Shane, Mark, Bryan, Kian and Nicky have decided, to spent two Weeks for Holidays in the German Alps into the snow. Shane already searched in some travelling-guides for the suitable lodge to stay and has booked it.
Kian looks forward: "Yeah, that will be great, two weeks in the snow! It couldn’t be better!"
Nicky is already rummaging in an old box for his winter-clothes. He is sitting in a heap of clothes. Nicky finds a woollen cap and pulls it over his head in addition a long scarf and he means: "Well, I’m ready!"
Bryan and Mark are looking each other and are laughing: "Wow, Nicky, are these woollen things made by your grandmother?" asks Bry.
Nicky defends himself: "And? This have always been my fave winter clothes".. with ten years, but it has always been too large!" he continues.
The other boys are sniggering.
"Oh, where do I have my Winter Clothing?.. and where is my passport?" asks Mark. "Everything’s missing..." says Shane "" his Handy, his passport or Mark himself. That’s Mark live!" means Shane laughing. Mark goes to the phone and Calls his Ma Marie home in Sligo and tells her about the Westlife plans.
His Mom tells him, that his clothes are given away.

On this afternoon are Westlife going to the Shopping centre to buy new winter Clothes. The boys are looking around.
"wow an escalator!" says Mark and more quick as the boys can look is Mark already standing on the escalator and drives upstairs.
"like a little child!" laughs Kian. "How can somebody be so crazy about escalators?" means Bryan, while he is shaking his head.
Later is Bryan standing fascinated and with open mouth in the woman’s underwear department. Kian pulls Bry with to the meeting- point, where the other boys are already waiting. All? No, not all. Mark is missing again. "where is he again?" asks Shane. The others are twitching their shoulders.
"there!" says Bryan and shows to the escalator. "finally! Come one, we wanna go, Mark!" and so are the boys turning around to go. But Mark isn’t coming. The others are turning around again for taking a look for Mark and what is Mark doing? He turned to the escalator upstairs for a second drive. "Oh, no, not again! Now it’s enough!"" is Nicky shouting.

Home at the WL penthouse Flat Shane wants to make some cookies.
Let’s make a time- flight:
As Shane is taking out the last baking-sheet, he is burning his hand and all the cookies are rolling on the floor around. "Ouch! Shit! It has always been better to make cookies with my Ma, if she would only be here!" says he ironic and makes a face.
Nicky disappears for a short moment. Bry knocks on Sha’s shoulder and means: "it’s not so bad!"
Shane hold the Bowl with the cookies to Bryan for trying it. "Hmm, they couldn’t be better!" means Bry. "Yes, my moms recipe!" says Shane proud.
"thanks Mom Mae Filan!" says Bryan.
There is Nicky back. He wears a blond curled wig, a skirt with coloured flowers, a blue-white head scarf a pair of glasses and a white apron. Everybody is laughing.
Nicky says to Shane: "Mummy is here my dear! Oh, what have you done my sweet heart, oh you burned your hand! Let me blow. Till your wedding is it all forgotten!" The Boys are laughing tears.
"we should go to bed early!" says Kian, "has everybody packed his case? Tomorrow is already the flight, and this very early in the morning’!"
Bryan, Shane and Nicky are calling their Girlfriends to saying goodbye for two weeks. Oh, if they only knew, what Kerry, Georgina and Gillian planed"!?
""And give my little Bop Bop Baby Molly a kiss from me and tell her ´Daddy will be back soon!´"" says Bryan on the phone.

On the next morning, very early in the morning, at half past 4 am is Kian waking up everybody. They’re still all very sleepy. Nicky murmurs: "Not yet Georgina!" and turns. But Kian first leaves as Nicky goes up.
Mark yawns: "Oh no, why must the flight be so early?"
Bry means very sleepy: "what? Did Molly cried, Kerry?" "no, my dear!" says Kian grinsing and joking, "Come one, give Kerry a Kiss!" says he joking.
But Bryan does something, what Kian not expected: he pulls Kian close to his face and pushes him a liquid Kiss on Kian’s mouth. "Oh no!" is Kian saying. But straight in this Moment are Shane, Mark and Nicky standing into the door.
Bryan yawns:" Oh, you could have a shave again, Kerry!" What? Kerry?" Shave?" Scared is Bryan jumping up and sits straight in his bed. The other boys are bawling and clapping their hands. "did I missed something?" asks Nicky. "Did you both got gay now?" Bryan and Kian are getting red.
"Stop! Stop!" Says Kian with tears in the eyes of his red face and tells, how it happened. That’s very embarrassing for Bry and Kian. And that’s the number one talk theme on the way to the airport. The flight takes three hours. While the flight is Mark playing a new gameboy game from his Brother Barry, Shane sleeps, as well Nicky, Bryan tries to be awake, so that from this Morning couldn’t happen again, and Kian reads a book about the Alps and studies maps of the Area, where the Westlife- boys wants to stay. But soon are Bry and Kian also sleeping.
And also soon is the Plane landing on a little airport. Shane wakes up and is shouting: "hey Boys, wake up, we arrived!" "Are you sure?" murmurs Mark.
"Yes," says Shane happy "just take a look out, it snows!" Suddenly is everybody awaked.
Hardly is the door of the plane open, are the five attacking the snow on the place around the plane and starting a snowball- battle. Bryan takes a snowball and puts it in Nicky’s jacked on the backside. "Äääh, how cold! Just wait! That will give a revenche, just wait, Bry!" scolds Nicky. "Revenche is sweet!"
Then has Mark the next Problem: "Where is my passport?" Shane is shaking his head: "Always the same, with this Boy, he is always missing something! This boy would yet also learn it"?"
Mark takes again a look in his bag. "Oh, here is it, I didn’t saw it. Bryan jokes:
"Oh, do we now need glasses, Mark?" "Haha!" answers Mark.
Then is a man coming to Westlife to drive them to the lodge. The drive takes a half an hour.
Then the car stops and the boys are coming out of the car. Shane is the key owner and unlocks the door while the other Boys are taking the cases and bags out of the car. Next are Shane, Nicky, Mark, Bryan and Kian doing a sightseeing in the house. "How comfortable! And it even has a fireplace!" Says Kian. "How delightful!" means Bry.
Let’s take a look at this lodge: Downstairs is a little bathroom, straight opposite the Front door, with shower, and a container, that the boys first have to fill with warm water, if they want to have a shower. They first have to take water from a pump in the Kitchen, for a shower; toilet, and two sinks. On the right side is the door to the big livingroom with 4 built-in bunks into the wall. The bunks have sweet squared curtains on the front side. Behind a corner are Kitchen boards and a sink and a water pump. They have to cook over the Fire on the fireplace. More is in this big Room a big wooden table with 6 chairs, a dark wooden board, and two sofas with blue flower pattern and a little table. On one wall is a ladder downstairs, where two little bedroom are, as well a little Bathroom.
Kian adores: "Two weeks holiday without a phone, without heating, just a fireplace, without light, just kerosene lamps. That will be so great. Two weeks away from the music business!"
"Kian, can you go out for get some wood for a fire?" asks Mark.
Kian heats the fireplace on and then Bryan, Shane, Mark and Kian are going to the little village down the hill for shopping some foods. Nicky stays ‘home’ for watching the fire. The other boys are buying bread, cheese, sausages, some tin-cans with soup, a little cake, a bag with cookies, butter, jam, honey, flour, sugar, tea, coffee, drink-chocolate, some fruits like apples, bananas, grapes, peaches and oranges, eggs, salt and some bottles of cola, sprite and water.
Kian looks quick through a magazine. While he’s still looking in this magazine he calls Shane: "Oh, here Shane, here is a magazine about horses. Here is one that looks like your ‘Carlton Clover’ and turns around and runs with the magazine in front of his face directly on a girl in his age, that also has been so deep in her reading material. Kian and the girl are scaring. They both are taking the magazines down and are looking fascinated in each other’s eyes. Suddenly falls the magazine from that girl down. She wants to pick up that magazine, so also Kian. Kian gives her the magazine back and says: "I guess that’s yours!"
The girl says ‘thanks` and so are they both coming into a talk while the other boys paying, what they bought. And so they make a date for tomorrow morning for showing Kian the best places in and around the village. At last he asks: "Oh, we are talking and talking and I still haven’t told you my name, I’m Kian and you?" "I’m Anna!" answers the girl. They made a date for 9’o clock tomorrow morning. Then the boys are putting the bought things on a sleigh. "come on, Kian!" says Bry. Kian says goodbye and leaves with a deep sigh the shop:" bye Anna, see you tomorrow!" Outside is shane saying: "I guess, our Kian Boy is crushed!" Kian gets red and can’t stop to talk about her.
The Boys are going back with filled bags to the lodge. Next they take their sleighs to drive down the hill. Wow, that’s a fun! Suddenly tips Bryan over with the sleigh and is landing with the face in an snow heap. The others are laughing. Shane says: "Oh, we also have a snowman!" "And where is the carrot?" asks Nicky cheeky. "Not in his face", between"!" means Mark grinsing and looks at"., you sure can imagine"?!
Bryan throws a snowball to Mark, but Mark ducks himself and Shane gets the snowball at his face. Mark calls: "Haha, you didn’t catched me!" Shane throws a snowball back and gets Bryan and a new big snow ball battle starts. Then its going dark slowly and the boys are going in again. Mark has the whole sleeve of the jacked full of snow, Bryan wipes the snow from his hair, Shane clears his shoes, which are full with snow, Nicky has wet trouser legs till above, Kian wipes some snow out of his face, as well as Nicky, who has get the most snow on himself. Kian yawns: "I don’t know why, but I’m still very tied, I guess it from the journey and all the fun we had into the snow today." After Dinner Mark takes a look out of the window: "wow, it snows and snows, really thick snowflakes, snow without end! " The others are also coming to the window for taking a look and then are the five boys going to bed.
In that night falls still a lot of snow, a lot is not enough to say".

On the next Morning wakes Shane up, but everything is still dark outside. He takes a look at his watch and scares: What? 8 o’clock and so dark out? Guys wake up, something is wrong!" The boys are going up. Nobody can understand, why it is so dark outside. Nicky pushes against the door and gets it open just a Crack and then is already falling some snow into the lodge. "what’s up?" asks Bry. Nicky says: "Very easy, we’re snowed in!" Kian scares: "The date, Anna, oh no!" Then he has an idea: upstairs are windows. He puts on his clothes and climbs up the ladder. Shane follows him. Kian opens the window and jumps out into the snow. But Kian is sinking into the endless depth of the snow. "oh, no, Kian!" is Shane shouting. Kian calls up: "I’m all right!" But straight in this moment falls the snow, breaks down and buries Kian. Shane calls Kian - but no answer. He calls to the others down: "Kian is buried down by the snow! We have to save him. That can be dangerous!" The other Boys are shocked. Bryan, Shane, mark and Nicky are all together pushing against the door and get it open with united strengths. Shane means: "we have to watch up, that the snow doesn’t buries us, too!"
With the bare hands are the four Westlife- boys digging to find Kian. Mark is trembling: "oh, it’s a terrible cold out here, we have to find Kian very quickly!"
The minutes are running and running, a half an hour goes by and the boys till haven’t found Kian. Suddenly is Shane shouting: "here, I feel something, here are shoes, here is Kian, I’ve got him!" the others are running the way, that Shane has digged and help to dig Kian out. Kian’s eyes are closed, he looks very pale in his face and has blue shining lips. Mark is asking: "oh no, is he"?" Shane says: "no, he’s still breathing!" as he bends over Kian. The boys are carrying Kian in, put him out the wet clothing, put him on new clothes and laying him in his bunk. "take all your blankets to me!" calls Shane and covers Kian with all that blankets.
"are you sure, that this is good now?" asks Nicky. "Sure!" says Shane. "My mom did the same, as my brother Liam fell in a lake in Winter. It really helps!"I hope!"
Suddenly opens Kian his eyes. "Hi!" says Shane. Kian tries to lean on his hands, but the hands and his Arms don’t carry his weight and so Kian is sinking back into his pillow again.
Shane asks: "Do you know, what happened?" Kian answers: "Suddenly broke the snow over me and it was hard to breathe!" and with a weary voice goes Kian on: "And it was so cold!" "So you better sleep now!" means Shane and closes the curtains of the bunk. Then he goes over to the others, that sit around the table and tells the others. "He will be all right soon again!" says Shane. "Where is Mark?" "He went to the village to cancel the date of Kian and Anna!"

As Mark comes back again is he taking a sleigh for to drive the hill down. "What about a Snowboard drive?" asks Bryan to Nicky and so are both going out and taking their snowboards. Suddenly tips Bryan over and is landing with the face into the snow. Mark calls Shane. Shane looks out of the window and laughs.
"Come out!" calls Mark. "Yeah, we have such a fun!" means Nicky. "No I’ll stay here for taking care for Kian!" shouts Shane low and shakes his head
As the boys are back in again, tells Shane: "Kian asked for you, lads!"
Nicky, Bryan and Mark are going to Kian’s bunk. "Hey Kian!" says Bryan "How are you feeling?" "I’m all right again!" means Kian. Shane lifts up his finger: "But you should stay ion your bed for a day!" "But"!" grumbles Kian. "No contradiction!" says Shane. "Yes, Doctor Shane!" sighs Kian and rolls with the eyes. "Guys, we have to go for shopping some food!" means Bryan and Mark, Shane , Nicky and he are leaving the lodge for to drive to the village.

In between at the lodge: Kian is bored: "Why shall I stay in my bed?" And Kian gets up He takes a look out of the window. Suddenly feels Kian dizzling and he props on the chair. Kian shakes his head. "Brr", what’s that?" Kian takes a look out of the window. Everything is turning around Kian. Suddenly collapses Kian and falls down on the floor. Poor Kian! Oh, if the others would only know"!
In between are Shane and co. on the cash to pay. There comes Kian’s Date Anna in She asks for Kian. "Why don’t you join us?" Asks Shane. "He is bored, ‘cause I ordered him into his bed!"
Two Minutes later are Mark, Shane, Kian, Anna and Nicky leaving the shop and are going back to the lodge.
Mark runs a bit faster. He wants to tell Kian, who’s coming: Anna! He wants to see Kian’s face then"!
Mark opens the door and wents into the little hall. "What’s up?" everything is quiet. Kian wouldn’t sleep now"?" Her opens the door of the kitchen /livingroom and scares: Kian lays on the floor. Mark goes on his knees: "Kian, oh my god, what’s with you?" He runs out: "Kian lays on the floor, something is wrong!" The guys are running into the lodge. Shane kneels beside Kian and rattles his shoulders until Kian opens his eyes again. ""How could you scare us that much?!" asks Bryan. "What have you done?" "I just would to get up, it was so boring!" "That’s Kian!" laughs Nicky "That’s Kian!" repeats he. "He can never wait!" says Shane to Anna. "Now you have the bill!" and shane goes on "You should stay into your bed and that was no joke anymore!" Bryan helps Kian into his bunk again. Anna takes a seat beside Kian: "Oh, poor boy!" says she with pity voice and Kian says pitiable: "Yes!" and he makes Bambi eyes. "What a face!" laughs Nicky.

But some hours later uses Kian, to stay into his bed, while the others are doing everything.
"Oh Shane, would you bring me the newspaper?" Shane does. "Mark, can you bring me a glass of milk?"" "Bryan, I’m cold, would you put some more wood into the fireplace?"" "Oh, Nicky, I’m hungry"!" "Who shakes my pillow?"
Till Shane says: "Now It’s enough! When you go on like this, so we’ll be sick soon!" "Why not?" asks Nicky. "Then we would lay in our beds and Kian had to serve us!"
Kian tries to imagine that. What a terrible thaught!"
Some days later is Kian all right again.
At one morning goes Bryan out again for chop some wood for the fireplace. Suddenly creeps somebody to Bryan and holds the hands over Bryan’s eyes. "Oh, not again, Nicky!" says Bry with full hands. "What a nice welcome!" means Kerry. Bryan turns around and stays there with opened mouth: "Kerry", what a surprise!" In this moment lets Bryan the wood falling down onto his feet. "ouch!" is he shouting and jumps on his foot. "Won’t you say welcome?" asks Kerry and Bryan finally embraces her. "Psst!" says Kerry low "Georgina and Gillian are also here to surprise their boys."
At the same moment in front of the lodge: Shane sits on his sleigh for have a little drive down the hill. Suddenly takes Gillian a seat behind Shane and also holds her hands over Shane’s eyes. "Who could that be?" asks Shane. "Bryan? Mark? Kian? Nicky"
Gillian pushes the sleigh with the feet and opens Shane’s eyes. Shane is surprised: "Gillian, you here with me, my wildest dream came true!"
In this moment is the sleigh slipping down over a little heap of snow. The sleigh tipps over and Shane and Gillian are landing into the snow. Laughing are both standing up again
Let’s take a look at Nicky: Georgina creeps into the lodge, where Nicky washes the dishes. As he dries the dishes, comes Georgina in. In his scaring lets Nic the dishes falling down. "Georgina!" says he and runs into his girlfriend’s arms.

This evening are all sitting together in front of the fireplace. Molly, Bryan’s and Kerry’s little daughter stayed in Dublin at Bryan’ parents Mairead and Brendan.
Suddenly has Mark a great idea: "Why don’t we celebrating this at our last day?" All guys agree.
On the next day invites Kian Anna with friends for the last evening and the whole Westlife bunch is shopping foods and drinks for the party.
Lets make a time- flight, the last evening: Shane had great idea: A competition. Singing to the music of songs. Bryan and Kerry are choosing the song: "Something Stupid" from Frank Sinatra. Next are Westlife singing a Boyzone song: : "Father and son". "Nicky chooses: "I can’t get no satisfaction" from the Rolling Stones, Kian sings "Wild Thing", Gillian, Georgina, Mark and Kian are next singing "YMCA", Mark tries "Man in the mirror" his fave song from his big hero Michael Jackson"
The atmosphere cooks more and more. And that’s also because of the alcohol. Shane and Nicky are dancing on the tables, Kerry can stop her husband Bryan, not make a striptease, and Kian disappears with Anna on the roof floor. They don’t take notice from all the party noises. They’re just kissing each other.
On the next Morning rings Bryan’s alarm clock. Nicky cowers under his blanked. Mark just buzzes and turn on the other side. Kerry is the first, that gets up. It takes along time to get all the guys up, the last night was long, the alcohol was too much. Nicky has a headache now, Kian has a fat spot of a kiss on his neck, Shane has no speech and doesn’t knows, why he waked up beside Nicky, Gillian has a terrible looking hat on her head, that she never would wear, Mark runs to the bathroom, ‘cause he is feeling so bad (Too much alcohol mixed up),,Kerry has also a headache. Goorgina is the only, that drunk only Cola and has no problems this morning. She cooks a strong coffee for all, to get them all "alive" again.

After the breakfast are all cleaning up the chaos in the lodge. Mark finds some clothing from a girl: "They wouldn’t be gone home naked, or, what do you say guys?" asks he laughing and shakes his head.
It’s a lot of work but they have finished after two hours. Then are the whole Westlife bunch packing their cases, before they leave the lodge and Shane locks the door. "Wow!" says Shane with a sigh and shakes his head: "What a great holiday, what a great party! We have to repeat that another time again!"
" But then with a less alcohol!" says Mark and all are laughing.
END
by Danny W.
18/2/2002