Chapter 11

I don't own these characters, but it would be nice if I did.

Wait...In this story, I actually created some of them, so I do own them.

Anyways, I do promise to keep them true to themselves.

And as for the ones I did create, who they are is up to me, so...

Seattle, Washington

Cody just looked at Addison in surprise. Was it really that obvious that he had become completely smitten with Bailey? Sure, he hadn't tried to hide it all that hard, but the fact that Addison had picked up on it so quickly was kind of disheartening. He just hung his head and sighed.

"I guess I could have done a better job hiding it, huh?"

She smiled at him. "Probably. But there's no shame in the fact that you are. I mean...Bailey's great. I may be biased, but I really think she is a special person."

He smiled back and nodded. "Oh...I definitely agree with you there. I've never met anyone like her before in my life. I can't explain it, but I feel so comfortable and can just be myself with her." He paused. "And the fact that she is drop dead gorgeous is just icing on the cake..."

"Nothing wrong with that at all. So, the question is...when are you going to tell her and ask her out?"

Cody shook his head sadly. "I can't do that. One, we get along so great right now, and I wouldn't want to ruin that. Two, even if she would go out with me, I still couldn't do it. It wouldn't be fair to her. Eventually, I will have to go back to Boston..."

Addison just looked at him and shook her head. "I guess all guys really are idiots. And here I thought you were one of the smart ones!" With that, she just turned and stormed away. Cody just stood there watching her leave with a look of confusion on her face.

"Huh?"

The next morning, Cody was up bright and early again. But since he didn't have to head in to the school today, he took his time getting cleaned up and getting ready. By ten o'clock, he and Addison were hanging out in the kitchen watching their Dads running around getting ready to head out. But Addison was still being cold and distant to Cody, and he still had no idea why. Cody shook his head and turned his focus back onto his Dad. And on his way out the door, Kurt stopped and turned to Cody.

"Are you skipping school today?"

Cody shook his head. "Not at all. I finished all of the work I have to do except for taking the tests on Friday. Coach Morris told me I didn't have to come back in until then."

Kurt just looked at him again. "You already have the work done?" He shook his head and laughed. "We really should have sent you to Texas a lot sooner. Oh well...will you two be okay here by yourselves?"

Addison smiled. "We'll be fine, Uncle Kurt. I'll keep Zack out of trouble."

Kurt smiled back. "Addie, I don't know what we'd do without you around here. Alright, see you two later."

Once their Dad's were gone, Cody turned to Addison. "How about I fix us some breakfast?"

But she kept ignoring him and went back to burying her nose in the magazine that she had been reading. Cody just shrugged and got up to fix it anyways. And when he was done, he prepared three plates and sat them around the kitchen table. At that moment, as if right on time, there was a knock on the back door. Cody answered it to find Bailey standing there, and welcomed her inside with a smile.

"Just in time. I just put breakfast on the table."

She smiled back at him. "Thank you. After last night, I'll never turn down any of your cooking ever again."

She sat down and said hello to Addison who said hello back to Bailey. Cody headed to the fridge to get out some juice and turned to the ladies. "Would either of you like a glass of juice?"

Bailey nodded. "Yes, please."

He turned to Addison. "Addison? How about you?" But she continued to ignore him. Cody just shook his head and poured her a glass anyways. By this time, Bailey was getting confused.

"Is everything okay here? Did you two have a disagreement?"

Cody brought the glasses over and sat them down. "I have no idea. She hasn't said a word to me all morning and has ignored me whenever I ask her anything..."

Bailey turned to Addison. "Addie? What's going on?"

She sighed. "I'll start talking to him once he stops being an idiot!"

Bailey turned back to Cody. "Am I missing something here?"

He sighed. "We had a discussion last night about something, and she told me I was being stupid..."

"What about?"

Cody paused again trying to figure out how to avoid telling Bailey what they were really talking about. "Oh...ummm...well...we we're talking about..."

Addison finally spoke up. "You want to know what we were talking about? I'll tell you. I was asking him when he was finally going to ask you out on a real date. But he had some kind of lame excuse about it not being fair to you because he would eventually have to go back to Boston. I couldn't believe how lame of an excuse that was!"

Both of Bailey's and Cody's mouths fell open in shock at Addison's outburst. And they both looked at each other, but neither one of them knew what to say with the cat now out of the bag.

Addison just shook her head. "Oh please. You both are ga ga for each other but refuse to tell each other about how you feel!" She stood up and smiled. "I need to go clean Sprinkles' litter box. You two can talk while I do that..." And with that, she walked away.

Again Cody and Bailey just looked at each other. Finally, Cody found his voice and eeked out. "Is that true?"

Bailey sighed and just nodded. "Yeah..." She paused. "Is it true for you too?"

Cody nodded too. "Yeah, it is. Bailey, I've never met anyone like you before. I like spending time with you, and I've had more fun with you the past couple of days than I can ever remember having..."

She smiled. "Same here. It just seems like you actually get me."

He smiled back. "Right back at you." He paused. "But what I told Addison is true. Eventually, I will have to go back to Boston..."

Bailey nodded. "I know. That thought had crossed my mind too. How about we worry about then when the time actually comes?"

He smiled again. "I can do that. I guess the next step would be for me to actually ask you if you would go out with me, huh? So, would you do me the honor?"

She grinned. "I'd love to..."

"Good. I'm supposed to hang out with my Dad on Friday night, but how does Saturday night sound?"

"Sounds perfect. Do you like foreign films?"

He laughed. "I love them." He paused. "As long as there are no subtitles..."

She laughed. "Of course...And I've seen this place that serves Moroccan food. So far, I haven't had anyone else willing to try it with me..."

"Now that sounds perfect to me..."

At that moment, Addison returned to the kitchen and sat down with them again. She just smiled at them.

"Good. I'm glad you two finally got that settled. I swear...you both are extremely stubborn and hardheaded. Now, we need to finish breakfast and begin our search..."

Cody just laughed. "Zack told me you were tough...you have me convinced." He paused and smiled. "Thank you, Addie..."

She smiled back. "Well, someone has to keep my two brothers in line..."

After breakfast, the three of them made their way into Kurt's room and began looking around. They weren't quite sure what they were looking for, but they weren't going to leave any stone unturned. A couple of hours later, they hadn't found anything of any significance and were beginning to get a little frustrated. They took a break to regroup when Bailey noticed something. She walked over to a picture on the wall that was slightly crooked and removed it. And to all three of their surprises, there was a wall safe behind it. Bailey examined it and saw that it require a four digit code, and she turned back to Cody and Addison.

"Any idea what the combination could be?"

Cody shrugged. "No clue." He turned to Addison. "You?"

She shook her head. "It could be anything..."

Bailey turned to look at it again, and an idea came to her.

"Cody...what's your birthday?"

"March 4, 1993"

Bailey turned to the safe and punched in '3-4-9-3', and when she pulled on the handle, it opened.

Boston, Massachusetts

Zack and Maya were still sitting on the bench, and he was still building up the courage to tell her the truth. He hoped she wouldn't be too mad and would understand why he and Cody had pulled their little switcharoo. And if he had to, he would tell her that he was feeling something that he had never felt before with her.

"You see, Maya...the thing is..."

But before he could say anything further, they both heard someone say "Oops..." Both turned to see where that came from, and both saw Carey Martin standing there.

Carey flinched. "Sorry, Cody...Esteban told me he saw you come out here. But I didn't know you were out here with someone."

Zack sighed, partially in relief, partially in frustration. "Its okay. Mom, this is Maya. Maya, this is my Mom, Carey Martin."

Maya smiled at Carey. "Its nice to meet you, Ms. Martin."

Carey smiled back. "Nice to meet you too, Maya. Cody told me a lot about you this morning, so its good to put a face to a name."

Maya laughed. "Oh, I know how that is. When I told my Dad that I was going to see a movie today with Cody, he told me he eventually wants to meet Cody too..."

Zack looked at her in surprise. He had never met a girl's father before. Well, there was the daughter of the president of the University of Washington, but that had not ended well. Suffice to say, Zack knew he would never be enrolling there for college as long as he was still the president.

Carey smiled. "Well, I'll give you too some privacy. Sorry to have interrupted."

Maya checked her watch. "Actually, I have to be home in ten minutes, so I should be heading out anyways." She turned to Zack. "Call me tomorrow?"

He smiled back at her. "Count on it."

Maya smiled back at him before she got up to head home. Zack watched her walk away until he heard Carey clear her throat.

"Sorry about that, Cody...I really didn't mean to barge in on the two of you...especially since you were just talking. I remember when my Mom would do that with some of my old boyfriends..."

Zack shook his head. This was another thing Cody had warned him about. If their Mom got started on one of her stories about her old boyfriends, he had to do anything to nip it in the bud.

"Its okay, Mom. I'll just talk to her tomorrow." He faked a yawn. "I think I'm going to call it a night anyways."

The next morning, Zack actually got up earlier than he did the day before. Sure...it was 10 AM, but waking up a full hour earlier was a big step for him. After grabbing breakfast, he gave Maya a call hoping they could meet up later and finish their talk from the night before, but all he got was her voice mail. Shrugging, he just hung around the suite waiting for her to call back. Finally, Carey headed out to rehearsal. About four o'clock that afternoon, there was a knock at the door. Hoping it was Maya, Zack got up to answer it and was visibly disappointed to see that it was only Woody.

"Oh...hey Woodchuck..."

Woody smirked. "Nice to see you again too..."

Zack sighed. "I was hoping you were Maya. No offense, but she's a lot cuter and smells much better..."

Woody paused and shrugged. "No offense taken. So, how did it go yesterday?"

Zack grinned. "It was better than I could have ever imagined..."

"Good. Did you ask her if she had a friend for me?"

"Sorry, Woodman..." Zack laughed. "That thought never crossed my mind..."

"Hurtful!"

"Settle down. I have to talk to her about something else soon, and if all goes well with that, I'll ask her."

Woody paused. "Well...I guess that would be okay. Oh, by the way...I read in the paper that Ferran Adria is going to be in town on Friday signing his new book. Are you going to go try to talk to him and get his new book autographed?"

Zack was still thinking about Maya and looked at Woody in confusion. "Why would I do that? I've never heard of him before..."

Woody just looked at him funny. "You're telling me you don't know who Ferran Adria is?"

"Not a clue."

"You're being serious?"

Zack nodded. "Of course I am." Zack laughed. "Should I know who he is?"

Woody got up and headed over to the kitchen and and came back over holding a cookbook. "Yes, you should definitely know who he is..." He opened the front cover, and Zack read the dedication.

"To one of my biggest fans, keep cooking, Cody! Ferran Adria"

Zack swallowed and looked up at Woody. "Oh...ummm..."

Woody just glared at him. "I knew it!"

Zack shot up off the couch. "Look...I can explain!"

"I always knew the aliens were snatching up people and replacing them with pod people! Now, I have proof!"

Zack sighed. "I'm not an alien or a pod person..."

Woody stepped back. "Then what are you then? An evil clone?"

"My name is Zack Martin. I'm Cody's twin brother."

Woody backed up even further. "That's impossible! Cody doesn't have a twin brother!"

Zack rolled his eyes. "Yes, he does..." Zack proceeded to tell Woody about him and Cody meeting at Texas and their plan to switch places for a while.

"I don't believe you!"

Zack sighed. "Fine...you don't believe me?" He pulled out his cell phone. "You can talk to Cody yourself and he'll tell you the truth..."

To be Continued...