| And I Waited For You... |
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| But both have really nice houses. Take mine for example, it�s huge. It�s only a two-story house when lots are three stories, but its still one of the nicest in the Grove. Mason and I each have a bedroom, plus my parents do, and we still have one room left over, and its just a spare room for when guests come. Downstairs is the living room, kitchen, dining room, laundry room and a study but I don�t use the study much because I prefer my room�and the laptop in my room.) We�ve got two bathrooms upstairs, one downstairs. We�ve got a huge deck out back that goes down to our inground pool. Plus Mason and I have our trampoline. And we have a breezeway that connects our house to the three-car garage. Its got a basketball hoop on it, but it doesn�t get used all too often, and when it does its mostly by me, Mason�s more into hockey than basketball. I finally turned off of my road, Woodland Drive, which takes forever because its really long and has a lot of turns. There are a ton of streets in Wood Groove, and they all branch of from other roads, so if you don�t know your way around, you�re going to get lost in about two minutes. I kept jogging, hoping to do a quick run through Asher and then get out of there and home before midnight. An hour, no problem. At night, I don�t know. I run at night a lot, but not usually this late, usually its like, nine when I run, not ten thir--I checked my watch--quarter of eleven. I ran around one of the many circles on dead end streets, I turned to head home, it was quarter of twelve now, but I was really starting to enjoy running in the moonlight. Almost a full moon, it looked beautiful. I even slowed down, I was tired and eager to get home and in bed, but it was nice walking the streets under the streetlights while crickets chirped all around you. ~ Zac ~ �I�m going rollerblading, want to come?� I asked Taylor. �No thanks dude, it�s way too late.� He answered. �Not that late.� �Zac, it�s eleven thirty at night, where are you going to go? In the driveway?� Taylor said. �Oh yeah, ok, now everyone make fun of me.� I said. �I�m serious, it�s too late.� Taylor said. �Tay, I�ll only be gone a little while, plus, how do you know I don�t do this all the time?� I said, just to make him curious. �What? No. No you don�t.� He argued. �Ok, think what you want I guess.� I said joking around. �I�m leaving.� �Zac no. You cant just up and leave the house when everyone�s sleeping. Dude we�re Hanson. None of us can just up and leave the house anytime we want. People out there are out to get us, girls and guys.� �Ooohh�guys huh? I bet you like them, huh Tay?� I laughed. �What? GROSS! That�s sick Zac, not even funny.� Tay said, but I could tell he was trying real hard not to laugh. �Get out of here.� He said, opening the front door for me. �But BE CAREFUL. If something happens to you, it�s my ass that gets chewed out, GOT IT?� �Yeah yeah yeah, I know, I got it.� I said, jumping down the front steps. �And DON�T break anything either Zac, we�ve got a performance next week.� �Ok Mom.� I laughed, blading down the driveway and onto the street. I didn�t know where I wanted to go, but I knew I wanted to get out into fresh air so I could at least think clearly. For one thing, I couldn�t stop thinking about Candal. Candal, what kind of a name is that? What kind of a name is Walker, Zoey, Avery or Isaac? Just different, but why am I acting so obsessed with her? I turned off one road and onto the next, where I could no longer look back and see my house. It was huge, maybe a little too huge. But it was comfortably huge. So it wasn�t too bad. Just different. A lot of things are different lately. But that�s not all bad. I had to laugh, poor Ike felt bad about leaving my parents with six kids, he�s twenty-one and he still hasn�t moved out of the house. But I know Tay and I would both be the same way if we were in his position. Geez, Tay�s already nineteen. I jumped off a sidewalk, falling without hardly making a noise on the street pavement, I tried to pick up speed. I really need to stop thinking so much about Candal. She�s just a girl. Yeah, but she�s different. I don�t know why, but she�s different. I should invite her over, yeah, but then she�d take one look at Taylor, fall in love with him, and never want to see me again. Aren�t I being kind of childish, he�s Taylor Hanson, no doubt she�s got fifty pictures of him on her walls, she already know�s what he looks like and probably was just talking to me so she could get close to Tay. |