She looked at me, and said "YOU BITCH!" I couldn’t believe that I was hearing this, "Me?" I protested, "why am I the bitch?" surely you should be swearing at..." She interrupted me "See how you get away with it, and now I have to confess that I’m with Shane". I looked at her totally puzzled, "Keely…" I started whilst looking at the picture, as I looked closely it was Keely, "OH MY GOD!" I looked at her "huh! That’s you," I gasped, "Course it’s me, you didn’t think that Shane would be kissing some other girl in that way whilst he had me?" "No not at all!" I said looking relieved, I don’t know what I would have done if he had cheated on her, I most definitely would have had to break up with Bryan, cos I would have put Shane in hospital!!!

I looked at Keely and said, "What now??" she looked at me and said, "we could make this really huge! But if we do it now people are going to say that is was a publicity stunt for the lads single to chart higher, and we can’t have that" I got up, I had an idea, I walked into the main conference room, our boss was sitting there so I sat down with Keely next to me and told him that I had a good spread idea. "Look David, I have something that I am going to tell you, but just make sure that when thinking about this, not only do you think of the paper as an editor, but think of the story as a friend" He looked up at me bewildered, "what are you on about?" he asked, "Shh" I said and started my piece. "Well for some months now Keely and me have been going out with two of the members of Westlife. Keely is the girl in the picture." He looked there in complete amazement, as if we were making it up, I just continued with telling him, "Now we know that this will make a good story for the paper this week, but we can’t afford to let people think of it as a publicity stunt for the lads, so we wait till the single has charted and then let you interview each of us provided RCA and the lads agree, you can find out more?" Keely nodded in agreement. David looked up and said, "You do know that if another paper had gotten hold of this story you two would possibly have been facing the sack?" "Yeh, but you know what they say, ‘Risk all for love’" Keely replied.

We agreed that this was the thing to do, and off we went. For some reason, my mind was put at ease, although the story had not been covered yet, and we still didn’t know the effect it would have on the relationship, it almost felt great that soon Bryan and me could kiss, cuddle and hold hands in public, it didn’t seem like much, but it was so much just to know that we didn’t have to keep looking over our shoulders.

As soon as I got home, that is what I did, I took hold of Bryan’s hand, drew him close to me and kissed him. I only had another 14 or so hours with him that night, he was going to stay over and leave first thing in the morning, although I was planning to make the most of our time alone, the rest of the lads were coming over for dinner that night. So I had Bryan to myself for a couple of hours. I held on to him and smiled, "Thanks for earlier" I said, "it meant a lot to know that we’re going to be together through everything" he looked at me and kissed me and said, "I won’t let you go that easily. Never" and in walked the rest of the band and Keely