By Easter Rupert and Samantha were pretty much established in everyone's mind as a couple. Over the intervening weeks they had become inseparable, meeting in the breaks at school when they could and spending their evenings revising together. At school they were no longer referred to separately as Miss Piggy and the Geek but had become collectively 'the Geeks'.

Alison and Heather watched anxiously for a couple of weeks and then relaxed when it became clear that Samantha was ...