Continued after Chapter 2... Sorry, this chapter is pretty short. Had a test to study for!
"What's worse than a moonstone?" said Natalie, finding it very funny.
Amy looked to her brother for help. Her face read, Dan, tell them everything. Somehow, he understood how she felt at the moment.
"Guys, it's not her fault that she broke the box." Dan said, but nobody seemed to understand what he was talking about.
"It's all a mistake," he continued, "When Amy opened the lid, there was some writing on the inner side. You must've seen them too. It said, 'Stay with the peace'. I know it sounds wrong, but think about some other things that are named as 'the peace'. The first thing that comes to mind is the silence. Obviously, the silence means peace. But judging by our past experiences and a suspicious 'v' on the top, you would think that the silence means the death. So some of us," he looked at Ian and Amy, who were the only ones who understood exactly what happened , "thought that the box might be a trap set by another family, who had worked against us for the past five hundred years; the Vespers. So Amy dropped it, deliberately, so that whatever was inside it might get destroyed and wouldn't kill us. But, as you see, we found a moonstone inside it. A moonstone is actually a stone that is superstitiously supposed to calm the person who wears it, and it also means, 'the peace'."
"That clearly states that Amy ruined our last chance to find out the person who might be behind all this - calling all of us together, and sending this ridiculous box just to scare us away. And Amy did the exact thing they were hoping we'd do." Sinead burst out loudly, and looked so angry that Amy was that foolish.
'Why is everybody against me? Why doesn't anyone understand me?' Amy thought. She had dropped the box because she did sense something wrong, and she didn't want anybody else to get hurt. But, she hadn't expected herself to be wrong, after all this time! Ian saw her, and somehow sensed her failure.
"And what if it really was a trap, and she had not have acted so quickly, then we might be somewhere you wouldn't even want to think about!" Ian said to defend Amy, who glanced at him at that moment, and their eyes met for full three seconds before she averted her eyes.
"Don't even think that I am that stupid to agree with your made-up story," Natalie fumed, who looked so ferocious that Ian seemed to melt in front of her gaze. "I saw Amy snatch something out of the box. What is it?" She turned towards Amy, who was absolutely flabbergasted.
"Did you think you might make this a story of a stupid moonstone, and we'd believe it and leave you alone? No, you were trying to hide something. I saw it with my own eyes. Show me what you're hiding behind your back."
"She does have brains and eyes." Dan muttered, but somehow his humor didn't seem to break the tensed atmosphere.
"I w-was-" Amy started.
CLANGG.
Everybody froze. "What the hell was that?"Jonah said, breaking the silence.
"Somebody other than us is in the house at this very moment." Ian said in an unusually quiet voice.
For the first time after the Clue hunt ended a year ago, everyone seemed to sense danger in the air.
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