Chapter 11


We ran down the hall back to the Hanson's room, I knocked and Zac opened the door. "Hi Guys!" He screamed.

Taylor came up behind him and gave him a look; "Shut up man, Zoe's still sleeping."

Taylor motioned for us to come in. I got a good look at him and my mouth dropped, he had his wet hair pulled back into a ponytail and he had on black CK chords, his red long sleeved shirt undone over a fitted black shirt. Suddenly I snapped back to reality whe nI felt Zac tugging on my shirt, "C'mon, I wanna show you something!" I followed him as he opened his suitecase.

Zac, no one cares, come on we gotta get going..." Taylor said immpatiently.

"Wait, wait, I got it.." He said pulling out a black nylon bag and dumping it on the foor to reveal what looked like a thousand mini shampoo bottles.

So this is your famous shampoo bottle collection;" Stephanie said picking up the little bottles to examine them.

Zac nodded proudly; "this is it."

Just then Ike walked out of the bathroom with a brush caught in his tangled hair. He turned red with embarrasment; "Tay can you help me here? It got caught again."

We all burst out laughing at the sight of Issac with a tomato red face and a brush hanging in a humongous knot. Taylor shook his head and began helping Issac untangle the brush.

Mrs. Hanson walked in thrugh the door that connected the rest of the families' room to Issac, Taylor and Zac's.

"Are we almost ready to get going here?" She asked. Taylor's head poped out of the bathroom; "Just a sec mom, Ike got the brush caught again."

Mrs. Hanson shook her head and went to help untangle the brush.

Soon all 9 people were walking into the parking lot to the huge van. After about 10 minutes we all managed to pile into the van and Mr.Hanson drove away. In the front we had Mr. Hanson driving, Mackie in the middle and Mrs. Hanson holding Zoe. The nthere was Jessica and Avery and Zac in the middle section and Ike, Tay me and Steph in the back. It was about a 10 minute drive to Perkins, and that 10 minutes was loud! But the Hanson family seemed used to it. Since we were so squished, my shoulders were brushed up against Taylor, being that close to him made my heart beat fast, I could smell his CKbe cologne.

"This is is wierd;" I thought to myself. "Being this close to Hanson, to Taylor, to have actually met him like I'd always fantisized. At that moment I had more feelings for Taylor than I'd ever had, my hands we twitching to just reach over a couple inches and touch his. But with great effort I kept them to myself. My thought's were soon interupted by Zac and Mackie; "I get knocked down, but I get up again.." Zac sang loudly to Tubthumping, with Mackie singing along to what he knew. I looked over at the 2 of them singing, it was too cute...I felt as though any moment I was going to wake up and be back in my room surrounded by my posters and not them, but I never did wake up...because there ws still more of my reality to come...

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