She sighed, put her head down and fell back asleep.
At 9, to be exact, someone was shaking Tamarah, "wake up" she shouted, still shaking. Tamarah opened her eyes slowly and realized it was Jessica and Avery.
"What is it guys?" She asked sleepily.
"It’s your turn in the bathroom. Do your thing now or never!" Diana warned from the couch across from her where she was sitting down with a dressed Mackie.
Tamarah sat up, holding her head as if she had a headache.
"Great, Zac’s still on the floor, sound asleep, so that would mean, I’m the youngest teenager here awake, oh joy!" Tamarah mumbled.
She slowly walked over towards the bathroom, stumbling, since she wasn’t wearing her contacts, or glasses.
When she came out she was wearing beige shorts with a white and blue tank top.
"About time you got out of there!" Ike yelled from over his bunk bed, while watching cartoons with Taylor.
"Yeah, it looks like you could use a shampoo and conditioner!" Tamarah teased.
She looked around, and found Amanda still sleeping, while everyone else was wide awake.
Tamarah slowly tiptoed towards Amanda’s bed, hoping somehow she would wake up. After 5 times of calling out her name, she started to shake her, and started yelling her name. After about 10 minutes of trying her eyes finally opened.
"What?" She said sleepily.
"Your turn in the bathroom, hon!" I informed her.
"Uhm….excuse me, Tams, but it’s my turn next!" Taylor exclaimed.
"Excuse me, Tay, if you wanna keep your girlfriend awake, you gotta let her have the bathroom!" I lectured.
Zac was now lying down on the couch reading a magazine while eating a bowl of cereal, still in his payamas.
"3 Miles ‘till Colorado guys!!" Walker yelled from the front of the bus, with Diana sitting beside him with Zoe and Mackie.
"WAHOO!!!!" everyone cheered.
Just then Ike came out of the bathroom and Amanda headed in, leaving Taylor still on the top bunk watching cartoons in his PJ’s, and the same story was with Zac.
"Hey Zac, chum a bum," Tamarah said and moved his legs off the couch so she could sit down, grabbed a YM off the pile of magazines.
"Who in the family reads this?" She questioned Zac who was awfully caught up in his magazine, what seemed like something about video games.
"Huh??" He said, "Oh, my mom and Jessica."
Tamarah made a face and got back to reading.
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"Hey Ike?" Tay asked Ike who was sitting on the top bunk beside the bunk he was on, watching cartoons as well.
"What?" His big bro mumbled, who was also caught up in the cartoon.
"I wanna kiss Amanda, but I’m not sure if she would mind?" He whispered with his eyes still focused to the 13" TV.
"Just ask her, when the moment is right, say something like "can I ask you a personal question?" and she’ll say "sure" and then you say "can I kiss you?" that’s how it works, bro!" Ike explained.
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Jessica and Avie were sitting on Avie’s bottom bunk playing with their barbie’s.
"Ok, you be Skipper, and I’ll be Barbie!" Jessica stated/
"But I wanna be Barbie! She’s so much prettier!" Avie complained.
"Fine, if you wanna be Barbie, I’d rather play Power Rangers with Mackie!!" She yelled and stormed off into her parents room and locked the door.
Just then Amanda came out of the bathroom, fully dressed, Taylor noticed and immediately jumped up and went into the bathroom to have his turn.
"THAT IS IT!!!! I HAVE HAD IT WITH THAT GUY!!!!!" Zac yelled and stomped over towards the bathroom and banged on the door 3 times.
"Taylor, it was my turn for that bathroom," he screamed.
His reply was the shower turning on.
Zac stormed back to the couch beside Tamarah, filled with anger.
"Ohh, you’re pathetic!" Tamarah said flipping a page of the YM trying to keep her laughter in.
By this time it was already noon and the weather was getting hot, so it seemed. The sun was shining bright, with just a few clouds scattered.
"Mom, are we almost there?" Avie managed to gasp between her tears, she was still crying about the fight she had had with Jessica.
"Just a few more hours, honey," She replied, not realizing her 7-year-old was crying.
Just then Taylor came out of the bathroom dressed and looking spiffy.
"FINALLY!!!!" Zac yelled and jumped up, grabbing a set of clean clothes and headed in, pushing Taylor out of the way who was still standing in the doorway.
Taylor was now making his bed while Amanda was sitting beside Tamarah on the couch reading an old issue of the Twist she had brought along.
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The next few hours were spent watching TV or whatever, until Walker announced, "We’re here guys!!"
Everyone got up out of their seats, grabbed everything they needed and headed out the bus.
Ike, Tay, Zac and their dad went straight to the building to set up, with Scott Hogan following them, with the other musicians, make up artists, and styling coordinators.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ < Tamarah and Amanda decided to chill in the bus a little longer on Tay’s lap top while everyone went into the building.
"Geez, I’m getting bored on this lap top," Tamarah sighed sitting back in the chair.
"Yeah, me too, and we’re supposed to do this for the whole summer? My, I’ll be dead by the end! Tell my mom I love her!" Amanda replied.
Just then Taylor and Zac entered the bus.
"Dudes, what are you doing in here?? You should see the place!" Zac shouted as he took off his shoes and started jumping on the couch.
"Yeah, Amanda, come see it, it is great!" Taylor said as he held out his hand for her to take.
Amanda took the hand and stood up, and before she knew it her and Taylor were walking towards the building leaving Tamarah and Zac alone in the bus.
"So, what do you wanna do, my love?" Zac questioned as he sat back down on the couch trying the catch his breath.
"I dunno……what do you wanna do?" Tamarah replied, then slowly made her way towards the couch flirtatiously.
"Well, how about…..you come sit down beside me on the couch," Zac suggested slapping his hand on the couch, for her to sit down, "and then you let me kiss you!"
Tamarah sat down and soon the couple was kissing.
The kiss lasted for what seemed forever, as they let each other go Zac said "Come on, I’ll let you play my drums!" and took her towards the building where the rest of the family was as well.
And this is how it went on for the whole summer, fighting over the bathroom in the morning, fighting over who’s gonna be Barbie, doing concerts, and lots of make out sessions, and finding even more boxes of condoms and playboys.