“Put it there like that, makes it look more eye-catching!”
“Really Emm? You sure? I don’t why I’m bothering it’s not going to work!”
“Saz! Have more faith in yourself, you’re wicked!”
“Yeah Charl is right!” agreed Donna and Kelly.
“Right well if you’re all sure lets seal them all up then take them down to the post office,” said Sarah as she got up off her knees and looked at the mess on the floor, “oh my god look at the mess we’ve made!”
“Oh don’t worry about it, we’ll clean it up when we get back Saz,” Charl said grabbing the packages and following the rest of the girls to the front door.

The five of them had just spent the last hour packing Sarah’s demos to send to all the record labels you could possibly think of, Sarah was an amazing singer and dancer plus she wrote all her own songs, the music and the lyrics! She deserved to get a record deal and become famous!

Emma, Charl, Donna, Sarah and Kelly laughed and joked their way down to the village to the post office, they had all just finished taking their A-levels and come the end of the summer they were all going their separate ways, off to university, providing they hadn’t totally messed up their A-levels. They’d all been best friends for seven years now and this was the last summer they’d all definitely be together, so they had to make it one to remember! It had already been quite a one since Sarah’s Mom and Dad had gone away for six weeks so Emma, Charl, Donna and Kelly had all ‘moved’ themselves into Sarah’s house for a bit. They’d only been there for four days and already Charl had filled the kitchen and hall with smoke, trying to cook microwavable popcorn! They reached the post office, dropped off the packages and then went to sit on the common to talk about tomorrow, Party in the Park at Hyde Park, they couldn’t wait! Especially since they had won access all areas passes, the thought of mingling with all those celebrities was just indescribable!

While they were walking back to Sarah’s house someone’s phone went off, there was no mistaking who’s it was as Keep On Movin’ rang out as Emma pulled her phone out of her bag, answered it and was greeted by someone screaming down the phone!
“Kay is that you?”
“Emmmmmmmmz yeah it’s me!”
“Hiya, you alright?!”
“Yeah fine! Guess what?”
“What?!”
“I’m coming to PITP tomorrow and I just won 3 access all areas passes!”
“Woah! Coolies!”
“Yeah I know! I’m bringing Jen and Kimbo with me so I’ll see you there! I’ll ring you again tomorrow so we can work out where to meet.”
“Okay mate, see you soon!”
“Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!”
“EMM!!! HURRY UP!” yelled Charl across the road to her.
“I’m coming now!” Emma yelled back at Charl as she crossed the road to join her friends.

Chapter 2

“We must be nearly there by now,” sighed Donna.
“Yeah, I’m guessing another half an hour,” answered Emma
“My foot’s gone to sleep again,” moaned Kelly, “Shouldn’t somebody wake those two up in a bit,” she said nodding over at Charl and Sarah who had been asleep since they had got on the coach earlier that morning. Emma on the other hand wasn’t tired at all even though they had all been up since 4.30am that morning, she was very hyper and they all knew why, she was finally going to get to meet 5ive properly!
“Ahhh look! Signs for Hyde Park! We’re nearly there!” screamed Emma waking up Charl and Sarah who both shot her evil looks, “What?! You were going to have to get up in a bit anyways!”

The coach pulled into the coach park and the girls made their way off the coach and started to walk towards the entrance of Hyde Park when they heard someone shouting from behind them.
“Oi you nuttas wait for us!”
“Kay! Kimbo! Jen! Hiya!”
“Come on! We got to hurry up! Got to see Shane!” screamed Jen running off towards to gates. The other seven followed her over, excited and wondering what the day was going to hold.

They entered Hyde Park and managed to get right to the front! Westlife were opening the concert and they walked onto the stage the crowd went mad, especially Kay and Jen, who just couldn’t control themselves!
“Oh my God! Oh my God! It’s Marky! Mark is right there! Oh my god!” screamed Kay.
“Oh forget Mark, look at Shane! He is just so fit!” yelled Jen over the noise of the crowd. The other girls just looked at them and laughed to themselves, they couldn’t imagine what Kay and Jen were going to be like if they met Mark and Shane backstage.

Westlife finished their set and the girls decided it was time to try and get in the VIP area backstage as no bands they wanted to see were on for a while.

Chapter 3

The girls could hardly believe their eyes, everywhere they looked they saw famous people, it was almost like a dream come true. The girls looked around in awe and then at each other, one of them was missing, Jen had disappeared! They didn’t worry thought they knew exactly where she’d be and as they turned the corner there she was, talking to Shane! The others were just about to go and join her when Kay stopped dead.
“I can’t go over there,” she whispered to Emma.
“Why not? Mark might be over there, you’d get to meet him!”
“Well that’s the problem, I wouldn’t know what to say to him!”
“Awwww Kay you’d be fine,” answered Emma turning round to see the rest of them had already walked over to Jen and Shane, “I’ll just go tell them where we are, I’ll be right back.” She left Kay and walked over to the others, it seemed to her that Jen and Shane were getting on exceptionally well considering they couldn’t have been talking to each other for more than 10 minutes. As she got nearer she saw the rest of the girls talking to Nicky, Bryan and Kian but couldn’t see Mark anywhere, she told Kelly where her and Kay were and then turned back round to go find Kay. She got back to where she had left Kay but she wasn’t there!

Fifteen minutes Emma had been looking for Kay now and still she hadn’t found her, it wasn’t like Kay just to wander off, something must have happened, and it had. She finally spotted Kay standing in a corner talking to a man; as she got nearer she saw it was non other than Mark! Emma laughed to herself, she didn’t know what Kay had been worrying about earlier, she didn’t seem shy around Mark around at all. She decided to leave Mark and Kay alone and go back to find the others, she turned round and banged right into somebody.
“Oh my god! I am so sorry,” she almost whispered not looking up.
“Don’t worry about it, I should have been looking where I was going,” a voice replied to her, a voice she found strangely familiar, she quickly looked up at him.
“Scott! I…well… so sorry…my fault… didn’t mean… and…” she blurted out embarrassed that she had just crashed into Scott from 5ive.
“Really sweetie it’s ok but are you ok?”
“Fine! Really I feel great! Never felt better!”
“Well I’m not sure that I am and I’m not sure that you are so I’m taking you sit down,” he said putting his arm around her and leading her off to a place she had only dreamed she’d find herself, 5ive’s dressing room.
“Don’t mind the mess, most of it isn’t ours, seems there was a mix up with the dressing rooms so we’re sharing with Westlife!”
“Oh right.”
“You sure you’re alright? You seem very quiet.”
“Yeah really I’m fine, just didn’t expect to find myself sitting in 5ive’s dressing room with Scott today!”
“Ah yeah suppose you’re right and it’s not everyday I find myself I find myself talking to someone as sweet as you seem,” Scott laughed as Emma felt herself going a deep shade of red, “Aww look I made you blush, sorry! The rest of the lads should be coming back in here soon so we can stop here so we can meet them if you like!”
“Yeah sure I’d love to!”
“Right sorted.”
“Scott, um, are you alright? You seem a little down”
“Well I’m sure it’s nothing really but I’m worried.”
“Well what about? I mean you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to, but I’ll listen and try and help.”
“Me and Kerry, I think something has gone wrong, I don’t think she loves me anymore,” he sighed.

Chapter 4

“Where the hell has Emma got to?” wondered Jen
“I don’t know where she could be, maybe she was looking for me, coz well I kind of moved from where she left me,” Kay replied smiling at Mark.
“God! Kimbo’s disappeared now!” sighed Donna
“Oh no there she is! Over there!” laughed Charlotte
“Yeah she’s over there getting very friendly with Christian from BBMak” Sarah joined in laughing with Charlotte”
“Trust her!” laughed Jen before turning round and kissing Shane.
“Jen! We still got to find Emmz!” Kay said turning Mark, “Marky we need to find Emmz, help me?”
“Yeah sure I will sweetie,” he said smiling at Kay, “I know where we should look.”
“Awww really?! Awww you’re the best!” she said hugging Mark.
“Yeah come on!” he said as he put his arm around her and led her off through the groups of celebrities and reporters.
“Um Mark?” asked a confuzzled Kay, “Why would Emmz be in your dressing room?”
“No idea!” he answered winking at Kay as he went to open the door, “Damn!” he muttered to himself.
“What’s wrong?”
“Oh nothing, it’s just we had to share this dressing room with 5ive and it sounds like they’re in there.”
“Oh well doesn’t matter lets go in and say hi, they might have seen Emmz!”
“Ah okay then,” he answered pushing the door open.
“Hey Mark…. Oh and Mark’s friend,” welcomed Abs, “So who do we have here then Mark?” asked Abs nudging Mark.
“This is Kay!”
“Alright Kay?! I’m Abs!”
“Yeah, yeah I know,” laughed Kay, “Um you haven’t by any chance seen my friend Emmz around have you?”
“Well yeah maybe, there’s a girl called Emma sitting in there with the rest of the lads, you go on in!” Abs told Kay.
“Trust her to find her way to 5ive’s dressing room,” Kay muttered shaking her head and laughing as she walked into the dressing room to find Emma sitting next to Scott.
“Kay! Hiya mate!” Emma said as she got up from where she was sitting, “Sorry about wandering off but I when I came back to find you and well you were with Mark so I went back to find the others and bumped into Scott!” “Oh don’t worry about it Emmz, as long as you’re ok, which I can see you are, then that’s great! No worries!”
“Yeah great! Oh let me introduce you to everyone, well I’m sure you know who those five are but this is Helen, J’s girlfriend and that’s Maz over there with Sean, she’s his girlfriend!”
“Wicked, is Kerry around Scott? I’ve always wanted to see her like,” said Kay as Scott looked up at her and Emma shot her a ‘shut up’ look, “I mean is Bryan’s Kerry around sorry, got a bit confuzzled” said Kay looking confuzzled at Emma.
“I’ll explain later,” she whispered to Kay just as Nicky came bursting in the door laughing with his girlfriend Sophie not far behind.
“Oops didn’t know anybody else would be in here!” said Nicky sounding quite disappointed.
“Oh well babe not to worry!” giggled Sophie just as yet more people piled in the door, Jen, Shane, Kian and another girl.
“Hiya Jen!” chorused Kay and Emma.
“Hiya,” said Jen turning round to girl with Kian, “this is Kian’s girlfriend Claire, Claire these are my mates Emma and Kay!”
“Hiyaaaaaa!” Emma, Kay and Claire all said together before exploding into a fit of giggles.
“What you laughing at girls?” said Abs, looking at them cheekily.
“Well maybe what Sean has on his head?” offered Emma.
“Oh yeah this,” laughed Abs taking a pink thong off Sean’s head.
“Abs!” hissed Sean who had just woken up.
“Sorry mate!” laughed Abs, “Some fans threw it at us earlier then you went to sleep and well I thought it’d be funny, and looks like it worked,” he finished winking at the girls who were still giggling. Just then a man popped his head round the door.
“Lads come on! You’re on stage in fifteen minutes!”
“Yeah, yeah ok Rob we’re nearly ready!” Ritchie answered
“I’ve got to go now,” Scott said turning to Emma, “you’ve been so much help to me today,” he said getting up before turning around to face her and handing her a slip of paper he took out of his pocket.
“No problem!” she said smiling at him, “Bye!”

Chapter 5

“QUICK! QUICK, QUICK, QUICK!” shouted Emma almost running through the backstage area over to the rest of the girls with Kay and Jen trailing behind her.
“Emmz! Where you been mate?” asked Charlotte
“Tell you later but quick! QUICK!” she screamed at them
“Where’s the fire Emmz? What have we got to be quick about?” laughed Sarah
“5ive are gonna be on stage in,” she paused to look at her watch, “In ten minutes! SO QUICK! Somebody has gotta come with me! PLEASE!”
“Yeah, yeah we’ll come with you!” answered Donna with Charl and Kelly nodding in agreement but when they got out of the backstage area (which wasn’t really backstage coz you would have NEVER fitted all those celebrities there, anywayz back to the story) they saw there was no way they were going to get to the front!
“Oh no!” Emma said almost crying (yeah she is a bit obsessed).
“Emmz! Don’t worry! We got access all areas passes remember, we can get in that bit at the front at the side that all like fenced off or whatever u wanna call it!”
“Ooo yeah good idea!” she squealed, “Come on then! Hurry up!” she shouted back at Charl, Donna and Kelly as she ran off.
“Hmm lets just walk!” laughed Charl
“Sounds good to me!” laughed Kelly
“Me too!” laughed Donna joining in with the laughter as they started to walk towards the stage. They hadn’t got far when they saw Emma walking slowly back to them.
“They won’t let us!” cried Emma, “They said that area is exclusively for celebrities and their guests. Oh well look we can stop here there’s only like what? 3 or 4 thousand people in front of us!”
“Aw Emmz I’m sorry, you’ll still be able to hear them for here and see them… sorta!”
“Yeah Emmz,” Donna agreed with Charlotte, “Anywayz tell us… where did you get to before?”
“Oh well,” Emma started with a huge grin on her face, “OMG! I got it! You lot wait there, I’ll be back in no time!” she shouted back to them as she ran off. She returned a few minutes later with the rest of the girls and Westlife in tow she was still shouting “QUICK!” and trying to get everyone to run, that really was quite a sight for the rest of the crowd seeing a mad girl running down towards the stage the other side of the barriers with Westlife following behind her. She collected Charl, Donna and Kelly from where she’d left them and proceeded on to the exclusive area, giving the bodyguard who had laughed at her when she said she knew Westlife a smug look. Luckily for her the start of 5ive’s set had been delayed because they couldn’t find Andrew their guitarist, so she hadn’t missed anything.

5ive totally blew everyone away, even the Westlife lads joined in with the hand clapping when they performed We Will Rock You! During their performance Emma managed to scare everyone in lets say a mile radius because she was screaming so loud. Although she was usually a very quiet person she had these loud and hyper moments now and again… especially when 5ive were involved somewhere! 5ive came back out to perform their new single and then that was it, Party in the Park was over. All the goodbyes were said and they all went their separate ways.

Chapter 6

“Emmz I’m just gonna put these clothes you had on yesterday in the wash ok?” whispered Donna
“Yeah ok,” said Emma opening one eye to see Donna leaving the room with her clothes, “NOOO! NO WAIT THERE!” she screamed jumping out of bed and waking up the other three.
“Emmz? What?” Donna said looking at Emma who had grabbed her clothes back and was frantically looking for something.
“Phew! Got it!” Emmz said relieved, clutching a piece of folded paper.
“Emmz? What the…” said Donna looking confuzzled
“Yeah Emmz what’s that piece of paper?” the other three joined in.
“Err yeah well you know how I said I bumped into Scott yesterday?”
“Yeah…”
“Well we got talking and…” she said looking at the floor.
“And what?! He’s got a girlfriend!” said Charl.
“Yeah, yeah, it’s nothing what your thinking!” she said rolling her eyes, “It’s just he needed someone to talk to. Well because, I don’t know whether I should be telling anyone… but I trust you lot… well… well…”
“WELL WHAT?!” they all squealed at Emma
“Kerry walked out on him…”
“Ohhhhhhh…ouch poor Scott… but what’s that piece of paper then?”
“His phone number,” she smiled, “Anyways who wants some breakfast? I’ll do it. A fry up?”
“Yeah wicked,” replied Charl, “Just don’t get getting yourself too involved with Scott, I don’t wanna see you get hurt mate.”
“Course I won’t, we’re just mates, I mean we only spoke for a couple of hours yesterday,” she replied bouncing into the kitchen.
“Looks like someone’s got it bad,” Charl sighed to Donna, Sarah and Kelly.
“Yeah but she’s had it bad for nearly four years now” Donna added.
“Yeah, but it’s different now, I don’t wanna see her get hurt,” Charl said
“Yeah, yeah I know,” the other three nodded in agreement and then went into the kitchen to help Emma with the breakfast.

**Later that evening**

“I think we should phone for pizzas!”
“Yeah Saz good idea I can’t be bothered cooking again!”
“What do you mean again? You hardly ever cook Charl!” laughed Emma
“Yeah well you haven’t really let me since the popcorn incident!”
“Well you can hardly blame us!” chuckled Donna
“Yeah I know,” laughed Charl, “but I think we should have pizzas tonight.”
“Yeah good idea,” agreed Kelly, “and it’ll give us a chance to catch up on the washing she said nodding at the pile that had accumulated by the sink.
“I just heard some beeping… Emmz was that your phone?” questioned Sarah
“I hope it is!” squealed Emma running over to her phone on the coffee table, she’d texted Scott ages ago but she hadn’t got a reply… yet, “Oh my God it’s from Scott,” she squealed again then calmed herself down, because after all she only liked him as a mate… well that was what she kept telling herself.
“Let me see then,” said an impatient Charl grabbing the phone off Emma and reading the text and passing it around to show the others.

‘Hey Emmz, soz I didn’t txt bac sooner,
been recordin new vid. I need
2 take u out to say thanx 4 yesterday.
Ring u 2mora, luv Scott xxx’

“Umm yeah so I’ll go order the pizzas now okies?” said Emma skipping off over to the house phone.

Chapter 7

Emma opened her eyes and was blinded by the bright sunlight coming in through the gap in the curtains, she could hear her phone ringing but she didn’t know where it was. She clambered out of her bed and looked at the clock, 10.56am, where was her phone? What if it was Scott that was calling her? She walked into the living room, still half asleep and banged into the back of a chair and nearly went flying in a style reminiscent of Bubble in Big Brother. She steadied herself and saw her phone were she had left last night on the coffee table. She hurried over to get but as soon as she picked it up it stopped ringing…typical! She saw the ‘5 missed calls’ on the display and pressed the button to see who it was, she looked down half hoping it was Scott, half not in case he didn’t ring back, ‘Kay’ … what was so important that Kay would have rang her five times? Well, of course there was only one way for her to find out so she rang her.
“Hey Kay! You alright mate?”
“Hiya Emmzy! Yeah I’m fine! Where you been? I’ve been trying to phone you for ages!”
“Yeah, yeah I know, sorry I’ve only just got up!”
“Aw that’s ok… I haven’t been to bed yet!”
“What? Where have you been all night?”
“Well… I’ve been out with Mark all night…”
“Oh wow Kay that’s wicked… I take it you had a nice time?”
“Yeah, yeah! I’m just so excited and happy right now I needed to tell someone!”
“Awww mate I’m so happy for you… where are Kim and Jen then?”
“I’m not too sure… Mark dropped me back at about umm 9ish and they’d left a note saying something important had happened and they needed to go shopping and…” Emma cut Kay short.
“About 9ish where had you been?”
“Oh Emmz, he is so sweet, he took me to the beach, and we stayed there till early this morning and then he drove me back here!”
“Oh that is so sweet!”
“I know! It’s so weird, I’ve liked Mark from Westlife for ages, but now I like Mark Feehily, it just feels like I’ve known him forever!” she sighed. The girls carried on chatting for an hour, talking about Mark, and then talking about Scott, until Kay heard the door of her, Jen’s and Kim’s house bang
“Ah Jen and Kimbo are back now!”
“Oh Kay see you’re finally back from your date with Mark! Who you on the phone to?” Emma heard Jen in the background.
“I’m talking to Emmz…”
“Emmz! Hiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!” Jen screamed down the phone as she grabbed it off Kay.
“Hiya Jen! You alright?”
“Yeah I’m wicked taa! Just had to go shopping for some new clothes cause Shane…. Yes Shane Filan… is taking me out tonight!”
“Oh wow Jen! Have fun mate!”
“Yeah, yeah course I will…you know me!”
“Yeah,” Emma laughed. She spoke to Jen for a while, then to Kim and then to Kay again for a bit, she looked at the clock… nearly 1, she’s been on the phone for about two hours! She would have to get them to ring her next time. She then realised that none of the others seemed have got up, now that was weird! They were lazy but not THAT lazy! She went into the kitchen and saw a note from Sarah and Donna, they’d gone to do the shopping, but where were Kelly and Charl?
“Oh my God! My head hurts so much!” she heard Charl moaning as she walked into the kitchen with Kelly following behind.
“I told you pair you’d drank too much last night!” laughed Emma
“What do you mean, you drank just as much, and so did Sarah and Donna!” said Kelly.
“Yeah!” Charl agreed with her.
“We drank no where near as much as you two! You were still drinking when I went to bed!” said Emma shaking her head as her phone started ringing, she looked down… yes… it was Scott!
“Umm Emmz? You gonna answer that sometime today, you know like before it stops ringing!”
“Umm… umm… yeah… umm…”
“Just answer it!” shouted Charlotte grabbing the phone, pressing the ok button before and quickly passing it back to Emma.
“Hiya,” Emma said shyly into the phone while trying shoe Charl and Kelly out of the room.
“Hey sweetie, how are you?”
“I’m good thanks, how are you?”
“Yeah, yeah I’m great! So anyways I know somebody who I need to take out to say thank-you. So if I picked her up at about 6 tonight do you think she’d want to come out with me?”
“Yeah, yeah I’m sure she’d love to,” Emma laughed.

Meanwhile Kelly and Charl were in the living room trying to listen to what was going on in the kitchen. Charl had grabbed an empty glass, lent down and pressed it up the door.
“Charl does that actually work?” said Kelly exploding into a fit of giggles
“I don’t know! It does on TV!” she whispered, “Now shut up otherwise Emmz will know we’re trying to listen!”
“Well sorry!” Kelly laughed just as Emma came in the door knocking Charl flying.
“OUCH!” screamed Charl picking herself up from the floor.
“Oh sorry, what were you doing sitting behind the door anywayz?!”
“I was er looking for my contact lense!”
“Charl, you don’t wear contacts!”
“Hmm well ok I was trying to listen to what you were saying on the phone,” she almost whispered to Emma.
“Why? You know I’d tell you afterwards anywayz!”
“So go on then! Tell us!”
“No, I’m not going to now! You shouldn’t be so nosey!”

Chapter 8

It was 5.30pm and Emma was running around the house like a headless chicken trying to finish getting ready.
“Emmz! Will you just calm down, sit still and stop messing with your hair for five seconds!”
“Er yeah sorry Don I’m just so nervous!”
“Why Emmzy? After all you’re only going out as mates… aren’t you?” questioned Sarah.
“Yeah… yeah… but still it’s Scott from 5ive we’re talking about here!”
“Yeah Emmz, you never know who might see you together! Just make sure you don’t fall over… wouldn’t want you in the newspaper falling on top of Scott now would we?” Charl laughed as Emma just looked at her shocked.
“Charl!” the rest of the girls shouted at her.
“What?!” said Charl, trying to look innocent.
“Don’t get putting ideas like that into her head! She’s nervous enough as it is!” Kelly said just as there was a knock at the door.
“Oh my god! Look who it is!” screeched Emma
“Hmm posh car,” said Sarah who was already up the window being nosey, “Yeah I think we can safely say that it’s Mr Robinson at the door!”
“Who? Mr Robinson?” queried Kelly
“SCOTT!” screamed Emma
“Hey Emmz? Leave the screaming his name till later tonight yeah?” laughed Charl, with the others joining in, while Emma just shot her an evil look, usually she’d be laughing along with them.
“Emmz! Lighten up! S-M-I-L-E!”
“Yeah… yeah… sorry… will someone go let Scott in while I just go to the bathroom?”
“Yeah I’ll go!” said Donna running up to door and letting Scott in while Emma decided she didn’t need to go to the bathroom and was hurriedly trying to clean up the lounge before Scott walked in. Donna came back in the room, followed by Scott, there was no denying it, he looked gorgeous. Now of course Scott was used to having people look at him and being the centre of attention, but having five girls staring at him, in a place he’d never been before was kind of making him a bit nervous.
“So I er guess we should get going,” he said looking at Emma.
“Yeah,” she replied glancing up at him and going the shade red she always seemed to go around Scott.
“Have a nice time and bring our little Emmz back in one piece,” laughed Kelly behind them as they left the house.

Meanwhile over at Kim’s, Kay’s and Jen’s, Kim was moaning to Kay while Jen was out with Shane.
“It’s not fair why didn’t Christian call! He said he was gonna!”
“Kimbo I’m sure he’s going to ring! Maybe he’s just playing it er cool?”
“Yeah maybe,” she muttered, “I hope so.”
“You really like him don’t ya?” Kay said to her.
“Well duh!” laughed Kim throwing a cushion at Kay.

Chapter 9

Emma found herself sitting in a rather posh restaurant not knowing quite which knife and fork to use. Now did she start from the outside and work her way in? Or was it the other way around?
“You alright?” Scott asked her.
“Yeah,” she replied, “Just feeling a little like Jack in Titanic!”
“Oh yeah, see what you mean,” he said looking down at the array of cutlery, “I don’t know the right way either, just use whatever I don’t mind!”
“Great,” she said feeling very relieved. Just then she saw someone familiar walk past their table, then he turned round and walked up to them.
“Hey Scott! Thought it was you!” said the man.
“Christian mate! How are ya?” Scott said
“Yeah, yeah fine mate! Just been for a meal with the other lads.” He said turning to look at Emma.
“Hiya!” she said said.
“Hi,” he said then paused for a while, “Sorry if this sounds weird, but you weren’t by any chance with a girl called Kim at Party In The Park were you?”
“Yeah, yeah I was,”
“Were you with a big group of girls… er… Kay, Jen, Charl…” he started to reel off the list of names as Emma interrupted him.
“Yeah, yeah,” she laughed “that was us!”
“Well you haven’t got Kim’s phone number do you?”
“Well actually I have!” laughed Emma, “Do I take it you want it?”
“Well if it’s not too much trouble, see I said I’d call her and then Ste washed my trousers I’d put the piece of paper with her number on in. She’s going to think I don’t like her and…”
“Christian really it’s okay I understand! Got a pen or something?”
“Yeah sure,” he said passing Emma a pen so she could write down Kim’s number on a serviette and then passing it him.
“Don’t lose it this mate, eh?” laughed Scott.
“Don’t worry, going to keep it this time!” he laughed back and then turned to Emma, “Thank-you, err, Emmz isn’t it?”
“Yeah it is.”
“Yeah I remember your hysterics when you thought you were going miss 5ive performing!”
“Oh yeah,” she muttered looking down at the table blushing.
“Well I better be going. The lads will be waiting for me! Thank for the number Emmz. See you both soon!” Christian said before leaving.
“So, you an obsessive 5ive fan then Emmzy?”
“Well, um,” she said going an even more deeper shade of red, “fan yes, obsessive no.”
“Don’t worry about it, it’s better than you hating me!”
“Yeah, suppose it is!” she said and laughed. She thought that it would be awkward around Scott, but it wasn’t at all. He was just a normal bloke. Just goes to show you shouldn’t put famous people on pedestals because they’re just like the rest of us.

Chapter 10

Kim and Kay were having a girl’s night in while waiting for Jen to return from her date with Shane. Kay had just gone into the kitchen to get more ice cream when the house phone started to ring.
“Kay! The phone is ringing!” called Kim.
“Well you’re allowed to answer it yourself, you do live here too!” Kay’s voice echoed from the kitchen as she had it inside the freezer looking for as much ice cream as possible.
“Well it’s hardly going to be for me is it?” Kim shouted back and lifted the receiver up, “Hiya,” she said into it trying to sound cheerful.
“Hi,” said a male voice said nervously back, “Is that Kim?”
“Yeah this is Kim and who are you?”
“It’s Christian.”
“Christian?! Christian Burns, Christian?!” she exclaimed getting excited.
“Yeah that would be me!” he replied
“Er so hiya Christian!” she said suddenly going a bit shy.
“Yeah hiya Kim. I’m sorry I didn’t call sooner, but I lost your number and well anyways I’ve got it now and I was just wondering if maybe, if it’s okay with you and only if you really want to that maybe, well…”
“Christian if you’re trying to ask me to go out with you somewhere would you just hurry up and ask so I can say yes!” Kim interrupted him.
“So, you’d like to go out with maybe, tomorrow night maybe?”
“Yes I’d love to!” Kim said trying to sound too excited.
“Right so I can come and pick you up at 6.30 tomorrow night? Oh and I need to know exactly where you live.”
“Yeah sure it’s…” Kim started just as Kay walked in from the kitchen.
“God Kim you still on the phone who is it? Your Mum?” Kay said as she got an evil look from Kim, “Sorry, who is it then?” she mouthed across the room.
“Christian,” she mouthed with a slight smirk.
“Kim? Kim are you still there?” she heard coming out of the phone receiver.
“Christian! Yeah I’m still here anyways I live at…” Kim continued as Kay went to find chocolate to celebrate with.