After hitting the snooze button three times, Zack finally got out of bed and slowly walked to the bathroom. When he emerged from the bathroom, he looked at the clock and saw that it was almost 8 and Cody hadn't come banging on Zack's door yelling at him for sleeping in. Zack got dressed quickly. He figured Cody was sick of waking him up, telling him to get ready for classes, and probably headed to class already. After he finished getting dressed, he raced down to the class room. Class had already started (but it was science, so he really didn't care), and everyone was there, except Cody and Woody. Now Woody had to stay in England with his uncle and would meet them in the states in a couple of days. He had been gone for three weeks. But Cody should have been here. Cody would never miss science class for anything. Zack took his seat without Ms. Tutweiller noticing. Bailey turned around and whispered.

"Where's Cody?"

"I don't know. He usually wakes me up for classes, but today he didn't. I figured he just gave up and headed to here instead."

"He never showed up. Maybe during lunch we should go looking for him."

"Sure. I'm worried it's not like him to go missing, especially during science class."

Bailey and Zack turned their attention back to the lesson, but Zack couldn't concentrate. Where in the world could Cody be? They had dinner last night. Cody had turned in early without giving a reason why. Zack thought that he could be still in bed, but that wasn't like him to oversleep on a school day. Zack stopped thinking about it for now and tried to pay attention to Ms. Tutweiller's lecture on the reproduction of starfish.

After three hours of math, science, and French, it was finally lunch time. Bailey and Zack stayed behind and headed to Zack's room. Bailey waited in the threshold was Zack was desperately looking for something buried under dirty clothes.

"Zack, what are you looking for? Should we be looking for Cody?"

"Of course we are going to look for Cody, but I thought we could use my two way and I thought it was right here. Okay, never mind the two way. Let's just try looking for him."

Zack headed out of the room with Bailey following, but before Zack opened him mouth to speak again, they heard a moaning coming from Cody's room. Zack turned and knocked loudly on his door.

"Cody? Is that you?"

When no response came, Zack tried to open the door.

"Come on, man! Open the door."

Zack and Bailey tried to get the door open, but it was locked. London rounded the corner and watched them.

"What are you two doing?"

"Cody won't open the door and we need to get in there."

"Oh!"

London pulled a bobby pin out of her hair and stuck it in the lock. Within ten seconds the door was unlocked. Zack was the first one to run in with Bailey and London on his tail. Zack ran over to Cody's bed. Cody was pale and moaning. Sweat was dripping down his forehead and his cheeks were slightly red. Zack put the back of his hand to his baby brother's forehead, then to his own.

"Cody! You're burning up!"

"Zack, my stomach hurts."

Zack quickly got up and started running at the door but stopped. He turned to Bailey and London.

"London, you stay here and keep watch over Cody. Bailey, come with me."

Bailey just as quickly as Zack got up but before she followed him, she turned back to Cody. London had moved closer and was holding his hand and rubbing his forehead. A tear slowly flowed down Bailey cheek. She didn't move until Zack yelled for her. They ran down to Moseby's desk. Zack was racing to the desk but Moseby wasn't there. Zack then headed to Moseby's cabin. He knocked violently on the door. Moseby could be heard mumbling from inside. He opened the door just enough to see who it was. He rolled his eyes and started to close the door but Zack put his got in the way.

"Mr. Moseby, please wait. There's something wrong with Cody!"

"Oh I'm sure there is. Now, please leave."

Moseby was about to shut the door again until Bailer pushed the door open again.

"Mr. Moseby, please. Zack is telling the truth. Cody's sick."

Moseby sighed. He started to believe them when he looked at their faces. Both of them were very worried and almost in tears.

"Okay. Let me call the ship doctor and tell him to meet us there."

As Mr. Moseby called the doctor, Bailey sat down with her chin in the palm of her hands. Zack tapped his foot impatiently waiting. Once Mr. Moseby was off the phone, Zack and Bailey pulled him quickly to Cody's room. The doctor had not arrived yet. Zack almost burst through the door which made London jump to her feet. Mr. Moseby started feeling guilty about not believing them when he saw tears in London's eyes and heard Cody moaning. Mr. Moseby pushed passed London and took her seat.

"Cody, what wrong?"

"It's my stomach, Mr. Moseby. It's really hurting me."

Cody had looked worse. He was extremely pale, red in the cheeks, and his sheets were damp with his sweat. He kept his eyes shut tightly and was clinging onto the sheets.

"Don't worry, I called the ship's doctor and he's on his way."

On cue, the doctor walked in.

"Cody, what is wrong?"

"My stomach hurts really badly."

"Okay, let's see what's wrong. I have to ask everyone to leave."

London, Bailey, and Mr. Moseby headed out but Zack wouldn't move. Mr. Moseby put his hands on Zack shoulder which caused Zack to take his eyes off his baby brother and looked at Mr. Moseby.

"Come on, Zack. Dr. Johnson will take care of him."

Mr. Moseby led Zack out of Cody's room and joined the girls in Zack's room. Zack paced while the others sat down. They waited ten minutes until Mr. Moseby saw the doctor and raced over to the door.

"Dr. Johnson, how is the boy?"

"I'm afraid it's his appendix…"

"His stomach hurts because there is something wrong with the back of Cody's book," interrupted London.

Everyone groaned at London's response.

"No, London. In this case an appendix is inside the human body. And when they get sick, they need to be taken out." (Authors note: that was dumb down for London.) "And I'm afraid his are really bad. He said this pain has been going on for about three days."

"Dr. Johnson, what are you going to do?"

"I'm sorry, Zack, but I'm not a surgeon and we don't have on aboard. We have to wait until we get ashore."

"But that's not for another three days with good weather," said Mr. Moseby.

"I know. I'm going to try and see if the hospital in New York can send a helicopter but it still might be a couple of days. I'm going to give some medicine for the pain and his fever but, Zack," he looked Zack straight in the eyes and placed a hand on his shoulders. He could see the worried look in his face and really didn't want to be the one to give bad news but he needed to prepare him. "Appendix does burst and if they do, the person can die."

To be continued…………….

Sorry if it seems to cut off but if I waited til the end of this story it would be about 20-30 pages on word so I'm just going to do it in chapters. Please read and review any review is helpful but please don't be rude. Thank you and hopefully chapter 2 will be up soon. I don't own the Suite life on deck.