Thank you to JazzyKanini for helping me get back my motivation to finish this story. Hopefully I can finish this once and for all. I havent given up yet. REVIEW! What did you think?

Bailey sadly looks out the window as the rain pours. Once in a blue moon, Kansas gets some rain. Well more like Kansas has water dumped on it. It sometimes helps the crops but rarely because it washes them out of the soil. Ever since she left the S.S Tipton, life has been pretty boring. There are no large cities to explore or any pranks that need to be cleaned. She sighs loudly as she thinks about Zack.

Zack is the boy who managed to turn her whole world upside and then some. She doesn't get why he had to be so cold and cut off from her. He confused her so much by his mixed messages. He was sweet and caring and always there for her. She was there for him too. They had a moment on the sky deck during Mr. Moseby's recital but it disappeared. She trusted him not to hurt her but he did. He rejected her completely by not opening up. He just threw away all that they built up. She was almost ready to try to connect with him and see if they could work together.

Her thoughts are interrupted by someone putting their cold hands on her shoulder. Bailey can't help but let out a short squeal of surprise. She turns around and sees her mom, grinning foolishly at her.

"Hey hunny bun. What's keeping your mind where the sun don't shine?" She says with a light southern drawl. Bailey sighs and glances down at her feet.

"Just thinking about being on the boat."

Her mom just keeps smiling like she knows something more. "Uh huh. More like thinking about someone on the boat. Some boy keeps calling here asking to talk to you."

Bailey rolls her eyes. "Tell Zack to not call me again." She turns a bit more dramatically towards the window than she likes.

"Oh honey, who is this Zack boy? That is not the boy who keeps calling here. He says his name is Woody." At that point, Bailey's head whips around to face her mom to see if she is telling the truth.

"Woody? Why would he be calling me?"

"Why don't you call him back and see? He gave me a number to contact. He said it was important… and relating to a twin, oh darn. I forgot what the name was." Her mom focuses on trying to remember the name but Bailey is already sprinting towards the phone. By the phone there is a sticky note that has a number and she immediately calls it.

"Hello?"

"Woody?"

"Bailey! You finally answered. Sheesh, I was wondering how many times you would let me go to voicemail."

"Woody, my mom was… never mind. What happened?"

"Well see Zack was kinda out on the deck during a rainstorm so he got pneumonia. That was last month and he got worst. His mom had him taken off the boat and he's staying in New York with her. I think Cody went too but I'm not sure. There have been a lot of people boarding and leaving so it's been pretty hectic. Oh Marcus came back for a while then left. London is still here-"

"Woody! You are rambling! Is Zack okay?" Bailey feels her heart quicken at the thought that Zack might be hurt.

"Yeah, I think he's fine. He just wanted me to say that he's really sorry for whatever he did wrong… and let me see, what was the last part?" Woody's voice quiets and there is nothing but silence as Bailey waits for what the other part of Zack's message was.

"OH! Now I remember. He said that the reason he was acting all weird for like the last four months was because of the way you looked in that white dress with red lines. He couldn't understand how to... how to act around you and not hurt you. He wanted to change himself so that you wouldn't get hurt but did anyway because he is a- oh I am not saying that word, basically he is a mess."

Bailey feels all the color drain out of her face. Everything makes sense now. Every conversation, every weird thing she remembers Zack doing was for her; he was trying to show her how much he cared and not in his usual way of being overconfident. She lets out an audible gasp.

"And for your information, I read that off a note card. No way in heck would I have remembered all those details."

Woody's voice brings Bailey back to reality.

"Thank you Woody. Ummm… I've got to go. Bye" With that, Bailey quickly hangs up and starts to form a plan. She has to make things right.

Did you guys see it going this way? Where should it go from here? I am open to suggestions. They give me inspiration.