They had just walked onto the airplane, and Sammie squealed.
“Ben, it’s by first class!”
Ben laughed.
“Yeah, but the TV company’s paying, they’ll spend more to make sure we have a good time”
“Well, I’m already having a good time”
“Even after your friends phone call?”
“Yep. I meant I’m having a good time with you”
“Oh, yeah, me too, I’m having a great time with you” Ben smiled at her as they settled into their seats. Sammie blushed again.
“You’re so different to how you were on the show”
“How do you mean?”
“Well, you were being so cheeky, and you were last night, but after the show and right now you’re being so calm and quiet”
Ben thought she hadn’t noticed his weird behaviour.
“I’m not usually like this. If you prefer my cheeky side then I’ll be cheeky all the time”
“I don’t care about sides, I just wanna get to know the real you”
Ben smiled again.
“I wanna get to know the real you too”
“You do?” Sammie looked surprised. Ben nodded, and leaned over to kiss her cheek. However, she was ready this time, and turned her head to kiss him back. Ben pulled away immediately.
“What’s wrong?” She asked.
“It’s um, it’s nothing. Don’tworrynevermind”
“Are you okay?”
“Yeah, fine, great, you?”
“I’m good . . . do you have a problem with flying or something?”
Ben shook his head.
“Oh” Sammie had realised-Ben was only kissing her cheek and sharing food to be polite, he didn’t actually fancy her. She slumped in her seat, and stared out of the window until she fell asleep. Ben watched her intently, wondering what had just happened between them. He smoothed her hair out of her eyes and watched her until he fell asleep himself.

* * *

They had gotten off of the plane in the same old awkward silence, and it continued on the way to the hotel.
Inside his hotel room, Ben got the camera out again.
“We’ve just got into the hotel, it’s the first day and I’ve already screwed everything up. I couldn’t kiss her. She has to be the first person I haven’t been able to kiss” He stopped the camera. Why should the general public know his problems? The tabloids would have a field day-‘sex god can’t snog his date’. He rewound the tape again, and called Paul.
“Hello, this is Paul, which of the Marazzi girls would you like to hire?” Paul greeted him with his ‘I’m-a-pimp’ speech. Ben laughed.
“None of them, I’d rather have you, babe”
“Ben, man, what’s up?”
“Um, little problem, can you talk?”
“Yeah, I’m not going anywhere”
“Okay, we agreed to go on blind date, as you know”
“I do?”
“Oh, haha. Well, I won”
“Well, there’s a surprise”
“And it was a totally fit girl, I mean, I can’t take my eyes off her”
“Always good. You snogged her yet?”
“That’s the problem. I think she wanted me to, but I couldn’t do it”
“What? Why not?”
“I dunno”
“Do you hate her?”
“No, she’s really nice”
“Does she turn you on?”
“Yeah, I think she does a bit”
“Problem solved. Either you really respect her so you wouldn’t until it was meaningful, or it was in public and you didn’t think you could control yourself”
“One of those. The second one seems more likely. Should’ve asked if she wanted to join the mile high club”
“Cool, you should’ve snogged her. I’m a member, it’s great!”
“I know you are, the whole plane knew. It’s a wonder the pilot didn’t crash” Ben replied laughing.
“Are you okay now?”
“Yeah. Thanks man”
“Any time man”
“Miss you”
“Miss you too. We’ll go for a booze up when you get back, yeah?”
“Okay, bye”
“Bye. Snog her once for me!”
Ben hung up laughing. Feeling better, he made his way to Sammie’s hotel room.

* * *

Sammie was on the bed in her hotel room, upset. She felt like a fool for thinking he might like her, but to be fair he had led her on, always touching her and giving her little kisses. There was a knock at the door.
“Sammie?” Ben’s voice called. He’d changed his mood again, and was acting all sunny.
“What do you want?” She snapped back.
“Um, could you open up? I’d rather see your face than the door.”
Sammie got up and let him in. He shut the door behind him.
“Are you mad at me?” Ben asked, giving his ‘I’m adorable’ puppy-dogface. Sammie sighed.
“No, just a little confused”
“I’m sorry I keep mucking you about” he said apologetically, sitting next to her on the bed. “I just needed to get something clear in my head” He leaned over and kissed her the way she had tried on the plane. Although she was surprised, she kissed him back. They separately finally, smiling at each other.
“Wanna go to the beach?” She asked. He nodded and left the room so they could both get changed into their swimming costumes.