The next day was a very cold Wednesday in late November, Carla and Peter had agreed to meet outside her building at eight pm. They had decided that since their last "date" hadn't gone so well that this one needed to be a little bit more relaxed and casual.

That didn't stop Carla getting her self all dolled up before hand. Michelle was over at her flat, sitting on Carla's bed and watching her as she scrambled through her wardrobe to find something to wear.

"Uh I ave nothing to wear…" Carla moaned flinging a black dress onto her bed, that particular dress was one that she had actually been wearing just five minutes ago, because she'd thought it was okay. Michelle raised an eyebrow at Carla's full to bursting wardrobes and said,

"Carla what are you on about? You've got hundreds of clothes… although I must say I hadn't realised that you wear so much black."

"Yeah neither did I..." Carla said staring at the endless amounts of black tops and jeans "but I still don't ave anything to wear… I know me n Peter said it'll just be a casual kind of date but I still want to look… y'know like I've made an effort." Carla sighed sitting down on her bed in an official bad mood.

Carla told Michelle about her and Peter getting back together last night and Michelle was so overjoyed at how it had happened that she'd forgotten to tell Carla to be careful. Michelle knew that Peter had changed and that he obviously loved Carla like crazy but if she was honest there was a tiny little part of her that was slightly worried for Carla and as she sat on her bed in her underwear nibbling her thumb nail, Michelle knew that this date with Peter meant everything to Carla and that she shouldn't spoil it by telling Carla to be cautious.

"Carla… it's almost quarter past, you need to hurry up and pick something, You can't keep Peter waiting." Michelle said, she got up off Carla's bed and walked over to her wardrobe.

"Y'know what Chelle, I'm fed up of this, you just pick something for me and then I'll ave to wear it okay." Carla suggested although she regretted it when she saw Michelle's face.

"You sure about that?" Michelle grinned mischievously even though she knew that this was no time to joke with Carla.

"Within in reason…" Carla said. Michelle rummaged through Carla's clothes and pulled out the first thing that she couldn't see that wasn't a dark colour.

"How about this… I don't think I've even see you wear it." Michelle said holding up a white dress with horizontal navy blue stripes on. Carla eyed up the dress for a moment and said

"Yeah I aven't… I were meant to wear it out with you one night but I changed me mind at the last minute because it's very figure hugging and you said that you weren't dressing up, I mean I didn't want to look over done when you were there in your jeans."

"Right well I'm choosing this then…" Michelle said admiring the dress that she was still holding in her hands. Carla thought about saying no to it but as time went on she knew that she would eventually have to pick something to wear and it might as well be this.

"Okay…" Carla said jumping off her bed and beginning to pull the dress on over her head. Once dressed, Carla looked in her full-length mirror and then turned to Michelle

"Well…"She said looking to Michelle for her honest opinion, the dress fitted Carla perfectly, it was just the right length for it to be sexy but not sleazy and the sleeves stopped just above the elbows.

"Carla you look stunning." Michelle insisted "Honestly, you're gonna blow Peter's mind."

"Good." Carla grinned turning back to her mirror and feeling satisfied with her reflection, she breathed out sending some of her long hair up into the air with it.

"Are you nervous about this?" Michelle asked upon seeing Carla's deep breath, Michelle was just talking about Carla being nervous about the date but Carla had misunderstood her and said

"No, not at all…" She then turned to Michelle and said, "Chelle if I didn't give Peter another chance then I reckon I would end up regretting it forever… Why? Do you think I'm making a mistake?"

"Carla, we've spoken about this, aven't we? I think it's about time you and Peter got back together and I am ridiculously happy for you both…" Michelle began "I just meant are you nervous about the date?"

"Oh…" Carla said awkwardly as she brushed through her recently straightened hair, "I'm not nervous about the date its self it's just… well I just hope that nothing goes wrong tonight because I don't think I could take it."

"Yeah me neither, I'm as excited for this date as you are." Michelle smirked

"Oh trust me I don't think anyone is more excited about this whole thing than me..." Carla said now going through her shoe collection. "Well except for Peter maybe."

"So I take it if tonight goes well then Peter and you will be coming back ere..." Michelle said as Carla pulled her favourite pair of black heels.

"Well we can hardly go back to Ken's can we?" Carla smirked as she thought about what Peter was currently sleeping on at Ken's and whether it could accommodate it's self for what Carla had in mind for later.

"No I guess not." Michelle chuckled, looking down at her watch. She then went and gave Carla a quick kiss on the cheek. "Right I'm off, ave a great time ok and don't do anything I wouldn't do."

"So not much then." Carla grinned cheekily as Michelle walked towards her bedroom door.

"Ha ha." Michelle chuckled "Bye babe."

"Bye Chelle and thanks for being so supportive." Carla called after her, she heard Michelle say

"That's what best friends are for." As she let herself out of Carla's flat.

Carla continued getting ready and was done by half seven. It was early but definitely didn't want to be late. She was so glad that Michelle was being so optimistic about Peter and as she waited for him to arrive Carla prayed that tonight would go without a hitch.

Peter arrived at five to eight with the same notion of not being late, he was dressed in a white shirt with a black jacket and was almost knocked right off his feet when he saw Carla.

"Wow…" He wolf whistled as she sauntered over to him, She giggled as he snaked an arm around her waist and pulled her towards him.

"So I take it you like me dress then?" she asked as Peter looked her up and down again.

"Like doesn't even cover it..," Peter said giving Carla a kiss on the cheek "You look mind blowing." Carla gave him a glowing smile as he had unknowingly said the same thing that Michelle had said about her dress.

"Y'know you can give me a bigger kiss then that... I mean we are back together after all…" Carla said. Peter grinned back at her and kept his arm around her waist. He was almost hoping that everyone he knew would just so happen to walk past Victoria Court so that they could see that he was back with his gorgeous wife.

"Oh trust me, I plan on doing that later…" he said sexily, as a car pulled up outside Carla's building, she looked at it and noticed that not only was it a cab but also that Steve was in the front seat.

"What's he doing ere?" She asked as Peter took her hand and led her to the cab.

"I thought it would be more fun if we got a cab." Peter said not entirely truthfully as he had actually lost his car keys and he didn't want to tell Carla that because she had already been making fun of him for getting old.

"Why?" Carla asked a little suspiciously,

"Well so I don't ave to keep me eyes on the road for a start, I mean it would be pretty damn hard when you look like that." Peter grinned as he gave Carla another little kiss. Steve watched them in his windscreen mirror,

"Oi you two, I won't be avin any of that in the back of my cab." he joked "You better keep your hands where I can see em."

"Oh I can't promise that Steve…" Carla said as Peter comically rushed to open the door for her "Well aren't you a gent." She said, smiling ecstatically as she got in the car.

Steve drove Peter and Carla into town, he stopped outside a Bill's restaurant which Peter had chosen because whilst it was a rather casual place to eat it had dim lighting and leather sofa's where they could still get cosy if they wanted to.

"How much do I owe ya?" Peter asked Steve. He just shook his head at his friend and said,

"Oh don't even worry about it, ave good night you crazy kids."

"Cheers mate." Peter said appreciatively, glad that Steve like Michelle, was being so positive about him and Carla getting back together.

"Ahhhh thanks Steve." Carla added and then she went to get out of the car but Peter rushed again so that he could play prince charming and let Carla out of the cab.

Peter and Carla had found it very difficult to keep their hands off of each other in the cab, in fact they had barley managed it and as Steve drove off Peter pulled Carla towards him suddenly and kissed her hungrily on the lips.

"Hmmm something tells me there's gonna be a lot of this tonight." Carla said as Peter rested his hand on the bottom of her spine.

"Absolutely." Peter said taking Carla's hand with his free one. "Let's go inside eh?" Peter led Carla to the doors of the restaurant and they both went inside.

They spoke to a waiter who pointed out a candle lit table which was in front of a leather sofa, Peter nodded at it and as they walked over to it Carla gazed around the restaurant, when she actually saw where they were being sat, she turned and smirked at Peter.

"Oh well, trust you to pick somewhere like this Peter Barlow, any excuse to get me by candle light and next to you on a sofa." She said as the waiter handed them menus and said he would be back to take their orders in a little bit. Carla sat down on the sofa happily and crossed her legs with the menu in hand.

"And how did I know they were gonna sit us ere eh?" Peter said sitting down next to Carla. She still was smiling away at him, they were both so glad that they were finally able to be a couple again, that everyone else around them seemed to fade right out of the picture.

They both began to look at the menus although every so often they would look up at each other and grin stupidly. Eventually they made their drink orders with their waiter and got very comfortable on the sofa they had been giving to sit on.

"So... tell me about ya self then." Peter said as their drinks were soon brought over, Carla had ordered a bottle of fizzy water, she knew that Peter didn't really mind her having a few drinks but she didn't want anything to spoil their night. She laughed at Peter and shrugged "I'm serious… tell me about your self."

"Tell me about ya self?" she scoffed, shaking her head and still laughing at the suggestion that he didn't already know everything about her.

"Hey stop laughing at me, I'm trying to make this like a proper first date, y'know, one where you get to know each other's likes and dislikes..."

"But you already now me likes and dislikes." Carla said

"I can't know all of em…" Peter said, "There must be something we haven't discussed since I got back…" Carla thought for a moment and then grinned

"Oh I know… I can tell ya who me favourite member of One Direction is, if you want?"

"Really?" Peter frowned

"Yes really…" Carla said watching Peter's disappointed expression "What?"

"I gotta say I wasn't actually expecting you to actually ave a favourite member of One Direction." Peter said rather stunned because that kind of cheesy pop music was definitely not Carla's kind of thing.

"Yeah... I'm sensing a little judgement from you if I'm honest." Carla grinned

"Well your senses would be correct." Peter joked,

"Hey... blame Amy, she was going on about them for ages to me last time I was over the pub, She forced me to pick one."

"Yeah yeah, Sure… I bet you'll be front row at their next concert." Peter said playfully.

"Oh give over!" Carla said giving Peter a little poke. "and just FYI me favourite one is Liam… and the name is just coincidence by the way." She thought Peter might have found it a bit funny that she had chosen the one member of the band that shared the same name with her old flame but he hadn't seemed to notice at all.

"Liam... Which one's he?" Peter asked although he was oblivious to what any of them even looked like.

"The fit one." Carla shrugged, leaning forward and taking a sip of her drink.

"Oh the fit one… Yeah that helps." Peter said "He's not the one who has all the curly hair is he?"

"No way…" Carla scoffed putting her drink back down on the table. "But enough about One Direction, come on then you, your turn, tell me something about your self, something I don't know yet."

"Okay... and watch me do this whole first date thing properly…" Peter said with a smirk, obviously ready to fascinate Carla with some new information about himself, Carla laughed silently to herself as Peter continued "So I went swimming on the weekend..."

"Oh did you now? How fascinating..." Carla smirked

"Well the thing is, On Friday I'd had this awful disaster date..." Peter began

"Oh really? What was she like?" Carla asked

"Oh she were incredibly beautiful but I was incredibly stupid and it didn't end well. So I had a lot of frustration that I just wanted to work out but I didn't want to run into my date at the gym... so that's why I went for a swim instead and anyways whilst there I found myself signing up for this Swimathon thing."

"A Swimathon? Are you serious?" Carla said surprised as Peter nodded at her proudly,

"Yep... I had just finished a rather long swim, when this woman said she had been watching me for a while and that she thought I'd be interested, at first I said no but she told me a bit more and it is for charity, so I said yes in the end." Carla raised an unimpressed eyebrow at Peter and then said,

"She was watching you swim? Who is this woman? Am I gonna ave to go and ave a word with her?" Peter felt as if Carla was joking but she still had a slight tone of seriousness to her voice, a tone of envy, one that he just couldn't get enough of.

"Now now don't get jealous... She's only one of the lifeguards." Peter said with a chuckle.

"Hmmmm I still don't like the sound of her to be honest. I mean what's she watching you for? Shouldn't she be scanning the pool for potential drowning?" Carla joked but properly this time. "I'd be a little concerned that the woman who is supposed to be responsible for saving lives, is that easily distracted by you Peter." She added

"Well can you blame her?" Peter grinned "I mean I'd watch me too if I were her..." Peter watched as Carla's eyebrow raised

"Ave you always been this full of yourself?" She grinned

"I think so..." Peter said grinning back at her "You should come with with me sometime, see me in action."

"Me?" Carla scoffed "No way... I mean I can't be dealing with the all the chlorine messing with my hair for one, if I'm not on holiday it's so not worth it."

"Well you can wear a swimming hat." Peter suggested although he knew what Carla would think about that idea too.

"A swimming hat? never... besides me and you... half naked in a open stretch of water... Yeah I don't think we'd get much swimming done to be honest." Carla smiling at Peter in a way that was totally suggestive. "So when exactly is this Swimathon then?" Peter thought for a moment and then shrugged.

"I'm not actually sure what the date is, I better double check the next time I go swimming eh, wouldn't want to miss it."

"Honestly Peter..." Carla said rolling her eyes "Trust you not to know when your supposed be doing something so important… hey can I come and watch?" Carla asked, she was immensely excited at the idea of spurring Peter on at something, especially if it was going to be in front of others.

"Of course you can..." Peter said with a grin "You can be me little cheerleader."

"Oh and you'd like that wouldn't you." Carla said smirking and leaning in for a kiss "Maybe I'll get me self all kitted out in the little uniform n everything." Peter nodded at Carla and kissed her back passionately, they were both in their own little world and they only stopped kissing when their waiter came back to their table and cleared his throat awkwardly.

"Are... You two ready to order yet?" He asked, Carla shook her head and laughed as they had got so caught up in their conversation and then their kisses that they had forgotten to even look at the menu again after ordering their drinks. "I'll come back later then shall I?" the waiter said, he was more than used to couples getting slightly carried away whilst they waited for service.

"Do we ave to eat? Can't we just down our drinks and then leave?" Carla asked with a naughty grin. She was desperate to get Peter back to her place and it was obvious to him and everyone else, as she edged closer to him.

"Oh yes... We certainly have to eat, you're gonna need lots of energy for what I've got planned later." Peter said returning the naughty grin. Carla giggled excitedly and opened the menu.

After much deliberation Carla had decided what she wanted to eat, there were many delicious looking things on the menu but after seeing the cod fish finger sandwich she closed the menu and said,

"Right I know what I'm getting, come on Peter order up." Peter looked up and raised an eyebrow

"My my, we are in a rush to get home aren't we?" He smirked but he closed the menu and decided that he was going to have the steak. The waiter came over and they ordered their chosen meals, Peter was grinning at Carla again as the waiter walked away.

"What?"

"Did you really just order a fish finger sandwich?" He asked watching her as she crossed her legs towards him. She nodded

"Yeah... me and Rob used to eat them all the time when we were kids, they were quick and easy to make, not to mention pretty cheap." Carla said almost reminiscing about how her Mum would go out with their latest uncle and leave her and Rob alone, they'd have something easy to eat like a fish finger sandwich, which Carla had made for them and then they would just be free to do what they want, When Carla thought about it she used to prefer it when her Mum was out of the house, it was a hell of a lot more peaceful than when she was in it.

"You can take the girl out the council estate eh?" Peter said taking Carla's hand and bringing her back to the here and now. She looked down at it happily, She was still so glad that she and Peter were out on their second "first proper date." But soon enough she couldn't help but wonder something, "Carla…" Peter said as she bit down on her bottom lip. "What is it?" he asked, he had been watching her and he was clearly able to tell that she was troubled about something.

"Can I ask you something? About when you left Weatherfield?" Carla asked a little anxiously, Peter nodded so she swallowed and then continued "It's about when you were in Portsmouth... was there anybody else? Like did you date anyone else or maybe have another girlfriend?" Carla had been desperate to ask this question for months but she had never got around to it because she felt as if it would be awkward and also that it was none of her business because they were supposed to be friends and nothing more.

"No, No I didn't date anyone, I didn't even look at another woman... Scouts honour." Peter said truthfully, he waited for a moment and as Carla nodded and smiled at him, he asked "How about you?"

"Me? Oh I had a long line of men queuing up around the block for me..." Carla joked with a smirk.

"Seriously Carla..." Peter said watching her as she eventually shook her head.

"No there was no else." She said quietly, knowing that Peter would be thrilled at this news.

"Good…" Peter grinned "So I guess that means it's been a hell of a long time since we've both had some action then..." He said licking his lips slightly at the exciting thought of being able to get Carla alone soon.

"It sure has..." Carla said nodding and thinking the exact same dirty thoughts as he was.

The food came after another fifteen minutes or so, Carla started eating her fish finger sandwich straight away and she was long done before Peter had finished his steak. She watched him as he ate and every so often she would lean over and steal some of his chips.

"Oi!" Peter said grinning, "You really need to stop pinching my chips and order some of your own."

"Why can't you share? You've got loads of food you greedy little so n so." Carla said picking up her drink and taking a sip. After she had finished her drink she decided to delve deep into Peter's mind and asked him "So... what took ya so long then?"

"What d'ya mean?" Peter asked,

"To kiss me, I mean you were back ere for ages before you went for it… then again I were the one who kissed you in the end." Carla said

"Well at first I though that me and you needed to just stay as friends, and that if I kissed you then it would make you mad and I really didn't want to do that, I didn't want to lose you again… but then one day I just decided that I was gonna go for it… once I knew that you were also desperate for me to kiss you that is." Peter grinned at Carla "I kept waiting because I guess I just wanted it to be this perfect moment."

"So when did you know that I wanted you to kiss me then?" Carla asked intrigued.

"Well I never really did if I'm honest, I just got a bit brave on Halloween and well the rest is history." Peter said still grinning away at Carla.

"D'ya remember that night I stayed over?" Carla asked referring to the time she'd seen Ken out in the early hours and helped Peter take him home.

"How could I forget? I've been hoping to recreate it ever since."

"Well… when me and you were snuggled up in that delightful little sofa bed of yours, I were desperate for you to kiss me then and that night after the quiz night… pretty much every night since then to be honest."

"Really?" Peter asked a little taken aback because that night Carla had stayed round really was a while ago now.

"Yep, n before you say it, I didn't kiss you because I wanted it to be you to make the first move, just so I could be sure that it was really want you wanted." Carla said.

"Well no wonder it took us so long, I mean that were pretty much what I was thinking." Peter said. Carla smiled at him and then cheekily took another chip off of his plate. Peter gave her a slightly dark look and said, "You know you are so lucky that you're the love of my life."

"You're taking ages, think of it as me helping you eat faster." Carla said but she was smiling like mad, at Peter's last comment. Love was something that they hadn't spoken about yet but she was definitely feeling it as they sat there together by candlelight.

"There you go again, trying to rush off home." Peter said as he started eating his own food again. "Oh and speaking of home, I'm viewing a new flat tomorrow, if it's nice the guy said I can move in as soon as I want."

"And where is this flat may I ask?" Carla said a little concerned that Peter wasn't going to be across the road from her any more, especially as they had just got back together.

"It's literally around the corner from Coronation Street, not far I promise." Peter said upon Carla's expression.

"Ohhh well it's all happening for you aint it?" Carla said smiling at Peter "Does ya Dad know that you're planning on moving out?"

"No… I haven't mentioned it to him yet." He said, Ken had said that he'd been feeling rather ill earlier when Peter had originally sat down to tell him that he might be moving out so Peter decided to save it for another time. He was more than grateful to his Dad for letting him stay but he knew that he had to make it own his own, especially now him and Carla were back together.

They had talked all through the rest of Peter's meal, they spoke about the days they'd had at work and it turned out that they'd both been thinking about each other for almost the entire day. Carla then told Peter about her conversations with Roy and Simon the day before. Peter almost teared up when he heard that Simon told Carla that he loved her, He was immensely relived that Simon really adored Carla, it was a very nice change compared to the first time around when Simon pretty much hated her.

By the time Peter was finished his steak, Carla was ready to eat again and had been eying up the many desserts that other people in the restaurant were having, so when the waiter came to take their plates and Peter went to ask for the bill, Carla said,

"Hey what's the rush? I want a pudding." Peter grinned and nodded as the waiter brought over the menu again.

"Really? I thought we could save dessert until later." He said as Carla read over the puddings that were available.

"So I'll ave two then…" Carla said smirking, as it was her turn to take her time and make Peter wait. In the end she chose a chocolate brownie and Peter said that he was fine but when Carla's dessert actually came, it was his turn to try and steal her food because the chocolate brownie she'd ordered looked truly scrumptious and as the waiter set it down in front of her, Peter regretted not ordering one for himself.

"Ohhh thank you…" Carla said and she picked up the spoon excitedly, the brownie was served with Ice Cream and a chocolate flake and before Carla had even had the chance Peter had snatched up the chocolate flake. "Oi!" Carla laughed as he bit into it "You cheeky…" Peter suddenly leant forward and popped the rest of the chocolate flake into her open mouth.

"Now you know what it's like when people steal your food." He said as Carla half giggled and half chewed the chocolate that had been forced into her mouth by Peter, he then kissed her not even giving her chance to finish eating, She giggled into his kiss and he then moved his mouth towards her ear and whispered "Now hurry up and eat because I'm not sure I can wait any longer to get you alone."

"Then you better call us a cab so that we don't have to stand outside and wait for it." Carla whispered as Peter kissed her on her neck, She soon wriggled away from him a little because even she could see that they were on the verge of getting carried away again. She went back to eat her pudding as Peter called a cab

"Should we say half n hour Carla?" He asked as Carla was still making her way through the ice cream and had barley started on the actual brownie part, She nodded and when the waiter came by she asked him for the bill so that they could pay for it now and once she was done they could just get up and leave.

"So this cab thing…" Carla said as she reluctantly let Peter pay for their meal. "Why are we really getting a cab home?" she asked as she continued to finish her brownie.

"As I said, it would have been dangerous for me to drive with you sat next to me looking like that." Peter said grinning at Carla in a way that made her sure he wasn't being entirely serious.

"Why don't I believe you?" She asked him as she finished her pudding, she had a suspecting eyebrow raised at him as she spoke and Peter knew he'd have to tell her the truth.

"Okay so I lost my car keys…" Peter admitted "and I didn't say anything because I don't want any getting old jokes off of you." He said watching Carla as she laughed at him.

"You're such a pillock Peter." She said shaking her head at him fondly, "So… is Steve coming to get us then?"

"No I didn't call Street Cars, I called this other company that we use at work." Peter said

"No Street Cars? Oh you traitor..." Carla joked, "What on earth would Steve say if he knew?"

"Steve would probably be glad to be honest, because the idea of me and you sitting in that cab and behaving ourselves is becoming a very unrealistic one." Peter said as Carla moved up on the sofa and put an arm underneath his and around his body.

"Hmmmm I think you're right there." She said as he pulled her close, She sighed peacefully as he cuddled her. Both of them stayed in a serene state whilst they waited for their cab, "Thanks for dinner." Carla said after a while, Peter kissed her on the forehead and shook his said softly

"No… thank you."

"Me? What for?" Carla said looking up at Peter little confused,

"For a second chance." Peter said looking down at her, besotted. Carla smiled at him warmly and was about to kiss him when Peter's phone started ringing on the table. "That'll be the cab." Peter said and Carla suddenly jumped off the sofa.

"Let's roll." She grinned, grabbing Peter's hand and practically dragging him out of the restaurant.

Luckily for Carla and Peter their cab driver wasn't even paying any attention to the fact that they were all over each other.

Hands were everywhere, kisses everywhere and every so often Carla had to remind Peter that they weren't technically alone. They got dropped of at Victoria Court and Peter practically threw the money at the driver, before getting out of the cab and saying

"Keep the change mate." He joined Carla on the pavement, She was stood with one hand on her hips and her eyes sparkling with mischief.

"Well thanks for a lovely evening…" She said as if she was about to walk away from him, Peter shook his head at her and pulled her towards him for about the a hundredth time that night, he was desperate to drag her upstairs to her flat but of course Carla seemed to be trying to tease him. "We should really do it again sometime."

"Yeah we should…" Peter breathed excitedly, he wasn't sure how much longer he could cope with this game that Carla seemed to be playing with him.

"So… I'd say that was a pretty good first date then wouldn't you?" She said as he ran a wondering hand through her hair and down her back.

"It was perfect…" Peter said resting his hand on the small of her spine, Carla put her arms around his neck and grinned

"So… if it was perfect… does that mean we can get naked now?" Carla asked seductively, she was just as desperate as Peter was for them to be alone. She was barley able to think straight as she stood in front of him.

"Absolutely." Peter breathed but their hunger for each other seemed to be something that had to wait because there was an unexpected shout and then the door to The Rover's flew open.

"What's going on over there?" Carla asked staring ahead of her, Peter turned around to see Liz McDonald shouting at her boyfriend Tony at the top of her lungs, She pushed him away as he tried to take hold of her and screamed

"Leave me alone!" Carla and Peter both made their way over to the arguing pair although both of them regretted it instantly.

"What's going on?" Peter asked Liz,

"Oh why don't you go and ask your sister!" Liz cried "She's the one who's been sleeping with him for months." Liz said. Carla and Peter looked stunned whilst Tony looked ashamed. Liz then looked furiously at Peter "I guess it runs in the family eh." She said to him bitterly, She then turned to Carla and said, "I'd watch him if I were you." and with that Liz opened the door to the pub and went inside. Peter swallowed a little taken aback by what Liz has said to him and Carla.

The way he was feeling now was a far cry than he was thirty seconds ago.

"Tracy Barlow? Tony what the hell were you thinking?" Carla asked, not understanding why he would do such a thing to Liz, Tony just shrugged at her and said a rather pathetic

"I don't know…" He then looked at Peter who was also staring at him in the disgusted way as Carla was. "Don't you even think about judging me either." Tony said to Peter and he then went back into the Rover's after Liz. There was a hideous moment of silence, before Peter started storming towards his Dad's house.

"Peter, What are you doing?" Carla asked as he got his keys out.

"What do you think I'm doing? I'm going in there n see what the hell Tracy thinks she's playing at." Peter said and he opened the door to number one and shot inside. Carla sighed heavily and followed him inside. She closed the door behind her, She heard Peter tell Amy to get upstairs and go to bed.

"Erm… don't tell my child when to go to bed." Tracy said rather taken aback by Peter's tone as Carla entered the back room. Ken was sat on the armchair reading a book and had looked up upon hearing his son's angry tone of voice.

"Trust me Tracy you do not want her down here for this." He said firmly. Tracy could tell by the look on Carla's face that this was something serious, so she rolled her eyes and reluctantly told Amy to go upstairs. Once Amy had left the room Tracy said

"Go on then, what is it?" She was sighing and tutting at Peter as if she was expecting him to come out with something trivial and unimportant.

"We've just seen Liz…" Peter began,

"Poor you." Tracy laughed cruelly.

"She said you and Tony have been having an affair for months." Peter said, Tracy soon stopped smirking and Ken put his book down and looked at his daughter, absolutely appalled.

"What!" he said standing up, Tracy dithered slightly and then just shrugged,

"Ahhh well it's about time he told her." She said casually, as if it were not a big deal that her family had found out about her and Tony's affair.

"Unbelievable…" Carla said shaking her head at Tracy, "Peter... can we just go back to mine please." She then asked, wanting to get away from what was obviously going to be a very unpleasant situation. Liz was not someone who was going to take this sort of thing lying down and Carla thought that she would probably be round at any minute to have it out with Tracy.

"No we aren't going anywhere…" Peter said staring at his sister, He was still a little pissed off at what Liz had said to him about cheating running in the family and he also wanted to know why Tracy had even gone there with Tony in the first place.

"Tracy how could you do such a thing?" Ken asked still completely shocked by this revelation.

"Oh yeah put all the blame on me and none on the man who was actually in a relationship." Tracy said getting up off her chair,

"What Tony does is no business of mine, you're my daughter Tracy and I cannot believe you could stoop so low." Ken said

"Really Dad?" Peter scoffed because Tracy was famous for doing things most people wouldn't dream of. "Y'know the more I think about all this the less of a shock it actually is." Carla bit her lip and said

"Peter…maybe we should just leave your Dad and Tracy to get on with this alone." She still wanted to get her and Peter out of the whole thing quick, especially since the evening had gone so well and this whole Tracy and Tony thing was completely ruining it.

"No! You go if you want to, but I'm staying right ere." Peter said sharply, Carla sighed irritatedly and shook her head at him. She knew what would be coming if they stayed but she also didn't want to just walk out on Peter so she just remained standing awkwardly in the door way.

"Tracy I am still waiting for an explanation…" Ken said still sickened that his daughter could do something like this, he thought she had changed since losing her mother but obviously not.

"Well what can I say? Maybe if Liz kept her man satisfied he wouldn't have to come running to me would he?" Tracy said still finding the situation all rather amusing.

"You do realise that Liz is Amy's Grandmother Tracy…" Carla said watching her in awe.

"Oh Carla be quiet this is so none of your business." Tracy said sighing

"Tracy…" Peter said but Tracy wasn't impressed with him getting involved either.

"Oh don't you start preaching as well Peter, I mean not after everything you've bloody done." Tracy said and she went into the kitchen, Ken followed her still on her case leaving Peter and Carla alone in the back room.

"Can you believe her?" Peter said almost laughing as he turned to Carla.

"Yeah I can actually, She's right, you ave no business having a go at her for this whole Tony thing, especially when you ave done exactly the same thing, more than once." Carla said bluntly. She was done with trying to tip toe around the subject, she wanted to leave and Peter had made them stay, she wanted to leave because she knew that this would have happened if they stayed, She knew that Peter's cheating past would have got brought up and she had really wanted to spare him that.

"I'm sorry… are you actually throwing Tina in my face?" Peter said stunned and crushed that after the incredibly beautiful evening they'd had, that this was now happening. Carla nodded at him honestly and then sighed,

"I may be throwing Tina in your face but I'm also throwing us in your face Peter, I mean after all, its how we started isn't it?"

"That's completely different Carla, me and you fell in love, Tracy's just playing games as she always does…" Peter said shaking his head "What I did is a totally different situation."

"So… did ya love Tina then?" Carla asked a little nervously but still moving closer to Peter all the same, He shook his head at her slowly and then said,

"Carla don't…" He was clearly beginning to get very upset at this new topic of conversation and Carla knew it.

"And how do you know that Tracy and Tony aren't in love?" She asked even though the mere thought of Tracy and Tony being in love was ridiculous.

"Oh please…" Peter mumbled as Carla stopped in front of him.

"Well either way, us aving an affair because we were in love doesn't make it any better than you and Tina, or Tracy and Tony." She said, she was trying to remain confident but all this talk of affairs and Tina made her want to cry.

"I know that." Peter said gruffly and he took off his coat, He sat down on the armchair that Ken had been sat on. "Tracy mentioning me cheating was still a cheap shot though."

"Peter… I knew this would happen. I knew one of them would ave mentioned it sooner or later which is why I wanted to get you out of ere..." Carla said softly "We've had an amazing night and now it's been totally ruined."

"I'm sorry Carla…" Peter began "It really has been a fantastic night, I wished we had just gone straight to yours and ignored Liz and Tony." he said sighing, he looked into the kitchen which was now empty as Tracy had stormed into the back yard to try and escape Ken, only he'd followed her.

Their voices could be heard arguing outside for a while and at first Carla and Peter just kept quiet so that they could listen to everything that was being said

"You don't have to stay you know, I can't imagine you're enjoying listening to me Dad and Tracy argue." Peter eventually said after a few minutes of Tracy and Ken's quarrelling.

"Yeah well you don't ave to stay either…" Carla said softly "You could come back to mine and we could continue with our date." She was trying to get some sense of the desire they'd had for each other earlier back but Peter just shook his head dismally. Five minutes ago he was on cloud nine and now he had been reminded of everything he had done wrong in the past few years and he was also reminded how evident it was, that people were still judging him for it.

"No I shouldn't leave me Dad to be honest…" He said Carla nodded and hesitated before knowing what to do next, She could tell Peter was still wounded about what had been said to him by Liz and Tracy and all she wanted to do was comfort him and make him feel better. She bent down in front of him, so she could speak to him face to face.

"Look Peter… I want you to…" Carla began but suddenly they both heard a blood-curdling scream from the back yard.