A/N: As always, thanks a million to all my readers and, especially, my reviewers. Enjoy part two! (Warning: serious fluff ahead!)

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Bailey walked into the twins' old room and closed the door behind her, turning to stand face-to-face with Cody. "Cody..." she said pleadingly, reaching for his face.

He recoiled away from her touch. "Yes?"

"I love you..."

"Do you really? Maybe I should ask London how you feel, just to be sure." Cody snapped. "It's not just that I was just humiliated in front of all my friends and family... It's... I just thought you and I were... Bails..." Somewhere in the course of that sentence he had stopped feeling angry and begun feeling hurt. Bailey wasn't sure which was worse.

"Cody, please don't be upset."

"Upset? Why would I be upset? You wanted to hook up with Zack and instead you got me? I'm just your second choice? Why would that make me upset?!"

"It wasn't like that at all, Cody! I love you, you know that. What London said, it was just some stupid idea I had once, for like two minutes, and I haven't thought about it since. You have to believe me." She reached out and took one of his hands in both of hers. This time, he didn't pull away.

The door opened and Zack slipped in, shutting it behind him.

"Oh, great, the last person we want to see right now." Cody said sarcastically. "...Although I guess I can't speak for Bailey."

"Well, the party's kind of over..." Zack said. "I just wanted to make sure you two were all right." He looked at Bailey. "And to find out what London was talking about out there."

Bailey sighed. "All right. But you have to remember, it was a long time ago. I was young, I was stupid, I was upset..."

Zack folded his arms. "Okay we get it, there's no way you would ever want a guy like me. Just tell the story."

"Okay." Bailey sank down on Cody's bed, pulling him down with her by the hand she was still holding. Zack sat on his old bed, stretching his legs out in front of him. "Okay, so it was near the end of tenth grade right? A few weeks after that Hannah Montana concert you took me to. Remember, we went on that one date, and you were so shy around me after that, I started thinking maybe you weren't as interested in me as I thought, and that maybe you only went with me because I asked you to, and because you and I were such good friends..."

Cody's lips tightened, but he made no comment.

"Anyway, then a few weeks after that, Marcus finally got the guts to ask London to the Spring Fling, and she said yes because he stood up for her when that snooty British guy she was dating made fun of her intelligence..."

"We know all this, Bailey." Zack reminded her. "We were there."

"Okay, but you weren't there when London came home from the Spring Fling gushing about how sweet Marcus was, and what a good dancer he was, and how he treated her like the princess that she was! And you weren't there when he would show up at our cabin door with flowers for her, for no particular reason besides that she finally gave in and agreed to date him after all those months! And you weren't there the day I walked into my cabin to find them so caught up in themselves kissing that they didn't even notice I'd come in!"

"You were jealous of Marcus and London?" Cody asked finally.

Bailey shrugged. "I know it was stupid, but they seemed so happy... And I hadn't gotten anywhere with you since the concert, and I was just feeling like I was alone, and nobody wanted me..." She scrubbed a hand over her face. "So that day when I saw them kissing, I thought, maybe it's a hormonal thing and if I were to just, I don't know, make out with someone- just a one-time thing!- I might feel better..."

"Oh, god." Cody moaned, pulling his hand out of hers and standing up, beginning to pace.

"I don't know what I was thinking!" Bailey pleaded. "It's just that Zack came first to my mind- I knew he'd just broken up with someone because I'd just seen his ex crying in the lunchroom, and... I mean, most of his "relationships" were basically one-time things anyway..."

"Yeah, that's true." Zack admitted. "But, geez, even if you had asked, I wouldn't have done it!" he paused, then grinned at her. "Although I would have been flattered."

Bailey scowled at him. "Stop it!"

"No offense, Bails!" Zack said. "It's just that I knew how Cody felt about you, so..."

"Yeah, but I didn't!" Bailey exclaimed.

"So you decided to hook up with my brother, but never actually asked him." Cody said coldly. "What then?"

"You know what happened then." Bailey said. "I found you!"

"You "found" me?" Cody repeated. "Wait, you came to me that day because you couldn't find Zack?"

"It wasn't like that!" Bailey protested. "Don't you remember? It was really more like you found me!" She sat forward and leaned her arms on her knees. "I came up to the Sky Deck, because... well, because I thought Zack would be getting off his shift at the smoothie bar soon."

Cody glared at her.

"But!" Bailey said quickly. "It was the day of that big storm, don't you remember? All the passengers had left the deck because the clouds were getting dark and the sea was getting rough... And you were there, Cody, picking up all the towels and trying to get the deck cleared off before the storm started. I asked you where Zack was, and you said-"

"He closed the bar early because of the storm, and I didn't know where he went..." Cody remembered.

"Right." Bailey said. "I wasn't sure what to do, and I was starting to question my decision to find him in the first place, so I just sat on one of the stools to think for a minute... You finished cleaning up and came over to me, and you asked me if anything was wrong, because I seemed unhappy."

"I remember." Cody said quietly.

"And I told you that it was nothing, that I was just sad over some small, stupid thing, and that I would get over it. And you put your hand on my shoulder and said, if it's making you upset, it's not stupid." Bailey smiled a little, remembering. "And then there was this big gust of wind, and my hair got all tangled up and blown into my face. And you reached out and smoothed it back, tucked it behind my ear so gently... You had this tender look on your face, and I knew right then that I was wrong before, and you did have feelings for me."

"I did have feelings for you." Cody agreed softly. He had stopped pacing and was looking at her from across the room.

Bailey stood up, biting her lip shyly. "And that's when I kissed you, and you kissed me back, and it was the most amazing kiss I'd ever had." She walked across the room to stand directly in front of him. "But then you pulled away and said, 'Bailey, is this okay?' and you were so sweet and so worried about me and I said-"

"'Better than okay.'" Cody finished with a smile.

She reached out and grabbed his hands. "And then the wind blew again, and I shivered, and you saw, and you wrapped your arms around me and pushed me up against the bar and kissed me again, and then that was the best kiss I'd ever had."

"And then it started pouring rain." Cody continued, grinning. "And I wanted to take you inside, but you wouldn't let go of me."

"I wanted to stay right where I was, having the best moment of my life." Bailey said. "And kissing like our lives depended on it."

"So we did." Cody finished. He leaned his forehead against hers. "It was the best moment of my life too." he confessed. "Well, up until the moment you held out your hand and let me put this on it." he shook her left hand slightly, running his thumb over the diamond ring she wore.

"Me too." Bailey whispered, tears spilling down her cheeks. "Cody..." she dropped his hands and threw her arms around him, burying her face in his chest.

"Hey, hey..." Cody soothed, wrapping his arms around her and rubbing her back. "What are you crying for?"

"I just love you so much!" Bailey sobbed. "I can't believe I almost lost you over something as stupid as Zack!" She pulled back from him, sniffling, as she realized how mean that sounded. "Sorry, Zack." she tossed over her shoulder, looking back when he didn't respond. "Where'd he go?"

Cody chuckled. "Oh, he snuck out a few minutes ago. I think we lost him somewhere around the most amazing kiss you ever had."

Bailey laughed too, wiping away her tears with the side of her hand. "Good. Who needs him?" She took Cody's hands again. "Look, I am so sorry about this whole stupid mess with Zack. He's a good guy and a good friend, but he and I could never have anything as amazing as what you and I have. You don't know how grateful I am that I couldn't find him that night, because hooking up with him would be the worst thing I could have done. I can't believe I thought for even one second that some one-time fling would be worth giving up my chances of being with you. I can't think of anything worse than not having that moment on the Sky Deck in the rain!" She squeezed his hands. "I never told you about it because I know you get insecure sometimes, and I didn't want you to feel insecure about us." She smiled self-deprecatingly. "And because I hoped you'd never find out what an idiot I used to be."

"And because it's not important." Cody reassured her. "You didn't do anything wrong, Bails. I'm sorry I got so shook up about it. We were kids- it's not like I never thought about other girls!" Either missing or ignoring the startled look she gave him, he continued on. "And I'm not insecure, not about us. We love each other. We're great together. And we're going to be fine."

Bailey raised her arms to drape them around his neck, smiling when her engagement ring sparkled in the light. "Better than fine." she said happily, pressing her lips to his.