"What? I was playing!" He defended, turning to glear at his brother.
"Yeah but it was the wrong song moron!" Zac laughed, still finding Taylors state amussing.
"What are you talking about! I was playing the right song!" Isaac shook his head and walked over to his side.
"What song were you playing Tay?" Taylor steared at him.
"The exact same song you were playing!" His confidents was starting to wear thin, as he realised he diddnt have the faintist idea what song his brothers had been playing, or which he had been playing for that matter.
"You were playing I will come to you Tay," Isaac said reading his mind "And we were playing Mmmbop...Snap out of it ok? Its weird, your never like this! Why now? Whats so special about this girl...?"
"Kathren!" Taylor filled in, not looking at Isaac.
"Kathren...Okay so she has a nice name, please don't tell me thats why your obssesed?" Zac joined Isaac infrount of Taylor.
"Im not obsessed..."Taylor said softly, leaning up against the frame of his keybord.
"Yes you are!" Zac said matter-a-factly.
"Shut up Zac, I am not, and just get off my back ok? Im not obsessed, I dont even think she's cute any more....what was here name? Oh gee I dont remember! I must have forgotten! Forgotten what? What were we talking about? Odd...hmmm, must not have been important. Well, lets keep practising shall we?" Taylors attempt at sarcasim was meet with a worried look from Isaac, and a confused look from Zac, but after a second they desided Taylor had spocken, and there was no use pushing the subject. ********************************************************************************************* "Zac honey, take Zoe for me will you?" Mrs Hanson rushed franticaly around the kitchen in the Hansons huge hotel room, trying to organise a meal, and keep her children in some sort of order. It was a familiar sight, one that all had come accustomed to, each night was the same, the poor woman would rush around, feeding babys, cleaning clothes, and prepering dinner. It diddn't matter to her that they were in a hotel and their room servise was being payed for. No way would she break her routine.
"MUM! DAD! DOOOOOOOORRR!!!" Jessys voice rang over Macs complaints that he was hungry, and Mrs Hanson quickly trotted to the door to find Simon standing there, looking rather bewildered.
"Simon! Hi! Sorry about Jessy, she's not totely trained yet!" Mrs Hanson Joked, tenderly patting her blond hair and ushering him inside.
"Thats fine Diana, realy. I hope you dont mind me dropping in like this, I just have a few things the boys and I need to descuse.
"What do we need to descuse?" Zac asked, comming up behind his mother, followed closely by Taylor and Ike.
"Proformance dates and things like that guys, you up to it?" They nodded slowly, disapointed that their evening off was going to be a dull one.
"Oh dont worry boys, I cant stay long, I have my own little terrors in the car waiting for me, so I can only stay for about ten muinets..." Simon assured them.
"You have Kids?" Ike asked causiously, hopping they were not going to become a new feature on the tour, the last thing he could handel was another Averie, or another Mac.
"Yes, three actualy" Mrs Hansons motherly instinks kicked in.
"Oh Simon, how lovly! Bring the dears in! I never new you had children!" He smiled and nodded.
"Oh, well, I haddn't seen them since they were babys...but I have them now..." He was quite for a second then anounced that he would get them. Taylor let him self slide down the wall so he was sitting on the ground as they waited for Simon to unvail his 'Terrors'.
"Let me introduse my girls..." Simon said as he walked back to the door. A girl about Zacs age was pushed fourd, she smiled weakly at the group of people, as the hole of the Hanson family had gathered to see the new faces.
"This is Janie!" He told them proudly, putting his arm around her sholders. She had The darkest hair imaginable, darker than the darkest night, and her eyes were the same fabulouse black, just like Simon. Zac desided with one look that she was cute.
The next girl was introdused as 'River'. She was the same as her younger sister, dark hair, dark eyes, with stunning features, and, much to Isaacs entusiasim, she looked about sixteen. Each girl got a course of 'hi's' and 'nice to meet you's' before the last of the three steped ford.
She shined under the rooms lights, her golden hair curling around her sholders in soft ringlets. She seemed to shake as she stood before them. Her feminine features pinkened slightly with all the glances on her. One set of ocean blue eyes held onto her as she scaned the faces.
"This is Kathren.." Simon told them, as though he was descusted with the sight of her. He turned back to River and Janie, asking them if they would mind staying here for a while. The nodded obediently, greeted with a pleased grin from their father.
Taylor ignoured the rest of what was happening around him, he ignoured his mother asking if they would all like to stay for dinner, he ignoured them excepting, he ignoured his brothers clicking their fingers betwen the locked eyes he and Kathren sheared. He would have stayed there all night, if Simon haddn't ordered Kathren to follow her sisters. ********************************************************************************************* "So Simon, why did we never hear about these children before?" Mr Hanson asked as they sat around the dinning table that night.
"Well, they have been living with their mother for more than ten years...but sadly she died a few weeks ago, so now their here with me!" Simon took a sip of his wine, not notising the saddened looks on his daughters face's.
"Oh..." Mrs Hanson patted Janies hand softly, trying to offer some comforte in her father blunt words.
"Oh, she's okay Diana! My girls are tough! They dont need any mother do you girls!" Taylors swollowed the anger burning inside him, as he wached Kathren play with the food on he untouched plate.
Tough maybe, but not heartless.
"Well...?"He looked at Janie, then River. Who on camand, nodded and smiled at him. Taylor noticed that he never even acknowlaged weather Kathren had a thing to say.
The subject was changed quickly by Mr Hanson who regretted bringing it up in the first place.
"So...were are you all staying?" he asked.
"Here actualy, as of later any way, we were going to stay at a hotel down town, but it would be easyer staying here!" The adults of the table begane chating, and organising were their rooms should be, while the children, with the exception of Taylor and Kathren, began clearing up.
"Taylor Honey, is some thing wrong? you look flushed?"Mrs Hanson asked her son, notising him sitting dumbly, stearing at Kathren.
"Im fine..." He said softly, turning only to smile reasuringly at his mother.
"Well, I dont know, you look a bit pale to Kathren, maybe you two should go into the living room and take it quitly for a while" Taylor held back the erge to hug and kiss his mother, for the wonderfull gift she had granted him, but for the second time that day , gathered himself up and simple lead Kathren into the living room. ********************************************************************************************* There was a long silence. It diddn't help that the living room was quite far away from the others, and they were alone. Since he had first seen her, he had been rehearsing all the things he wanted to say to her, but now, he as lost for words.
Finely she broke the silence.
"Taylor...?" His name passing her lips serprised him, he diddn' realise that she even new it, after all, they haddn't realy been introdused, but she diddn't seem to notise his serprise.
"Im sorry..." She looked into his eyes honestly.
"Sorry? Why are you sorry...?" She looked down at her hands folded in her lap, then back up at Taylor who watched her intently.
"Im sorry for my dad...he doesn't think...he never realy loved my mother and her dieing is just a conveniants for him..." Taylor was taken back by her bluntness, she said that to him like she trusted him beyond her own belefe, as if she new he wouldn't tell anyone.
"Its okay. you dont have to apoligise for him... he's the one who should be sorry..." They exchanced a smile, reading each others minds.
"I saw you today..." Taylor said after a moment.
"I know...when you gave me an autograph right?" Taylor shook his head.
"No before that, at the concert, in the audentce..." She smile at him.
"You saw me through all those people? Thats weird!" Taylor chuckeled, feeling the tention lift as he did.
"I know! Thats what I keep thinking! We keep running into each other! First at the concert, than with the autograph, and now!" He stopped for a second then looked at her.
"Hey, why did you want my autograph any way? I mean, if you new your dad managed us?" Kathren sighed and sat ford, placing her check on one of her hands that was proped up on her knee.
" I wasn't sure I would get to meet any of you, dad was pretty keen earlyer to keep us a secret, but thats the strange thing about him...he changes his mind in a second! Like the hotel thing! He has all our stuff unpacked at one hotel, and now he wants to move us! I just dont understand him..." She looked of into space, then shook her head.
"I wish mum hadn't died. Then I wouldn't be stuck with HIM!" Her face saddened for an instant, but she turned to Taylor and smiled.
"Im sorry...I know he's your manager...you have loyelties..." Taylor almost burst out laughing, The last thing he intended to do was be loyal to Simon, right now he wouldn't have flinched if he died on the spot!
"I dont have loyilties to him..." A question played in his mind, but he couldn't find the courage to ask it.
"Kathren...?" She tucked a peice of hair behind one of her ears, and looked at him expectintly.
"Yeah...?"
"Your dad...he seems so cold to you...but to River and Janie...." Kathren nodded, and leaned back into the chair.
"I look like her...I look like my mum. And Dad hates that, he wants me to vanish, to be gone from existance. To him, he has two daughters. River, and Janie..." The words were so sad. She was so sad, you could tell just looking at her. He wanted to take her in his arms and rock her while she cried, but he stayed were he was, and she never let a tear fall from her green eyes.
Rivers head appeared around the corner, and she announsed that they had to go. Slowly kathren got to her feet.
"Bye..." She said as she walked past him.
"Bye..."He ecoed.
'Something about her..' he thought to him self as he watched her wave to him as she left the room.
'Some thing about her is different...' He loved that she was differen't, he loved that he new one of her secrets, but he new there were alot more to laurn.