Hello." She said giving me a light kiss on the lips. "Merry Christmas."

"Sorry I had to wake you up an hour early." I said running my fingers through her hair.

"Its okay." She said. "What happened you get to excited to wait another hour?"

"Not exactly." I laughed as she sat up and motioned or me to sit with her. "Woody woke Cody, Travis and I up at like 6:30 so we couldn't take him anymore so we decided to go get you guys."

She laughed as I sat behind her and wrapped my arms around her waist. "Ooo who gets to wake up London?" She asked leaning back against my chest.

"Travis got that honor." I smiled.

"Poor boy, doesn't know what he's in for." She said.

"Well we better go before Woody has another fit." I laughed taking her hand.

Once we got back to the lounge we were the first back so we got to deal with Woody until Cody, Bailey, Travis and London walked in.

"Hey guys, Merry Christmas." Lily said when they walked in.

"Merry Christmas." They all responded.

"What happened to you?" I asked Travis. He had a little cut on his forehead.

"You know when Cody said she would throw a high heel at me?" He started and I nodded for him to continue. "He wasn't kidding."

"Sorry." London laughed nervously.

"Alright now that every ones here." Woody said. "Lets open gifts!"

AN: Hmm I wonder what every ones going to get?? We shall soon see. The next chapter will be out soon! Cross my heart. So did you guys have a good holiday? Let me know what you did for the holidays, I would love to hear it :) Please review! Thanks guys!