Mixing was over for the Hanson brothers finally, and they were on a plane back home. The Hanson family was on a plane back to Tulsa. Finally. They had decided on a title for their CD "Album X" during the mixing. They were going to call it "This Time Around" after the song "This Time Around: on the CD. The album title had a little more depth than that, though. The title also symbolized the boys feelings about the CD. The CD was a symbol of how the boys had changed the past year, and a new year was upon them. It was the year 2000. The brothers had made it into the New Millennium, and had a strong feeling that things would be different "this time around."
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"We're getting ready to land in about 10 minutes, folks," the pilot announced over the intercom. "The weather in Tulsa is sunny, about 54 degrees, and it's ---"
Taylor rolled his eyes, thinking, "La, La, La, Tay doesn't care about Tulsa's weather. Tay wants to see Victoria."
The pilot still continued speaking to the passengers that were upon his flight, "Tulsa's got a 75% chance of more snow today. This morning they received two inches of snow. Thank you for flying USAir and enjoy your stay in Oklahoma."
"Snow?!" Taylor thought. "We have snow?!"
"Tay, Tay, didya hear that!?!" Mackie nearly screamed from the airplane seat behind him. "We have snow!!"
"Yeah, I heard," Tay peered back at his younger brother with a weak smile upon his face.
"Avie, you, and I should make snow angels when we get home!" Mack was all giddy deom long, and boring plane ride.
Mackie's older brother, Tay yawned, "Believe me, bud, I'd love to. I just don't think that when I get home, I'll actually have the energy to do it. I'm sorry."
He didn't want to disappoint his little brother, but he honestly couldn't do it. If he tried, he'd probably fall asleep in the snow and freeze to death or something. Taylor's body was just not physically capable to make "snow angels" right now.
Next to Mackie was Zac. He had his headphones plugged into his portable CD player, and was oblivious to the world around him. He was listening to Alanis Morrisette's "Jagged Little Pill." His favorite song on there was "You Oughta Know."
"Well, we made it," Zac thought to himself. "Finally, we can sleep in."
Then again, Zac was in Tulsa. Tulsa was where Chrissy lived, and sooner or later, he knew he'd have to face her. Zac preferred later. He could not look at Chrissy right now, nor in the state he currently possessed.
Diana turned to her son, Zac, who was sitting next to her, "Zac, honey..."
Startled, the fourteen-year-old blonde Hanson brother looked up at his mother, "Yeah, Mom?"
"We're landing in about five minutes, so be ready to get up, and get your stuff," she instructed him, wisely. "We need to get off the plane as quickly as possible."
"Alright, will do."
Again, over the airplane intercom was heard, "Thank you for flying USAir, and enjoy your stay in Tulsa, Oklahoma."
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Zac spoek too soon for the idea of actually getting sleep when he went home. It had snowed four more inches, ontop of the two they already had. The Hanson family was stuck in traffic due to an icy road ahead. Traffic had come to a dead stop for almost 10 minutes now.
Ike turned to Tsy, and inquired, "What time is it?"
Taylor glanced at his watch swiftly, then back at his brother, "It's about 4:30 right now."
"And we left the airprot when?"
"3:45."
"How far have we moved?"
"About a mile," Tay responded, regrettfully.
"That's just horrible," Isaac commented. He just wanted to go home. That's all.
The eldest Hanson sibling was not the only one who wanted to be home. The younger sibs were all starting to become jittery, and squirm about the car.
"Are we there, yet? Are we there, yet? Are we there, yet?" Mackie's voice rang in loud and clear, consecutively letting it be known that he wanted to go home. It seemed almost as if he had practiced saying this.
"No!" snapped little Jessica Hanson, finally. "We're not home, yet! Now, will you just shut up!"
Slowly, the tiny Hanson's lower lip began to quiver. He big sister had never raised her voice to him like that.
As his tears began to fall and stain his cheeks, Mrs. Hanson reprimanded Jess, "Jessica Grae, you apologize to your brother, right now!"
"But, Mom!"
"Jessica, apologize!" commanded her mother.
"Hey, Mackenzie, I'm sorry. It's been a long day, and it got on my nerves. Forgive me?" Jessica told her little brother.
The little boy wiped away his tears that had fallen to his baby soft cheeks.
The second youngest Hanson sibling, Mackenzie smiled, "It's o-tay."
It had been two hours since their plane had landed at home. The family of nine had only been in Tulsa for two hours, and already the fighting, the bickering, and the noise had begun. It was the early signs of what was ahead for the Hanson family for the next ouple of months. A family could barely operate with all the fighting, let alone one as unque as Isaac's, Taylor's, and Zac's. How long would it be before the family cracked? That was something the Hansons could not afford. Not with the tour coming up.
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