The tour was now in San Francisco for 3 shows. Westlife were excited because they got to travel around the city and go down to the beach to sunbath.

Samantha, however, was not happy at all. The night before they got there she was told she needs to go on a meeting with Jive records and her manager in their San Francisco offices. Kian tried to convince her it's just a meeting to talk about the tour, or her next single or album. But she just knew something was wrong about that meeting and dreaded to go.

"Sonia! Baby!" Daniel said when Samantha and Peppa walked into the meeting room in Jive's offices. "Gimme a kiss!" he said giving her a peck on the cheek. She gave him a peck back and sat down.

"Well Daniel, what am I here for? It better be good" Samantha said.

"Well it's not" Daniel, her tall blond-haired manager, said.

"What is it?" Samantha asked as five of Jive's bosses entered the room.

They all sat down and looked at Samantha blankly.

"Well, what is it? Why did you call me? I'm a busy woman, you know, don't waste my time"

"Very well then, we'll tell you" one of Jive's bosses, Mister Johnson, said. "First of all, your lawyer is here and he'll make sure to get yours and Mister Egan's marriage annulled."

"What??" Samantha asked, totally shocked.

"Well you can't stay married to that dick, you're marrying Justin this summer" Mr. Johnson said.

"No I'm not! I love Kian, I wanna stay married to him. I want to live the rest of my life with him" Samantha said.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah�BULLSHIT!" Mr. Johnson said. "You can't be married to that clown, Miss Ray. It's not good for your image to just marry some Irish guy. You need to marry an American and you need to marry your fianc?e!"

"But�"

"Don't but at me!" Mr. Johnson said, stopping her. "We'll just say you were drunk and that this guy made you marry him"

"No!" Samantha said.

"Yes! We're not asking you, we're ordering you. You'll lose the Irish moron and you'll marry Timberlake" Mr. Johnson said.

"No�" Samantha said.

"You'll lose your job if you won't do what I say" Mr. Johnson said.

Samantha sunk down in her chair, feeling her heart breaking.

"I can't believe it�I need to tell Kian we have to get our marriage annulled�" Samantha said to Peppa when they left Jive Records and started walking around town.

"Not to mention tell Westlife they are not going to support you on tour anymore and that they are going home tonight�" Peppa said shaking her head.

"Damn fuckers" Samantha said.

"Hey! Don't curse! Someone might hear you" Peppa said.

"I don't care Peppa�I don't care anymore�" Samantha said as she sat down on a bench, closing her eyes. She was trying to stop the tears from falling but there was no use.

"What do you think Kian will say?" Peppa asked sitting next to her and hugging her.

"I don't know�he'll hate me�"

"He won't hate you" Peppa said softly, hugging Samantha even more. "Don't worry, he'll understand"

"WHAT???" Kian asked, looking at Samantha with disbelief.

"Yeah�"Samantha said, not even looking at him. "We have to get our marriage annulled�I have to marry Justin�and Westlife are flying home tonight�"

"I can't believe it, Sammy�" Kian said shaking his head. "I thought you're better than this"

"What do you mean by that?" Samantha asked, looking at him.

"You're a God damn coward! You should just stick up for yourself. Tell them they can screw their record deal and that you'll go find yourself a new, better record company" Kian said.

"I can't get another record deal, can't you understand? Jive made me who I am! And�I can't really sing�you were right all along, I'm a sex icon, that's why people are buying my albums - for the pictures inside. That's why people are coming to my concerts�to see me wearing nearly nothing and shaking my butt on stage! I can't get another record deal! No one would want me" Samantha said. She was crying.

"Fine�just fine. Be like that then" Kian said, getting up and walking to the door.

"Where are you going?" Samantha asked.

"To go tell the lads we were sacked. And then I'll come back to pack my stuff and I don't want you to be here when I get back." He said coldly.

"Ok" Samantha said, closing her eyes.

Kian went out of the suite and shut the door behind him.

Samantha then collapsed on her bed, crying.