The five Irish Westlife lads were no longer in their lovely home country, Eire. They were now in the cold and scary US of A. New York city to be exact, where Sonia Ray's American tour, "Glittering Gorgeous", is set to begin in a few more days. They have been there for a few days now, rehearsing and waiting. For what? For Sonia Ray to arrive, of course. And that day finally came at a cold and rainy Friday.

"I'm so fucking bored it's fucking unbelievable" Bryan said walking back and forth in the rehearsals room.

"Me too�I miss Georgina" Nicky moaned.

"And I miss Kerry�" Bryan said.

"And I miss Gillian so much that - " Shane started to say but got cut off.

"Oh happy day, least you all have someone to miss! Me and Marcus here don't even have that" Kian said.

"Yeah. Sob" Mark said laughing.

PEPPA!

They heard someone shouting from outside.

"Oh my God" Nicky froze. "It's�it's�Oh my God it's Sonia Ray" he said skipping happily around.

Nicky has always been a major fan of Sonia Ray and now they were going to meet her for the first time! Sure they weren't used to be just a supporting act, but the main one, but they didn't care. Meeting Sonia Ray and performing in front of the huge audience that came to see her in her concerts was just such a big honor, they didn't give a damn.

"Hello everybody" Sonia said walking inside the rehearsals room. She was set to be there 2 hours ago to meet them. "Sorry I'm late boys, got stuck outside signing autographs" she smiled looking around the room, reading their faces.

"I'm Shane. Shane Filan" Shane said offering her his hand. She shook it. "These are Nicky Byrne," he said pointing at Nicky. "Mark Feehily," as Mark looked at her and then quickly looked down blushing. "Bryan McFadden" as Bryan shook her hand as well. "And Kian Egan" Shane said pointing at Kian that was busy playing with his cell phone. He didn't even look at her. She didn't interest him one bit. So what if she's Sonia Ray? She's nothing special. Nothing at all.

"Well it's a pleasure to meet you all" Sonia said lowering her big purple-lens sunglasses from her eyes, looking at them. It bothered her Kian was not paying attention to her. After all, she was Sonia Ray and which person in his right mind will ignore her?

A few seconds had passed and someone ran into the room. It was a young woman with brown curled hair. She dressed funny and looked rather funny. Her walk was strange as well, Westlife thought.

"Oh, this is Peppa, my personal assistant" Sonia said waving her hand lightly towards Peppa, paying her no attention in what-so-ever.

"Um�Miss Ray" Bryan asked suddenly.

"Call me Sonia, darling" she said smiling at her.

He smiled back. "Sonia�would you like to see us performing one of the songs we're going to perform on your tour?"

"Sure, I always like watching new acts and passing them some of my wisdom" Sonia smiled.

"Actually," Kian said finally looking at her. "We've been around for a little more than 6 years, so we're not much of a new act. And if you look at it that way, it's us who should pass OUR wisdom to you" he said looking at her dead in the eyes.

"Uh�Hehe" Nicky released a nervous laugh. "Don't mind Kian, he's always so grumpy in the mornings"

"It's 1 bloody o'clock in the afternoon, Nicky" Kian fired. "If Miss Ray would've dragged her arse over here on time, you could have said it's morning"

A long silence fell in the room. Peppa kept looking nervously at Sonia, to see her reaction. A few minutes later, Sonia finally spoke.

"Well, what song are you going to sing to me?" she said smiling again.

"Flying Without Wings" Mark said quickly. "It's one of our best songs, was supposed to be sang by LeAnn Rimes but she turned it down�"

"Ok, let me hear it then" Sonia said sitting in a chair that Peppa rushed to bring her from the other side of the room.

I'm flying without�wings�

As Westlife finished singing to the sound of Sonia and Peppa's clapping.

"That was brilliant!" Sonia said, smiling. "Jive chose the perfect band to support my tour"

"Joy, we feel so honored" Kian mumbled sarcastically.

"Oh it's ok, no need to thank me" Sonia said waving her hand in dismiss. "Well I better be off, gonna work on my dace routines" she said smiling at them and turning to leave the room with Peppa following her.

"Fuck" Kian muttered. "She's so damn annoying"