A Journey to the Past Part 1 of the Timeless Journeys of Alexandria Manor Series

Chapter 4: Friends Thebes, Egypt 1325 BC

Ankhesenamun

A few weeks later I was sitting in the stands of the practice arena, watching Tutankhamun and Alexandria riding around the arena. Alexandria and I had become very close friends in the past few months and we were constantly talking about our young Pharaoh, and occasionally politics. I noticed me brother-husband riding over to me with Alexandria trailing right behind him. When he'd stopped and Alexandria had pulled up next to him, he asked "And how is my beautiful wife doing?"

"Wonderful my dear husband" I smiled

"That's good to hear my love. Now we have some things to talk about in my office"

"Just the three of us" I asked

"Of course" he smiled as he helped me down from the stadium and led us back to the palace. When we reached his, he sat behind his desk, and pulled out some papers

"What are those?" Alexandria asked curiously

"Documents"

"For what" I asked

"For the Opet festival" he replied sternly as Alexandria and I sat

"I think it'll be a very good idea" I smiled

"I'm glad you think so" he smiled back.

"What do you want us to do?" Alexandria asked

"I was wondering if you two could help with some of the organizing. I have a big meeting today, so you guys will be on your own till tomorrow."

"We'll get started right away" I said

"Thank you" he smiled.

Alexandria

When Ankhesenamun and I walked out of Tutankhamun's office I asked "What will we need to do first?"

"Well luckily we won't get to the hard stuff till tomorrow, so first we'll start with getting the festival day planned, then food." That night I collapsed into my bed, exhausted from the day's events and fell right to sleep.

A week and a half later, it was late, and I couldn't sleep and was staring at a wall when I heard my bedroom door open and someone padding over to my bed "Alexandria, are you sleep?" it was Ankhesenamun.

"No" I whispered as I turned to her.

"Thank goodness, I was afraid that you were. Do you want to go for a swim?" she asked

"I would love to" I whispered back as I got up and got dressed. Soon Ankhesenamun and I were tiptoeing through the palace giggling silently to each other. When we reached the nearest pool we jumped in and swam around happily. After a while I saw a lone figure sitting on the far end of the pool, so I silently swam over to see who it was. When I was close enough I saw it was Tutankhamun, who was silently sitting cross legged he was wearing only his kilt. "What are you doing here?" he asked sternly

"Ankhesenamun and I just wanted a little swim" I smiled nervously as I felt Ankhesenamun swim over next to me.

"Tutankhamun, why are you up so late?" she asked

"That doesn't matter; the question is why are you two swimming this late at night?"

"We couldn't sleep" she replied.