Mackie was the first one to wake up and of course, decided to come and wake everyone else up.
He ran into the room screaming his ass off.
I started to notice how everyone’s eyes started to slowly open and looked at Mackie.
Mac started to have the I’ll-get-out-of-here-now look. And ran outta the room.
"’Morning, Tammie," Amanda said sleepily and slowly got out of bed and went into the bathroom to get dressed while I went into the boys’ room.
In there the boys were watching cartoons. I just started at them in disbelief.
"Guys, come on, get dressed, we have to be at the park by 1!!!"
"Tamarah, that is only 2 hours and 45 minutes from now!" Tay informed me.
"That means you have one 1 hour and 45 minutes to get ready and go downstairs for breakfast! So come on! Chop chop!" I said and snapped my fingers for them to get out of bed.
Finally Tay was the first one to get out and walked into the bathroom.
And Ike went in me and Amanda’s room.
I jumped under the covers besides Zac and slowly kissed him.
"I thought they’d never leave," Zac whispered at me.
We finished watching the Animaniacs in each other’s arms when Ike walked in the room and told me the bathroom in my room was available now.
I kissed Zac once more and went into my room to take a shower and get dressed.
We decided to all meet in the restaurant downstairs at 11 with whatever we might want to take with us to the park.
I decided to take my Gap water bottle filled with ice cubes.
We all met downstairs at eleven and went to go eat in the hotel restaurant.
Diana and Walker let me and Amanda share a table with the 3 boys.
Me and Zac on one side, Amanda and Tay on the other with Ike on the side.
We all decided to order plain bacon with scrambled eggs.
I started to notice how Tay and Ike weren’t talking to each other.
Just then Taylor planted a sweet kiss on Amanda’s cheek.
Ike gave him a hard kick from underneath the table.
"Ouch, IKE, what was THAT for?"
"Okaaaay," I said trying to break up the fight, "I can’t wait till tonight! It’s gonna be awesome!"
"Oh, I know, I can’t wait to see you guys perform!" Amanda said.
I gave Tay the kinda look so he would remember that we had to make Amanda perform tonight.
He replied with a look that said "I know".
When everyone had finished their breakfast, including Diana and Walker with the rest of the kids, we got our stuff and went towards the van.
It was another hour long drive, which was the most absolute boring you could imagine.
When we FINALLY got there, Mac immediately took off with Zac running into the park.
But Zac stopped him and instead dragged him to the stage where we had started setting up the day before with the rest of the family following them, hoping we wouldn’t get mobbed. And we didn’t.
Diana and Walker talked and agreed we would all meet backstage at five.
We immediately went to set up Tay’s keyboard, while Zac was fooling around on his drums with Mackie, who insisted to stay.
Me and Amanda decided to take a seat in the audience. It was already starting to fill up with the fans.
We decided to sit front row, with a few fans.
"So how are you and Taylor getting along?" I asked my best friend.
"Oh my gosh, Tammie, he is soooo unbelievably sweet. How about you and Zac?"
"Oh, just the same old huggy-kissy relationship," I answer and watched the fans coming in when someone took a seat beside me.
"Excuse me, are you Tamarah?" A girl that looked like about 10 years old asked me.
"Uhh, yeah I am, hon. What’s your name?" I replied.
"My name is Ashley, could you sign this?" She asked holding out a Hanson t-shirt.
"Yeah, sure hon," I said and signed her t-shirt. After I did that I found Zac staring at me up on the stage.
"WHAT?!?" I screamed.
He turned away if ignoring my screaming.
I looked on my watch: 3:00 P.M.
"Hey, Amanda, wanna go check out the park a little bit?" I asked excitedly.
"Yeah, let’s go on that one water ride, that those boys went on in the Tulsa, Tokyo vid!"
"Yeah ok!!" I said as we both jumped out of our seats and screamed to the boys who were still up on the stage working hard, that we were leaving.
"Yeah, ok, be back at 4 for the soundcheck though!" Taylor screamed.
We basically ran to the water ride where we noticed a very long line up.
"Damnit, no wonder, it’s freakin hot out here!" I said brushing hair out of my beet red face from the heat.
"Look," Amanda said and pointed to a board in front of us that read "30 minute wait from here", "Let’s do it!" Amanda said and got in line.
"Hey, aren’t you Tamarah?" The guy working the ride yelled from basically WAY up at the front of the line.
"Uh, yeah, sorta," I screamed back with Amanda looking at me funny.
"Come on, I know you have a soundcheck at 4, it’s already 3:45, I’ll let you go on with these guys!" He yelled back.
"Wow, thanks," I said and ran to the front of the line with Amanda.
We got in the little kart quickly, enjoyed the ride and got back to the stage completely soaked.
Thank God, we brought clothes for the concert tonight.
Isaac was the first one to notice us completely soaked walking up towards the stage.
"Tammie, are you gonna do this soundcheck completely soaked?" He asked me staring at us with a weird look on his face.
"Uhhh, yeah, I guess so!" I said and walked past him right up to my microphone waiting for me.
We did a quick I Will Come To You with me as a background singer.
I started to notice some boys in the audience as well with big signs for both me and Hanson.
Amanda was sitting front row watching us with the same girl that asked me to sign her shirt earlier.
We finally finished by 5:00 and noticed about 75% of the seats were filled up.
Walker told us to go backstage and meet Diana with the younger kids.
"Tamarah, isn’t it time to change into CLEAN clothes?" Zac said with a weird look.
"Yeah," I said, grabbed my backpack and went to the nearest portapotty.
I came out wearing knickers with a white tank top and a pair of platform sandals.
I found the 3 boys signing autographs for their fans with Amanda standing close near them with an impatient look.
I practically ran to her with my backpack hanging over my shoulders.
"Where did the rest of the family go?" I asked.
"Oh they said we can just go off on our own till 7:30, and then we meet them backstage."
I glanced over to the boys, smiling, signing autographs. Seeing them happy gave me a smile on my face.
I took a look on my watch, it read: 5:30. "Come on, let’s go get something to eat!" I said and started walking towards the big crowd of fans.
"GUYS, WE’RE GONNA GO GET SOMETHING TO EAT!" Amanda screamed hoping they heard her. They did and gave us the OK sign.
We wandered off looking for some kind of food stand.
We started to notice the park was getting quieter.
"I guess everyone is waiting for you guys to perform!" Amanda said.
"Hmm…..hope so. Look, there’s the rest of the family," I said and pointed to the family who were standing in front of a food stand enjoying their food with their personal body guard.
We said hi and immediately got something to eat since we were starving.
We both ordered a hot dog and a milkshake and something for the 3 boys as well.
Amanda and I walked slowly and I had to sign a few autographs once in a while.
When we finally got to the boys they were sitting on a bench talking and laughing, mostly laughing though.
"What’s so funny?" I asked breaking their laughter.
"Nuttin, what did you get us to eat?" Tay asked impatiently.
"Just hot dogs and milkshakes!" Amanda answered and sat on his lap.
Zac and I noticed the jaelous look on Ike’s face again.
"Hey lighten up Ike, I’m sure you’ll find someone!" I said handing him his hot dog and milkshake and did the same with Zac and Tay and sat on Zac’s lap.
"Hope so……" Ike replied dissapointedly.
We all enjoyed our food while laughing because of all of Zac’s jokes.
Just as Ike did his famous Kermit impression and we all laughed Diana came into sight with her hubby and the rest of her 7 children.
"Guys, someone just called me and told me we have to do our performance early, as in, 6:30," Walker told us.
"And what time is it now?" Zac asked with a hyper Mackie stuck on his leg.
"Right now, it’s 6 o’clock!" Walker answered motioning for his youngest son to calm down.
"Damn, we better hurry up and get to the stage!" Taylor said.
We all immediately walked to the stage ignoring anyone that asked for autographs.
We ran onto the stage waiting backstage to go on. We still had 15 minutes.
I was running after Mackie who was a little out of control with the rest of the family watching me funny.
Finally someone announced our names, we ran onto the stage after giving each other high fives.
Amanda and Walker went down to the first row so they could videotape the performance.
We first did the song I’ll Be There For You with the boys as back up singers.
I got a great response from that fans.
It was Hanson’s turn now to do some of their songs, so I could chill backstage for a bit.
I saw Jessie and Avie dancing to Mmmbop.
While Diana was feeding Zoe with a crazy Mackie running around. I picked him up and brought him to his dad and Amanda downstairs.
Everyone started to scream as I came into the fans’ views.
Tay noticed me and waved after Mmmbop was done. They started the next song: Weird.
I talked to Amanda for a bit until I had to get back on stage and do I Will Come To You with me as a back up singer again.
I ran back up on the stage, greeted Tay and his bro’s as they started the first few keys to the song.
As I was singing I couldn’t believe I was up on stage singing.
It was the most amazing feeling.
When the song finally ended, it was time to get Amanda up on stage. I gave the boys the sign that it was time.
"Guys and chickies, we have a wonderfull friend, named Amanda, who is a very talented singer. Geez, that sounds corny, doesn’t it?" I joked.
I looked at Amanda and noticed the surprising look on her face.
Everyone laughed at my joke.
"Please give a warm welcome to Amanda Speakman!" I yelled and motioned for her to get up on stage.
She took Mackie off her lap and set him on the chair. He had finally calmed down.
My friend had finally reached the stage. The first thing she did was hit me on my shoulder.
Someone came out and put a microphone in front of her.
We all decided to sing the song Mmmbop once more. But this time me and Amanda would sing it, the guys just did the instruments.
After that the concert was done. I let out a sigh of relief.
Everyone screamed and cheered, I noticed some girls crying because of the boys. I just wanted to give them a big hug.
Now it was time to do interviews.
We noticed another ET interviewer and some news channels.
We first did the ET, they also asked Amanda some questions. She was still completely flippin from what she just did.
We signed some more autographs and posed for pictures.
Some girl’s mom asked me where I had gotten my knickers.
We finally finished by 9 o’clock. Time to go back to the hotel.
We had to meet the family by at the car.
Ike was ahead of us bunch of lovebirds.
"Hey guys, let’s go skinny dipping when we get back!!" Zac yelled with a lot of spaze in it.
Me and Amanda gave each other the I-don’t-think-so look.
"Yeah guys, let’s!!" Tay said looking at me and Amanda with a huge smirk.
"Uhhh, ok, fine!" Amanda said.
I looked at her with a look that read what are you doing?
"Alright, fine, we will!" I insisted.
It was another long, but nice and quiet ride home since the younger ones were asleep except for Jessie who me and Amanda were talking to.
The boys were in the backseat completely quiet.
When we finally got back to the hotel I started to notice how Ike didn’t look too good.
"Ike, are you feeling okay?" Diana asked and put her hand upto his forehead.
"Yeah, I just have a headache," he replied grabbing his backpack out of my hand and went straight up to his room.
Diana and Walker took the younger kids upto their room which left Tay and Zac, and me and Amanda standing in the lobby.
"Good, no one is at the pool. LET’S ROCK!" Zac yelled and practically ran to the pool.
Tay, Amanda and I slowly walked behind him.
We reached the pool and I noticed Zac already butt naked in the pool.
"Shit, why does he look so good?" I muttered.
Tay and Amanda were the next ones in the pool.
I finally decided I should just join in although I had some doubts about it.
"Gawd, Tay, you sure look damn good naked!!" Amanda yelled as he jumped off the diving board.
"Y’know, I feel like that chick in Show Girls when she’s doing it in the pool!!" Zac said as he made his way over towards me.
Just then something caught their eyes: the hotel manager.
"Aheem!!" He cleared his throat, and we all looked at him. "You are not allowed to skinny dip in this hotel. Please get back upstairs to your rooms, and you shall never skinny dip again or you will be banned from the hotel as long as you shall live!" He ordered us and walked out.
"We better go!" Zac yelled, jumped out and put his boxers on and walked towards the elevator.
We all did the same thing and followed him, laughing at the way Zac was immitating the manager.
We all got back to our rooms, and it was already 10 o’clock.
"Guys, we gotta finish packing," Amanda said in front of our rooms.
"Yeah, we do too!" Tay said and kissed his girlfriend as Zac did the same thing to me.
Amanda and I walked back into the room and finished packing.
By the time we finally finished, it was already 11 o’clock.
"Oh geez, I don’t know about you, but I am dead tired!" I told my friend.
"Yeah me too, let’s go get some sleep!" Amanda said and jumped in bed, not even bothering to change her clothes.
I figured I was just too tired to change so I just jumped in bed and sleep. drifted off in a deep