Suddenly the door slammed downstairs and Lexie called up the stairs "Hello". Duncan quickly turned to Shelley and took the pictures and hid them under his pillow. "Quick Shell, pretend your asleep" Duncan said ducking his head down on the pillow. Shelley copying her brother's orders quickly did the same. "Duncan why are we being asleep?" she whispered. "Shh…because then they wont ask any questions," Duncan said shutting his eyes.
"Dunc? Have you seen Shell…Aww Archie come look" Lexie called upstairs. Archie appeared next to Lexie peering in Duncan's room. "Peaceful for once" Archie joked.
"Arch" Lexie turned to Archie, "Are we going to tell the kids about Jamie?" she asked holding her arms around his waist. Archie looked over to his two peaceful 'Sleeping' children and thought for a minute. "I don't know Lex," he said truthfully. Duncan peered one eye open to have a look, but quickly shut it again as Archie looked over again. "Lets talk about it downstairs" Archie said taking a double look at Duncan.
After a while, Shelley whispered "Can I open my eyes now?"
"Oh yeah sorry you can" Duncan said forgetting his sister was there. Shelley sat up and went to reach under the pillow. "What are you doing?" Duncan spoke up.
"Well I was going to look at the picture…" Shelley said reaching for it again.
"No Shell…that's it, no more looking at the picture ok…we need to find out the secret about all this, but mum and dad must not know we have the picture ok" Duncan said looking to his sister until she nodded silently.
Carefully she got out of Duncan's bed and walked out the door. When she had gone, Duncan carefully reached for the pictures just to have one more mental image of them before placing them back. He thought to himself for a few minutes, his father didn't seem to keen on telling them about Jamie, yet he wondered why his mother had to ask, surely she would have a right to tell them too?
He then remembered he was going to e-mail his uncle Paul. Creeping out the door, he observed the surroundings, Yep just as he thought, all downstairs. So he took the run to the computer room. He decided he didn't want to let on too much about the situation that his parents hadn't actually told them about Jamie. He would simply ask him what life was like there while his parents were there… then causally linking it in.
Hey Uncle Paul!
Hope you are ok and Aunt Isobel and the kids. I was just wondering if you could help me a bit with a family history report I have to write about our family. Since I don't know what it was like at Glenbogle could you please tell me what it was like when my parents were still there and before I was born.
E-mail back please
Duncan
Duncan read the e-mail over; it seemed a bit plain yet not too suspicious. So clicking on send he sat back pleased with himself. Now all he had to do was wait for the reply.