knife under my pillow [zack martin]

episode twenty five: seven sea's news

chapter seventeen: we're a news crew

in class, we were watching miss t on the tv doing the weather on news from ages ago. "and today when a cold front moves through the area, we're going to hit 20 below 0 in a state of brrrmont. but tomorrow, it'll start to warm up" miss t on the tv spoke. "i never thought i'd say this; but can we turn the tv off and get back to studying" zack said, breaking my attention from the tv to him behind me. miss t looked offended. "i can't believe that's miss tutwiler hosting the weather 30 years ago" bailey says.

"excuse me. 10 years ago" miss t corrects, shutting off the tv. "wow. must have been a rough 10 years" woody and i said at the same time, looked at each other, wide eyes and jaw dropped and high fived. we almost fell out of our chairs when we high fived even though we're next to him. "alrighty, so we'll be putting together a news cast that's going to air on the ships closed circuit tv station. now, does anyone have any questions?" miss t asked. immediately everyone put their hands up. "london?" miss t called on london. "why didn't you look in the mirror before you went on tv?" london asked pulling an 'anchor woman' pose. "any questions that won't hurt my feelings?" miss t asked but everyone looked at each other then slowly put their hands down.

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class was over and we were all at our usual hangout while the twins were working. "hey y'all. zack, get me an extra-large berry bonanza but hold the strawberries, blueberries, boysenberries and yogurt" kirby greets walking over and taking a sit next to us. "isn't that just a cup of whipped cream?" i asked zack. "yeah, that's just a cup of whipped cream" zack answered. "yep. bring it on. so what's new?" kirby asked. zack started making the cup of whipped cream for kirby. "oh we're going to be doing a news show on the ships tv station" woody tells kirby. "oh that's great. you know, i don't wanna brag but i had the highest rating show on that station it was called 'boat cops'" kirby told us.

oh! i remember that show. bailey and i would watch it when we were studying. "oh yeah. i saw the one where you caught the buffet bandit" london tells him. "well it's hard to run with a whole leg of lamb in your pants" woody complained. "mmm. boat cops made people think twice about committing crimes on s.s tipton" kirby says. "never stopped zack" i joke, smiling up at my boyfriend who smiled back. "so why isn't it on anymore?" bailey asked, kirby. "somebody stole my camera" kirby answered, leaning against the bench. "there you go. that'll be $3.50" zack says, passing kirby the cup of whipped cream. kirby patted himself like he was putting out fire.