Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: hOnEy BaBeE bOy <a1_dude2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: Same Old Brand New You Reunion Series 2-4

We had done it. We had done what so many boy bands had failed to do. We had
transitioned into respected musicians. A1 were not justa tenny bopper band
anymore. With the help of Mark, Christian, Paul, Adam, Noel, and I, we were
now a band, not a boy band, but a band. And this band was looking for its
final member. The one piece to fit the puzzle. We had settled on Myself,
Paul, Adam, and Paul, but we thought one more would be perfect. He had to
be able to sing, play at least one instrument, not be a total slob, and
most of all, gay, preferably not single, as we didn't need anymore
sex-capades.

"Sorry, you're not what we're looking for." I said to the boy. He must have
been younger than 15. God knows how he got past the security. After 3 hours
of narrowing it down, we were left with 3 people we all liked. One was
named Charlie. He was about 18, around 130 pounds, blonde hair, very cute.
The next was a boy named Shane. Shane was my favorite. He was about 20,
brown hair, brown puppy dog eyes, around 130 pounds, very cute as well. He
had an ok voice, not perfect, and a bit raspy, but in a good way. the last
boy was called James. I didn't like him. He had red curly hair, freckles,
and bery snobby, like he owned the place. He was obviously straight, and
thought he was better than all of these fags like us here. After 3 hours of
singing we were down to James and Shane. Charlie had missed a high note. We
then decided whoever could hold there breath the longest would be the
winner. The other guys liked James, but I wanted Shane to win. I got up and
walked to shane. "Good luck man. I really want you to win." I said. He
smiled and blushed. I told him to take 15 deep breathes to expand his lungs
or whatever that is for. He did 20 just in case. I walked back to my seat.
"And....... GO!" I yelled. Shane started off awefully, he didnt get enough
air. But he lasted one minute into it. James started turning purple. they
ended up going 2 minutes and sixteen seconds. James collapsed to the floor,
gasping for air. Shane had did it, he won. And after a few quick breathes
we kicked James out. I smiled at Shane. "Great job man." The others where
impressed too.

After 3 weeks of teaching Shane the songs, beats, and what not, we were
ready. James played the drums. We needed a drummer. Paul played tambourine,
Adam played guitar good, Chris had taught him before He and Mark left. I
was picking up on bass, Paul Cattermole played electric guitar, so we were
set. We had picked Paul Cattermole up a few months after he quit S Club 7.

We were on the tour bus on Monday night. Everyone was asleep except Paul
and Me. I got into Pauls bunk. "Hey Ben."

"Hey Paul." I said smiling. I snuggled up to him as he spooned me. His
penis was starting to get erect. "Paul, no, we just screwed like 2 hours
ago." I said. I was exhausted. Paul laughed at me. "guess what." I said.
"Paul C. is getting along well with Shane. I think maybe we should try and
hook them up. they would make a cute couple." I said. Paul laughed.

"Baby, we went through this before. First we tried setting Paul C up with
Adam. Then with Noel. Then Adam with Noel. Then we just hooked Adam up with
Jon from S Club. And now you want to have another go at fixing someone up?
Baby, enough is enough. You are obsessing." He said. I smiled.

"Well, it worked withyou and me, remember?" I said.

"Excuse me? I told you I loved you first." He said.

"No, remember, you dragged me out into the hall. Next you tried telling me,
but I enterupted you, because I thought you loved mark, but you really
loved me, and I loved you, and..." He cut me off.

"Baby, shut up please." He said laughing. "You're confusing me." He said.
"I'm old, I'm almost 30, remember? And while you're still only 20, I am 7
years your senior." He said laughing. But then he got upset. I heard a
sniffle. "Ben, will you promise me, when you're 30, and I'm nearly 40, that
you won't dump me for a hottie like Adam or Paul C, or even Shane?" He
asked. I giggled. I turned round and smiled at him.

"I swear. I love you Paul. I love you for you, even for that crooked nose
of yours." I said giggiling.

"And I love you, double chin and all." I gasped.

"You bitch, I so do NOT have a double chin." I said hitting him with the
pillow. He smiled a me and hugged me. I loved him.

The next few weeks were a blur. Press conferances, concerts, award shows,
preformances. It was all a bit much. We finally got our first week off and
went to Adam's home in Sweeden. It was cold that time of year. So we
decided to stay indoors the whole of the week. The cabin was huge, and
spacious. And poor Shane's allergies were acting up worse than a 3 year old
on a 7 hour car trip. He stayed in bed the whole week.


-Day One

Well, we just arrived and Adam showed Shane his bed. Sweet Paul stayed with
him the whole day.

""Let's go swimming." I said, staring out the window to the lake. Everyone
was playing cards. They ignored me. "Let's go riding bicycles naked." I
said. Paul snickered.

"Ya, and you come home and have nuts the size of marbles, I think not. I
prefer them when they are warm and big." Adam's mother had just walked in
and heard Paul. She gasped. Paul ran to her and kept apologizing. I walked
to Adam.

"Adam. I have a plan." He rolled his eyes. He had been in the band 2 years
now and knew of my 'plans' I worse than Lucy from 'I Love Lucy.' "I want to
set up Paul C and Shane." I said. Paul C walked up behind me and hugged my
neck.

"Too late, we did it ourselves." He said smiling. I laughed.

"You fucking slut." I said laughing. Adam's mum had heard me say that. I
blushed. Adam laughed.

- Day Two

I woke up that morning in Paul's arms. And not my Paul. It was 25 Degrees
below zero, well, celcius, but it was still cold. We were all in one big
bed. Adam and Shane were snuggiling. Paul, my Paul that is, and Adam's mum
were together in the bed, which was quite odd. And me and Paul C were lying
together. Adam's mum got up and cooked us breakfast.

K N O C K K N O C K K N O C K

Adam ran to the door and opened it. It was Jo, Tina, Bradley, and Hannah
from S Club. Paul C ran to them and hugged them. Adam was angry. He pulled
Jo aside. "Where is Jon?" He asked. Jo got an upset look on his face.

"I'm sorry babe, but Jon and Rachel had to go behind and..." She looked
down and laughed. "Get the luggage from the car." Adam smiled. Jon yelled
from the bottom of the stairs leading up to the door.

"Oi, I could use some held down here." He screamed. Adam went to help
Jon. Rachel was lugging 150 pounds worth of luggage by herself. I ran down
and helped her. She kissed me on the cheek.

"Thanks sweety. My nails are so fucking broken it's not even funny." She
said. I laughed. Paul C and Paul [My Paul] came to help me.]

At the diner table everyone was sitting down having supper. They were
talking of the new albulm, but Paul and I were playing footsie. Except Adam
kept joining in. Then Paul C started in. Pretty soon everyone except Adam's
mum was playing. She didn't know either. Rachel was playing with Jo's feet
excessively tho. WHAT THE FUCK??? Had Rachel had just winked at Jo? No,
deffinately not. WAIT. Jo winked back. "Oh My God." I whispered into Pauls
ear. "Jo and Rachel are girlfriends." I said. Paul watched and they winked
again. We snickered.

days 3, 4, and 5 were boring. So I'll skip to night 5.

I walked into my bedroom and smiled as Paul lie naked on the bed. I winked
at him and he motioned me to come closer. I crawled onto him and started
making out with him. He got hard immediatly. I started stroking him as he
was massaging my ass. I pulled his dick out and got up. After I lubed up
and had lain on my back Paul entered me. I gasped. He started pumping into
me. I couldn't help but smile. I loved him. I took the remote to the stereo
and hit play. It was Atomic Kitten's cover of "Eternal Flame." The radio
remix. Paul entered me to the beats of the drums. I leaned up and whispered
to him. "Cum inside me this time." He had never done that before. He
started going faster and faster. He finally shot and we did lay there for
the rest of the night.

-day 6. After a shower we got dressed and were off to Australia for
promotion of our new albulm "Accepted Not Needed." It was our way of saying
we accept your acceptance, but we don't need it. Like, if you like us
great, if you don't who gives a flying fuck? Needless to say we had a
wonderful trip. But next time i'll skip OZ and skip to a week after that,
when Adam got his first STD, one called 'herpese.'

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Adam was kissing Jon. Jon lifted Adam's head and smiled. "I love you Adam."
He said. Adam blushed. They hadn't told each other they loved each other
before. Adam smiled.

"I love you too." He said. Jon unbuckled Adam's belt. He unbuttoned his
pants but Adam stepped back. "I, uh, I have something to tell you." He
said. Jon smiled. "I errr, I have, I have an STD." He said. Jon's mouth
dropped.

"HIV?" He asked.

Adam giggled. "No, Herpese." He said. Jon sighed. "Anyways, let's get to
it." He said. Jon backed off. "Oh come on, you're not scared are you?" He
asked laughing.

"Umm, I don't know if I wanna, ya know." He said looking down. Adam got an
angry look on his face.

"Oh fuck you Jon." He said. He got up and ran out. Paul sat there crying.

The next morning at rehearsal for the live gig on CD:UK everyone except for
Paul C showed up. I walked over to Adam. "Ok, spill it, what's up?" I
asked.

After an hour of Adam crying on my shoulder I went to Paul, my Paul. "Look,
Ben, leave him be." He said. "This is how everything got all fucked up last
year Babe. Just let it be. If they split they split, if not, awesome." He
said.

"You know, for a hottie, you're a real dick." I said. I got up and walked
over to Shane who couldn't quite get the dance moves right. He also was
looking rather sleepy and frustrated. I hugged Shane from behind. "Oy, why
you so tense?" I asked. I rubbed his shoulders as he turned round.

"Paul, my Paul. I think he is in love with your Paul. My Paul told me that
your Paul told him that he thought a pair of slacks looked good round his
bum, and then my Paul said that your Paul winked at him." I was dizzy.

"Hold up, what the fuck are you saying? I'm confused." I said, cross eyed.

"Paul M made a pass at Paul C." He said. I turned 7 shades of crimson. I
excused myself and ran over to my Paul.

"Fucking slapper." I said. I hit him in his face and ran out, heartbroken.
I saw Jon sitting in his car, crying. He looked as though he was debating
whether or not to get out. Fuck this relationship shit. It just always hurt
you so much. And I wasn't about to let Jon find out the hard way. I jumped
in his car and smiled at him. We drove off. We needed a break. And a break
we got.

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 months later.

I walked into A1's new record exec's office. We had used Simon Fuller since
Mark and Chris quit. No one from the band had seen me in 2 months, not even
Paul. Apparently Paul C had come out to the press, Adam had resigned his
position in the band, Jon had made up with Adam and they ran off together.
Paul M and Paul C had had a very public relationship and then a very public
break up. Shane was just, well, Shane was just there. As for me, I ran off
and rented a flat in Notting Hill. I hadn't given any of the members my new
address. I had called Simon the day before because I wanted out of my
contract to do some acting in the USA which was prohibited in my previous
contract. I walked into 19 Management studios and went straight to Simon's
office. I had a briefcase in one hand, a lollipop in the other, and my
lawyer by my side. We walked in and Simon was reading a magazine while
talking on the phone. "I'll have to call you back." He said into the other
end of the reciever. He hung the phone up, put the magazine down and pulled
out some papers from his desk. "Not a very smart thing, what you did." He
said to me. I rolled my eyes.

"I am here to negotiate." I said, sitting down. "I am willing to by myself
out of my contract. I am thinking somewhere along the lines of, oh, 1.5
million?" I asked.

"I am not letting you go Ben Adams. If I did could you imagine the
contraversy? I can see the headlines now. 'Gay boyband member splits for an
acting career.'" He said. I rolled my eyes.

"Fine then, what do you want? Another 3 albulms, fine, I'll go into the
recording studio, put down my bits and be done with the mess." He said.

"Your contract is for..." He ruffled through papers. "Ah." He said smiling
devilishly. "5 albulms, 3 tours, 22 singles, all with promotion of coarse,
and the clincher..." He said smiling. "This must take no longer than 6
years. So Ben, mate, your stuck. Unless of coarse you can buy yourself out,
which will cost around..." He said ruffling through more papers. "25
million quid." He said smiling. I gasped.

"Fine. I'll stick with it. But I'll have nothing to do with Paul Marazzi."
I said.

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A F T E R  T H O U G H T S
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Ok, wow, never thought I'd write A1 again. I hope you like it. 'Accepted
Not Needed' is going to be a lot more grown up. No more line up changes
every chapter. We have the final charactors for Series 2, and that is...

Ben Adams
Paul Marazzi
Adam Rickett
Shane Stephie
Paul Cattermole

Also check out A-ONE-BOYS.cjb.net which has a brand new layout. It also has
Cast Pics, News, The Stories, and much much more, enjoy yourself, and love
to you,

-LaNcE l.