Zoe just stared at the letter and didn't even notice that the solicitor had left the room

"Zoe" said Charlie "are you ok"

"It's the same letter" said zoe "I watched nick seal it and post it"

"Why didn't he just tell us" said Tess

"Right lets go and give them some privacy" said fletch standing up

"No its ok" said zoe "nick would have wanted everyone to be here"

Fletch sat down again and Zoe looked at Tess and Charlie

"Well, are you going to read it?" said Charlie

Zoe gave Charlie another one of her unconvincing smiles and opened the a4 brown envelope and out came 3 smaller white envelopes, one named Tess, one names Charlie and finally one named zoe. Zoe passed Tess letter to Tess, Charlie's letter to Charlie and kept her own letter.

"I can't read mine" said Zoe passing her letter back for Charlie read

"Me either" said Tess passing her letter to Charlie

Charlie sighed and sat down

"Read mine last" said Zoe

"I don't want mine first" said Tess

"You 2 are so fuzzy" said Charlie "I will read mine first"

Charlie opened the envelope with his name on it and began to read

Dear Charlie

Charlie I know I don't have much time left and that is why I am writing this letter to say good bye just in case I don't get the chance too.

You Tess and Zoe have flown half way around the world just to show me a good time and I thank you for that and for being my friend.

Love nick

PS: you're a fun drunk

This made everyone laugh and Charlie put his letter back inside the envelope but had the shock of his life, there wasn't just a letter in his envelope there was also a check, Charlie's eyes widened as he saw how much it was for.

"What" said Zoe to Charlie?

Charlie didn't answer so Tess took the check off him

"What" said Zoe?

"25 thousand ponds" said Tess

"Jesus" said Zoe

Zoe took the check off Tess looked at it and passed it back to Charlie.

"Nick Jordan gave you 25 grand" said noel

"Looks like it" said Charlie

"I never knew nick was that generous" said noel

"If never knew that nick was even generous" said Zoe

Tess took her letter off Charlie and passed it to fletch too read so that Charlie could have a few minutes.