Rachel walked into the Dorm, she flung herself down on her bed and found the letter she had just got from her Dad, she sat up and egerly opened it, it read:

Dear Rachel,
Yes of course you can go, but not until after the funeral,

she stopped suddenly, funeral?! Who had died? Rachel took a deep breath and continued reading,

your mother has died. I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner, but I felt it best. The funeral is in the next holidays so that you can be there, I'm so sorry that you didn't get to say goodbye, but I read her every one of your letters. She was on a heart machiene in hospital, and then we decided to turn it off as she was in so much pain. When we all have recovered, then your friends can come over,
Love you lots,
Dad xxx

There was a smuge over the words, but Rachel could read it all the same. Rachel burst in to a flow of silent tears, she dropped the letter and began to sob on to her pillow, the worst thing was, that her father had not told her sooner, and that they turned of the machiene too! Rachel fell in to a sleep crying.