Annie was a newcomer to the
music business, and Bryan was falling for her badly.
See what's the up and down's of
their hard relationship...
Chapter
1
Annie was overweight throughout her upbringing and her adolescent years.
Children in school made fun of her, even by her parents; that made her
feel the most horrible, and her brother. Virtually her entire family
made fun of her, the only person she could talk to was her half – cousin
Diana, her few
best friends Christine, Erica, Emily, Farah, and Brittany, and her small
number of friends she truly had faith in Sarah, Tiffany, Rachael, Eni, Ese,
and Melanie. When she was 14 Annie was trying to be something she
wasn’t, she attempted to chatter with everyone, make friends with
everyone. It had
happen as expected with some and not with others most of the minorities
had acknowledged her, but the whites had not, they considered her as an
awful teen that allegedly believed in the devil. It was because she
was gothic, but none of the other races paid any attention to it and she
didn’t believe
in the devil she just favored shady colors. Annie was actually an
entertaining loving human being that got along with many. But there
were just some evil seeds in some apples and those are the ones that were
making fun of her right through her life. She began to feel she had
to do something with her weight difficulty, she began to catharsis
(purge), she started to not consume a meal at all, and exercised a lot
that one time during PE she fainted.
Within a week she had lost 10 pounds, she felt great about losing pounds.
But her body wasn’t feeling the same way she was, it began to get very
vulnerable. With everyday it went on her total body was getting
weaker,Farah was first
became aware of the descent in cheerfulness of Annie, the
weight vanished, the loss in eating, how she fainted right in front of her
own eyes, and how she has been working additionally hard in PE.
Farah was discussing to Christine, Diana, Erica, Emily, and Brittany one
day and they all had decided that it was true and Diana was going confront
her initially
since Diana was Annie always ran too first because Diana comprehended what
her parents were like. Annie would also sometime end up in her front
steps cause she couldn’t take her parents, and brother with tears all in
her face. Annie had particularly intense when her ex best friend Leanne
had gotten
in a conflict with her, Leanne had described her as some really bad names,
it was really hard. Annie vowed by no means to be associates with
someone like Leanne, she’d give them an opportunity at first but if they
did what Leanne did she’d never talk to them again. But by the end
of the year they
were at each other’s neck Leanne threatening to jump her in one
conversation Leanne said “Hey bitch I bet you’d never get a boyfriend
with that fat look!” “Well I wouldn’t be talking you 1 cent
whore!” Annie hollered back at Leanne and soon enough Annie’s crew
were in a brawl with Leanne’s crew. Who won? Well let’s just say
Annie’s 25 friends against Leanne’s 10 friends, so Annie won very
easily. Though Annie got beat up a bit because she was very feeble
from not eating and starving to death, she could still manage to beat
Leanne. After that, Leanne never tried to start chaos with Annie,
nor did she try to mention her name in anything.
Chapter 2
That was exactly 3 months ago, today Annie’s still pale as hell,
skinnier than anything. She isn’t able to eat because when she
does she throws up. Everyone’s tried to help but nothing helps,
Annie was trying achieving her dreams by making it big by singing and she
had a great voice too. They were
out in the parking lot listening to music when Alicia Keys – Fallin
comes on they all start to sing to it, everyone was listening to Annie
sing she hit every single note and went higher on some. They were
amazed they didn’t know Annie’s voice could be so good. “Damn
Annie you never told us that you
had such a great voice!” Farah informed Annie “Well I didn’t want to
brag!” Annie replied back laughing. “Annie why don’t you get a
demo or something,we all
know you can sing and dance! You’d make it big!” Brittany suggested,
“Yeah, but you’d have to gain some weight to stay healthy!” Diana
advised.
They all knew what Diana was telling Annie to do, if Annie did make it
big, she’d be really stressed out and she’d faint every hour, with
what fainting for Annie was a weekly routine. “Maybe I will!
I’ll write some songs and get them produced!” Annie clarified with
everyone. The very next day Annie came up with a wonderful song, called
Judgment Day it was about how she got made fun for the way she talked,
clothing, appearance, and who she hanged out with. That afternoon
Farah, Diana, Christine, and Erica came with Annie to the recording studio
to get her music produced, she even had enough time to get a her demo
done. The friendly people at the recording studio thought she had
the most amazing voice, and they said they’d tell their friends who were
in the recording business. Farah and Annie were looking in the
Internet of where she could send her demo; they found La Face Records, and
many other record companies. One that caught their eye was Arista
Records; they had so many great artists that if Annie got into their wing
she’d be almost guaranteed to be famous.
But she had to have a manager, so they decided to send one of Annie’s
many demos to TransCon Management that had artist from many famous
singers. Within two weeks, she got a reply that TransCon would love to
mange her, she took that opportunity, since they were in a Thanksgiving
Break they decided to take that week off and fly to Florida. Farah,
Diana, Christine, Erica, Emily, and Brittany were all ready to leave with
Annie. When they arrived there, they were met with the
representatives of TransCon. They showed her the way to her hotel,
let her have some break time, then chauffeured her to the company building
where she met all of the associates of TransCon. They
talked about many things, her managing, what record company she wanted to
sign with and she told the Arista Records, and how much time could she put
into this which she replied full – time and nothing less. They
were very pleased with Annie’s answered they hired her and they signed
the papers.
The deal was made and Annie made an appointment in her home city to get
recording the rest of her music, which she would have to write soon, and
get produced. All expenses were paid by them, while on vacation
Annie wrote 20 songs, she was getting the hang of it and Farah loved them.
When they got back to Houston, Annie recorded all 16 songs the rest were
saved for some other time or for another artist she could give to, and
together TransCon and Annie went to New York in December to physically
give them her demo. Annie was getting really nervous, she wanted to
get this
deal bad, but didn’t know if they’d like her. She was wearing a
very nice black skirt that went up to her knees, that had small slits, a
white shirt saying “Pretty Star”, and some black high heels.
They were sitting in meeting room with a big oval table, Annie was sitting
next to Louis and he was talking on his phone, Annie was getting so
nervous she couldn’t take it anymore. She got up and excused
herself to go to the restroom, she went out and bought something to eat.
This was the only that she thought of to calm herself down; she decided
some coffee might do some good too. She walked
over to the local Starbuck’s Coffee Store, which was across the street.
She ordered her White Chocolate Mocha and went to sit at a table, she
looked at the beautiful scenery, when a group of five young men walked in
a little too loud. Annie couldn’t understand all of what they were
saying because of their angelic accents.
Chapter 3
They called her order out loud, so she stood up and went to get her drink
when one of the hot young men accidentally bumped into her “Oh sorry
about that!” the tall blonde headed one answered “It’s okay!”
Annie said and went to get her drink. She left after and walked back
across the street, and
went to the meeting place. Back at Starbuck’s “Hey Bryan! That girl
you bumped into is hot! She a bit skinny but she got everything! And I
think she walked into the same building as Arista! Hey maybe she works
their!” Kian said so fast all of the other lads could only laugh “Okay
slow down Kian! I
think you just fell in love with her!” Bryan said laughing really hard.
When Annie arrived in the room, no one was in their except Louis who was
still on the phone she knocked on the door quietly and walked in.
She sat next to Louis and got her phone out of her purse, and dialed
Diana’s phone
number “Hey Diana! I’m still here waiting! I got really nervous so I
bought a mocha!” Annie told over the phone line “Oh that’s good, one
suggestion eat something okay! I’m sorry I couldn’t go with you! But I
had a test and I’m not a year ahead in school so good luck and I know
your gonna make it!”
Diana instructed and wished Annie good luck and said good-bye. A few
minutes later the people of Arista came in and they got to talk Annie
didn’t know they were going to ask this but they asked “Will you
please sing something for us?” and Louis said yes for Annie. They
said they’d but
something on and she could just sing with it, when the music played the
song was “Everything U R” by Lindsay Pagano, Annie began to sign it
and sang every note correct. “That was wonderful, all we need for
you to do now is read some contracts and sign it!” one of the Arista
workers informed Annie
“Okay!” Annie replied back. They spent another hour reading all
of the contracts and Annie signed them, the deals were great.
The next two months were chaotic for Annie, she had to go into the
recording studio because she was set to do remixes for her first single
“Judgment Day” with Fred Durst, and then she had to go to some mall
conference. Her first single was released on March 5, 1999 and it
did favorably for someone that
wasn’t famous, she was set to be interviewed by many famous reporters,
and the most exhilarating one for Annie was when she was asked to be on
TRL. Of course she said yes, she had to dash to New York, so Diana
decided to go with her on this unique occasion, Annie asked for one ticket
for Diana and she got it. She imagined it’d be more challenging
but it wasn’t. That same day Westlife were going to be on but not
performing, when Bryan and Kian were walking down the corridor they saw a
stunning girl stroll by “Hey that girls hot!” Bryan informed Kian
“Yeah! I heard that girl is Annie Pham a new singer from Houston! You
wanna go give her a big greeting!” Kian said cheekily and they ran in
the direction of Annie. “Hi! I’m Kian from Westlife! Read you
were from Houston!” Kian said smiling sweetly at Annie “Yeah I am!
I’m so anxious this is my first time on TRL! It’s such a popular
show and like everyone watches it!” Annie said smiling nervously “Oh
don’t worry Carson’s really kind! Guaranteed! By the way I’m
Bryan!” Bryan responded back. “Well I’m really sorry but I
have to go get ready to go on! But it was really nice meeting you!”
Annie said in a sad tone of voice “Oh hey do you want to go to dinner
tonight with us?” Bryan asked smoothly “Yeah I’d love to! Just let
me see if I’m not engaged in anything! Just call me! But if I go I have
to take my cousin!” Annie said getting a portion of paper out of her
back pocket and scribbled her cell phone number. “Theirs my cell
phone number! I’m not sure if I’m busy or not but I’d love to if
I’m not okay!” Annie said hurriedly kissing Bryan & Kian on the
cheek swiftly and started running down the hallway. While Annie was
getting ready, Westlife was about to be introduced.
Chapter 4
~TV Show~
“Hey this is the moment a lot of fans are waiting for! Here they are
themselves Westlife!” Carson Daly yelled over the screaming girls and
Westlife walked out slowly looking at all of the fans in the studio
sometimes stopping and giving some of them a hug. They went over the
Carson and they let the mob of girls peacefully down, and then Carson
launch questions at them. “So how does it feel it to be in US so far,
everyone treating you right, cause if they aren’t I’ll do something
about it!” Carson
asked jokingly. “Everything’s great so far, we just met Annie
backstage you know the new attractive lady that’s gonna perform for us
soon! She really great to talk to, but we’ve had a great time here in
the US!” Kian said. Annie was in the dressing room getting ready
and watching TRL when she listen to what Kian was saying she was so glued
to the TV nothing could take her eyes away. She didn’t know if
Kian really liked her or not because she didn’t really like Kian she
thought he’d e a great friend but Bryan was more of her type.
“Do I hear someone has a crush on a lovely young lady?” Carson
asked and the crowd of girls was especially quiet to hear “Oh no, not
really! I think she’s pretty and all but I think she’s not my type but
I know whose type she is!” Kian smiled at Bryan and all of the girls
sighed. Annie felt so much more reassured when Kian answered that,
she went to get ready again and listen to them introduce Linkin Park’s
- Papercut. They talked for about 20 more minutes introduced some
videos and they were getting ready for Annie to come on after the
commercial break. “And here is the young lady of Houston Texas,
Annie Pham, with Judgment Day!” Westlife
said introducing Annie. The music started and Annie began to sing
(please don’t steal my lyrics I actually wrote this by myself and this
is only apart of it) when the beats got in more she started to dance her
routine, she was taught.
Hey don be judging me 4 da way I look
I look different, cuz it’s da way I am
I act different because it’s who I am
I’m independent cause I don need anyone’s help in life
Cause I don’t need someone telling me what to do
Annie was dancing as the best to ability and was doing great, what Bryan
thought. She finished the song and the crowd clapped and yelled
loudly, Annie was emotionally enormous inside they actually liked her.
“Wow that was a great performance! What made you want to sing?” Carson
congratulated
Annie “Well I loved singing for along time, it’s just I was singing a
song in the car one day, and Farah thought I was great! They pushed me to
write some songs, and I got a demo!” Annie replied smoothly without any
nervousness “That’s great! Okay I heard you write you own songs! You
wrote
20 right! Why didn’t the other ones get on and what’s you inspiration
for these kinds of songs! Since your songs do happen to many young people
out there and effect some!” Carson quizzed Annie. “Yes I did
write 20 songs only 16 went on because they thought I should use the other
ones for another
song. Or maybe another artist would like to use them! My inspiration
is matter that’s happened to me, I was really judged when I was young,
the feelings just came back one day and that’s what made me write
Judgment Day! Theirs one song about your love dieing well it didn’t
happen to me but I was
thinking about the people that have had their loved ones lost and composed
the song! So there are many ways to get inspiration you just have to put
yourself in a person’s place and write!” Annie replied coolly “Wow
that’s amazing! Well I think a lot of people want to see you perform one
more time but we have to get to another video and a break! But what are
you going to
sing next and please introduce our next video for us?” Carson
recommended, “Okay next up I’m singing Playas Love and the #5 video is
Jessica Simpson’s A Little Bit!” Annie yelled to the camera.
Chapter 5
During the break Carson, the lads, and Annie were chatting together “So
Annie why were you made fun of, if it’s not too personal?” Carson
asked kindly “Oh well I use to be fat when I was young, and I was really
teased badly, it got really bad where I’d tried to kill myself but Diana
my great cousin saved me from that!” Annie replied with a little bit of
somber “Oh wow! Didn’t mean to bring that up! So you and Diana are
close right!” Carson apologized. “Yeah she’s my best friends,
my sister, everything, we’re always their for each other. Plus I
almost live at her house! And don’t worry its not that personal!”
Annie said back. “Hey what do you mean by living at her house!”
Shane asked curiously “Oh well! My family and I don’t have that great
of a relationship! My parents and family always made fun of me about my
weight problem! I couldn’t take it so that’s why I studied
really hard and got out of high school a year early with extra credit and
stuff like that! Then I’ve had so many bad experiences with friends and
people in particular!” Annie said with a hint of sadness. Slowly a
tear
fell down her cheek, she didn’t really like talking about this subject,
it made her feel sad, and it made her heart hurt for some reason.
Annie quickly wiped the tear away and smiled. It got quiet for a few
seconds and Bryan asked, “Are you okay?” “Oh yeah I’m fine! Just
hard to talk about a subject like that ya know!” Annie said smiling.
Right then the announcer told us that Annie needed to be on stage.
Annie followed the announcer to her place and she got ready, “Here’s
Annie Pham with Playas Love on TRL!” Carson yelled to the camera (please
don’t steal this one either I wrote this
one to for my singing group)
“I just caught u wit another girl,
Kissing and acting like I neva existed, So why did u have to go and break
my
heart?
Tear it into pieces,
Leaving me standing in the icy cold stormy streets,
Cryin my heart out to no one,
But the silent pitch black streets,
I thought you were suppose to be there for me,
That’s what you always said,
But it ain’t like that anymore
I thought u loved me but now the truth has shown,
The love I got was a playas love,
It’s the love I don’t need anymore
And now I’m living without you,
Loving each second of it too,
Cuz no girl needs a playa in her life (no she don’t)”
Annie sang the song without a hint of sadness in her, Bryan was amazed she
could still perform after revealing such a personal thing to them.
After that Annie went off stage with the lads and Diana they were talking
backstage she got to know them better, but then her manager called her and
they were off to an interview. That night Bryan called her to tell
her the time they were picking her up at her hotel which was going to be
at 8:30, it
was only 5 so Annie and Diana decided to do some shopping before the
dinner.
They went shopping for a nice skirt to wear to the dinner, Annie found a
great black one that went at an angel from her mid thigh to her mid leg, a
black and white halter top, and some black high heels. After that
they went scouting around looking for some stuff to buy and some gifts for
everyone
back home. At 7 they decided to go back to the hotel and get ready.
Chapter 6
Right at 8:30 Bryan and Kian came to pick them up, Annie wasn’t even
ready, and so they stayed and talked till Annie finished up getting ready.
It was taking her so long because instead of getting ready she went to
sleep for about an hour and it was 8 when she woke up so she was in a
hurry the past
30 minutes. About 10 minutes afterwards Annie came out of the
bathroom, “You ready?” Annie hollered to them “Yeah!” Bryan yelled
back and went to help Annie who was trying to get her shoes on and almost
fell. Bryan held Annie so she could get her shoes on without falling
“Thank you!” Annie
mumbled through her cell phone, which was in her mouth while trying to pin
up her hair. “No prob!” Bryan said and gently took the cell
phone out of her mouth, “I’m sorry I’m so late! I went to sleep
after we went shopping and I didn’t wake up till 8 so I had to really
rush…” Annie said but
couldn’t finish since Bryan put his finger over her mouth.
“It’s okay! Don’t worry about it!” Bryan said assuring Annie.
Annie got her purse & coat, and left.
They went to a high-class restaurant, they had a great time because the
lads were revealing jokes about on the road, and with all of the
celebrations they did. Then Annie told them about they’re partying
with friends, dares, and everything about life. It was around 11
when they left the restaurant, they determined they’d go to a club and
have some more fun there. But Kian had some more fun designed for
Bryan, he knew Bryan liked Annie a lot, but he wasn’t sure if Annie
liked him. So he’d dance with her and ask her. “Annie
would you like to dance!” Kian asked once they were at
the club “Love to!” replied. They went onto the dance floor and
started dancing leaving Bryan alone with a confusing sad look, when a slow
song came on, Annie wrapped her arms around Kian’s neck and they danced
slowly together “Annie do you like Bryan?” Kian whispered lightly into
Annie’s ears
“Do I have to answer!” Annie calmly said back. “Yes! I wanna
know!” Kian responded back “Yes!” Annie answered back and put her
head on his chest. Kian was trying to get Bryan to over, but instead
of getting Bryan he got Shane he whispered into Shane’s ear “Hey get
Bryan over here would you!” and Shane went to get Bryan. A minute
later Bryan came over to Kian, and they switched places “Hey Annie!”
Bryan greeted softly “Oh! Hey Bryan! Where’d you come from?” Annie
asked smiling a pretty smile that made Bryan melt “Oh Kian asked to
switch! You don’t mind do you?” Bryan answered back nicely “Oh no I
don’t mind your much more fun to talk to!” Annie said smiling.
They were talking quietly to each other and Bryan’s voice was so
soothing to Annie she felt so good inside. They were dancing
together when Jagged Edge’s “Goodbye” came on “I love this
song!” Annie said out loud that made Bryan smile they stayed looking at
each other for a few seconds and before they knew it they were kissing.
When they pulled apart “Oh I’m sorry!” Bryan apologized and was
going to say more but Annie put her finger on his lips to shush him up and
kissed him more. When the song ended they were still dancing slowly
but not kissing Annie was resting her head on his chest comfortably
“Annie!” Bryan said “Hmmm!” Annie mumbled back “Do you want to
go out on a date with me?” Bryan asked hoping for a chance “I’d love
to!” Annie replied back happily.
Chapter 7
From the on they had been together, against some peoples wishes too, both
of their managers didn’t want them dating. Fans didn’t want them
dating, and many more. But Annie didn’t care much, they had to
start going out for a whole year when things started to hit rock bottom.
Annie caught Bryan
cheating the first time on her, he apologized so much that Annie took him
back. Only god knows why she took him back, but Bryan’s cheating
on Annie came more and more of a problem and more frequent. Annie
thought it was her fault Bryan was cheating on her, she wouldn’t give up
her virginity. Annie couldn’t take it any longer; she called it
quits after two years. It was one of the hardest for Annie, and the
whole world knew about it. They were always asking why, but she
didn’t want to tell them. Annie started to not eat a lot, exercise
a lot more, and she started to purge. She was broken, Kian had to
sometimes had to go over and help her because Diana wasn’t there, and
she was threatening to kill herself a lot too. That scared Kian the
most, he knew Bryan still loved her but he thought he didn’t deserve her
anymore, and Annie was just heartbroken. About 5months later, things
started to get better for all Annie, Bryan, and Kian, Annie went to go do
a duet with Jagged Edge, they requested her to sing Goodbye with them,
first she was going to say no, but at the end she decided to. For
their video, Annie and Nelly had gotten really close and became good
friends. Annie told him about everything, so when Nelly was there
for the video shooting, they were taping Annie singing her part when tears
started to trickle down her cheeks. It reminded her so much of Bryan
and their relationship, the great times, the first time they kissed, the
first time he asked her out, and then when it hit rock bottom. The
producers thought it was magnificent, but Nelly had to go give her a
shoulder to cry on. Annie was emotionally broken after that.
The single sold so many copies they didn’t expect it to sell so much so
quickly. When Bryan and Kian first saw the video they thought Annie
was fake crying but after seeing two or three times Kian first noticed
that she wasn’t faking it she was really crying. All of the
presses were in Annie’s face asking about why she was crying in the
video? But she didn’t want to tell; it was too hard to admit something
like this. The next event Annie was to do was perform at the MTV
Music Awards with Jagged Edge with “Goodbye”, then she’d be singing
her song “Judgment Day”, then she’d help out a little by singing
some lines to “Where the Party At?” When Kian first saw Annie
since 5 long months ago, he saw that she had changed, much paler,
skinnier. It looked like she hadn’t eaten in months or more; she
wasn’t the Annie he knew but a very changed one. Annie was wearing
black leather tight pants that were studded, studded leather belt, and
leather boots. Nelly and Annie came out of the limo together
Nelly’s arm around her waist it hurt Bryan but he couldn’t fell hurt
because he had Kerry with him.
Westlife won Best Male Group, Best Song; which went against Nelly, Annie,
and Jagged Edge. Annie won Best Female Artist, Best New Comer, Best
Song in a Soundtrack for Judgment, Best R&B Female Artist.
Jagged Edge and Annie won Best Duet, Best Video for Goodbye, Best R&B
Song, Best R&B Duet. Nelly won Best Rap Artist, Best Rap Song.
Annie presented Westlife their Best Male Group with O – Town’s Ashley,
and Bryan got kind of mad that she presenting them their award. “Hey
Kian! Missed ya!” Annie said while hugging him “Missed you too!”
Kian said and went to the others. Right then Annie felt Kian was
different, but didn’t pay attention to it, because Ashley and her went
off stage and he escorted her to her seat. After much begging Ashley
stayed with her, but she had to go get ready to perform with Jagged Edge
and Nelly so he stayed there while she went to go get ready. Annie
was wearing white Adidas tear away pants, a black shirt that said “I
love myself, but everyone else hates me” and some nice Adidas tennis
shoes. First they performed Jagged Edge’s “Where The Party
At?” where Annie had to learn their choreography, then they performed
Annie’s “Judgment Day”. After that the lights went out and Annie ran
to the end of the stage tore of her pants got her shirt off, and put her
white skirt, baby blue shirt, with white high heels. She had to run
to her position, and the song for Goodbye came on. They sang the
song wonderfully and the actually got a standing ovation, after that
everything flowed pretty smoothly except for Kian’s cold shoulder
towards Annie. Kian was mad that Annie could just forget about Bryan
like that even though what he did to her, he thought she still loved him,
maybe he was wrong, maybe he wasn’t, only time will tell. After
the show, most people went out to the after parties, Nelly, Annie, and
Jagged Edge made their way to the MTV After Party, where they got
interviewed many times but it was fine after that. Bryan wanted to
go talk to Annie but he didn’t have the guts, he knew she hated him;
well not hate really disliked
him. He could understand why, but he missed her like hell and just
realized how much she meant to him, but it was too late, he blew it.
Chapter 8
Annie was at the bar chatting to some unfamiliar person, getting to know
him
“So
what do you do?” Annie asked curiously “Oh I’m a producer” the man
lied he, he was a rapist. But no one knew, he was considering when
he should make his move, but there were so many people around here it
would be hard to rape her. “Hey do you want to go outside for some
fresh air?” the stranger asked “Yeah sure!” Annie said following the
man outside. When they got outside he grabbed a hold of her arm and
yanked her to a dark alley, he slammed her to the wall and Annie was hurt.
He put his hand over her lips and started to touch her in areas she
didn’t like, Annie tried scream but it was no use. Bryan just saw
Annie go with some stranger out the club, he was very hurt right at this
second but he thought it was kind of weird that Annie would go out with a
stranger. He went over to Nelly and hurriedly asked, “Hey do you
know the guy Annie was talking to at the bar?” “No! Why?
Where is she?” Nelly asked quickly looking around the club with no sight
of Annie. “I don’t know but I saw her leave here with some guy
that I don’t recognize at all!” Bryan said following Nelly out the
club and they started a search for her.
They were listening to some sort of noise that they got suspicious of so
they went after it; they saw Annie in a murky alley being held down.
Nelly dashed at the man raping Annie with bursting strength and knocked
him over, while Bryan darted to a crying, frightened Annie. He took
his jacket off and slipped it around her so she could get warm under his
warmth, Annie wouldn’t stop crying, she was weeping deeply on Bryan’s
shoulder. While Bryan was trying to calm down Annie, Nelly put the
stranger in a lock, while he yelled for some help; Bryan was on his cell
phone calling the cops. The
cops soon came took to man in to custody and let Annie go back to her
hotel so she could get some rest, and they would question her a day or two
later. Bryan carried Annie in the limo, on the ride back to the
hotel Annie fell asleep so Bryan had to carry her to her bedroom, he
gently took off her
shirt, skirt, that were ripped, and shoes, then put some blankets over her
so she could be nice and warm. Annie started to talk in her sleep
saying “No! No! Don’t hurt me!” so Bryan had to wake her up but it
took forever before she woke up so Nelly took a hot cloth and placed it on
her temple.
They stayed up most of the night because Annie kept on having bad
nightmares of the dreadful night.
The next morning, Annie had only gotten about 5 hours of snooze because
she kept on waking up but kept silent to make sure she didn’t arouse
Bryan and Nelly. While Bryan and Nelly had around 6 hours of sleep,
when they woke up
Nelly was on the cell phone requesting their managers to let them have the
day off to converse with the police, describe what had happened last
night, get everything cleared up with the police. Annie would have
to be interrogated while under a lot of tension, and put into reality of
what happened last night to her that she only thought was a delusion.
After much inquiring, they all went out to the area McDonald’s, but
Annie wasn’t out of her shock yet, and Bryan was getting really
concerned about her. He knew she would be traumatized for a
lifetime, but he couldn’t take it seeing her so sad made his heart throb
with pain. He wished he had been there for her, if he hadn’t
played0 her, she wouldn’t be in this place right now. It was his
entire fault, Bryan kept on thinking in his mind while Annie was trying to
get him back to life “Bryan! Bryan!” Annie said waving her hand over
Bryan’s face. Bryan snapped out of his thinking land “Oh
sorry” Bryan said then ordered his food.
Annie was seated in the booth and was looking around while munching on
some fries, she wasn’t too hungry at the second. Bryan just sat
there watching her make every move, while he ate his own food. When
Nelly came back with his good “Hey aren’t you going to eat anything
but your fries!” he asked. “Yeah! But I’m thinking right now!
Plus it’s too cold in here!” Annie replied back. “You want to
use my jacket!” Bryan asked “Yeah! Thanks!” Annie said letting Bryan
help her put on the jacket. They ate there food and Kian joined up
with them in the middle of it, so they decided to go
shopping, since it was something that would help Annie get things out of
her mind. Kian and Nelly saw a great place to shop so they left
Bryan to look after Annie, “Bryan, you have good taste right! Can you
help me, does this look good?” Annie said making the clothes an example
for Bryan. Bryan came over to Annie and looked at what she was
wanting to get it went really good with her, he took the shirt & pants
and placed them around Annie wrapping his arms around her made him feel
hearty inside and the same with Annie. They spent about an hour
shopping and trying on clothes Annie had so much clothes it wasn’t even
funny, Annie was having a hard time getting the back of her shirt tied so
she called for Bryan to help. He came in the changing room with her
and tied the back of her shirt slowly and gently he stayed there while she
looked at herself in the mirror “Bryan how do you like it?”
Annie asked, “You looked magnificent in it!” Bryan answered back “Do
you think I’m fat?” Annie asked looking at her flat stomach, but she
saw something else. She saw a fat stomach, she saw herself when she
was younger, and when she was made fun of. “No absolutely not! You look
beautiful the way you are! Don’t change yourself at all!” Bryan said
putting his arms around her shoulder and squeezing her tight to comfort
her “But when I look in the mirror I see myself fat, and it remind me of
when I young!” Annie said tears coming down her face.
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Bryan took her face in his hands and kissed her tears away “Please
don’t cry Annie! It hurts me when you cry! And you’ll never be fat in
my eyes!” Bryan said trying to make Annie feel better. Annie
smiled and looked into Bryan’s big cute blue eyes, and before they knew
it they were kissing, shyly at
first but then more passionately after a few seconds. They were
disrupted by the noise Kian was making trying to find them “I’ll be
right out in a second!” Bryan yelled at Kian and left Annie to change,
when Kian saw Bryan leaving the same dressing room as Annie he got
suspicious about what they were up to and was dieing to know what
happened. “Hey Bryan! Why’d you just leave Annie’s dressing
room?” Kian asked cheekily “Don’t even think that! I helped her tie
her shirt! And…. And” Bryan stuttered the last words “And what?”
Kian asked with curiously “We started to kiss!” Bryan said with a huge
smile on his face. “Congrats mate!” Kian congratulated
“Don’t congratulate me yet! What happens if she still doesn’t want
me!” Bryan suggested with a sad tone, “Man think high not low!” Kian
said leaving Bryan to look for Nelly. Bryan was thinking when Annie
came from behind scaring
him “Oh hey! Didn’t know you were there! Need any help?” Bryan asked
quickly “Um! Yeah! Can you help me some of these clothes?” Annie
answered back and Bryan took some of the clothes out of her arms.
They checked out and they had bagfuls of clothes, they went around the
mall a few more times and then left to go back home since Annie felt
really tired.
Annie fell asleep on Bryan’s shoulder, so Nelly and Kian brought the
shopping bags up to Annie’s room while Bryan carried her up. He
softly laid her on the bed to make sure she didn’t wake up but it
didn’t work she woke up and smiled at Bryan. Bryan felt his heart
do somersaults, “Go back to sleep!” Bryan whispered to Annie
“Can’t! But I can if you help me!” Annie said smiling cheekily and
Bryan knew what she was talking about. When they were going out
Annie had problems sleeping and he’d lay in bed with her trying to help
her seat. Bryan jumped into bed and wrapped his arms around
Annie’s waist and Annie put her head on his chest just like old times.
Bryan was playing with her hair and wanted to ask if they could get back
but didn’t know if it was a good time “Annie?” Bryan whispered and
“Hmmm!” Annie replied back. “Do you still like me?” Bryan
quizzed Annie got up and looked Bryan in the eyes “The truth is I never
stopped loving you Bryan! But it hurt every time I thought about us!”
Annie said her head low and she was playing with her nails. Bryan
raised her face up with his hand and kissed her passionately at first
Annie didn’t kiss back but caught on and kissed
back. “Annie I never stopped loving you either! I’m sorry! I was
such a fool for doing those things that I did to you! I shouldn’t have
taken you for granted!” Bryan said running his fingers through her hair
and her head was on his chest resting again. “Annie! I want to get
back with you!” Bryan
suggested and Annie looked at him “I don’t know Bryan! Can I
still trust you like I use to?” Annie asked, “I’m a changed man
Annie! I’d never do that to you again because I don’t want a minute
away from you ever!” Bryan replied.
“So that’s a yes right Annie!” Bryan said “Maybe!” Annie said
with a smile and kissed him. “Yes! That’s a yes!” Annie said
after pulling away. Kian walked in on them and was so happy for them
that he jumped on their bed and hugged them both, then got nice and cozy
between them. “Ay Kian! That’s my girlfriend not yours!” Bryan
joked “Oh no she isn’t!” Kian said and got cozy with Annie.
But Annie pushed Kian into Bryan and Bryan fell off the bed “Oww!”
Bryan yelped “Sorry babe!” Annie said getting out of the bed and
sitting next to Bryan on the floor. They were looking into each
other’s
eyes and kissed. Kian just groaned and said “I’m gonna leave you
alone cuz I don’t wanna see that!” and they laughed.
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From that day on the were stuck to each other forever, Annie asked Erik to
get her a deal so they could tour and of course Erik did get it. So
Westlife and Annie were touring together around the world and nothing
could come between them. But Annie and Bryan fell in love so
much they took it
another step, they bought a house together in Dublin and in Houston,
Bryan’s parents were splendid about their decisions. Bryan’s
parents were Annie’s parents practically, they loved her so much and
Annie enjoyed being with them. But what Annie didn’t know was that
she was pregnant, she didn’t know to tell Bryan or not and she turned to
Bryan’s mom. They were talking on the phone and Annie popped up
the question to Mairead “Did Bryan ever talk about having kids with
you?” “Course he does, he said he’d love to have them, and he adores
them so much honey! Why do you ask? Are you pregnant?” Mairead
asked curiously. Annie was thinking in her mind how could she know,
she didn’t know Mairead knew her so well, but I guess she would because
Mairead was like a mother she never had. “Um, yes I’m pregnant.
But I haven’t told Bryan, I’m scared he’ll leave me when I tell
him!” Annie spilled with a hint of sadness. “Oh babe, Bryan
loves you too much to do that and he loves kids! He’s loved since who
knows when!” Mairead comforted. Right then Bryan closed the
door to their hotel room, and Annie quickly said good - bye to Mairead.
“Hi babe!” Bryan said sitting next to Annie and kissing her on the
cheek “Hey!” Annie said, “Who was that you were talking to?” Bryan
asked curiously “Oh that was your mom I was just talking to! She says hi
by the way!” Annie replied back. “Oh okay! That’s cool! There
anything wrong?” Bryan answered “Nope!” Annie said. But she
couldn’t lie to his face anymore “Bryan, I’m pregnant!” Annie
blurted out Bryan was stunned,
happy, but mad at the same time. “Annie, why didn’t you just
tell me up front because I know you just didn’t find out and tell me
right away! You’ve been distant for weeks, why are you so afraid to tell
me! Afraid it’s someone else’s baby.” Bryan accused “No! It’s
just I didn’t know if you ever
wanted a baby, and even at this age! Don’t go accusing me of something
that you don’t even have any evidence about!” Annie yelled back in
Bryan’s face. “Ugh, and the reason I didn’t want to tell you
is the fact that your yelling at me right now!” Annie said getting
taking out her duffle bag and taking
clothes and shoving in. “Where are you going?” Bryan asked
“Somewhere away from you at least! You know what I asked your mom if
you’d be happy and she said yes I guess she was wrong and I’m not at
all surprised” Annie replied. Annie was about to leave when Bryan
grabbed a hold of her arm “Let go of me!” Annie screamed at Bryan
“No” Bryan said back “Your hurting my arm Bryan!” Annie said back
but Bryan wouldn’t let go of her arm, which scared her. He
tightened his grip around her arm, “Bryan let go of me! Your really
hurting me!” Annie said tears coming out of her eyes from the pain,
Bryan didn’t know what came over him to grab Annie like that and hurt
her like that. He just let go of her and started at her, she dropped
to the floor and started to cry heavily. Bryan tried to come and
help her but she just pushed him away, he went to the restroom, got a cold
towel and put it around her arm to help the pain but she just threw it at
him. “Annie come on let me help you or you’ll get a big
bruise!” Bryan asked softly “Why so you can try and hide what you did
to me!” Annie yelled back, ran to the restroom and slammed the door. The
rest of the lads heard the rumble from Bryan’s hotel room and decided to
check it out.
They knocked on the door and Bryan answered the door “Hey Bryan what was
that noise?” Shane asked, “It’s was Annie slamming the door!”
Bryan answered shyly “And why would she be doing that!” Mark asked,
“Because I hurt her!” Bryan answered softly “You what?” Shane
asked rather loud “I hurt okay! Is that what you wanted to hear!”
Bryan said loudly back. They pushed Bryan out of the way and went to
the bathroom door Shane and Mark were asking Annie if she was alright but
no one answered while Nicky and Kian were asking Bryan questions.
Kian and Nicky found out the full story and were shocked to hear what they
just heard, they thought Bryan would be the happiest person alive, but he
wasn’t, but they didn’t know why. It was because Bryan was
shocked he loved kids but he didn’t know he was going to have them so
early of his age. He reacted to quickly without thinking and this
was the outcome, he wasn’t too pleased about it either. Inside the
bathroom Annie was sitting on the toilet rubbing her arm with a cold cloth
and tear were coming down her face full force.
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Bryan and the lads were going to wait until she came out but Bryan
couldn’t take it anymore he lightly knocked on the door “Annie! Please
come out!” Bryan whispered into the door. But Annie just ignored
him, but he kept on saying that and it got really annoying so she just
came out. Everyone looked up at her “Are you okay?” Bryan asked
her quietly, Annie didn’t say anything the lads were asking her she took
her bag and said, “I’m leaving!”
That
was all they heard from her for days, the only one she had contact was her
manager and some friends. Annie thought Bryan would never hurt her
or any man in that fact. She told herself that if anyone of them did
hurt her she wouldn’t go back to them, she had so many things going
through her mind, Erik had set up an appointment for the doctor’s to
make sure the baby was doing fine since Annie didn’t want to. Most
of the days she sat around watching movie, mopping around, her best
freinds flew into see her but they weren’t much help to cheer her up.
But they tried and they got her to come to the mall with her and the
movies, they had a blast too, just what Annie needed. Erik was
secretly talking to the lads while he was talking to Annie, he kept them
in touch with her health and everything the only thing he didn’t tell
was where she was. He didn’t want to harm her health anymore than
it already was, Farah had reported she wasn’t eating much but once they
brought up the subject of baby being harmed she ate more.
Bryan
wanted badly to go with Annie to see the baby but Erik wouldn’t give him
the full details about it, so he tried to call all of the doctors in town
and see if they had an appointment for her. Only one doctor did and
he went there immediately since they said the appointment was 10 minutes
ago and the patience was already checked in, but hasn’t been served yet.
Bryan rushed over to the doctor’s office and looked through every room
until he found Annie’s, but he didn’t find he decided to go look for
her in the waiting room. There she was sitting in the waiting room
reading a parenting magazine with her best friends Farah, Christine,
Erica, Emily, and Brittany. Only Emily noticed him walk in and
she kicked Brittany and Erica to look up, they were about to tell Annie
but it was too late he already sat next to the empty seat next to her.
Bryan wanted to say something but didn’t know if he should but Emily,
Erica, and Brittany were looking at him with an evil eye “Hi Annie!”
Bryan said.
Annie jumped out of her seat and was grasping for some air she was about
to scream but she calmed down, she swallowed hard before she could speak
“How did you know I was here?” she asked “I called up every doctor
in town to find you and this was the only place that had you booked!
Please Annie don’t let me miss out on seeing our baby!” Bryan pleaded.
“You mean my baby! The one you accused of being someone else’s! Or do
you want me to remind you of that day!” Annie replied, “Annie please
don’t do this to us, me, I love you, I didn’t mean to do what I did!
It just came as a shock!” Bryan apologized. “And this what you
do!” Annie said rolling up her sleeves that showed a big
bruise on her upper arm, Bryan got up and was about to touch it but Annie
moved away. “Bryan I told myself I would never love or date anyone
that hurt me! Your one of them! I can’t go back to you! I never knew you
could do that, and I don’t know if I do go back to you, you’ll do it
again!” Annie
said. “Annie I didn’t mean to do that and I’m really sorry
about it! Please don’t make me miss out on being the father of our
child!” Bryan pleaded with tears coming down his face, Christine, Erica,
and Brittany was listening to them the whole time and thought it wasn’t
their place. So they got up and
had to drag Emily with them since she wanted to listen to what was going
to happen. “Please sit down Annie!” Bryan asked with tears still
coming down his face, he sat next to her and told her “Please Annie! I
beg of you! I love you and I’m an idiot for hurting you! But I love you
and our baby with all my heart; please don’t take that away from me!
If you don’t really love me anymore look me in the eyes and say you
don’t love me!” Bryan suggested hoping for last chance of getting
Annie back.
Annie looked at him hoping she could do it, she could see all of his tears
and it made her cry she turned away from Bryan and sobbed in her hands.
Bryan put his arm around her shoulder, Annie was too weak to move it, but
it made her feel good with the tingly feeling. Annie lifted up her
face because the doctor was calling for her she asked for a minute before
she joined him, she was still crying and Bryan pulled her over to his
shoulder so she could cry. “Come on Annie! Let’s go get your
scan done!” Bryan suggested and Bryan helped her stand up, they followed
the doctor to nice quiet room.
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Bryan help Annie get on the tall table for her to sit on so she could get
her ultrasound, after a few minutes of waiting patiently for the doctor he
arrived with all the necessary tools. First he lifted Annie shirt
and put some gel all over her big bump of a belly, and he began to works
his magic. Bryan was holding on to Annie’s hand tightly afraid to
lose her again, and excited to see the baby he created, they were both
smiling and were looking at the monitor. When they baby appeared it
was so small and beautiful, Annie had tears streaming down her face and
the doctor said he already got the pictures taken and would be back with
them soon. When the doctor left Bryan came up to Annie and kissed
her with all of his love and passion for her, they sat talking about how
they were going to raise the baby and a lot more. They decided that
Annie would be moving back in with Bryan, and they
would start painting the baby room, buying and getting everything ready
for it’s special arrival. They soon got the pictures of their
bundle of joy and went to leave but were stopped by Brittany, Christine,
Erica, and Farah who wanted to know the results and pictures. They
were all happy and thought
the baby was the cutest little thing they ever saw.
Annie and Bryan were expecting the little baby in a week or few days and
were waiting for it’s arrival with not much patience, Annie was fat as
can be well that was what she thought but Bryan thought she looked so
cute.
He’d go to sleep every single night even if he was tired, he sang to the
baby Westlife’s music and Annie’s songs, he’d kiss it good night,
loved it like nothing else. Which Annie thought was so cute, they
found out it was going to be a baby boy about two months ago and they had
so many things for
it, from fans, the lads, friends, family, and they bought some stuff
themselves.
They were going to name the little baby boy Thomas Bryan McFadden, and he
was born on January 7, Annie was in labor for about 5 intense hours.
They were so happy Annie was so tired after the birth she went to sleep
after looking at the baby and talking to Bryan’s parents. Days
after the birth,
Annie was released and the media was annoying them so much, but they took
it in an orderly matter. Bryan begged Annie and Thomas to stay home,
and if they needed anything they should ask Bryan’s mom, since Bryan was
out doing something for the group. Annie was really mad at Bryan for
leaving but she couldn’t help but be mad at him for a second or two.
Bryan was to be gone for a week or two and Annie was stuck alone in their
house with Bryan’s parents looking after and helping her too. When
Bryan got back his parents went back home but visited and Bryan helped out
a lot, so Annie caught back up on her sleep.
After
months of raising their baby boy Thomas, they knew they’d love each
other for eternity; nothing could come between them now if they just told
each other everything, and kept no secrets.
