CHAPTER 8



"ISAAC I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD ACCUSE ME OF THAT!" 
You hear Kristen yell from the other side of the bus. 
You push Zac off of you and listen. 

"WELL WHAT DO YOU EXPECT, YOU HAVE BEEN HANGING OUT WITH 
EVERYONE BUT ME THIS WHOLE TIME!!! DO YOU THINK I AM JUST 
NOT GOING TO NOT NOTICE AND JUST SIT THERE WAITING FOR YOU 
TO GET AROUND TO TALKING TO ME?" Isaac yells back. 
"GOODNIGHT KRISTEN I AM GOING TO BED" 

You hear him say and then you hear a door 
slam. Then Kristen comes marching into the room and falls 
onto her bed crying. 

"Are you ok?" Zac asks. 

"Go away Zac!!" She answers. 

"Hey! He doesn't have to go anywhere, he isn't 
bothering you." You answer. 

"God Amelia, why can't you just be nice for once, all 
day today you have been really rude, to me, and it is 
really getting on my nerves, why don't you just..." She 
is interupted by a knock on the door. 

"Come in!" You yell. 

Taylor walks in. "Kristen, can I talk to you? " He 
asks. 

"Uh sure." She replies, walking out of the room. 

"Amelia did you tell them what we heard?" Zac asks. 

"Yes, they deserved to know, she shouldn't have said that 
about them, and going after you." You answer. 

"Don't you think that was a little ru..." Zac starts but 
is cut off. 

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WOULD SAY THAT ABOUT ME! I THOUGHT 
WE WERE FRIENDS KRISTEN?" Taylor shouts. 

"We are Taylor, I didn't mean it like that. GOD WHY 
IS EVERYONE TURNING ON ME TODAY?? IS IT SOMETHING I DID, IS 
GOD AGAINST ME TODAY OR SOMETHING???" She screams out to the 
whole bus. 

"No but maybe you should be careful how loud you 
talk and who can hear you." Taylor says as he storms out of 
the rec. part and into his bunk room. "But I didn't tell 
anyone but Ike and he wouldn't tell anyone and I told him 
in the bunk room and no one was..." She stops. 

"AMELIA!!!" She screams. 

She barges into the bunk room. "How could you? 
HOW COULD YOU?? I THOUGHT WE WERE FRIENDS AND YOU GO AND 
TELL ISAAC LIES AND TELL TAYLOR THINGS THAT I TOLD SOMEONE 
ELSE IN TOTAL PRIVACY, what is your problem??" She shouts 
at you. 

"LIES, EVERYTHING I TOLD THEM WAS THE TOTAL TRUTH!!" You 
shout back defensively. 

"WHAT???? I NEVER SAID THAT I WAS ONLY GOING OUT WITH ISAAC 
TO GET TO ZAC!!" She shouts back.
 
"YES YOU DID, WE BOTH HEARD YOU, you were arguing with 
Taylor and you said that." You defend. 

"WHAT?? I NEVER SAID...I don't believe you, did you hear 
the rest of the argument?? Did you hear the first part 
when Taylor said that I PROBABLY only went out with Isaac 
to get to Zac, and I said Oh Ya, I went out with Isaac 
just to get to Zac cause I love him so much and then I 
said I would never go out with Zac if my life depended on 
it, no offense Zac, and that I loved Isaac more then 
anything? You didn't hear that part did you?? You only 
heard what you wanted to hear. Even ask Taylor, I was 
being sarcastic, SARCASTIC, do you know what that 
means?? It means that you say something mockingly to 
a comment, I can't believe you would do this Amelia, and 
not only did you LIE to Isaac, you told Taylor something 
that I told ISAAC in private, IT WAS NONE OF YOUR 
BUSINESS!!!." 

"Well I wouldn't have told them anything if you wouldn't 
have said that you were going after Zac." You say trying 
to defend yourself. 

"Well thank you Amelia, since you didn't 
get the whole story my boyfriend, well if he is still my 
boyfriend, and my best friend, if he's still my best friend 
are now really pissed at me. I hope you are happy, now that 
you are sure THAT YOU'LL ALWAYS HAVE YOUR PATHETIC LITTLE 
ZACY Pooh, no offense Zac, you knew I didn't like him, so 
what's your prob.?" She says as she storms out of the room 
to talk to Isaac and Taylor. 

You stand there amazed at what just happened. "I guess 
telling them wasn't so good, huh?" You ask Zac. 

"Nope, as soon as Isaac finds out what you did, you are 
going to have a bus full of mad people." Zac tells 
you. "But I won't get mad at you." He says with a smile 
and wraps his arms around you.

You lay down the bed and close your eyes. "What am I going 
to do? I have everyone mad at me." You ask. 

"Well you could start by apologizing to them." Zac says. 

"Well, ya I could but there has to be some less degrading 
way of doing this." You say. 

"I doubt it, unless of course you sleep with all of them 
but then that would piss me and Kristen off so really bad so 
that won't work." He says with a smile. 

"Oh ya thanks for the help Zac." You say rolling your eyes.

"Ok guys start getting ready we have to be at a sound check 
in 20 minutes, then we will come back and check into a hotel." 
Walker calls out across the bus. 

"Oh great!" You say getting up out of your bunk to get your 
shoes on. 

Zac leaves the room to get his clothes on since 
he is walking around in his boxers. (which you REALLY like). 
You all finally get ready and pile out of the bus and look at 
the amphitheater that they are performing in Detroit. 

"Wow!" You exclaim looking at the huge dome. 

"Pretty cool huh?" Zac asks. 

"Ya!" You say. 

He grabs your hand and you all begin to 
walk to the theatre when a huge group of girls come running 
in you guy's direction. 

"Oh no!" Taylor yells. 

"Run!" Zac screams as he pulls you towards the door and 
all of you begin to run at top speed. 

You make it to the door when another group of girls come 
at you from the side of the building. 

"Man!" Zac screams. 

"Oh MY GOD!!!" One of the girls with braces huge glasses, 
and freckles everywhere screams. "SHE'S HOLDING ZAC'S 
HAND!!!!!" 

You immediately let go of his hand and look at the girls 
faces. They look at you with murderous expressions and 
start inching towards you. 

"HEY GUYS LOOK, I'M NAKED!" Taylor screams. 

The girls attention goes straight to Taylor and they 
rush towards him. 

Security finally arrives and opens the door and all of 
you rush in. They close the door behind you and you 
look through the window. 

"We're going to kill you!" One of the girls screams at 
you.  "You took my man!!" 

"I warned you!" Walker says giving you and Zac an evil 
eye. 

"I didn't see anybody around how could I have known?" 
You ask. 

"Let me tell you something, there is ALWAYS a fan some-
where, it's like they have a Hanson tracking 
device and are always where we are." He says with a smile.


      You wait with Kristen in the audience listening 
to Hanson practice, they are sosooooooo good, you think 
to yourself, and one of them is all mine! 

As they sing you snap out of your dream state and notice 
Zac isn't on the stage anymore. 

"Hey guys where's Zac?" You ask interrupting them. 

They stop singing and look around. 

"Don't know, we didn't even realize he was gone." Taylor 
answers. 

"Oh gee that's real nice." You say, rolling your eyes 
and getting up to go find him. 

"I saw him go backstage." Kristen says coldly, as she 
watches Isaac. 

"Thanks." You say. 

Well at least she is talking to me again, you think with 
a smile. 

You walk backstage and see about five girls all talking 
at once. 

"Hey who are you guys?" You ask. 

"Well, I am Amanda Greenburg, my dad is HANSON's 
agent." She says sounding real snobby.  "And these are 
my friends, Mary, Amy, and Angela. Who are you?" She 
says glaring at you. 

"I am Zac's gi..."  You stop your self. "Friend, I am 
Hanson's friend, I am going on tour with them and my 
friend Kristen." You say with a smile. 

"YOU get to go on tour with Hanson?" Amanda asks. 

"Ya, we are really good friends." You answer. 

"Oh." She says wrinkling her nose. "So who is your 
fave Hanson bro?" She asks. 

"Well, I really don't have fave." You lie. 

"Oh come on I won't tell anyone." She says with a 
smile. 

"No that doesn't matter I don't care who you tell, um, 
my fave is Zac." You say looking at her. 

"Oh." She says frowning. "That's my fave to, um we have 
to go." She turns to walks away. 

"Well if all the other girls who like Zac look like her, 
I won't have to worry about anything, I'll get him for 
sure." She says and all of her little friends start 
laughing as they walk away. 

"Jerks!" You say. 

I wonder where Zac is? You think to yourself. 

You walk around for a couple more minutes 
then go back to your seat. 

"Did he ever come out here?" You ask Kristen. 

"No." She answers. 
"Thanks." You say, then walk away. 

You go outside the theatre and look around and see that 
mob of girls again and you run back inside, thankfully they 
didn't see you. 

"Where is that little bunghole?" You say out loud. 

You walk around for a half an hour looking for 
him when you start to get nervous (well actually you've 
been nervous the whole time but you are REALLY nervous now.) 
You walk backstage and start looking in all the rooms. You 
walk by one room and glance in it and walk away, then stop 
and walk back to the doorway and see Amanda holding Zac 
kissing him. 

"WHAT THE HELL???" You scream and run in the room. 

You push Amanda on the floor. 

"What the hell do you think you are doing?" You ask 
glaring at her. 

"I am kissing him what does it look like?" Amanda says. 
"We are going out." 

"What?" You ask then look over at Zac who has a stunned 
expression on his face. 

"I don't believe you." You say as you storm out of the 
room. Tears fill your eyes as you run back to your seat. 


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