Seeing how much the Series 2 ending frustrated me and quite a few other fans. I've decided to try my hand at, doing what I would liked to have seen happen in a one-off Christmas special episode.

Peter Kay's Car Share - Listen to Your Heart

Chapter 1

"It's that time again, the Golden Hour here on Forever FM. What was the year? Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan were busy falling in love via email in the film You've Got Mail. DVDs first hit the shops in the UK and Dana International was blowing the competition away at the Eurovision Song Contest in Birmingham."

"1998" John answers without hesitation.

The daily commute to work that morning was another quiet one for John. He wasn't his usual cheery self because he had been hearing rumours from a few colleagues, Kayleigh might be considering handing in her notice to management later that week. Of course he didn't want her to leave and see her ending up unemployed. If he tried to stop her from leaving the store, it was likely to make her believe, he was making every effort he can to run her career. John sighs thoughtfully while he's driving, he knows he's got to try again with her. Show Kayleigh he's deeply sorry for the 'at least I don't live my life in a fairytale' comment he made in the car, the other week and how much he wishes he could take back those words in a heartbeat.

Yes' Owner of a Lonely Heart plays as John drives his car past a double billboard which featured a Nigel Farage documentary 'Farage's Britain' as well as an image of a Philip Schofield picture for a new ITV gameshow called 'Yet Another Philip Schofield Gameshow'.

"Move yourself
You always live your life
Never thinking of the future
Prove yourself
You are the move you make
Take your chances win or loser

See yourself
You are the steps you take
You and you, and that's the only way

Shake, shake yourself
You're every move you make
So the story goes

Owner of a lonely heart
Owner of a lonely heart
Much better than a
Owner of a broken heart
Owner of a lonely heart"

John had already come to the rightful conclusion, Kayleigh was obviously that missing piece in his life, which would enable him to make his life feel a whole lot brighter and worth living for, instead of him living it in a Groundhog Day scenario. She was the only person in his life that brought out the goodness and the best in him. So with that being said, John was willing to wear his heart on his sleeve and step up to the mark, by showing his romantic feelings for Kayleigh. He knows he;s going to be facing the biggest challenge possible, trying to convince her, he was genuinely sorry for the way he behaved to her. She definitely didn't deserve this treatment from him.

Today he had a lot on his plate at work and outside of work; a monthly review to conduct which would take a few hours to complete and a bit of paperwork which he had forgotten to complete yesterday, as well as a band practice session with Jim later that afternoon. There wouldn't be an opportunity for him, to go and look around for Kayleigh on the shop floor. Tomorrow John had nothing whatsoever on his timetable, so he had plenty of time to drive her sister's house and drop off the parcel, which he'd ordered a few days for Kayleigh.

John just needed some time to himself, to rehearse what exactly he wants to tell her. He couldn't very well talk to himself, while he was currently stuck in traffic on the way to work.

An advert on the radio: "Oh no, you didn't leave your house keys in the car again did you, Lucy?" "I'm afraid I did, What am I like eh?" "Honey you know what you need?" "Tell me, I'm dying to know." "You need a new bath from Paramount showroom." "Oh that's a great idea."

John shakes his head, he thinks Forever FM's radio adverts are beginning to go a bit downhill. Kayleigh would be laughing and saying the same thing too, if she was sitting there in the car alongside him. He glances over at the empty seat beside him, with a thoughtful look registered across his face.

808's Pacific State plays on the radio

xxx

That same morning, Mandy's attempts to prize Steve away from his beloved motorbike were proving to be unsuccessful. Not even a bacon butty or her latest Instagram photos, were tempting enough to get him to come back into the house. Honestly she thought her husband should just ride off into the sunset on his bike because his obsession over the bloody thing was getting on her nerves. Every night he was constantly checking on the tyres, to see if there weren't any signs of punctures on the front or the back tyre.

She even had her younger sister to worry about too. Kayleigh had done unthinkable, she had signed up to both Twitter and Facebook. Mandy didn't believe those social network websites were worth the time of day, for sharing your feelings on. She believed it was always better to get your fears and feelings off your chest; when you're with the person, you especially want to tell.

It hadn't taken Mandy too long to guess, Kayleigh had fallen out with someone she fancies at work.

"You going to tell me who he is, Kayleigh or am I going to have to pay him a visit at your workplace." One thing that was understandably clear, Mandy was strongly protective of her sister. She didn't want to see her sister getting her heart broken by some knob head.

"Don't Mandy. I'm already sad enough as it is. I don't need you making it worse for me, by frogmarching yourself into my workplace and kicking him in the nuts. Everyone at work will film it on their phones and post it on YouTube." Kayleigh knew her sister meant well but she didn't want her sister's actions, resulting in her being sacked by Dave Thompson.

"Whoever this bloke is, he needs to accept responsibility for upsetting you Kayleigh. You deserve better than him." Mandy was right, Kayleigh thought. Yet a part of her, was still clinging onto some hope, John might hopefully come to his senses and that they could finally get to share a heart to heart with each other.

The sisters were keeping a close eye on Steve, from the living room window, as he carries out extra repairs to his bike. Mandy was going to be working from home that morning, she had a busy morning ahead of her and was quietly wondering when Kayleigh might get herself ready for work.

"I don't know if I deserve better than him. There's this other guy at work, me and John call him Ted 2, he's cute but I just think he's out of my league." Kayleigh accidentally let it slip out about John's name to her sister. Now she had a bad feeling, her sister would be gunning for John, if she was able to put a face to the name.

"Ted 2, seriously? He must have loved that film enough to name himself after it." Mandy jokes.

"What film?" Kayleigh isn't following what her sister really meant by her comment.

"Never mind." Mandy laughs.

"Get him when he's on his own and ask him out. If he says no then, give it a try with John. Eh who would have thought it, my sister finding herself in a love triangle...it's like something out of Coronation Street." Mandy loved her soaps and when it came to comparing her sister's complicated love life, she couldn't resist bringing up one of the soaps in her comments.

"I'm not asking him because I know the answer I'm going to get, if I did ask him." Kayleigh had considered the option of asking the store's popular trolley collector but she realized he would be probably more interested in showing off his sexy looks than listen to what she wanted to ask him. "You think I've lost the plot don't you?"

"Of course not. Any bloke would be happy to dance the night with you to a Duran Duran song but you'd rather pin your hopes, on this John bloke, who hurt your feelings instead. "

"Something someone told at work when we got a lift back from a staff do, 'make sure I hold onto this one'. I know this might sound mad but I don't want to give hope yet with John. I mean we did nearly kiss when he dropped me off the other week."

"Listen Kayleigh, women nowadays are making blokes work hard to fight for their affections. Make him fight for you and by that I don't mean make him fight for your honour against Ted 2. A dance off would be much better."

"I don't see what's wrong with having a heart-to-heart?" Kayleigh disagrees.

"They don't always go well, when you want them to. Remember Neil my first boyfriend, after I had one with him and guess what happened next, the randy bastard only ran off with my best friend. Last I heard about them, she did the dirty on him with a footballer. Serves him right."

"The same won't happen for me. Unless Rachel at work, is planning to getting her claws into him. Bitch." Kayleigh's mood changes quickly from calm to fuming within the space of 30 seconds. Even Mandy looks surprised by her sister's prediction. So much so, she half changes her mind on the advice she had just given to her sister.

"You know I've got your back, whenever you want to choose to warn her off John." Mandy reminds her, she would be in her sister's corner against Rachel.

"You don't need to tell me Mandy, I know you'd back me up every time." Kayleigh smiles.

Steve eventually joins them in the living room, both his hands were smeared with oil and all over his purple shirt. He also smelt strongly of petrol. "Shouldn't Bridget Jones' here, be getting ready to go to work by now? Don't tell me she's still trying to avoid John."

"How many times I have told you about getting oil on your shirts. Honestly love, you'll be having to wear a bib before long, when you decide to fix your bike again." Mandy huffed, giving her head a shake.

"Oh I might as well show my face at work then." Kayleigh decides to get herself ready properly.

"Nobody puts Kayleigh in the corner." Steve smirks knowingly. He recalls having heard a song request on the radio from the other day, while he was cleaning his bike . It hadn't taken him long to put two and two together, by working out that the song request was made by John for Kayleigh. She was obviously completely in the dark about this.

"Ha ha very funny Steve." Kayleigh doesn't look impressed by his rubbish attempt at winding her up. Strangely though, she knows she remembers Elsie mentioning this in work yesterday but of course her Irish colleague wasn't 'saying nothin' as to which colleague/where she had heard this comment from.

Kayleigh finally leaves for work, a few minutes later.

xxxx

Groove is in the heart by Deee-lite plays on Forever FM as John pulls into the store's car park. Ted 2 is posing for a selfie with two young female admirers. John had learned yesterday that the young man's work experience at the store would come to an end at the end of the week. For the past week, John and the rest of the management team had been trawling through at least 50 applications for the trolley collector vacancy, interviews were scheduled for next week.

He hadn't really spoken to the lad much over the course of his work experience at the shop. John thought the lad was just there to pick up a girlfriend, well it would explain why he occasionally went against the shop's dress code rules, deciding to walk round topless in the car park. Poor Janet from the shop's Pharmacy section; the shop's longest serving employee. She had got the surprise of her life one morning, when she walked in the staff changing room and saw a glimpse of the young man's ass. The poor woman therefore fainted afterwards as a result of this embarrassing incident.

As John got out of the car, the Now 48 CD somehow ended up on the pavement beneath his feet. Luckily there was no scratches or damage to the CD itself. He would still listen to it now and again, just as a helpful way for him to try and take the weight off his shoulders. Sometimes it did the trick, sometimes it didn't.

He was experiencing even more fantasies than usual, which didn't come as a surprise. He could swear fate wasn't willing to give him a break at all. It was constantly telling him to stop living a quiet life and find true happiness before it's too late.

The latest fantasy had been of him singing along to Luther Vandross' Never Too Much, like Luther does in the music video.

John eventually entered the building a few moments later. He knew he really wasn't looking forward to another day of getting the piss taken out of him by his team.

Meanwhile Kayleigh herself was not far behind. She was happily chatting to the Alpha Star taxi driver, who had picked up from outside the tram station in the City Centre

The taxi driver's eyes happens to glance at her name badge, while the taxi is stuck in traffic. "Kayleigh."

"Yeah." She wonders where he's going with this, he'd obviously read her name badge.

"They played your song on the radio the other day. Some bloke called John requested it, was what I heard from other taxi drivers. He'd told the radio presenter to say 'Nobody puts Kayleigh in the corner', if that's not a romantic enough way of telling a woman you love her, then I don't know what else is. If it's not you, whoever this Kayleigh is, then I'd say she's a very lucky woman having John in her life right now."

"Yeah I guess she is." Kayleigh said, with tears streaming down her cheeks. It dawns upon her, how everything is making sense now. Why her colleagues had been making every effort possible to drop her the hint and how she frustratingly hadn't worked it out. Of course, this was John's way of telling her he loves her because he knows she loves the Dirty Dancing film and musical. She felt absolutely guilty for letting her frustrations get the better of her.

"Are you okay, love?" The taxi driver notices from his rear view mirror, his passenger is crying her eyes out in the passenger seat. Her runny mascara is the giveaway.

"No, not really." She's not sure, she can face John at work, knowing now she might have lost him for good because she found out too late about the radio request.

End of Chapter

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