"What?" Duncan stood there confused. Lexie suddenly awoke from the noise, she opened her eyes slowly adjusting to the surroundings, "Oh Duncan, ma wee boy your ok!" she shouted jumping up and hugging him tight. Duncan didn't react he just stood there confused. "Oh where have you been?" Lexie said holding him still.
"I went to Rob's" Duncan said simply.
"HOW COULD YOU?!" Archie said in rage, getting up and moving towards Duncan. How could he be so calm about this situation? "Arch, no don't!" Lexie screamed holding Duncan back and tight, she had tears in her eyes. Duncan still didn't have a clue what was going on, he knew his father was mad and his mother was upset, but why? All he had done was go to his mates because he needed to get out the house.
Duncan struggled out of his mothers grip, and stormed out of the room. "Come back here!" Archie shouted. "Look we know you know about Glenbogle!" Archie shouted again, slowly Duncan reappeared. "You know?" he said surprised.
"Shell told us…" Archie said forgetting that he shouldn't of bought Shelley into this one.
"I don't believe her… I told her not to say anything!" Duncan said taking a deep breath and looking around in rage. "She thought you had run away there" Lexie said laughing a bit before seeing Archie still mad, and she shut up. "Believe me I would if I could!" Duncan shouted out. He looked at his mother, her reaction made him feel bad, her usual cheery expression had been lost, she looked upset and hurt. Then he looked at his father, he was angry yet behind it he could see he was also hurt. "Sorry…" Duncan quickly said, not sure what to do next.
No one said anything for a long time. They just stood there, Lexie sat down on the sofa, she looked close to tears, Archie saw his wife yet did not move to comfort her, but continued to stare at his son. "Mum…mum I'm real sorry" Duncan said hugging her, and feeling close to tears himself. He hated to hurt his mother, it was one of the worst things he could do. Archie sat down on the other side of Lexie. He had varies of thoughts going through his head, he hated the fact he sounded so much like his father, and if his mother could see him now she would be disappointed in him, which hurt him even more. "I think we need to talk" Archie said after a while. Lexie looked up at him and nodded, then they both turned to Duncan.
Duncan glanced from his mother to his father and swallowed. He realised something big was a foot, and he might actually learn something about Glenbogle and his parents past.
Archie sighed, " Glenbogle is where I was born. You've obviously seen it on the computer and know that it's not your ordinary house"
" It's a castle dad"
Archie raised his eyebrows " Yes, yes it is. I grew up there, and then I went to London for quite a few years. When I came back your mother was working there and that's how I met her."
" Mum worked for you?" Duncan asked confused
" I was the housekeeper and cook. I ran away from home when I was a teenager- that's why I was so worried about you"
Duncan grimaced, that made things even worse. "I'm sorry mum"
Lexie nodded and hugged him tightly " Next time tell us, or leave a note"
Duncan looked confused " I did"
" What?" Archie asked, glancing at his wife
" I left a note on top of the spare change bowl"
Lexie groaned, " It must have blown off"
" So what's a Laird? And why did you move to Australia? Why aren't we still at Glenbogle? Why don't I know anything about your past?" Duncan had so many questions to ask his parents, he started firing them at Archie and Lexie.
"We moved to Australia because we thought it would be a lovely place to live, and it is." Archie answered lying partly. Lexie could tell he was not going to tell Duncan the whole truth about this.
"That's it?" Duncan said sarcastically.
"Erm yep" Archie said nodding.
"Oh" Duncan said a bit disappointed, although he could see the look on his mothers face, the way she was looking at his father. He knew something wasn't right he just didn't know what yet.