Chapter 4:

After class Alexander/Alex/Lex, whatever his name was, left before Sadie could even tell him see you later.

Still shocked at the kiss he gave her she trudged towards her locker to get the rest of her books. Then she went looking for Carter at the main entrance of the school.

Carter was sitting outside on the main steps waiting for his sister to appear. As he was waiting he saw Sadie's friends Lex and Leo pass quickly by, they were talking about something rapidly in Ancient Greek. Carter was really annoyed that he couldn't understand the language; he still didn't understand how Sadie learned it so fast. She always picked up things easily.

After a few more minutes he saw another one of her other friends, Nico, leaving the school. Carter wasn't keen about Nico hanging around his little sister. His earlier display of his mastery of Ancient Greek was suspicious, combine with how generally something about him gave Carter the creeps, and he smelled like death.

Carter was happy that she had made friends though, he didn't want his little sister to be depressed all school year.

Finally Sadie appeared at the front door of the school. Carter could tell something was wrong with her because her face was pink and she looked like she was looking for someone. After Sadie noticed him she ran over to where he was standing, "How are we getting home?" She asked. Carter motioned towards the street where the shiny black Mercedes Benz was waiting with Bast in the driver's seat.

Sadie grinned as she ran towards her friend, beating Carter to the front seat. On the ride home they told Bast about their day, neither mentioning anything about Lex, Leo or Nico. Carter and Sadie both wanted to discuss things amongst themselves first. When they arrived they received a similar question-and-answer screening from their uncle. Sadie reluctantly admitted that school wasn't as bad as it could have been. They also both failed to mention anything about the others.

After dinner that consisted of Macaronni and Cheese and Salad they retired to their rooms. Carter was sitting on his bed reading the first chapter of his Latin book to get ahead when he heard a knock on his door. "Come in," he was surprised to see that it was Sadie since she would normally barge in his room without knocking half the time, which was very stressful for a teenage boy.

Carter noticed the look on her face and knew she wanted to talk about what was troubling her, "What's up?" He asked.

Sadie sighed as she collapsed on the bed next to him, "Lex kissed me," she said bluntly.

Carter was shocked, not at the fact that she was kissed but that she was coming to him for boy trouble. He also had enough of his own relationship problems also known as, the-girl-I-like-is-living-across-the-globe-from-me-and-I-haven't-seen-her-in-two-years–girl-trouble. He also didn't know what to say, "Is that a good thing?" he asked.

Sadie glared at him as if the answer was obvious, "No! I mean Yes! Maybe, I dunno. I guess it's just with everything you told me today, it's got me that that maybe he's a reincarnate."

Carter smiled, "I told you so!" Sadie wanted to wipe his smirk of his face but resisted. Carter continued, "But, I think we should wait and make sure, it's too dangerous if we rush into things."

Sadie nodded, "I agree, I think we should watch them closely to make sure. If they are reincarnates or if they know about the House of Life already they might already suspect us, we also have to be discrete."

Carter agreed and Sadie left to go to her room. Sadie didn't tell Carter about Nico – and how didn't admit to not admitting to the fact that he didn't learn Ancient Greek in a camp - because something told her that if Carter knew about him he would disapprove of them seeing each other.

Sadie was dead tired for the next day of school. That night her ba went nuts visiting different sites in Egypt as she watched magicians being attacked by both Egyptian demons and Greek monsters. She woke up feeling like she'd walked for miles instead of sleeping.

She groaned as she looked at her history class's door, she didn't want to go in. It was going to be awkward with Nico and Lex there – especially since they hated each other and she liked both of them (as friends). Sadie took a deep breath and walked into the room, avoiding looking at anyone directly and taking a seat next to a guy with blue hair and freckles.

"Nice hair," She said to the guy.

"Thanks," he said back at her.

Suddenly Sadie saw a shadow in front of her and looked up into the smiling face of Lex. She guessed he had gotten over his embarrassment from yesterday faster than her.

"Hey little lady," he said jokingly.

"Hey little man," Sadie replied while she tried to avoid looking into his eyes.

He sat down next to her and took out his books and put them on his desk.

"Aren't you going to sit next to your sister?" Sadie asked looking at Leo who she caught sneaking a glare over at them.

Lex sighed as he saw his sister's disapproval, "Nah, she's a bit mad at me today. Though I guess she's going to be even madder after this period."

Lex then turned towards Sadie in his chair and looked at her seriously, "About yesterday Sadie, I'm really sorry about kissing you like that. And I know it's sudden and we don't know each other that well but… It's just I like you, so I was wondering if you would like to go out with me?"

Sadie was tempted to say yes on the spot, she was caught up in a trance when she looked at him, the sincerity in his eyes told her he really meant what he said. But, then there was Nico… No wait- she meant Anubis. Although he was a god, a god thousands of years older than her she still had set her goal on him… But he was a god and then there was Nico- she knew she liked Nico, he was dark, mysterious, hot and looked great in black. There were simply too many boys to go around. I Liz and Emma were around they could've split them up evenly.

Sighing, because she knew that was never to happen she replied, "Erm, Lex I like you too, but I'm not sure if it's just as a friend or what." Sadie said nervously as she stared at her desk. She shot a quick glance at him and could see the visible disappointment on his features which disappeared just as fast as it came and was replaced by his usual smile.

"Well we can just hang out as friends then. Although I just confessed I want there to be no pressure, I think we should get to know each other first anyways."

Sadie couldn't think of an argument against that, she could still spend time with him without feeling guilty about Nico and Anubis. And besides she was supposed to follow him to see if he really was a reincarnate. Sadie smiled at him shyly, "Yes, that sounds nice."

Lex's smile got wider, "Great! I'll see you after school then?"

Sadie nodded her head in agreement. She didn't notice Nico scowling a few desks away.