"It was very quiet in this house last night," Fleur said, as she served breakfast, Patricia, Fabian, Eddie, Mara and Jerome all falling silent. "Where were you all?" She demanded, looking towards the people who weren't in the house last night.
No-one said anything, just remained as they were, eating.
"I want answers!" She raised her voice.
"I've got to get to school," Patricia stated, standing up.
"Same," The others agreed, also standing up.
"Wait!" Fleur stopped them.
"Sorry, Fleur," Eddie apologised, "But we have a really important history test to get to."
"Fine, go," Fleur said reluctantly, "But after school, I want answers" She shouted after them.
****
"Patricia!" Mara called, running up Patricia.
"Oh, so now you want to talk to me. What do you want?" Patricia asked.
"It was late. I didn't know what I was doing. I was mad at Fabian, and..." Mara began to panic.
"Mara, what are you talking about?" Patricia questioned halting Mara's rambling.
"I kissed Jerome..." She breathed out.
"You what?!" Patricia shouted.
"Shh..." Mara whispered.
"What? How? Why? When? Where?" Patricia flooded out questions.
"It happened last night..." Mara began, "I was looking for the watch alone, then I spotted Jerome heading to the airport-"
"Why was he heading to the airport?" Patricia cut her off.
"He wanted to travel to America to surprise Joy," Mara told her, "So anyway, I offered to walk with him to the airport, so I did, then once we got there, it just kind of happened..."
"Kind of happened?" Patricia questioned.
"Yeah," Mara muttered.
****
"You still need to show me that website, Eddie," Fabian told him.
"Chill, Dude," Eddie replied calmly.
"How can I chill?" Fabian asked, "Nina's life is resting on this website."
"I know, and I will show you after classes," Eddie told him.
"Fine..." Fabian breathed out.
****
"Guessing you got caught for you fake ticket then," Charlie laughed, as him and Jerome walked over to the College.
"Yeah, something like that," Jerome murmured in reply.
"What does that mean?" Charlie questioned.
"Yeah. Yeah I did get caught for fraud," Jerome lied, hiding the truth.
****
"So you aren't still with Fabian then?" Patricia queried.
"Yeah... I am..." Mara hesitated in response responded.
"Does he know?" Patricia asked.
"No," Mara replied, feeling guilty.
"You are exactly like Jerome," Patricia stated.
"What do you mean?" Mara asked.
"Last year, he went behind your back with Willow and didn't tell you. This year you are going behind Fabian's back with him."
"You're right..." Mara muttered, "I'm such a bad person... So what should I do?"
"Be honest with Fabian, and face whatever happens. Or be like Jerome and have Fabian find out later and be even more hurt," Patricia told her, before entering the building, and separating for Mara.
"I never knew you were so good at this kind of stuff," Mara called after her.
****
"Welcome in students," Miss Chase welcomed everyone into her class.
"Hi," A few students muttered, walking into the classroom.
"So, I have a small test for everyone..." She started, the students huffing, "This is about the structure of the human body and the human anatomy. It is just so that I get an idea of what you are capable of,"
Miss Chase then began handed out the papers to everyone in the class.
"Fabian," Mara whispered to Fabian.
"Not now, Mara," Fabian whispered back.
"But I need to tell you something... Important," Mara hesitated.
"Can't it wait?" Fabian questioned.
"Not reall-" Mara started before begin cut off by Miss Chase.
"Quiet please," She spoke, placing papers in front of them, "There is time for talking, and now is not it,"
"Sorry, Miss," Mara apologised.
****
"Hey," Charlie said to Patricia as she sat down, "When are we going to do something more toward this challenge?" He lowered his voice.
"Tonight?" Patricia asked
"Sure," He smiled, "Do I need to bring anything?"
"Why would you need to bring anything?" Patricia asked, giving him a disgusted look.
"I don't know," Charlie shrugged.
"Patricia?" Mr. Essert, the French teacher, asked.
"What?" Patricia asked, confused, turning to face the front go the class.
"Do you know the answer?" He asked.
"Answer to what?" Questioned Patricia.
"The question I asked," Mr. Essert told her, gritting his teeth.
"What question?" Patricia mumbled awkwardly.
"Have you been listening this lesson? Or just talking?" He asked.
"Uhh..." Patricia hesitated.
"Detention!" Mr. Essert shouted.
"But..." Patricia tried to argued.
"I don't want to hear it Miss Williamson. Now please, pay attention!"
****
"What did you want to tell me earlier?" Fabian asked, as him and Mara walked out of class.
"Oh, Erm..." Mara hesitated, suddenly getting really nervous about Telling Fabian, "It doesn't matter."
"Are you sure?" Fabian asked.
"Uh-Hu," Mara nodded.
****
"Ugh!" Patricia grunted, walking up to Fabian and Mara, and leaning against the lockers.
"What's wrong?" Mara asked.
"First day of knowing that stupid French teacher, and he has given me a detention," Patricia explained.
"What did you do?" Fabian rolled his eyes.
"Just telling Charlie about tonight," Patricia told Fabian.
"Well it better work, we need that locket back," Fabian told her.
"We can always pick the lock" Mara chipped in.
"Not with Fleur patrolling the area," Fabian stated.
"Anyway, I'm going to finish this thing off with Charlie tonight, honest, then we'll have the locket back."
****
Jerome sat there in the student lounge, flicking through pages of a textbook, but he wasn't really reading it, or taking in any go the information.
"Surprise!" Jerome heard a voice say in front of him.
He lifted his head, "Joy?" He questioned, shocked.
"Hey!" She smiled.
"Wh- What are you doing here?" Jerome stuttered.
"The education was bad in my other college, so my parents let me come back to Anubis," She explained.
"Yo-You're staying?" Questioned Jerome.
"Yes!" She smiled.
Jerome, feeling guilty and bad as anything, stood up and hugged Joy, putting a smile on his face.
****
"Hey," Eddie said, approaching Fabian, Patricia and Mara, "Do you guys want to come over to the Frobisher library, I'm going to find something that might help with Mara's watch," He smiled at Mara.
"You are helping me?" She asked.
"Yeah," Eddie nodded, smiling.
"Great, lets go," Fabian smiled, "Patricia can you stay back and cover for us if we are late back?"
"No," Mara quickly said, everyone looking at her confused, "She needs to come," She added.
"Okay... Let's all go then," Eddie muttered.
"How long until lesson start again?" Fabian questioned.
"20 minutes," Eddie told them, looking at his watch.
"Okay, lets go," Fabian spoke in a rush, as they all began to quickly leave the school.
****
"You two go ahead" Mara said, pointing to Eddie and Fabian.
"Um... Okay" Eddie and Fabian nodded in confusion, walking ahead, while Mara held Patricia back.
"What wrong?" Patricia asked.
"I can't tell Fabian, I tried, something just stopped me," Mara explained.
"Mara!" Patricia huffed, "Just be honest, I don't know."
"Why?" Mara sked, "You are good at this stuff."
"I'm not!" Patricia snapped.
"You don't want to think you are, but you are!" Mara told her.
"I am not!" Patricia gritted her teeth, then ran up to join Fabian and Eddie.
"But..." Mara tried to stop her.
Patricia grabbed Fabian's wrist, and pulled him back, towards Mara.
"Here," Patricia grunted, "Talk," She bluntly added, before walking ahead and leaving them to talk.
"Whats going on?" Fabian asked.
"Fabian... I need to tell you something," Mara nervously said.
"Sure, What?" Fabian asked.
****
"Whats going on?" Eddie asked Patricia, as she joined him walking to the library.
"Wouldn't you like to know," Patricia muttered.
"Well... What is it?" Eddie questioned.
"None of your business!" Patricia snapped, as they continued to walk to the library.
****
"I kissed Jerome," Mara told him, "I'm sorry," She quickly added.
"You what?" Fabian asked, hurt.
"It was an accident, it never mean't to happen," Mara explained.
"So... But... Um... I don't know what to say now..." Fabian hesitated.
"I am really sorry," Mara apologised again.
"I don't know what now," Fabian told her, unsure of how to react to this.
Mara stood there, she didn't say anything, or make eye contact with Fabian, she just blinked away the forming tears.
****
"Do you know where Mara is?" Joy asked Jerome, still grinning.
"I was wondering the same thing" Jerome muttered to himself. "No, sorry," He decided upon telling Joy.
"Okay..." Joy murmured.
"So are you staying at Anubis?" Jerome asked, changing the topic.
"I am," Joy told him, "But I'm staying in Hathor House for a week or two, because there's something in Anubis House that they need to sort out before I move in."
****
"Someone has broken in!" Eddie shouted, panicking and running over to the door of the Frobisher Library.
"Yeah... About that..." Patricia muttered, walking up to the door slowly.
"Yacker! What did you do?" Eddie gritted his teeth.
"Broke in..." She told him, not telling him that she took Charlie here.
"Why?" Eddie asked.
"I predicted the future, knowing that we would need to get in, so broke in to make it easier for us," She explained sarcastically, trying to divert Eddie's mind away from the real reason. Eddie just rolled his eyes.
****
"We can talk about this later," Fabian muttered, "Lets just catch up with Eddie and Patricia."
"Okay," Mara nodded nervously, as they both headed to the library.
****
"I can't find any information on the ring. Or any place it could be hidden," Lavender told Vincent and Nina back at the house.
"Well you better look harder!" Vincent shouted.
"I have searched everywhere," Lavender defended herself.
"It is hidden somewhere in this house, I know it," Vincent told them, "So you obviously haven't looked everywhere," He rose his voice.
"I have," She argued.
"My 'friends' will find it," Nina reassured.
"How would you know, they are only kids," Vincent gritted his teeth.
"They are Sibuna," Nina told him, "They will go to any extent to save me."
"When will they have located the ring?" Vincent asked.
"Soon," Nina reassured.
"Soon? Be more specific!" He demanded, shouting.
"I have showed the information to Eddie, and he will show it to the others tonight probably," She began, "And once they have that information, then they will begin the search immediately."
"Alert me when they do!" Vincent shouted, "And you," He pointed to Lavender, "Continue your research!"
"Okay," They both nodded, before leaving Vincent's office.
****
"How did you get in?" Fabian asked, as him and Mara entered.
"No problem, you're welcome," Patricia smiled.
"I asked how, not who," Fabian stated.
"Rock," Patricia told him simply. Fabian rolling his eyes.
"So what are we exactly looking for?" Patricia questioned.
"Anything that mentions Mara's watch," Eddie informed her.
"Ugh..." Patricia grunted, "There are millions of books here, this will take forever."
"And we only have 10 minutes," Mara added, looking at her watch.
"Yeah, someone should go back to school to cover for the rest of us," Eddie stated.
"I'll go!" Mara volunteered.
"No! Mara you need to stay here," Eddie told her.
"But..." Mara argued, "It's history next, I can't miss it."
"Mara!" Patricia raised her voice, "We are Sibuna, we don't skip a mystery for history."
"But..." Mara began.
"Patricia's right," Fabian interrupted awkwardly.
"Sibuna?" Patricia asked, raising her hand in front of her eye.
"Sibuna," They all agreed.
****
"Where are Mara, Patricia, Fabian and Eddie?" Mr. Hevery asked.
"Don't know," Everyone in the class shook their head.
"If someone sees them, please lets them know they all have a detention," He growled.
****
"There is nothing here," Patricia groaned, as she flicked through another book.
"There has to be something," Fabian stated.
"I found something!" Eddie exclaimed.
"You have to go and contradict me, don't you," Patricia mumbled, before they all stood up and rushing up to Eddie.
"What have you found?" Fabian asked.
"It says here," He began, as he pointed to an extract in a book he was holding, "That Egyptian Watches symbol more than telling the time"
"What does that mean?" Patricia asked.
"I have no idea..." Eddie murmured, "But here is a picture that looks exactly like Mara's watch."
"Let's just take the book and get back to school," Fabian spoke.
"More like back to the house," Patricia corrected, "School finished just over an hour ago."
"Oh no!" Mara shouted, "We missed all of history, we are so dead."
"Mara, chill," Eddie comforted, "Let's just head back to the house."
"Okay," They all agreed, before heading out the library.
****
"Nina?" Jerome questioned, walking into the house after school, seeing Nina in the kitchen making a snack and dancing.
"Jerome? Hi," She muttered, freezing.
"I thought you were sick..." Jerome queried
"Uhh..." Nina stuttered, "I'm feeeling a little better" She suggested, in an uncertain voice.
"Oh good, I'll inform Fabian, Eddie and Patricia, I'm sure they'll live to hear it," Jerome smirked, knowing something wasn't right.
"No!" Nina shouted immediately.
"And why is that?" Jerome smirked.
"Don't tell them, Jerome" She warned, "Please!"
"And what do I get in return for keeping this secret?" Jerome asked.
"What do you want?" Nina gritted her teeth.
"Let's see," Jerome tapped his chin in thought, taking his time.
"Hurry up, Jerome!" Nina snapped impatiently.
"Well my laptop has been playing up a bit recently," He smirked.
"No! I am not buying you a new laptop, I don't have that sort of money," Nina argued.
"Well," Jerome smiled, "Better get saving," He then left the room.
"Great," Nina muttered to herself sarcastically, before heading back to her room with her snack.
****
"Right, I'll grab my laptop and meet you guys in the living room," Eddie smiled, as they entered the house.
Patricia, Fabian and Mara then entered the living room and sat down.
"Right," Eddie spoke, walking in, and sitting down beside Fabian and Patricia, Mara the other side of Patricia.
Eddie then opened his laptop, and typed in the link that Nina told him, "Here," He showed them.
[Another chapter! I'm sorry if anything in the chapter doesn't make sense or something, I have prove read it, but I was writing it over a period of 3 days, so it may not.... Anyways...
Will Fleur find out where the students were last night?
What does the book mean about the watch?
Will Jerome tell the others that Nina isn't really ill?
Find out all soon! Next chapter out in a few days. Byeee ^_^]