"Tay."

"Yeah."

"What are we gonna do today?"

"What we do every day Mey. Try and take over the world."

She giggled grabbing g a pillow and stuffing it in his face.

"What! This is not a good idea to you?"

She smiled, rolling him off the bed.

"Mey."

Dorin stood in the door way to her room.

"Whatie?"

"You didn't happen to hear Zac come in the door last night did you?"

Mercy sat back in thought.

"Nope, didn't."

Dorin turned to Taylor.

"You?"

Shaking his head, Taylor shrugged.

"Sorry door."

"Damnit."

Dorin turned to walk away.

"Why dude?"

Dorin stopped.

"Well cause your mom called this morning and said neither of them had gone to your place, and they haven't come here, so where the hell are they?"

Taylor frowned. Very unlike his younger brother to just disappear.

"They'll turn up bro. Don't worry about them."

Mercy reassured her brother as he thumped down the steps.

"It's not really that cold out Han."

"Hell it's not!"

"Well dumb ass don't smoke reefer and you wouldn't feel that way."

Zac Hanson giggled at his friend's remark.

"Can you not giggle? We are about to walk into my house, and explain where we've been all night, and with you giggling, it's just not going to go over well."

They both put on their serious faces.

"Thank you."

They walked down the street, not yet busy with the Saturday's commotion.

"Heya D, how are you going to explain this one?"

"How else do you think I got away with it for so long? Watch and learn Bat boy."

"Bat boy? What's that make you, Mr. Bat the Bat man."

"Cut the crap Han."

The air was crisp and cold as they walked up the porch steps and grabbed the door handle.

"Here's to nothing."

Zac Dentra stepped into the house first, followed by Zac Hanson, throwing his pack down by the door and walking past Dorin who sat on the sofa.

"Ahem?"

Zac stopped, turned around and looked at his brother.

"What."

"Care to explain to the rest of the world where you two disappeared to last night?"

"If we explained to the rest of the world, that would be just one more thing that they would know."

"Where were you?"

"Spending the night at Kevin's."

"Do I need to call there?"

"Door! What do you think we were doing? Running around town with Eric bashing in store windows and stealing anything and everything we could?"

Dorin shrugged.

"Just wish you would have told me you were staying over there that's all."

"Sorry."

The two Zac's raced up the stares to his room.

Jumping up on the bed, they lay down.

"Nice one D."

"Thankyavery much."

"Gotta teach me how to do that."

"Later."

"Kay."

"Let's sleep."

"D you come up with the best ideas sometimes."

"We can just sit here for the rest of the day, no problem at all."

Mercy sighed.

"You know, if we tour…."

"Ohhhhh. Mercy's gonna tour eh. Nice."

"I said if."

"Oh sorry, anyway, what were you saying."

"There's gonna be no more time."

"For what."

"Everything."

"Yup. S'okay."

"And it looks like Josh is trying to get us doing something."

"You mean advertise, tell the world your life, then let the fans come screaming?"

"I spose that would be how it goes."

They paused.

"Tay Tay."

"Hmm?"

"Let's go do something."

"Like what?"

"Build a snow man."

"There's not enough snow."

"We'll manage."

Isaac walked in the house past Dorin.

"Mom was pissed."

"Your mom! Pissed! Wow, woulda liked to have seen that one."

Isaac rolled his eyes.

Isaac's nineteen-year-old self still stood a couple inches over Dorin, Dorin had a feeling it was going to stay that way.

"Haven't talked to you lately. So what's up Ike?"

The two sat down at the kitchen counter.

"Everything and anything."

"Oh?"

Isaac shrugged.

"Care to explain?"

"Well, Chris is adamant that we get to work on a new album, and try working out a tour for next fall."

"You guys just toured though."

"Not just, but close enough."

"You up for it?"

"Do I look up for it?"

Dorin laughed.

"Angie wants more of my time."

"Is that a bad thing?"

"Well, no."

"Then don't complain, at least you have a girlfriend."

"Okay, sure. You'll get one. Then you'll see."

"Well, anything else?"

"Taylor is never home anymore."

"Yeah, I know, he's upstairs."

"Duh. His car is outside, he's always upstairs."

"Well, what to expect?"

"Zac's never home."

"He's upstairs."

"Yeah, I know. Seems like my entire family lives here."

"No no, just the two brothers you happen to make music with."

They chuckled.

Isaac looked around the kitchen.

"You guys are lucky."

"How so?"

"You don't have parents to still tell you what to do, and when to do it. There's only you guys, so your not surrounded by younger siblings. You don't have to buy buses to get the family somewhere."

"You think we're lucky for that?"

Isaac paused.

"Sort of yeah."

"Why?"

"Well cause sometimes it all gets to be too much."

"How on earth do you figure? Sometimes we tell ourselves how lucky you guys are."

Isaac shrugged.

"It's getting old."

"Family never gets old."

"Both of you! Get up!"

Zac Hanson was the first to wake. Must be a curse he had.

Dorin stood at the foot of the steps, yelling up at them.

"YOU TWO GET UP NOW! DINNER NOW!"

"Door! We're up already!"

The yelling ceased as Zac heard Dorin walk away into the kitchen.

"Yo D, time to rise, we got fooooooodddd."

Zac Dentra sat up, silently standing to his feet and shaking his head.

No more buzz, no more tingle. Nothing left. Oh well.

"What."

"Dinner."

The two stepped out the door and raced down the steps.

They walked into the kitchen where, Taylor, Mercy, Isaac and Dorin already sat around the table.

"Morning…. or evening whichever you prefer."

The two pulled up a seat and waited for the food to be passed their way.

"Who cooked?"

Zac Hanson looked around the table.

"Mey did."

"Mey cooks?"

Zac Dentra reached over and playfully smacked his friend.

"Duh."

"Duh yourself. She just doesn't look like the 'cooking' kinda person."

"Ooh Kay."

Dorin passed the mashed potatoes.

"So what did you guys do last night?"

Zac Hanson looked up from his eating.

"Nothing, just watched movies. Ate popcorn, talked about Mercy and Taylor's love life."

Taylor rolled his eyes and Mercy stuck her tongue out at her younger brother.

"So you had fun?"

"Of course we did Door. We always have fun. Duh."

D widened his eyes as he passed the vegetables around the table.

"Zac?"

Zac Dentra looked up from his consistent shoveling.

"What?"

"You heard from Jem lately?"

Zac paused for a moment, searching his brain for some fictional answer.

"Uh, no not for a while really door."

Truth of the matter, last week. He and Zac Hanson had had to go to his brother's house in order to pick up the necessary stuff. In other words, what they had indulged upon the previous night. Jem had looked run down, unhappy.

"Well Zac if you see him or talk to him, tell him that Josh is starting to set up a schedule, so we need to talk to him."

"Yeah sure, if I see him."

Dorin looked down at his meal.

Zac Hanson cast a wary look in his friends direction, and wasn't aware his oldest sibling had caught it