"All I can remember was rushing off stage at the end of our performance, just trying to find her. I finally catched her with a nurse, making their way out of the backstage area. I just had to run over and talk to her, in private. I think I told her to pretend she really knew me or something, just to get rid of that nurse. Whatever we did, it worked.

"We were both quiet, soaking in each other's eyes. I don't have a clue what run through Nikki's mind just then, but my mind was nearly blank. I was just so nervous. It was time to get the truth. Did she like me? Would she start to scream at me? Would she reject me, as I had had many girls doing in the past year? My mind was just full of questions, questions only the girl standing in front of me had the answer to. Questions, that most definitely soon would be knowledge.

"I can't remember too much, but she told me she thought she felt the same way. I was... just so happy. Well, that's a big understatement, I was over the moon. It was the happiest moment off my life, till then, it couldn't even measure to the feeling when we went to No.1 or being on stage, not to anything. For the last 3 or 4 months, she'd been almost the only thing I thought about. Imagining things, things that were now so close to become reality.

"I just hugged her. I couldn't even say anything. I felt the tears coming, of happiness, of relief. (Shane's eyes go misty at the thought) We were so close to have our first kiss, but unfortunately our tour manager came looking for me! I got into quite a bit of trouble from him for catching me out, but I just didn't care. I had given up on too much for the band, and I wasn't going to give up on Nikki. I think at the time I'd probably even given up my career for her, it was just as if nothing, nor no one else mattered.

"The tour manager went off in search for Kian and I just had this idea of inviting her to Sligo with me the following day. I know it sounds like I was pushy, but I had kinda got used to doing everything quickly since the band started. I had learnt that I shouldn't put things up till the next day, (he smiles) I guess I followed my heart more than my head at the time. She said she'd come and I got her number to arrange something. The lads in Area4 walked past so I just got hem to show her the way out, I had to get back to the coach if I didn't want to get a taxi. People probably never think of the fact that stars have extremely hectic times, and our tour manager was hard. We'd be fined if we were late, and all the other rules, most of them considered stupid by us at the time, but now I've come to realise that the band would never have done that well if it wasn't for all those rules. Thanks to them, we managed to keep that quite important clean image, and we never had any problems with people thinking we were bed role models or anything.