Ding-Dong!!! My heart was practically chewing my cheast open, (I can get REALY nervous if you let me). I looked at my mom, who was looking at me, I smiled at her to make her feel beter, `cause I knew she was probably by now, doubting if to go to India or not. My mom returned the smile, and put her arm around my shoulder, bringing me towrards her. Just then someone opened the door, I felt my face boil. It was a guy, but he wasn´t any of the Hansons, at ALL, I knew cause I read a bunch on them. He had a distracted look, managing a smile, he coughed twice saying: "Oh, um..come on in..", leading the way to the living room " sit down..er.. aunt Diana will be here in a sec okay?" Then he left, he had barely looked at me!! I let myself drop on a big puffy couch. Real comfy. "Honey be carful" my mother said, I sighed "Its not like my legs´ll break in two if I sit down like a normal person or anything " I said, more to myself than to mom. She took a big breath, and let it out slowly. "I just want you to take care of yourself sweetie, be the mature girl I know" she said. I had learned to be pretty mature in my hospital days, but sometimes I could get real goofy, and act like a child. I gotta admit it.
"That lady, your mom´s best friend, she was at the door, with the girl that ya´ll said was gonna be stayin´for a couple of months" Wayne said as he came back in the room, Zac stopped fighting with Isaac and raised his eyebrows. "Is she cute??" He asked "Zac!! is that all you can think of??" I said with a fed up voice (I was having a real hard day) my bro shrugged. There was silence. "well....is she??" I finally asked, I mean, I was curious too! Wayne nodded "Yeah, from all I could see, sure she´s cute. But she did´t say anythin´, she was real quiet." He said. "How is she??" Ike asked putting his guitarr in its case. "Well you go see her!! She´s waiting for aunt Diana in the living room with her mom all alone!" Wayne said. "We can´t go SEE her, she´s not an exhibition or anything!! Lets just wait untill mom calls us and introduce us to her" I said, my brothers and Wayne agreed. "I heard mom saying something about her having some problem in her legs or something" Zac comented, scrabling on a piece of drawing paper. "So did I, some bone that is broken for life or something....I dont know..." Isaac said.
"Well, we can ask mom later, when she´s not around" Wayne said. "You guys are so nosy" I said rolling my eyes (I´m not always this bad tempered, today, as I said before, was NOT my day) "Sheesh whats wrong with you ?" Zac said frowning at me. Then he turned his head back to his paper. "He´s just real touchy cause he´s getting a cold." My older brother said rolling his eyes.
"Chill Tay man, maybe she could turn out to be your girl or something... you never know..." Wayne said puting his arm around my neck, I pushed him away "Oh shut up Wayne! You´re getting it for this I MEAN it ¡!! and I´ll remind you of ...what was her name?? Su....." I began teasing my cousin with some girl he´d thought liked him, but then just totally walked over him. "SHUT UP TAY!!!" Wayne yelled. Wayne and I began chasing each other around the room. To tell the truth, I WAS curious about this new girl, I wanted to meet her, but of course I said nothing about it. Just then my mom poked her head in our room, we stopped fidgetting, she smiled. "Boys I need to go to the living room, my best friends´ daughter is here, I want you to meet her, but first, Zoe needs change of diapers" She said. So we all ended changing my little sister´s diapers.
I was beginig to think that Diana´s delay was a sign that she didn´t want me in her house when she apeared with a big smile, she and my mom hugged, then she looked at me. "Hello dear, Carol you have a beautiful daughter!! She´s so different from the pictures you sent me!!" She said. "Well, she was ten in those pictures, now she´s thirteen." "I have a fifteen year old son, and a twelve year old son as well, and the oldest one, is seventeen, they should be showing up in no time. I´m shure you´ll get to be good friends." Diana said. I just smiled. Actually I was doubting it, what if they didn´t like me?? Or didn´t want to come near me?? Or..- "Johanna´s problem is getting beter, but she still has to go for check-ups, the ones I told you on the phone.." My mom talking about my "problem" got me away from my negativeness. Then I began explaining to Diana all about my legs and junk, blah blah, I have to walk little for a week or so, blah blah my chekups and me being carful with not falling, and blah about my pain in the right leg that sometimes stroke me. Diana listened to everything, and said that I would be jut fine in her house. Then our conversation passed on to my mom´s trip, my favourite food, and stuff like that. I hadn´t stopped messing with my silver chain that hung from my neck, (that I never took off) the whole time.
The smell in my mom´s room was a killer after Zoe was done. "This has been the WORST from all I think!!" Zac exagerated as we all walked out of mom´s room. Isaac was carrying Zoe. We walked towards the living room, where some conversation was heard. J I don´t know why, but out of nothing, Zoe began crying, I think she was hungry or something, but she did, and as we appeared in the living room all three persons there were already looking our way. I felt myself blushing, as I saw the girl. One thought totally invaded my mind:
"God he´s SO cute!" I thought as I saw Taylor Hanson, kinda blushed appearing, he had always been my favourite Hanson, well, and Zac, I can never decide... just then Zac came to view, he had his hair real long, and it looked kind of tangled, like mine, he was goofing with his sister, it reminded me of my little sister, and God I was gonna miss her, she´s ten, and one of my best friends, (hey, she´s always there, and she´s real real nice) but she was going to India with mom, it would be abuse to ask Diana to also take care of Megan, I mean, she can travel. Diana said she could also take care of her, but mom said that it would be too much, plus I knew she wanted to be near Meg, (I mean, at least she would be with one of us) My real best friend, the only one that always came to visit me, and that knew everything about me, was Casey, and we had promised to write to each other.
"Boys, this is Johanna" Diana introduced me, I stood up real quick, and I knew my mom was looking at me (I have to stand up real slow, she says) Taylor, Zac, Ike with a baby (Zoe I guessed) and the guy that had opened the door for us, all walked close to me, I shook hands with all of them, and I told them it was Joey, I don´t like Johanna much, my dad calls me Jo, my mom Johanna, and Meg calls me Joey, so I have lots of nicknames (Without counting the ridiquilous ones like Jo-Jo, or Hannah, or Anna, that some of my family or friends always make up).
Then my mom left, she almost cried, I couldn´t believe she was realy leaving, even if I had conviced her to, she said she was gonna get someone to get Megan over so I could say bye to her, since I hadn´t been able to yet, and it was getting late. She wasn´t here because she was arriving at the hotel later, now she was probably there all alone already, and mom couldn´t get her here bcause she had to plan some stuff on India.
So there I was, about to cry, real depressed, with the Hanson Family (or at least part of it) surrounding me. I felt real stupid, now Diana would probably leave, and I wouldn´t know what to say to them, so I promised myself I wouldn´t be shy and I would act normal and non-shy (yeah right and I´m queen of England) to my surprise, Diana began: "Well, I suppose you´d want to see your room and have a tour around the house, Isaac can do that with you, Zachary and Taylor have some things to do around the garden right?" she looked at both her sons with a sort of severe look. Zachary frowned and Taylor blushed a bit brighter. "Aw mom!! It wasn´t my fault!! It was Taylo..." he began, Taylor raised his eyebrows "Excuse me?? `leave it there, nothing will happen´that´s what YOU said if you don´t remember, AND it was me that said we better not, and YOU insisted...." he began defending himself when Zac raised his hands as if defending himself from his bro´s attaks. " Okay okay it was my fault too....a little bit" he said smiling, I couldn´t help giggling, he looked at me smiling. "It was your fault a lot" Tay said
"Okay boys, no fighting, it was both your faults, I don´t believe a five year old would do what you guys did..now get the plants from the garage and be carful with the motorbike, its just been re-painted." Diana said, I was wondering what they had done, and I was thrilled about motorbikes, I use to have one, but some guy stole it from me one day. Tay and Zac, grunting, walked outside, Tay was still blaming Zac or something, and Diana had taken Zoe away from Ike and had dispeared. I pulled up my bag, as Ike, began showing me around. "See, your room is close to my sister´s and my brothers and mine. The bathroom is over there, errr, you can leave your stuf over there, and um.." he was saying when my leg began hurting, like when you fall and hit your bone real hard, like that, it was horrible. I closed my eyes for a while and held on to the border of the door. "Are you okay?" Ike said noticing, I nodded
"Yeah, it´s just this pain I always get cause of my leg..." I muttered walking in what would be my new room. "You´re leg?" Wayne said, I raised my left eyebrow "What? Diana hasn´t told you? " I asked astonished, they said no with their heads. "Oh, well, I have some bone that has been like scraped a bit, and hurts some time, with luck I might get some operation soon and it´ll get cured but we don´t know yet.." I said "Tough" Wayne said I nodded, then all three of us began chatting some about my leg and about moving, Ike was real nice.
"How could you ever let go of the lawnmower??I just don´t get it!" Again, I acused my brother with no reason, I love to do that, now he´ll get mad and complain.. "Shut up Zac, you´re starting to get on my nerves" Taylor said, so I just changed the subject quickly. "How do you like Johanna?" I asked. I had thought she WAS pretty, although it was obvious she was my age or abit more. (she was shorter than me for what...three quarters of an inch?) my brother shrugged, "Aw Tay tell me!! Its not like as if i´m gonna run tell!" I insisted, Tay dug a small hole in the ground and stuck a flower plant in it, then he covered the dirt around it and petted the dirt. "She´s okay" he said vaguely. "I think she´s pretty" I commented as I copied what he was doing with the plants. A small smile curved in Tay´s lips "Oooh Zac" he said. I laughed "But I wanna meet her first, ´cause we haven´t even talked to her at all" I said. "Yeah, she´s pretty" Tay said. Then I began saying some jokes that always cheered my brothers up, and we just kept on talking.
