Joselyn spun around, showing off her dress. It looked fantastic! Even on her.
Joselyn turned to Amanda for her opinion as she flopped down into the armchair in her bedroom.

“Disgusting!” Amanda dissaproved “Absolutley foul! You look like you just stepped out of a bucket of warm compost!”

Joselyn’s face drooped, dissapointed.

“You’re right,” she agreed “It isn’t good enough for such a big event. I want Zac to like me”

“No! No!No!” Amanda corrected “That dress was too glamorous, you have to go down not up!”

Joselyn looked doubtful.

“Well...” she said, considering Amanda’s suggestion. “I don’t really know...maybe I should ask Zac”

“You have their number?!” Amanda shreiked.

Joselyn nodded.

“Well, why didn’t you tell me?” Amanda questioned “Here, I’ll ring them for you!” she said grabbing the piece of paper Joselyn had brought out.

“But...” Joselyn protested, but then gave up as Amanda picked up the reciver and started dialling.

“Hello? Could I trouble you to fetch Taylor Hanson, please?” Amanda said in the sweetest voice into the phone.

“You’re not really going to say that are you?” Joselyn queried.

Amanda frowned at her. “Shh! It’s ringing!”

Joselyn shook her head in dissaproval. Amanda cleared her throat.

“Uh, yes, hello. May I please converse with a being christened Taylor Hanson?”

Silence on the other end.

“Uh, hello?” Amanda prompted.

“Yeah.....Taylor’s here. Who’s this?” the voice answered, it was a young girl’s.

Amanda was stumped! If she said it was her...they wouldn’t want to talk! Then an idea struck her. An idea that made Amanda feel queasy. She was desperate, so it was worth it.

“You are speaking with Joselyn Bates” Amanda answered uncomfortably.

Joselyn’s head shot up.

“What the hell....?” Joselyn started, Amanda cut her off - motioning for her to be silent.

“Hold on...” the voice on the phone said.

A few seconds later, Amanda heard a familiar voice on the other end.

“Hello?”

“Taylor? Hi, this is actually Amanda, Joselyn needed the loo urgently...so I had to take over”

Amanda received a shocked glare from Joselyn.

“Amanda? Oh yeah, I remember.” Taylor responded “So...what do you want?”

“Well...I heard about that awards night thingy, and....well...I thought I might do you a favour by inviting myself!” Amanda said.

“Oh” Taylor murmured.

Amanda heard a yell in the background.

“TAY! Can I talk to Joselyn? Why the hell would she want to talk to you?” she heard Zac holler.

Amanda groaned. Suddenly she heard a click on the other line, someone else had picked up an extension phone at the Hanson house.

“LET’S BOOGEY!!!” a voice yelled in a high pitched voice.

“Uh, hello?” Amanda said.

“Yeah?” Taylor answered “What a sec, Mackie get off the phone!”

“Uh, actually, it’s Ike” a deeper voice explained.

“What are you doing, Ike? Taylor’s on the phone” Amanda heard the same young, female voice from before ask.

There was a click as Isaac hung up, then pounding as someone ran down the stairs - Zac.

Amanda heard Zac talking to Taylor in the background.

“Is he still going on about that ‘boogey’ thing?” Zac asked “Man...so immature...”

“Yeah, mum reckons he’s under a lot of pressure lately, especially after that girl he was dating found out about his little bum-picking habit...” Taylor said.

“Ohhh..” Zac exclaimed “Is that why she ran out of the house the other day? Hmm...”

“Yeah” Taylor laughed.

“Hey, lemme talk to Joselyn, will ya?” Zac asked, trying to grab the phone from Taylor. “I came all the way downstairs to talk”

Taylor held him back.

“It’s not Joselyn” Taylor stated. Zac looked confused.

“But Jessica said...”

“I know, but it’s not Joselyn” Taylor said, failing to explain himself further.

“Taylor,” Zac said slowly “Stop babbling and gimme the phone...”

“It’s for me, and it’s NOT JOSELYN!” Taylor proteseted.

“Who............is................it...............then...........?” Zac said even slower.

“Uh, Taylor?” Amanda spoke up, not wanting Zac to find out it was her on the other line. Bad move - actually calling him his name.

“Yeah, Amanda?” was the response.

She slapped her forehead.

“Amanda? AMANDA? Ringing MY house?” Zac pouted in disgust.

Taylor nodded.

“I never beleived that smell could travel through phonelines, but I have now been proved wrong...” Zac said “And I thought it was YOU that had B.O!” he pointed at Taylor.

Taylor frowned, and proceeded to sniff his underarms. Zac shook his head and headed back upstairs.

“Amanda, are you quite finished?” Amanda heard Joselyn ask. She motioned a ‘No’. Joselyn sighed.

Taylor spoke up from the other end.

“I hafta go now, Amanda”

“Oh, ok. What time should I meet and where?” Amanda asked.

“Huh?” Taylor asked.

“The music awards night. What time should I meet you?” Amanda answered.

“What music awards?” Taylor said, confused.

Amanda sighed, frustrated.

“Listen, why don’t I just come with Joselyn?”

“Oh, ok” Taylor agreed “...but ya gotta dress up, like real....proper”

“Yeah, I kinda figured that” Amanda replied.

Meanwhile, Joselyn was frantically signally to Amanda to let her talk to Zac. After being ignored, she jumped up angrily, shouting at Amanda.

“Amanda! Gimme the bloody phone!!!” she ordered.

Amanda turned around sharply.

“Sit down right now, and do’t ever talk to me like that, girl!!!” Amanda barked back.

Joselyn sat down obediently, and proceeded to chew her fingernails.

“Oh, I’m terribly sorry about that, Taylor,” Amanda apologised.

“Whatever, I hafta go”

“Oh, alright then, buh-bye then!”

“Later” was Taylor’s reply as he hung up the phone.

Amanda did not follow suit. She continued to talk into the phone long after she’d heard the click from Taylor’s end.

“Oh hello, Zac. How are you?” “Yes, yes, that’s right” “Oh, don’t worry about it, it’s not your fault” “It’s quite alright” “Joselyn was just wondering what to wear - the black dress or the brown sack one” “Oh alright then. That was my choice too!” “Bye now!”

Amanda hung up the phone and turned to Joselyn, who was waiting expectantly, with a depressed frown on her face.

“Well?” she asked.

“Zac said the brown one” Amanda reported.

“Oh,” Joselyn said, her face drooping even more. “What else did he say?”

Amanda thought back to her fake conversation with ‘Zac’.

“Not much” she said simply.

“Now! Let’s get off the subjet of YOU, and onto the subject of ME!” Amanda commanded.

“I have the perfect dress to wear!” Amanda gushed to Joselyn. “It’s light blue with silk, and glittery, shimmery stuff....!..Oh I am going to..” Amanda hesitated “ ..Oops...I mean WE, of course..he he...are going to look FABULOUS!!”

“Can’t you just wait to go?!” Amanda asked Joselyn excitedly.

“Yeah” Joselyn muttered “Can’t wait....”

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