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"Another drink please!" Meg yelled to the bartender. They were all still out clubbing, minus Mark and Rachel of course, and also Nicky and Rissa who headed back early to call their significant others. The rest of them had moved down the street to a different club.

"Meg's getting a little tipsy over here!" Kian yelled to Michelle and Mel.

"Ha! I am not." She slurred.

Kian laughed and walked away.

Meg walked over to Bryan.

"I'm soooo NOT drunk!" she yelled pointing her finger at him.

"Oh...kay." he smiled. "Sure your not."

"Don't get an attitude with me, Bryan." she said.

"I'm not." he laughed.

"Yea, that's what I thought." she said pushing her hair behind her ears.

Mel walked over. "Guys, we're heading out. It's 3am."

Bryan nodded. "Maybe we should..." he began to say to Meg, but she had disappeared.

Shane, who was behind Mel laughed. "Try the bar." he said.

Bryan looked over, sure enough there was Meg slamming down some more shots.

"Geez, that girl can drink." Kian said walking up to Bryan.

"Tell me about it." Michelle added.

"We'll be out in a second." Bryan said before walking over to the bar.

The rest of them headed out.

"Meg." Bryan said.

Her head was down on the bar. She lifted it up and looked at him, her hair was all in her face.

"What?" she asked.

"Maybe we should go."

"No, I'm...having fun."

"I think you've had quite enough to drink."

"I'm fine." her speech was slurring badly.

"Come on let's go." Bryan said grabbing her arm.

Meg shook her arm free. "I am perfectly capa...I'm perfectly capa...I can do it myself." she said not being able to think of the word.

She stood up from the stool and practically feel over on top of Bryan.

He grabbed her before she hit the ground.

She was laughing hysterically.

Bryan picked her up and carried her out of the club. The others were out on the sidewalk waiting.

"I see you finally detached her from the bar." Kian observed.

Bryan was about to say something when Meg interrupted. "Funny...funny...uh...what's ur name again?" she asked him.

Everyone laughed. Meg rested her head on her arm on Bryan's shoulder. "My head hurts." she said talking into his shoulder.

"That's because you drank to much." he said to her. "You shouldn't drink like that." he added.

"Sorry, dad." she said sarcastically.

Bryan smiled and shook his head. He made a groaning noise and tightened his grip on her. He was gonna say something but again Meg interrupted.

"Don't you even say that I'm heavy or I swear to God Bryan u'll be sorry."

He shut his mouth and didn't say a word.

"That's what I thought." she said.

They all got back to the hotel. "I feel sick." Meg said.

Bryan was about to drop her when she said that.

"I won't throw up on you." she said.

"Can u walk?" he asked.

She shrugged her shoulders. He put her down and she just fell to the floor. "My head." she said rubbing her temples." he lifted her back up and headed to the elevator.

"No, not the elevator." she said shaking her head.

"What? Why?" he asked.

"It'll make me sick. Take the steps." she said.

"You have GOT to be kidding me." he said.

"I'm serious." she said.

"We're on the 12th floor!" he yelled.

"Bryan, please." she said wrapping her arms around his neck and putting her head on his shoulder.

"Fine." he said heading for the steps.

~~~

"Where are Bryan and Meg?" Michelle asked as they stepped off the elevator.

"I dunno." Kian said.

Everyone just shrugged their shoulders.

~~~

Kian walked into his room, which he shared with Nicky. Nicky was sitting in a chair staring out the window.

"Hey Nicky, what's wrong?" he asked.

"Colleen...(his girlfriend)" Nicky said.

"What about her, is she okay?" Kian asked concerned.

"Yea." Nicky said.

"Well then what's wrong?" Kian asked

"We broke up." Nicky said not once even looking at Kian.

"Why?" he asked.

"She said it wasn't working for her anymore."

"I'm so sorry, Nicky."Kian said trying to comfort him.

Nicky just shook his head. "I dunno what I'm gonna do."

"It'll be okay." Kian said.

Nicky nodded. "I hope so."

~~~

Bryan was out of breath and sweating by the time they got to the 12th floor. Meg had fallen asleep. It had taken 20 minutes to get up there with all the rests he had taken.

He pushed open the door with effort, there guarding the door was one of the bodyguards, he offered to take her from him but Bryan didn't want to wake her.

He walked to her room, which she shared with Rissa. Mel and Shane were there with her.

Bryan walked in, his face was flushed.

"Hey, Bryan where were you?" Rissa asked.

"I...carried her up...up the stairs." He said out of breath.

"Wow, that's more exercise then I ever seen you do put together!" Shane said.

Bryan gave him a shut up look, then he walked over and put Meg down on her bed.

"Heavy?" Mel asked smiling.

"According to her...no." Bryan said sitting down in a chair.

They all laughed.

Part~15

"Rachel!" Mel yelled loudly knocking on her hotel room door. It was the next day and Mel went to check on Rachel. Rachel rolled over in bed and looked at the clock, 11am.

She got out of bed and went to the door. "What do u want?!" Rachel yelled through the door.

"Open the door." Mel said calmly.

"Why?"

"Because, I wanna talk to you."

"There's nothing to talk about."

"Yes there is."

"Mel, go away."

"Rachel, open the door...now."

Rachel unlocked the door and walked away.

"Rachel..." Mel said.

"It's open!" Rachel yelled.

Mel turned the knob and walked in.

"We need to talk." she said. Rachel saw that Rissa, Michelle, and Meg were with her.

Rachel sat on the couch and folded her arms in front of her.

"What?" she asked.

"Rach, we've decided that if you don't wanna tell us what happened then that's fine. But if you don't tell us then we expect that it won't effect your job. We expect that you won't miss any rehearsals, interviews, TV appearances, promotional events, or concerts. We also expect that this personality change you've been experiencing is just temporary and will be over with VERY soon." Meg said firmly and as though she rehearsed it many times.

Mel looked like she was about to burst into tears.

Rachel looked at them. "You talked to Pat?" she said more telling them then actually asking.

"Yes, we did." Meg said.

"And..." Rachel said asking her to continue.

"If this effects you in anyway then we'll be forced to take steps to...fix...the problem." Meg said, her voice a little shaky.

"That's only if you don't tell us and don't get help." Michelle said.

"You don't even have to tell us just get help...please" Rissa said.

"Do you understand all of this?" Meg asked.

Rachel nodded.

"This isn't just about the past two days." Michelle added.

"This has happened before, Rach. Jason needs to be put away and if you don't cooperate then it won't happen and it's effecting your job, which effects US!" Rissa said loudly.

"I know." Rachel said looking at the floor. Rachel looked at them all again. Mel was biting her lip and her eyes were all teary. Rachel realized how much they cared about her.

Rachel nodded her head. "Okay, I'll tell you." she said.

Mel locked the door and they all sat down.

She told them what happened.

Mel burst into tears finally. They were all in disbelief.

"Rachel you HAVE to press charges."Meg said.

"But...Mark, he'll hurt Mark." Rachel said.

"Rachel if Mark knew what happened he'd want you to press charges." Michelle said in her soft, quiet voice.

"Don't tell him!" Rachel said quickly.

"We won't." Rissa said.

"What if Jason hurts Mark?" Rachel asked.

"He'll be behind bars before then." Mel said.

"What about when he gets out?" Rachel asked.

"We'll deal with that when it comes." Rissa said.

"But, if I press charges, there will be a trial and, then what about the tour?" Rachel asked.

"We'll drop off the tour." Meg said. Everyone agreed.

"But we'd have to stay in Paris."

"We'll stay as long as it takes." Mel said.

"You guys..." Rachel began.

"We'll take care of it, we'll call Pat. We'll tell the guys that we're leaving and we'll take up here in Paris." Meg said.

Rachel nodded. "Okay." she said softly.

"What should I tell the guys?" Mel said.

"...the truth." Rachel said. "They deserve that much."

"Are you sure?" Meg asked.

Rachel nodded.

~~~~~

Michelle and Rissa went down to the police station with Rachel. They reported Jason. The police said they could bring him in if they found him and hold him on bail, until a trial could be arranged.

~~~~~

Meg and Mel stayed behind and talked to the guys. They told them what happened.

Mark's face got white. "Oh my god." he whispered. Everyone rambled on about how horrible that was and what a shame it was that it had happened.

"Anyway, um, the thing is... we have to drop off the tour." Meg said.

"What?" Shane asked.

"We're, um...well Rachel's pressing charges and we're gonna have to go to court and stuff." Mel said.

"Your leaving...." Shane said.

Mel nodded.

The guys didn't say anything for awhile.

"I understand that you have to do this." Bryan said.

"Yea, but we'll miss you girls." Kian added.

"We'll all spend the whole day together tomorrow, before we leave." Shane said.

Mel nodded. "That'd be nice."

~~~The next day

~Lunch

They all gathered down stairs for lunch. Rachel was steering clear of Mark, she really wouldn't feel comfortable around him and she definitely did not want his pity.

Rachel sat down at the table and Mark grabbed the chair next to her. Rachel looked away from him. She felt uneasy.

"Hi." Mark said.

She turned toward him. "Oh hi." she smiled.

Mark cleared his throat. "Can we talk?"

"About what?"

"I just wanna talk."

Rachel, against her better will, agreed. They both excused themselves and walked to his room.

He closed the door.

"I feel somewhat responsible for what happened b/c I left you...." Mark began. Rachel stopped him.

"Don't, it's not ur fault. It happened, it's over. Let's not talk about it." Rachel said quickly.

"Okay." Mark nodded. "I wanna keep in touch." he scrawled his cell phone number on a piece of paper.

Rachel took it from him.

"Call me, please." he said.

Rachel nodded. He came closer. And hugged her, she was a little surprised but hugged him back. They broke apart.

"Uh, maybe we should go and eat now." Rachel said motioning to the door.

Mark nodded. "Yea."

2 hours later the guys were on their way to Australia and the girls waited on word about a trial date back in Paris. It would be 4 months before they'd see each other again. Rachel would talk to Mark once in awhile. Jason was put away for 6 months with 2 years probation. He was flown back to the US to serve his time. The girls took 2 months off and that summer both groups were put on the lineup for the Pop Party Tour, world-wide.

So...about the tour................

Part~16

Mel drug her bags down the steps into her and Rachel's living room. This was her third trip down.

"Mel, did you pack the whole house?" Rachel asked.

"I'm trying, everything but the sink, Rach. EVERYthing." Mel smiled.

"Oh, I called Rissa, and made sure she was on time." Rachel said from the kitchen. Rachel was pretty much back to normal, she went to a support group during the 2 months they took off.

"That's good. You know Rach, it's a 4 month tour, all summer. I need to pack a lot." Mel said defending herself.

"Okay, Mel." Rachel smiled. Just then the doorbell rang. It was Michelle and Meg.

"Hey girls!" Mel yelled.

"Hey," Meg said. "We have our stuff in the van so ya'll can put your stuff in there too, it's open."

Mel nodded and handed some bags to Meg and Michelle. "Sure we'll help ya." Michelle said rolling her eyes.

A taxi pulled up to the house, it was Rissa.

"Oh my Lord, Rissa's on time!" Meg yelled walking towards the taxi.

"Hey, 5 minutes early! It's only 6:25 am." Rissa said proudly.

"Yea, maybe we'll be on time for our plane!" Mel said excitedly.

The girls loaded up the van and headed for the airport in Pittsburgh.

~~On the plane

They were headed to San Diego for the first date, which was in two days.

"I'm excited for this tour!" Meg said. She was sitted next to Michelle.

"We get to be with a bunch of other acts." Michelle added.

"And the guys will be there." Mel said.

"Mel wants Shane!" Rachel teased.

"Hey, I'm not denying it, babe!" Mel said smiling.

Rissa turned around. "My baby's gonne be there!" she said happily.

"Who all is gonna be there again?" Mel asked.

"Us!... BSB, Westlife, 5ive, SClub7, Innosense, and LFO!!!!" Meg said.

"Dude, Rich from LFO is hot!" Rachel said.

"I've never met SClub7, before...who are they?" Mel asked.

"A group, there are 7 of them...apparently."Rissa said.

"They have that show that they play on Fox Family Channel." Michelle said.

"Oh that horibbly corny one?" Meg asked.

"Uh-huh." Michelle nodded.

Mel laughed. "Now I know who they are!" she said.

"I'm sure they are very nice." Rissa said.

"I never said they weren't I just said their show was corny." Meg defended.

Rissa rolled her eyes.

"Ya know one day Ris your eyes are gonna get stuck like that." Mel said.

Rissa smiled. "Yea, yea."

~~~Hotel in San Diego

Rachel walked into the lobby. "Who wants to go take a nap!" she said to the girls.

"Me!" Meg said. All the girls agreed tiredly.

The bellboys followed them to their rooms and dropped off their bags.

Rachel was sharing a room with Mel. They both fell onto their beds.

"Actually," Rachel said lifting her head up. "I'm kinda hungry."

Mel made a groaning noise.

"You too, ya don't say." Rachel said getting up and pulling Mel out of her bed. "Let's go to the cafe downstairs."

Mel grunted something and opened her eyes halfway as Rachel drug her out the door.

They went to the cafe downstairs. Rachel got a bagel and some water, and Mel was falling asleep over her coffee. Suddenly Mel's head shot up and she looked very awake.

"What?" Rachel asked looking around.

"Shane." Mel said smiling.

Rachel looked out the glass window of the cafe into the lobby. They all had apparently just arrived.

Mel grabbed Rachel's hand. "Let's go say hi." Mel drug her out to the lobby.

Mel walked up behind Shane. "Hi!" she said loudly into his ear. He turned around, quite startled.

"Mel...hey!" he said hugging her. "Rachel, hey, how are you?"

"I'm good." Rachel said nodding. Rachel walked over to Mark as Shane and Mel talked.

"Hey Mark." she said smiling.

"Hey Rach!" he said hugging her. "You missy, never called me back last week."

"I'm sorry, I was really busy."

"I bet, you look really great. How ya feeling?"

"I'm good." she said.

Mark nodded.

"Maybe we could go out sometime." Rachel suggested.

"Yes," he said quickly and then he cleared his throat. "I mean, yea sure...that'd be good."

"Cool, well... I'll see ya later. I'm so worn out. I'm gonna take a nap." She waved and walked to the elevator to go up to her room.

She walked into the elevator and a man walked in behind her. He pressed his number.

"What floor?" he asked.

"Oh, uh...floor 7." she smiled at him. She noticed his English accent.

"Creative Dreams?" he asked.

She looked at him. "Uh, yea." she laughed a little.

"I'm from..."

"5ive." she interuppted.

"Yea." he laughed. "Abs."

"I'm Rachel." she said as she shook his hand.

The elevator stopped and the lights flickered on and off. Rachel grabbed Abs' arm so she didn't fall. The light went on and the elevator didn't move.

"That can't be good." Abs said.

"Apparently were stuck." Rachel said getting nervous.

"Emergency phone." Abs said picking it up. He said a few words and then hung up.

"They said they know and it should be fixed shortly. We're stuck between the 6th and 7th floor." he sat down on the floor and patted the carpet next to him.

She sat down.

"We might as well get to know each other." he said.

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