I need you

chapter three

When I got home I sat on my bed, placed the telephone number under my pillow, I wasn't going to lose it, and slowly drifted of to sleep. The next morning I woke up suddenly, I'd had a dream that I had rung Shane, but when I went to see him everyone was laughing at me. "She reckons he'd wanna know her, she must be mad", they were all saying. Maybe I shouldn't ring him, I'd look desperate, and I might make a fool of myself again. No, I'd leave it until my head was clearer. "Keri, Kel, wakey wakey, earth to Keri, ya there?", I clicked back to reality to find my best mate Laura waving her hands frantically in front of my face. "What's up, you look sad.", I didn't know whether I should tell Laura, my mate who also had the world's largest crush on Shane. But I needed to tell someone, get it out of my system. "You know I tried getting tickets for the Boyzone concert, I went up Wembley last night to see if they had any spares, and when I was up there I met Shane...", I was stopped mid sentence by Laura's reaction, "OOOOOHH, MY GOD, you met him, aaaaah, what was he like, did ya get a pic....some autographs, what did he say?", "Look he didn't say much but he gave me his telephone number and asked me to ring him, I dunno whether I should though". By this stage Laura's chin was practically touching the ground, "Are you stupid, course you should ring him, you've gotta, gimme the number, I wanna ring him, COME ON!". It was clear that I wasn't going to get out of this now, there was no way Laura was going home without me ringing Shane. I slowly walked upstairs and pulled the bit of paper from beneath the pillow. "Hello, who is it?", a soft Irish voice said. "Erm...you probably won't remember me...but, erm, I'm Ker...", to my amazement I was stopped mid-sentence "Oh, hiya Keri, howiya? Thanks for ringing me, I wasn't too sure if ya would.", Shane said, he seemed genuinely happy that I'd rung. "I'm fine thanks, you?", "Oh I'm grand...listen we're in London for the last concert, can ya come up and see me? I'm at the Hilton Hotel.", Shane was asking me to come and see him, I didn't have a clue what to say and just stood there, Laura rushed over and grabbed the phone. "Hi Shane, I'm Laura, Keri's mate, sure she'll come and see ya, and I'll come and keep her company!", Laura gushed. "Ya, just bring her now", Shane's cheerful tone dropped. "Bye Shane", "Bye, tell Keri I'll see her later". With that Shane put the phone down and Laura was left smiling from ear to ear. "What's happening...wh...what did he say?", I mumbled. "We've gotta go up there now, come on", Laura squealed happily.

chapter four