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With nowhere to live and no-one who cares, Tracy's gone to stay with Bev at the Rovers while Roy tries to remember what happened in Tracy's bed. Roy's unable to cope at first so Ken helps him open up the café and tells him about Tracy's one-penny bet. Needless to say, gossip is rife and starts in the Kabin when Norris puts two and two together to make a very unlikely four. "Roy and Tracey?" he says, as his eyes twirl and his fingers twitch: "Tracey and Roy?". The Norris gossipometer goes off the scale. Roy goes to see Tracy at the Rovers for an explanation but psycho-babe Barlow takes responsibility for nothing and is ashamed of nowt. After Fiz visits Roy in the flat and sees a broken man, she's geared up for a punch up when she spies Tracy at the bar later. Giving her a good slap, Fiz tells Tracey "You mess with Roy again and I'll kill yer". I don't know about you, but I cheered. Clearly in no fit mental state to tackle a driving lesson, Roy tackles a driving lesson and gets a bit confused. He stalls the car in the middle of the street, leaves it and walks off. Coming around the corner is Todd and Tony in a car, brakes failing as they try to miss Roy's parked car and they smash into a wall. Todd's arm is in plaster, Tony's on crutches and Tony's girl Merle dumps him off at Eileen's front door saying she's had enough before she knocks him off his crutches. Eileen finally agrees to let Tony into the house after he drops £10 notes through the letter box and tells her he'll pay his way on what they both agree will be a temporary arrangement and a storyline for Eileen.
Determined to show Sunita that he's not the workshy layabout good for nothing that we all know he is, Ciaran starts work - behind the bar at the Rovers. Across a crowded shelf of Tunnocks Teacakes Dev's eyes meet Sunita's and he warns her that Ciaran doesn't love her and is just out for what he can get. But, Sunita's in love and she moves out of the flat above the shop and in (where?) with Ciaran. Or at least she could be in love… either that or she's playing the long game and testing Ciaran to make sure he's as true as he says he is before finding out he's not, dumping him, and marrying Dev instead. I do hope so, it'd be an alliterative dream come true: Ciaran the corner shop cheat, Sunita the smashing shopkeeper and Dev with the deadly distracting drawl and de dangerous doughnuts in de back of de shop underneath de cash register.
It's Audrey's birthday and she's, well, she's a lady who's celebrating a certain age. Again. Archie plans to take her to Delphines and Gail and the kids are sworn to secrecy. It's so much of a secret that Mike offers to dine her at Delphines too and she agrees to go with Mike, unbeknownst that Archie has arranged a date there already. Anyway, after a bit of complication, Audrey gets there in the end, with the right fella, and over Chicken Cacciatore and Black Forest Gateau or whatever it is they sell at Delphines (and I get the impression it's a Chicken Cacciatore and Black Forest Gateau kind of place) Archie asks Audrey to marry him. Not wanting to upset him, she doesn't say no. "So that's a yes then?" he says. Audrey's face drops even further. "A maybe?" he hopes. "A maybe" she replies. "A definite maybe". Anyway, next day over lunch Audrey gives Archie the nicest compliment ever when she tells him he reminds her of how Alfie used to be. Sadly, she adds, she never desired Alfie, not in that way, you know, well people like them don't do things like that round their way and she doesn't think she can marry him without feeling passionate toward him. Heaving himself out of his seat and leaving his moules marineres untouched, Archie leaves the restaurant and the street to find solace in the Far East (that's Burma, not Scarborough) with a tattered old copy of "I Do" magazine tucked under his arm.
Over on the other side of the street there's passion a-plenty but it's like, really weird? Martin and Katy spend the night together at his flat after Katy lies to Tommy and Angie that she's going to a party and staying overnight at the nurse's home. She tells Angie she's going out with this porter bloke called Jimmy and once she's started lying, well, there's no stopping her. She gives Tyrone's phone number to Tommy and tells him it's Jimmy's. Tommy says he wants to meet this Jimmy boy who's stepping out with his daughter but Katy's not best pleased, as you can imagine. Meanwhile, Martin's gone camping with David, Sarah, Bethany and Todd - who has specially asked for a pink tent.
And that's just about all for this week.
Glenda
By Glenda Young , writer of Coronation Street Weekly Updates for the internet since 1995.
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