How could I forget her birthday?

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Sympathy


Zack never knew what to do when Cody got… like this. It was rare that something could catch him off guard, he could handle the spastic moments. Yelling, check. Flailing, check. Even the lectures on how he should stop leaving his shirts all over the room and-are-you-even-listening-to-me-Zack!?

He’d take that over what was really happening any day. Zack couldn’t stand to see his brother cry.

It wasn’t an ‘I’m hurt’ or ‘I’m frustrated’ kind of thing. It was a full blown, broken hearted breakdown. He even tried to hide it with cleaning, but Cody was nothing if not obvious. Where was mom when they needed her? Because Zack couldn’t handle this. He couldn’t do the whole, comforting, ‘give them a hug and rub their back until the shaking stopped’ thing.

The best he could offer was pretending it was all okay. Because it would be. Sure, Cody might think the world was ending because he got dumped, or got something less than an ‘A+’ but it wouldn’t. Because Zack would still be there. When nobody else was. That’s what being a brother was supposed to be, everyone knew that. But to Zack it was just a little more. This was the person that bailed him out of trouble, even when he’d done nothing to deserve being bailed out.

Cody was the one who kept him fed, and loaned him money, and saw to it that his socks matched every time he left home. He’d be like an older brother if he wasn’t actually a little brother. Zack couldn’t take care of Cody in those ways, but he tried to bring other things into his life. Keeping him from getting picked on, from becoming just one of the nerdy crowd. Indulging his brother in all the random quirks that made him.. Cody.

So he’d smile and hope his brother would smile back. He’d joke and tease and hope Cody could rise to the occasion. Because if he couldn’t get Cody to smile, he’d just have to start crying with him.


muse: Zack Martin
fandom: The Suit Life
word: 339

why would someone want to work?


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Hey... uh, you've reached Zack's voicemail. I'd say you reached him, but obviously you just weren't quick enough. If this is Mr. Mosby, I had nothing to do with the broken chandelier on floor five!

Anybody else just leave a message and I'll try to clear my busy schedual and get back to you.

..oh, and Cody, what were we having for dinner again?




ooc: Zack is very much open for RP! You can get a hold of him or mere here. ^^

Zack lead Kat back to the Tipton in a high spirit. Not only had he saved the day by finding a gorgeous woman who was going to go out with him. But he also staved off any attempts of Cody going after his Maddie, and that was equally as important.

"Basically, if he wasn't my twin, I'd swear we weren't related." He tried to describe his brother in a polite way. One that didn't include the words geek, nerd, hypocondrac, or flail. But it was a hard task.