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"Wake up..." Rachel whispered in Mark's ear. He stirred a little bit. Rachel got up, straighten her night shirt and opened the balcony doors that looked out over the green lawn filled with trees and freshly bloomed flowers.

"Wow, it's so pretty here." Rachel said. She looked over her shoulder at Mark. "Mark Feehily...will you get up." she said walking over to the bed.

She laid back down next to him and kissed his cheek. Then she started singing.

"Get up, get up you sleepy head. Get up, get up get out of bed, live life, laugh and be happy..." she stood up on the bed and started jumping up and down. "I'm just a kid again, doing what I did again. Singing a song. When the red, red robin comes bop, bop, bopping along, along..." she sang loudly.

"Oh, geez..." Mark said covering his ears.

"There'll be no more sobbing when he starts throbbing that old sweet song. Singing...get up get up...u sleepy head..." she stopped singing and jumping and fell down next to him.

"Oh, hey looks who's awake." she smiled.

"God, I missed you." he said kissing her. Rachel laughed. "Ow..." she said rubbing her head. "Hang over... not good." she added.

Mark laughed. "That's what u get for drinking like that."

"Yea, I know. That always happens. Then, I wake up next to strange guys...I mean...uh...what?" she joked.

"Don't even..." he said shaking his head.

"Awww... don't worry. The only strange guy I wake up next to is you." she said kissing him.

"Aren't you sweet." he laughed.

"Aren't I?" she smiled.

~~~~Meg

"Bryan..." she whispered kissing his cheek. She pushed some hair gently out of his face. She kissed him on the lips. "Rise and shine, baby." He made a soft groaning noise.

"Bry..." she said again kissing his chest.

Then she heard his voice. "This is definitely a good morning, love." he said. She kissed him again on the lips.

"Welcome to the world." she said patting his stomach and then got out of bed.

"No..." Bryan said grabbing for her. "Where are u going?"

"I'm opening a window, is that okay with you?" she said looking back at him.

"Come back to bed, love." he smiled.

~~~~

Everyone gathered downstairs for breakfast out on the patio of the hotel. It overlooked the lawn and was reserved for the 11 of them.

"Morning all!" Rachel yelled walking out onto the patio followed by Mark.

"Ah, there they are." Rissa said.

"Yea, you can't miss Rachel." Nicky said.

"What's that's supposed to mean, Nix?" Rachel asked sitting down at the table.

"Your just..." Nicky began.

"Loud." Bria finished for him.

"Thanx." he said kissing Bria's cheek.

Everyone laughed.

"I am not." Rachel protested. "Am I Mark?"

Mark just looked at her. "No not at all." he smiled.

"See." Rachel said sticking her tongue out at Nicky.

"Well what do u expect him to say." Kian cut in.

"What's THAT supposed to mean, Ki?" Mark asked.

"Well, you are her boyfriend." Michelle added.

"So, what he must be lying about me not being loud?" Rachel asked.

"Either that or he's hard of hearing." Rissa added laughing.

"Hey!" Rachel yelled.

"Face it Rach, ur loud." Meg said.

"Yea, and ur ugly." Rachel said trying to keep a straight face.

"Shut up." Meg said rolling her eyes.

"Ur beautiful Meg." Bryan said too her.

"See." Meg said looking at Rachel.

"Well, what do u expect him to say. He IS your boyfriend." Mark said.

"Are u saying she's ugly?" Bryan said to Mark.

"No." Mark said looking surprised.

"Well, ur girlfriend's loud, so shut up." Bryan said.

Michelle laughed.

"Well, ur a fat cow, Chelle...shut up!" Rachel yelled at her.

Michelle stood up. "Well, my boyfriends cuter then urs!"

"In your dreams!" Rachel yelled getting up then she sat down. "Hey, I am pretty loud." she said.

Everyone lost it and started cracking up.

"Oh my gosh...u girls are crazy." Shane said running his hand through his hair.

"Just one of our usual conversations." Meg said.

"Or unusual as the case may be." Rissa added.

"So...what are ya'll doing today?" Mel asked.

"Aw, Mel u didn't join in our little convo." Michelle said.

"Too much for me in my state u know." she laughed.

"Oh, me and Kian are going shopping in the little village down the road." Michelle said answering Mel's question.

"I'm gonna try and pick up some cute Irish guys." Rachel said.

Mark elbowed her. "Ow...what?" she said.

"Mark just isn't doing it for ya huh?" Shane asked.

Rachel laughed. "Shhh...keep it quiet there Shane."

"Okay, I'm just gonna sit here while everyone rags on me." Mark said leaning back in his chair.

"Hey, Rach. Speaking of fat cows..." Michelle started. Everyone laughed.

"Don't talk about Kian like that girl." Mel added shaking her head.

"Hey, hey. Me and Bryan are staying here today so we can have violent sex all day long." Meg announced standing up.

Bryan made a shocked face and then smiled. "Hey, alright, love." he said.

Meg smacked the back of his head. "Actually we are going into the village too."

"Damn." Bryan said.

Everyone laughed.

"Me and Shane are hanging here. Although there will be no violent sex, it'll still be fun." Mel said.

"I'm gonna go back to my room and sleep." Rissa said.

"Par-tay!" Rachel yelled. She turned to Mark and slapped him on the arm.

"What?" he asked looking surprised.

"U lied to me." she said folding her arms in front of her.

"I did?" he said.

"U said I wasn't loud!"

He rolled his eyes. Everyone laughed.

"Don't scare me like that. I thought I did something horrible." he said.

"Well me and Mark have no idea what we're doing today." Rachel said softly.

"Me and Nicky are going for a drive to see the Irish country side." Bria smiled.

"Oooo..that's a good idea. Me and Mark aren't creative like that." Rachel said.

Bria laughed. "I'm sure you'll find something to do." she assured her.

"Two, more days here guys...then you get to meet our families." Michelle added.

"How scary is that?" Rissa said.

"I'm happy my parents aren't coming." Bria said sipping her coffee.

"I'd love to meet you parents, love." Nicky said looking at her.

She patted his arm. "You say that now..." she began.

"Ya'll will be sorry u suggested bringing our families after 2 weeks with them." Rachel said.

PART-42

"What about that one?" Meg asked pointing to the blond haired guy just to their left.

"Not tall enough" Rissa said.

"Now your just being difficult!" Rae signed. The three girls were sitting at the bar in a Dublin nightclub.

"You know how picky I am!!" Rissa said taking another drink.

"Whatever....I'll let Meg deal with you, I'm going to look for Mark." Rae said getting up and walking into the crowd of people covering the club.

"If you want to go find Bryan I'm fine here." Rissa said.

"Your not getting off that easy." Meg laughed getting up and grabbing Rissa by the arm.

"Hey!" Rissa yelled over the music

"Come on....like old times Ris!" Meg said pulling her to the dance floor. Before Rissa had dated Nick and long before Bryan came along, Meg and Rissa were notorious for attracting guys on the dance floor.

Five minutes later two guys had made there way over and Meg had disappeared to the bar to let Rissa have her pick.

From the bar Meg could see Rissa having a good old time dancing with the taller dark haired one.

"There you are." A male voice said behind her. At first she thought it was Bryan, but it didn't quite sound like him. Turning around she saw it was the other guy from the dance floor.

A few minutes later he had used just about every line in the book on her and she was just plain annoyed.

"Listen, I'm here with someone." she told him.

"But you've been by yourself for a while now." the guy said

"Well my boyfriend is around here somewhere."

"Why don't you have another dance with me before he turns up then?" he asked putting his arm around her shoulder.

"Are you deaf or something?" Meg asked pushing it off. She was getting sick just from the smell of liquor on his breath.

"Your stubborn, I like that." he said leaning closer

"And your a pig, now get lost!" Meg told him getting up.

"Come on honey...." he slurred getting up too and grabbing her by the arm.

"LET GO!" she said pulling her arm away

"HEY! What's the problem?" Meg heard behind her. This time she knew it was Bryan. She turned around and Bryan protectively pulled her behind him.

"No problem here mate" the guy said backing away as Bryan towered over him.

"Then bugger off and leave my girlfriend alone." Bryan told him.

"Maybe if she and her friend weren't such tarts on the danc-" That was all he got out before Bryan leveled him.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Hey!" Rachel said seeing Rissa as she was coming out of the ladies.

"Hey" Rissa said

"What's wrong?" Rae asked. She could tell from the look on her face she wasn't happy.

"Oh, I was dancing with this guy and he turned out to be a total creep." Rissa told her.

'That sucks.......but I've got a guy for you!" Rae told her smiling.

"No, that's alright....Ive had enough for one night." Rissa sighed.

"Look, Mark and I were gonna go catch a late movie or something, I really don't like it here, so why don't you come?"

"I guess." Rissa shrugged. They walked out to the front of the club and Rissa saw Mark talking to an extremely good looking guy.

"See...I told you I had a guy for you." Rae whispered.

"There you are, I though you got lost!" Mark said seeing them walking up.

"Rissa, this is Marks cousin Michael." Rae said introducing them.

"Pleased to meet you." Michael said.

"Nice to meet you too." Rissa smiled. Michael resembled Mark a bit, tall, with the same piercing blue eyes, except with lighter hair.

"Ever find Bry and Meg?' Mark asked

"Nope.. there was some fight or something going on by the bar so I couldn't get on the main floor to even look for them." Rae told him.

"Rissa, we're headed to the cinema, why don't you come along?" Mark asked already knowing Rae planned on setting her and Michael up.

"I'd love too." Rissa smiled looking at Michael.

PART-43

Meg, Michelle, Mel, Rissa, and Rachel were at the airport in Dublin waiting for their parents to arrive. The girls decided it'd be better if they left the guys at the hotel and met their parents alone first. The girls also had the guys move into separate rooms and destroy all evidence that they were ever there.

"So...things went good with Michael?" Meg asked Rissa as they got some coffee from a little cafe inside the airport.

Rissa nodded sipping her coffee.

"Good, good...not gonna give me details, huh?" Meg added.

Rissa smiled. "Nope."

They both laughed.

"What about Bryan punching that guy at the bar?" Rissa asked.

Meg shrugged. "He deserved it."

Rissa just looked at her.

Just then a voice came over the loudspeaker. "Flight 101 from New York has now landed at Gate 10."

"Hey that's our 'rents." Meg said walking back towards everyone else.

Rachel's family came out first.

"Mom! Dad! Hannah! Justin!" She yelled. Her parents and her younger brother and sister walked over to her.

"Hi dear." her mom said hugging her. "Where's this Mark boy?" she asked.

"He's at the hotel mom." Rachel said.

"He couldn't even come with you to meet us? Is that it." her mom asked.

"Mother, no. I thought I'd spare him as much time away from you as I could." Rachel said rolling her eyes.

Rachel walked over to everyone else. "Okay do we all have our families?" she asked.

Everyone laughed and nodded.

"Okay, ya'll this is what's happening..." Meg began. "We're all going to the hotel tonight then tomorrow morning we leave for the houses we've rented."

"I had a question about that." Meg's mother said.

"Yes mom." Meg said looking at her.

"How come we have a house in Dublin and everyone else is in this Sligo place?" her mother asked.

"Because...there were no more houses left in Sligo...anyway Dublin's better." Meg said quickly.

"Bria's gonna be staying with you right?" Rissa asked Meg.

Meg nodded.

"Let's head out!" Rissa said as she carried her little brother, Jamie.

~~~~~Hotel

Rachel lead her family to the two rooms they would be staying in overnight. Her parents put all the bags in the rooms and came back out into the hall.

"What?" Rachel asked as her mother emerged from the room.

"I want to meet this Mark guy." her mother said.

"Mom!" Rachel whined.

"Rachel..." her mother said sternly.

"Fine. Stay here. I'll be back." Rachel said walking away.

Rachel walked down the hall to Mark's room. She knocked on the door.

"Hey." Mark said seeing it was her. Rachel walked into his room.

"Hey." she said kissing him. "You love me right?" she asked kissing him again and again. He gave her an odd look. "Yea, why?" he asked.

"Good cause my mom wants to meet you now." She said taking his hand and bringing him out into the hall.

"Okay. She won't hurt me will she?" he joked.

Rachel shrugged her shoulders. "I dunno." she said.

Mark just looked at her.

"Mom, dad. This is Mark." Rachel said introducing him to them.

"Mark...finally I get to meet you." her mother said.

"Hi, nice to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Holmes." Mark nodded shaking their hands.

Just then Rachel's 15 year-old sister Hannah walked out of the room and asked. "Who's that?"

"This is Mark. Mark this is my sister Hannah." Rachel said introducing them. "I have a brother too...I dunno where he went off too."

"Hi Mark. How old are you? Ur Irish huh? Rachel brought us here so she wouldn't feel guilty running off to Ireland with you and leaving us home. So she drug us out here to Brigadoon. Right?" Hannah said looking at him.

"Um...I'm 20." he said looking surprised. Rachel smacked Hannah on the arm.

"She was always smart for her age." Rachel' s mom said smiling at Mark.

Rachel was very sorry she decided to bring her family here.

Just then Rachel's 17 year-old brother Justin came out of the room.

"Mark this is Justin." She introduced them. Justin shook his hand. "Good luck man...u'll need it." Justin said and then walked down the hall.

"Do u drink? I heard about u Irish..." Hannah began.

"Hannah!" Rachel yelled.

"What? It's true." Hannah defended.

"We we're hoping we could all have dinner together." Rachel dad said looking at her.

Rachel looked at Mark. "Yes, sure. That'd be great." Mark smiled.

"Good, good." Mr. Holmes said.

"We'll meet you downstairs in an hour." Mrs. Holmes said walking back into her room. That left Rachel, Mark, and Hannah in the hall. Hannah smiled at them.

"What?" Rachel asked her noticing the look on her face. Hannah laughed a little. "This will certainly be interesting." she said walking back into her room.

Rachel looked at Mark. "I'm sorry. They...I dunno..." Rachel began.

Mark smiled and hugged her. "It's okay."

Rachel was dreading dinner tonight with her family and Mark.

~~~~Mel and Shane

Mel and Shane were in Mel's parents room and they all seemed to be getting along very well. Mel still had to find the best way to tell her parents about the baby and getting married. While they were all talking Mel's cell phone rang. Mel excused herself and walked into the bedroom.

"Hello?" she answered.

"I've been trying for ages to reach you girls. It's almost impossible." It was their manager Pat.

"Oh, sorry. But we are on vacation." Mel reminded him.

"Listen we need to have an important meeting."

"We do?" Mel asked.

"Yes. I'm flying out there this week with some of the management team."

"What's this about Pat? Is everything okay?" Mel asked.

"This is about you getting yourself knocked up by a fellow popstar." Pat said harshly.

Mel felt like she'd been slapped in the face.

"How do you know?" Mel asked.

"I'll see you girls in two days in Sligo. All of you better be there. I'll call about exactly when and where." Pat said hanging up.

Mel just stood there for a few minutes with the phone still to her ear.

Then she began thinking about who told Pat.

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