Jilly set out the table and chairs onto the patio with a sigh. She could hear the last minute work being taken care of throughout the flat, as they raced to complete their tasks. She watched Emlyn carefully pack away the garden equipment they had borrowed. He turned and smiled at her. This wonderful energetic young man, who had recently professed his feelings for her, was staring at her the way that Steve did, with love and affection. It was so hard for Jilly to fight her feelings for Emlyn. He was special, she knew it. She worried about the age gap amongst many other things.

Emlyn had practically moved into her downstairs flat, now that David and Fiona were back together living in Grove Road. Richard and Lyn had recently found a flat in Putney that they had bought together. Thus the little Grove Road family was splitting up. All for good reasons.

Jilly took on the task of coordinating the efforts of everyone for one last push, to ensure that when Bill and Heather came back from Wales, the little flat would be ready. It was, thanks to everyone pulling together. Bill and Heather could both now get on with sorting the flat out. It was the best present anyone could give them. Hard work and a blank canvas.

"Jilly!" Nikki shouted," I think that is Heather's car coming down the street." Nikki bounded in from the front room into the garden to lay in wait.

"All right you lot!" Jilly shouted into the flat, "into the garden please!" Richard and Dan ran from the bedrooms. Emlyn's nudged Jilly and gave her a glass of wine.

Lyn stayed look out for the time being. As hospital netball captain she was the fastest on her pins. "It is them!" Lyn called through to the garden. She took Richard's hand. Lyn surveyed their work, hoped everyone would help them in the same fashion, when they eventually moved in

The sounds reached them of Bill and Heather chatting outside the door and then them entering their home. They heard the astonished gasps as Bill and Heather surveyed the work of their friends.

"Oh my God!" Heather burst into tears. She took in the work downstairs and then ran upstairs to do the same.

"Are these happy tears?" Bill asked anxiously. "If you aren't happy I will kill whoever has done it."

"Don't be mad! Look it's amazing. The walls, the floors whoever did this must have worked like Trojans!" It was true. The transformation was spot on. She felt the hand of Fiona and Jilly in this. When she saw Fiona next she would hug the bones out of her. Heather hadn't heard from Fiona for two weeks. She hoped that she would have left her a note before she had gone to Jersey.

"They did darlings!" Jilly called from the garden. "We are hiding here ready to leg it just in case you didn't like it."

"Jilly it is fantastic," Heather blubbed.

"Good welcome back!" Nikki and Lyn cried out in unison.

"Thank god for you lot, this would have taken us about a month to do all of this and now we can think about decorating rather than gutting the house!" Bill shook everyone's hand. He couldn't see David and Suzie was nowhere to be seen

"Where Is David? Is he frozen to death by the Moody Missus?" Bill asked helping himself to the cakes laid out on the table.

"You better sit down Bill," Dan laughed, "you have a fair bit to catch up on."

"Fiona's knocked up and David's the father." Nikki laughed, peering over her glass of wine.

"What? Are you kidding me?" Bill stammered. He narrowed his eyes at Heather.

"She swore me to secrecy." Heather replied flatly, "so where are they then?"

"Shagging I think," Jilly admitted, "they have been at it solidly for weeks." They were. It was as though David had to ensure there was a baby in Fiona at all points of the day.

"They are a bit loved up." Emlyn rolled his eyes, "I am scared to enter rooms at Grove Road without announcing my presence. I have walked in on them twice this week alone. Both times in the kitchen." He gave an involuntary shudder to signal his disgust.

"We weren't shagging!" David laughed behind Bill which made him jump. Bill immediately grabbed David into a bear hug. "We are late because we have just been to Chelsea register office. We were sorting out the banns of marriage with the registrar."

"Hells bells! Last time I saw you two was at my wedding a fortnight ago when I thought you were going to kill each other!" Heather grabbed Fiona not a bear hug. She was so happy that she hadn't gone to Jersey. She had worried during her honeymoon abut Fiona being alone in Jersey.

"Well that was before I knew I had knocked her up," David hugged Heather, "so we have called a truce and we are having the quickest wedding humanly possible."

"Can I do anything without you copying it?" Bill laughed and shook David's hand. David Williams was going to be a father as well? What were the strumpets of Chelsea going to do now that they were both off the market.

"Nope, sorry Bill. I am so in your awe that I have to observe and repeat your every move. Good Honeymoon?"

"My God what a great place!" Heather stated. I can't wait to get my photos developed to let you all see."

"The lads have all been there before and so has Ninj." Bill laughed. They had spent many a boozy weekend holed up in David's family mansion.

"That is where we could have Fiona's hen weekend, at David's place!" Heather clapped her hands.

"No sweetheart I don't think that is one of your better ideas." Bill chuckled, "You will be 18 weeks pregnant, don't know how far along you will be Ninj..."

"Fourteen weeks I think." Fiona interrupted. She was beaming. Fiona grabbed on to Heather and hugged her tightly. She had needed a friend the last few weeks and she was glad to have her back.

"See ten weeks and then you will be both knackered with the mad squad," Bill motioned to Nikki, Lyn and Jilly, "who will be raving in a field of sheep on their own."

"I like a rave.' Jilly added.

"I don't mind sheep.' Lyn added.

"I fucking hate fields though." Nikki stated making the whole group laugh. Nikki gave Heather a hug and thought that the worst hen night in the world was with two pregnant women.

"Shall we eat?" Jilly motioned to the food she had laid out on the table.

The group mingled and began to tuck into the food laid out. Heather sought out Fiona for a catch up and they sat on the garden bench taking in the summer sun.

"So.." Heather began laughing. Pointing to David. David waved back at Heather and continued to bend Bill's ear about playing a rugby match next week.

"So.." Fiona smiled. Where did she begin to fill Heather in?

"Start now! Tell me how the hell this happened, not the knocked up bit, the bits I have missed." Heather need to know.

"It's only two weeks since I saw you!" Fiona laughed. Two weeks and what felt like a delicious cocoon of love.

"A lot has happened since then! When I saw you last you were on your way to the Jersey Consulate to tell them everything and hope they would still let you move." Heather made sure Fiona started at the start. So that her gaps were fully filled in.

"I did visit the consulate." Fiona began,"They were lovely and said I could still go. I had organised everyone to do up the flat when you were away as a Wedding Present. I didn't know that David had decided to do his bit on the same day as me. We were both working away and I fainted. I thought best to tell him as he was a bit worried at the fainting. He thought I was on drugs!"

"I know!" Heather stated, "Bill was on and on at me to tell him what was wrong with you. He thought you were doing E's because you were so up one minute and then down the next. I wouldn't crack and tell him about you being knocked up. If I told Bill he would have sent a sky writer to tell David."

"Bless Bill!" Fiona smiled as she watched Bill and David toasting each other with bottles of Peroni.

"So what happened after that?" Heather urged Fiona to go on.

"It was like lightening. I told him. He was ecstatic. He moved me in. He told Suzie to do one. Got me my old job back. Proposed, sorted out a wedding." Fiona clicked her fingers to indicate how fast it had been.

"Where are you going to live?" Heather was very curious. Did David's family have a couple of hundred London houses for them to choose from?

"Weirdly Grove Road, Dan and Richard are moving out in the next month and Emms is going to stay until he makes it public about shagging Jilly." Fiona nodded at Heather.

"I bloody knew it! He makes all of these noises about running around with loose women but really he is with her. I think its cute!"

"I know! Jilly doesn't say much, but I know she is quite taken with him." Fiona knew that Jilly and Emlyn were very very much into each other.

"I am!" Jilly sat on the arm of the bench, "don't let him know that though girls, best to keep them keen eh?"

"When do you start work?" Fiona asked Heather. Bringing Heather back to more pressing things.

"Tomorrow, I am nervous to be fair, new job, new city, just married and baby on the way. It is exhausting." Heather let out a yawn.

"Eat up, we will clear up the place and let you and Bill settle in and get ready for your big day tomorrow." Fiona motioned to Jilly and they both began to move back towards the house.

"Got a date for the Wedding?" Heather asked following them.

"Yes Friday the 15th of October, if you are not doing anything either of you would you like to come?" Fiona asked casually.

"Would we?" Jilly laughed and hugged Fiona, "I would be delighted! Reception in the garden?" It would be a lovely spot and not far for any of them to stumble home.

"If it is good weather!" Fiona laughed and waved across the garden at David.

David waved back and turned to Bill. "Bill, would you be my best man?"

"Thought you would never ask!" Bill shouted picking David up and shaking him.

"Ha! Put me down!" David giggled, "You are making me look like a girl in front of my future wife!"

"Ok, but only if you agree to a good stag night." Bill knew that nights out would become fewer and fewer as they all got married and had children.

"Promise!" David laughed and he was dropped back on to his feet. "That is if I have any energy left for one. Jees she is demanding at the moment." David motioned to Fiona.

"Wait until she is in her second trimester." Bill smirked,"Mine is like a glow stick at the moment, two or three times a day."

"Best get us both on the protein shakes and the vitamins!" David laughed.

The group cleared up and said their goodbyes to Bill and Heather. Fiona, David, Emlyn and Jilly got into Fiona's car and journeyed back to Grove Road together.

Emlyn got out and helped Jilly with the leftovers and took them into her flat.

"We won't see him tonight," David remarked.

"No I don't suppose we will." Fiona smiled, taking David's hand and opening the house door.

"Tired?" David asked.

"Not too tired." Fiona wiggled her eyebrows. "By my reckoning you have precisely 30 minutes to take me upstairs and have your way with me before I crash out."

"Wow that long?" David smiled and picked Fiona up and ran up the stairs to their room. David placed Fiona on the bed. "Alright I want you to close your eyes. I have a present for you." David walked around to his dressing table

"If it is an erect penis I seem to have had that present before." Fiona giggled.

"No," he laughed, he placed a small ring box in the palm of her hand. " I hope you like it, it belonged to my grandmother and it means a lot to me."

Fiona opened her eyes and there was the largest ruby engagement ring she had ever seen in her life.

"David! It's too much! Are you sure?" It was an antique baguette style ring. The ruby had two sparkling diamonds next to it.

"Absolutely, take it, try it on." He knew it would fit. He had raided her jewellery box the week before to have the ring sized down. His grandmother had very big man hands.

Fiona took the ring and placed it on her finger. It fitted beautifully. "Oh David!" She gasped. I would never imagine anything so beautiful in a million years! I am the luckiest woman in the world!" She leant over and kissed him, for once with her eyes open so that she could admire her engagement ring.

So they are all moving on from Grove Road

They couldn't stay for ever

What do you think of Emlyn and Jilly?