Taylor hummed to himself. The week had been going great- he had hung out with his friends, went to the mall and Laser Quest and slept in every da. Best of all, he had hardley seen Tamara at all. Plus he had talked to Sierra on th phone and had arranged for her to come backstage at the New York concert that was in the second week of their tour. Yeah, the week had gone well, and they had two days left before they flew to Detriot to kick off the U.S Albertane Tour. He had even written some new songs.
"Hey guys?" called his mom up the stairs. "We have to have a meeting quick, just to talk about some things for the tour."
"Okay! I'll be right down," said Taylor. He walked down the stairs to the family room, where the rest of the family was sitting. Ike was lounged on the couch and Zac was lying on the floor. The rest of the kids were playing on the floor with some Legos.
"Okay, as you know, your father and I are going to be extremely busy and arn't going to have enough time to take care of the kids the whole time. So we've arranged for a babysitter to come along with us, at least for the U.S part of the tour."
"Aww, mom, we don't need a baysitter," whined Zac.
"Don't worry, it's not for you," said Walker. "Although you might actually need one!"
"We'll just buy a leash for him," laughed Ike.
"Ha ha," Zac said.
"Well, who's the baby sitter?" asked Tay.
"Well...we know that you don't particularly get along, but we've asked Tamara Souder from across the street to come with us. She's so good with the kids and..."
"WHAT?!! No way, uh uhh. She is not going to come along and ruin our first real tour..." yelled Taylor.
"Taylor!" said Walker sharply. "She is NOT going to ruin the tour, you won't even have to see her that often. She'll be on a different bus and will be with the children most of the time. And I will not tolerate you picking fights with her the whole time, or we will just leave you behind."
"Um, you can't exactly do that..." started Zac. He stopped when he saw Walker's face. Zac liked seeing Taylor get into trouble.
"Zac!"
"Sorry."
"Anyway, can I have your word that you two will be decent to each other?"
Taylor was silent. "I will if she will," he grumbled.
"She will," said Diana. "We're paying her."
"Fine fine."
Walker smiled. "Good, I thought so. Anyway, we have to start planning what stuff we're going to bring and not going to bring..."
Taylor zoned out of the conversation as he thought about what he had just been hit with. He was sure he wasn't going to be able to live with Tamara on the tour. It was unbearable to have her live across the street. The tour was going to be his haven away from her and now she to come along and ruin it all. Life sucks, he thought.
"What did you say?" asked Diana.
"Um, nothing." Taylor didn't want to get trouble already. He decided he would keep his mouth shut about the whole thing. I won't bother her if she won't bother me, he thought.
Of course that was going to be impossible.