MONARCH OF THE GLEN FAN FICTION
BY: ISOBEL

"Duncan! You know how it's my birthday tomorrow? I thought maybe we could do something special?" said Jess.

"Actually, I've already got plans. I mean for us. You know you and me. Its a surprise" Said Duncan, a cheeky grin playing across his lips.

"Oh, okay, then." Jess said. Duncan started to walk off.

"Er,Duncan... its not like your last surprise is it?" jess called, remembering the wonderfully tacky room her boyfriend had created for her when she moved up to the Big House, three years back.

"Jess, please! Its nothing like that...hey! What was wrong with the room?" Duncan replied.

"Ill see you tomorrow, Duncan." said jess, and went off to help her dad stack the hay bales.

As she walked away, she thought about all the things that had happened in the past three years, since she had arrived. She had met Duncan; the daft, but irresistibly cute head ranger, and fallen out with her dad about a relationship with him, but all had been resolved. Ewan had arrived, a cook to take the place of Lexie. Archie had gone off to Inverness, and taken his wife with him. Paul had become laird, and started up an outdoor center for underprivileged city kids. Her father, Golly, had remarried to Molly, Archie's mother, and moved into the big house, leaving Jess the cottage to herself. Now, approaching her 26th birthday, she wondered what the next year would have in store for her, and Glenbogle, the beautiful old castle by the lake.