Taylor and the gang trooped backstage and were let in with their V.I.P passes.
"V.I.P stands for Very Important Ponies!" stated Zac.
"No, I believe you are wrong, Zac," said Bob. "It stands for Very Intersesting Porn."
Tamara and Taylor looked at each other and rolled their eyes, while Zac burst out laughing. "No no, my friend," he said. "It really stands for Very Indignant Priests!"
"Very Intriguing Pronouns!"
"SHUT UP!!!!!!" yelled Taylor. "You guys are so dumb! Now, let's go find Dream and tell them how much we love them and their music."
"Mental that one, I'm tellin ya," said Zac.
They found the members of Dream standing by a table filled with food, talking with a familiar looking rapper.
"SHOOT! It's P. Diddy! Know what I'm sayin?" exclaimed Zac.
"So it is, y'all! Let's go give him props for his supa-fly ghetto rhymes," Bob suggested.
Taylor through up his hands in exasperation. "What must a man do for some sanity around here?"
"A man?" said Scott, smirking.
"You shut up," said Taylor. "Let's go introduce ourselves to them," he said as he led the way over to the table. "This is so embarrassing," he muttered to himself.
"You're telling me," said Zac, who had overheard him. "I forgot to wear pants!"
"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" yelled Taylor. Tamara hit him and motioned to Dream, who had all stopped talking and were looking at him rather strangly. "Uh, heh heh. Well, hello there! I'm Taylor Hanson and this is my brother Zac and our, uh, friends Scott and Bob Moffatt." He held out his hand and one of the girls lept forward to grab it.
"Hi! I'm Megan! I'm a HUGE fan, let me tell you! I love you guys, you're my favorite group ever! I listen to you on the bus all the time," said a girl with short, dirty blonde hair. She smiled at Taylor and Tamara stepped forward.
"Yeah, Taylor listens to you guys on the bus all the time too," she said, putting her arm around Taylor. "I'm Tamara, his girlfriend." She stuck out her hand for Megan to shake it and she did, halfheartedly.
"Oh, cool," she said. "Well, come meet the other girls." She led them over to the table and introduced the three other girls that were standing there.
"Ah, shoot! P. Diddy left!" said Zac dejectedly.
"Yeah, he had to go milk his cows," said one of the girls with curly brown hair.
"Crap! I forgot to do that!" said Bob, sprinting from the room.
Taylor looked at everyone in disbelief. What dimension am I in?
"It's another dimension!!!" shouted Zac, spinning around in circles and eventually out of the room. They heard a loud crash and a cat's meow. "I'm okay!" he yelled from the other room.
Scott shook his head. "Anyway, that was a good show you put on, girls. But we should really be going, right Tamara?" he winked at Tamara.
"NO!" shouted Taylor and Tamara at the same time.
"I mean, we haven't played Charades yet!" blurted out Taylor.
"What?" asked Tamara, confused and bewildered. She looked at him strangly. "I thought it would be cool if we all went out to get something to eat or something."
"Yeah! That's what I meant!" Taylor said, straightening the tie that he didn't have on. "Who's up for it?" He looked at Scott. "I KNOW Scott wants to come."
"Well, not really...." he started to say.
"SURE YA DO!" Taylor said rather loudly. "Anyone else? Melissa? GREAT! Let's go!"
"I'll come too," said the Megan girl. "I'd like to talk to you guys some more."
"WONDERFUL!" Taylor said. "I'll get the limo to come around back." They walked out the back doors and were waiting on some steps, when Bob popped out of a trashcan.
"K, they're all milked," he said, brushing off his clothes. "Bertha gave me a hassle today though."
Shocked, and slightly embarrassed at the sight of seeing Bob in a trashcan, Taylor grabbed onto Tamara and turned her around to face him. "Oh wear is my brother? Oh where is my brother? Oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh where oh WHERE....is my brother?"
"I gave him to the peach, because he's got hair," said Tamara.
They looked at each other, snapped out of it and slapped themselves. Luckily, Zac came running outside to join them as the purple limo with green polkadots pulled up.
"I had almost forgotten about the polkadots," said Scott.
"I didn't!" said Zac.
They all climbed into the limo and told the driver to take them to the nearest 24 hour Denny's to get something to eat.
"Well! This is nice," said Megan.
"Shut up," said Tamara.
"Tamara, Bob's drooling. Would you mind switching seats with him?" asked Scott.
"Shut up Scott," said Taylor.
"I think my bra is coming undone," said Melissa, speaking for the first time.
Shocked, and slightly embarrassed at the thought of Bob in a bra, Zac grabbed onto Taylor. "Oh where is my brother, oh WHERE is my brother! Oh where oh where oh...."
"Who, Isaac?" asked Bob. "DIdn't he stay home to watch Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
"Oh yeah," Zac said, letting go of Taylor, who straightened the tie that he didn't have on. "I sure hope he didn't watch today's episode of Tellitubbies without me."
"Why are we doing this, again?" asked Melissa. Megan elbowed her. "Oh yeah, right."
Finally, after what seemed to be an eternity, they arrived at Denny's. They hopped (well, Bob fell and landed on his face) out of the limo and went inside to eat. They were seated at a large booth and luckily managed to get Melissa and Scott next to each other. Taylor and Tamara sat across from them and to Taylor's annoyance, Megan found a seat next to him. "Well! This is fun!" said Taylor. He looked around the table and saw six faces staring blankly at him. He cleared his throat. "SO! Um, how do you like singing, Melissa?"
"I love it!" said Megan. "It's the best thing in the world! EVER!"
"He asked me, you fruit," said Melissa. "It's okay, I get to wear a lot of makeup."
Taylor looked at her dumbly. "Uh, yeah, that's cool. So have you been on tour long?"
"It seems like forever!!!! But it's really only been 2 days! We just got on TRL yesterday! It was fun! Carson is soooooo cute!" said Megan.
"He asked me, you fruit," said Melissa. "We've been on tour for about 2 days. It's okay. You get to wear a lot of makeup."
Taylor gaped at her with his mouth open a little. Scott had slumped over in his seat and was snoring. Even Zac's eyes had glazed over. The only one who didn't seem affected was Megan, who was gazing at Taylor in admiration.
"I love you, Taylor," she said, batting her eyes at him.
"Ew, knock it off!" said Tamara, throwing her napkin at her. It hit Melissa instead, who screamed.
"OH MY GOSH! Now I have to put on all my makeup again. Excuse me," she said, pushing over Scott as she got up and left the table.
"She won't be back for about 3 hours," said Megan matter-o-factly.
Taylor covered his face with his arms and slumped over the table.
"Well this is fun!" said Scott.
"Well this is fun!" said Tamara.
"Well this is fun!" said Bob.
"Well that worked," said Taylor. "Oh whereeeeeee is my brother?" wailed Zac. chapter 58