Eastern District School

Chapter 14 - A Note From Who?

All she really wanted was to sit on her bed and get stuck in some work. She had almost finished laying out the building on her laptop. The problem was that the rooms were different sizes on each floor, and the walls structuring and holding the floor above were in different places. Of course the nursery was completely open except for the support pillars here and there. So she had to space them out at their exact places. So yes, she wanted to crack on and get stuck in her work. 

She did not want to think about her travel mug, somehow ending up in the chest, inside the storage container. She had not put it there! She had thanked Rich for finding it though, after initially telling him she definitely hadn't put it there, only to hear his response of "well, you probably didn't realise you had!", so she hadn't pursued it any further. She had just bid her farewells, because she wanted to leave before he did. Before he offered to get her another coffee...

No, stop now Rose, let's get this work finished! she told herself then.

She had been back in her hotel room about half an hour, just enough time to set the kettle going and to put her things aside. She had been looking forward to a coffee, kicking her boots off and just changing into something a little more comfortable after a quick cool shower. Having a shower after a long day, always made her feel lighter, in body and in mind.

Sitting up on the bed with the pillows behind her back so she didn't lean against the hard headboard, she stretched her feet out in front of her and pulled her laptop bag closer on the bed. Her coffee was in reach on the bedside table, along with a chicken noddle pot. She was all set for a few hours on the laptop to finish the layout and play around with this idea of a lift. She frowned thinking of it. To say she didn't like the idea of taking out the secret stair case, was an understatement. If he truly treasured this building, that would be one of the few things he would really want to keep in. But then...he did want to keep the main stair well. She sighed and suddenly felt a weight on her shoulders. Such a little thing that wouldn't usually bother her.

They very rarely got to work on listed buildings like this one, and she usually didn't get attached to aspects of the building. But she knew this wasn't going to be the same, she had history here.

She stopped herself. Rose, you're going offtrack again!

Pulling her laptop out of her bag onto her lap, and removing her paperwork, she noticed she had pulled out Rich's plans too. The top notes were regarding the lift shaft to be put in where the secret stairwell was. He had included the exact measurements; the quotes he must have had; pros and cons. Browsing through the cons, she noticed 'ripping out a main feature' in the list. As she read through the Pros, she saw he had listed the fact the elderly that could not walk that much or at all would be able to reach the top of Eastern District. To remember their childhood games: 'Running hoops, Skipping, Creep mouse, Tag and Kiss chase'.  The issue of 'health and safety' kept popping up everywhere, she noticed.

 She hated to admit it, but she was impressed with how thorough his work was, despite not agreeing with his idea. She passed her eyes over the pages, and then noticed he had another proposal to add a lift on the side. Almost building a chimney style add-on to the side of the building. Again he had a list of pros, cons, quoted and measurements. 

She shook her head, comparing the two, she knew what was the logical solution, but her heart was saying something different. She put them both down and opened up her laptop. It instantly came to life, because she had only put it into sleep mode when she left the site. As her eyes came to focus on the screen, she noticed her notebook was open. She used this program just for writing letters and documents. The problem was, she hadn't been typing up any documents yet. She noticed there was just a single line typed there.