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*Later that evening

Meg and Bria were walking down the hall of the hotel when they saw Shane sitting outside of Mel's room. Both of them laughed, Shane looked so silly sitting on the carpet.

"Hey Shane...Mel finally throw you out?" Meg asked.

"Sort of." He said

"What? What happened?" Meg asked as he stood up.

"Oh, we didn't have a fight or anything." He said

"What going on in there?" Bria asked hearing some muffled yelling.

"Oh no, she's not fighting with her parents-" Meg began

"No! They were great, about everything, she's in there with Rissa." Shane told them.

"Rissa? Why are they fighting?" Bria asked

"I was hoping you could tell me." Shane shrugged.

Meg thought to herself for a second and couldn't think of a reason.

"No, I don't have a clue." She said looking at Bria

"Nope" Bria said shaking her head.

"Maybe you could go in there and find out...and calm her down, she is pregnant you know." Shane suggested.

"Yeah...why don't you go hang out in my room, Bry should show up soon."

Meg said pulling the key to her room out of her purse.

"Thanks Meg....and good luck." he said taking the key and heading down the hall as Bria knocked on the door. She gave Meg as 'do we really wanna go in there' look. The door flew open and there was Mel.

"Great....just in time!" She said sarcastically letting them in. Bria and Meg walked in and saw Rissa sitting on the couch. She looked like she had been crying.

"What going on?" Meg asked

"I got a call from Patrick today. Management is really pissed with us! Do you know why?" Mel said hands on her hips.

"Um...no why?" Meg asked

"Because they found out I'm pregnant...and do you know how Patrick found out?" Mel said glaring over at Rissa.

"No way...Rissa..." Meg said shocked. There is no way Rissa would do that.

"I was talking to Nikki last week and I mentioned it. I didn't expect her to blab it all over." Rissa sniffled. Bria went over and sat next to Rissa, putting her arm around her shoulder.

"Mel, she didn't do it on purpose...." Meg said defending Rissa.

"I know......." Mel sighed

"I swear I didn't expect her to tell anyone." Rissa said again

"I knew those girls were out to get us, remember that night Mandy and I got into it at the club?" Mel said remembering the night months ago when she and Mandy had gotten into a knock-down-drag-out fight over Shane.

"Yeah, I remember that." Meg said sitting down on a chair across from Rissa. Mel sat down in another chair.

"I'm sorry I yelled at you Rissa." Mel said

"Well I'm sorry I ever opened my mouth to Nikki, we're screwed now, God knows who else she told." Rissa said reaching for a kleenex.

"What did Patrick say to you?" Meg asked Mel

"He was a real ass, you know I'm sick of his shit. He's never around...what kind of manager is he anyways?" Mel answered.

"Not a very good one obviously." Bria said.

"See, she's not even in the band and she knows he's a jerk." Mel went on.

"We need to get together tomorrow when everyone is here and deal with this." Meg suggested.

"Oh, and he's gonna be in Sligo on Tuesday to have a meeting with us, he said he's bringing the entire management team." Mel remembered.

"Yeah, we really need to talk about this then." Rissa said. The four of them sat there in silence thinking for a minute.

"Oh shit...did you see Shane out there....I kicked him out!" Mel blurted out. Everyone laughed.

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

Rachel and Mark walked down to the hotel bar after having dinner with Rachel's parents. They saw Michelle and Kian sitting at one of the tables so they walked over pulling up two extra chairs.

"Popular place." Rae smiled sitting down.

"I was just leering the do's and don't for when I meet Michelle's parents" Kian said. Mark laughed till Rae gave him a shut up look.

"So how'd it go?" Michelle asked Rachel.

"Not too bad, of course dad was cool, and we're working on mom." Rae told her

"Well what about you girls, aren't you worried about meeting our parents?" Kian asked

"Of course not! We know they'll love us!" Rae said. Everyone laughed.

"My mum will hate you Rachel, absolutely hate you!" Mark joked.

"Hey I wonder if Mel told her parents yet?" Michelle said.

"Poor Shane, he's probably gettin' the third degree right now..." Kian frowned.

"I wouldn't worry about that....Mel's parents are cool.........or they will be after they get over the shock." Rae said.

PART-45

"Alright, so we're leaving..." Meg began referring to herself, her family, Bryan, Bria, and Nicky. "Me, Bri and my lovely family here are gonna get settled in the house and then I'll drive out to Sligo for the meeting on Tuesday. Is that correct?" Meg asked standing with her suitcases in Mel's hotel room doorway.

Mel nodded. "Be at my families house by noon on Tuesday, alright?"

"Gotcha. Okay...we're off." Meg said walking down the hall with her bags.

Mel closed the door and walked back into her room. "We got everything?" she asked Shane looking around the room. Shane nodded. "I hope so."

Just then there was a knock at the door. Mel opened it.

"Hey! We're going to Sligo! Aren't u excited? Mark's hometown....and Shane's too..." Rachel looked over Mel's shoulder at Shane. "Hi Shane!" she chirped, waving at him.

Shane gave her a weird look and laughed.

Mel looked up and down the hall. "Alright who gave the girl caffeine?"

Just then Mark emerged from his room. "I believe that was my fault." he said raising his hand.

Mel laughed. "U better bring her down from that caffeine high soon. At least before she meets your parents." Shane laughed at that thought.

"Then ur mom'd think she was really weird." Shane said in the background.

"Yea, instead of just semi-weird, like she is." Mel added. Rachel gave her a nasty look.

"Hey, hey....I'm not weird I'm just gifted." Rachel added. She was practically bouncing up and down.

"What'd u give her? Coffee?" Mel asked Mark.

Mark nodded. And Mel shook her head and smiled.

~~~~~Sligo

"Ah! We're here!" Rachel yelled pointing out the window. She was in a van with her family and Mark.

"We know." her brother Justin said rolling his eyes.

"Mom, I think Rachel's on drugs." Hannah stated plainly.

"Shut up u little..." Rachel started.

"Girls stop it." their mother said from the front seat.

Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Here, here...this is it." Mark said. Rachel's father stopped the car. They'd stopped in front of Mark's house. Rachel and Mark got out of the van. Rachel helped Mark with some bags. "Mom, I'll be at the house later tonight." Rachel said to her. She would be having dinner with Mark's family.

"Thank you for the ride Mr. and Mrs. Holmes." Mark said smiling and then they drove off.

"Okay...I'm calm." Rachel said clearing her throat. "Let's go..." she said starting up the walkway.

Mark laughed a little and followed her. Mark rang the doorbell. In no time his mother was at the door.

"Mark!" she said hugging him. "Oh and you must be Rachel. Such a pretty girl...isn't she?" she asked Mark's father who'd just walked up behind her.

"Ah, yes she is. Very pretty. Come in, come in. Mark!" he said hugging him.

Mark's mother hugged Rachel. "We're so happy to have you here." Rachel was in shock. They were so different then her family.

"Thank you. I'm glad to be here." she finally said smiling.

"Oh...this is Colin and Barry." Mrs. Feehily said introducing Rachel to them. Mark hugged them too.

"Oh, I'm Rachel." she said shaking their hands.

"Are u hungry? A snack maybe before dinner? Or tea? Would you like tea?" Mrs. Feehily asked.

"Um...no I'm fine." Rachel said. Mark laughed a little. "It's okay mom you can relax."

~~~~~Tuesday of the meeting

All 5 girls were at the house Mel and her family had rented.

"Okay...so we tell him that he's fired, right?" Michelle asked referring to their manager Pat.

"Can't we just bash him over the head with a lamp or something?" Rachel joked.

The girls laughed. "Not unless you want to wind up in jail. But if your willing then go ahead. I wouldn't mind seeing that." Meg said.

"You wouldn't mind seeing me in jail?" Rachel asked.

"No I wouldn't mind seeing Pat bashed in the head with a lamp, duh." Meg explained.

"Oh." Rachel smiled.

"ANYWAY..." Mel said as she continued to talk about what exactly they were to say.

"Can we get Johnny Wright to manage us?" Rachel asked out of no where.

They all rolled their eyes. "He manages 'N Sync and stuff. That'd be cool." she added.

"We'll see..." Mel replied and then continued again to talk about what they were to say.

"Alright, let's go and meet Pat and the management team." Meg said. "I have to drive back to Dublin..." she said sighing.

"Alright, we all ready?" Rissa asked. They all nodded. "Good because I'm having dinner with Michael tonight so I hope this goes quickly."

With that the girls left to meet with their manager.

~~~~Hotel

They all met at a hotel for the meeting. The girls walked up to the room and there was Pat with 4 people from the management team.

"Alright, now girls sit down." Pat said looking at them.

"We have a problem here. As you all know Miss Melody Cooper has gotten herself pregnant so..."

Mel cut him off. "We have a problem of our own actually." Mel began, she stood up. "You have been very inconsiderate, rude, and just down right awful as a manager. And we feel that it's time for us to part ways."

Pat smiled. "Ah, but u signed a contract ladies." he said holding it out in front of them.

"But we we're all underage when we signed that. You think it'd be hard to get out of it? Think again." Rachel said standing up.

Pat stopped smiling.

"You won't let us out of our contract, then I guess we'll see u in court buddy." Rissa said getting up. Then the girls walked out the door.

PART-46

"Court? I didn't even think of court!" Michelle said as the girls walked out of the hotel.

"Don't worry about it Michelle, ....we are still on vacation, I AM NOT gonna worry about this now." Rae told her waving bye and heading into the parking lot.

"The only thing I'm worried about is my date tonight, so later you all!" Rissa said happily walking away also.

"Alright, so Michelle's worried, I'm a bit worried, what about you Mel?" Meg asked as the three of them stood there.

"I guess the three of us can worry enough for those two." Mel shrugged

"Sometimes I wish I was more like that, just blow it off and not let it get to me." Michelle sighed as they began walking outside.

"Every bands got its worry worts right?" Mel joked putting her arm around Michelle's shoulder.

"It'll be fine, and if not you can sponge off Kian for the rest of your life." Meg went on to say. The three of them laughed getting into the car Meg had rented.

"What do you think of managing ourselves?" Mel asked as they drove along the roads of Sligo.

"Do you think we could handle it?" Meg asked

"Your good at getting us all together Meg....I think we could do it." Michelle said leaning up from the back seat.

"I don't know, I just explain what ever is already planned, I don't know how to actually do that kind of stuff." Meg told them.

"We'll all have to learn, at least until we find decent management." Mel added. The three of them continued to discuss the idea of managing themselves till Meg dropped Michelle back at the house she was staying at with her family, and them Mel at Shane's.

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Later that evening~

"You've been awfully quiet tonight." Shane said to Mel as they sat on the front steps of his parents home. Mel had finally met Shane's parents tonight. They were very nice and welcomed her into the family quicker than she had expected.

"I just have alot on my mind." Mel said mustering up a smile for him. All she could think about was the meeting this afternoon. The possibility of going to court was really getting on her nerves.

"Like a name for our little bundle of joy?" he said. Mel had to laugh at his comment.

"No, that's not it." She told him.

"Ummm, about where we should get married?"

"No wrong again hun." Mel said

"How much you love my parents?"

"You always do that Shane." she laughed again, letting her head fall on his shoulder.

"What's that?" he whispered putting his arm around her.

"Make me feel better." Mel whispered back.

"You shouldn't worry sweetheart, everything will work out in the end."

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"Lousy piece of crap!" Meg launching her mobile across the front seat of her car. She had just tried to call her parents and there was no answer.

When she tried to call Bryan her battery died.

"Just freaking great......no phone and I'm driving around in a foreign country with out a clue." She thought driving around. Half an hour later she pulled up in front of Bryan's parents house. Meg knocked on the door and Bryan's mom answered. They hadn't met yet, since Bryan's mom wasn't home the last time Meg was over. So Megan introduced herself

"Hi Mrs. McFadden, I'm Megan, is Br-"

"Oh Hello! Oh I've heard so much about you! Come in!" She said smiling and pulling her inside. 'Wow, she's just as animated as Bry' Meg though smiling and following her through the house. Mrs. McFadden brought her something to drink and told her "Bryan should be back any time now, he took your parents sight-seeing today. "

"What's he craz- I mean, that was nice of him." Meg said surprised. Her parents were never to keen on any of her

boyfriends, so she wasn't use to this at all. She and Mrs McFadden talked for a while and Meg really liked her. After a while Bryan showed up, looking totally exhausted. The three of them talked for a little while more till Bryan's mom said

"I'll let you two alone then. It's very nice to meet you dear, and you have to bring your parents by alright?"

"Okay." Meg told her. Once Bryan's mom was out of ear shot Meg said

"You look like hell, what did they do to you!"

"Meg, I took them EVERYWHERE! I mean I really like your parents..."B ry told her as she laughed.

"Poor baby. Guess I owe you then." Meg teased

"What'd you have in mind?" Bryan said perking up.

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