Cain turned around and picked up the microphone. He growled into it. “Why should I bother wi’ thee?”

Someone at the back shouted, “Coz we luv thee lads.”

Cain snarled, “Love? What’s that all about then? ALL LOVE IS PAIN!!!!”

And the music started crashing out as Cain shouted over the top of it.

He was snarling, “Your love is my pain!!!”

Kicking the amps and glaring at the audience.

Bloody hell. I wouldn’t say he knew how to have a nice time. He’s always so cross. And the lyrics are not exactly happy and cheerful. Flossie said, “I don’t think their mummy and daddy told them that they were little sunbeams for Jesus.”

Near the end of the first set my ears were buzzing. The crowd was clapping and yelling but then Cain spoke softly into the microphone, “Keep it down, lads.” And Jack, Seth, and Ruben began playing softly. Cain went on, “This is a special song for a lass I know … very well. If tha knows what I mean.”

There was a restless sigh through the crowd. Knowing Cain, probably every girl in the village thought it was a song for her. At that moment Beverley entered through the side door. Cain saw her and said, “This is a song for someone, someone who knows who she is.”

Beverley looked like she was blushing and smiled at her sisters, who did a thumbs-up to her.

The lyrics to the song were:

I thought you were off, but you’re not

Tha just keep hanging around

Like a bloodhound

I’ve already got a dog.

As soon as she heard it, Beverley flung off out of the door and the other Bottomly sisters bustled their way through the crowd, saying, “Beverley, luv, hang on! Dun’t go near that river! He’s not worth it.”

At the end of the set, we went outside for some air and sat on the wall.

Vaisey said, “Jack’s quite good at drumming, isn’t he?”

I said, “Well, he can certainly hit things.”

A few of the boys from Woolfe were strolling in. Ben was there and as he flopped past me he smiled.

Then Honey said, “Hello, Ben, you look weally handthome.”

I was sort of hoping that Charlie would turn up. But there was no sign of him.

Jo was in seventh heaven. Going on about Phil. “He said he really, really wanted to get back to see me. He likes me, he likes me, he really, really likes me. You were right about the human glue thing, Lullah. He mentioned my cracking snogging. Ooooh, I wonder what he is going to do to get back to Woolfe Academy? It’s la romantic, isn’t it?”

She really thinks I know something about human glue. Which I don’t. So far I’ve had a bat kiss, then a nice kiss that turned out to be from a boy who just wanted to be my mate, and finally a nose-licking incident.

I wish I had someone who would mention my cracking snogging. I wondered if Charlie had liked snogging me at all? Maybe he hasn’t got a girlfriend and he only pretended to have one because I was so useless at it.