Jimmy playfully slapped his grandson around the head, sat at the kitchen table and greedily began shoving the food into his mouth. ‘Where’s Georgie girl?’ he asked, showing Alice a large mouthful of shepherd’s pie as he spoke.

‘Supposedly went shopping and to the pictures with Josie, but I saw Josie come home with her parents earlier, so I know Georgie’s with that bloody boy again. I wish you’d have a word with Micky Maloney, Jimmy. Ryan might be a nice enough lad, but our Georgie’s too young to be courting a mush of that age. There’s no point me asking silly bollocks to talk to him, ’cause that dinlo’s all for their relationship. He won’t be saying that when she comes home pregnant though, will he?’

Jimmy roared with laughter. He had every faith in Georgie girl. She might only be young, but she was clever, not stupid. He also liked Ryan Maloney. The boy’s father, Mickey, was cakeo and his granddaughter would never want for anything if she married his son.

‘Whatever’s wrong with you today, Alice? Did you get out of the bed the wrong side this morning, my sweet?’

Harry smirked. He loved winding his nan up by being crude. ‘Georgie knows what she’s doin’, Nan. She says she only lets Ryan touch her titties and she’s not gonna touch his cory until he marries her.’

Picking up the tea towel, Alice walloped her foul-mouthed grandson straight around the head with it.

Georgie and Ryan’s love-nest was an old barn that belonged to Ryan’s father. It was where all the groping, kissing and cuddling took place and they’d even put two pillows and an old quilt in there, so they could lie side by side in the warmth if the weather was cold.

Ryan held Georgie’s hand as they took the short walk back to their respective mobile homes. ‘I’ve got to go to Fife with my dad tomorrow to look at a gry, but I’ll be back late afternoon. I’ll get us some cider and I’ll meet you in the barn about six,’ Ryan said.

‘You can ring me again now. I got another phone for my birthday and I got the number written down for you.’

‘Thank fuck for that. I hated it when I didn’t know where you were. You’re my woman now, Georgie. That’s what that ring says and don’t you ever forget it.’

Georgie dragged Ryan round the back of her neighbour’s mobile home and began snogging him again. She put his hands on her breasts and smiled teasingly.

‘You’d better stop that or you’ll get me shot,’ Ryan said, as he heard the familiar sound of the Mitsubishi Shogun’s engine pulling in.