Question

Write a story on title"secret"

Answer 1

Heather found the box while she was looking for her mother’s birth certificate. None of the family seemed to know where she had been born, but the vicar had asked, so that he could mention it during the funeral service.

“She came to Burracombe as a Land Girl during the war,” Heather said, but that was all she knew. Joanna had been absorbed into the Tozer family so completely that any previous life had disappeared.

But Heather went upstairs, to the bedroom her parents had occupied for all their married life, and searched until she found the box. Snow was swooping against the windows of the old farmhouse, still without central heating, and she was glad to hurry downstairs again. There had not been a winter as bitter as this since the early 1960s, when she was a little girl. 

“It’s got a lot of old papers in,” she told her elder brother Robin, who was making up the fire in the living-room. “Photos, too. Look – here’s one of you. What a dear little chap you were!”

“I’ve always been a dear little chap. Here’s one of Aunt Jackie. We’ll show her when she arrives.”

“I’m surprised she’s coming, especially with all this snow. America’s a long way for someone of her age.” Heather picked out another photo. “That’s Jackie as a girl, and you – about four years old. And two babies – who are they?”

Robin stared at it. “Why, one must be you. But I don’t know who the other one is.”

“There’s things here, too. Bootees – a rattle...”

There was no time to search further. The vicar arrived to discuss hymns, then a string of villagers tramped through the snow to offer condolences.

The unknown baby was forgotten and Heather’s mind was filled with thoughts of the next day, when not only her Aunt Jackie would arrive from America, but her husband Mark would be bringing their 16-year-old daughter, Emily, home from her exchange trip to France.