“Hey there dude!”
“Jesus, Kevin, you startled me! Since when do you get into a lady’s room without knocking first?”
“When did I do anything like that? Oh, you mean you’re the lady… That’s a good one!”
“Shut up!”
Before we knew it we were into a pillow fight. While trying to hit Kevin and avoid being hit at the same time, I kept wondering how could I possibly feel so comfortable with someone I had just met a couple of hours ago. Since it felt great, I didn’t bother to come to an answer.
“Wow! That felt good!” exclaimed Kevin as we both sat down on the floor, exhausted by the fight.
“Hey ‘dude’, wanna help a lady put her clothes into this closet?” Before Kevin could object, I had given him an armful of clothes to put them in a drawer. He tossed them on the floor instead.
“Oh come on, gimme a break! I’ll help you later!”
“Fine you Mr. I’m-good-for-nothing! I’ll do it myself!” There was a silence between us for a couple of minutes. As I put my clothes away in the closet I could sense that Kevin was hesitating to tell me whatever he had come to tell me about. I waited.
“So you’re a Hanson fan…” he finally spoke. I turned to face him.
“Well, fan is not the word. But you could call me a Hansonmaniac… that would be more representative of me.” I sat down on the bed and looked at him. “Seriously now, do you…do you happen to know where their house is?”
“Well, yeah…”
“Really? Could we go there sometime? Please? Maybe I could see them!”
“Actually, I happen to know them personally… In fact, we’re friends!” Kevin was trying really hard not to laugh.
“Yeah, whatever! Anyway, you gotta help me meet them! Oh I know! I could dress up as a pizza-boy and go to their house and when they open the door…”
“Georgia…”
“Or I could get on the roof and say that if I don’t get to meet them then I’ll jump! Of course there’ll be reporters everywhere but maybe I’ll get an autograph!” I was so excited with my plan that Kevin had to shake me by the shoulders to get me to listen to him.
“Georgia! Get real! There’s a much easier way for you to get an autograph by Hanson!”
“Well, what are you waiting for? Aren’t you going to tell me?” There was a pause.
“You can ask them tonight… They’re coming over for dinner.”
I was just about to say, “Yeah right, I believe you!”, but before I even got to the second word, Kevin smiled and left the room without a word. I didn’t notice that his eyes were sparkling with excitement…
“Hi Tay! It’s Kevin. Can I talk to Zac?”
“Yep! Hold on a second; we’ll catch up later! ZAC!!! KEVIN’S ON THE PHONE!!!”
Kevin heard someone tumbling down the stairs and five seconds later, a panting Zac got to the phone.
“Hello? How did it go? What’s she like?”
“Zac, take it easy! It went pretty good actually… Well, she’s… well, you’ll find out soon! In fact, that’s why I called. What time are you coming?”
“This is what I thought: why don’t you come over, you’ll tell us what happened and the two of us can come to your place in an hour or so. Ike and Tay will come later, before dinner. What d’you think?”
“Sounds ok. I’m on my way then.”
“Hi there! Mmm, nice posters! Well, there’s a friend of mine here who wants to meet you.”
“Although I can’t imagine why would anyone like to meet me, let him in!”
“Now promise you won’t scream!”
“Ok, I won’t scream. Unless of course he looks like Brad Pitt…”
Kevin laughed. I had promised not to scream; however, when Kevin’s friend stepped into the room, I had to remind it to myself several times.
“Oh – My - God!”
Kevin was about to say something but I interrupted him. “First of all”, I said looking at the boy, who had the Cheshire cat grin on his face, “do you get annoyed when people start to scream when they meet you?”
“Sometimes I do…” the boy replied.
“I won’t risk it! Excuse me for a sec…” and with that, I pushed the boys out of the room, closed the door behind me and before I could realize it, I was screaming with all the strength I had, my voice covering the music that was on… When my lungs couldn’t take it anymore, I opened the door and faced Kevin. “Kevin, you were saying something?”
Kevin, who was almost rolling on the floor laughing, tried to control himself and spoke: “I was indeed! Georgia, meet Zac Hanson!”
“Oh my God! What happened just now? Kevin introduced me to Zac Hanson, that’s what happened! No, that can’t be true! But it is! I shook his hand, I heard him talk to me! But if it was true, then Kevin was serious about being friend with Hanson! That means that he was also serious about them coming over for dinner! Oh my God!” I looked at my watch, “ I’ve only got one hour and thirty minutes to find something nice to wear! Oh no! I need to take a shower!” So I rushed into the bathroom.
Precisely one hour and fifteen minutes later, after taking a shower, drying my hair, searching into the closet to find anything I would look nice in and being panicked as I heard Taylor and Isaac coming, I was ready to go downstairs and make my dream come true: meet Hanson.
I was setting my foot off the last step when I finally found the courage to look into the living room. I could see Isaac standing beside the couch where Kevin was sitting. Zac was sitting on the arm of the couch and Taylor was sunk into an armchair. He had his back facing me. “I can’t do this”, I whispered to myself. I was just about to race upstairs when Zac noticed me and announced: “Ah! There she is!” Everybody turned to look at me. I could feel my face turn red. Zac got up, took me by the hand and lead me into the room.
“Guys, this is Georgia. Georgia, these human-like creatures are my brothers, Tay and Ike”
“Yeah I know” I finally managed to speak.
Taylor got up and shook my hand. “Hi! It’s nice to meet you!”
“Nice to meet you too”. He’s gorgeous!
Ike approached us and he too shook my hand. “It’s a pleasure to meet you!”
I smiled. He’s so sweet! “The pleasure is all mine!” I replied.
“So, what do you think of Hanson?”
I thought for a moment. “I think they’re nice.”
“Well, they think you’re nice too”.
I gave him a puzzled look.
“Goodnight” he said as he disappeared into the bathroom. I heard him get into his room and close the door. I looked out of the window. It was a peaceful summer night.
“Boy what a day!”