Isaac walked up to the counter and smiled.

"Hey Kendle! Are you almost ready to go?"

"Well, there's still ten minutes left in my shift, but I can leave a little bit early. Just wait a sec."

I walked into the back room and told one of the other people that I was leaving a little early.

Zac and I walked into the bathroom as inconspicuously as possible.

"Kendle's coming to dinner with us, right? Well, I think this is perfect. We can humiliate Ike and eat at the same time!!" Zac said, excitedly.

"Zac, Zac, calm down you hyperactive freak!! You have a good point, but as loud as you are talking, it's amazing Ike isn't coming through that door right now trying to strangle us!!"

"Okay, okay! I'm sorry! So, what can we use to humiliate Ike?" Zac said almost as loudly as before.

"Well…" I walked over and sat down in one of the chairs, "…what about the time that he got that horrible buzz cut and tried to shave that shaggy dog that we had to make a wig? Or the time that girl dumped him because she saw his porcelain doll collection…"

"What porcelain doll collection?" Zac said, baffled.

"That's the point!!"

"Ah…oh brilliant one…" Zac said, "but we're forgetting the recent things! Like yesterday when we caught him making out with his pillow, or in the movie when he got out a bag of skittles and said, 'Oh skittles, I just love talking to you…' and then proceded to make out with it. I don't think he knew we saw that…"

"I think he was just being weird, but that's beside the point. How about the fact that it was his idea to come to this movie in the first place, so he could pick up some hot chicks?"

"Tay, that was your idea," Zac said very deliberately.

"Yeah, but Kendle doesn't have to know that…"

Ike walked into the bathroom. "What happened to you guys? I thought you fell in!" Ike said, then he started to mumble something that sounded like, "All the fish are in rehab…"

"What?!" Zac and I said at the same time.

"Oh, nothing…"

I walked into the bathroom and saw Zac and tay reclining in chairs along the wall talking, with evil grins on their faces.

"What happened to you guys? I thought you fell in!" I said, then mumbled, "Although I wish you would have…"

"What?!" Zac and Tay said at the same time.

"Oh, nothing…"

"What did you say? It sounded like you said, 'All the fish are in rehab…'!" Tay explained.

I just rolled my eyes. They had been there for ten minutes.

"Come on! We need to go if we're going to get to Chili's before the big rush."

"Alright, alright already! We're coming!" Zac said.

I walked out of the bathroom, and they soon followed me. Kendle was waiting in one of the chairs outside the bathrooms. There sure were a lot of chairs around the bathrooms in this place…

"Hey Kendle this is Taylor. Taylor, this is Kendle," I said, pretty much the same way I had introduced Kendle and Zac. "Can we go now?"

"Yeah, you may chauffeur us to Chili's now Dobbs," Taylor said with a British accent.

"Shut up Taylor. Now let's go!"

We all walked out to my '99 blue Neon. Kendle sat in the front with me, and Taylor and Zac sat in the back. I would have preferred that they sit in the trunk, but that wouldn't have looked very good.

Zac and Tay were whispering the entire way to Chili's. They wouldn't do anything tonight, would they?

We got to Chili's and walked into the restaurant, and a group of girls started screaming, "On my gosh! It's HANSON!!!"

Tay, Zac, and i just rolled our eyes.

"That must get really annoying," Kendle commented.

"Yeah, it seems like we can't go anywhere without running into the scream squad," Zac said. "I'm surprised that we didn't get bombarded at the movie."

We were waiting in line to be seated when this girl came over and said, "Hi Kendle, how do you know Hanson?"

I thought that she must have been Kendle's little sister.

I met them at work today. We decided to get something to eat," Kendle said in a tone that meant 'Shut up and go away.'

"Well, are you going to introduce me to them or not?"

"Jessi, Hanson. Hanson, Jessi," Kendle said, obviously copying the way I had introduced Zac and her.

"Hi, Tay, Zac, and I said in unison.

"Jessi is my sister. What are you doing here Jessi? I thought you were sick. How did you get Mom to let you leave the house?"

"I...um...I got better..."

"Yeah, sure, whatever..."

It was our turn to be seated. The waiter walked up to us.

"How many?"

"Four," Kendle said quickly. Jessi got a big frown on her face and went back to her group of friends.

"Smoking or non-smoking?"

"Non," I said.

We followed the waiter to the table, or rather, tables. There were only two tables left in the non-smoking section, and they were both two person tables. Now at this Chili's, the tables and chairs were bolted to the floor. I don't know if they were afraid that someone was going to walk off with one or what, but like I said, they were bolted to the floor. There were two tables were right next to each other, but they were about 3 feet apart. Kendle and I sat at one of the tables, and Tay and Zac sat at the other one.

"Can I get you anything to drink?"

"Yes, what would you like Kendle?"

"Umm...Pepsi please."

"Dr. Pepper," Tay and Zac said.

"And I would like a Dr. Pepper too please," I finished.

"Thank you. I'll be back with your drinks in a few minutes."

I didn't know what to order. I had never been here before. Taylor and Zac started whispering about something. I wonder what it was. Oh well. It doesn't really matter anyway.

I decided to look at the menu and see what sounded good. Hmm... the enchilada soup sounds good. Awesome Blossom? What's that? I read the caption underneath the picture. 'Giant onion sauteed in butter and spices, cut into bite size pieces' Yummy! I'm going to get that...

I saw Isaac pondering over his menu. I wonder what he's thinking? Arrgh!! What is happening to me?! He's thinking about what to order, you stupid idiot!

The waiter came back with our drinks and asked us what if we would like to order yet. We weren't ready, so the waiter said that he would come back.

"What are you going to order?" I asked Isaac.

"I don't know. I was kind of wondering if you wanted to split an Awesome Blossom."

"Hey! I was thinking the same thing." I hope i didn't sound too cheery. "What else is good? I've never been here before."

"Well, the enchilada soup is really good, and there's this one other thing that I don't know how to describe other than the word 'delicious.' I don't even remember what it is called."

Tay and Zac were actually talking in voices louder than a whisper now. I heard Tay say, "Hey Zac, Ike'll probably get skittles... 'Oh skittles, I just love talking to you...'" then he made some kissy noises. He could hardly contain his laughter during this. Finally, he and Zac burst out laughing. They would have tipped the chairs over if they weren't bolted to the floor.

I looked at Isaac, and he had the most interesting look on his face. It was a mixture of embarassment, laughter, and the urge to strangle some one, all at the same time... I just smiled and took a sip of my Pepsi.

"Remember that girl that dumped Ike because she found out about his porcelain doll collection..." Tay said.

"Oh yeah, I remember that. He just won't get rid of those dolls. It would be a shame if Kendle found them..."

They were talking amongst themselves, just loud enough for Ike and me to hear them. Isaac turned around and said something to them, and they immediately shut up. They didn't say another word until they had to order. Ike and I shared an Awesome Blossom, and we each got the enchilada soup. I wasn't paying any attention to Taylor and Zac anymore.

After the waiter left, Ike and I started talking again. "Your little sister seemed mad at you," he commented.

"She probably was, but she knew that she couldn't do anything, or I would tell our parents that she had snuck out. She was probably mad because I was here with you guys. She's kind of obsessed. She's also a spoiled brat. What about Taylor and Zac? Do they ever act that way?"

"What do you mean? You mean what they've been doing tonight? They're trying to get me back for telling Mom who broke her Great-Grandmother's vase. Just for the record, I have never seen, let alone owned, a porcelain doll."

"Oh, I see. I meant, do they act like spoiled brats? Jessi is 13, and has a phone, tv, stereo, Playstation, Sega, N64, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, and a computer in her room. All I had was a radio in my room when I was 13, let alone 5 different video games."

We continued talking until the waiter came back with our food. Taylor and Zac started their little whispering thing again. It gradually got louder, and Isaac looked at Taylor and gave him and evil look. Tay just grinned. I felt kind of sorry for Isaac, but I fely sorry for Tay and Zac at the same time, as i imagined what Isaac was going to do to them when they got home...

"Hey Ike! Is your pillow a good kisser? You sure looked like you were having fun yesterday..." Zac said with an amused look on his face. I tried not to start laughing. What the heck was Zac talking about? His pillow?

Isaac just glared at him and grabbed a piece of the Awesome Blossom. I did too. We ate and talke dabout every thing from movies to music to pets to the eating habits of our younger siblings.

"We used to have this really shaggy dog named Watson, but we had to get rid of it because it was getting really old," Ike said, with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"Yeah Ike, remember when you got that horrible buzz cut, and you tried to cut all of poor Watson's hair off to mak...."

Zac didn't get to finish his sentence because Isaac had Tay and him by the wrists and was pulling them out of their chairs into the direction of the bathroom. He turned to me,"I'll be right back as soon as I have a little talk with these two idiots."

He drug them into the bathroom and slammed the door behind them.

"What the hell do you two think you are doing? That was not even funny!"

Tay and Zac were cringing in a corner. "Answer me dammit!" My voice just kept getting louder and louder. Luckily there was no one else in the bathroom. "You're lucky we're in a public place right now, otherwise you two would be severely injured right now, hearing a voice in your head saying 'walk toward the light, walk toward the light...'"

"Get a grip Ike! It was just a joke! It's not like you have never tried to embarass me in front of a girl before! Don't be a hypocrite!" Taylor yelled back.

"That's not the point. It's not like you mad one crack about me in front of her, you just kept going and going with it, keeping BOTH of us from enjoying our meal! That's rude! Now, I'm going to go back into the restaurant, and you are going to eat your food QUIETLY!! I'm not going to let you ruin the rest of my evening!" I walked out the bathroom door, not really giving a shit whether they followed me or not.