Chapter 3:

When they arrived back at the B+B, Tina went to her room to get her pyjamas on and Katy and Sophie also got their pyjamas on. When Katy opened the window slightly to let some fresh air in she thought that she heard the sound of something falling down behind the wardrobe, so she got Sophie to come over so that they could attempt to move the wardrobe and see what it was. It was no use though, and when Tina arrived back at their room (they had arranged to just sit and chat for a few hours before going to bed) she wondered what all the racket was. When they had told her she too was curious and offered to help move the wardrobe, it was still no good though, and Eric who was down stairs was also wondering what the matter could be, so he sent Amy and Victoria, who were just sat on the sofa chatting, up to see what was going on, since he couldn't be bothered doing it himself.

When everything had been explained to Amy and Vic, Amy really wasn't bothered, told them that it wouldn't be anything exciting, and went back downstairs. Victoria, however, was just as curious as them and wanted to know what could be behind the wardrobe. With four people helping, they eventually managed to push the wardrobe over and were disappointed to discover that it was only a bit of paper.

'Is that all!' Vic complained. 'All that for nothing. I can't believe Amy was actually right for once!' It is safe to say that she was more than angry.

'Wait a minute.' Tina replied, and picked up the piece of paper. Everyone started having coughing fits, because the piece of paper had had a really thick layer of dust on either side, and Tina had just blown that dust everywhere.

'Watch it!' Sophie yelled; 'We don't all want dust filled lungs!'

'Oh shut up.' Said Tina 'There's something here.' By 'something' she meant writing. It was a very old piece of paper, was stained a yellowy brown colour, and the writing was done in one of those old ink pens, the ones which blob all over the paper easily and seemed to make everybody write in italics. It was incredibly difficult to read, but with the help of each other, they could just about make it out.

'It's dated 1950, which makes it 63 years old!' Vic observed.

'Look, it's addressed to a man named Shadrach Dingle, and looks like it was written by a child, with the help of an adult.

'SHADRACH DINGLE!' Victoria exclaimed excitedly, he used to live round here, and the time scales look like he was about five or six when this was written.

'We should show it to him then, are you still in touch?' Sophie asked eagerly. She loved a good mystery, and was dying to show this to the man that it was addressed to, to see if he could remember it and explain further why he was writing to this person, and to see if they could possibly track the person who wrote it down! It would be great for somebody of that age to be able to re read what they wrote when they were a young child; surely it would bring back loads of memories? Sophie loved chatting to the older generation about what they'd done in the past, she found it very inspiring.

'Ummm…..might be slightly difficult.' Victoria began.

'Why?' Sophie kept pressing her for an answer.

'He died a couple of years ago.' The Weatherfield girls knew better than to say any more, as they were not sure how close Victoria had been to Shadrach, and did not want to say anything incase she was close to him and it upset her.

'Look who it's from!' Katy practically yelled. She was pointing to the bottom of the letter, at the surname in particular. Everyone fell silent, Tina opened her mouth to speak, but no words came out. Because their, at the bottom of the page, in the handwriting of a child, was the name William McIntyre. Tina's Grandad.