Thank you to all who voted for a sequel. I realized that in "Natalie Goes Crazy" I never told what branch Amy and Dan belonged too. I decided to have Dan belong to the Ekaterina Branch and have Amy belong to the Janus Branch.
Now you're probably wondering why I set it up that way. Well, Dan seemed like a natural Ekat to me, but Amy struck me more as a Janus. To make this work, I decided that Dan and Amy's mom should be a Janus like Amy, and that their Dad should be an Ekat like Dan.
One more thing, I do not own The 39 Clues or any of its characters. I do own Ali, Meg, and any other character I choose to invent.
Natalie's POV
I looked over at my boyfriend. I just loved saying that, no relished it. We'd been together now for two months and I loved every minute of it. He was sitting on the window seat reading Skulduggery Pleasant for, I'm pretty sure, the fifteenth time. I turned my attention back to my sketchpad; a woman in Boston had ordered a wedding dress and it was due in a week and I hadn't even completed the designs!
Suddenly, the familiar tune of "Love Like This" by Natasha Bedingfield filled the room. It was the ring tone on my phone that played whenever my best friend, besides Dan, was calling.
"Hey Meg, what's up?"
"This isn't Meg." A chill ran through my body; it wasn't Meg on the other end. It was someone else. Someone very familiar…
"Who are you?"
"I thought you'd have guessed already." The silky voice on the other end purred.
"I don't know what you're-" Then it hit me. I had heard that voice before. The person laughed and that was the clincher. It was Ali.
"How did you get this number?"
"Don't you remember?" Dan's almost-wife laughed again. You broke into my house and I caught you. So, you adlibbed and said that you wanted to show me your designs. I invited some of my friends over and we talked and I got your number on Speed Dial."
Of course! I actually hit myself in the head with the bottom of my palm. I did it harder than I meant to which caused Dan to look at me with a mixture of concern and alarm. I gestured to my phone, which meant I'm busy, let's talk later. He bought it and went back to his book.
"I remember. Now what do you want." Ali chortled again, and if it had been possible to smack someone over the phone, I would've done it.
"You'll find out!" she tinkled. "Oh and, don't mention this phone call to Dan. You wouldn't want anything nasty to happen to him." And then the phone went dead.