FYI: I wrote this at like, one in the morning so I hope you enjoy this chapter, cuz I was like falling asleep for the two hours I was writing this. So, yeah…hope you like!

"Stevie?" it was Joy standing in the door way with a confused and suspicious expression.

"'Sup Joy?" I waved.

"What are you doing in here?" she stepped in looking around.

"I was explaining something to Patricia." I replied. "I'll just be goin'. Later!"

I walked past her and strode down the stairs.

I knew what I was going to do to get the idiot off my mind.

Wait. Why is he on my mind?

Eddie's POV

I looked up, thinking I heard a knock on my door and paused my blaring music. The knock sounded again.

"Yeah?" I called.

Then the one and only Yacker entered.

"Eddie-"

"No, if you're just going lie to me I don't want to-wait, did you just call me 'Eddie'?" I asked.

"That's your name isn't?" she retorted.

I rolled my eyes. "What do you want?"

"I wanted to…" she murmured the last part but I heard 'apologize' anyway.

"What? I'm sorry, didn't hear ya." I put my hand to my ear and leaned towards her, biting back a laugh as I saw her fidgeting.

"I wanted to apologize." she said a little louder.

"For…?"

"Lying to you." she mumbled.

"Then what's the truth?" I pushed.

She took a deep, shaky breath. She obviously didn't want to talk about this. "I was jealous."

"Of…?" I drifted off once again.

"You and Stevie!" she cried throwing her hands up in frustration and sitting down on the edge of my bed. "Do I have to tattoo it on my forehead?"

"Why would you be jealous of me and Stevie?" I ask scooting closer to her.

"You two are perfect for each other!" she said bitterly.

"What? No we're not!" I argued.

"Yes you are! Your both punks. You both love Sick Puppies and that Ethan guy-"

"Elvis." I cut in.

"Whatever." she snapped and continued listing all the things she and I had in common.

"And you both absolutely love any kind of meat-"

"Patricia!" I stopped her. She just keeps making herself feel more depressed.

"What?" she looked down at her lap.

"I don't need to be jealous of me and Stevie. I don't like her like that."

"Yeah right! That's all you do now; hang out with Stevie."

"Patricia, I don't want to be with anyone but you." I said softly. I put my arm around her and took her hand in my other one.

"No." she pushed my arm off her and let go of my hand. "No guys ever liked me. I'm weird. What could you possibly gang dating me?"

"What's it going to take for you to believe me?" I sighed.

She just looked at her lap.

I took a shaky breath and leaned forward, putting my lips to her ear. "I love you." I whispered, barely audible.

She looked up slowly.

I suddenly got really nervous. I've never said that to anyone. But, it's true. I fell for the most annoying, irritating…amazing girl I've ever met.

"You don't have to say anything." I chuckle, leaning my elbows on my knees.

"I've never had a boyfriend." Yacker said softly. "But, I never really felt like this about anyone before…"

I looked at her.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is…" she sighed and turned to me. "I love you, Cockroach."

I smirked. "Do you now?"

She rolled her eyes but smiled anyway. "Just kiss me, Weasel."

I chuckled and wrapped my arms around her waist, bringing her towards me. I smashed my lips into hers. She held on to my shoulders and smiled into the kiss. I pushed her down gently and she wrapped her arms around my neck.

"Hey, Eddie have you seen-oh!" Fabian walked in and blushing when he saw us.

"Way the moment." I said sarcastically.

"Yeah, thanks Fabian." Patricia sneered.

"Sorry, I just needed my book." he murmured and left quickly.

"Now, where were we…?" I smirked leaning towards her.

She stood up and I fell face first on the bed.

"I have to go do my homework." she smiled. "Later, Krueger."

"Later, Yacker." I rolled my eyes as she strutted out.

Nina's POV

I closed my eyes, resting them from ten minutes of staring at the ceiling in my room. I was trying to figure out the solution to the weights task. I sat up and looked at Rufus's birth date and Sarah's. Rufus was born December 21st, 1915 and Sarah was born January 1st. How does that solve the puzzle? Is it their ages? Their birth dates?

"Hey, Nina!" Amber sang entering our room. "I'll let you get back to your deciphering I just need to grab my numerology chart," my head shot up. "Alfie wants me to do his number again." she rolled her eyes.

"Amber! You are a genius!" I exclaimed and ripped the chart from her hands.

"Nina!" she pouted.

"Rufus's numerology number is 4 and Sarah's is 7."

"And…?"

"And, I bet those weights and scales have something to do with their numbers."

"You're right! Great job Neens." she congratulated.

"Go tell the others, we're going to the tunnels tonight." I told her and stacked the papers scattered over my bed.

Alfie's POV

"So you know what we're supposed to do?" I asked.

It was midnight and Sibuna was in the foyer. Victor wasn't in his office but we were still on full alert in case he decides to jump out and scare the bacon out of us.

"Yep," she nodded and opened her mouth to continue but we heard a door slam.

"Well, well, well." came a voice. Stevie.

She walked down the stairs slowly in her black, glow-in-the-dark skull t-shirt. "What do we have here? Another quadruple date? With a girl who has no date? Again."

"No, just hanging out." Fabian told her.

"Alright I believe you." she nodded. "But first," she dug her hand into the pocket of her plaid pajama pants and pulled out a necklace. No, that was one of the amulets! "Tell me what this is and why you have it."

Patricia's eyes went wide. It was hers.

"It's just a necklace." she shrugged and tried to grab it.

"Now see I don't believe that." the brunette continued raising her hand so Patricia missed it the amulet. "I've never seen a necklace with Neith on it before." she said thoughtfully. "And trust me, I've seen tones of necklaces."

"Let me guess, you aunt makes necklaces?" Nina said obviously.

"No, my sister." Stevie smirked.

"Wait, how did you know it was Neith?" Fabian asked. (I don't think Neith is the god on Patricia's amulet, I can't find a god that looks like the one on the amulet besides Neith. But, if you know please tell me!)

"My aunt is the assistant for an Egyptologist." she stated smugly.

"It's just a little amulet from a gift shop in Egypt that Fabian's uncle got for us." Nina told her. Wow, that was a pretty good lie.

"There're more of these?" Stevie asked.

"Yes, six total." Patricia answered. "One for me, Nina, Joy, Amber, Fabian and Alfie."

"And your uncles name is…?" she continued pounding us.

"Ade."

"Ade?" she made a face. "What kind of a name is that?" she shrugged. "Alright, you can have it back if your not going to tell me the truth. Later." she tossed the amulet at Patricia, who caught it, and walked back up the stairs.

"Let's do this before Victor comes back or she follows us." Jerome instructed and open the door for us.

"Here we go. Wait, there's only one of each number." Nina sighed as we made it to the end of the scale tunnel.

"I guess you'll have to add up each number correctly." Mara shrugged.

Nina nodded and she picked up a weight that had the number 2 carved into the side and put it on the left scale. She put a number 3 weight on the right one and then put a 5 on the left. She put the last one, which was a 1 and stepped back.

"Maybe you should switch them around." I suggested stepping forward and moved them to different scales.

"No, Alfie, don't!" everyone cried.

Suddenly the tunnel started shaking and the left right scale with Sarah's number tilted. Everyone grabbed a hold of something. The wall next to us began bumbling, seconds later it slid over and the tunnels stopped rocking.

"Good job, Alfie!" everyone praised.

Nina motioned for us to follow her and we walked down the dimly lit tunnel.

"Anyone ever wonder what we're looking for?" Amber brought up as we traveled down the long corridor.

"Yeah, how do we know it's not a wild goose chase?" Patricia chimed in.

"Because it never is?" Nina suggested.

"She's right." I agreed.

"And anyway, we always find out what we're looking for half way through the mystery." Fabian stated.

"That's true." Jerome nodded.

When we got to the end of the tunnel it was a big circular room. But it had no floor!

"How are we going to get across that?" Mara exclaimed.

"I have no idea." Nina sighed.

"Well, great." Jerome said, running a hand through his hair. He kicked a rock into the pit and leaned against one of the walls, looking down into the chasm. The rock hit the sides of the pit and echoed all the way down. He pushed himself off the wall and the floor started shaking.

"Not again!" I cried grabbing the wall with Amber hanging on my shirt.

We watched as a floor slid out and the rumbling stopped. On the floor were a bunch of stones with symbols on each.

"Those are hieroglyphics." Fabian informed us.

"Who cares if they're hieroglyphics? Let's just walk across." I shrug and step on the first stone. I was about to hop to the next one when the one underneath me gave out and I fell with it.

"Alfie!" I hear my friends cry as I fall.

Oh. My. Gosh! What's going to happen to Alfie? I don't know! No, seriously, I don't know. I'm writing this as I go…hope you liked this chapter! Next one will be up Monday! Thanks for reading!

-Rachel