The next morning when Des woke up Sheeagh was still asleep so he just lay there watching her. 'She looks so beautiful and peaceful.' Des thought to himself. He pushed a piece of hair gently from her eyes and she stirred the woke up.

"Morning." Des said softly.

Sheelagh yawned, "morning, what time is it?"

"8 o'clock."

"We've gotta get up."

"Mmm." Des nodded but neither of them moved.

"Do you wanna go in the shower first?"

"Okay. I'll be back in 10 minutes." Des got out of bed and went into the bathroom.

Thirty minutes later they were making their way to the kitchen together for their breakfast. Sheelagh made two cups of tea while Des made some toast for them both.

They ate their tea and toast in silence. When they had finished Sheealgh washed up and Des dried. They were washing and drying when Reg and Honey knocked and walked into the kitchen (they had a key between them for the outside doors.)

"Morning." They said simultaneously.

"Morning." Des and Sheelagh replied.

"Honey, is your skirt short enough?" Sheelagh asked and the other three laughed.

"So, what is sleeping in the same bed as Des like?" Honey asked excitedly.

Sheealgh laughed, "same as sleeping in the same bed as Patrick."

"Which is…?" Honey prompted.

"Why don't you try sleeping in the same bed as Des?"

"NO!" Des interrupted loudly.

"Don't you fancy me Des?" Honey sounded hurt.

"No offence, but I fancy someone else."

"Who?" Honey persisted.

"None of your business."

"Is it someone we know?"

"Yeah."

"Go on Des, you can't keep us guessing." Reg was just as excited as Honey.

"I didn't have you down as the gossiping type Reggie babe."

"No, I just wanna know who you fancy."

"Surely who Des fancies is nobody else's business except his own." Sheelagh put in.

"You're not just a little bit interested?" Honey asked.

"Yeah I am. But I'm not going to push him to know. You never know, it could be Gina!"

"Oi." Des hit her round the back of the legs with his tea towel.

"Ow!!" Sheelagh rubbed the back of her legs. "That really hurt." She said seriously.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you."

"Okay, come on. We'd best get this place ready." They all went to get things ready for the opening.

At 6 o'clock that evening they opened the doors for the first time. Everything seemed to run smoothly. It was about 10 o'clock and Sheelagh was taking a drink over to a table.

"Hello," a man approached Sheelagh as she was on her way back to the bar.

"Hello?" Sheelagh replied.

"I'm Steven."

"Oh. Look, I'm really bu…"

"Yeah, sorry. I just wanted to tell you that this is a great pub." With that, he walked off and Sheelagh went to the bar really confused. Des came up to her.

"Seems to be going okay…what's up?"

"This man, Steven, just came up to me and told me what a great pub it is."

"Don't worry about it," he lifted her chin up. "Everything's fine…Okay?"

Sheelagh nodded. "Come one, there's customer's need serving." They went to opposite ends of the bar.

The rest of the evening went without anyone else coming up to them and introducing themselves etc.

Later that night Reg and honey had already left and Des and Sheelagh were lying next to each other reading their books again. Des kept looking over and glancing at Sheelagh. She noticed but tried to ignore him. After 5 minutes of trying to ignore him Sheelagh turned to look at him.

"Can I help you?" she asked formally.

Des shook his head and went back to his book. Sheelagh yawned and got out of the bed.

"Where are you going?" Des looked up from his book.

"Toilet." Sheelagh went out of the room and returned a couple of minutes later. Des pulled back the duvet so she could get in. Although she was confused, she got in and allowed him to cover her up and he kept his arm over her.

"Are you going to sleep?" He asked.

Sheelagh nodded.

"Okay." Des stroked her hair back a bit then turned over so he was facing away from her.

Sheelagh was very confused by this time.