Chapter 10

"Wait, aren't you going to say something back?"

"Yes, I love you too." Amber said and put her arm around Lex's shoulder as he put his arm around her waist.

"Wait a second, are you two together?"

"It seems like it Trude." Lex answered smiling.

The next day

Amber was sitting on the porch just looking at Slade and Lex walking toward their new house. Trudy was sitting next to her. Brady was playing in the yard which had a fence that was high enough to keep Brady in the yard.

"Lex can you two hurry up?"

"What? We are talking about private business." Lex answered as he and Slade continued to talk.

"Like what?" Amber asked and walked over to them. Slade and Lex went quiet when they saw her come closer.

"Nothing that you need know." Lex answered and smiled at Amber.

"What? Argh. Fine, I'll.... Hmph." Amber answered. She didn't really know what to answer to Lex's answer. She went back to the porch and sat down next to Trudy.

"Let's get the house cleaned up while the boys plan whatever they are planning." Amber said and walked over to Brady and picked her up. "Come on hunnie, we are going to clean up the house so we can live in it." Amber said as she picked up Brady. She and Trudy went into the house and started to clean in the kitchen.

Slade was standing with his mouth ajar because of four words Lex said.

"Are you okay Slade?"

"Yeah I'm fine. I just can't believe that you really are going to go through with it."

"Well I love her so what else is there to do?" Lex asked as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Good point. But where will you get the money for the ring?"

"I don't know. I'll have to get a job. But I will get her a ring that she deserves." Lex answered smiling big. He was going to marry Amber. He just needed to get a ring and then he could ask her. He smiled big as he walked into the house. He embraced Amber in a hug from behind as he kissed her neck. Amber spun around and smiled as she kissed him on the mouth.

"Hi gorgeous." Lex said as he embraced her.

"Well let me go and help us clean this mess up. Both of you." Amber said as she broke free from Lex. She looked over at Slade who was hiding the fact that he was hurting inside. He didn't want to show that he wanted her in the same way as she and Lex had each other.

"Fine." Slade answered but Lex just looked at her as if she was crazy.

"That's women's' work." Lex answered but it was quiet predictable for Amber and Trudy and the two burst out in laughter.

"What?" Lex asked as he looked surprised.

"As you don't know. Remember when you were our leader in the beginning? Well if you don't you decided that we, the girls, were supposed to do all the cleaning and you would do nothing of it. But this time Lex, if you want to stay then you have to clean and just because of that you will be the one cleaning the toilets." Amber said as she continued to laugh with Trudy. Lex still looked like a question mark.

"Okay so it seems like he has suppressed that memory."

"Most definitely, since it was one of the most embarrassing moments in his life." Amber said as she grabbed a rag and threw it at Lex.

"Oi, what did you do that for?"

"Well take it and start clean the toilet, or I'll chase you with a wet rag. Be glad that it was dry." Amber answered as she walked past Lex. "I'm going to find my old room." Amber said as she walked up the stairs. When she reached her old room she saw a mark on the door. She had seen it once before, it was when she had been in the library as a child. The symbol was two Ms intervened with each other. It went an arrow straight through it. She didn't remember what she had read or how the book she read it in looked like but she knew that it was in the library, the main library in the center of the city.

"Guys. I found something that is a bad omen. I've read about it but can't remember exactly what but it was bad." Amber said as she came in to the kitchen where Slade, Trudy and Brady where.

"I think it was an old tribe that used to live in this area that used the symbol that is drawn upstairs on the doorframe to my room." Amber said as she looked toward the toilet and heard Lex grunt.

"Lex get out here." she shouted and slumped down on the chair.

"What?"

"Well you and I are going to the library." Amber said as she grabbed his arm. She looked at him and he pulled off his gloves and walked out the door with Amber.

"What are we going to do at the library?"

"Search for the symbol. I'll draw it up for you." Amber said as she dragged Lex with her to the library.

"Oh. But then there's something I have to tell you."

"What?"

"Well, I've been lying about being able to read. I can't." Lex said and looked really ashamed.

"Oh, well I can teach you how to read, so don't be embarrassed." Amber said and pulled Lex into a hug and then kissed him on the cheek.

"Now come on, we have to hurry."

"Why?"

"Because if the symbol means a bad thing then we have to save ourselves. I think they are an old warrior tribe." Amber said and started to run toward the center of the city.