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Rachel was laughing so hard her eyes filled with tears. Abs was telling stories about the guys (in 5ive). They'd been in the elevator for a good hour.

Rachel wiped the tears from her eyes. "That was a good one." she sighed. "What time is it?" she asked him.

"Three." he said looking at his watch.

"We've been in here for an hour and twenty minutes." Rachel stated.

"I wonder if they forgot about us?" Abs asked.

"Call again." she said.

He picked up the emergency phone. He only said a few words and then hung up.

"Apparently they are having trouble getting th elevator to work again." he said.

"Of course they are, it's me, I'm bad luck." she said.

Abs sat back down next to her. "I dunno I think it's pretty good lucky for me I got stuck in an elevator with you."

Rachel smiled.

"Better then getting stuck with one of the guys." he added.

"Thanks, I think." Rachel laughed.

"I did mean that as a complement." he said smiling.

Rachel looked around the elevator. "I'm so tired." she said sprawling out on the floor.

"Long flight?" Abs asked.

Rachel nodded. "And this floor is highly uncomfortable." she added leaning back up against the wall. She closed her eyes and yawned.

~~~

"Where's Rachel?" Mel asked walking into Meg and Michelle's room.

Rissa, who was in the room, shrugged her shoulders.

"I haven't seen her." Meg said.

"She came up here over an hour ago to take a nap and she's not in our room." Mel said.

"Maybe she went out." Michelle suggested.

"Without telling us?" Rissa asked.

Michelle just shrugged.

"I dunno." Mel said with a confused look on her face.

Shane walked in to the room laughing.

Mel turned to him. "What's so funny?" she asked him.

"I tried to use the elevator, right here..." he said pointing out in the hall "and it's stuck."

The girls just looked at him.

"Yea that's funny there Shane." Meg said rolling her eyes.

"No, no..." he said laughing again. "Rachel is stuck in there with Abs Breen from 5ive."

Mel looked at him. "What? How'd you find out?"

"The maintenance guy was there and told me it was stuck and said that two people were stuck in there. And then you said how u were looking for Rachel so I thought I might as well ask who was stuck in the elevator and he told me it was her and some guy. Anywayz I asked around and found out it was Abs." Shane smiled.

Mel laughed. "Oh my gawd...that's too funny."

"Only her, of course...that's such a Rachel thing to have happen." Rissa said.

Michelle giggled.

Suddenly they heard the elevator start moving and the maintence guy say he got it started. The girls ran out into the hall, Shane followed and Mark walked up to them to see what the comotion was about. The elevator doors opened. And the girls started laughing. Abs was on the floor leaning up against the wall and Rachel was laying on the floor with her head on his lap they were both fast asleep.

The laughing woke Rachel up. It took her awhile to regain her senses suddenly she relized what was going on, she sat up quickly. She fixed her hair and stood up. She looked at everyone frantically and kicked Abs to wake him up. He looked around and scrambled to his feet. They both blushed.

"Shut up." Rachel said to everyone who was laughing.

"What were you two doing?" Mel asked.

Rachel ignored her and pushed them out of the way so she could get out of the elevator, Abs followed and he walked down the hall to his room.

"What were u two doing?" Mel asked again.

"Comfy?" Shane asked.

Rachel shot him a nasty look.

"At the risk of sounding redundant, what were you two doing?!" Mel asked.

"Nothing!" Rachel yelled turning to her. Mel smiled.

"Your head was in a very awkward position, there Rae." Meg added.

Rachel rolled her eyes. "Oh yea, I gave him hea..."

"What?!" Rissa yelled before Rachel could finish.

"Yea you know me." Rachel said.

Shane had a weird smile on his face. "Shane shut up." Rachel said.

"I didn't even say anything." he defended.

Mark just looked at her.

"You guys nothing happened, get over it." Rachel said as she walked to her room.

~~~~

Shane and Mel went out later that night. They were walking back to the hotel at about 2am.

"Ur cool." Mel said in response to his question of what she thought of him.

"Just cool?" he asked smiling.

"Well..." she started. "Ur totally cool."

He laughed. "Ur too cute." he said pulling her close.

"I just like hearing you talk." Mel said.

He smiled and kissed her.

Part~18

Rachel awoke the next morning at 9. She looked around the room and noticed Mel wasn't in her bed. 'Maybe she's in the shower.' Rachel thought. She got up and walked over to her dresser, she brushed her hair and pulled it back into a ponytail, she noticed the bathroom door was open, no Mel. Rachel looked around the room again, not that she expected to find Mel in there, she was just looking for clues. She noticed Mel's bed was made perfectly. She threw on her robe and walked out into the hall. She knocked on Meg and Michelle's door. Meg answered, she obviously had just woken up when Rachel knocked.

"What?" Meg asked her eyes half-opened.

"Have you seen Mel?" Rachel asked.

"No, she went out with Shane last night, that's the last I saw her." Meg said rubbing her eyes.

"Oh..." Rachel said putting the two together. "Apparently she didn't come back to our hotel room last night."

Meg smiled. "Lucky Mel."

Rachel nodded. "Ok thanx Meg." She walked back to her room.

Rachel got ready to go have breakfast, she walked to the elevator to go down to the cafe and grab a bagel and some coffee. Right before she got on the elevator she turned around and decided to see if Mark wanted to join her. She walked to his room and knocked on his door. It was a good 2 minutes before he answered. She had definitely woken him up.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." she said.

"No, that's okay...what's up?" he asked tiredly.

"I was just wondering if you wanted to go get some breakfast." she said unsure of herself.

"Um, yea, I just...give me 10 minutes." he said. "Here...come in." he opened the door all the way.

She sat on the couch. Mark grabbed some clothes and went into the bathroom.

"10 minutes." he repeated. Rachel nodded.

~~~~

Mel woke up and pulled the covers tightly against her. It was awfully cold in the room. "Rach..." She peeked out from under the covers and opened one of her eyes. Suddenly she realized where she was. Her eyes shot open. She put her arm behind her back slowly and felt next to her...Shane. She quickly brought her arm back. She had his shirt on and her clothes were in a pile by the TV set. "Oh my god." she whispered to herself. She was debating on whether to sneak out or not when Shane rolled over and wrapped his arms around her.

"Good Morning." he whispered into her ear. She couldn't help but smile.

"Good Morning to you too." She said turning over to face him, she looked into his eyes and he kissed her passionately.

"Very good morning." he said with a smile.

~~~~

Mark and Rachel were down in the cafe.

"I dunno if I should tell you this or not but, Mel didn't come back to our room last night and well...she was with Shane..." Rachel left it there, she made a hand motion as if she wanted Mark to fill in the rest.

"And apparently she's still WITH Shane?" he asked unsure if that's what she ment.

Rachel nodded and laughed a little. "Yea."

Mark nodded.

"I just thought I'd share."

"Yea well Shane really likes her."

"Yea and vise versa." Rachel sipped her coffee.

Abs walked into the cafe and Rachel noticed he was walking towards her.

He walked right up to her and Mark's table and pulled up a chair. He sat right between them.

"Hi." he said looking at Rachel.

"Hi." Rachel said giving him an odd look.

Mark rolled his eyes and sat back in his chair.

"You two dating?" Abs asked looking Mark up and down.

"No." Rachel said.

"Oh, good. I was thinking about what u said in the elevator, ya know how it was good luck we got stuck together." Abs said.

"Actually, you said that." Rachel corrected.

"Yea, right, okay...anyway, I was thinking maybe we could go out sometime. Yes?" he asked smiling.

"Uh, well..." Rachel said looking at Mark, he didn't look happy.

"Well..." Mark said rolling his eyes again.

"You have to say yes, I'll be so upset if u don't. I really like you, I do, so say yes." Abs said slapping his hands together in a begging motion.

"Oh, Okay." Rachel said, finally.

"Cool, I'll ring you...number?" he asked giving her a napkin to write it on.

She pulled a pen from her purse and wrote her room phone number and cell phone number.

"Here..." she said handing it to him.

He jump from his seat. "Awesome, Talk to you later." he said to Rachel. "Nice seeing ya again Mike." he said to Mark.

Mark was about to say something to Abs but Rachel stopped him.

"He's an ass." Mark said to Rachel.

Rachel shrugged her shoulders. "I dunno he seems nice enough."

"Bria!" Rissa yelled as Bria stepped thru the arrival gate at the airport.

Bria waved excitedly. Rachel, Michelle, Meg, Mel and Rissa all ran over.

"Girl u made it to San Diego, finally, joining us for awhile!" Meg said.

"Oh my gosh, I had to switch planes like 100 times to get all the way out here from Pittsburgh. It took forever and I'm totally jet lagged." Bria smiled. "But hey good to see you!" she added.

Bria was a good friend from back home and the girls had been bugging her to come with them on tour for awhile.

The girls helped her with her luggage and headed to the hotel.

"I'm interested in meeting all these pop stars." Bria smiled as they walked into the hotel lobby.

"I bet you are." Mel said.

"Lots of cute guys?" Bria asked.

Michelle nodded. "Like u wouldn't believe."

"Speaking of cute guys, I believe Mel hooked up." Rachel said.

"What? Really? Who?" Bria asked interested.

"Rae, be quiet." Mel said.

Rachel lowered her voice. "This Shane guy from Westlife."

"Oooooo...Shane." Bria laughed.

Mel blushed. "Okay let's not talk about it anymore, out here in the middle of the lobby!"

Just then, some one called Meg's name. She turned around. It was Bryan.

"Hey Bry." She said hugging him.

"I thought I'd catch up with you while I had the chance, b/c I never can seem to keep track of you."

Meg smiled. "Oh Bry, this is our friend Bria." she said introducing them. "And Bria this is Bryan from Westlife."

Bria nodded and shook his hand. "Nice too meet you."

"Yea, u too." he said.

"Okay let's get ur stuff up to Rissa's room. Your sharing with her." Mel said.

"Oh my god." Bryan said.

Meg turned around. "What?" she asked giving him and odd look.

"It's Colleen." he said softly.

"Who?" Michelle asked.

"Colleen, Nicky's ex-girlfriend."

"Who's Nicky?" Bria asked.

"Westlife guy." Rachel said. "Why's she here?"

"I dunno, but she's making out with Scott from 5ive so I'm assuming not to see Nicky."

All the girls looked over to where Bryan was staring, sure enough there was a girl hanging all over Scott.

"Interesting." Rissa said.

"Wait till Nicky finds out." Meg said making a worried face.

"Don't tell him." Bryan said quickly.

The girls agreed.

"Let him find out for himself." Bryan said. "Cause honestly, I don't wanna be the one to tell him."

"Anyway, let's go up and get ur stuff situated." Mel said to Bria.

Bria nodded and followed the girls up to Rissa's room. They dropped her luggage in Rissa's room and headed out into the hall again.

"Hey!" Michelle heard a voice call out. It was Danay from Innosense.

"Hi." Michelle said hugging her. The girls in Innosense and the girls in Creative Dreams had know each other for about two years and they were pretty good friends.

Nikki, Veronica, Mandy, and Jenny came bounding down the hallway.

"You guys look great!" Mel said hugging Mandy.

"Thank you, ya'll look great too!" Nikki said.

Nikki and Rissa were cousins, and bestfriends. "Ris, I haven't talked to you in weeks!" Nikki exclamed hugging her.

"Nik, I know...I just been so busy." Rissa explained.

"That's okay." Nikki said, she looked at Rachel. "You look amazing, how ya doing?"

"I'm good, thanx." Rachel smiled.

"You've met Bria before right?" Meg asked.

"Yea, yea...hi." Veronica said shaking her hand.

"Hi." Bria smiled.

"Did ya'll just get here?" Michelle asked.

"Yea, like 15 minutes ago." Jenny said.

"Dude-ette's did ya'll know that all the acts are on the same floor?" Mandy said happily.

"Yea." Rachel said as everyone laughed.

"We're all on this floor?" Veronica asked.

Rissa nodded.

"So if I knocked on a door, it's very likely some pop star would answer?" Bria asked.

Mel nodded.

"Possibly even a cute male pop star?" Jenny said.

Meg nodded. "Half of the acts aren't here yet though." Meg added.

"Yea, I think LFO, SClub7, and BSB are coming today. At least I hope so because the first show is tomorrow and we need to do a run thru." Rachel said.

"I heard BBMak is joining up midway thru the tour." Nikki said.

"Really?" Mel asked.

"Yea, because LFO aren't staying the whole time." Mandy explained.

"Oh, why not?" Michelle asked.

"Well I was talking to Rich and he said they need to leave early b/c they are planning their own tour." Nikki said.

"Oh that's cool." Rissa said. Just then she felt two hands cover her eyes.

"Guess who?"

"NICK!!" Rissa yelled turning around and hugging him, of course they started kissing.

"Gross." Mel said jokingly.

"Well, I guess BSB arrived." Mandy said.

"I can't believe she brought...him." Mark said pointing to Abs. They all had decided to go out to a club that night.

"Jealous?" Kian asked.

"No, she's just stupid for bringing him." Mark said matter-of-factly.

Kian just smiled and nodded as he sipped his drink.

"Look, look at him, he's all over her." Mark made a disgusted face.

Abs and Rachel were grinding out on the dance floor.

"Oh...kay Mark." Kian said walking away.

"So Nicky, wanna dance, or something?" Meg asked seeing him sitting alone in the corner.

He shook his head.

"What's wrong with him?" Bria asked Meg as they walked away.

"He's STILL down about him and his girlfriend breaking up." Meg told her.

"Oh yea, the Colleen girl who's with that other guy, that Nicky doesn't know about yet." Bria said.

Meg nodded. "Very good."

"Well," Bria pointed out. "He'll probably find out soon enough." Meg looked over and saw Scott and Colleen walk into the club.

"Uh-oh." Meg said.

~~Rachel's point-of-view

"Hey there's Scott." Abs yelled into my ear. I nodded.

"Let's go say hi." he said pulling me off the dance floor.

"Scott!" Abs yelled over the incredibly loud music.

Scott turned around and held his arm up.

"What's up, mate?" Abs asked Scott.

"Not much, u?"

"This is Rachel." Abs said pointing to me. I waved and smiled. "This is Scott ans Colleen." Abs said.

"Hi, nice to meet you." I yelled over the music as I shook their hands.

So this was Colleen. I wondered if Nicky saw her yet, probably not. Poor guy, I felt bad for him. I looked around the room to see if I could see him. He was sitting a table in the corner by himself. I looked back to Scott and Colleen. Scott and Abs were talking about something or other...I dunno. I wasn't paying attention, not that I could hear what they were saying anyway.

"I'm gonna get a drink." I said to Abs he nodded and I just walked away.

I walked towards the bar. Nikki was flirting with Mark. I rolled my eyes. Figures...I thought to myself. Mel walked over to me, leaving Shane for the first time that whole evening.

"Hey did you see Colleen..."

I nodded. "Yea." I said. Us girls had never even met her, but we felt like we knew her. We all felt inclined to protect Nicky for some reason. He was a wreck over the breakup, and if...well WHEN he finds out about this he'll be...I dunno, I'm guessing pissed off as all hell.

I looked over at the bar again, just to check up and Mark and Nikki. She was still flirting with him. I noticed Mandy was already on the attack with Shane over there.

"Hey Mel, u better divert Mandy's attention from Shane over there." I laughed. Mel looked.

"Damn those girls are like gnats in the dead of summer, what the hell. Bitch better back it up."

Mel was so funny, hehehe. She was awesome. "Do you think insect repleant would work on them though?" I asked.

"No, but I bet a swift kick in the ass would. We've known them for a long time, but they get annoying after awhile." Mel said.

I nodded.

Suddenly I heard a loud crash. I looked over and Nicky had Scott up against the wall.

"Uh-oh." Mel said.

In a huge club like this no one really noticed but a select few people who happen to be close enough.

Colleen was screaming something, I couldn't tell what. Maybe because of the loud music, or her horribley thick Irish accent, whichever...probably a combination of both. Shane was trying to tell Nicky it wasn't worth it and to just let it go, but it fell on deaf ears. Nicky was screaming at Scott, Scott was helpless pinned against the wall, practically choking to death. Abs was yelling at Nicky to, wait let me see if I can get this right...'Stop, being such an asshole, u stupid prick let him go.' I think that's about right. I found it all quite amusing, I dunno. I thought it was childish. Apparently so did Mark, because that's what I heard him tell Nicky. After about five minutes Nicky finally let Scott go and walked out of the club.

"Did u see that" Abs asked walking up to me.

I nodded. "I know how horrible." I said trying to feign some kind of emotion.

"What a jerk."

I nodded. "Yea that was just awful."

"Nicky!" Meg called seeing him outside the club hailing a cab. He either

didn't hear her, or was just ignoring her. So Meg ran as fast as she

could in her heels to catch up with him. He was just about to close

the cab door when she grabbed it.

"Hey!" She said jumping in and shutting the door.

"I DON'T wanna talk about it." He said looking out the opposite window.

"Fine" Meg said not giving up that easy. He'd have to talk to her

eventually. Either in this cab or back at the hotel she thought

stubbornly. Nicky was thinking just as stubbornly not saying a single

word during the twenty-five minute cab drive back to the hotel. Once they got out of the cab Meg grabbed Nicky and dragged him to the

hotel bar.

"I need a drink and I think you could use one too Mr. Byrne."

"I still dont wanna talk about it Meg." Nicky said as they sat at the

bar and ordered drinks.

"Look Nicky, thats fine. It's just that for some strange reason ,which seems to have escaped me at

the moment, I like your stubborn ass, and I don't like to see you like

this." She said matter-of-factly. Nicky looked at her for a few

seconds, he looked like he was thinking about he statement and then he began to laugh.

"Thats more like it Nix!" she said smiling.

Most of the group had left the club and headed back to the hotel after the 'incident'.

Rachel's point-of-view

"Okay, so has anyone seen Nicky?" Kian asked walking into Mel and I's room.

"No." I said as I sat on my bed watching TV. Mel was somewhere, with Shane I assumed. Bria was with me watching TV.

"Me neither." Bria said. Kian walked out.

It was later that night, or actually early that morning. We'd just got back from the club and Nicky wasn't at the hotel.

Just then Bryan walked in. "Have u seen Nicky?" he asked. I shook my head. "Nope." Bria said. Bryan walked out and then came back in a second later. "Have u seen Meg by any chance?"

"Uh, no." I said thinking for a second. Then Bryan turned and left again.

"Gee, I hope he's okay." Bria said about Nicky.

"I'm sure he's fine." I said. I mean what could have happened to him, honestly, he was probably just out wallowing in his self pity. As for Meg... I kinda wondered where she was.

Mark walked in. "Have you seen Nicky?" he asked. I rolled my eyes and shook my head no. Bria laughed at my reaction.

"Well, I'm glad u think this is funny, that Nicky's missing." Mark said. I don't think he would have reacted that way usually, but he was already mad at me.

"Calm down Mark. It's just ur the third person whose asked in the last 5 minutes." I said.

He walked out. "I guess that's what I get for leaving my door wide open." I said closing it.

I flopped down on my bed. "You know, I think Mark's jealous of you and Abs." Bria said.

"U think?" I said sarcastically. It was pretty obvious, apparently more so then I'd thought at first, b/c Bria already noticed and she's been here only for a day. Of, course I'm sure someone had filled her in on everything anyway.

Someone knocked on my door. I opened it. It was Mark. "Sorry." he said.

I laughed. "Whatever, listen Nicky's fine. You guys worry too much. He's probably somewhere drinking or walking or...SOMETHING."

Mark nodded. "Your right."

"Did u check the hotel bar?" Bria called out from behind me.

Mark gave me a look like 'why didn't I think of that' and he called down the hall for Bryan.

"Bry, let's check the hotel bar for Nicky!"

I heard Bryan say "Okay!". And Mark ran down the hall after him.

"Well, Bria...I think we've done our part."

"Wonder where Meg is." Bria said.

"I wouldn't worry about her."

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