When we got up the next day the sun was shining on a clear sky. It was the St. Mary's day, Friday, 15^th of August. I went to take a shower and I met Shane on the way:

"Morning love!"

"Hey bear! Come here" he said pulling me close to him and giving me a kiss. "How did you sleep?"

"OK, thanx and you?"

"Missed ya!"

"Ooooooh…" and I kissed him back.

"Are you going to the bathroom?"

"Yes, I wanted to take a shower, but if you want you can go first."

"No, it's OK. I just wanted to shave and I can do that later on."

"Why don't you let it grow? You'd look sexier…"

"D'ya think so?!"

"Definitely!"

"Then I won't shave anymore."

"Good choice! See ya later" I said giving him another kiss and turning around and going straight into the bathroom.

After I took the shower I went to my room and got dressed then went into the kitchen finding everybody in an incredible mood.

"Good morning! Howz everybody doing?"

"Good morning Lee. We're fine, thanks!"

"Do we get to see the vineyard today?"

"Yeah, grandpa said he'll take us to see it today."

"Is there a cellar too coz I'd love to have a glass of wine?"

"Sure Shane. We have this big cellar with huuuuge casks and we have wine from different years, the oldest is from the year my mother was born - 1959."

"Wow, anything from 1979?"

"There might be, I don't know, we'll see."

We remembered it was Mikey Graham's birthday and Celine, Amy and myself kept on singing Happy Birthday over and over again annoying the guys. We couldn't wait to get going so we hurried with the breakfast. When we finally finished eating we ran outside. Jean-Jacques told me and Shane and Amy to follow them on horses. He and the rest were going by car. After we prepared the horses we followed the car on a road that took us to the vineyard. It took about ten minutes to get there. It was huge! All we could see around us were acres of vineyard. The grapes weren't completely mellow but they were looking very well and tasty. So we couldn't helped ourselves not to taste them. They had the best taste in the world, probably because they were in France, the land of vineyards and grapes and wine. We kept on walking for ages. Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques was checking the work of his employees. When we finally got to the cellar we were dead impressed by the way it was looking.

"Wow! Can you believe how huge it is?"

"Yeah… I've never been to a cellar like this in my whole life…"

"I've been into one just like this when I came to France for the third time."

"Really, Lee? When was that?"

"It was back in 1995. I came with my choir in another tour and we went to Bordeaux. We had such a great time… We always have a good time when we're on tours. That's when we went to a castle that had a vineyard and a cellar just like the ones that Amy's grandparents have."

"Was somebody living at that castle?"

"I really don't remember… Probably."

The cellar was incredibly large and it contained thousands of bottles and casks, small ones, big ones, huge ones. They had these casks, the ones that Amy was talking about, and they were so big and high. They were about three meters high. After we visited the cellar we went into a tasting room where, of course, we tasted different types of wines. They were good, but I'm not too much into drinking alcohol so I couldn't say if someone else would have appreciated the wine I tasted. The other seemed to like it too, especially Shane who kept on drinking glass after glass and in the end he was really happy.

"Would you slow down with the wine?"

"But it's so good."

"I know, but you drank too much."

"What would you know about that? You're just a kid, I'm a big guy and I can take care of myself."

But he wasn't able to take care of himself. He was still a child even if he thought he was a big man. We got back to the house around 2pm and ate and then rest. A party was supposed to be thrown into the town that night. It was because St. Mary was the religious patroness of the town and today it was her day as I mentioned before. We all had a good afternoon sleep. Shane was feeling sick when he got up because of that much wine he had drunk before. He went to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water and then he promised not to drink again in his whole life. But promises are meant to be broken…

The town was ten minutes far from the house and we decided to walk. When we got there everybody in the whole town was on the streets heading for the little square in the center. Everybody was smiling and feeling great and it was very easy to get into that mood ourselves. Music could be heard on the streets and as we got closer to the square we were able to see the people dancing and drinking and having a laugh.

"What would you like to drink?" asked Jean-Jacques.

"I'll have a beer" said Nicky.

"Yeah, me too."

"But Shane you promised not to drink alcohol for the rest of your life."

"Oh, come on Lee. Let him drink a beer. That's not alcohol."

"Nicky you weren't the one who was sick today after drinking too much!"

"Please mum, can I have a beer?"

"First of all I'm not your mum. And second - you can do whatever you like to" I said to Shane as I made my way to a soda machine.

I had a coke. Celine came and picked up a Fanta. I must've had the most serious face coz she asked me:

"What's wrong my friend?"

"Nothing…"

"Oh, then what's with this face?"

"It's Shane. He drinks too much" I said as I was watching him across the square ordering another two beers for him and Nicky.

"Let him be. He'll be the one who'll get sick and he'll see you were right."

"But I don't want him to get sick. I want him to feel well."

"You know how guys his age are…"

"Yeah… They love to show off and drink till they puke under the table."

Kian made his way to us with a smiley face.

"Celine do you want to dance?"

"No, I don't feel like dancing, but you can take Lee."

"No, I don't feel like dancing either."

"Com'on Lee, do me the honour!"

"Well OK" I said not being able to resist his lovely smile.

We danced for about 15 minutes. He was a great dancer and sweet and he made me feel a lot better than before. I thanked him and I went back to the group. Shane and Nicky were missing.

"Where's Shane?"

"Nicky and him went to look for a toilet. They went through that passage over there" said Amy pointing a small passage in our left.

I wanted to go to a toilet too so I went through the passage. Plasir d'amour could be heard back into the square. It was pretty dark coz there were no lights. I kept on walking and I saw a couple kissing. I thought to myself that I would have preferred doing the same thing with Shane instead of being sad over something stupid. As I got closer to the couple they stopped and I thought that maybe they did this because they were waiting for me to pass. But when I recognized them I felt my heart blowing up because of the pain. It was Shane kissing Nicky. I just couldn't believe my eyes. Was this for real? I stopped and I turned around and started running back into the square.

"Lee! Wait! Please wait!"

I could hear him screaming after me but I didn't stop. Tears were running on my face and I wasn't able to stop them. I ran passing by our group trying to get as far as possible from that place.

"Hey Lee! What's wrong? What happened?"

I didn't answer Celine and she asked Shane the same thing when he passed by them following me. He didn't answer either, but everybody understood what had happened when Nicky came out of the passage wiping the rest of her lipstick from her lips.

"Oh no! You didn't!"

"I'm sorry Cel. I think I'm a little bit drunk, we both are and we just couldn't helped ourselves. But we didn't mean it. It meant nothing for me and I don't think it meant anything for him either. He loves her very much, but it just happened."

"Tell that to her!" Celine shouted to her best friend running after Shane and me.

I was very tired, but I didn't care. I kept on running and crying until I felt I was dying. I slowed down and Shane caught me.

"Lee, wait. I'm sorry. I didn't mean for it to happen! I swear! I love you and you know that very well."

I wasn't able to look at him or say anything I just kept on walking until I got to the house. I took the key from where I had seen Christelle putting it earlier and I opened the door. I got inside and went straight to my room. I didn't care Shane was following me and was apologizing. I just didn't care what was his reason. I slammed the door into his face and locked it. He kept on knocking and knocking while I threw myself on the bed and started crying much more than before. It hurt so much. I had thought he was in love with me, but then again I was a fool of believing that. I'm not the girl that a guy would love. I got up the bed trying not to cry anymore and I started packing my bags. I wanted to leave that house and that town as soon as possible. Just being there was making me feel like somebody was stepping on my head. I didn't care Paris was 200 kilometres away. I thought I could take the train and go back to my friends. That's when I heard Celine:

"You bastard!!!!! How could you do this to her?! She loves you more than anything on this planet and you hurt her like this?"

"I know I'm the stupidest man, but I was drunk. I didn't realized what was happening. I was kissing Nicky and I didn't know what I was doing. I suddenly realized and I pushed her away. That's when I noticed Lee was there."

Meanwhile I had packed my bags and took them and went outside.

"Where are you going?" asked Celine looking shocked.

"Back to Paris… I'm getting the first train."

"No you're not. Lee, please listen!"

"We don't have anything to talk about anymore" I said trying to be as calm as possible. "I'm going back to Paris and this is final."

"Lee, wait, maybe Jean-Jacques will take you to Paris."

"What are you doing? I don't want her to go!"

"It's OK Cel! I'll go to the train station. I don't want to disturb Jean-Jacques" I said getting out of the house.

The others were there too. They weren't able to say a thing seeing me like this. Nicky got into the house and went straight to her room without even watching me. I started walking back into town and got to the train station. I was in luck - the last train to Paris was supposed to come in ten minutes and leave in another five. I bought myself a ticket not giving a damn about the price of it and I waited patiently for the train. It came at 00:15 and I got on it and then went to my place. I was alone in my compartment, thank God for that. I sat down and I fell asleep.

"Mademoiselle… mademoiselle… Nous sommes arrives a Paris…"

I opened my eyes finding this sweet grandfather look-a-like man standing in front of me.

"Merci beaucoup monsieur…" I thanked him and got up taking my bags and getting out of the train. It was now around 3am and I was completely alone in Gare de l'Est. I went into the waiting room and stayed there until 6 am. I wasn't able to get the picture of Shane and Nicky kissing out of my mind. I felt hot tears running again on my face. At 6am I went to take the tube and then changed it with a bus and I got to the hotel around 7am. I got inside and went to my room. I punched the code for the door to open and I entered the room. Val and Oli were sleeping in the double bed and I climbed into the empty one. I didn't wake them up and I went to sleep.

I heard whispers and I woke up slowly. Val and Oli were watching me.

"Hey Lee! What are you doing back? Weren't you supposed to come back tomorrow? Where's the rest of the guys?"

"Hello girls! I don't feel very well."

"Why? What happened?"

"What happened was that I had been stupid enough to think he was really in love with me."

"Who? Shane?"

"Yeah… Him…"

"But he WAS in love with you for real. It was so obvious. What the hell happened there? Tell us!"

"Remember that we had to take Celine's best friend with us, the girl from England…?"

"Yes and…"

"Last night I caught Shane and her kissing."

"You're joking!"

"I wish I were, but unfortunately is true. They drank a lot and became good friends for the evening, so good that they ended up kissing each other."

"And what did you do?"

"I left… I just packed my bags and left and didn't stay and listen to the crap Shane was feeding me."

"What did he say?"

"Who cares? He has no excuse for doing that to me…"

"You're right. And what happens now?"

"I'm on tour with my chorus, my shoulder is better, I think I can get on the stage. I wanna sing in the next concerts."

"Absolutely not. I don't think Tibi will agree with ya!"

"Val, I need to get this whole thing out of my mind and I cannot do that without getting on the stage."

I noticed the lads' luggage that was left in our room. I got up and I went and picked Shane's up and then opened the door and threw it out. The other girls were already on the hall so they saw what I did. I didn't care that everybody was starring. I closed the door back not noticing Sid and BC taking Shane's stuff into their room. I washed up and got dressed and then I went together with my girls to have breakfast. It was around 10am. I was having a cup of chocolate when I heard Kian's voice:

"Shane slow down! Maybe she doesn't want to see you!"

I turned around and saw Shane coming towards me. I got up from my seat with the intention of leaving back to my room.

"Lee…"

I ignored him and I kept on walking.

"That's it! Just walk away! Walking away will never solve your problems."

"My problems?" I asked turning around to face him even if that was real hard.

"Yes!"

"Why would it be my problem if you chose Nicky against me?"

Everybody got up and left the restaurant, only the twins, Kian, Celine, Amy, Mark, Shane and me were left there.

"But I didn't choose her or anybody else against you! I love you and I always will! I was such a fool not listening to you yesterday when you told me not to drink anymore. I got pretty drunk and I didn't know what I was doing. We were looking for a toilet when I stumbled and I fell on her and then she kissed me."

"So it was her fault, you never wanted it to happen, right?!"

"It was our fault. I don't feel anything for her, I was drunk for God's sake! I love you, you know that! Please Lee, don't leave me all by myself. I need you…" he said softly while tears flooded his eyes. "I'd die without you, you're my one and only… I'm so stupid!"

Although I was hurting like hell I believed him. I felt he was telling the truth and that he really loved me and he didn't mean for that to happen. But it did. I was considering him MY Shane and seeing him kissing Nicky made me feel really bad. But I loved him too much not to give him another chance. Meanwhile he had broken down and he wasn't able to stop crying. He had sat on a chair and with his head in his hands he was crying his eyes out. That sight was tearing up my heart. I went slowly to him and knelt in front of him and took his hands into mine. He raised his head and watched me right in the eyes.

"I can give you only another chance, but that's it. I'm doing this because I love you too much to let you go out of my life."

I took his face into my hands and I caressed it and I wiped the tears from his eyes, from his cheeks… I placed a soft kiss on his lips. Oh how I've missed that…

"I'm so sorry Lee…"

"Let's forget it, OK?"

He stood up and helped me to rise and he took me in his arms and kissed me for a long time. The rest of the gang was happy to see us back together. They knew we loved each other too much to stay apart. Later I found out that Nicky was too ashamed to see me again and she had left back home. It was strange - I didn't hate her, I was too happy that Shane and I were back together and I didn't care about her anymore.