"Whoo hoo!" crowed Zac.
Yet another New Years party at the Hansons'. How fun.
"All right!" exulted Ike as another explosion went off. "Awesome."
He was doing much better than he had been a few days ago.
"Hey Ike! Whuzz up?" James yelled, coming into the yard.
"Try big exploding stuff." Zac cut in.
James gave him a weird look.
"Well, it is up!" Zac said as another lot of 'stuff' exploded. "Yahoo!"
"Zac, what are you on?" Dennis joked. "And better still, where can I get it?"
"Actually," Taylor said mock-seriously, "Zac's just glad that we're finally getting rid of those dead bodies that were buried in the back yard."
"Kabam!" Zac cried, ignoring him and jumping around like a complete idiot.
"Yeah. Zac should really do something about those homicidal tendencies." added Ike playfully.
"Only homicidal?" asked Dennis.
"Kapow!" Zac continued.
"Hey Zac!" shouted Mark, arriving with Cassie.
"Yo! Markster!" replied Zac energetically. "Hi Cassie! Yahoo!"
"It's it loud enough?" Cassie asked. "You can hear those things all the way down the street."
"Only down the street? Damn." Taylor answered. "Dad? Can we make 'em louder?"
Walker just smiled as he lit another one.
"Hey dad, I wanna light one!" Zac cried.
"You've already lit most of them already." Isaac pointed out.
Zac poked out his tongue.
"Kabam!"
"You'd think you guys would be sick of noise, what with all those teenies you have screaming at you."
"Well, actually Cassie, we haven't had much of that while we've been recording the new record." Isaac commented.
"I suppose."
"Whoo hoo!"
"Cassie, admit it. When you go to a concert, you scream too." James said.
Cassie went a little red.
"Well, maybe, but that's beside the point."
"So what if we scream?" demanded Peta.
"Now I have a good question." Taylor said. "Why on earth do you scream in the first place?"
"Kapow!"
"Zac, would you quit screaming in my ear?" Dennis scrowled.
Zac grinned.
"Umm, no. I don't wanna."
"We scream at concerts for the same reason why Zac keeps screaming at the explosions." Peta interjected.
"You mean all girls are homicidal maniacs?" Isaac asked with a grin.