sleepingyodeler

Once upon a time there lived a man, a man who came from Hillsboro Village, Tennessee. His name was Kevin Max (Kmax) and he was from the singing sensation dc talk. He was the most beloved of dc talk, and it was said people would come from miles around just to hear his voice.

Kmax had it all. A wonderful career, a house, an angelic looking wife, with a wonderful personality, named Alayna, and two dogs. One was an Irish Wolfhound, named Tully, and the other was a Black Lab, named Baron Vonfartbox, but just incase little children hear this story one day, let's just call the dog, 'Baron.' Any ways on with the story.

Kmax was a great man, and everybody loved him. It was said he was the "perfect" one a shiny tin example of a man who had no secrets, but Kmax always hung his head low (part of that was taken from kmax's poem, 'Hang You Head {little preacher}. Do you like how I have woven it into the story? Of course you do! Now Kmax can sue me for taking his work with out the publishers permission! Kmax is gonna be rich! Yippieeeeeee! when people said such things, because Kmax did live with a secret.

Only close friends and family members knew of Kmax's secret, and they were sworn never to tell another living soul. You see Kmax was afraid if anybody knew of his secret, people would laugh and never buy a dc talk CD, or go to one of their concerts ever again. Of course he didn't want to lose his job, but he salso didn't want to ruin Michael or Toby's; his fellow band mates career either. You see Kmax's secret was . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .are you ready for this one? . . . . . . . . . Kmax yodeled in his sleep!

It was said since his early childhood, Kmax yodeled in his sleep. No Max and Elaine Smith, Kmax's adoptive parents, went to many a doctor trying to help their son, but no doctor knew why Kmax did such things. So he grew up yodeling in his sleep. It wasn't a continuous yodel, just every now and then eh would roll over and give a fifteen second encore of, "Yodel lay he whoo!' That was all.

Unfortunately tragedy struck one night, when Kmax was 33 years old. Kmax's yodeling got worse . . . much worse! Kmax was in bed sleeping next to his wife Alayna. It was around 1:30 at night and Kmax got out of bed and walked downstairs. Alayna woke up as she saw Kmax leaving the room and heard Kmax walking dwonstairs, just thinking he was restless (at this time she didn't know he was sleep walking.) but, a minute or two later Alayna heard the car engine to their car start. In a rush she jumped out of bed and ran to the bedroom windo, only to see Kmax driving away.

She started to panic. What could she do? Her husband was out in the middle of the night, driving around in his pajama's, and she had no idea were he went. She decided it wasn't a good idea to call the police, just incase she was worrying over nothing. So she decided to go downstairs and sit until Kmax came back home.

Well an hour or two later Kmax finally came back and parked the car. Alayna hastened out the front door unto the front lawn. As kmax came out of the car, Alayna was stunned to see what Kevin had done to himself in the last hour or so. He was no longer wearing his pajama's, but instead he was wearing a pair of green laderhosen and one of those funny little hats, but worse yet, he had an accordion with him that was accompanying his yodeling!

When Alayna thought nothing else could get worse, she saw all the lights on the block turn on as people poked their heads out the window or else came out on their front porches to see who was making all the noise. Alayna was so embarrassed. She quickly grabbed Kevin and rushed with him into the house, closed the door, brought him upstairs, and put him to bed. All the while Kmax was still playing his accordion and yodeling along with the music.

The next morning Alayna told Kevin what he had done last night, and how all the neighbors had heard. They both decided in was a good time to see the doctor they had choosen, who specialized in weird disorders.

Well they went to see the doctor that very day and Kevin was asked many questions about his early childhood and the such. This is the news the doctor told them; You see Kmax is part Irish, and Part German, and many people who yodel are Irish/German. Now Kmax was separated from his birth parents at birth, and when you combine the two together, you get strange and weird disorders. In Kmax's case he yodeled in his sleep. The reason he yodeled in his sleep was because he was trying to find his birth parents.

Now they both understood this, but Alayna asked the doctor why Kevin still yodeled in his sleep. "I mean," she said, "he found his birth parents."

In reply the doctor todl them that Kmax yodeled in his sleep for such a long time that it had become a habit. He said if they wanted to break it they could, but it would be very hard. But, even if they did, Kevin would start getting vicious and start acting like a dog in his sleep. He would bark instead of yodel and one night soon, he just might roll over and bite Alayna in the leg.

A gasp came from Alayna's mouth as she heard the news. She was shocked, and didn't know what to say, but she and Kevin then decided it would be best to leave the yodeling alone. So they both hung their heads low because they knew peole would never say 'Kevin was the 'perfect' one, a shiny tin example of a man who had no secrets (Another opportunity for Kmax to sue me and make big bucks! Yippie!).

Kevin was so sadden as they drove home. He started making up a speech for Michael and Toby, telling them he was gonna quite so he wouldn't ruin thier career. Alayna and Kevin drove home in silence.

As they approached their block, they saw a big crowd of people gathered around. 'What is wrong,' they thought. As they drove up and parked the car, thousands of people swarmed all around them and people took pictures.

"What is going on here?" asked Alayna as they both came out of thier car.

All the sudden everybody fell quite as one of the neighbors explained. "Last night when Kevin was yodeling we had no idea that he had such a talent! It was music to our ears. Well, we all just can't stop talking about it and we told everybody how talented Kmax was! We even got newscasters here! They would love to hear Kevin yodel!"

Kevin and Alayna were shocked to hear such good news, but quickly Alayna explained that Kevin wasn't ready to yodel at the moment, but maybe one day soon he would be. Well Kevin had to take yodeling lessons from a professional, because he only knew how to yodel in his sleep. When Kmax was finally a professional, dc talk sat aside one part of a song on each CD where Kevin could yodel his heart out. Their sales sky rocketed, putting their CD's as number one on all music charts in the world! And to this very day if you happen to be in Hillsboro Village, Tennessee at night and you hear a yodel, it's a good chance it has come from the Max's house.


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