Chapter 1: Caught on Camera
"So where to next?" I asked my best friend, Kathryn Thomas(Kat for
short).
“I don’t know. Where do you want to go, Joey?” Kat asked me. I guess
this is where I explain my name. My real name is long and ugly, so naturally,
I shorten it. I’m a girl, but whenever my friends talk about me to someone
else, people always assume I’m a guy. Josephina Meredith Baldwin was my full
name. I tell everyone my name is Joey, so that I get spared of any jokes about
the name.
"Well, why don't we go to Dillards? They have everything
there." Kat said.
"Alright, lets go," When we walked into Dillards we knew right
away, that we were in the perfume section. We were fortunate enough to
miss every "Spritzer" with a perfume bottle. Too bad we had no idea what we
were looking for. Here we were two fifteen year olds looking for a present for my friend Kelly.
Kelly was getting married and was having a bachlorette party for a final fling, so we needed a gift. We had no
clue as to what to get her. After about half an hour of wandering aimlessly
around the store, Kat picked up a sweater.
"How about a nice sweater?" she asked meekly. I gave her one of those looks like,
How can you even think of something that incredibly
stupid? "Okay, maybe not. But I don't see you coming up with any ideas. No
bells going off in your head."
"That's it! I feel stupid for not thinking about this
earlier." I dragged Kat to the a cashier. "We need something for a bachlorette
party," I blurted to the lady. When Kat said bells I thought of a stupid sign
that was by this little bell in my dentist’s office. It said, "Please ring
the bell for service."
"You girls might want to try the lingerie area in the
underwear section." she smiled tightly. She probably thought we were two bit
hookers that were for hire or something.
"Thank you." I smiled back and Kat and I walked into the woman's area of Dillards.
We reached the underwear and started looking
at the choices of undergarments for Kelly. I heard Kat giggle.
"Jo, tell me that isn't who I think it is." Kat said as seriously as
she could; she was trying so hard not to laugh. She pulled out the camera I
thought I had talked her out of buying earlier in the day.
"I thought I convinced you not to buy that stupid camera." I
reminded her.
"I'm glad I did. Now look over there." she was still laughing.
"What, who, where, huh?" was my reply.
"Over there, the guys. Ones got red see-through underwear on his head, blue see-throughs
on the others head and purple on the tall
ones head." Kat pointed to my left and was now giggling almost uncontrollably. I
looked to my left to where she was pointing. Kat was already clicking away with
that little camera.
"What the....." I burst out laughing when I realized what
she was pointing at. Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson were putting women’s
lingerie on their heads and pretending to fight. When they heard us laughing and
saw us, they quickly threw the underwear off their heads and walked around slowly, whistling and
acting innocent. We decided, after
we caught our breath, to investigate the weird antics of the crazy three
who were now known as "undie-heads" to Kat and I. I'm glad Kat didn't listen to
me for once. We had big time blackmail on Hanson now.
"What were you guys thinking?" Kat asked, trying to keep from giggling her head off. She had
stuck the camera in her purse and they
had no idea she had taken the pictures.
Zac raised his hand, then answered, "Trying to prove we have no
dignity whatsoever and that we need serious mental help." Zac smiled. Even
after a long tour that probably wore him out, Zac was still funny.
"Cute. Real cute." Joey smirked.
"It would be cute if I got a picture of you guys like
you were and then gave it to Entertainment Tonight and Star magazine," Kat
cackled.
"You wouldn't..." Taylor started.
"Nope, I didn't, but I easily can." Kat just smiled up
a storm. We all chatted for a bit, but they had to go. All they pretty
much said was, "Man are we embarrassed." All I could think was how bad we
could really make it for them....
Ch. 2: Caught On Camera....again
After seeing them in the store, Kat and I had a completely new perspective of
the guys. They were regular guys, with regular guy thoughts. I had always
thought of them as these pure, unblemished, perfect children that every parent
wishes they had. Instead, they liked to mess around and be stupid just as much
as the next person. Kat got the film developed the next day after we took the
remaining two pictures up by snapping the lens at my sleeping puppy. We put
the embarrassing pictures away and only showed them to a few friends. Even
though letting everyone see the pictures would be hilarious, we knew it would
ruin their reputation, and therefore we decided not to do it.
One might think that seeing Hanson traipsing around with underwear on
their heads might be a little disconcerting, but it just seemed normal to
weird people like me and Kat. We knew that they were just guys that were
goofing around. If that wasn’t all there was to it, then neither me nor Kat
wanted to know any more than we already did.
Monday, two weeks after the “incident” - as we liked to call it - we
had gotten over it. We still had an inside joke about it, but we got over it
amazingly quick. We had to go to the drug store to pick up vitamins and pills
for my mother and also to get some more film for Kat’s camera. We entered the
drugstore and looked at the signs above the tall shelves, looking for the
vitamin section. We found them at the back of the store and then went to the
pharmacist to ask him about the pills.
“It’ll take about ten minutes, so, if you’d like to look around the
store for a bit....” he smiled warmly.
“Thanks,” I smiled back. Kat and I decided to purchase the film and see
if we could figure out how to load it since someone had loaded it for her at
the mall. We did so, and after a few tries, the film was successfully loaded
and prepared to take pictures again. We still had a few minutes, so we
walked through a few aisles and suddenly, I almost screamed. I clapped my hand
over my mouth to keep from laughing at the sight. I grabbed Kat’s arm and
shook her.
“What?” she mumbled. Somehow, she had gotten engrossed in reading the
back of a Kleenex box.
“Look,” I pointed down the aisle. Now it was Kat’s turn to try to keep
from laughing. Down the aisle was Hanson, again. Only this time not wearing
underwear on their heads. They were now carefully choosing a pregnancy test.
Kat quickly raised the camera to her eyes and snapped a few pictures. I then
decided to approach them. We walked slowly up, and when they didn’t notice our
presence, I cleared my throat. They all looked up and turned different shades
of red.
“Is there something you’re not letting out to the public, boys. First
we see you playing with sexy lingerie, and then you’re choosing a pregnancy
test. So, which one of you thinks he’s expecting?” Kat smiled raised her eyebrows.
I snickered, but then raised a questioning glance to their eyes.
“Um, you-- you see-- it was--well, we...” Isaac stuttered.
“Really? That’s quite an interesting story,” I nodded thoughtfully.
“No, you don’t understand. This is--well--it’s not what it looks like,”
Taylor explained.
“Oh, so you’re not choosing a pregnancy test?” I smiled.
“Well, we are, but....” Isaac tried to talk again, but only succeeded
in drawing a blank.
“It’s me,” Zac confessed. He turned around and grabbed a package of
Always© Pads and stuck them up his shirt. He lovingly rubbed his newfound
“baby.” “You see, we weren’t sure if I was just getting fat or if there might be a
bundle of joy in there. I’m hoping for it to be a extra thick maxi.”
“Looks awfully thin to me,” Kat responded, pulling out the pads. She
then tossed them at Zac’s head and he fell down, with mock brain damage.
“You okay?” I laughed.
“Flubana asfu streel,” he responded, his tongue hanging out of his
mouth.
“Sounds like you had a lobotomy, kid,” I joked.
“Yep, a frontal. But that was four years ago, and we don’t like to talk
about it,” Taylor kidded, looking sadly at Zac who was now growling at a box
of tampons.
“Baaaaad tampon. No good,” he said in caveman-type voice.
"You have no idea." Kat remarked with a smile. Zac sheepishly looked
up at her and got off the ground. Taylor just held back a snicker that was
dying to come out, but for the sake of his little brother (yeah, right), didn't
say anything. He did let a large, goofy grin take over his face though.
"Oh, like you DO know Tay." Zac said crossing his arms.
"Please, can we get off this awful subject." I said.
"Yes! We can." Isaac glared at his brothers. They just smiled. Then
we heard the intercom thing begin to crackle.
“Ms. Baldwin, your perscription is filled, please report to the
pharmacy center. Ms. Baldwin, please pick up your perscription."
"Op, that's us Kat." I grabbed her arm. "It was nice," I searched for
a word that described what happened, "uh, seeing you again." I finished as my
mind drew a blank.
"Bye." Kat waved goofily at Zac, then Taylor, then Isaac. Zac mimicked
her.
"See ya." Taylor waved. I waved back.
"I hope we meet in a better situation next time, the last two times
were, well, not so pleasant." Isaac made everyone snicker with this remark.
“See you later,” Taylor gave a small wave as I guided Kat down the
aisle.
“Bye!” she yelled back. “Jo, let’s go back! They were talking to us!”
"We have to go, I'm sure they understand."
From there, Kat and I proceeded to pick up the vitamins. When we
purchased them and got them, we turned around and Zac was sitting on the floor.
Kat was startled and jumped.
"Zac you scared the crap out of me!" she scolded him.
"Sorry, but I was sent on a mission." he raised an eyebrow and looked
to the left, then the right. Then he took me and Kat into a huddle. "See this
piece of paper? I'm suppose to get your phone numbers so we know where you
girls are going to be. Then we know in advance we can't be doing something weird when you approach us. And Kathryn can't get
any pictures of us doing weird things such as buying a pregnancy test for
our mom or playing with women’s lingerie." he said, pretending someone was
watching us or something.
"Zac you can call me Kat, ya know." she said. For some weird reason,
Kat hated the name Kathryn. She liked Kat and that was pretty much all she
went by if she could help it.
"Okay, hurry up and jot down the numbers." he said in a rush. We wrote
down the numbers with a pen that magically appeared from a package of pens
off the shelf. Then, in turn, he wrote a number to reach them at. "This is one
of our less commercial numbers." he informed us.
"Bye Zac." Kat called to him as he darted off, pretending to dodge
bullets.
"Have a safe trip." I said. Right after that, Zac tripped on his
shoelaces.
I heard a large amount of laughter and Kat and I couldn't help laughing.
We left the store, waving to them as we left.
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