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"Guess who asked me out for after the show?" Meg said smiling.

"Who?" Rissa asked.

"Bryan!" Meg yelled.

They had just finished the opening act for the guys and were now in their dressing room.

"Where ya gonna go?" Michelle asked.

"I dunno, he just said 'out'. So whatever that means...who cares as long as it's with him." Meg said.

"Okay, I hafta say, Kian is way cute." Michelle blushed.

"They all are." Melody said.

"Okay, Miss watch me stare at Shane ever free second I have." Rachel joked.

"Not true!" Melody defended.

"Ha! Not true my butt."Rachel retorted.

"Well, well...u flirt with Mike." she said.

"Mark." Rachel corrected.

"Yea that's what I meant." Melody said cracking a smile.

"So u admit u flirt with Mark?" Meg asked.

"No, I was just correcting her." she turned to Melody "Me and Mike have nothing going on." Rachel said to her.

"Well whatever his name is...he's cute too." Melody said.

"I have an idea...let's go clubbin' tonight." Rissa said.

"Of course when I have plans ya'll decide to go clubbin'" Meg said jokingly.

"That was the plan. We were like...we have to go clubbin' when Meg is busy so she can't come." Rachel said.

"Oh yea...we're evil aren't we?" Michelle said.

"Shut up." Meg said.

"Yea we should go!" Rachel said.

"And invite the rest of the guys!" Melody added.

~~~~~~~~~At the club.

"Okay so how hot does Kian look?" Michelle whispered to Rachel.

Rachel laughed. "Ask him to dance."she yelled over the blasting music to Michelle.

"Oh god no!" Michelle said.

Rachel sighed "Your such a wuss."

Michelle was wearing a short black dress with clunky black sandels, her hair was up out of her face with little pieces hanging down. Very simple, but Rachel could tell it caught Kian's eye.

"I'm telling you just ask." Rachel said again.

"I..I couldn't." Michelle said.

Michelle was pretty, smart, funny, and talented but she was also painfully shy around guys.

"Yea she's cute." Shane replied to Kian.

Kian took a sip of his drink. "Yea. I'll be back he said."

"Where's he going?" Nicky asked.

"To ask Michelle to dance." Shane said.

Nicky just smiled.

Mark was staring at Rachel.

"Earth to Mark...hello!" Shane said waving his hand in front of Mark's face.

"Huh, what?" Mark said.

"You like her?" Shane asked.

"I dunno, we just met. She's...different."

"I see, well u seem to enjoy staring at her." Shane said.

"No, well...she just looks good, she's very pretty." Mark said.

Rachel was wearing a black short skirt and a red tank top with a sheer red shirt.

She was walking toward Mark.

"Hey." she said.

"Hi." he smiled.

"Michelle left me, to dance with Kian. How rude." she joked.

"Oh yea." he smiled again.

Rachel leaned over and whispered in his ear. "Ya wanna dance?" she asked.

"Uh, uh-huh..yea" Mark said.

Rachel laughed and pulled him out onto the dance floor.

~~~Bryan and Meg

They were walking in a park in London. They'd just finshed dinner.

"Yea, Ohio is nice, I guess." she said to him.

"U guess?" he asked.

"It's just boring ya know? I guess if u grow up somewhere u always find it boring though, huh? Youngstown, Ohio... not a real exciting name. Ever hear of a group called Youngstown?" Meg asked.

"I dunno, it rings a bell. Why?"

"Their from, well Youngstown." she laughed. "I grew up with them, their nice guys."

He nodded.

"Ireland is nice. It very beautiful, ya know? It's just not something I've ever seen before it's so...different. That's why it fascinates me I guess."

"I never thought of it that way before. I guess like you said wherever ur from u think it's boring." Bryan said.

"Yea, plus...Irish guys have those adorable accents!" she laughed and ran ahead of him.

Bryan ran after her, to the pond where she was headed.

"Nice pond." she said.

"I like ur accent too." Bryan said.

"Me? I don't have an accent." she said.

"Sure ya do...you have an American accent." he said.

"Oh, yea...I guess I do." she laughed.

"I think it's quite adorable as well." he said leaning in to kiss her.

PART-7

"Rissa!!!" Meg yelled.

"What?" Rissa asked annoyed. "I'm trying to do my hair."

It was the next morning and the girls were packing to fly to Paris.

"Sorry Nick she's TRYING to do her hair." Meg said into the phone.

"Ahhhhhh! Nicky!" Rissa yelled running into the bedroom to grab the phone.

"Geez, freak girl, calm down." Meg said walking away.

"Hey babez." Rissa said to Nick.

Rachel poked her head into the room. "Ya'll about ready to go?" she asked.

"Yea, Rissa's talking to Nick though." Meg said.

"Oh, I see." Rachel nodded. "Well hurry it up Rissa!"

Meg laughed and Rissa shot her a nasty look.

"Are those boys coming soon?" Rachel asked.

"Their in Paris, I think, so they will be there when we get in...well they'll be at the hotel." Meg explained.

"Oh, coolness, me and Bri have a one on one basketball game to sort out. He's gonna get his butt kicked." Rachel smiled.

Rissa walked into the hall. "Alright let's go." she smiled. "Oh yea Rae, Nick said that Brian said be prepared to lose...whatever that means. Oh and that it's him and Nick now so u hafta find a team mate. Basketball game I assume?" Rissa said.

"Yea...dude this sucks who here is good at basketball?" Rachel whined.

"Not me that's all I know." Meg said.

~~~On the plane

Rachel and Melody were seated behind Mark and Shane. She was telling Mel about the game.

Rachel leaned over the guys seats. "Hey any of ya'll good at basketball?" she asked Mark and Shane.

"Well hello." Shane said. "Uh...not really."

"Why?" Mark asked.

"Because I need a team mate to play two on two with Bri and Nick." Rachel said.

"Who are they?" Shane asked.

"Brian and Nick from the BSB." Rachel said.

"Oh yea that's right..Rissa's dating Nick, huh?" Shane asked.

"Yea, yea...so I need a team mate." Rachel said again.

"I...I'll do it. I'm not the best but..." Mark began.

"Okay cool. Thank you." she patted his head and sat back down.

"I'm gonna visit Rissa, up there." Melody said getting up.

Rachel nodded.

Mark turned around in his seat and looked back at Rachel. He was kneeling on the seat with his front against the back of his seat.

"That's where you dribble the orange ball thing, right?On, on the court." he asked.

Rachel gave him an 'r u serious?' look. "Uh, ye..yea." she said slowly.

"Kidding, kidding." he laughed.

Rachel smacked his arm. "Jerk." she said jokingly.

"Ow." he said rubbing his arm. "That's my bad arm."

"Oh sorry." Rachel said.

"Just kidding." he said again smiling.

"You know what..." Rachel said leaning forward again. She raised one hand to hit him and he grabbed it then she swung the other hand which he caught too. She tried to pull her hands free.

"Michelle! Hit him for me!" Rachel yelled struggling. Michelle was seated in front of Mark, so his back was now facing her.

Michelle just sat there. "Uh, I'd rather not."

Rachel looked at her. "Yea thanks glad u have my back, 'chelle."

Rachel was still struggling to break free of Mark's grip so she could do some kind of bodily harm to him.

"I mean if it were a serious matter, like life or death or whatever. I'd have your back and all, sure. But ya know... until then your on ur own." Michelle said reading a magazine.

"Oh shut up." Rachel said.

"Ur cute when ur mad." Mark said. He was kinda surprised he'd said that but he didn't let it show.

"I swear to god...Melody!" Rachel yelled.

Melody took her seat, she'd just come back from visiting Rissa.

"Well, well what is all the comotion...I heard it all up there in Rissa land." she said pointing three seats ahead.

"Hit him for me Mel!" Rachel yelled tiredly.

"Okay!" Melody said.

"Shane get her!" Mark yelled ducking.

Shane jumped around in his seat and grabbed Melody's arms.

"Hey!" Melody said trying to break loose.

Melody kicked Shane's seat which caused him to lose balance, let go of her arms and grab the back of the seat so he didn't fall.

Melody grabbed her purse and pulled out her lipstick. She opened it and pointed it at Mark.

"I swear, don't MAKE me use this." she said.

Mark looked at the lipstick and then back at Melody.

"Okay, okay put the lipstick down." he said.

"Let her go." Shane made a movement and Melody turned the lipstick toward him. "U'd best be watchin' urself." Melody said.

"Now let me go and no one get's hurt." Rachel said.

Mark let go of her arms and turned around in his seat as did Shane.

Rachel and Melody gave a high five.

Then Rachel slapped Mark on the back of the head.

"Hey!" he yelled. "I thought u said no one got hurt."

"It wasn't me." she said.

"Oh yea I bet not."

Rachel just laughed.

"Let's sing a song." Melody suggested.

"Okay, what?" Rachel said.

"In the Jungle the mighty jungle the lion sleeps tonight..." Melody and Rachel sang a most interesting rendition of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."

PART-8

They all arrived at their hotel and Rissa immediatly ran to Nick's room. He was standing outside his door waiting. She ran down the hall toward him. "NICKY!!!!!" Rissa yelled jumping into his arms.

"Hey babe, I missed you sooooo much." he whispered into her ear.

They kissed again and again.

Rachel, Melody, Mark and Nicky walked by. "Dudez, PDA, PDA....gag!" Rachel said.

"Shut up." Nick said jokingly.

Rachel just smiled. "Where's Bri?" she asked.

"Next room down." Nick said.

"Oh yea...this is Mark and Nicky from Westlife....guys this is Nick Carter." Rachel said.

They exchanged hellos and Rachel moved on down the hall.

She knocked on Brian's door.

He opened it.

"Bri!" she yelled hugging him.

"Hey!" he said.

"You've got this floor guarded like Fort Knox's, they like weren't gonna let us on the floor...but we saw Kevin and he told them to let us up." Melody explained.

Brian nodded.

"Bri, Bri...I found a partner for the game!" Rachel excited.

"Who, who?" Bri asked imitating her excitement.

"Marky, here." Rachel said pointing to Mark.

Brian looked him up and down.

"He any good?" Bri asked her.

"I dunno but he's all I could scrape up."

"I see." Brian said to her.

Mark just stood there and gave them a weird look.

Brian laughed. "Hi I'm Brian." he said holding out his hand.

Mark shook Brian's hand. "Hi, I'm Mark." he said.

"Westlife, right?" Brian said.

Mark nodded.

"When are we playing?" Rachel asked.

"Tomorrow...12 noon. There's a gym around the corner." Brian said.

"Ok good...we gotta go Bri...training ya know." Rachel said running off dragging Mark behind her.

"Where are we going?" Mark asked.

"Well first you are getting changed, then we're gonna shot some hoops babe. I'm sure you need practice, right? Right." Rachel said.

"Uh okay." Mark said as Rachel shoved him into his room.

"Hurry up!" she yelled.

~~~~~Paris

Meg, Melody, and Michelle were out and about the streets of Paris sightseeing.

"Look at all the French dudes!" Melody said happily.

"Yea well Mel that's generally the case in France." Meg said.

Michelle rolled her eyes.

"Wanna try and pick up some guys?" Mel asked.

"What?" Michelle asked.

Melody smiled at a cute guy walking by. "Hola! Como esta usted?" she said to him.

"Mel that's Spanish!" Meg said.

"Yea whatever."

~~~~Gym

Mark had the ball and was dribbling toward the hoop.

Rachel was trying to block him from making the shot, but couldn't. So she elbowed him.

He dropped the ball. "Ow, you can't do that." he said rubbing his side.

"What?" she said innocently.

"You elbowed me."

"Did not."

"Did too."

"Na-uh." she shook her head.

"Ya-huh." he nodded. "It hurt too."

Rachel smiled a little. "Sorry." she said.

He was still rubbing his side.

"Does it really hurt?" she asked as she reached out to touch his side. She poked him.

"OW! Yes!" he said.

Rachel bit her lip. "Oops."

"Your so violent." he said.

"Am not." she defended.

He just looked at her.

"Anywayz, whatever doesn't kill you only makes you stronger right?" she said.

"Yea just do me a favor, don't try and make me any stronger today."

Rachel laughed. "Okay."

PART-9

"Ladies and gentlemen!" Rachel yelled.

It was the next day and everyone was gathered at the basketball court.

"We are about to begin the game!" Brian announcent.

"Okay who wants us to win! Stand up please!" Rachel yelled pointint to Mark and herself.

Kian, Bryan, Nicky, Shane, Mel, Meg, and Michelle all cheered.

"Rissa? I can't believe ur not cheering for us?!?!" Rachel yelled.

"Whoo-hoo...go u guys." Rissa said unexcitedly.

"I see how it is u choose ur boyfriend's team over us?!" Rachel said.

"Heck yea." Rissa said. She sat next to AJ, Howie, and Kevin. "Go Nick and Bri!!!! Whoo-hoo!!!!"

Rachel laughed.

"Alright ya'll let's play some basketball, baby!" Rachel yelled.

Then the game began.

"Block him MARK!" Rachel yelled down the court.

They ran up and down the court like crazy and at the end of the first half the score was 2-5.

Rachel was out of breath. "We only got two points." she said.

"Well u won't let me shoot the ball." Mark defended.

Rachel rolled her eyes.

"Okay time for round two!" Nick yelled.

With 2 minutes on the clock the score was 6-6.

Rachel dribbled down the court. Mark was right by the basket, wide open. With 30 seconds left she passed to him.

Mark was in shock that she'd actually gave him the ball, but he managed to shoot in the general direction of the hoop.

Everyone watched in suspense.

*Whoosh* right throught the hoop. *buzzzzz* just as the buzzer rang.

"OMG! OMG!" Rachel yelled. She ran to Mark and hugged him. "You got it in, u actually got it in!"

"Ow, thanx, ur choking me." he said.

She let go of him. "Sorry..."

Everyone ran on the court.

Brian walked up to her. "Good job." he said smiling. She jumped up and down. "WE WON, WE WON!" She hugged Mark again. And kissed his cheek. Mark smiled at Shane after she kissed him.

"And you Brian Littrell...LOST!" She laughed.

"Winning isn't everything." he said.

"That's just what losers say!" she said.

He laughed. "Okay, okay u got me there." Brian agreed.

"Mark, Mark! U ROCK!" Rachel said.

"So, u take back all the mean stuff u said about me?" he asked.

"Oh, totally, yea, yea." She smiled as she looked into his eyes. They stared at each other.

"Rach! U did it!" Mel yelled running up to her. Rachel snapped back into reality.

"Yea." she said as she got swept away by Mel.

~~~~~~Rachel and Mel's hotel room.

Rachel was fixing her hair later that night after the show. Mel ran into the room.

"OMG, OMG, OH MY GGGGGGOOOOOODDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mel yelled jumping all over.

"What, what? what?" Rachel asked jumping up.

"No way...guess who I just saw in the lobby!!!!!" Mel yelled.

"Who?" Rachel asked confused.

"Jason." Mel said quietly.

"No..not...Jason, my ex-boyfriend Jason." Rachel asked getting upset.

Mel nodded.

"What? Why? He's freaking insane...what does he think he's doing."

"I dunno, I have good news too." Mel smiled weakly.

"Hmmm?" Rachel asked looking at her.

"Shane asked me out tonight."

"Oh, that's great Mel." Rachel smiled softly.

"If u want me to stay with you here, I will..."

"No, no way. Go have fun."

Mel smiled. "Cool, I'm gonna call u later."

"Don't worry, I'll have the body guards on alert."

"Just be careful, he's dangerous." Mel said concerned. "The girls know he's here too so they're on alert as well."

"Okay Mel, thanx."

"I'm gonna get ready." Mel said. "Go to someone's room. I don't want u alone."

Rachel nodded.

Jason was Rachel's ex-boyfriend. They broke up over a year ago but he wouldn't leave her alone. But this, coming to France, was by far the craziet thing he'd ever done. He was violent, he used to hit her. She had a restraining order, but what good did a piece of paper do when he was obviously mentally ill.

Rachel fought back tears.

Rachel walked out into the hall to go to Meg and Michelle's room.

She was running over in her head what to do when she ran right into Mark. Rachel screamed.

Mark grabbed her shoulder. "Whoa, hey what's wrong?" he asked.

Rachel looked up at him, her heart was practically jumping out of her chest.

"Nothing, sorry u scared me...I...nothing." she said walking away.

Mark watched her walk down the hall.

'That was weird.' he thought.

PART-10

Rachel walked into Meg and Michelle's room, Rissa was there.

"Hey, hun..." Michelle said softly. "You okay?"

Rachel nodded.

"Why's he here?" Rachel asked.

"I dunno, but don't let him get to you. He's not gonna get near you." Rissa said.

Rachel again.

"Wanna sleep in here tonight?" Meg asked. "Mel won't be back 'till late, or early shall I say."

"Yea, I 'll go get some stuff." Rchel said getting up.

Rachel walked back to her room. Someone grabbed her arm. She jerked her head up. It was Mark.

"Sorry, I seem to be scaring u a lot lately." Mark said. He looked concerned.

Rachel shook her head and cleared her throat. "No, no that's okay."

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"I'm fine..." she started.

"Your lying." he said plainly.

She stepped away from him and kind of squinted her eyes. "What?"

"I said ur lying." he repeated.

She sighed. "You know?"

"Mel told me." he said. "I saw her after the first time we bumped into each other in the hall, and I asked her what was up."

"Yea well now u know...thanx Mel."

"She's just trying to protect you. We've got the security on alert and all." Mark said.

Rachel nodded.

"If you want to talk about it I..." Mark began.

"Thanx." she said walking away.

"Cause, I care... and I wanna know if..." Mark said following her down the hall.

Rachel turned around. "Thanx, I'll keep that in mind."

"Really I'm here if..."

Rachel spun around to look at him.

"Listen Mark, I understand that ur just trying to help or whatever but please just back off. No offense, but I just met u like a week ago and I'm not gonna be spilling my guts to you anytime soon, so just forget it."

Mark swallowed hard. "Yea, okay." he said and walked away.

Rachel turned and half ran to her room.

She grabbed some stuff and started heading back to Meg and Michelle's room. She began to feel bad about what she'd said to Mark but he just wouldn't understand.

She walked past his room and slowed down, turned and looked at the door. She stood in front of it for what seemed like hours but in reality was only a few minutes.

She lifted her hand to knock, she had to apolagize for the way she'd acted. She always hated the thought of people being mad at her, one of her many insecurities.

She knocked. A minute later Mark opened the door. "Hi." he said softly.

"Uh, hi... I have to explain, the way I acted..."

"No, u don't...it's okay..."

"No, I do...can I come in?" she asked looking over his shoulder.

"Yea, yea sure...it's a little messy but..."

"That's okay."

She walked in and sat on the couch. He took a seat chair across from her.

"The only reason I snap at you is because, well... honestly I haven't had much luck in the guy department in the past and I really don't want you to think I'm some horrible idiot who can't handle a relationship. I know that's how I'd come across if I even began to try and explain to you about me and Jason. I'd end up crying my eyes out and with the experiences I've had with guys u'd probably take off running b/c u'd probably just be real scared. I know guys don't handle the crying girl scenario real well. I just didn't want that to happen, especially since u've known me for a whole of, what?, a week. Just say u understand and I'll stop rambling and be on my way."

He smiled faintly and nodded. "I understand."

She touched her hand to her chest and sighed. "Okay good." she smiled.

She gathered all her stuff and walked to the door.

"Do you wanna go out for some coffee or whatever?" he asked.

She turned around, "It's 11:30 at night." she said surprised.

"I know...I thought I'd at least try." he smiled and looked away.

"Okay, let's go." she said.

"For real?"

"No for fake...yes for real...I'll be back in like 2 seconds." she said running out the door.

Mark smiled happily.

Rachel ran down to Meg and Michelle's room.

"I'm gonna go out for a little bit with Mark. I'll be back soon."

"Are you sure that's a good idea?" Rissa asked.

Rachel thought for a moment. "Yea it's fine. I'm not gonna live in complete fear of my psycho ex-boyfriend my whole life."

Meg nodded. "Well, have fun."

Rachel smiled. "I'll be back soon." she said walking out the door.

She reappeared in Mark's doorway. "Akay, let's go."

Mark slipped on his leather jacket and they left.

~~~~~Melody and Shane

They were walking around the center of Paris. The people were thinning on the streets and it was quite dark. The were stopped in front of a fountain.

"Gee," Mel said. "I never thought I'd be walking around Paris at midnight, with an incredibily cute Irish guy, after performing a concert for 4,000 screaming fans."

Shane laughed. "Which part of all that is the best?"

"Oh, wow, ya know Paris is really great." Mel smiled.

Shane smiled and shook his head.

"Yea, but the incredibly cute Irish guy, who woulda thought huh? That one's right up there."

"Ah, but what about the incredibly beautiful American girl, that one, well that one is definitly number one."

"Why Shane! Where are you hiding this beautiful American girl?! I thought this was our date, I'm deeply hurt."

"Hmmmm, well, " Shane circled her and she followed him with her eyes. "I believe she's right here." he said stopping in front of her. He placed his hands on each one of her arms.

"Well, there's one incredibly cute Irish guy who would like to kiss this incredibly beautiful American girl."

"Oooh, where is he?" Mel asked looking over his shoulder.

"Right he in front of you." Shane laughed.

"Well, u certainly think highly of yourself, Mr. Incredibly cute Irish guy."

Shane laughed and kissed her.

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