PRANKING HAD always been Zack's forte. He'd been doing it for years and he wouldn't deny that he'd done a prank. He'd always put his name on whatever he'd done.

Except this time. This prank was made for Woody. Not for Becky Muldoon.

Becky was a pretty strong girl. She was on the wrestling team... the boy's wrestling team. And when Zack's prank fell flat on her, she made a promise that she would beat him up at 3 o'clock sharp.

And Raven missed the entire ordeal.

She and Cassie had been in their cabin doing whatever they did. Cassie spilling secrets from home and thinking that Raven was listening when, in reality, she was half asleep and sprawled out over her bed with her homework laying next to her.

Soon, there was rapid knocking on their cabin door which shook Raven from her semi slumber. She stood to her feet and opened the cabin door to Zack rushing inside.

"I'm not in the mood for whatever you've done." Raven muttered, resting her head against the open door.

"I'm not in the mood either." He spoke quickly, "I messed up and I need help."

Raven sighed and shut the door. Cassie sat in her bed and watched the two do them interact.

From the day that Raven and Zack had their first conversation versus now wasn't to different, but Raven had opened up more to Zack's problems than what she had the year prior.

Zack explained how his prank on Woody failed completely and that Becky was on her way towards the deck to sock his face in at 3 on the dot.

Raven held a small smile and sat on her trunk that sat at the foot of her bed.

"This is funny." Zack cried, "I'm going to get beat up by a girl."

"That's the fun part."

Zack continued on with his cries before Raven stood to her feet and opened the door once more.

"Come on, we've got things to see." Raven said.

Raven watched as Zack stood to his feet and her and Zack left the dorm to make their way towards the deck.

Raven was still draped in her clothes prior to her nap and Zack began pacing back and forth.

"Your pacing is making me sick."

"What am I going to do?" Zack asked.

"The answer is simple." Raven smiled, "You either get beat up or lie."

"Lie?"

"Tell her you like her. She's not going to beat you up if you like her?"

"But I don't like her!"

"Then I have a front row seat to your death date and God it will be glorious." She smiled.

"I brought you here for support! This isn't very supportive!"

"You brought the wrong person. You were better off bringing Cassie, maybe even London."

"Martin!" Becky shouted.

The duo turned and saw Becky coming closer to them. She grabbed a coconut from a nearby table and broke it with her hands with ease.

A crowd soon gathered around the two and Zack's pleas of letting bygones be bygones made Becky smile.

"You know what?" Becky questioned, "You're right. Put her there."

Becky stuck her hand out and Zack took it. The two of them shook hands and suddenly her grip tightened and Zack fell to his knees.

"Does anyone else see a bright white light?" He asked, "Grammy? Is that you?"

Becky let go of Zack's hand and jumped on him. The sounds of cracking falling on to everyone.

Zack looked up and over and Raven who held her arms crossed and a small smile on her face.

Zack sighed, "Look Becky, I have nothing against you. I've always liked you."

"Yeah, right!"

"I did that prank, to, um, get close to you. I've always admired you since I saw you punch out that shark."

"Really?"

"Really!" Zack exclaimed, "You know, in fact, you might even say I have a crush on you, kind of like what your butt is doing to my ribcage."

"Oh, please." Becky said, standing to her feet and hoisting Zack to his own, "Are you saying you did all this because you want to go out with me?"

"Isn't it obvious?" He asked, his voice raising it pitch.

"Okay, yeah." Becky laughed.

"Okay." Zack chuckled, "Friday at 8... Right after you help them raise the anchor."

Becky continue to laugh as she backed away, waving goodbye to Zack. Soon, her and a group of girls ran off screaming, once again leaving Zack and Raven alone.

"Are you happy?" Zack asked.

"Yes, I'm overjoyed." Raven said, "Zack Martin has gotten his eighth date this week."

Zack heavily sighed and sat down next to the girl, "What am I going to do?"

"Hopefully cry." She smiled, "It'd be fun to see just once."

Zack looked over at her, his eyes slit and his expression pretty readable.

"Just one single tear would make my day better."

Zack rolled his eyes and slumped down in his seat.

This was going to be the worst date of his life.

THE NIGHT of Zack's date doing arrived and Becky excused herself to go to the bathroom.

Raven soon walked over, placing the one smoothie that Becky ordered for two, down on the table.

"I can't take this anymore." Zack said.

"Don't care. Would never care. I have smoothies to make."

"You have to help me. You got me into this mess."

Raven furrowed her brows, "You got yourself into this mess by pranking her."

"You told me to pretend to like her."

"And yet, you went along with it." She smiled, "That is all on you Mr. Martin."

She turned to make her way back to the smoothie bar when Zack caught up with her.

"I'm begging for you to help me." He said, pressing his hands against the counter.

Raven propped her arm against the counter, resting her chin into her hand.

"Fine."

"Fine?"

"I could say no."

"Fine it is."

The next day, Raven dragged herself into Zack's smelly, messy bedroom and helped Zack with whatever he had asked for which was to make him ugly.

Zack sat down in his chair and Raven ran her hands through his hair. They hadn't going back and forth on what would and wouldn't work for the past half hour.

"Is this even working?" He asked.

"You were already ugly." She smiled, "There wasn't much work I needed to do."

"Please." He sighed, "I was cursed with drop-dead good looks."

"Did your mommy tell you that?"

Raven sat down, in what she hoped was the cleanest spot in his room, "This isn't going to work."

"I could've told you that." Zack said, "I told you I was gorgeous."

"Shut up." She sighed, "I mean, making you ugly isn't going to work. Maybe you need to find someone else who's interested in her."

"Who's going to be that desperate to date Becky Muldoon?"

"A guy who's never been on a date in his life." She smiled, "Talk to Woody. Teach him whatever gross things you do to get girls to like you."

"You're a genius." He smiled, "I'll call him and you stay here."

"Why do I have to stay?"

"Because I need you as my test dummy."

Before she could protest, Zack had called Woody and he made his way towards the cabin. Zack explained that he'd would teach him how to flirt and Raven was their lovely test dummy.

"Just pretend that Raven is Becky." He smiled, "Now watch and learn."

Zack threw his arm around Raven's should, his smile never leaving his face.

"Excuse me, but... Did it hurt when you fell from heaven?"

Raven began to speak when Zack held his finger up, "If you speak of ruins what some other chick might say to him and we don't wanna ruin his experience do we?"

Raven rolled her eyes and kept her mouth shut as Zack threw out another flirty line.

"Are you from Tennessee? Because you're the only ten I see." Zack laughed, "Now you try."

Zack dropped his arm from Raven's shoulder and Woody replaced his spot.

"Hey, there. Did it hurt when you feel form Tennessee?" Woody smiled, "Wait. That's wrong. That's wrong."

Woody dropped his arm and Zack stepped forward.

"You know what?" Zack smiled, "Just be bold and sweep her off her feet."

Zack rested his hands on Raven's back, "Come here, gorgeous."

He swiftly dipped her down and she had no other choice but to grab his shoulders so she wouldn't fall.

"Ooh, I'm sorry. I just couldn't help myself."

Zack, as swiftly as he don't before, moved right and himself back upright.

"Okay, now you try."

"Absolutely not." Raven said and made her way towards the door.

"Where are you going?" Zack asked, "We're not finished with the lesson."

"I am."

She left the room, slamming the door behind her and made her way back to her cabin.

She quickly opened the door and slammed it shut, spooking her roommate.

"I just messed up the polish on my ring finger. I hope you're happy." Cassie said.

"He dipped me."

Cassie turned, watching her roommate pacing back and forth.

"He dipped you?" Cassie questioned, "Who dipped you? What does that mean?"

"Zack. Zack dipped me and it made me feel weird. I don't get it. Why do I feel weird?"

Cassie smiled, she stood to her feet and held Raven's arm, "He dipped you like a pretty princess and you liked it, didn't you?"

"No! No, I didn't." Raven exclaimed, "Don't you dare say anything like that again."

Cassie held her hands up and sat back down in her chair. Raven soon did the same.

"Hypothetically... if I did like it... what does that mean?" Raven asked.

Cassie turned, "It's whatever you want it to mean. Have you never had a crush on someone? Has a guy ever tried to flirt with you? Date you?"

"No." Raven sighed, "Zack was the first."

"You're just scared."

"I'm not going to be on his list of girls he dates for two days and moves on." Raven explained, "He's a womanizer and I'm not going to subject myself to that."

"Then don't." Cassie said, "Show Zack that you aren't into his games. That whatever you want is serious."

Raven fell backwards onto her bed. She wasn't going to play whatsoever. She was going to play the womanizer like she'd had before. Zack was willing to do anything to get Raven's attention and if she gave in... would it stop?

She wasn't going to give in, she was going to keep playing her game, and she was going to win.

"Raven?"

The girl laid flat on her bed, turning her head towards Cassie.

"Did we just have the best roommate moment ever?" She asked.

Raven gave her a small, genuine smile, "Sure. You can call it that."

It was a day of reflection and revelations and it really sucked.

Definitely not like how Raven saw them in the movies. It actually felt worse.

But maybe if she would admit to herself that she liked that Zack dipped her... things would've set sail a lot smoother for her.

— lucy has something to say !!

becky was pretty another loss for zack martin 😝

canonically: zack is shorter than most girls he talks to it's literally right there on the screen but i googled it and they were 5'11 and liz is 5'7 so like 😭

bye :))))