It was August and the girls were checking in at Heathrow Airport ready for their holiday.
"Kris, Jamie, come back!" Helen called out as the twins toddled off around the busy airport. But they hadn't heard her.
"Kris! Jamie!" Sam shouted loudly.
The twins came back and Helen held their hands. "Stay close to mummy," she told them softly. "I don't want you getting lost,".
Nicole was sleeping peacefully in her buggy, cuddling a fluffy teddy bear Ben had bought her. Heather was surprised that all the noise hadn't woken her up.
"I can't wait to get to St. Lucia," Tasha said to her mate Solma who was also coming along. "I love it there, it's a beautiful island,".
"Mmmm, I agree," Lucy added. "Sun, sand, cute guys... what else could anyone want?".
Heather sighed, she wasn't really looking forwards to going back to St. Lucia. It would remind her of her wedding to Ben too much.
Helen turned to Linda. "I hope I haven't forgotten my passport," she said, opening her handbag and rummaging through. "No it's OK, found it!".
Tasha was flicking through a sports magazine she had bought to read on the flight. "Oh, it's Marat," she said with a frown as she pointed to a Nike advert where Marat was modelling some new tennis shoes. "I kind of miss him..." she trailed off, remembering the days when they were engaged.
"Forget Marat," Sam told Tasha with a smile. "When we arrive in St Lucia there will be plenty of fit blokes to choose from!".
Heather wasn't planning on a holiday romance. She only wanted Ben.
While the girls were at the airport about to fly to St Lucia, the band were in Sweden getting ready for that night's concert.
"We're on in five minutes," Mark shouted out as the boys got ready in the dressing room. "They haven't bee arguing today," he whispered to Christian. "Maybe they'll make up soon,".
"I hope so, I'm sick of all their fights," Christian replied.
Ben went over to a mirror at the opposite end of the room from Paul and checked his hair. A make up artist came along and touched up on his stage make up. "OK, time to go on," someone shouted from the doorway.
The boys made a big entrance onstage and opened the show singing 'Ready or Not'. The show went well, until near the end when the boys were doing a costume change under the stage.
"Watch where you're going!" Paul yelled as Ben bumped into him.
Ben glared at him. "It was an accident so shut up you little...".
"Your dancing is crap tonight," Paul insulted. "I saw you mess up at least four times,".
"Shut up, at least I actually wrote most of the songs we're singing, how many did you write?!".
Christian pulled the pair of them apart before any fighting broke out. "Do you realise the microphones are on? The crowd heard all of that,".
Ben and Paul both went red with embarrassment. "Come on, back onstage," Mark said, leading them back.
The following day, the girls were settled in St Lucia and having a great time. The kids enjoyed playing on the beach and the girls were eager to check out the nightlife on the island.
"There's a big music festival here tomorrow," Tasha pointed out as the girls lie on the beach.
"I know, Ricky will be performing at it," Solma smiled, she was still dating Ricky Martin.
Tasha looked at a leaflet about the festival. "Oh, and Enrique Iglesias is performing too," she said with a grin, she'd been friends with him for some time. "It will be nice to see him again,".
"Why does that guy keep staring over here?" Helen said, pointing out a good looking man who was sitting on a beach towel further up the beach.
"I think he's looking at Heather, he must fancy her," Linda said. "Let's go and talk to him,".
"No!" Heather protested. "I don't want anything to do with him,".
"Too late, he's coming over," Lucy laughed.
The man came up to the girls and smiled. "Hello ladies," he said in a flirty voice.
"Um, hi," Sam said, turning to Heather and rolling her eyes, not impressed.
"I've got a spare ticket to tomorrow's music festival, I wondered if any of you beautiful women would like to come with me?". He looked directly at Heather.
"We're all going together, maybe we'll bump into you there," Helen told him.
"He was creepy," Heather said when he'd left. "And he's so big headed. Yuck,".
"He likes you Heather, aren't you lucky," Tasha said sarcastically.
The next day, the girls attended the music festival and had a good time. The kids were clapping along to the music, having fun.
"Enrique's invited me backstage so I'll see you all later," Tasha told the others before disappearing. Solma was also backstage, with Ricky.
"Hel-lo there!".
Heather groaned and turned around. It was the creepy man from the beach. "What do you want?" she snapped.
"I've got a cozy little beach house just up the coast, maybe you want to come and...".
"...Maybe I don't want to! Get lost," Heather said, giving him a slap and rushing away.
Helen and Sam dashed after her. "Heather!" Helen cried.
Heather ran to the hotel and went to her room, crying. Helen and Sam followed her in and closed the door.
"What's wrong, come on you can tell us," Sam said, putting a box of tissues on the bed.
"I miss Ben," Heather cried. "I just can't cope without him,".
The girls tried to cheer Heather up but it was no use. She was missing him so badly.
A little later, Sam was in her own room, talking to Naomi on the phone. "How's the tour going?" she asked.
"It's going great," Naomi replied. "We're going to be in Paris in a couple of weeks time, I'm hoping Chris will have a night off so we can have a night out in the city,".
"We're going to Paris after we leave St Lucia," Sam told her. "We could all meet up, maybe go to a show,".
"Cool, OK!" Naomi agreed. "So how are the others?".
"Heather got really upset today," Sam said. "She was crying over Ben,".
"Oh," Naomi sighed. "Ben's been quiet emotional over Heather too. He and Paul are still fighting about what happened,".
After hanging up, Naomi wandered into the next room, where Ben was sitting alone watching TV. "Anything good on?" she asked, sitting down next to him.
"No, I don't understand a word as it's all in Swedish," he said, switching the TV off.
"I've been speaking to Sam," Naomi told him.
"Oh yeah?" Ben said, pretending not to be interested but he was.
"Heather really misses you," she told him. "She's so upset about it all,".
Ben turned to Naomi and nodded. "I miss her too," he admitted.
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