Chapter 2

The morning hadn't been to bad, the had spent the morning being interviewed by different people, Sam know knew how the band had got together and recall the information in his sleep, in most inviews they had been asked two main questions "how did you get together?" and "why do a themed album?" the answers Sam now knew off my heart, likely Nicky and Kian had done most if not all of the talking. The afternoon had gone better then he had hoped as well, they were called into to a sound check and following his band mates lead and hummed his way through the entire show, but tonight was the real deal, he had to sing, he hoped that he would be able to to fool 10 thousand people, how knew off by heart everything about Shane. Sam walked towards the toilets he felt sick just thinking about it.

"Hey Sam" Al said cheerfully

"Hey" Sam answered he still felt sick

"We have been asking that Shane guy a lot of questions, at frist he thought he had been kidnapped, then he saw your reflection in the mirror and almost had a heart attack. Shane didn't answer the questions at first, then he realized that we were serious and started talking, the problem was getting him to shut up" Al said laughing "but he's a good kid really"

"after being him for a day i know why it was hard for him to stop talking, they have to repeat everything they say over and over" Sam said shaking his head "do you know why i'm here yet?"

"er..no, because for us 2004 hasn't happened yet Ziggy can't find anything out, its a miracle that we even found you. The best we can do is ask Shane about everything he knows, we are doing everything we can but we're still 1993!" Al said voice rising slightly Just then Nicky walked through the door

"Shay come on, time to get dressed"

"Ok, i'l be out in a sec" Nicky nodded and left

"in need you Al, i need you tell me what the hell im supposed to be singing!" Sam said panicking

"Ok, good job that was the first question i asked Shane, Shane says learn to lines to chorus and Mark sings lead" Al informed Sam

"thank God!" Sam laughed

Sam walked into the costume department and was attacked Holly one of the two wardrobe people, Sally who was the other wardrobe person was yelling at Mark and Nicky. Sam was frog marched to the other side of the room where Kian stood

"you four are a nightmare, your all ways late, you keep trying to give Anto heart attacks, honestly! and you Shane Filan, just you wait until Anto gets here!" Holly said sound very, very stressed. Kian laughed

"Anto is pissed at the moment, Nicky dared Mark to tell Anto that he couldn't remember the words to "Turnaround" and could he please go home!"

"A nasty trick to play on-ah here he comes!" Anto had finished giving Mark and Nicky an ear bashing and was walking towards Sam with grim look on his face.

Lawrence (vocal coach), Priscilla, Paula(choreographers), Maria(PA), Antony and Paul(Security) bust through the door, each shouting orders at the boys until Anto called for order. Al who was standing by Al was shocked by the amount of chaos that he was seeing, in the military there was no chaos, but here, man did they need some discipline!

"right guys, i want vocal warm ups, you know the drill!" Lawrence shouted. The boys had gone back to talking amongst themselves when Lawrence was speaking

"shut the fuck up now!" priscilla shouted, instantly all talking stopped the boys knew that when Priscilla swore they were in a lot of trouble "will you lot start showing people some respect?!" Sam looked at his bandmates who were looking very guilty.

"On the count of three i want to hear you guys start the warm ups, ready? Three!" Lawrence shouted and instantly the room was filled with noise the Westlife boys (Sam included with a little help from Al) Priscilla and Paula started walking around to to each boy to make sure they remembered the dance routines, Maria, Antony and Paul made a bee line straight for Anto.

"Shut Up!" Anto shouted an the from fell silent

"Boys get to Make Up now! We're on in twenty minutes!" Anto informed them silently the boys began to file out of the door.

Sam followed Mark towards a door marked "MAKE UP/HAIR"

"You've got to be kidding me" Sam whispered to Al

"afraid so" Al said voice full of sympathy

"Right, lets get the easy ones do first shall we? Shane get your arse over here!" Ben called

Sam sat down on the chair not knowing what to expect

"do you want to me to it all of or just parts of it?" Ben asked. Sam had no idea if he was joking or not until the boys bust into laughter

"don't kill Shane off just yet!"Mark said through laughter

"ok, ok, the usual then?" Ben asked. Sam nodded and Ben set to work.

Once all the boys had been done, Anto came in to announce that he was show time. Sam had never felt so sick, Al was walking beside him, reeling of information, but Sam could hardly here him. As they got closer to the stage the roar of the crowed got louder. He had never heard anything like it before.

"Good luck" Anto said smiling

"Oh boy" Sam muttered