 Cindy becomes attracted to Patrick Blake (Jeremy Sheffield) and feuds with Maxine Minniver (Nikki Sanderson) who is also attracted to Patrick.Patrick and Cindy briefly date although he leaves Cindy for Maxine.A pregnant Sinead O'Connor (Stephanie Davis) works for Cindy and they initially fight although Cindy starts to feel sympathy for her when she realizes that Sinead is similar to how Cindy was when she was pregnant with Holly.