"Tay're you crying?" He quickly looked down, as I stared at him in confusion. "No" he answered, and didn't explain further. "It looks like you are to me" I placed my hand over his "Can you tell me why?" He shook his head no and then looked up at me. Sometimes there's sort of these silent conversations that Taylor and I have. We were having one now and I knew exactly what he was asking me to do. Explain why I didn't tell him about Zac and I. Before you think that Taylor is over-reacting, put yourself in his shoes (that's what I always do). As I sat there on the bed with Taylor I thought about how I would feel if he had kept the fact that him and say, Melanie were dating from me. I think I would be more than mad and would be acting much worse than Taylor is now. "Tay, I'm sorry" "You lied to me" he said, calmy. "I didn't lie to you Taylor, I just didn't tell you" he went to speak but I started up again before he could "And I was going to, honest, but I was afraid of how you may feel about it. I didn't want you to be mad at me, Tay" Just then a horrible thunder sounded and we both jumped like kangaroos. When our bodies hit the bed again, we looked at each other and started laughing uncontrolably. "You should have saw your face" I said, in between laughing and trying to catch my breath. Taylor went to talk back, but couldn't as his giggles were to out of hand. Once we calmed down a little, I took the opportunity to make things right again. "Tay you know I'm really sorry" "Yeah Mads .. I am too" "Friends" I said my hand outstretched "Best Friends" he shook me hand. As we were about to get up and head back downstairs I stoped for a minue "Wait a second" "What" Taylor stoped at my door. "Before, Zac told me he was going in the pool" Then as if he didn't know I added "It's raining out" Taylor walked to me, put his hand around my shoulder and lead me out the door "Madison, if you haven't already learned the simple fact the Zac is weird, then you have sooo much to learn" ||||| After a while of reading "Little Women" I walked downstairs and into the den. I was surprised to see Walker there, reading an automobile magazine and sipping some Pepsi. He usually wasn't the kind of guy that would ust sit around. "Hi Walker" He looked up at me "Hey Madison" I've always thought of Walker as sort of an uncle figure, rather than just Ike, Tay and Zac's dad. "You two make a cute couple" "Zac and I?" He put his magazine aside "Yeah" A smile appeared across my face. "Yeah, and just as long as you two aren't having sex or getting married ... I'm happy for you" Surprised at his choice of words, all I could do was smile. He turned back to his magazine signaling that was all he had to say. I got up to leave, but he stoped me. "Madison, one more thing" I looked at him, telling him to continue "I hate to always have to bring it up, but it's important. If fans approach you about it, you have no comment, okay?" "Okay" and I walked out of the room satisfied. He was happy for us and in a way we had his blessing. Cool. ||||| Late that night, around eleven I couldn't sleep. Quietly, as not to wake my sleeping sisters I crawled out of bed and headed downstairs. As I walked down the stairs I heard the television and figured some lazy body had just forgot to shut it off, but as I saw a blonde head come into view the lazy-body theory was thrown out of the window. Now, at this point this person could be practically anybody - with the exception of four people. Walker, Dad, Molly and Mellissa - who all had brown hair. I didn't want to scare this "mystery" person, so I spoke quietly "Hey" And it turned around. Jessica. "Hey Maddy" I walked over to the couch and sat next to her She looked up and smiled at me "I'm glad you're here Madison" "Im glad you're here too Jess" When I was ten and leaving Tulsa, Jessica was only five. She cried when we left, but I think she just did it because she saw her brothers and her parents crying. Even so, every time I called Tulsa or one of the Hanson's called Tampa I always made it a point to talk to Jessie. She would tell me about her current crushes and I would listen with open ears. She didn't have a big sister and once told me that she thought of me as one. That fealt really good to hear. As the night progressed we talked a litle and she had me explain Zac and I and what was going on between us. At around 12:30 we stoped talking and decided that we were just going to crash on the couches. She moved over to the loveseat and I stood on the sofa. As soon as my head hit the pillow I was out like a light. I woke up the next morning around seven, and desperatly wanted to go back to sleep, but I couldn't - once I'm up I'm up. Period. So I pulled myself up off the sofa and made sure to glance outside. Sunny. Yay. As I walked up the stairs and to my room I couldn't help but wonder what this day had in store for me. home | next