"Remember back in school in England? Cambridge? Do you remember the kid in your class that always stayed towards the back but knew the answer to every question?" he asks me.

Oh great now he is asking me to use my memory from college. I do remember though.

"Yes, I never knew his name though. He followed me around a lot but he never spoke to me." I tell him wondering what this has to do with anything.

"Did ya ever think maybe he liked you but was too shy to tell ya?" he asks me.

"Well no I didn't really, I was quite focused on my studies. I wanted to become an archeologist so bad I didn't have time for much else." I confess.

"Oh for the love of, Sarah it was him! He was the geek that followed you around!" Evy tells me.

I look back at him shocked. Now that I got a better look at him he did look like the same guy just without glasses.

"Ok but that still doesn't explain why you were at my dig and wanted to steal it from me?!" I yell at him.

"I read that you were there from the paper at school, I was a teacher there for a short time but I don't know I just had the feeling if I showed myself as the tough guy maybe you would give me some more respect. You know see me in a different light?" he tells me.

I can tell he is embarrassed. I look over and see Evy and Rick look away from us.

"I wish you just would have been honest with me. You could have helped me instead of trying to make me think you were competition." I tell him as I put my hand on his arm.

"I saved ya because when I saw that brute manhandle you I don't know it was like a whole other side of me took over." He tells me.

LONDON

We arrive in London and decided to check into a hotel fearing that our threat might turn up at my cousin's house. Thank goodness Alex was in school during this time.

We walk into the hotel as Rick and Evy go to the desk and Johnathon makes a run for the bar. I stand there with my bag as Kegan comes up to me. We sit the bags down and just manage to sit in some chairs as Rick and Evy come back.

"Alright there are only three rooms available for tonight. So Evy and I have a room and then what?" Rick asks.

I look over at Kegan curious of what his solution is. I then look back to Johnathon who is now drinking.

"Johnathon can have a room to himself I will share with Kegan." I say as I stand up.

"Are you sure that is a good idea? I mean Sarah you barely know this man." Evy tells me.

"Evy, it'll be fine. I'm a big girl you don't have to worry about me all the time." I tell her as I take the key.

"You try anything and I will find out!" Evy points at Kegan warning him.

"Sweetheart, they are young let them do what they want. You only go around once." Rick jokes.

"This is Imhotep's third round" she replies as she start to their room.

Rick turns around and smiles at us. "Don't do anything I wouldn't do." He says as he walks away.

"Are ya sure your alright with this? If you don't want to I understand." Kegan starts.

"Enough, I already said it so its happening." I tell him as Johnathon sloshes up to us drunk already.

"Where my room?'' He yells.

Kegan and I look at each other with an amusing look in our eyes. I hand him his room key and send him off.

We walk to our room and see a queen size bed and a small bathroom off to the side. We look at each other then back at the room. This should be very interesting.

I put my bag down on the floor and grab a few things out of it. I see Kegan just lay down on the bed and start to nod off. I slowly creep to the bathroom and run a bath. I am hoping to get the desert off my skin if that is possible.

I undress and slowly sink into the tub and try to relax though that is practically impossible. I close my eyes and just listen to the water. My mind rushes back to when Kegan kissed me not once but twice though I know one time was only to wake me up from the head injury I got from being thrown into a wall. I can't help but think of him a little different now.

In school he was truly the definition of nerd. No one talked to him but that was mostly because he kept to himself. I did stand up for him once when some girl tried to put gum in his hair. He always has about medium length hair. It only went a little further then his ears but no more then that. Anyway she was about to put gum in his hair as I pushed him out of the way and the girl fell flat on her face. When I looked up to talk to him he was gone.

I am jolted from my memory as I hear the door open and Kegan walk inside. He takes one look at me and turns around.

"I am so sorry, I was just gonna wash up I didn't know you were in here." He tells me covering his eyes.

"it's alright." I tell him as I try to cover myself as I stand up. "Could you hand me that towel there?"

He looks over to the sink and grabs the towel and hands it to me. I quickly put it around my body and step to get out when I start falling face first but then I feel strong arms catch me. I look up and see him looking down at me.

"Your feet don't seem to like to stay on the ground." He tells me with a laugh.

"Yeah well, it's slippery in a tub so." I try to explain. "I am going to bed now and going to try and erase this from my memory."

I walk out of the bathroom and quickly get dressed in a nice camisole and a pair of pajama pants. I crawl into bed but I can hear the bath running. I sit up and try to think of something anything to distract me from him. Nothing worked.

I went over and knocked on the door.

"Ya?" he asked simply.

"I can't sleep, I have too much on my mind. Will you just talk to me until I fall asleep?" I ask him.

"I erm sure." He replies.

"I do have a question about back in school. When I made sure that girl didn't put gum in your hair why did you run? I was going to talk to you." I ask him.

"I was nervous, You were so pretty and I was definitely not. I was just shy I guess." He tells me as I hear him start to wash.

"I was pretty? Wow I can only imagine what I am now?" I ask sarcastically.

"Your still pretty but in a more mature way, you know you actually surpassed beauty." He tells me.

I can feel my face start to turn red. He is really making me blush.

"What are you talking about? I am noting compared to my cousin." I say as I sit down in front of the bathroom door.

"You can't compare yourself to her. You are your own kind of beauty that no one can copy." He says as I hear the water slosh.

"That's what you think." I say but not loud enough for him to hear. I slowly lean my head against the wall and start to drift.

Kegan's POV

I don't hear her talking anymore. Maybe she fell asleep. I hope she did we did have a really long day and then finally after almost a year of buildup I reveal who I really am. I get out of tub and pull the plug allowing it to drain. I put the towel around my waist and open the door. I look down and see she is asleep against the wall.

I bend down and pick her up and carry her back to the bed bridal style. As I lay her down I make sure that her hair isn't in her face. I look her over then not sure why but I couldn't help myself. She had long strawberry blonde hair, her skin was light of course. I swear there was not one time I did not see this woman use sun screen. I tuck one of her stray hairs behind her ear as she starts to stir. She looks up at me and I see her emerald green eyes.

"Did I fall asleep on the wall?" She asks with a laugh.

"Yeah ya did, I didn't want ya to be sore tomorrow so I carried you here." I tell her as I start to stand up but she stops me.

"You carried me?" she asks as she looks me in the eyes.

"Yea, like I said you'd have been real sore in the morning." I tell her trying to think of something else but her and her beauty. I can't though my mind keeps wanting to study her.

"Is something wrong? You keep looking at me like an animal sizing up its prey?" she asks me.

"I really want to kiss you right now but if you-"I start as she pulls me in and kisses me.

I lean in making out kiss deeper. My passion for her just keeps growing when we hear a knock at the door. I pull away and just look down at her.

"Yes?" Sarah asks.

"Don't forget tomorrow first thing we have to be at the curators office." Evy says ruining the moment.

"Alright, see you tomorrow." Sarah tells her as I back away from her.

I quickly put on a pair of pants and see Sarah just smile at me.

"She is definitely good at ruining a good moment." Sarah says as I just look at her.

"I'll sleep on the floor if ya want?" I ask her.

"What? No you can sleep up here with me. We don't have to do anything we can just sleep." She tells me as she lays her head back on the pillow.

I reluctantly lay on the opposite side of her. She quickly falls asleep. I look over and she her turn to me. I just smile watching her sleep. She looks so peaceful. Relaxed.

Sarah's POV

I wake up and it must be really late or really early. I look over and see Kegan asleep with his arms crossed over his shirtless chest. I scoot a little closer to him I look at his wavy red hair and smile. I do remember him from school but he has changed too. I look at his arms and see his muscles. Yeah those are definitely new.

I look at his face and see he is peaceful. I lean over him a part of me that I for some reason can no longer control has me lean in and kiss him. His eyes automatically open in surprise but then he relaxes as he kisses me back. This is truly my first experience with a guy. He pulls me closer to him then slowly he gets on top of me.

"Do you have any idea what your doin?" he asks me.

"If I remember correctly that was called kissing." I tell him.

"That was one form of kissin. There are others that are much more interesting." He tells me as he leans in and pushes his lips against mine.

All the sudden I feel his tongue in my mouth. I look at him shocked but in a good way. He holds onto me make our kiss deeper and longer than any we have had before.

I have no idea what I'm doing now my body on the other hand seems to have a mind of its own as I wrap my legs around him.

He stops and pulls away from me for just a moment. "You sure you wanna do this? Like your cousin said you barely know me?" he asks.

"You have to take risks in life, this'll be my first." I tell him as I grab his head and kiss him again.

The next morning I wake up to the loud banging on our door.

"Twenty minutes then be down stairs." I hear my cousin yell quite cheerfully.

I look up and see I am in his arms. I smile as Kegan opens his eyes.

"Good morning." He says with a big smile.

"Morning, I believe that was our twenty minute warning she just gave us." I tell him as I sit up with the sheet around my torso.

"Did ya like last night?" he asks me.

"Yes, it was definitely something I always wanted to do but now I see why its so exciting." I tell him as I stand up and start to get dressed.

"Wanted to do? What do ya mean by that?" he asks me as he stand up and quickly pulls his pants on.

"I mean I never have done that before." I tell him as I put on my top.

"You mean you were a virgin?" he asks as he comes to my side.

"Well, yes, I guess I was." I tell him as he just smiles at me.

"I was your first, I never thought I would be someone's first." He tells me with a big grin.

"Who was your first?" I dared to ask him.

He ignores me and goes to his bag.

"Excuse me I asked you a question I think I deserve that answer." I tell him as I pick up my bag.

"It was you! Ok is that what ya wanted to hear?!" he shouts at me.

"Why are you angry? If that was your first time how did you know what to do?" I ask him going to his side.

"Your body knows what to do, it's just common nature." He tells me.

"Right, common nature. So it meant nothing?" I ask him as I storm out of the room.

Kegan's POV

As she stormed out of the room I quickly collected my bag and ran after her.

"That's not what I meant! I never said it didn't mean anything." I tell her as she turns around and I fear is about to smack me.

"Just stop Kegan it was one night of passion alright common nature like you said. Obviously whatever feelings I thought you had for me were wrong." She tells me as she starts to walk away again.

"No that's not true, it wasn't just a night of passion." I try to explain to her.

"What wasn't just a night of passion?" Evy asks as she comes around the corner.

"Nothing, it was just a kiss, not even that good of a kiss at that." Sarah tells her cousin as they walk to the lobby.

"It wasn't just a kiss was it?" Rick asks behind me.

"No, we went further then that. How did you know?" I ask him.

"It's never just a kiss, best thing for you to do right now is lay low or both of them will just drive you crazy." He tells me as he pats my shoulder.

"I don't understand, she asked me a simple question and I told her the answer." I tell him as we keep walking.

"With women nothing is simple. Trust me after being married as long as I have you need to learn to pick your battles. This my friend is not one to fight." He tells me as we walk to the car.

We arrive at the British Musuem and go straight to the Egyptology department. Of course Evy has contacts there that does not surprise me. I watch as Sarah puts the box on the table and the man just looks at it amazed.

"This is the box to the head of the spear." The man blurts out as he examines the box.

"What spear?" Sarah asks the man.

"The spear of Isis it is said it can defeat anything but there are other pieces of course. Three others to be exact. No one know where they were hidden the princess in charge of them was erased from history. We do not even know her name." the man tells us.

"If she disappeared what makes you think we won't as well?" Rick asks.

"These are just legends and rumors. Though the story I heard was she fell in love with one of her madji guards and refused to marry who she was supposed to. The man she was to marry was a diplomat of Rome much older than her of course but in a jealous rage he found the princess and her guard together and murdered them both. Since she shamed the family they erased her from their minds and from history." The man finishes.

"True love apparently did not happen much back then did it." Sarah asks.

"No, especially if you were royal." He tells us.

"Well how would we even know where to find the other pieces?" Evy asks.

"You would need the princess of her guard for that. They were the only ones that knew." He says.

We walk out of the museum and into the library to learn more of the rumors. I watch as finally Evy and Sarah separate.

I follow Sarah to a long isle and she sees me.

"What do you want? After we recover the rest of the pieces the gold is all yours." She tells me anger in her voice.

"Would ya stop that, you know I don't want the gold. That's just your greedy cousin back there." I tell her trying to talk sense into her.

"Is there something your require my attention for as you can see I am rather busy" she tells me smarting off.

I grab her hand and push her against the shelf. "What do ya want me to tell ya? That I love you, I constantly think about you even when we were in school. That I couldn't fathom the day you would want me in that way?" I ask her.

"You love me? But you said even last night we barely know each other how could you love me?" she asks me.

"Because whenever you aren't around all I can is think about you. When you are within reach I want to be next to you. When you lay in bed I want to bed in bed with you even if it is just to sleep." I tell her as I grow closer and closer to her face.

"You are being sincere aren't you?" she asks me in shock.

"Yes, why would I lie to ya lass?" I ask her as I lean in and kiss her. "I couldn't bear the thought to go one day without ya now."

"What if something happens to me? Imhotep has done horrible things." She tells me as we just look into each others eyes.

"Sarah, I think I found something." We hear Evy yell out.

"Only she would yell in a library." I tell her with a laugh.

Sarah POV

I run over to Evy and see that she has a rather large book in her hand.

"What is it?" I ask her wondering what she found.

Evy sits the book down and turns it to me.

"It's you." She tells me as she takes her glasses off.

Everyone looks down and we all see that the missing princess looks exactly like me.

"I believe you are the key, that is what the people meant when they gave you the key because you in fact are the true key." Evy says.

I hope you all are enjoying the story! Hope you like Kegan and Sarah as well. Any questions or comments are welcome!