The girls talked non-stop catching up the past three weeks. "Well Mark and Adam made up for two weeks in the boonies." Jessy said grabbing an envelope of pictures from her backpack and opening it and pulling out six pictures and handed them over as she explained. "Oops not that one." Jessy said turning red and putting it back in the envelope. "Dang why is always the young ones." Monica said staring at a picture of Adam. "What they bath in milk? It does a body good." Chele said as all three laughed. "Hey Jessy." Zac said walking up behind her. "Umm Zac this is my big Sis Monica. Mon this is Zac." Jessy said as Zac stucky his hand out for the pictures. "Hey Zac. So you chose my baby Sis huh? Smart. Very smart." Monica said handing him the pictures. Jessy wanted to die and was getting ready for the worse. "These the guys you were telling me about?" Zac asked. "Yeah that's Mark and the young adonis is Adam. I told you he was good looking." Jessy said. "You did but this is better than good looking. Makes a fella feel real bad." Zac said. "Hey looks aren't everything." Jessy said and burst out laughing as the girls joined her. "You ladies ready to go so Monica/Veronica can meet Isaac." Zac said. "Um let me put these away. Hun we don't have to share this with them do we?" Jessy asked gathering the pictures and nodding towards Ike and Tay. "What I should be the only humiliated Hanson." Zac teased. "Hun I was invited to stay the whole summer. Repeatedly asked and where am I. Not in Traverse City. Zac you wouldn't want to be Adam. Man what am I saying you got it worse than Adam. Girls love Adam for his body and don't care about anything else. Your fans love you because your Zac Hanson and don't really care who that is. I care Zac, I want to know just Zac Hanson, not the hottie loved by thousands, not the drummer in the hottest band, not the brother of Taylor or Isaac Hanson. I want to know just plain old Zac Hanson, a thirteen year old dealing with the same stuff I have to. Too old but not old enough for everything." Jessy explained as Chele and Monica walked away to give them privacy. "You could have hid the pictures from me, so I really shouldn't get mad. At least you're honest, and not playing games." Zac said taking her hands in his. "Zac that was insensitive of me. I should have waited til we were alone tonight." Jessy apologized. "Well we were both wrong so let's move on. Come on, let's go join up with the others." Zac said leading her towards his brothers and they all headed into the terminal. Isaac introduced Monica to his parents and his younger siblings. They soon loaded up in a their van and headed home. "I'm not going to blindfold you but if it happens to get out where we live I'd have to kill you." Walker teased. "I don't dare look." Jessy said hiding her face in Zac's chest. "Honey he's not going to kill you. He was just kidding." Zac said kissing the top of her head. "I knew that. I just wanted to cuddle." Jessy whispered. "Slick move sis." Chele said cuddling into Taylor's chest. "Is it safe to look now?" Jessy asked as the van stopped. "Yeah it's okay to look. This is my house Jessy." Zac said as Jessy lifted her head. "Great big house." Jessy said. "This is nice." Chele said. "Let's head in." Walker said leading the way opening the front door. Diana took them all on a tour of the house as she was headed to the second floor, "Here Zac can you hang on to this?" Jessy asked taking off her backpack. "Sure Jessy. Just promise you won't look in the closet or under the beds." Zac pleaded. "I remember the article about your closet, there's no way I'm looking in there. I have four brothers I'm not crazy. Knowing you guys you probably moved them with you." Jessy teased. "Sure did." Zac teased back. "Zachary Hanson get up stairs and clean your closet. Take your brothers with you." Diana said leading the girls and their mothers upstairs. By the time they reached the guys' room they had cleaned the closets, doors left open, cleaned under their own beds. Each standing by for inspection. "Do I dare?" Jessy said when Diana asked her to look under Zac's bed. "Spotless not even dust bunnies." Jessy reported, noticing the dirty socks between the mattress and box spring. She quickly put the comforter back down. "I'm the youngest I'll do Tay's too." Jessy said not lifting his comforter as high. "This one is spotless too." Jessy said as she crawled on her hands and knees to Isaac's bed, barely lifting his comforter. "This one's clean too" Jessy announced taking Isaac's hand and standing up, dusting off. "Thank you Jessy. You're very brave." Diana said. "I have four brothers. I figured I was better suited for the task. Monica's an only child and Chele's brother Shane is 6 years older than her." Jessy said. "So how old are your brothers?" Diana asked. "15, 13, 12 and 10." Zac answered. "13?" Diana asked. "Yep Jessy's a twin." Zac told her as they headed out. "So you guys' gonna put them back in the closet now?" Jessy whispered wrapping her arms around Zac. "What?" Zac asked. "The stash between the mattress and box spring. I assumed your brothers had the same that's why I didn't lift the covers as high." Jessy confessed. "Don't tell Jessy. She won't let me go out." Zac pleaded. "I'm no snitch Zac." Jessy said letting go and walking away. "Man Jessy stop." Zac asked as everyone turned around. "What? Don't look at me." Jessy said flying down the stairs. "Zachary Hanson you apologize." Diana ordered. "Yes Mom." Zac said heading down after Jessy, finding her with his Dad, talking up a storm. "Dad can I talk to Jessy a minute please?" Zac asked. "Sure son I have to go check the fax Jessy, I'll be right back. Don't go away, I want the end of that story. Zac did you know Jessy was a farm kid?" Walker asked heading to his office. "Jessy don't run please. Let me explain." Zac asked as Jessy headed down the hall. "Zac I'm old enough to go to the bathroom by myself." Jessy said slamming the door in his face. "Man Jessy he didn't call you a snitch you did. It probably never crossed his mind until you brought it up." Jessy thought to herself. She flushed the toliet for sound effect, washed her face and hands to help her calm down, took a deep breath and headed back out. "Jessy let me explain?" Zac pleaded. "Okay explain cuz I sure have no idea why I even brought it up. Zac I didn't mean it to sound like I was accusing you, I was just telling you I'm not a snitch. Not unless someone is endangered because I don't." Jessy said. "But I was suppose to apologize to you, Mom said so." Zac said. "Hey Mrs. H. Umm Zac didn't have anything to apologize for, I sort of pissed myself off. I'm real good at that. I can have a real good argument when I'm the only in the room." Jessy laughed, adding, "We're cool. Okay?" "Sure Jessy, thanks for explaining. Zac I'm sorry I treated you as if you're responsible son." Diana apologized. "Sure thing Mom." Zac said as Isaac and Taylor shot looks of surprise at him behind her back. They all sat to cake and punch as a welcoming to the girls. Jessy finished her fair story for Walker and then everyone else wanted to know the whole story. Jessy started over explaining the Sweepstakes contest and all the fun she had showing a pig, sheep, beef steer, pony, draft horse, riding horse, a dairy cow, and a dairy goat. "Wow you know all about all of those." Zac said. "Crash course over the last three days of the fair. Man eat, sleep, practice, practice, practice. It was a blast." Jessy said. "Well girls, if you'd like I can take you to your hotel and you can have some private time before the press hounds you to death." Walker said. "Momma do we have time to swim?" Jessy asked. "Sure there's plenty of time. Hansons care to join us?" Barbara asked and they all rushed to get their suits. They were loaded in the van and headed to the girls hotel in a matter of minutes.
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