Disclaimer:Apart from Liz,(Lisa that is,we are NOT talking about Liz
Parker),Kat,Ashton and several other unimportant characters,we own non of
these characters and non of the songs mentioned either!Wish we did though
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Church on Sunday
She was lying on the bed, moving her legs to the sound of the music they were listening to. She heard the rain knocking on the window from the outside. Since about two weeks it had been going on like that: rain every day, gray cloudy skies, a little bit stormy, still not exciting, just boring and bad mood, bad mood all the time.
Maybe the bad weather wasn't really to blame for her terrible mood. Perhaps it was because her relationship to Ashton was kinda difficult since some time. In fact it was getting more difficult by the day. She stood up and looked into the mirror. She sighed and looked down, everything was just so, so depressing. She felt that somebody wrap his arms around her waist from behind, she looked up into the mirror again and saw the face of one of her best friends next to hers. "You're not really looking happy Liz", Zac said and laid his chin on her shoulder. She smiled at him: "Well, things are kinda difficult with Ashton right now and this weather, aw, it makes me mad! Man, I'm so glad you guys are back in Tulsa finally, you know, Kat and me, we missed you a lot here...". She turned around to get confirmed by Katrin. Katrin nodded: "Yeah, I missed your jokes a lot, when you're around it's never boring". She, Lisa, Zac and his brothers Taylor and Isaac had known each other since ages but since the three brothers had become world famous with their music they hadn't much time to spend with the girls anymore. Especially lately, because they had been in the studio in Los Angels, recording a new album, afterwards they had to promote it all around the globe and go on tour. Now Zac and his brothers had just come home form three month US-tour two days ago. "Yeah", Katrin said, "I guess, I missed you guys a lot!".
"Hey, we missed you, too!", Zac said, still embracing Liz.
"But now we're back.", Taylor stated, kicked popcorn against his younger brother with his finger and got up from the floor where he had been sitting, leaned against Katrin's bed. "Hey Taylor!", Zac shouted at him and let Lisa go. Somehow Taylor felt satisfied and he recognized that it had been his intention to make Zac let go of her. Taylor was feeling kinda uncomfortable right now. Zac could cope much better with the whole situation. They hadn't seen the girls since at least three months and now he had just walked up to Liz and embraced her as if he'd never been away from Tulsa, as if nothing had changed at all. But a lot of things had changed since they had left their hometown in the end of December.
Sure, Taylor had often talked to them on the phone and Katrin and Liz had told him about nearly everything that had been going on here and about their new boyfriends, but still, things were different now and he needed his time to get to know the girls again. Maybe Zac was feeling the same, but he was able to hide it, but probably he, Taylor, was just different from his brother. Taylor felt that he was getting angry, this was stupid, he was behaving stupid, he really had no reason to be jealous of Zac. But Zac really has no right to embrace Liz anymore, after all she has a steady boyfriend now, or is he behaving normal and I am the fool?, Taylor thought and decided not to think about it now. Even though he was back in Tulsa his mood was bad enough. He was really happy to see Katrin and Lisa again but the weather, it just kept his feelings down. He sat down next to Katrin on her coach.
Lisa placed herself on Katrin's bed again and layed down on her back staring at the ceiling. Zac looked around in Kat's room and examined to walls. Not much had changed here. The old Hanson poster was still hanging there on the wall above her bed, but now there was a new photo on her beside table. "So, when will we get to know you boyfriends?", he asked looking from Kat to Lisa and back to Kat.
"Uh, I guess sometime soon", Liz shrugged.
"We wanted to went with them to the Crash Down Café tomorrow after school, you two could come along or the three of you?", Katrin suggested.
"Ike is busy with his girlfriend", Taylor said, "He didn't see her since such a long time, I think he doesn't want to come..."
"But we will!", Zac interrupted him.
"I hope you guys will get along with them well", Katrin said. As she thought about Michael, she smiled. He was just so cute, she still couldn't believe that she was together with him. She still couldn't believe how Liz and her had managed to turn those to guys from 12th grade, who, by the way, were friends, into their boyfriends. It was all going so well for her at the moment, eventhough she realized that Liz wasn't as happy as her, she couldn't help but felt extremely happy with Michael. She never really had had a steady boyfriend, nothing serious at least. Well, when she had been younger, around twelve years, she had been dating Taylor for some time, but it had just been something like a first try. Liz had been dating Zac at that time, but no "couple" had been doing more than giving each other a kiss on the cheek and walking down the street hand in hand. Afterwards Katrin had crushed on some other boys, but there hadn't been anything serious. It was different with Michael now. She really had feelings for him and when she was with him and looked into his deep brown eyes she had this feeling in her stomach that you have when you're in love with somebody-and he could kiss so way cool.
"Kat?", Taylor laughed.
"What were you dreaming 'bout?", Zac asked, "You boyfriend? What was his name again?"
"Michael!", she said and couldn't help grinning.
Silence, everybody seemed to think about something different until all of them started to laugh.
"Aw, I'm so glad to be back", Zac finally said, "oh, shit, I forgot, what time is it?".
"9:30 p.m.", Katrin answered, looking at her watch.
"I have to go home, I really forgot that I promised Isaac not to come back too late so that he doesn't have to look for the kids the whole eve. Taylor, wanna come along or could I use your car?" Zac asked opening the door of Katrin's room to leave.
"Use my car!".
When Zac had said goodbye to the girls and had left the room Taylor explained. "Ike has invited his girlfriend today, you know, our parents are not at home, so...", he grinned.
The three of them still talked a while until Lisa decided that it was time to go home. It was late and she didn't want to be all tired tomorrow.
"Well, I think I'll go home now", she stood up.
"I'll go home too then!", Taylor stated.
"Okay, I'll see you guys tomorrow!", Katrin waved goodbye to them at the door of her home and watched Taylor and Lisa walk down the street. Then she took the telephone and went back to her room to call Michael.
"I'll bring you home and then I'll go over to my house, okay?", Taylor asked.
"Yeah, but you really don't have to...", Lisa said.
"I know", he nodded, "but I'd like to."
"Okie"
They went down the street in silence.
"Is there something different?", he asked.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean now, I think it's kinda different, I mean, now that we're back here, it's different than before, you've got boyfriends and things, it seems to me...you know, you grew up a lot since we've been away..."
"Uh, really?", she looked at him a little confused and thought about it for a while, "well, maybe you're right, things changed, but it's still the same between us, I mean, you're still my best friends and things".
"Yeah".
Silence.
"You said things are kinda difficult with your boyfriend, with Ashton...", Taylor started again.
"Uh yeah", she sighted, "I guess, it's not quite so easy to have a steady boyfriend, I mean, he's really nice and things and I'm still happy about it, but you know, I sometimes think he's hiding something from me and he sometimes seems so much older than me, he's only two years older than me, but sometimes I just feel, I just feel like I'm so much younger than he is when I'm with him. And things are getting a little bit, you know, quick for me", Taylor nodded understandingly and she went on: "He, I don't know if he really understands me and you know Kat, she seems to have no probs at all, she and Michael, they are getting along so well, you know. I just donno how she's doing that..."
"Well, I don't know Ashton, but I'm sure you'll manage to get through this, I mean, maybe the two of you just need a little more time... and the relationship between Kat and Michael, that's something totally different, I mean, you are not like her and your boyfriend is not like hers, I mean, you can't compare that, you know!", Taylor said.
"Yeah, maybe you're right, I just have to give it some time. And I mean, in the beginning everything was great, so..., I mean, I've been going out with him since about a month now and I guess nobody ever said that everything has to be easy...", she sighed, "anyway, how are you doin'? Met any nice girls on tour?".
Taylor smiled: "Nah, I don't think so, well, there are a whole lot of sweet girls out there, but – no, I didn't meet anyone special!"
"Well, whatever, I'll see you tomorrow at the Crash Down, right?", she said, as they reached Liz's home.
"Sure, Zac and me are coming!"; he turned to go, "goodbye and goodnight, sleep well and things...".
She laughed. "Same to you!", she opened the door to her house, but turned around again. "Hey Tay!", he looked back at her, "You grew up a lot ,too!".
Church on Sunday
She was lying on the bed, moving her legs to the sound of the music they were listening to. She heard the rain knocking on the window from the outside. Since about two weeks it had been going on like that: rain every day, gray cloudy skies, a little bit stormy, still not exciting, just boring and bad mood, bad mood all the time.
Maybe the bad weather wasn't really to blame for her terrible mood. Perhaps it was because her relationship to Ashton was kinda difficult since some time. In fact it was getting more difficult by the day. She stood up and looked into the mirror. She sighed and looked down, everything was just so, so depressing. She felt that somebody wrap his arms around her waist from behind, she looked up into the mirror again and saw the face of one of her best friends next to hers. "You're not really looking happy Liz", Zac said and laid his chin on her shoulder. She smiled at him: "Well, things are kinda difficult with Ashton right now and this weather, aw, it makes me mad! Man, I'm so glad you guys are back in Tulsa finally, you know, Kat and me, we missed you a lot here...". She turned around to get confirmed by Katrin. Katrin nodded: "Yeah, I missed your jokes a lot, when you're around it's never boring". She, Lisa, Zac and his brothers Taylor and Isaac had known each other since ages but since the three brothers had become world famous with their music they hadn't much time to spend with the girls anymore. Especially lately, because they had been in the studio in Los Angels, recording a new album, afterwards they had to promote it all around the globe and go on tour. Now Zac and his brothers had just come home form three month US-tour two days ago. "Yeah", Katrin said, "I guess, I missed you guys a lot!".
"Hey, we missed you, too!", Zac said, still embracing Liz.
"But now we're back.", Taylor stated, kicked popcorn against his younger brother with his finger and got up from the floor where he had been sitting, leaned against Katrin's bed. "Hey Taylor!", Zac shouted at him and let Lisa go. Somehow Taylor felt satisfied and he recognized that it had been his intention to make Zac let go of her. Taylor was feeling kinda uncomfortable right now. Zac could cope much better with the whole situation. They hadn't seen the girls since at least three months and now he had just walked up to Liz and embraced her as if he'd never been away from Tulsa, as if nothing had changed at all. But a lot of things had changed since they had left their hometown in the end of December.
Sure, Taylor had often talked to them on the phone and Katrin and Liz had told him about nearly everything that had been going on here and about their new boyfriends, but still, things were different now and he needed his time to get to know the girls again. Maybe Zac was feeling the same, but he was able to hide it, but probably he, Taylor, was just different from his brother. Taylor felt that he was getting angry, this was stupid, he was behaving stupid, he really had no reason to be jealous of Zac. But Zac really has no right to embrace Liz anymore, after all she has a steady boyfriend now, or is he behaving normal and I am the fool?, Taylor thought and decided not to think about it now. Even though he was back in Tulsa his mood was bad enough. He was really happy to see Katrin and Lisa again but the weather, it just kept his feelings down. He sat down next to Katrin on her coach.
Lisa placed herself on Katrin's bed again and layed down on her back staring at the ceiling. Zac looked around in Kat's room and examined to walls. Not much had changed here. The old Hanson poster was still hanging there on the wall above her bed, but now there was a new photo on her beside table. "So, when will we get to know you boyfriends?", he asked looking from Kat to Lisa and back to Kat.
"Uh, I guess sometime soon", Liz shrugged.
"We wanted to went with them to the Crash Down Café tomorrow after school, you two could come along or the three of you?", Katrin suggested.
"Ike is busy with his girlfriend", Taylor said, "He didn't see her since such a long time, I think he doesn't want to come..."
"But we will!", Zac interrupted him.
"I hope you guys will get along with them well", Katrin said. As she thought about Michael, she smiled. He was just so cute, she still couldn't believe that she was together with him. She still couldn't believe how Liz and her had managed to turn those to guys from 12th grade, who, by the way, were friends, into their boyfriends. It was all going so well for her at the moment, eventhough she realized that Liz wasn't as happy as her, she couldn't help but felt extremely happy with Michael. She never really had had a steady boyfriend, nothing serious at least. Well, when she had been younger, around twelve years, she had been dating Taylor for some time, but it had just been something like a first try. Liz had been dating Zac at that time, but no "couple" had been doing more than giving each other a kiss on the cheek and walking down the street hand in hand. Afterwards Katrin had crushed on some other boys, but there hadn't been anything serious. It was different with Michael now. She really had feelings for him and when she was with him and looked into his deep brown eyes she had this feeling in her stomach that you have when you're in love with somebody-and he could kiss so way cool.
"Kat?", Taylor laughed.
"What were you dreaming 'bout?", Zac asked, "You boyfriend? What was his name again?"
"Michael!", she said and couldn't help grinning.
Silence, everybody seemed to think about something different until all of them started to laugh.
"Aw, I'm so glad to be back", Zac finally said, "oh, shit, I forgot, what time is it?".
"9:30 p.m.", Katrin answered, looking at her watch.
"I have to go home, I really forgot that I promised Isaac not to come back too late so that he doesn't have to look for the kids the whole eve. Taylor, wanna come along or could I use your car?" Zac asked opening the door of Katrin's room to leave.
"Use my car!".
When Zac had said goodbye to the girls and had left the room Taylor explained. "Ike has invited his girlfriend today, you know, our parents are not at home, so...", he grinned.
The three of them still talked a while until Lisa decided that it was time to go home. It was late and she didn't want to be all tired tomorrow.
"Well, I think I'll go home now", she stood up.
"I'll go home too then!", Taylor stated.
"Okay, I'll see you guys tomorrow!", Katrin waved goodbye to them at the door of her home and watched Taylor and Lisa walk down the street. Then she took the telephone and went back to her room to call Michael.
"I'll bring you home and then I'll go over to my house, okay?", Taylor asked.
"Yeah, but you really don't have to...", Lisa said.
"I know", he nodded, "but I'd like to."
"Okie"
They went down the street in silence.
"Is there something different?", he asked.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean now, I think it's kinda different, I mean, now that we're back here, it's different than before, you've got boyfriends and things, it seems to me...you know, you grew up a lot since we've been away..."
"Uh, really?", she looked at him a little confused and thought about it for a while, "well, maybe you're right, things changed, but it's still the same between us, I mean, you're still my best friends and things".
"Yeah".
Silence.
"You said things are kinda difficult with your boyfriend, with Ashton...", Taylor started again.
"Uh yeah", she sighted, "I guess, it's not quite so easy to have a steady boyfriend, I mean, he's really nice and things and I'm still happy about it, but you know, I sometimes think he's hiding something from me and he sometimes seems so much older than me, he's only two years older than me, but sometimes I just feel, I just feel like I'm so much younger than he is when I'm with him. And things are getting a little bit, you know, quick for me", Taylor nodded understandingly and she went on: "He, I don't know if he really understands me and you know Kat, she seems to have no probs at all, she and Michael, they are getting along so well, you know. I just donno how she's doing that..."
"Well, I don't know Ashton, but I'm sure you'll manage to get through this, I mean, maybe the two of you just need a little more time... and the relationship between Kat and Michael, that's something totally different, I mean, you are not like her and your boyfriend is not like hers, I mean, you can't compare that, you know!", Taylor said.
"Yeah, maybe you're right, I just have to give it some time. And I mean, in the beginning everything was great, so..., I mean, I've been going out with him since about a month now and I guess nobody ever said that everything has to be easy...", she sighed, "anyway, how are you doin'? Met any nice girls on tour?".
Taylor smiled: "Nah, I don't think so, well, there are a whole lot of sweet girls out there, but – no, I didn't meet anyone special!"
"Well, whatever, I'll see you tomorrow at the Crash Down, right?", she said, as they reached Liz's home.
"Sure, Zac and me are coming!"; he turned to go, "goodbye and goodnight, sleep well and things...".
She laughed. "Same to you!", she opened the door to her house, but turned around again. "Hey Tay!", he looked back at her, "You grew up a lot ,too!".