Seven
"What are you hiding?" I ask looking at the octagon piece with hieroglyphics. It has been a few days, Fabian and I are listening to the recordings and their of Sarah when she was a little girl. It's hard to hear though since we can't have it be too loud or else Victor will hear.
Hearing a snap from above, looking up I see Amber with her phone out looking down at me "What are you hiding?" Closing her phone she gives me an ultimatum "tell me or I'll go to Mr Sweet and I'll him you're doing something weird and I don't know what it is...or something"
"I tell you" putting the thing back in my bag, Amber stares at me "and you promise to keep quiet, no one can know"
"I'll take it to the grave" she promises "I never tell a secret" nodding my head out, we leave the stalls as she has her arms crossed looking at me.
"Fabian and I are looking for buried treasure that once was found in Tutankhamen's tomb" her eyes widen in shock and she becomes excited "this" showing her the piece and she takes it "is a piece of the treasure we are finding but also the next clue, we don't know what it is or what it's leading us to"
"Treasure?!" She jumps up and down "from Tutankhamen's tomb!" She stops tilting her head asking "who's Tutankhamen?"
"A king" she gets all excited again "do you want to help us?" Maybe Amber can find something out that Fabian and I have missed.
"Of course!" She takes my hands jumping up and down "we'll be our own secret club!" She stops confused looking "Oh! Also, where did you go last weekend?"
"London" after sometime, I brought Fabian to his room and told him what happened. He was shocked about it "I believe her Fabian and maybe Amber can help us figure it out in a different light"
"Maybe" he agrees "any luck on that clue?"
"No" shaking my head "any luck on how we'll be able to listen to that recording without it being so loud to wake up anyone else?"
"No"
Later that evening, as we headed upstairs we waited for Amber who saw us looking at her "Come on" waving my hand, she smiles rushing over with red heels and a necklace of garlic? "Uh? Amber?" Motioning to the heels and garlic "care to fill us in?"
"These are my lucky heels" she tells us and I motion for her to be quiet, she nods her head "right"
"So why aren't you wearing them?" Fabian asks
"I can't actually run in them" shaking her head as she smiles brightly "now, what are we waiting for?"
"What about the cloves of garlic?" I ask "this isn't 'the Vampire Diaries'"
"The Bible says" she nods her head "always be prepared"
Raising my eyebrow as Fabian shakes his head "Amber, that's the boys scouts"
She thinks about it before shaking her head "Also I had a an mp3 player that records shit, so we can record what the person is saying and listen later"
"That's amazing" we both praise Amber, she smiles brightly. I kneel down and use the pin to open the door to the attic, we walk up to the attic where Amber is holding onto me "don't worry, the scariest thing is the dust"
Going over to the secret passage, I open the door having Amber gasp "Woah!" Pulling out the phonograph, we get a tape ready to be heard.
When we do, we listen closely to the little girl from the beginning as Fabian goes to record it "Mother and father have given the house a name, Anubis. They're going away again soon, to Egypt I think. Father says he has to, for his work. But when they go" she begins to cry "I'll be on my own again...with him"
"With who?" Amber asks "why's she crying? It's so...sad"
"I don't want to stay here" she complains "I'm frightened of what will happen to me"
"I don't want to stay here either!" Amber complains loudly "can we go please?" She's scared since this attic does appear to be haunted like.
"Hold my hand" holding my hand out but it's too late, she knocks something over "Never mind, come on" I put the phonograph back before we quickly leave.
Amber was the first as Fabian stopped me, he motions to staying silent "Amber Millington" we hear Victor "what are you doing? You know your not supposed to be wandering after lights out"
"Yum, Trudy" is she pretending to be sleep walking "Brownies, ice cream. Yum yum"
"Yes" Victor is somewhat amused but not really "unlike you Miss Millington, I wasn't born yesterday"
"I'm starving" she says "and I don't care about your stupid rules, I'm going on a fridge raid"
"Amber Millington!" They leave and I motion to not yet, when we do leave we see she's gone. Fabian and I are laughing before splitting to head to bed. As I'm in my room, I see that woman from before look my way and she is smiling.
"Who are you?" I ask
She merely comes over and places her hand on my cheek in a loving way "In due time all shall be revealed" what? What is she talking about??
When Amber returns, she is smiling "Was I not awesome or"
"Completely awesome" I say
I get an off feeling and have her be quiet, going over to the door I open it to see a man before Patricia's and Mara's room. I quickly close it when Amber gasped "Whose that?" She asks me
Shaking my head "I don't know" we hear screaming and I open the door to the man who is looking our way. This man has short dark blonde hair, blue eyes and sand colored skin "Amber, get Victor"
"Don't" he warns holding out a gun, he then looks at my neck and I look down at my necklace "Where did you get that? Did Sarah give that to you?"
"None of your business" I say slamming my hand into his having the gun go off but hit my shoulder. Luckily it was no where near Amber, Amber however screams and this man tried to grab me but I punched him hard.
"I'll be back chosen one" he promises as he leaves and runs out, Amber just continues to scream.
"Victor! Trudy!" Amber looks at my arm which is bleeding "we need help!" The adults come out and Trudy gasps running over to my side.
Mara and Patricia come out too as I have something pressed to the bullet wound "What happened?" Trudy demands as Victor left, probably to get the authorities.
"There was a man here" Amber tells her "he was looking into Mara's and Patricia's room"
"I saw him" Patricia says "he was staring at me" the lights are completely on now and Victor comes in, we see the guys here too. I'm on my bed with Trudy by my side.
"Woah" Jerome's eyes widen when he sees the wound first "is that...a bullet wound?"
"Yeah" nodding my head "this isn't the first time I've been shot" they all stare at me as I look at the wound "is there an exit?"
What?" Trudy asks
"Is there a hole in my back?" I ask, she looks and shakes her head "the bullet is still in me"
We see the paramedics and cops here "Is there a reason he shot you?" The cop asked as the paramedic bandaged me up, they're going to take me to the hospital to see if the bullet did anything or traveled anywhere since bullets do that sometimes
"I told Amber to get help" I say to him
"He then saw her necklace and tries to take her" Amber adds "after asking where she got it and if a Sarah gave it to her"
"Your necklace?" He asks, I show them and Victor's eyes narrow on it "where did you get that?"
"It was a gift" I tell them putting it away "he said he'd be back"
"Called her 'chosen one' too" Amber adds
"Okay" he writes it down "let's get you to the hospital"
"I'm coming with" Trudy has her bag with her.
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