As I woke up gradually to consciousness from my beauty sleep I was greeted by my best friend
staring at me.
'What' I said. I was not amused in the slightest. She was waving two tickets in front of my face, though because I wasn't awake properly I didn't realise what they were for.
'What, are you not excited??' she said
'Excited about what??' I replied dazed
'Can you not read?' she replied
'Read what?' I said getting very annoyed because it was only 8:00am in the morning!
'..Dear sir or madam, enclosed in this envelope is two tickets for the 17th April 2001 to go and see Westlife at Wembley arena.' she read
'WHAT!!!' I suddenly shot up bolt right in my bed and I was surprisingly more awake than I had ever been in my life!
'Yes you heard me right. We are going to see Westlife in four days!!! Hope your not doing anything, because I have also booked for the two of us to stay at the Hilton as well because Westlife will be staying there'
said.
I just had a shocked look on my face I couldn't believe what I was hearing. My dream was gonna hopefully come true.I would meet Westlife.and more importantly I was gonna meet Mr. Sexy himself...Yes I am going to meet .SHANE FILAN!!! So many things were going over in my head. I was thinking about all the things I would say to the love of my life. I was daydreaming so much that I didn't realise was talking to me.
'.and it will be so cool if we do' said
'Huh' I said 'do what'
'Were you not listening to me' she replied
'Umm' I mumbled
'Awww bless you were day dreaming about your darling Shane weren't you? You are so sweet. Just think you are going to meet Shane and I will meet Kian!!'
As we left the taxi outside the Hilton quickly paid and then we rushed with our luggage into the hotel reception. I quickly made a plan in my head of where everything was. The bar, the lounge.all different things then looked at possible secret places where Westlife may exit and enter the building. checked us in then we made our way to our room. I was so excited. We had saved up £750 for the both of us to stay for three nights at this hotel so I was hoping that my dream would come true otherwise my money would have gone down the drain!
'Here we are' said 'number 168, my lucky number!!'
'Don't be daft I know your number is 6!' I replied
'Well it's changed' she said. I gave her a look as if to say, you are pathetic but I love you anyway.
The night of the lads in concert was drawing near and and I were getting glammed up so we could look good. We weren't on the front row, but we were still close and we had no one in front of us so we had a good view. As the concert started we both jumped out of our seats and were singing along to all the songs and dancing too. They did a mowtown medley of all different cool songs and during on of them to our surprise, Bryan ran out into the crowd up to us both and sang to us
'..What becomes of the broken hearted..' Bryan sang to us. I was in tears. The as the song came to an end Bryan walked away but before he was completely out of our reach he turned around and winked at the both of us.
'Oh my life did you see that' screamed in my ear
'I sure did' I replied. As the concert came to an end and I quickly rushed out of the arena to get back to the hotel. We wanted to be there for when the guys arrived back.
We were sat in the bar when some cars pulled up outside. All the press was around it.
'Here we go' I said to
As we walked up to the cars we were pushed out the way by bodyguards, press and other fans waiting outside. By the time we got our selves together the lift doors had closed and Westlife were on their way up to their rooms.
'Oh well lets go and get changed then come back down, they may come down to the bar later' I said to
'Sure' she replied sadly
As we walked out of the lifts onto our floor we slowly made our way to our room. We were thinking about all the money we had spent on this and it looked like we weren't even gonna get to see the guys.
'I know what you're thinking' said to me 'but don't worry we have another three days here, we'll see them I'm sure we will'
The lift doors opened to the reception and there in front of us was Bryan. He was waiting for the lift.
'Oh h..Hey' I blurted out
'Sorry do I kn...oh hey were you at our concert tonight?' he replied
'Yeah' we both said
'You sang to us' added
'Yeah I remember' he replied ' I picked you two because you were so foxy. I mean nice' he said blushing
We both blushed too
'Hey the guys and I are coming down to the bar in about ½ an hour do you wanna join us?' Bryan asked
'Su sure..' I replied
As we walked up to the bar we were pinching each other just to make sure we weren't dreaming.
'Did Bryan from Westlife just ask us to have a drink with him and the guys?' asked me stunned
'He sure did' I replied with a squeal.
As we waited at the bar, they guys didn't turn up. We sat there for another ½ an hour then we decided to leave
'I mean why would Westlife want to have a drink with us anyway?' I said to
'Yeah you're right they probably have better things to be doing' she replied
As we waited for the lift our hearts sank, our one chance of meeting Westlife came to end, just like that. As the doors swung open, we were gobsmacked. In front of us stood three members of Westlife, Nicky, Bryan and Mark
'Hey where you going?' Bryan asked
'We thought you weren't coming so we were just gonna go to bed' replied
'Oh I'm so sorry' Nicky said 'its just the two women of the group are taking ages to get ready, you know there hair has to be perfect' he continued with a grin
'Oh ok well do you wanna get a drink?' I asked
'Can you go and get them two?' mark asked
'The room number is 347' nicky added.
'I'm sure they will be very happy to open the door and find you two sexy chicks waiting for them' Bryan said with a cheeky grin
I blushed and so did
As we got out of the lifts and I ran to the room. We were wearing quite slinky little numbers and thought to ourselves 'what do we look like?'
Anyways we knocked on the door..
'I've never been so excited and nervous in my life' I whispered
The door opened and we were greeted by Shane. He was wearing a pair of jeans and a shirt which was not done up! looked at me and smiled because my expression was just hilarious. I was thinking Hubba Hubba!
'Hi you must be and ' he said
'Hi yeah I'm ' I replied 'and she's '
'We've been told to hurry you two up by the others' said with a grin. As started chatting to Shane she was easing the nervousness. She was relaxing me more, which I could not thank her more for, cause I was a nervous rek.
As I we walked in I got a sudden flush of aftershave. It smelt gorgeous.
'Kian just getting ready, he's taking a shower. Make yourselves comfy, we won't be a minute' Shane said
'Thanx' we replied as we were showed to the lounge area of this presidential-style suite.
We heard the shower turn off and the door band shut to what must have been kian's room.
'Can you go on hurry him up?' Shane asked
'Sure' replied while waltzing over to the entry to kian's room. She knocked on the door and called 'you decent?'
He replied 'yeah sure come in'
'As wandered into the room I leaned backwards so I could get a glimpse of Kian but I wasn't lucky enough, because she slammed the door shut before I had a chance too see him. Shane walked past me and winked, and gave his cheeky little smile at me. I couldn't believe I was sitting 2 metres away from him, it was just like a dream. He was trying to put his silver bracelet on but not having any luck.
'Can you give me hand' he said with his eyes smiling at me. What beautiful eyes he has I thought. Anyways I sauntered over to wear he was standing and clipped the bracelet together. As I stepped away from him I breathed in really deeply taking in his gorgeous smell. He smiled at me and said
'Come on lets go and get those two'
As we walked up to the door to kian's room we heard giggling coming from there. As we opened the door we found Kian on top of with a pillow held in the air. As they heard us come in they froze and there faces were a picture.
'Uh.uh.you..ready?' Shane asked them 'or shall we just leave you two here?' he continued with a cheeky grin. They both blushed and quickly got off the bed and tidied themselves up.
'Get a shirt on man' Shane told him
'We have to get going the guys will be wondering where we have got to' he continued
As I walked out of the room with , Shane shut the door behind us so he was still in there with Kian. I looked at and said
'Blimey you don't waste any time do you?'
She chuckled and said 'Kian is just amazing we both just clicked like that'
We put our ears to the door and listened to what the guys were talking about
'..I know they are, it's mental, they are the best looking girls I've ever seen in my life' I heard Shane say
'Tell me about it' Kian replied ' is amazing' he continued
pulled away from the door and as I looked up at her I could see she was crying
'Oh my life' she said 'I'm so happy , I really am'
I lent back to the door and heard Shane say
' is gorgeous I hope we get to know each other better'
As I went to pull away from the door it opened quickly and I was greeted by Kian and Shane standing there wondering what we were doing. We just stood there with a cheeky grin on our faces, as if to say 'we're innocent, we didn't do anything'. was wiping under her eyes to wipe away the tears, and Kian was comforting her asking whether she was ok, and was there just loving it all. She had one of the most loved guys in the country asking if she was ok.
Shane picked up the key to the room and shoved it in his pocket
'Ready?' he asked us all
'Yep' we all replied
As were in the lift Kian started chuckling to himself.
'What?' asked
'Oh right it's just nicky hates lifts. He hates being in a claustrophobic place so everytime we're in a lift with him we jump up and down and move from side to side to scare him, it's so funny' he said
We all just started laughing.
As the doors to the lift opened we were greeted by some fans and photographers poised with their cameras and note pads. The guys both grabbed our arms and said
'Smile for the camera'
and I walked out amazed, we didn't know what to do, and we probably looked so stupid on the pictures. The fans faces were a picture, to us linked arms with the guys made them so jealous..we were loving it!
We sat down in the bar with the others
'You took your time' Bryan said
'Sorry' I apologised for them all
'You don't have to apologise' Kian said 'it was my fault we were late' he continued
'Well it was also partly my fault too' added
Bryan just looked at Kian and as if to say 'oi oi what you two been up to??'
We sat for what seemed like forever talking about everything and anything there was to talk about. By the end of the night I knew more about all of them then I knew about my brother!
As we finished our last drinks mark said
'Hey why don't you too come up and watch this film with us, we've paid for it and it would be cool if you'd watch it with us'
'Sure' we both replied
As we wandered to the lifts Kian, and Shane all looked at me and winked. We all knew what was gonna happen in the next minute.
We stepped into the lift and pushed the button for the seventh floor. As the lift slowly started, I glanced at nicky and saw him clutching on the railing and looking down to the floor. I felt really sorry for what I was about to do.
'Is that a spider?' screamed
Kian said 'Don't worry I'll get it' and he jumped up and landed very heavily in the middle of the lift. He jumped up and down and side to side.
'STOP' nicky yelled
Everyone grasped on to what we were doing and joined in. it was really mean but it had to be done. I'm surprised we didn't break the lift because the amount of weight in there was large let alone us all jumping up and down. Poor nicky, the ride seemed to go on forever. As soon as the lift stopped there was a little ring of a bell and the doors slowly opened. Nicky pushed his way through us all and forced himself out of the lifts. He looked back at us and we were all just crying with laughter
'It's not funny you guys' he said, but then he saw the funny side of it and started chuckling to himself.
As we staggered down the corridor to the room, we were wetting ourselves (not literally) with laughter
'Ok ok' nicky said, getting pretty tired of everyone.
We walked into their room and they all walked towards their rooms
'We're just gonna get changed into something more comfortable' Shane told us
'Ok we replied, in that case we'll go and get changed as well, we'll see you in a minute' I replied
'Sure' he said with a smile
I pulled off Kian and told her she would see him in a minute
We went to get changed. I was wearing my flary jeans and my Dallas top and was wearing her cherry jeans (they had a picture of a cherry on the back pocket) with a little T-shirt.
As we knocked on the door again we were greeted by mark who was wearing some baggy pants and a T-shirt. We walked in and were very surprised to see Bryan lying on the sofa with just his boxers on
'You'll have to excuse me' he said 'but I'm comfortable' he continued with a cheeky grin
Kian came out of his room and kissed on the cheek. He was wearing a tight white sleeveless top with some baggy jeans.
'Hey' he said
'Where's Shane?' I asked
'Oh he's just getting changed' Kian replied
I knocked on his door and he said hold on a moment, but by the time he had replied I was already in the room, he was just wearing his jeans.
'Oh I'm sorry' I said
'Oh know it's ok' he replied. He walked over to me and stood facing me and moved closer. He wrapped his arms round my waist and I put my arms round his shoulders. He kissed my neck softly. He pulled away and said
'Are you sure you wanna do this?' he added 'I mean go through this with me, because you do know that with me comes the press and all sorts of other stuff'
'I really wanna make this work' I replied with a smile. He hugged me and gave me a kiss on the cheek. And said
'Cool' you won't regret anything. He wandered over to other side of the room, and put on a tight black top, which I may add looked very sexy on him.
We sauntered back into the main room, where nicky and Bryan were sprawled out on the couches and mark was in the next room. Kian was lying on another sofa and was sitting in front of it on the floor.
'Come on' she said
'Yeah we're waiting for you two' Kian added
I sat down next to Shane on another sofa, and we held hands and cuddled.
'Oi oi so I take it you two are an item?' Bryan stated
We both smiled and blushed
'I'll take that as a yes' he replied
'Shall I order some room service?' asked
'What do you think we are made of money?' Bryan answered
'Well..yeah!!' replied followed by an outburst of laughter from the whole group including Bryan. Mark entered back into the room as left to go use the phone in the bedroom.
'Can I have a word?' Kian asked me
'Hey hands off her!' Shane replied with a grin 'she's mine' he continued
'I promise I won't take her' Kian replied
He led me into the next room and before he could even ask me anything I knew what he was gonna ask
'..Yes does really like you, can't you see that she is really into you? And yes I think you should ask her out before it's too late!' I said
'I didn't ask you anything' he replied
'I know but that was what you were gonna ask me wasn't it?' I said
He didn't reply he just looked at me and smiled and blushed
We entered the main room again and I sat next to Shane and Kian sat down next to . Mark turned off the lights and then lay on the floor just as the film was beginning.
Throughout the film I was very scared because I don't like horror movies as it is. I kept jumping out of my skin. Shane held me tightly which made me feel safe and calmer. He was so sweet.
As the credits rolled up on the screen mark switched the lights on and said
'Wasn't that a gr..' he turned to the group and saw that Kian was now sprawled out on the sofa with along side cuddled up to him. They were both fast asleep. Bryan and nicky were also fast asleep.
'..great movie?' I finished
'Yeah, I thought it was ace' Shane added.
Kian and woke up and sauntered off to his bedroom. looked at me as if to say sorry to leave you on your own. I didn't care, I mean it was the most exciting time in her life and I wasn't going to stand in the way.
Shane said 'I'll walk you to your room if you like?'
'Thanx' I replied with a smile
'I'll be back in a bit' he said to mark
'Yeah likely story' mark replied quietly. He winked at Shane as if to say 'have a good night mate'
I opened the door to my room and switched on the lights. The quality of the room was such a step down compared to the guy's suite.
Shane and I fell straight to sleep.
We woke up in the morning and Shane was looking at me stroking my hair.
'I'm the happiest man alive' he said
'Me too' I replied '..No.No..I mean girl' I added. He just laughed and smiled at me. He gave me a kiss on the forehead, then pulled away and got out of bed.
'I'm just gonna have a shower' he said
'Ok' I replied. Oh my, did he have a nice bum. I just smiled to myself and rolled over.
The next two days seemed to be a buzz. and I went shopping around London while the guys did their last two nights at Wembley.
6 MONTHS LATER
It's now six months since Shane and I first met, and we couldn't be any happier. I'm working for his mum in there café and Shane is teaching me to horse ride. I'm living with him and his family in his new house he has had built for them. They look after me when Shane has to go away. Even if he is away we talk on the phone each night.
As for ...Well she finished her nursing degree at Manchester University and is now living with Kian in a penthouse he bought. She works at county Sligo general hospital, and helps Shane's brother out with the horses at the stables. She couldn't be any happier.
I owe all the changes in my life to my best friend. If it wasn't for making me fork out £750 to stay in the hotel and getting the tickets to see them, then none of this would have happened. I'm so grateful to her. She's the bestest friend a gal could have.