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CHAPTER 2 OF DREAMS COME TRUE:
"Truth or Dare, Dolly?" asked Beatrice. Dolly pretended to look serious.
"What do you think, lame brain. What do I answer every time?!"
"Just answer the question, beetlebrain," said Hope.
Dolly rolled her eyes. "Truth."
Beatrice paused to think a moment. "Act out everything you would do on a
date with Taylor."
Dolly gave a devilish grin. "Definitely." She smiled and composed
herself. Then in a low, squeaky voice:
"Hi Dolly! You look great!" Dolly said in a voice that sounded
remarkably
like Taylor's. Then Dolly turned to the side and said,
"Thanks Tay. Are you ready to rock!" In her normal voice.
"What do you think?" she said in Taylor's voice. Then she started
jumping
up and down singing 'MMMBop', and playing air keyboard, being Taylor one
moment and herself the next. Hope and Beatrice were rolling around
laughing on the floor. Then suddenly Beatrice stopped laughing. She
poked
Hope and pointed at the window. Hope stopped laughing too. There, at the
window, were the Hansons! Ike and Zac laughing, and so was Tay, who was
the color of a tomato. Dolly, noticing that her friends were white as a
ghost, stopped her performance.
"Geez, I thought it was pretty funny," she said sarcastically, "what the
heck happened to you guys? You look like you've seen a ghost. Or," she
added with a chuckle, "a Hanson."
Beatrice spoke up "D. . .D. . . Dolly! Look behind you, you nut! The
Hansons are right behind you!"
"Whatever," said Dolly. "Right now the Hansons are probably on tour. NOT
staring at us through my garage window."
"Shows how much YOU know!" exlaimed a young boys voice.
"Tell me they are not behind me. Tell me this is a bad dream," Dolly
turned pale and slowly turned around and looked out the window. Right
into the face of three grinning Hansons. Zac called out,
"Hey can we come in?"
All the girls nodded simultaneously. And the Hansons entered Dolly's
garage.
"OK. This is a dream. I did NOT just make myself look like a fool in
front of the Hansons. I will pinch myself and wake up." Dolly looked
down
at her hands. "I can't move my freakin' hands!" she screeched. "Somebody
PLEASE pinch me!"
"I will!" said Zac. He walked up to Dolly and pinched her arm.
"Ow! Dang it! I'm awake!" she groaned. Then she smiled. Her smile was a
bit wavery at first, but then she grinned along with the Hansons.
"Guess you guys think I'm some kind of freak," Dolly said.
"Nah. We've seen a lot worse," said Tay. Both he and Ike pointed at Zac.
"Yes, Thank you!" said Zac, bowing. Everybody laughed. Well, everybody
except Beatrice and Hope. They were still frozen. But they soon came out
of their trance when they realized that they would never get to know
Hanson if they just stood around like idiots. So they lightened up and
the six people introduced themselves and began to talk.
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"So, you guys play?" said Taylor, pointing at the instruments in the
garage. Everybody had been talking for almost two hours, but Tay's eyes
kept falling on the instruments in the corner of the room.
"A little," said Beatrice, blushing. Although the girls felt comfortable
with the guys, they still felt a bit insecure about their music. What
would Hanson think of the girls lame attempt to play their songs? But
Taylor was persistent.
"Oh, come on. Play something!" he said.
"All we know are a few of your songs," said Dolly.
"That's great!" said Zac. "Then we can sing along with you guys."
Ike glanced at Beatrice. She was only 14, but she seemed a lot older.
Ike
felt really shy around her, which was weird. This didn't usually happen!
Whenever he was uncomfortable, he would crack jokes. But he wasn't
really
uncomfortable around Beatrice. Just a little shy. A nice kind of quiet.
He glanced over at her once more, then looked towards the instruments.
In
a soft voice he asked,
"Can you guys play 'I will come to you'?" Beatrice flushed and looked
down at her guitar.
"Yeah. Not that well, but. ."
"Don't play that sappy song," said Zac. Then he looked at Beatrice. "You
know, Ike wrote that song."
"Cool," said Beatrice, still looking at her instrument.
"Well, if you don't want them to play 'I will come to you' what do you
think they should play, Zac?" said Tay.
" Wait," said Dolly, "how about if we played 'Madeline'? That's one of
my
favorite songs, and I love the words. They express so much feeling."
Taylor smiled and his cheeks turned pink. Ike and Zac exchanged
meaningful glances.
"Tay wrote that one. Right, Tay?" said Ike. He winked at the girls. "Out
of all of us, Taylor wants a girlfriend the most."
"Yeah, right," laughed Tay. "Look whose talking."
"Fine, Fine. Well, lets get off that subject and start playing, shall
we?" said Ike.
"I'm ready and 'rarin to go," said Dolly.
Beatrice plucked a chord on her guitar. "Me, too."
"Hope, you ready?" asked Dolly.
Hope banged on her cymbal. "Yeah, I'm ready."
Beatrice plucked the beginning chords to 'Madeline' Dolly started
playing
the tune on her keyboards, followed by Hope banging out a steady
background on her drums.
"Wow! You guys are great!" exclaimed Ike. "When we started playing, we
sounded horrible!" Dolly just smiled and started singing. Taylor stood
next to her and joined in. Soon everybody was singing. At the end of the
song, Taylor started clapping. Zac and Ike started whistling and
stomping
their feet. The girls turned bright red.
"We weren't that good," said Dolly. "We have a lot of work ahead of us
if
we ever want to sound half as good as you guys."
"Flattery will get you everywhere," said Zac, laughing. Everybody
grinned. Then Dolly turned to look at the guys.
"Listen, I have an idea. I'm having a party this weekend. Me, Beatrice,
and Hope were going to play. Do you guys want to join us?" said Dolly
excitedly. "It would be awesome if you guys could come." Ike, Tay, and
Zac looked at each other and nodded. Taylor turned to Dolly and smiled.
"We'd love to. But 2 questions first."
"Shoot" replied Dolly.
"One. What kind of party is it going to be? And two, who all will be
coming?"
"Well, it's a pool party. We can set up the instruments on the deck. And
it will just be a bunch of my friends from school. Some guys and girls."
Zac started screaming. "Teenage girls! Ahhhhhhhhhhh! Everybody run and
take cover!" Zac jumped up and hid behind the sofa, making everyone
laugh.
"But really," said Ike "I don't mean to sound rude, but will they, like,
mob us?"
"Probably," said Dolly grinning. "But don't worry, we'll keep things
from
getting out of hand."
"Cool. Well, we'll be there," said Tay.
"Great! I can't wait to see what my friends are going to do when they
see
Hanson at my Party!" said an excited Dolly.
The brothers groaned, "Neither can we!" said Ike. As the brothers were
leaving, Taylor realized something.
"Oh! I almost forgot! My mom wanted me to ask you guys to dinner
tonight."
"I wish," said Dolly, "but my parents are dragging me to some boring
party tonight." She rolled her eyes, "I'd rather be having my teeth
pulled out!"
The guys grinned. Then they said bye to each other and the Hansons
returned to their home
