Part Ten
“Guys, I have some news.” I
sat down on the love seat. “Dad has been transferred again for his job so the
rest of the family is going to Michigan for a while. I don’t know when they
are leaving but mom said we could go home and see them before they leave. I say
we leave and see them off.”
“When are they leaving?” Tay
sat up.
“She didn’t say. But I want
to see them before they leave, I know that much.”
“Well when should we go home
then?” Ike thought for a minute. “Well I’ll call the airport and book a
flight for early tomorrow morning, how does that sound?”
“Good, I’ll call mom back and
let her know.” I picked up the phone and dialed our number. “Mom we are
going to try and get a flight for tomorrow morning.”
“Alright dear, let me know when
you boys need to be picked up.”
“Okay mom, I love you, I’ll
call you later.” I gave the phone to Ike so he could call to reserve some
tickets. We were going to have to fly home and then fly back and live here for a
while. We had to get more stuff than too. I wonder why he got transferred? I
would have to tell Randi where I was going so she wouldn’t freak out when I
wasn’t home. “I’m going over to Randi’s to tell her, I’ll be back in a
while.” I grabbed my camera from my room and went to her house.
“Hey Zac.” She grabbed my
belt loop on my jeans.
“Hey babe.” I gave her a
little kiss. “I have some news for ya.” She let go and sat down on the
swing. She had one on her porch.
“What is it? Nothing bad
right?” She had that worried look for a second.
“No nothing bad. I have to go
back home for a few days. My dad was transferred to Michigan so we want to see
them before they leave. We’ll only be gone for a few days.”
“So then are you going to live
here while they’re gone?” She got a smile on her face.
“You know it.” We kissed
again.
“This is great news than. Hey
what’s the camera for?” She pointed at my camera. It’s brand new too. I
just bought it a few weeks ago.
“I don’t have any picture of
you or us so I thought we could go take some.” I turned it on. “Lets go on
your trampoline and take a few.” So we went back there and goofed off for a
while. We did get some good pics though. “Well I better get going. I have some
packing to do.”
“I’ll miss you hun.” She
slipped her hands around my waist.
“I’ll miss you even more.
Don’t worry though; I’ll only be gone for a few days. Then I’m here for a
long time.” I kissed her one last time and made my way home. She watched from
her porch until I was out of sight. I got home and they already packed most of
what they needed.
“Zac, our flight leaves in like
4 hours so you need to pack a.s.a.p.” Tay zipped up his bag. “When you’re
done just set it out here with the rest of ours.” He went back to his room for
a final check. I made my way through the crap to my room. I opened my closet to
get my bag. I had to dig deep to find it. I wonder how all this crap all ready
accumulated in there. I packed the necessities: clothes, underwear, well boxers,
pillow, music, brain, and my camera. I would develop my pictures when I got
home. I put my bag in the living room with Ike and Tay’s.
“I’m done packing. So we can
leave when ever.” Ike appeared from the hall.
“Alright, let’s get going
then.” We each put our bags in the trunk of our car. Ike drove us to the
airport. We just had pointless conversation until we got on the plane. We
weren’t flying first class, just coach. As we sat down we heard almost a
shriek sound.
“Oh my god.” This girl,
looked about 19, came up to us. “You’re Hanson. I thought I noticed you in
the airport!” She had the biggest smile on her face. She placed her stuff in
the row in front of us.
“Nice to meet you. What’s you
name?” Tay shook her hand.
“I’m Stacy.” She had to
give Tay a hug. She was about to drop a load I swear. “I can’t believe I
finally got to meet you guys. This is like my dream come true. I may be 19 but I
am a big fan of your music, and well, you too.” Her smile was from ear to ear.
I haven’t seen a fan this happy since Randi. I had to chuckle. You don’t get
to many fans like her any more.
“Nice to meet you Stacy.” I
gave her a hug too.
“Just out of curiosity where
are you guys going?” She twirled her light blond hair on her finger.
“Home.” I smiled. She was a
very, well she was one of those drop-dead gorgeous girl. I could tell Tay had
already checked her out. I glanced over at Ike. He was eyeing her too.
“Any particular reason?” She
looked directly at Tay. She batted her eyes and gave a little smile. Her smiled
back.
“Just to visit our family.”
Ike chimed in. “Where are you going?” He sat up in his seat.
“My friend lives in Oklahoma so
I’m going to visit her.” I zoned out right around there. Her and Ike talked
for almost the whole plane ride though. I thought about Randi while I was
listing to a Cd she forced me to listen to. She loves Britney Spears so I bought
the Cd. Randi is always talking about how Britney is a role model and blah blah
blah. I have nothing against Britney, but I just don’t really like her music.
Well except for this one song. The one on her second Cd called Don’t Let Me
Be The Last To Know. It’s a really good song. It’s Randi’s favorite
too. I listened to that while the plane took us home. I drifted off to sleep for
only a short time when I felt Tay poking me.
“What?” I took off my
headphones and looked at him.
“Where did Ike go?” Like I
knew. I was only sleeping for the whole time.
“How would I know? I was
sleeping?” I rolled my eyes. Then I heard people laughing and one of them
sounded like Ike. I sat up and turned around. Him and Stacy we over by a bunch
of other people talking and laughing. I saw Ike glance at me. I sat back down.
“Ike’s with a bunch of people over there.” I said to Tay as I put my
headphones back on. He glanced over there. Then he got up and joined them. I
didn’t feel like it so I just stayed put. I put a new Cd in though. I decided
on Blink-182’s live Cd. That is one of the funniest Cd’s I have. Tay and Ike
don’t really care for it, but that’s because they have bad taste in music.
Then I was interrupted again. “What?” I took off my headphones again.
“These people want to meet
you.” Tay pointed over to the little crowd that had gathered.
“So what do you want me to do
about it?”
“Oh come on over here and at
least talk for a minute.” He gave me the ‘please, it’s just for a
minute’ look.
“Fine.” I got up and smiled.
He looked kinda funny with that face.
“Everyone this is Zac. Zac this
is Stacy, Jason, Lauren, Mary, Dan, and Kevin.”
“Nice to meet you all.” I
smiled and sat down. “So what are we talking about?” I decided to throw my
two cents in.
“Well actually we were just
saying how out of hand the pop scene has gotten. Backstreet Boys, N’Sync,
Britney, Christina, Jessica, O-Town, Five, Weslife, and the list just goes on
and on. Come on, how many different groups can we get?” I believe that was
Jason who said that.
“Well I personally like the
different variety. You don’t just get one, you get 1 million. It’s all about
variety and money.” Stacy was obviously a fan of almost all of those. I
wondered why no one said our name. We are a pop group.
“Well we are a pop group.”
Tay and Ike looked at me weird.
“Not exactly. We are more pop
rock.” Tay thought differently. We have always been pop. Yeah we’ve had rock
influence, but that doesn’t make us rock. I still see us as pop though.
“Well whatever. I still like
Backstreet and Britney. I have no problem with them.”