Lust is in the air...Not you Brendan!
Awkward teenage love was in the air this week as Ruby threw out her love net and entangled virgin sixth former Jono within it much to the surprise of his friends. This week also saw the return of Brendan’s son Declan whose reappearance threw a spanner into the works just when the Irishman thought he had everything in his life under control.
The scene was set at the beginning of the week for what Ruby hoped would be the party of the year at the Dog. By the scene was set I mean Frankie had put on a good spread and the pub was open. The other ingredients including other people and an atmosphere were sadly lacking. Apart from Ricky that is who made a fleeting appearance to present the birthday girl with her present and make an awkward comment about Esther’s gift of a token.
The sixth formers meanwhile had congregated together for the evening – minus for some reason I didn’t catch Tilly and Maddy – and in need of food came up with the bright idea of someone going into the party and making off with some of the buffet. The person elected with the job was Jono however it seemed he was too nice for the task of avoiding the unhappy birthday girl and approached a distraught looking Ruby. After a few minutes of playing the nice guy and comforting the unpopular school girl he was being led into the pub and after a little while was kissing her seemingly in full view of her surrogate family.
Soon enough the rest of the gang turned up somewhat shocked to see their mate in the clutches of a girl in the year below and acted along that they had also turned up on the hope of a night out rather than some left over sandwiches. Ruby romanticised about the arrival of the gang the next day school to Esther while Jono was roundly mocked for his apparent love struck mood.
The two came across each other the next day and Ruby being the more experience one in these sorts of things following her adventures with Ricky made the big move and asked Jono if he wanted to go out. Desperate to lose his virginity at some point the flustered teen agreed and they agreed to meet at the pub the next day.
So the date was set and following some awkward man to man talk with Jack in the toilets following an attempt the use the condom machine and a spot of trouble at the urinal the two were given a lift to the cinema. All was going well – unless you were sitting behind Ruby’s massive hair - until Jono caught the eye of fellow film fan Brendan who had bought son Declan to see a movie. Following the sight of the man that had injured him the previous day at football Jono decided that the best idea would be to scarper and escape to the car that Bart’s father had bought for him. Clearly Bart doesn’t care about the upholstery as much as he should. Things were getting hot and heavy in the car following excitable talk of double and triple dates from Ruby until the size of the back seat played a part and Jono developed cramp which meant an awkward end to the night. Probably a good thing as an arrest may have been forthcoming had the two carried on. Well, either an arrest or the arrivals of an internet community that enjoy watching people get up to stuff in cars in car parks.
Ruby’s luck was in the next day as she somehow had a free house despite living with around fifteen people. She sent word to Jono who was on a mission to lose the dreaded virginity amongst the rest of the gang’s stories of losing theirs and arrived at the pub with the necessary protection and a willing however frightened expression on his face.
Things moved fast and the two were in bed before long along with Ruby’s squeaky toys that I thought were mainly meant for dogs. A little while later we rejoined the couple seemingly post coitus and an unhappy looking Ruby didn’t look too impressed with her beau’s performance. Jono’s question of whether it counted or not probably didn’t help her state of mind. Surely if it all happened too quick they could have just done it again right? Do these soap teens have no stamina nowadays or what?
Could this be the end for loves young dream? I wouldn’t have thought so. They need to link Ruby and Esther up with the sixth formers in some way and everyone knows that her real obsession is with Sinead. Ultimately in the future I can see a crazed Ruby murdering Bart and kidnapping Sinead but this could be quite a way down the road and all of the time we would still not see a change of Esther’s expression.
Elsewhere Brendan’s son Declan - who looks worryingly alike Ste - returned and shocked his substitute family with his aggressive behaviour following trouble from people mocking his father’s sexuality back home in Ireland. Brendan didn’t help the situation by somewhat violently taking apart most of the males of the village during a game of football. The reluctant father realised it was time for his son to go back home following harsh words from Ste, Cheryl and Lynsey and after witnessing his son take law into his own hands toward some queue jumpers at the cinema he told Declan that he was going back to his mother’s.
Finally George got over his crush to speak to Callum about a project they needed to work on together. After initially pretending to be interested in cars George was convinced to be himself however Callum soon realised something was up with his classmates living situation and followed him back to the squat. Mr Enigmatic did not believe the claims that it was just somewhere to hang out but agreed to keep his new friends secret. It makes you wonder – If Callum realised that something was up so quick what is wrong with Maddy and Tilly? Too self obsessed maybe?
