A week later Lisa was at the studio ready to record her first single. She was really excited. She arrived at the studio before Ben and she was even more nervous because she knew no one there. A few minutes after she’d arrived, Ben did.

"Hiya, you excited?" asked Ben.

"Yeah and nervous," replied Lisa.

"Don’t worry, I’ll look after you babe," said Ben and he walked away to talk to a tall man in the corner. Lisa looked down at the ground, why had Ben just called her babe? He’d been acting like that around her for a while. Ring ring, Ring ring, Ring ring. Lisa’s mobile was ringing.

"Hello," answered Lisa.

"Hi sexy! You OK?" asked Paul.

"Pauly....I’m fine," Lisa looked up at Ben, he was staring at her.

"Good...listen I’ve got to go to Spain tonight, mum’s really badly ill and I wanna see her, you will be back in time to see me before I go right?"

"Paul...." Lisa paused and looked again at Ben, he was now staring at the ground, "I should be back in time babe, just I don’t know what it’ll be like without you, oh I don’t want you to go,"

"Sorry Lis...can’t help it, as long as your back in time,"

"Yeah, I better go now anyway, they wanna start recording, bye,"

"OK, love you babe, bye," Paul hung up before Lisa got a chance to tell him that she loved him too. Since Paul and Lisa had first met, they’d got serious very quickly, which came as a surprise to Tim and the rest of A1. Lisa walked over to Ben.

"You all right?" she asked.

"Yeah I guess," replied Ben.

At 6pm Lisa was back at Paul’s flat, Ben was with them too. Lisa had already got the first single recorded today and it turned out very good.

"Guess I better get going to the airport then," said Paul hugging Lisa again, he gave her a kiss, Ring me every night,"

"Sure I will, love you," replied Lisa.

"Love you too," said Paul hugging her once more again, that time was the last time though, Paul then walked out the door leaving Ben and Lisa alone. Lisa looked at Ben, he was looking down at the ground again...he was thinking about something, but what?

"Are you sure your OK?" asked Lisa.

"Yeah," replied Ben looking a bit unsure.

"K...you want a drink?" offered Lisa.

"Yeah thanks," replied Ben. They both walked into the kitchen.

"So what you gonna do without Paul for 2 weeks?" asked Ben.

"I don’t know, probably cry," replied Lisa bursting into tears. Ben straight away hugged her.

"Hey...he’s only been gone 5 minutes," said Ben.

"I know, but we were only just getting us sorted out properly and then he has to bugger off to Spain," cried Lisa.

"It’s not his fault babe," replied Ben.

"His mum isn’t even hardly that ill, she’s only got a cold, I get a feeling Paul’s getting feed up of me and he wants to get away already," said Lisa.

"Paul just cares about his family loads, and I’m sure what you think isn’t true, Paul’s mad about you, although I guess that there is a possibility it could be true, but Paul would tell you I think," replied Ben.

"Good, but I feel like he’s being a bit weird around me and you saw how he was then, I mean why couldn’t he take me with him?" asked Lisa. Ben thought for a while, yeah why couldn’t he?

"I don’t know babe, look don’t worry, talk to him tomorrow and ask him stuff OK," replied Ben, "You go sit down and I’ll make you a drink," Lisa walked off into the lounge, the thing about Ben calling her babe was really getting to her now, why was he doing it? A few minutes later Ben walked in carrying Lisa’s drink.

"Here," said Ben passing Lisa the drink.

"Ben...," said Lisa.

"Yeah," replied Ben.

"Why have you called me babe loads of times today?" asked Lisa, she now felt awkward asking Ben, but it was bugging her.

"Because you are!" Ben said in a way to make it a joke.

"Don’t you care what Paul will do if he hears you?" asked Lisa. Ben looked down.

"Sorry, won’t call you it again then, I was only joking anyway," lied Ben, "I’m gonna go, see you tomorrow at the studio," Ben got up quickly and left.

"Great!" shouted Lisa sarcastically.