About a month later and the competition had become a long and distant memory to both Sandra and Gerry what with all the case Sandra had mounting up on her desk. Luckily they both took this as a sign that Susanne Kelly had not been sniffing around Strickland as he never once mentioned it. Unsurprisingly she had been talking to Jack and Brian but naturally they were more than happy to corroborate with Sandra and Gerry's story.

Jack and Brian were busy trawling through the database and missing persons for any sign of Demi Black who there were unable to trace, while Sandra and Gerry were out trying to demand an interview with the original investigation's prime suspect.

Then Gerry's phone rang, it was a number he did not recognise so he was hesitant to answer it.

"Gerry it could be the magazine people" Sandra pestered.

"Oh yeah I had forgot about them" he said

"Well answer it then" she exclaimed.

"Okay I will, Gerry Standing, yes, oh well thank you very much, no that is fine, thank you, bye" he said hanging up.

"Well have you won" she eagerly asked.

"Not quite" he said

"What do you mean no quite either you have won or you haven't" she said.

"Well I did come first but I came joint with a man who made a melt in the mouth chocolate bomb cake"

"Oh that is good to know, so what happens do you get half of the money"

"Yeah, you sound more excited than me"

"Sorry, well a grand is good isn't it gives you a bit more money to help clear off your debts"

"It does yeah, shall we go back and tell the others the good news"

"That's brilliant" said Jack.

"Congratulations" Brian praised.

"Cheer's you all wanna go and celebrate" Gerry asked.

"Gerry's paying" Sandra chipped in.

"I am not this wad of cash is going straight in the bank"

"Ha, I will believe that when I see it" Jack laughed.

"Very funny right who's coming" Gerry asked storming out of the office.

The next Tuesday Sandra heard was when 'Bakes and Cakes' was next published and available in the shops so on the way to work Sandra stopped off at the newsagents to pick up a copy to see what exactly that journalist had incorporated of their interview into the magazine. Flicking through she was pleasantly pleased the photos weren't too bad either.

Arriving at work with the magazine rolled under her arm and clutching a takeaway coffee cup she arrived in the office to see the double page spread of their interview was stuck up on the whiteboard.

"Whose bright idea was that" she asked her boys who were all there before her for once.

"Gerry's" Brian said.

"I might have guessed" she sighed.

"Well he wanted to show you off to the world" Jack added.

"And who can blame me" he said emerging from the coffee station "what do ya reckon is next Wife Swap" he joked.

"No Gerry, what's next is work, so let's get on with it".

The End!

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