Liz woke up and for a minute, one single moment every thing was as it should be. Some one was in her bed and she thought it was her husband to be. She had forgotten for a moment he was in Ireland, that his father had passed. Then she opened her eyes. She didn't remember a lot about the night before except she had drunk, Vernon had been in the back room and then they had.
"Oh god." she said to herself as she opened her eyes to find he was in her bed. Not good...not good. How could she be so stupid?
"morning." he said to her smoothly. It was as if he didn't even fell bad. she had to say she couldn't feel worse. Why had she had to get drunk when she had worked so hard to get her and Jim so on track?
"You've got Michelle to get home to. So get up." she said to him as she did the same
how could she? How could she have done it to Jim when things had been going so right for them? Why had she had to spoil thing.

"Don't I even get a cuppa Liz?"
Putting on her night robe she went down stairs so she did not have to face him and what they had done.
Her husband was burying his dad today. She was the most hateful B ever.
Going in to the kitchen she picked up her mobile to see she had a message.

Sleep tight angel. I can't wait to be home, Jim x x x

A tear rolled down her cheek.
"Please don't regret what we did," she heard a voice plead with her from the door.
"No one can ever no." she said to Vernon. "I know, but as long as you remember, then that is away going to be ok with me." He said to her.
Pushing a rough kiss to her cheek he left her be, he may not regret it but she seemed to.
-
Frankie got the milk in from the door for breakfast. She was feeling sorry for Jim as she remembered her new crush. She wished she could be there for him. she wished he had let some one go with him and she wished it was her.
Looking up the road she saw some thing though. Vernon. He was being let out the rovers. That meant Elizabeth had…
"Oh my god…" she said to herself.
"What's up Frankie?" She heard Jamie asked.
"Nothing darling." She said but she felt disgusted about Liz.
That poor man was burying his father and she was coping off with her old flame. How sick was that?
-
Liz could not look in to either of her sons eyes that day. The boys were never going to forgive her for this, not if they found out.
"What is it mum?" asked Andy while Steve looked at her. The worse thing was they were worried for her.
"I am fine!" She said to them angrily. She had no use for there pity. She had no need for it either, despite the fast she was not worthy of it. She was just so stupid.
"I have to open up." she said to them….
"Why don't you let me?" said Steve to her. "Get a bit of rest."

"No, I can open up my open pub, thank you very much." She said to him.

-
Frankie was in the café and her heart was else where. What was she going to do over what she had seen.
Was she tell Jim who would almost certainly brake with his wife to be and definitely b e broken by the news (especially after the loss of his father) or was she too do nothing.
"Frankie are you ok?" Eileen who was in the cafe.
"I don't know really." She replied. "Can we talk?" she asked.
"Of course." Replied Eileen.
"What would you do if you saw one of your friends betray another, in like a affair ," she said. "Do you tell the other?"
Eileen blinked. "Well I don't know." She said to her. Had some one been fooling around then. "If it was me I would want to know." She said to her.
So would she, thought Frankie but… Jim had just lost his dad. He didn't need this right now.
And if she did go through with it then was she had to be doing it for the right reasons. Not for personal gain.
" I don't know…" she sighed. It was a hard choice.
"Well who?" she asked.
"I can't say." she sighed. Not till she knew what she was going to do.
"So it is some one I know then."

Three days on.

"Was it horrible?" Said Liz as she met her husband from the car. He was home at last. And she didn't kmow who she was going to handle it.
"Well it wasn't nice darling." He said to her. "But I am home now so I am, so lets go in." he said to her as he kissed her cheek. He had no idea what she had been up to. How could she have been so stupid, she thought yet again.
Making him a brew he quizzed he over what she had been up to since he had been gone.
"Nothing much has happened, except Steve told me we have the date for Tracy coming home." She sighed.
More fun.
"Oh great." He said to her. She was going to be furious.
"I know but I guess it is just one of those things we have to do." She said as he took his hand.
And how right she was.
The day came and there was a knock on the door.
"Are you sure this is what you want baby?" said Steven. She nodded.
"I'll go to the door then." He said as he kissed her reassuringly.
-
Christmas had been great for Tracy. She had had a good time with her brother but now she was ready to be home.
She knocked on the rovers where she knew her daughter and her father had been staying and she smiled as he opened the door.
He seemed tense
"you ok?" she asked with a smile.
"Sure," he sighed as he looked at her.
"Well can I come in, I can't want to see Amy, how's she doing?" she asked with a smile on her face.
"She's fine." He replied but he didn't let her in.
"Well come one let me in. I have come to pick her up." she said to him.
"There's has been a bit of a change of plan." he said to her honestly.
"What do you mean?" she asked. How could there be a chance in the plans. What plans were there to change?
"She is going to stay on with me for a bit longer." Steve told her.
"No she isn't Steve!" Tracy told him but when she tried to barge passed he wouldn't let her.
"Yes she is. It is what she wants and that is what is important to me." he said to her and she looked on furious.
"I can't believe you." She said shaking her head. He was taking her little girl from her.