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A couple of days passed-by and Michelle was getting used to having Kieron around the place again, he had decided to stay on for a few days longer, just to settle the score with Carla after he had gotten Peter into trouble the other-night.

Kieron was sat in the Rovers that evening, with Peter & Carla as Michelle entered. Carla ushered her friend over to save her from Peter & Kieron's awful sense-of-humour.

"Hey Michelle. Where's Steve tonight?!" Peter asked his Wife's best-friend, himself and Steve had become good-mates recently…..

"He's over at Lloyd's…..The poor man has the duty of being Steve's best-man on our Wedding Day….." Michelle trailed-off with a light-chuckle.

"Awww that's sweet! They're dead close those two aren't they?!" Carla replied.

"Anyway, where's Cassia?!" Michelle asked.

"She's just next-door at me Dad & Deirdre's." Peter told her with a small-smile.

"So how is the Wedding Planning going then 'Chelle?!" Carla asked her best-friend excitably and Peter just looked-at Kieron, noticing that he had gone very quiet. He sighed-in sympathy for his best-mate. He obviously still held a candle for the Bride-to-be, but at the moment, she certainly wasn't holding one back in return.

"Oh it's great! I think I've found the perfect dress! Hey you'll have to come and have a sneaky peak with me next time I go to the dress shop! Besides we've gotta pick the bridesmaids dresses!" Michelle said happily.

"Oooh Yeah! So who are your bridesmaids gonna be then?! Apart from me obviously….." Carla trailed-off with a little-giggle.

"Well there's you, obviously, some old family mates, and little Amy….." Michelle replied happily.

"Hey ya do realise that with you marrying Steve, you are not only joining the MacDonald clan, but you're also joining the Barlow Clan too! So urm, welcome to the Family!" Carla joked with Michelle, who just sighed.

"Well whatever…..Anyway! I was thinking, how would you like Cassia to be a little flower girl?!" Michelle asked Carla as Peter & Kieron had drifted-off into their own little-conversation.

"Awww 'Chelle. That would be great! Are ya sure?!" Carla asked-her with a massive-grin on her face.

"Oh Carla of-course I'm sure! Come-here!" Michelle said as the two-friends embraced each-other into a celebratory-hug.

"Hey did ya hear that Baby?!" Carla asked Peter as she turned-to face-him, interrupting his conversation with Kieron. "Our little-darling-daughter is gonna be Michelle's flower-girl!" She told-her Husband happily.

"Oh…..Great….." Peter replied with a smile…..He wasn't all that bothered about all of this Wedding Stuff…He was happy for Michelle & Steve and all that…..But at the moment, he wanted to support Kieron.

"Hey, I'm sure I could convince Steve to get Simon in with the Ushers. Dya think he'd like that Peter?!" Michelle asked-him curiously.

"Listen, thanks for the offer Michelle. But Si doesn't really know Steve all that well…..And he'll be too interested in Jessica to spend his time with us bunch of older-lads….." Peter politely-turned-her down before all of the Pre-Wedding Gossip started-up again.

"So, can I get anyone a drink?!" Kieron offered as he stood-up and then headed-over towards the bar, sighing-in sadness as he did-so…..


Meanwhile, Simon was over-at Jessica's. They were sat on the sofa in the living-room together.

"Si….." Jess trailed-off.

"Yeah….." Si replied.

"Ya know at school earlier, your mates wanted you to hang-out with them but you said you had to come with me…..Well ya do know that I don't mind if ya want to hang-out with your mates instead….." She told-him sweetly.

"But wouldn't that make me a rubbish boyfriend?!" He asked-her nervously.

"No. I mean, I think it's sweet that you chose me over them. But I could tell that you wanted to go and play footie with them really." Jessica told-him truthfully.

"Well yeah I did but…..I love hanging-out with you aswell ya know?! Besides, they would have just gotten on my nerves eventually anyway….." Simon trailed-off as he put his arm around Jessica's shoulders.

"What do they think of me?!" Jess asked-him.

"Honestly?!….." Si asked, and Jess nodded-at him in reply. "Well they like to tease me about you and stuff but I know that they love ya really. And they weren't that bothered when I turned-them down today." He told her truthfully as he received a text from Luke, one of his mates.

Luke: So we were playin truth or dare. And Thomas sed that we shud dare ya 2 kiss Jess wiv tongues. :P

Simon just sighed, ignoring the rather immature text as he put his phone away.

"Who was that?!" Jessica asked-him innocently.

"Just Luke telling me that he scored a goal in footie today….." Simon lied to Jessica, not wanting-to upset her.

"Oh." Jessica trailed-off with a little-giggle as he received another text from Luke…..

Luke: Don't ignore me. If ya don't do the 1st dare, the 2nd dare is worse mate. :P

Simon: She's my girlfriend. Not some silly dare. Can the dare be about something else?

Luke: Thomas sez if u don't snog her then u have 2 touch her bum.

Simon: Whatever. Do u have 2 see the snog or wat?!

Luke: Tom sez yh.

Simon: 2morrow at the bus stop. Happy now?

Luke: LOL. Good on ya m8.

Simon sighed quietly in pure-frustration. He wasn't looking forward to this in the slightest. I mean, what if Jess didn't want to?!...And what if she found-out that it was just some silly dare?! This dare was bad-news and Simon knew it…..


Back-over at the Rovers Return, Michelle had noticed that Kieron seemed-to be taking an awful long-time at the bar, so she walked-over to him, leaving Carla & Peter to chat by themselves.

"So Mister….." Carla began as she played with Peter's hands. "I do hope you're gonna be home tonight and not out with Kieron…..Again….." She asked-him in a light-hearted kind-of fashion.

"Nah I'm staying-in with you and Cassia tonight my love. And besides, Kieron's gonna stay at a local-B&B tonight, so we can spend some quality family-time together." He told-her sweetly.

"Hmmm yeah. We don't seem to get enough of that nowadays do we?!" Carla asked Peter.

"No we don't….." Peter trailed-off with a sad-sigh, before he had a little 'light-bulb moment' as he liked-to call-them. "Hey I've got an idea! How about we go away for a couple-of days?! Just Me, You, Cassia & Simon?!" Peter suggested-to Carla.

"Awww Darlin' that's a very sweet suggestion. But in case you hadn't realised, Simon's still at school." Carla replied, giggling slightly at her Husband's suggestion.

"Oh Yeah…..Well I think he's got an inset day coming-up…..We could go away over the weekend, go on the Friday, come-back on the Monday evening…..And I'm sure I could swing Leanne around to the idea of letting Simon come if I tried hard-enough….." Peter offered-to Carla.

"Oooh you are on fire tonight Mr Barlow." Carla flirted with her gorgeous Husband.

"Am I Now?!" Peter chuckled.

"Yes You Are. Now listen, we've gotta a couple-of hours left before he need to go and pick Cassia-up from next-door, howz about's we head home and make the most of this fire you have tonight?!" Carla seductively suggested-to Peter as she planted a teasing-kiss onto his lips.

"Hmmm now that is a very-good idea Mrs Barlow. Come-on. Let's go, before Kieron & Michelle drag-us into more Wedding-Talk." Peter joked as Carla took-him by the hand and then excitably led-him out of the pub and towards their flat…..


Kieron & Michelle were still chatting at the bar and had barely noticed that Carla & Peter had left the place a good 10 Minutes ago now…..

"So Kieron, I need to you to answer a question for me. And I need you to answer 100% truthfully. Are you really happy about Me & Steve getting Married?!" Michelle asked-him both quietly and sensitively.

Kieron just sighed. "I guess so yeah….." He trailed-off nervously.

"Kieron….." Michelle warned-him to tell the truth. "Look, I'm marrying Steve no-matter what. But it would just mean the world to me if I knew that you could be genuinely happy for us….." She told-him honestly.

After a couple-of seconds to pause, Kieron began to walk-out towards the smoking-area. "Follow-Me." He told his ex-softly. Kieron was relieved when he discovered that the smoking-area was empty and that Michelle had followed-him out here…..

"Kieron what have you brought me out here for?!" Michelle asked-him curiously.

"Michelle. I want ya to be happy. I really do. But no-matter how much I try and be genuinely happy for ya…..I can't. I just can't…..Because there's just one thing that's stopping-me from doing-so….." Kieron trailed-off.

"And what's that?!" Michelle asked-him, nervous as to what was coming-next…..

"I still love ya Michelle. I always have, and I always will. And you marrying Steve isn't gonna make that go-away. Infact, it's just gonna make-it 10 Times worse!"

"Kieron I….."

"No Michelle! Don't say it! Because I know what you're gonna say. You're gonna tell-me that you still love Steve. Well I know that ya do…..But I also know that you still love-me too right?!" A desperate Kieron told-her.

"No I….." Michelle tried-to speak but Kieron interrupted her once-again.

"MICHELLE!" Kieron shouted. "Sorry." He said, lowering the volume of his voice as he walked-over to Michelle and placed his hands onto either side of her cheeks. "I Love You." He whispered-to her gently.

"But I don't love you Kieron." Michelle whispered back-to him a little-tearfully now.

"Yes ya do. I know that ya do." Kieron replied softly before he leaned-in to place one of the softest of kisses onto Michelle's lips.

Every inch of Michelle's mind and body wanted to kiss Kieron back and start-up yet another steamy-affair with the charming Irish-Guy. But she couldn't. She loved Steve. She was marrying Steve. She couldn't deny how much she had begun to enjoy the kiss for a couple-of seconds, but then reality kicked-in and she violently pushed Kieron away from her.

"KIERON! NO!" She shouted-at him tearfully. "I'm marrying Steve! I'm IN LOVE with STEVE!" She screeched. "And if you thought that by bringing-me out here that you would get your own sordid little-way with me tonight, then you'd be wrong Kieron! You'd be VERY wrong!" Michelle virtually screamed-at Kieron before she then ran-out into the back-alleys in floods of tears as she ran home as fast-as she could…..


Over-at Carla & Peter's, the happily married-couple were led-in bed together after spending a rather…..Passionate…..Time together. Carla lay comfortably, wrapped-up in Peter's strong and safe arms as she smiled-at him.

"I love you so much. Please don't ever let Kieron bring the rebel-side-of you out again." Carla told Peter softly.

"I love you too. But can we not argue about Kieron again?!" Peter requested softly to Carla.

"Okay I'll leave-it there. But I'm just saying if Kieron's your best-mate, then he'll respect that you've got a family to care-for these-days." Carla told Peter calmly.

"I know that Love. And I'm sorry that I let him persuade-me to be so stupid. But hey, I'm back-now. And I'm not going-anywhere….." Peter replied to her sweetly before gently kissing her on the lips.

"Well yes you are going-somewhere Baby. Because one of us needs to go and collect Cassia from Your Dad's & Deirdre's, and I couldn't possibly move from this bed now that I'm so comfortable….." She teasingly joked with her Husband.

"Well I hate-to break-it to ya Baby. But firstly, for-me to get-up you're gonna have to move…..And secondly, you're gonna have to help-me find my clothes….." He chuckled-in reply, making his beautiful-Wife let-out her dirty-laugh.

"I dunno…..I think you should go Naked…..It would amuse the rest of the Street that's for sure….." Carla giggled.

"Yeah but do you really want the rest of Coronation Street to see my body in all its glory?!" Peter Joked...

"Ah no. You're quite right Baby.…..That's for me to see and me only." Carla smirked. "Off ya go then Baby. As much as I would love to keep ya here all night now, Cassia has quite-a few-years to go yet before she will truly-understand the enjoyment of what we just did." She told her Husband with a giggle before he then headed-off to go and collect their gorgeous-Princess…..


Back-at Michelle & Steve's, Steve was sat-on the sofa when Michelle came bursting-in, in floods of tears. "Babe, what an earth has happened?!" A worried Steve asked his Fiancé, obviously concerned that she was in such a state.

"Awww Babe come-here." Steve said as he hugged Michelle tightly whilst she cried-into his shoulder. "It's okay. Shhh calm-down." He gently soothed-her as she cried-her eyes-out…..


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Coming-Up…..

- Will Michelle tell Steve the truth about what happened with Kieron?!

- Will Simon go through with the dare?!

- We say goodbye to Kieron again…..But will he be missed?! Or will certain residents be glad to see the back-of him once-again?!

- The Barlow's enjoy a little-break away together…..

- Wedding Bells for Michelle & Steve…..Will it all go smoothly?!