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"I'm Cody Martin, I'm good with time management," I replied. "Come; let me tell you something I read about Romeo and Juliet last night," I tried to impress her.

"Aww you specially read up just for me, that's so sweet Cody," Bailey was gushing over my sensitivity over her interests, "You've never really liked tragedy or drama! I must really be a huge influence!" She giggled.

"Yes, yes you are, but don't flatter yourself too much," I joked.


Chapter 5

A week has passed since Moose was on deck, and the play is now coming into its final stages of full dress rehearsals. Bailey hardly have any free time with me recently, it's always been about rehearsals and lines practice with her cast mates, so the best time for us to meet is for me to visit her at rehearsals like I always try to do.

It's been a long day in school and after class I headed to the drama theatre, but only to find out that rehearsal was being cancelled for the day. It was said to be a treat for the cast and crew for the great practice in the last whole week. I was more than glad to know that I can finally have some alone time with my girl. I suppose Bailey might be at One Of A Kind but I decided to head to her cabin first.

I knocked on her cabin door and pushed forward the half-opened door, "Hey London, is Bailey around?" I asked as I saw London blowing her nails.

"Oh goody, finally someone is here. Okay my nails are done and I need to go out to get them tanned. Bailey didn't bring her keys when she went out to grab some things she left behind at the store, could you stay behind till she's back?"

Before I could answer, London was already out of the door, doing her 'fresh-toe-nails-painted' walk.

I decided to entertain myself by exploring Bailey's room. It's interesting how I'm here quite often, especially during the weekends where we'll spend time in Bailey's room studying or finishing up on our homework, but I've seldom had the chance to really look around and admire the wonderful things she hangs on her walls or what display she has on her shelves.

It's quite distinct, the parting between Bailey's and London's side of the room. London's side was full of sparkles. No wonder the pot hole is always closed, if sun shines down here, I think it'll be much too bright to see where anything is at. Bailey's side gave me a more homely feel, with photographs of her family back in Kettlecorn, and the adventures we have on deck and at different countries. Stuff toys were everywhere too, I picked up a whale soft toy from Bailey's bed and smiled at it.


It was after the whale saving incident when S.S. Tipton was stopped for a day or two to help the whales which were passing by our ship to travel on safely.

"I really miss our whales, Cody," Bailey was clearly moody the whole day.

I decided to cheer her up with a little surprise, "Here honey, I have something for you and I think you'll like it," I said as I handed her the toy.

"Aww Cody, it's a Cody-blowholey soft toy!" Bailey hugged tightly to the tiny creature.

"Yup, it wails when you squeeze its tummy and I have also bought another one too, and I'm keeping it with me to remind me of Bailey-whaley," I added.

"You sure the guys won't tease you about it when they see a soft toy on your bed?" Bailey questioned.

"Anything for Bailey-whaley is worth it."

Bailey giggled and gave me a hug that warmed my heart, not to mention, it kept a smile plastered on my face for the rest of the day.


I continued looking around her side of the cabin. Her shelves held many wonderful souvenirs from the various places we have been to: a small Coliseum model from the time we were in Rome; a sushi plasticine mould from Toyko that works like an eraser too; a small Buckingham palace model from the time we stopped by England; a small replica of the Bruj Dubai, tallest building in the world, and many more items from around the world filling up her first two shelves. Also, there lies her crown from the Miss Tipton Beauty Pageant a few months ago.


"Bailey you were really amazing," I chimed.

"Well it's good that I won, I have to be on par with my beauty pageant contestant boyfriend too," Bailey laughed. "You know what honey; Zack sent me a photo of you back when you were in the pageant. I think we would have been BFFs too if I've known you then."

Shock was all over my face, "Zack!"


I shook my head as I thought of that memory. I looked at my watch and realise it's been half an hour since I've started touring Bailey's room. I wonder when Bailey is going to be back, it might be quite a while, and maybe I should get a head start on my homework so I approached Bailey's desk.

Normally, Bailey is quite a neat freak, so it's quite uncommon to see her table filled with stacks of things, one on top of another. I guess she might have been too busy with long hours of rehearsals these few days to have time to pack her table. I took the first layer off, Teen Monthly Magazine, wow who knew Bailey reads such stuff too, I'm guessing probably under the influence of London. I folded it and tucked it neatly on the top of the desk where all her books are stacked nicely. I cleared out her paper, organised them and placed them in her folder for school. Lastly at the bottom, I see a photo album, it's the one I gave her for our half-a-versary. I never knew the importance of such half-a-year celebration, I still remember that day.


"Hey Cody, isn't today just the perfect day?" Bailey beamed at me.

"Yea it's sunny, nice cool wind and it doesn't mess my hair," I casually said.

"Well it is a rather special day isn't it?"Bailey continued.

"I guess so" I couldn't take the hint she kept telling me.

"I changed my mind; it's not a great day after all. If you are looking for me, I'll be in my cabin," Bailey's expression totally changed as she left for her cabin.

It was only until London told me that Bailey was getting mad at her for no reason in their cabin, mentioning about some half-varsity thing, did I realise it was our 6 months celebration. I knew it was a little late, but I planned to save what's left of the day. It took me an hour to make the album; made reservations on the deck's restaurant and finally sent a bouquet of roses to Bailey.

She turned up for dinner looking fabulous like always.

"Oh Cody, you remembered!" She was smiling from ear to ear when she saw all the preparations I have done up for our special day.

"Of course," I grinned, as I secretly thanked London.


I smiled at the album, tried to close it shut, but there seemed to be some book that was placed in the middle of one of the pages. I held the album up and the book slid down and fell on the ground. My reflexes weren't fast enough to catch it. I heaved a sigh of relieve that it was not something fragile.

I bent to pick it up, was about to close the book and planned to put it together nicely with the album until I glanced and noticed the words, 'Cody' and 'Moose' being mentioned a few times on the page. It was Bailey's handwriting. I placed a finger on the page to keep it bookmarked and flipped to the front:

This is the property of Bailey Pickett. My Diary.


A/N: Thanks for the reviews! Yes, most of you don't really like Moose, don't worry he's not here to make trouble :D