Did he settle in all right?’ Vinny asked, when he picked his mum and aunt up from Roy’s new care home at two p.m. as pre-arranged. ‘He seemed OK, didn’t he, Viv? I think he quite likes his new room,’ Queenie replied, hopefully. ‘He loves the view there as well. Where’s my Lenny? Why didn’t you bring him with you?’ Vivian asked, worriedly. Neither she nor her son had mentioned the awkward moment they had shared again, but Vivian couldn’t forget it. What she had witnessed would probably haunt her for the rest of her living days. ‘Champ’s with Ahmed and the boys. They were playing the machines in the amusement arcade when I left and I guarantee they will still be there when we get back. I just changed ’em up a tenner’s-worth of two- and ten-pence coins. Why you worried anyway, Auntie Viv? Champ’s twenty now. He’s a man not a boy any more.’Vivian pursed her lips and glanced at her sister. ‘Tell Vinny what happened, go on. He won’t say nothing,’ Queenie urged her sister.
