Unfortunate Events

Chapter Nine

The mansion

Jack and Jackie entered the mansion. It was perfect. The rooms were decorated and were filled with furniture. It was everything they had dreamed of. Then they noticed the sideboard in the foyer. In between the Chinese, blue lamps, there was Roman and Greek busts. "Didn't we have ones just like that in the White House?" Jack asked.

Jackie dashed upstairs. In their bedroom, apart from the four-poster bed, the antiques and the jardin de Tuilleries wallpaper, there was a door leading into another small corridor which had two more doors in it. Jackie went into the one on the left. She walked into a room that was identical to her White House dressing room.

In there was two more doors, one leading to a bathroom and one leading to a walk in wardrobe. She looked in the wardrobe. She expected it to be bare but she was wrong. It flourished with clothes, pastel and bright colours, stood out. It was all her clothes from the White House. Jack looked in his. It was the exact same.

Their mansion in Heaven had been equipped with everything that they owned. It was perfect. They wondered if that was what Kick meant by surprise but they were wrong...