A/N I know I said that I'd try to post on Thurday but I was busy with homework. Then I watched the new episode of House of Anubis. I'm wondering; have any of you guys heard of it? It's a mystery/teen drama show. Then after that I was busy on Friday and Saturday. So now, here's the next part!

Disclaimer-

Me: Do the disclaimer, Natalie.

Natalie: I don't appreciate that you're making fun of my brother with this story. Sure, he's strange for liking an American peasant, but he's still a Kabra.

Me: Sorry. Now, do the disclaimer.

Natalie: You don't sound sincere. You Americans never-

Me: Just say it already!

Natalie: THGFAN101 doesn't own the 39 Clues series or my brother.

Amy couldn't describe how she was feeling.

It was very complicated. Part of her couldn't believe that after all this time Ian Kabra actually liked her. He really wasn't faking it. The other part of her was mad because of having to find out the truth in front of everyone. Things couldn't get any worse.

But she was wrong. Things would get much worse because of having to read her parts. She's going to feel like a fool when she reads the part about being excited for his visit. She also wasn't looking forward to ending. The part about Evan.

She was worried about what Ian would say when he found out. That it was his fault that Evan became her boyfriend. It was his fault that he made her very upset after he canceled the visit.

Amy felt guilty. Here she was relieved (and happy) that Ian liked her, when she had the perfect adorkable boyfriend. Evan did so much for her and now she's starting to think about a certain British boy…

Stop it Amy, she told herself. Who cares about what Ian thinks when he finds out?

The only good thing about all of this was that Amy would finally find out why he canceled his trip.

"Come on Amy," her brother said. "Read! This is the best story I ever read!"

Dan was such a dweeb. Sometimes, she wonders how she ended up with the most ninja-obsessed brother on the planet. They were complete opposites. Dan liked ninjas, pranking and making fun of people while she liked books and helping people.

"Relax Dan," she told her brother. "I'll read. If only you could read other books."

Amy took a deep breath and began to read.

Amy Cahill was living in a madhouse.

Why had she never realized this before? The signs had been there — the running in the halls, the abundance of junk food, the crazy brother. But it was only at that moment, armed with a trash bag, that she realized just how far they had fallen. Anthropologists could come study her living room to learn about what the world would look like after the demise of modern civilization.

"You just noticed you've been living with a crazy brother?" Natalie asked.

"Hey!" Dan said. "I'm not crazy! This is called ninja training."

"By eating junk food?" Ian said in disgust.

"Just because we don't eat your strange food, that doesn't mean snacks are bad," Dan replied. "Besides, junk food is better than your escartsnail."

"It's Escargot," Ian explained. "It's one of the best French appetizers. You Americans don't have good taste. "

"Guys stop!" Hamilton said. "We're hungry here! Don't talk about food!"

"Dan!" she yelled. "Why are your dirty socks in a bag of chips?!"

"They aren't!" Dan hollered back, running into the room. He had a plastic lightsaber in one hand and a dustpan in the other.

"Such a child," Natalie said. "Playing with lightsabers?"

"Dan, I'm holding the proof in my hands right now," Amy said. She pulled the crumpled socks out of the chip bag, holding them between her forefinger and thumb. Boys were so gross.

"Hey!" the boys yelled in unison.

"Love," Ian said. "You can't put all boys in the same category as your brother."

"Yes Amy," Dan said. "Listen to your boyfriend."

"Ian don't call me 'love'," she replied. She couldn't believe him. After being embarrassed in front of everyone he still has the courage to say that. "And Dan, I already have a boyfriend."

"Hey guys!" Dan announced. "I was reading Amy's diary the other day and she calls her Evan, adorkable!"

Amy ignored her crazy brother and the laughs and continued reading. She couldn't wait to get out of this madhouse.

"That's not a bag of chips," Dan said, poking at the bag of Doritos with his lightsaber. "That's an empty bag of chips."

"It's still gross," she said. Just then, Atticus came running into the room. He held a mop and had a bath towel knotted around his neck. Amy was glad to have Atticus visiting — he was Dan's friend, and Dan needed all the friends he could get. He'd been so changed after the Clue hunt, like he didn't know what to do with himself anymore. Having Atticus around gave him someone to entertain, someone to be himself around. Plus, Atticus was a genius, which made him incredibly interesting to talk to.

Still, there was a line. She could be pleased that Dan had a friend. She could be equally displeased at dirty socks in bags of chips.

"Calceum amissum dabo ultionem meam!" Atticus roared, coming at Dan with the mop.

"No way, dude!" yelled Dan, leaping backward and lifting his dustpan like a shield.

"Dan," said Amy, shaking her trash bag at him. "Are you going to help at all?"

"Why are you cleaning in the first place?" Dan asked.

"Because we have company coming," she said. "I'm throwing out this bottle rocket."

"No, wait!" Dan said, reaching for it. "It hasn't been set off yet. Don't waste it, Amy. And we don't have company coming — we have Ian Kabra coming. And I know you want to totally impress him and take him to the movies and stare dreamily into his eyes—"

"I do not," Amy said, too quickly.

"Oh, Ian," Dan said, pressing his lightsaber to his chest and batting his eyes. "Tell me again about your shiny, shiny shoes."

"You're such a dweeb," said Amy, pitching the empty bag of chips into the trash bag.

Something about the scene in her living room struck her as strange — and then she realized why: It felt normal. Entirely normal. Right then, she was just a big sister, yelling at her little brother because he was a mess. Was this how the rest of the girls at school spent their time? When Amy had signed herself and Dan up for the Clue hunt, she hadn't known how much her life would change. Before, she had just been a normal eighth grader with an annoying kid brother. But since the Clue hunt began, her life had been full of foreign countries and near-death experiences — being lost in the catacombs in

Paris, flying to the top of Mount Everest, surviving that final gauntlet.

"Of course, this is normal," Natalie said. "Peasants fighting is perfectly normal."

And now, at sixteen, she found herself wealthier than she knew any person in the world could be, and in possession of the key to the Cahill family's ultimate power. Her life was, to be blunt about it, insane.

Ian's visit was just another example of that insanity. He was rich and cultured and ...ridiculous in a charming, interesting way. He wasn't like any of the other boys at Amy's school.

"It's nice to hear how you really think of me," Ian said to Amy amused. Amy blushed and refused to look at him.

"Compared to the guys in her school, you're an alien," Dan said. "All the other guys are normal and don't leave people trapped in a cave!"

"You're really never going to let this go? I told you, we were under the influence of our mother!" Ian yelled.

"Please don't bring up mum," Natalie said. "I can't stand to hear her name. Especially after we found out she was a Vesper."

"Amy please read," Arianna said annoyed. "You guys are really great at getting off topic."

Like a magnet, the thought of school zapped Amy's thoughts toward one boy in particular. On the list of boys that Amy wanted to clean her living room for, Evan Tolliver was right at the top. The thought of him made her ears go hot, which probably meant they were bright pink, too. It was a strange thing, to be excited about one boy coming to visit while blushing over another.

Amy felt herself blush. She looked at everyone else and they looked at her strangely. She felt like a fool, liking too guys at once.

"This is too much!" Dan yelled. "My sister is a crazy love sick girl!" Amy rolled her eyes.

"Ego regis spatium exterum cedo!"

"Not if I have anything to say about it, dastardly fiend!"

"Don't jump onto the ceiling fan!" Amy yelled.

"Monkey," Natalie muttered.

"I heard that! No one insults the ninja master!" Dan said.

Honestly, what was the point of being the leader of the most powerful family in the world if you couldn't even get your little brother to behave like a human being?

"Okay, now that we're done with the beginning, we're going to be reading the interesting parts," Arianna said before anyone could comment. "Dan you'll be reading next."

Sorry that it's rushed! I have to go somewhere!

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