A worrying storyline kicks off in Coronation Street next week as teenager Hope Stape (Isabella Flanagan) visits the doctors to talk about starting birth control.

Hope – who is around 13/14 years old – has already been through a lot in her short life. When she was a lot younger, she would cause Fiz (Jennie McAlpine) and Tyrone (Alan Halsall) a great deal of stress by setting fire to things or kidnapping young Joseph (William Flanagan).

When Hope started attending Weatherfield High School, she started to face challenges of a different kind when a group of girls started bullying her.

In classic Hope style though, she stayed true to her form of being very wild, and threatened to attack a young girl with a hammer – in the same way her biological father John Stape did with one of his victims.

Hope has also had her fair share of relationship drama. Declaring herself Sam’s (Jude Riordan) new girlfriend, Hope’s jealousy grew when Stu’s (Bill Fellows) granddaughter Eliza (Savannah Kunyo) started hanging out with the budding chess player.

A revenge plan forming, Hope managed to sabotage Eliza’s birthday party but when Sam found out – that was his line.

Their relationship was over.

Fortunately, the couple reunited but soon, heartbreak lies ahead as Hope suddenly dumps Sam due to being very interested in Kevin’s (Michael Le Vell) son Jack (Kyran Bowes).

In the week, Hope secretly visits Doctor Gaddas. She announces that she’d like to go on the pill.

A concerned Doctor Gaddas gives Hope some condoms, a chat about you-know-what and tells her she needs to speak to her family.

But will Hope do this?

And has something happened to her?