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It's been two months since I met Westlife and my life hasn't been the same ever since. Well some things are still the same, I mean I still drool madly over mark and dream about westlife even though I have already met them; I know you probably think that it's stupid to fantasise about them when I HAVE met them but hey a girl's gotta dream. Besides my memory is still hazy about the exact details of the first time I actually did meet them. BUT ANYWAY...

Well let me update you on my day to day existence at the moment. Hmmmm, Nora decided to ditch me for Kian "the love of her life" Egan, which really hurt coz I thought I was the love of her life ha ha ha ha NOT!!! So anyway she left me a month ago I mean I awoke one Saturday morning to see a note left in our apartment, she basically left us a note saying she had flown away to London. Imagine the nerve of the girl, I mean HELLO at least she could have said good bye or something... I dunno. Well Ok it wasn't that bad but it was close to it. Actually the little sprite absolutely bored us to death with "ooh it's going to be so great when I see kian again" blah blah blah it was a never-ending trail of sentences with me trapped with nowhere to go.

I had to remind her (more than once), that she probably wouldn't see much of him as they might be touring being the sucessful boyband that they are. Let me tell you when my statement finally filtered its way into her chain of thoughts, the mere sight of her face could have slayed one thousand hardened guerilla fighters. Not that I'm jealous, no no no it's just well I'm very peeved off at the moment; I mean the butthole is going out with a westlifer and I (I dont know why?) am not going out with a westlifer or even kissing one. I know you probably thought that I would have been over that fact ages ago and that I'd become one of those "happy for her sisters happiness" types, WELL I'M NOT! Yep I got so bad that every time Kian called up to talk to Nora I would listen in to their conversation for about 5 minutes all the while hallucinating that maybe it were Mark talking to me and I were his girlfriend. But instead I got Nora yelling at me to "Piss off or else!" and after 5 times I finally got the picture as well as a black eye.

Anyway enough of me moping about STILL not being a westlifer's girlfriend, even though the fact is so distressing. Ahem as I told you last time Maz's group was going on the up and up. Actually they got signed by BMG much to my initial disgust and their obvious ecstasy. Your probably wondering how that happened, well, Shane and the guys had been over one day at our apartment and heard Maz's group Starlight* singing. I had hinted to the girls earlier that this might get them a deal especially with a recommendation from the guys. So there I was playing on our PS-2 with mark trying very desperately not to faint from being so close to the fella. Meanwhile Starlight* had started singing for a supposed "practise" and well Shane and Bryan heard them sing, lets just say they liked them and mentioned them to Louis and the rest as they say is pop music history. What exactly do I mean by history well just hold on and let me explain it alright.

Starlight* with the help of great marketing and a scorching first release have now become pop's newest royalty. With their first single going straight to No.1 not only in their native New Zealand but also throughout Asia, Australia and Europe. So your thinking, what's my connection to the girls? Well believe it or not and your probably not going to but I am the girls Co-Manager with Louis Walsh. Initially I was just Maz's bum-around girlfriend that she brought along the tour but I proved myself worthy of management material as I watched over the girls and organised their tour while Louis was either flat-out drunk on the floor or trying to help up one of the guys of westlife from the floor. I gotta tell ya these girls certainly have got some rad moves and wicked voices. Your probably thinking that as their young Co-Manager I must have the most boring existence having to be the serious one, well I gotta tell you YOUR WRONG!

The one great advantage of being their co-manager was when I went in with them to BMG's New Zealand office. I felt just like Leonardo Dicaprio when he said "I'm the king of the world!" coz at that moment in time I WAS king of the world. In the space of less than 2 months I had left that shit hle of a workplace where so many bad memories existed and returned as a good friend of Westlife and the co-manager of Pop's biggest new female group (and they were from New Zealand which is a rarity if ya know what I mean). Anyway, there was Emma still sitting at the reception desk and this time round the pricks at BMG had to butt kiss me. Yep life had definitely gone the full circle. I dunno about you but the grin on my face must have remained on for hours coz that night when Shane called he asked what I was so happy about and you know for the first time in the two months that I had known him I had absolutely nothing to answer him back with, nothing not even a sarcastic comment. I was so caught up in my own happiness that all I had was "You know how they say that revenge is sweet, well bro It aint sweet it's a freaking chocolate gateau with all the trimmings bro, yeah thats what it is". All I could hear was laughing on the other end of the phone, I had forgotten Shane had put the phone on speaker-phone.

So now the girls and me are getting ready for their world promotional tour starting off in Asia, where apparently to BMG record sales had just shot up to No.1. Slapping my face in the reflection of the mirror to make sure I was awake and not dreaming another Westlife related dream I could see my eyes glowing with excitement. It was the same look I had when I went to my first Westlife concert when I couldn't help screaming "YEAH YEAH", except now I was trying desperately to breathe at all.

I was going through my whole meditation to keep me to the ground when Lindsay barged into my room like a head-less chicken. There she was jumping up and down on my hotel bed like as if she were packed with EVER READY batteries or something. "We're going to Asia, We're going to Asia" I must have heard her scream that a million times all the while thinking, I was never that energetic when I was a 15 year old. I mean when I was her age... I was... I was. Well I was exactly the same to tell the truth. "So much for inner peace" I muttered, "So Lindsay what's up with you? are you ready yet?". I looked into her blank expression and all I could see was SUGAR planted squarely on her forehead. I made a mental note to myself never to give Lindsay cocoa-cola in the morning no matter how much she begged for it.

We had been discussing our growing excitement at our approaching conquest of the music world when Denver (Lindsay's older sister) walked in. She groaned "Oh man not Westlife, Norie you need help!", "It's not Norie her name is MERK(mark in Lindsay language) remember". "Oh God! my name is not Merk it is and always has been Norie" and so the argument began. "No...no your definitely MERK FEEHILY" joked Lindsay. Things were starting to die down when Maz glided into the room with a "Oh yeah" (you know how Westlife does it, just to mock me even more than what the other two were); suddenly I had gone from the "psycho" Westlife fan to "Merk".
My room was getting crowded and my little daylight fantasy of mark and me together had been effectively killed by the girls of Starlight*.

Saz, the last member of Starlight* to invade my hotel room walked in to announce that she was ready for the trip and that all her bags had been packed ready to be taken to the airport. Saz both amazed and scared me, on the good side she organised everything so I didn't have to force her to do stuff. Example a) she had already packed her suitcases a whole 2 days before the trip and had thoroughly memorised our intinerary. But b) she had memorised it so she could read all her Jean-Claude Books (novels about a a fictional 300+ year old vampire) and to watch Sailor Moon, Trunks of Dragon Ball Z and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The girl was so good she even found out the TV Schedules in the different countries that we were going to and what channels to watch just so she could see them. So there I was surrounded by four very excited girls about to tour the world in the hope that they would gain total world domination, who were also very happy in mocking me un-mercilessly about my infatuation with Westlife and Mark. "You know Merk, I mean Norie if you hadn't already me Westlife We would understand you talking about the guys in your sleep especially mark but DUDE you met them, you TALK to them every other day..... I mean do you think you will ever stop singing their songs or drooling at every picture of Mark". They all started laughing yet again at my expense. "Look guys the only thing you need of me is to make sure that you guys have all your transport sorted and all your performances are scheduled so that you just go along and do the deed... now just quit it about Mark ok... I mean can't you see that I'm still plotting to be the next Westlife girlfriend... gees, come on guys help me with the plan don't mock it!" We all started laughing this time round till Phill our roadie came in to spoil the fun. "Girls hurry up it's time to go the vans are ready... oh and Norie"; "Yeah Phil?" "Shane called said you had to call him back later, oh and Louis called too said you had to call him urgently". "OOOOOOOOOOOOOH Shane... so what's with you and Shane anyway?" Said all four of Starlight* at the same time with the look they wouldn't stop till they got an answer. "Nothing you pricks, now get into the van before I kick you in"; Jeepers first I was getting shit about still dreaming about Westlife and now I'm getting shit about talking to Shane, who is my mate by the way and nothing else.

Meanwhile, in the Westlife camp Louis was stressing about contacting Norie, he wanted to check up on the girls make sure they were doing ok. "Don't worry Louis Norie can handle it" Shane had already assured him a thousand times. "Yeah that's not what I'm worried about Shane"; "Really?, then what could you be worried about then?". "Well let's see Shane, umm their all young females that are just about to tour Asia and the only adult they have with them is their Road Manager.....hmmmm Shane 5 girls versus 1 guy..... let's see who would most likely win in a fight huh?". "Oh true, you know I never thought about that"; "Mark, shut up will ya" "Well I'm worried about Norie.... I mean she's only 18 and she's got to manage her mates pop group", "Yeah and according to Nora she keeps getting all these Westlife fans calling her Nora and wanting to take photo's with her" kian piped in to join their conversation only to be replied with Shane's "Oh yeah she told me about that .... which is weird coz Norie's got short hair...hehehehe".
"Right! ... guys thanks a lot you just helped my stress level just increase by a million times....right I'm going to bed and if the phone rings PICK IT UP, it's probably Norie as I'm expecting her to call and wake me up ok"; "YEp sure Louis" they all replied.

BRRRRING! BRRRRRING! Louis's phone rang and he got up to answer it but before he could Bryan grabbed it. "Helloooooo .... Louis's Massage Parlour... how would you like to be done?", the room erupted with laughter. "Give it to me Bryan, If you know what's good for you!". "Ermmm hello Louis?"; "Hello Norie... forget the crap you heard before it was just Bryan dicking around". "Ohhh I wondered... well actually I was scared...hehehehe"; Louis started laughing but suddenly the guys stopped laughing "I wonder what he's laughing about", at that point Louis proceeded to walk into another room for some much needed privacy.

Suddenly the guys turned to Shane. "Hey Shay.... how's Norie going??? and what's with your sick little sister thing.... I know your going out with her... admit it man... we all know you fancy her...just admit it....c'mon man were your mates...infact were your band mates". "Yeah and this time I'm going to spread the rumour that you and her are going out just like the time you did that to me about Mandy Moore....yeah finally my time for revenge has come"; "Guys!.... do we have to go over this again... what will it take to get through your thick little heads that Norie and I don't go out, now quit it". "Ya know guys that what I said when I started going out with Kerry...and Now look..". The guys started laughing all over again. BEEP BEEP went off Kian's beeper. "Oh it's Nora.. hey guys can ya quieten down a little"; "OOOOOOOH it's NORA.... HEYYYYY NORA!!!!"; and with Kian walked off into his own room to talk to his beloved Nora. "Mannn that guy talks to her everyday... Yeah I've never seen him stick with one girl longer than a day.... Yeah and he gives me crap about supposedly going out with Norie when he goes out with her twin HELLO!, does anybody else here see a problem with it here????; Hey I wonder what Louis is talking to Norie about.... Hmmmm probably manager stuff I dunno... OH smart one Mark... OH shut up guys."

"Yeah the girls are great Louis... were just about to leave for the airport... ooohhhhh whicccccc.... Louis your breaking up.....the connection....whicccccccc... I'm losing ya....buh"; "Norie!, Norie! Oh Shit... great the damn phone cut me off". Louis walked back into the lounge where the guys were still laughing; "Where's Kian guys?" "Oh you know he's talking on the phone with Nora...you know!". The guys erupted with laughter once again. "So Louis what's up with Norie and the gang", "I dunno her phone cut her off but from what I heard the girls are doing great and were just about at the airport". Shane started laughing... he'd just remembered that was Norie's way of not talking to people by splattering her mobile phone with her spit so that it sounded like a bad connection. "And what are you laughing about Filan?... I bet it's about Norie agian"; "Mark, Shut up will ya", "What... it wasn't even me this time.." "It was me" giggled Nicky. Kian entered the room with the biggest grin on his face, "Alright lads, so what's up?". "Oh nothing..... oh but Kian did Nora tell you?"; "no.... tell me what?" "Well, you see Kian she's pregnant... 2 months and counting.. congratulations mate your going to be a daddy". "WHAAAAAAAT? she didn't tell me that!", "yeah coz she isn't its just a joke mate.....RELAXX, you know Norie said I'd get that reaction from you", "Yeah and If Norie told you to jump off the Eiffel Tower would you do it? Ohh hang on you tow do EVERYTHING together... you probably would do it jus tot prove you were braver than her.... you deutz!". "Shut up.... it was just a joke....just relax mate..." "Eiffel Tower hahahahahaha". "Shut up Mark" "Oh but Shane that was sad man.... telling him a joke like that... Yeah and I'm a dad O.K and I take that kinda stuff seriously Shane...:" "Okay, Okay I wont do it again...SHEESH!".

In the Starlight* van chaos was brewing.

"Ok... Lindsay stick your head back into the van Please... Maz grab that V off Denver that looks like her 5th for the day... Saz how are you feeling...good good. Right guys can you shut pup and let me be heard for 5 minutes ok... now has everybody got hteir passports?". "Yess we got it all dont worry Norie we've got it sussed!", "Yeah thats what I'm worried about... You say you got them then all of a sudden you dont, does anybody here remember Christchurch yeah that's right WHO didn't have their I.D on and WHO couldn't get into the concert huh??". "Right it's really important girls coz we're going to Asia and our first destination is Tokyo and they ain't exactly easy at customs and all AND MAZ, if I have to I will pack your bags for you myself just so you cand wake up and get ready to go to the airport..... and besides we'll be meeting up with Louis by the time we start off for Europe....and I WANT and I mean I WANT everything to be going smoothly by the time we reach that stage of the tour... Right guys??". "Right Norie.... and dont worry we got it"; "Yeah I've heard you sing that song before haven't I??".

We arrived at the airport and poured out of the van, all 6 of us all at the same time. "MY HAIR" was all I kept yelling, which was weird coz I really don't have that much hair. But as I looked up to see the entrance of the airport it reminded me of a month ago when I had to say goodbye to Nora. At the time I was sad and grateful she was leaving. But the nostalgia has worn off especially as she keeps calling me up at 4 am in the morning just to tell me she's at some "rad" party, and yet I thought I had gotten rid of her when she left for Kian in London. Instead I just get non-stop phone calls and the cow IS STILL reversing the charges to my phone bill, freaking ass-wipe. Man, if she isn't leaving me millions of messages on voicemail, it's email, fax and the telephone.... it's like I CAN'T escape her!!! It's times like these I just purely hate being the sister of the girlfriend of Westlife; Yup that's what I'm called now..... I don't even have a name to most of these fans just "the sister of the girlfriend of kian". OH ANYWAY!!!!!... so like on the day she left she gave me back my mobile phone which I thought was cool until I realised that Kian had actually sent her a NEW CONTRACT phone only 4 days before she left and being the smart-ass that she is she JUST HAD TO used up all the battery to effectively kill it so that I would have to fully re-charge the phone for days on end. So there I was looking like the biggest idiot (but not knowing it at the time) jumping for joy at the retrieval of my phone when what I REALLY GOT is my over-used and over-abused phone back + a massive phone bill (of which she STILL admits no fault in her part!).

So here I stand dragging my heavy as bags through customs. I was going through and they did the normal, you know "do you have anything to declare infront of us?" and yeah I had to declare that I had my collection of CD's and a walkman, clothes and not much else. That was cool but when my bag was scanned I got asked to open my bags. What I didn't realise was that one of the girls had been a true Einstein and placed icing sugar into a clear bag and left it in my suitcase, which when checked by people who specialse in drugs and stuff would naturally appear to them as Heroin. I was escorted into a seperate interview room but managed to tell Phil to take the girls of Tokyo and that I WOULD get there on a later flight and that everything would be sorted out. So there I sat for 2 long hours while they thoroughly searched the rest of my suitcase and looked up to see if I had a previous criminal history. I was thoroughly embarrassed and humiliated yet I couldn't wait to get to the Tokyo just so I could kill Maz and Lindsay. Your probably wondering how I knew it was those two... lets just say their faces gave it all away.
I didn't arrive in Tokyo until about 3am Tokyo time, well I would have gotten there earlier but that was the only flight I could catch in such a short amount of time. Man I was totally pissed off at Maz and Lindsay but that feeling turned into shock and terror when I finally got to the Arrival's area. The airport was full of Starlight* fans that were waiting for Starlight* and me being the manager naturally signalled to them that the girls would be right behind me. All I could hear was screaming and chanting "STARLIGHT* STARLIGHT*!" over and over again their voices pounded my head....gees I was struggling just to think. The only thought I had in my mind was RUN, RUN, RUN FOR THE HILLS!!!. Finally after taking photo's with die-hard Starlight* fans and Westlife fans, who I don't know how in my crappy as state recognised me as "the sister of the girlfriend of westlife".... DAMN how was I EVER going to get rid of that title?

5.30 am the next morning

"Right girls get up!, I would REALLY like to speak to you about that little incident back at Auckland International which you probably didn't know kept me back for more than the 2 hours of interrogation.... It was a really funny joke so funny that only you guys got the punch line... I'm just really tired and would really appreciate it if you guys didn't do that in future or atleast warn me. Oh and if you do try that on me again this is what's going to happen (A)-I will wake you up 4 hours prior to ANY meet and greet and (B)-If I have to I WILL call up Louis"
"Yesss.... uh Norie sorry man it was just a joke, we didn't think it would go that far honest!.... we wont do it again....hey bro.... you weren't serious about that part, I mean would you actually call up Louis? I mean wouldn't that make you look bad or something?". "STUPID, yep but bad nah....I'm sure Louis went through this a hundred times with Westlife and Boyzone....ok, come on girls drink up your coffee and get ready you have radio and T.V interviews today...hmm lets see you should be free by 2pm if were lucky today...now lets get too it.... OH and don't worry about make-up coz GUESS what your favourite co-manager just scored for you????"
"WHAT???? WHAT??? A PS-2 with gran turismo3 on it?". "NO but I am still working on that one Lindsay.... but what I got is even better I got us a MAKE-UP artist WA-HEY! (I started punching the air like Rocky complete with the theme music too!) I continued onwards until Maz interrupted my moment of glory.
"Uh Norie... everybody has a make-up artist DUH!". "Ok Maz, SHUT UP!, why cant you just let me dance around for a minute or two JUST so I can celebrate huh?", "Ok but when your finished I'll STILL say the same things to ya", "Yes but by then I will have gotten over it".

"Everybody this is Jean-Claude Riviera, he was trained in Paris and has 4 years experience with get this JANET JACKSON! and also might I add, CAN ALSO do haircuts". "Bon Jour ladies!". Man did this guy rock, yeah I thought things were going really great especially as Saz just COULDN'T keep her eyes off him. Maybe it was because he was French or maybe coz he was a babe even with the shoulder-length hair....Man and I thought that only Marcus Schneckenberg could get away with that hair-do but Jean-Claude (must be the French thing) pulled it off with ease. Initially I was worried he might not get along with the girls and might bruise their ego's with what he thought (management and stylist) should do to fix the girls up a bit but NAH. You know how they say a French accent can perform miracles, I'll tell you this IT DOES! especially on 4 teenage girls from good old (far away from everything) New Zealand. In the space of half an hour Jean-Claude had transformed the girls into goddesses, and I gotta say as a longtime friend of the girls I had NEVER seen them look better. All the while J.C as we now started calling him mostly coz I was getting lazy and couldn't be bothered calling out his full name, NOT that it bothered Saz who seemed content to be as close as possible to J.C.... Man I had never seen her drool so much over one guy.... I mean he's gorgeous but he's THE make-up artists/stylist for Starlight* ahhh well.

Finally at 6.15am we shipped the girls into our Vans, yeah we have to use a number of vans now coz the fans might do something silly, you know, like high-jack the vans and coz of the link with Westlife some of those fans would do just about anything to
A) get the Westlife members phone numbers
B) just wanna take off with something of Starlight's
we were doing our usual singing along to the music, which happened to be NSYNC'S 'POP'. Dude, I like know that song "word" for "word" and so did Lindsay apparently. So there we were competing to see who would be the first to stumble at this fast-paced song, even if she was a big fan of NSYNC there was NO WAY I was gonna lose in a competition. I filled the girls in about how we were going to tour with 5ive in Malaysia, as 5ive were out promoting their new single "Let's Dance". Maz and I were stoked coz we were big 5ive fans (we'd even lipsynced a song infront of our whole school!) "BEFORE Westlife came along" (as Maz puts it!) and coz their new single was the bomb-ass especially the clip...oh which reminded me I had to give Westlife shit about the fact that 5ive had seriously dissed them in a funny way about their "only" moves in their video clips, you know walking in suits "GLIDE TO THE LEFT....... GLIDE TO THE RIGHT.....hehehehehe".

We were all busy talking away about the schedule the girls had, 21 days throughout Asia's capitals: Bangkok, Manila everywhere with names that I STILL couldn't pronounce but the girls had to learn them anyway coz they wouldn't wanna be bummed out by radio dj's. My phone rang and I checked my caller I.D, it was shane.
"Hey Shane! What's up?", "Hey Norie!, how's ya phone going aye? hahahhahaha". "YEAH, YEAH, YEAH! enough of it already.... So what are ya calling for? Kian annoying you again with meaningless crap he knows about me that you dont know?". "Nope, but I TRY to act suprised so that he can feel REALLY special, Actually its Louis he wants to talk to you about that incident in Auckland and why you arrived in Tokyo later than the girls........ So FESS up, what happened? OR should I say WHAT did you do???". "Well lets see, the girls thought it would be a nice trick to put icing sugar in a clear bag in my suitcase". "Yeah whats so bad about that?", "Ahhhh Shane, icing sugar looks like Cocaine (the guys at Auckland International cleared that one for me!)". "OHHHH that's not good", "Yeah, 2 hours of interrogation LATER and a flight with as many stops as possible I finally arrived in Tokyo at 3 am, too wasted to tell the girls off till the next day". "Ohhhhhh, I saw that photo of you in Tokyo, SIS THAT WAS NOT pretty!". "Yeah I know, those girls kept calling me Nora and asking how Kian was and I was like ummm HELLO my name is Norie......lucky that Starlight* fan corrected them.....BRO YOUR FANS SCARE ME!". "MY FANS? what did my fans do to you?"; "Nothing that's just it, they saw me in my crappy state, wanted to take photo's of me and started asking about how I was going as if they had known me THEIR WHOLE lives..... OH and they asked about your girlfriend". "My girlfriend?? How did they know I had one?"; "Oh so you do have one, I thought it was just a rumour but now I KNOW the truth"

"ANYWAYZZZZ bro, have you seen the NEW 5ive clip? you know glide to the left, glide to right and then spread your arms out wide...... hahhahahaha Man that's so funny and you know whats even funnier bro?". "Gee I wonder what could be funnier..... what else could you possibly use to mock me and the guys.....OHHHH I know what's funnier, ME TELLING MARK that your sooooo in love with him EVEN IF he shaves his hair!". "Oh ha ha ha, that soooo funny..... SHUT UP SHANE.... Actually what I was going to say before you RUDELY interrupted me, was that we're going to be touring with 5ive while we go through Asia.... isn't that wicked?". "Yeah, REAL:LY? that sounds great though I wouldnt bet against those guys in a drinking game, they're pretty good and that's coming from an Irish lad". "Oh ok, they must be REALLY GOOD then if its a reccomendation from you guys, coz you guys DRINK!", "Hey we're young!...."; "FREE AND HAPPY HEHEHEHEHE". "Norie SHUT UP....", "YEAH YEAH, WHATEVER!!!".

The rest of the tour was a total buzz. We'd party all night and have to drag the girls up at 6am the next morning to either leave the country or go to yet another interview and by Starlight* had become pro's at answering those REALLY dumb questions that pop groups always get asked by reporters, that are just SO UN-ORIGINAL they go through every pre-asked question ever thought of.
A) Do you have a boyfriend ( was it any of their business??)
B) What do you think of the country so far ( well it sucked so far, but i'll just say it's GREAT coz i don't want this country to hate us and not give us a No.1 hit)
C) Whats it like being young and in a successful pop group ( well even though it looks glamourus it takes a lot of hard work on the management and marketing side. )
D) Who would you most like to work with ( mmmmm ummmmm Micheal Jackson.... ummmm Mariah.....I dunno, knowing these girls the Backstreet Boys except Lindsay, she hates them....her maybe NYSNC yeah definitely NSYNC ) E) Who do you look up to ( ME, MYSELF AND I....... HAHAHAHAHAHA)
F) Whats the downside to fame ( hmmmm let me see... doing all these dumbass interviews with even thicker interviewers who can't even get my name right )
G) What do you do in your spare time ( WHAT SPARE TIME??? I have any? Damn how come I didn't know about it.....NORIE!!!! )
H) What do you look for in a guy ( Human....thats the most important....Oh and a six pack....uhhhh did I say a six pack?? yup thats it. )
I) What do your friends think of you being in a pop band ( They hate me, reckon I've become the biggest bitch since....hahaha nah actually we're all good friends in Starlight* so, ummmm yeah )
J) What the most dumbest question that you have ever been asked ( This one! )

Hey thats not what they said, but thats just my view of what they have been answering; OVER AND OVER AGAIN!. God it got so boring me and the girls actually started betting what questions the person was going to ask. Well the girls had gotten so good at faking the answers that it started to come naturally (just like breathing). And ofcourse being associated with Westlife, every other question was about what it was like having to share our manager with Westlife (I forgot I was invisible!), which ofcourse I had rammed into the girls to answer. "Oh its great coz we're like mates with Westlife anyway and we like talk to Louis every other night, just to catch up on stuff, you know? like what each other is up to and stuff". "You Know", geez the girls started using that word like the world was gonna end.... they did it mainly just to mock me about Shane coz he ALWAYS says that. Which got me wondering, what was I gonna do to start my plan rolling, to hook myself up with Mark Feehily..... Ahhh his name still made me drool and his voice.....Ahhh that angelic voice, I still had to stop myself singing outloud, especially as those (scary) Westlife started barging into my hotel room thinking Mark was there. Me and Maz were psyched..... 5ive was coming..... in 2 days they would be with us day-in, day-out..... Ahhhh we could perve at Jay all-day and all-night...... Denver was still pinning away at Scott till I said "Hey isn't Scott married anyway?". Well when the fact dawned on Denver she went further into her reclusive nature, especially as it wasn't going to be until we'd done 3 months of touring throughout Europe, that we would finally get to the States (birthplace of Nick a.k.a kill me Carter...oh and the Backstreet boyz too!). All I could think of was EWWWW Nick Carter grossse!....... I mean FOUNDATION PEOPLE!..... Well now that I've totally put you off Nick Carter.

So Anywayzz...... 5ive arrived an hour later than us when we arrived in Malaysia. The plane trip to there had been hectic already especially with me and Maz screaming every once in a while to the whole cabin crew and passengers "YEAH we're going to meet J... YEAH!". Me and Maz had started playing paper rock scissors to see who would be able greet J first. Unfortunately for me, I LOST!.....After I lost I remained as silent and depressed as Denver was (especially since I told her Scott was married JUST BEFORE we boarded the plane...heheheh).

I forgot to mention it to Maz earlier but as the manager I get to meet up with 5ive first.... Ofcourse on the plane I acted as sulky as possible, I mean I didn't wanna give away what I was thinking DID I? So there I was totally psyched and walking my way towards their rooms, I hadn't groomed my hair that much in ages.......WELL, since I met up with Westlife really...... Man I had never seen so many security guys before..... obviously boy-bands need much more protection from PSYCHO fans than girl-groups..... AH well here I go.

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!

"Hey guys! I'm Norie the manager for Starlight* I just wanted to pop in to invite you guys over to the girls room, Ummm just so you can meet up especially as we'll be touring together for 2 weeks and all, you know break the ice between us groups..... what do ya think of that?".
"Excuse me young lady...... BUT WHAT are you going on about?" I heard an american twang.... ok maybe that's their roadie (I thought naievely). It wasn't until I finally looked around room that I realised I had gone into somebody else's room..... An OLD AMERICAN COUPLES ROOM (yikes talk about putting yourself on America's Most Wanted!).

After profusely apologising to the couple I ran outside only to hear giggling. "Oh Jay your sooooo funny!". Hey that sounded like on of Maz's fake cheesey "I like you" lines that she uses to get guys. I followed the laughter into 5ive's "TRUE" hotel room.
TRICK No.2, Maz gave me the wrong number for 5ive's room, damn she must have known what I had already known on the plane...DAMN! DAMN! DAMN!

So when I finally walked into the room trying to maintain composure after fully embarrassing myself infront of that eldery couple. I Norie, walked into that room head held high.
"Hey guys! did you find 5ive's room?.... Man you guys found it faster than I did, I'm sure I took a wrong turn on the last floor"
"Hey Norie......and don't lie WE KNOW you walked into that old couple's room.... EVERYBODY DOES! they called up security and put their phone on speaker". The Room Erupted with laughter for 5 minutes, with me right in the middle feeling as humiliated as ever.
"Yeah well, mistakes happen.... SHUT UP guys". "Yeah we know, BUT STILL that is really funny". "Yeah true....hehehehee"
"SO.....your the famous Norie aye? Man...Shane talks about you ALL THE TIME!, we got so sick of it we told him to marry you so we wouldn't have to hear him go ON AND ON about ya BUT THEN we realised if he did that, he'd be going on and on about you even MORE!".
"Really.... that's funny coz Norie doesn't talk about Shane unless she's talking to him, or threatening to beat him up if he tries to tell Mark that she likes him, OR if he STILL hasn't got her that Versace jacket he promised her like 3 MONTHS ago".
"REALLY....... ok hehehehehehehe".
Everybody started laughing all over again

"So Norie..... from what we've heard from Shane your pretty sussed about all the clubs and bars in just about EVERYWHERE..... so where are we going out tonight?". "WHAT!.... ah HELLO in Auckland yeah, but the rest of the world I doubt it". "Hey Norie didn't you just go out clubbing ALL last night?". "YEAH but that's none of your business Maz..... you ain't my mother".
" Ofcourse NOT! would your mother go out with you?"
The room erupted with laughter once again.

Rich couldn't hold it back any more. "WAIT, WAIT, WAIT..... YOU like Mark.... As in Mark Feehily?". "Yess..... I do..... I love his voice". "And his eyes, and his lips......yeah he's sooooo sexy" said Starlight* in unison (for once). "Oh ha ha ha you lard-asses, your all SO funny I'm cracking into little pieces......you know you guys are the WORST mates to have in the world if ever there were any".
With that the girls answered in their fakest American accents "Gee Norie thanks!, that means sooo much to us...... We're like SOOO honoured...... God Bless ya Norie".
"Hey guys, does Shane say anything that Norie says a lot......coz ever since she met she says "you know" a lot more than she used to and MAN its getting REALLY annoying......EXCEPT for her drooling over Mark, thats even more sick than Lifer Slang".
"Lifer Slang? WHAT THE........" "Yeah you know the suff that Westlife say ALL THE TIME, that their fans use in everyday life so they can be JUST THAT LITTLE BIT CLOSER TO WESTLIFE, than they were when they didn't use it".
"I DO NOT SAY "YOU KNOW" ALL THE TIME....."; "Yeah sure Norie, whatever you wanna believe".
"Oh Scott, Rich, Sean, J, AB's!". "YEAH?.... what is its?". "Dont call her Norie, call her MERK!" called out Lindsay as I shuffled the girls out of the room.

"Anyway girls get out now coz the guys gotta re-cap you know, it's been a long flight". "SEE there she goes again....."you know"