"Dad, you there?" I asked that night. My mother told me that I could call him after six. My heart has been racing ever since. I paced around the house looking at the clock every two seconds, frustrated that it didn't change to six o'clock.

"Hi, sweetie, sorry you couldn't come with me, but guess what?" He said.

"What?" I asked.

"I got this pretty necklace from the gift shop and it is a replica of one of the pieces I was showing in the Freemasons exhibit," My father explained.

"O, that is cool, guess what I found and it a thousand times cooler than that, no offense," I told him.

"What is it, and none taken," He said.

"I found this secret passage way in our house," I said excitedly.

"Did you go down it?" my father asked curious.

"Yes, it was the coolest experience in the world," I told him and I could almost see him smile through the phone.

"What did you find at the end," He asked.

"A riddle, you have to come see it daddy," I told him.

"Okay, I'll hurry home," He promised I could tell he was excited to find out what it was.

The next morning he came home. Instead of taking the first flight out like he usually does, he took the red eye to get home as soon as possible.

"Dad!" I yelled excitedly as I ran down the stairs.

"Hi sweetie," he said looking exhausted.

"Come on, I have to show you the secret passage," I said running up the stairs, and he dazedly followed.

I moved the book as far as it would go, and the wall disappeared.

We walked down the tunnel and there on the wall etched the same riddle, and the necklace.

"This is amazing, and after seventeen years of living in this place. Of course I didn't go in this room a lot," My father mumbled. "Wait haven't I told you to stay out of this room?" he added.

"Yes, but dad, I was so bored," I told him firing off the excuse that I planned hours ago, and he really didn't care, he was looking at the riddle.

"Well I guess, this is where he figured out that the secret lies with Charlotte," he said looking at the wall. "But what about the more than meets the eye part?" he asked.

"I don't know, and does this mean that the treasure that you found, was only half of it?" I asked.

"Evidently, has your mother came home yet?" He asked.

"Nope, not yet, but I told her," I said.

"So, yeah, I'm going into my study to think for a second okay, you go watch TV or something," my father said exiting the tunnel.

"Okay," I huffed. At that point some would have argued, but I knew when my father needed to think, he needed quiet.

I went downstairs and turned on Hannah Montana. I know it's weird, but I watch it when there's nothing else on. But I wasn't really watching it, I

was thinking about the riddle, More than meets the eye? What does that mean? The secret also lies with Charlotte? Now that is even more confusing, is there another ship named Charlotte, or did my dad blow it up?

And what does more than meets the eye mean? That was a line from Transformers is all I could think of. But that was completely ridiculous. More than meets the eyes like means that it's something that you have to look hard to find. What if, no that's completely crazy. But she had to tell her father what her idea was.

"Dad, do you still have that pipe that you found at the Charlotte?" I asked huffing, I ran up the stairs.

"Yeah, right there," my dad said pointing to the glass case, along with the Bifocals.

"What if the secret means that pipe, it's a replica of Charlotte isn't it?" I asked.

"Yes, it is," my dad said knowing that I was unto something.

"Look Dad," I said taking the pipe down. I took that stick part off, it still had traces of my dad's blood on it.

Then there was a hole, so I put my eye up to it. It was the coolest thing in the world. It looked like some sort of map.

"Dad look!" I yelled.

My father did the same thing.

"This is amazing," he said excitedly.

"Dad, can I come with you to find the treasure please!" I said.

"Maybe, I don't know yet, it could be dangerous," I said.

"I don't care, I found the riddle, figured out the riddle, doesn't that earn some points," I asked.

"Martha, you don't have to earn points in my book, you get infinity points," he told me.

"I know, but can I come," I pouted.

"Let's ask your mother first, now I wondered about that necklace, I think we should get it, in case we need it on the trip," My father thought, then we heard the front door opened, I sprang to the door, and my father followed.

"Mommy! Mommy! Dad and me think we should go on a treasure hunt, can I come please," I asked excitedly.

"How about a hello," she asked.

"Can I go please," I pleaded.

"Depends on what kind of treasure hunt," my mother said.

"It's one because daddy didn't find all of the first one, and there like this map kind of telescope thing in that pipe thing, and it's more than meets the eye," I said fast, I swear sometimes I act like a big baby.

I was told that my parents needed to talk in private so, I went downstairs and watched a documentary on the declaration of Independence, it was a few years old, but I wondered if dad was going to be featured on here, I mean he did steal the declaration of Independence.

I sat there and ate my popcorn. Then when my father came on I pushed the record button on our DVR. I had to show this to my father.

It was done, and my father and mother came down the stairs.

"Hey Dad, you got to see this," I told him rewinding the button.

"Historian Benjamin Franklin Gates, has been the only person in history to ever steal the Declaration," the host said. "Where is he now? He lives in a mansion on a hill, the house we all could have had, if we just believed in him," the reporter said.

"That's cool Martha, but we decided that we are going to take you on the trip, but be warned, if there are any dark creepy tunnels we have to travel through, or anything like that, we are not going to let you go okay," father said.

"O come on, those are the best things," I complained.

"Would you rather stay with Riley over the summer?" My mother warned.

"Okay, I guess I can live without going down the spooky tunnel," I huffed.

"So we got to figure out where this map leads to," My father thought. We thought for a second, "Riley," we said at the same time.