Tess met Lexi outside The Tron, “let’s go for lunch first I’m starving,” Tess turned towards the street with their favourite cafe in.

“Ok, but I need to be back to get ready, Sam and I are going to a live gig tonight and I want to look right,”  They settled themselves in at the table Tess had a chicken salad sandwich that looked like it should be used as a climbing aid and Lexi had soup and a roll.

“What’s going on between you and Sam, I know you both like each other but it seems to be at a stand still?” Tess looked up, “me and my big mouth, sorry Lexi, I didn’t mean to pry it’s just I care about both of you and I think you go so well together, even Sadie has been saying, ‘it’s about bleedin time you and Sam got it sorted,’ you know what she’s like in straight away.”

“It’s ok Tess, Sam just doesn’t seem ready yet, I don’t want to push it incase she runs away from me but I am totally into her, I can’t think of anything else when I ‘m alone and I live for our nights out, the nearest I get is a peck on the cheek goodnight but I’ll hang in there a bit longer, if she doesn’t make any moves then I can only think she doen’t feel the same,” Lexi took a spoonful of soup.

“She does like you, I’m sure Lexi, I mean I’ve seen the way she looks at you and goes red when she is caught looking, like last week in Rubies we were all dancing and Sam was sitting just watching you, you should have seen her when I went back to the table she was bright red and stumbling her words, not like Sam that is it?”

“Ah well we’ll see Tess, we’ll see,” It was obvious Lexi wanted to change the subject.

“So what are you buying today then?” Tess loved shopping with anyone who would go with her, when she heard Lexi was hitting the city she had to go too.

Sam threw her coat over the chair and herself on to the couch, the interview with Wesley Corner had been a waste of time, he had seen the beating but not who had been doing it, Sam knew someone had got to him first he wasn’t going to talk now, that meant the scumbag Ray McGrainger would probably walk again. The clock said 5.30pm she would go for a short run to unwind then shower and meet Lexi at eight.