Part Eleven

“Hi hunny!” My mom greeted us at the airport with the rest of the family.

“Hi mom!” I ran up to her and gave her a hug. “Hey Macki!”

“Zacy!” He was happy to see me too. We all said our hellos and got out of the airport. People were starting to notice us so we drove home before anything crazy started to happen.

“So what’s up with the whole moving thing?” Tay asked and we got into our van.

“Well we aren’t moving, we are just going to Michigan temporarily. Your father said it was only going to be for a few months or so. So we will be back sooner or later.” We were on our way home.

“So who’s the flavor of the week?” Jessi turned around to face me.

“I don’t switch flavors, I am good at sticking to one.” I raised my eyebrow at her.

“That’s not what your ex said.” She’s always trying to be a smart-ass. Teenagers these days, so aggressive.

“Well Randi is here to stay so don’t even start your crap.” I knew Randi would be around for a while. How long is a while, well that’s up to time. We arrived at our house and got all of our stuff inside. We conjugated into the living room for a little family meeting.

“Well my boss is sending me to Michigan to straighten some things out. It should only take me a few months to get everything done. Since the family, with the exception of you three, is going with me. Now boys, you will be living in L.A. You may not see this as a big deal but we, as your parents, have to be sure you’re ready for this responsibility. You will work when told, call us every so often to check up, and keep the house somewhat clean. That’s just common sense though.” My dad kept going on and on about how we have to behave and all that great stuff. I zoned out, I didn’t really care to listen.

“Zac, do you understand?” I was suddenly snapped back into reality.

“Completely.” I smiled. They knew I wasn’t listing but I don’t think that bothered them too much. “So when to you leave?”

“I two days. Our flight leaves at 10:30 am. Speaking of leaving, when did you guys plan on leaving here?” I looked at Ike since he was the ones who made all the arrangements.

“Well the earliest we could leave is in four days so then we are leaving to be in L.A by Friday.” I remembered that’s when we were having our party. I totally forgot about that.

“That’s fine, but how about some dinner, we are starving.” Our mother got up and motioned towards the door. We were going to go out to our favorite restaurant for a nice family dinner.

“Mom I have to change first, I can’t wear this out to dinner.” Jessi exclaimed.

“Fine, go change, but make it quick.” Jessi disappeared into her room.

“Is she always like that now?” Tay almost started laughing.

“She’s a teenager now, I can’t help it.” Mom just rolled her eyes. “Well since she will take at least ten minutes I’m going to change Zoë.” She picked up my little sis and went to give her a fresh diaper. The rest of us just sat and waited. Mom was done before Jessi. About fifteen minutes later Jessi appeared.

“Now we can go.” She stated.

“Are you sure, maybe we could wait ten more minutes so you can insert your brain.” I stared at her.

“Sorry I just can’t roll out of bed with my outfit for the day.” She said while eyeing my clothes.

“I happen to like what I‘m wearing thank you.”

“Enough you two, let’s go.” My dad broke it up. All of us piled into the family van. As we headed out to the restaurant one of our cell phones rang.

“I think it’s mine.” I picked it up. It was Randi. “Hey, what’s up?” I could feel Jessi staring at me.

“I’m just really board, I needed to talk to you.” She was at home doing absolutely nothing. “I miss you already.”

“I miss you too.”

“Aww, it’s Zac’s girlfriend.” Jessi stated for everyone.

“You got a girlfriend? What girl would want you?” Avery joked.

“Be quiet you two.” I glared at them.

“Is that you sisters I hear?” Randi seemed excited.

“Sadly so. I am forced to be in the same car with them.”

“Where are you going?”

“Out to dinner.”

“Hey can I talk to one of your sisters?” I didn’t want her to but I agreed.

“Randi wants to talk to one of…” Before I could even finish Jessi grabbed my phone.

“Hello, I’m Jessica.” She stuck her tongue out at me.

“Hi, I’m Randi. So are you the oldest sister?”

“Yeah. So are you Zac’s girlfriend?” Jessi looked at me and snickered,

“Yeah, he’s my sweetie.” Jessi started rollin’. She found whatever Randi said so funny. I was going to punch her. “But I know you don’t wanna hear that, seeing the fact that you are his sister and all. But since you are, let me just say girl to girl, him and his brothers style sucks.” I could even hear Randi laughing now too. I had to get Jessi off the phone.

“Finally, someone agrees with me.” I was glaring at her with my arms crossed. “Well Zac’s gonna kill me if I don’t stop talking to you, but I can’t wait until I can meet you.”

“Same here and tell Zac to stop whining.”

“I will.” Jessi then handed me the phone.

“What the hell did you say to her?” My own girlfriend talking trash about me, oh I want to know.

“Oh nothing, it’s a girl thing.” I sighed. “It’s nothing that bad.” I could sense her rolling her eyes on the other side of the phone.

“Well I have to go, it’s dinner time.”

“Alright, but call me later.”

“I will.” I didn't want to get all mushy in front of my family, but I knew she was going to make me.

“I love you hun.”

“I love you too.” I tried to say it as quite as I could, but I knew everyone was listing. I put my phone back in my pocket while my bothers and my sisters looked at me with their little smiles on their faces. “What are you staring at?” I snapped at them.

“I love you too, *kissy-kissy*” Avery pretended to make-out with the air in an attempt to make fun of me.

“Ha, ha, ha, laugh all you want.” I stuck my tongue out at her.

“It’s okay Zac, I love you too.” Jessi smiled at me.

“At least I have someone in my life.”

“Oh but Zac, I love you too.” Tay batted his eyes at me.

“Shouldn’t you be saying to your girlfriend, oh wait that’s right you can’t get one.” He was sitting right next to me and I could tell he was getting really red in the face.

“Okay kids, that’s enough. Let’s eat.” My dad pulled in the parking lot. We all got out and went inside. It was a little restaurant called Gilberts. It is a little bit out of town but we don’t mind the drive, usually. We got a table for 9 and sat down. Tay, Macki, and me split a pizza. It was really good. Tay, Ike, and I played the NTN game too. It’s a multiple-choice question game where you play for points. It’s really fun. On the way home I was forced to sit by Jessi and Zoë. I didn’t mind Zoë at all, but I did mind Jessi.

“So you girlfriends seems really nice. I can’t wait to meet her.” I could tell Jessi was planning something.

“Well you won’t be meeting her anytime soon, that’s for sure.” I continued to look out the window. I couldn’t help but think of Randi. Everything I saw reminded me of her. I think I really am falling for her. But come on, I’m only 15. I just like her a lot, yeah that’s it. We arrived home quicker than I expected. I was probably out in la-la land longer than I thought.

“Get out of the car!” Jessi was getting impatient with me.

“Sorry Princess Jess, how can I ever make it up to you?” I put my hands together and looked at her.

“You can give me $100.” She stuck her hand out.

“Like that would ever happen.” I headed to the house. I was a hot night in Tulsa. It sprinkled here but just enough to dampen the pavement. The spots under the trees were dry though. It felt really muggy out. So once we got in the house the air was turned on. “It’s hot.” I plopped down on my pullout bed. Tay and Ike climbed onto theirs.

“For real, I’m sweating like a prostitute in church.” We all giggled a little. Tay took off his shirt and threw it on top of me.

“Excuse me, I’m not the hamper.” I threw it back at him.

“Well you smell like one.” He smiled.

“No, that’s just your upper lip.” I laid down.

“Funny.” He got up and threw his shirt in the real hamper. I swear if he gets any skinner he will disappear. How can the girl want a piece of that? There’s nothing to get a piece of. All three of us laid there, but we weren’t tired. Then I remembered I had to call Randi back.

“Hi is Randi there?” Her mom answered.

“Yeah hold on a sec Zac.” She knew my voice already. I felt kinda special.

“Hey hun!” Randi picked up the phone. “How was your evening?”

“Well with the exception of Jessica, it was fine.” I heard her snicker. I still want to know what she said to my sister.

“Don’t worry about her, she’s just giving you a hard time. But I can’t talk long, Audrey is supposed to come over and spend the night. You know tomorrow’s our concert.” I don’t remember her telling me about a concert.

“What concert?”

“Oh I didn’t tell you! I must have forgotten. The Blink-182 concert, yeah me and Audg are going.”

(*Author’s note*: I really am going to their concert. It’s July 18^th, well tomorrow since I am updating the story tonight. I am so excited!!)

“Oh, well have fun then. Oh and don’t let and hot Blink boys take you away from me.”

“Don’t worry, no one can take me away from you.” There was a pause. “Well Audrey is here so I’ll talk to you tomorrow if I can.”

“Alright, tell Audg I said hi.”

“I will, bye hun, love ya!” She hung up. Well now I was officially bored. “What can we do?” I was hoping my brothers had an idea.

“I don’t know. It too hot to think.” Ike mumbled.

“The air is on.” Tay looked up. Even though he was on the bottom bunk, Ike knew Tay was making a face. “We could check out some fan mail. We haven’t done that in a while.” Tay suggested. It was actually a pretty good idea.

“Yeah lets do that.” I sat up. So all three of us asked our mom where she put it. Apparently there is a special closet for all the mail we haven’t read. So we went to the basement and found a closet packed tight with mail. We each decided to take one bag out of the 20 to read. We brought them to our room and each got back on our own beds. When I opened my bag I saw so many letters. I was amazed. I dumped a pile of them onto my bed and started sorting through them. I picked up several and opened them. Some of them were long letters, some short, and some straight to the point.

“Listen to this one.” Ike had a good one. “Dear Hanson, I love you guys so much! You know if I had one wish it would be to meet you. And Taylor, I want to have your children! Love always and forever Helen.” Ike looked down at Taylor.

“Well maybe one day when I’m horny enough I’ll show up on her doorstep and give her a surprise.” Tay rolled his eyes at Ike. A lot of girls put that though. You know that they want to marry us and have our children. This one girl put I want to have wild sex with all three of you at the same time. She scared me a little so I threw that one away.

“Look at this girls envelope.” I held it up. “Doesn’t it look cool?” Ike grabbed it, looked at it, and then handed it to Tay.

“That is nifty.” It had the lyrics to “If Only” written on the back of the envelope. I went all the way around many times. “Well open it and see what she has to say.” Tay waited. I opened it and read it to myself. It was cool because she said Dear Zac, not Dear Hanson. She was just writing to say hi, and I love you music. It was on of those letters that has really no meaning, but you just like to get once in a while. She didn’t say she wanted us hard core or that she wants to have our children.

(*Author’s note*: Yeah I just described one of the many letters I wrote them. I hope their reaction was like that, well that is if they even read the mail we send them…)

“I like these kind of letters.” I said as I handed it to Tay so he could read it. It was only like a page and a half long. Perfect length and nice pink writing. Well she could of used a different color. All three of us stayed up until we read every letter in our bag. It took a few hours but it sure tired us out.

“I won’t have a problem sleeping now.” Ike yawned. It was 3:30 in the morning.

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