Chapter 18

"Ike?"

"Yeah Tay?"

"Do I look all right?"

Isaac looked up at him and gave him a strange look. Then a sly grin crossed his face.

"Well, I don't know Tay." He said, putting on a gay lisp. "I mean, first of all? Those tight leather pants have just got to go. Or aren't you planning on having children?"

"Isaac..."

"And that shirt..." Isaac went on. "C'mon dah-ling that is so last season. What is it with you and tight clothes? You think they're gonna make you live longer?"

"Yes." Taylor joked. "Look, Ike..."

"I tell you what you need. You need a haircut. I'm thinking, say a number two, maybe a number one. And some baggy clothes. Baggy clothes are like, in! And -"

"Ike you're beginning to scare me."

"Just beginning?" Isaac asked, finally dropping the gay lisp. "Such a disappointment. Why do you care how you look anyway?"

"Yeah Tay, why do you care?" asked Zac, joining them.

"Well, y'know... I'm going out."

"On a date?" Isaac asked.

"No on a bridge. Of course a date."

"Anyone I know?"

"Nope."

"So, when are you bringing her over for dinner so we can meet her?"

"And thoroughly embarrass her, and you in front of her?" Zac added, then innocently continued with: "Oh, sorry, did I just say that aloud?"

"I just might not introduce her to you. So there. Now, do I look ok?"

"You look fine. Gee. Y'know Ike, I thought only girls worried about how they look. Maybe the media is right and Taylor is a girl after all."

Isaac laughed and Taylor gave Zac a look.

"Oh no!" Zac gasped mockingly. "Not the Look! Noooooo!"

"Alas, Zac, by the force of Taylor's powerfully hideous looks, will now crumble to dust." Isaac joked.

"C'mon guys!" Taylor complained.

"Tay, you of all people should know you were asking for it."

"Did I say 'Ike and Zac would you make fun of me please?' I think not."

"Yes Tay, we know you don't think." Zac grinned. "Some advice, leave now. Leave now before we scar you for life."

"Right. Like anything you guys could say would scar me for life."

"Wanna bet?" Isaac asked gleefully.

"Go on then."

"Mary Anne naked."

"Oh eww." Taylor answered, the same time Zac objected with a loud "Hey!"

Isaac cracked up laughing.

"Do I win?" Isaac asked.

"Yes, yes, you win. Now, if you don't mind, I'm going to leave and try and get this... picture out of my head. Eww."

The Taylor noticed the deadly look Zac was giving Isaac.

"Oh, and Ike? I think you'd better leave too." He grinned. "I think you are about to get beat up."

Chapter 19