"Anubis."
"Go away."
"A-NOOB-BIS."
"Do not call me a noob."
"Then get out of your room."
"No way. I'm too depressed."
"Stop acting like a deprived teenager. Only humans get mood swings." The door suddenly slammed open, revealing a very disgruntled Anubis.
"Listen here, pops! I'm really, really not thrilled about finding out that Sadie does not like me, but actually wants me to give her advice on how to get her real crush!"
"Okay, you need to calm down. Lemme get you some herbal tea…"
"You're the cause of this! Why would you tell me this was a date, not just some friendly outing? Have you finally lost it?"
"Oi. What's up with the 'finally?'"
"That's beside the point!" Anubis let out a deep breath and sat cross-legged on the floor at the doorway. "It's useless. I'll just stick with the retarded love letters I get daily. Oh, here's the morning stockpile." A stack of colorful envelopes decorated with various colored hearts and glitter materialized to his left. He picked up the first one and opened the envelope. He cleared his throat. "Dear Anubis, you're so cool. Please go out with me. By the way, I'm Horus's second cousin's daughter."
"Yes, yes, well, you've always got to state your social status or there's no value," said Mr. Kane, pushing imaginary glasses up further on the bridge of his nose.
"Yeah, and I love how there's literally three sentences in that letter. And it's written in blood. This is so scary."
"Tell me about it," said Julius, nodding his head wisely.
"Hypocrite."
"Okay," Julius sighed. "Call me a hypocrite, but no matter what you say, I'm going to have to drag you out of your room and into the light by your ear like the father figure I was supposedly made to be by Rick Riordan. By the light I mean the dining hall, because it's lunchtime."
"I'm so touched."
"Thank you."
"That was rhetorical and sarcastic, thank you very much."
"Let's go." The older dude grabbed Anubis by the ear and hauled him out into the grand columned hallway. "Think you can make it from here?" Then he saw the unhinged door Anubis dragged with him. "Never mind," he said. He continued on, Ammit eventually joining the procession with mild interest.
After ten minutes they were at the dining hall, a dark, gloomy place with black wall hangings and a suspicious pink chandelier (installed by Ammit's new girlfriend, which happened to be a pink poodle).
"So, how do you want your steak?" asked Julius, with hope that Anubis would cheer up after eating his favorite food.
"BURNED! TO MATCH MY HEART! WAHHHHH!" *cry* (I'm kidding this actually wasn't what he said). He said:
"Rare, thanks." His ears perked up, but his heart wasn't really in it.
"Wow, I can see you're really in the pits."
"Thanks."
"No prob."
MEANWHILE…(next chapter, focuses on Sadie's POV)
