"ZACHARY WALKER HANSON! DOWN HERE RIGHT NOW!" Zac was in trouble... Again!
"Just a second mom!"
"I SAID NOW, I MEAN NOW!" With that, Zac ran out of his room that he shared with his brothers half-dressed, wearing only blue and white striped boxers. "Young man, how many times do I have to tell you not to leave the milk out? It turned over night!" Mrs. Hanson began to nag.
"Whoops.... Sorry mom..." Zac started to cover his but.
"No. ‘Whoops’ isn’t gonna cut it this time, Zac. I want you to go down the corner store and buy some more milk. And since you were nice enough to leave it out all night, you can pay for it with your own money." Diana said walking away from her son, to attend to Zoë.
Zac moaned and started up the stairs. As he walked into his room, he was pelted with a ball of rolled-up socks.
"Hey! What was that for you jerks?" Zac mumbled as he shot a glare into his brothers’ general direction.
"Whoa, down boy. It was only socks!" Taylor said as he walked over towards his little brother. "I didn’t know you’d get all sensitive over a ball of cotton!"
"Ya Tay well, it was the smell that bothered me. You need to wash your feet more, man!" Zac shrieked, plugging his nose. With this comment, Isaac, the oldest brother, leaped from his top bunk bed, witch he shared with Taylor, and walked over to where his two younger brothers were standing.
"Uh, Zac, those were YOUR socks." Taylor lifted one eyebrow.
"Uhhhh... ummmmmm... uhhh... LIARS! BOTH OF YOU!" Zac picked up the nearest pillow and started wailing it about the room. Tay picked up the bean bag chair, that was in the corner of their room, and tried to smuggle Zac with it.
Ike, being the ‘responsible’ one he was, sat down on Zac’s trundle bed and watched his two brothers ‘duke’ it out.
"Okay, okay, okay...." Taylor pleaded, "You can stop now, Zac.... Zac, I said give it a rest... ZAC! STOP BEING AN ASS!" Taylor yelled to try and get Zac’s attention.
"Sorry Tay, I was only kidding around...." Zac managed to get out before getting hit in the head with the chair one more time.
"Hey!" Isaac said as he got up, and was the victim of Zac’s last pillow throw. "I just remembered!" He continued imagining that nothing happened. "Kate invited us to a pool party at her house at 3pm today. You guys wanna go?"
"Who else it gonna be there?" Taylor wondered resting his butt on the bean chair that just minuets ago was used as a weapon.
"I get to see Chrissy in a bathing suit?" Zac yelled, falling back onto his bed, holding his heart with his right hand, "Yes!"
"Shut up Zac." Taylor was sick of hearing about ‘Chrissy this! Chrissy that!’
"Uh, Kate said that the two girls who moved in across the street," Isaac pointed to the house across the way from the window, "from us are gonna come." Ike informed. "They moved in while we were in New York. And Kate say they’re both really hot!"
"Girls? How old are they? What do they look like? Do they have boyfriends? Where are they from?" Anything that had to do with girls was Tay’s main interest. It was all he could think about these days.
"Settle, Taylor, jeez." Isaac tried to calm down Taylor, who now had his nose pressed against the glass.
"Ya Tay!" Zac began, as he looked through there closet for a shirt. "You’re turning into Ike!"
"Their names are," Isaac said, joining Taylor by the window after he gave Zac a dirty look, "Nicki and Kim, and their cute twins, I guess. There 16 and as far as I know, both of them are single, but who knows..."
"Yes! Girls! I love being the only single one in the group!"
"Tay, sorry to inform you man, but my girlfriend is better than anyone I have ever met. Well so far any way…" Isaac said, "And Chrissy is, well, I guess...."
"Chrissy is well… my girlfriend!" Zac yelled, "I love her! We’re gonna get married when we get old, like 20 or something."
"Zac, you are 12. I don’t quite think you are in love." Taylor snipped.
"Well... maybe I am and maybe I’m not... so there."
"Anyway," Isaac could see that Taylor wasn’t in a good mood anymore, "Kate said that we have to be nice or she’ll kick my ass... is that understood... Zac?" Isaac eyed his little brother,
"What?" Zac said alarmed, "Why only me? Tay is the one you need to watch like a hawk! He’ll be all over the girls! Him and his hormones!"
"Ike, don’t worry about me." Taylor gave Zac a dirty look, "I’ll be cool. Promise."
"ZACHARY I HOPE YOU ARE READY OR I WILL MAKE YOU GO TO THE STORE IN ONLY YOUR UNDERWEAR!" An angry mother yelled up the stairs to Zac.
"Shit, mom’s pissed. I gotta go to the store. I left the milk out."
"Again?" Taylor and Isaac asked at the same time.
"Ya, again. See ya guys later." Zac literally jumped into his jeans and ran out of the room. Only seconds later you could hear the front door slam shut.
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"Nicki! Time to get out of bed!" Mrs. W yelled into one of her 16 teen-year olds room.
"Mom! It’s Saturday!" Nicki yelled back, half asleep, "I wanna sleep in! It’s only 11am!" Nicki loved sleeping. Whenever she had a free moment, she would take the time to have a little catnap.
Kim was always up early, because Maggie would cry around 5am and she would have to get up and tend to her.
"Nicolette! I need you to run to the store for me!"
"Mom..." Nicki wined, as her mother started to pull her covers off of her. "Get Kimmy to do it!"
"She did it last time I needed something." Mrs. W. had done her job in getting Nicki up. She was now sitting up on bed, facing her mother. "I need you to go get some more formula for Maggie... and some diapers."
"Fine." Nicki climbed out of bed and stood up. She looked around her messy room to see if she could find an outfit that at least looked clean. She found a pair of jeans and a halter-top and slowly made her way into the kitchen where she found her little brother Micah filling up water balloons.
"Micah, what are you doing?" Nicki asked.
"Jake and I found a fort out back and we are playing commandos." Micah said, not looking at Nicki.
"Oh okay." Nicki decided not to get into it and quickly ate her Cheerios (Breakfast of Champions!) and walked out of the door just in time to see a little blonde kid on roller blades fly out of the driveway across the street.
"Okay... that can’t be who I think it is… Zac Hanson? Omigod, Zac Hanson! Uhhh... umm.... Uhh... That was Zac!" Nicki thought to herself. She looked down the street in total awe... "It’s true...." She thought. "They really do live across the street..."
"NICKI!" Nicki turned around to she her twin sister run after her before she steeped into the car, "You want me to go with you?" Kim offered.
"Ya sure." Nick said after she was out of her daze, "I’m driving though."
"What ever." Kim shrugged and got into the passenger side of the neon. "I had to get out of the house. Moms going to kill me how she’s always on my case!"
"Hmmm…" Nicki pondered, "I wonder why?’
"Screw you! Just drive."
Nicki just smiled to her self and started the car. When they were out of the drive way and on the road, "Guess who I saw coming out of the house?"
"I don’t know?" Kim said as she flipped though stations on the radio, "Who?"
"Him." Nicki pointed to her right at Zac who was just heading into the corner store.
"Cool." Kim said not really caring and looking up from the dashboard.
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"Whoa! Ike! Look at the girl across the street!" Taylor waved for his brother, who was picking out an out fit in the closet, to come to the window. "Wonder which one that is!"
Ike ran across the room and peeked out of the window. "Um, I think that is Nicki. Kate said Kim has red hair. And Nicki is the one that kinda looks like she should be in a magazine." Isaac guessed.
"She’s hot!" Taylor explained, "Now I am really glad I am single! I wonder what Kim looks like..."
"Taylor, stop the hormone flow to your brain or it will short out." Isaac said taking one more look out the window, "HELLO!" He said when he saw another figure appear in the driveway, "Now I know that’s Kim! They defiantly are twins. They both are very hot!"
"Isaac, stop the hormone flow to your brain or it will short out!" Taylor imitated his brother, "But you’re right they are both hot. Hay! You have a girl friend. One that as I recall," Taylor thought back, not letting his eyes leave the window, "you say is better than anyone you have ever met…"
"So!" Isaac defended him self.
"Wait, they’re leaving.... They’re getting in the car.... And she’s gone!" Taylor and Isaac took their attention away from the window, "Man, I wanted to watch her a little longer!"
"Uh, Tay that is called stalking." Isaac informed Taylor as he went back to looking though the closet.
"Oh ya." Taylor went to sit on his bed, "I forgot."
"Ya well, don’t forget the pool party at 3pm.... Kaitlin’s house." Isaac said before leaving the room, clothes in hand ready to have a shower.
"I could never forget, knowing that those two twins will be there!" Taylor said going up to the window one last time.
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"Did you guys get all the things I needed?" Mrs. W asked the two girls once they walked into the front door.
"Yup." They answered together.
"Good. Come and put the things away then please." Their mom asked, "And then Kim I need you to go get Maggie ready and then your self to go to the dr."
"What?" Kim was shocked, this was new news to her.
"I made an appointment for Maggie to see a dr. its time for one of her check ups." Mrs. W pointed out.
"What time is it at?" Nicki asked, afraid that Kim might miss the party.
"Umm..." Mrs. W checked the calendar on the fridge, "At 3pm today."
"What!" Kim yelled, "Mom I’m going to a party!"
"Well now your not!" Mrs. W yelled back.
"Well," Kim calmed down, "Well do you think that maybe you could take her this one time mom? PLEASE? This is really important to me." Kim wined.
"You know the deal Kim."
"Ya, ya! But it’s just this one time."
"Kim!" Mrs. W was in no mood to argue.
"Fine!" With that Kim stormed out of the kitchen.
When Kim was gone, "Mom, do you think that maybe you could re book it or something so Kim can come to Kate’s house?"
"Nicolette, do you really wanna get involved in this too?" Mrs. W said almost in a whisper.
Nicki didn’t say any thing, she knew that when her mom called her Nicolette, there was no point in arguing.
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"So are you going to come and pick me up or should I just walk home?" Nicki asked Kim who still looked pissed.
"I don’t know! Walk home k?"
"Ok." Nicki got out of the car, but before she shout the door she stuck her head in and asked Kim, "You ok?"
"Ya I’m fine." Kim lied, "I'll see ya later."
"Ok." And Nicki slammed the door.
Nicki watched Kim speed away and then looked back up to Kate’s house and wondered if the Hanson’s where there yet. She ran up the steps careful not to fall and rang Kate’s doorbell.
"Hay!" Kate said when she answered the door in her bikini top shorts, "Where’s Kim?"
"Oh she couldn’t come." Nicki said steeping into the house, "She had to take Maggie to an appointment, mom was too busy."
"Oh," Kate turned around to find Chrissy looking at Nicki like she was some abnormal person, "Um, Nic this is Chrissy, Chrissy this is Nicki."
"Hi." Nicki said politely.
"Hi." Chrissy said in return and then looked back at Kate, "Zac just called and said they were on their way over."
"K thanks, We’ll go wit for them in the pool." Kate told Nicki who was following her to the back door. Nicki didn’t say anything, she couldn’t she was too nervous about meeting Hanson.
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"Where’s the party?" Zac exclaimed as he walked through the front door of the Blessing home.
"Chill Zacy, Kate and Nicki are out back. Kim couldn’t make it...." Chrissy informed her boyfriend. With that, Taylor ran through the house and out to the porch area to see if he could catch a glimpse of what Nicki looked like up close.
Back in kitchen, Chrissy was showing Isaac and Zac where the refrigerator was, so they knew where to get their Dr. Pepper. (They need Dr. Pepper to survive, or so Zac has said once or twice...)
Isaac grabbed two sodas, one for him and one for his hormonally challenged brother, Taylor who was busy admiring Nicki.
"Whoa." Taylor thought to himself, "That’s Nicki? She’s.... whoa.... up close... whoa..... Ya, Taylor, you don’t stand a chance with her.... She’s gorgeous... she looks like some model I saw in one of Jessica’s teen magazines.... Just look at her..."
"Taylor? Taylor? TAY!" Isaac yelled to his brother who was standing in front of him, "Yo! You’re gonna make a puddle if you keep drooling like tha," Just the Isaac looked up to see what Taylor was admiring, "HELLO! WHO’S THE BABE?"
"Hands off, Ike. That’s Nicki. WITH YOU GIRLFRIEND, KATE, RIGHT NEXT TO HER. REMEMBER KATE?" Taylor looked at Isaac with disapproving eyes.
"Oh ya... sorry. Whoa, if I was single..." Isaac went on.
"Ike!"
"What? Can’t a guy fantasize?"
"Not when his girlfriend is 30 feet away from him!"
"Oh."
"Plus this one is mine, Ike. I just know it. OMIGOD DID SHE JUST LOOK AT ME?" Taylor freaked out when he meat eye contact with Nicki.
"Whoa, Tay, cool down, man. She’s gonna think you are a freak." Isaac said taking his shirt and shoes off whispering, "I don’t see how she couldn’t."
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"OMIGOD KATE IS TAYLOR LOOKING AT ME?" Nicki remarked as soon as she found out that they were here.
"So, you like Tay, huh?"
"What the hell do you think?"
"Oh I see. Don’t worry. I’ll make it so that you and him are alone for a little while today, but not too long. I don’t want you losing anything."
"Oh like what?"
"Oh, say, your virginity?"
"KATE! I’m not like that! You know that!" Nicki snipped.
"Jeez.... Settle. I was kidding. Tay has never even kissed a girl, so I dought he’s going to do it with the first one he does."
Nicki climbed out of the pool, making sure she looked graceful and sexy, because she knew Taylor was watching. As she took the first step up the ladder, Tay could look at nothing but her chest as it rose out of the water. Her little purple and white bikini was so small. She looked really hot. Just thinking about this made Taylor grin. Then she took the second step up. He could see her legs... they were tanned and skinny and long... Then the next step.... He could see her feet. They were tanned and one of her toes had a small silver toe ring on it. Last step. She was out of the water. Taylor looked her up and down, making sure that what he was seeing in front of him was real. For a second, he thought an angel was stepping out of the water. She was so beautiful.
"Ike, look at her. She’s perfect. And OMIGOD SHE’S COMING THIS WAY! DO I LOOK OKAY? IS MY HAIR ALL RIGHT? DOES THIS BATHING SUIT LOOK STUPID?" Taylor panicked.
"Taylor you look fine!" Isaac was about to kill him.
"You sure? You mean like I’m hair is fine and she wont think…"
"Taylor, shut up... she’s almost here..."
The porch door opened. A blonde haired girl with green eyes wearing a purple and white bikini walked through the door with Kate behind her.
"I’m Nicki. You’re Isaac, right? And I have already met Zac," Nicki asked, if she was nervous she sure didn’t seem like it.
"Ya, where is he?" Ike asked hand in hand in with Kate after a nice warm embrace, besides the fact that Kate was all wet.
"He’s outside in the garden with Chrissy, He’s picking her flowers." Kate squeezed Isaac’s hand, "The romantic gene must have hit him too." She looked up at Isaac who kissed her on her cherry lips.
Going on not minding what Isaac and Kate were doing, "And I am assuming that you are Taylor?"
Taylor looked deep into her eyes. He knew there was something between them, some sort of connection. "Ya, I’m Tay. Nice to meet you." Nicki held out her hand. Taylor took it in his and shook it. He thought to himself, 'Wow. Her hands are so soft. And she has a really sexy voice.'
"Ya know what Tay? I think you and I are going to get along fine...." and with that Isaac and Kate followed by Nicki and Taylor, walked out the door towards the pool.
