The Bloody… Crown?

Chapter 12

APOV

Ok. So first, Thoth SO does not need a didgeridoo. Second, Carter sucks at basketball? I'll have to keep that to hold above his head later on. Even I know how to play basketball, and I have been in the underworld for several thousand years. Heck, just a little while ago, I thought people still married their daughters off! I learned different, though, when Sadie had used her gift of gab to tell me just how off I was… I took that chance to essentially ask her out, using the excuse of, "Well, then. You'll have to help me catch up then." But, I still know how basketball works. I watch it all the time with Khufu when I go over to Sadie's house to wa- make sure everything's fine.

So anyway, after we all got shoved into the backseat of the cab, Thoth slammed the door shut and before any of us could protest, we were off and he was standing there, waving like a ten year old. Where were we even supposed to find a didgeridoo? It's not like they're just lying around in the streets. As if reading my mind, the drive said, "In a museum, duh!" I looked up and saw a very hairy dwarf looking back at me.

"Bes!" Sadie said, as she launched herself at him and wrapped her arms around his neck. Bes laughed, took both his hands off the wheel, and hugged her, then said, "Hi there, Sadie. How's my girl doin?" His girl? Does he really want to go there? Jeez! There I go again with this weird possessiveness. Maybe they have pills to fix that. Sadie leaned back and said, "I'm great Bes, and how about you?" He shrugged and said, "Same as the past seven thousand years." She laughed, and sank back onto her seat. Bes put his hands behind his head acting as if he was bored out of his mind, but also narrowly missing a blue Volvo that was in the next lane. Even though I knew he wouldn't crash the car, I put my arm around Sadie's waist, just in case we needed to make a quick escape. This precaution, however, did not go unnoticed by Bes, who widened his eyes in disbelief and mock hurt, and said, "You think I would crash the car, much less with my little girl in here? I'm hurt." Then he cackled with laughter, but abruptly stopped and eyed my arm, which was still around Sadie.

"Hey… did you finally tell her?" he said it with a voice that told me all I needed to know. Unless you confessed to her, or unless you wanna lose your arm, I suggest you remove it promptly. And I think I'm protective. I just rolled my eyes and said, "No Bes. I just randomly put my arm around girls whenever I want." I made sure I was heavy on the sarcasm. Sadie looked at me looking like she couldn't believe I had thought up that one. Then she said, "Bes, you'd better have a first aid kit handy, cause you just got burned." He chuckled and said, "I s'pose I did." Then his voice got as solemn as a funeral. "Now Anubis," he began, "I guess it's time for us to have this talk-" He was cut off me and Sadie yelling, "NO!" Carter just sat there laughing his butt off. While Sadie was hiding her red face in my side, I made sure to punch Carter in the gut.

As Carter was gasping for breath, we pulled up to The Australian History Museum. We climbed out before the conversation could get any more awkward, and Bes said, "I'll wait here, for when you need a getaway car." We nodded and went in. Thank the gods it was free. But do you know what's really awkward? Seeing yourself on a big banner, announcing the new Egyptian exhibit. Yeah… that can get weird fast. Sadie nudged me and grinned. Carter was just rolling his eyes. That's right Carter. Even if no one but us knows it's me on there, I'm still famous.

We decided that before we stole something and had to run out, we would look around and see if we found anything we wanted. Besides, Thoth had gone overboard and gave us five hundred dollars for souvenirs. Was he expecting us to buy the whole gift shop? Carter went straight to the book section. Sadie, to the jewelry, and I went over to look at the t-shirts. I was running low on black ones. Somehow they kept getting holes in them, and I have a feeling that Ammit was taking them because they had little bone designs on them. I found one I liked, and it was only twenty- four dollars, so I decided to get it.

I walked toward the glass case of jewelry, where Sadie was standing, looking at a ring with a look of pure desire. I went up behind her and looked over her shoulder at the small black ring with silver hieroglyphics written around it. "Do you want it?" I asked. She jumped and said, "Anubis! You almost gave me a heart attack! Wait... is that even possible with the whole… you know, necklace thing?" I laughed lightly and said, "Sorry, and no. It's not possible for you to have a heart attack. Now, do you want that ring?"

She looked back at it with longing, and said, "Well, yeah… but it's so expensive…" I looked at the price tag, and laughed. "Really Sadie? One hundred and twenty-five dollars isn't even going to put a dent in the money Thoth gave us." Before she could protest, I looked up at the lady behind the counter and said, "Excuse me? Could you get me that ring, please?" She did what every other girl besides Sadie does: She giggled, started twirling her hair, and fluttered her eyelashes. I always thought this was amusing, that is, until Sadie showed up. Then it just annoyed me, because I couldn't charm Sadie that way. But soon I understood they only did it because they were just shallow girls, who were looking for a cute guy. And I, for one, was a very cute guy. It did, however, come in handy when I needed things.

But what did amuse me, was when Sadie noticed their reaction and got jealous. As the girl behind the register bent over to get the ring from the glass box, Sadie moved closer to me and put her arms around my waist in a possessive manner. So even she got like that too sometimes. Interesting. The girl straightened up and noticed Sadie. She shot her a dirty look, which Sadie returned, and turned back to me in her ditzy state. "Anything else, sir?" she asked as she popped the bubble she had made with her gum. "No, that's all." I replied as I handed her the money and grabbed the small box she had put on the counter, which held the ring. I handed it to Sadie, and we walked away from the very disappointed looking girl.

She opened it up and put it on, looking at the little glyphs on it, probably reading them if I guessed right. As I looked at her, one of them caught my eye. I grabbed her hand and held it to where I could see better, and said, "Hey. That's my name…" Sadie blushed and nodded. I smiled and kissed her hand. "Good choice." I said as I lead her to where Carter was getting five books.

After he paid, we walked out and headed to the natural history section. This was about to get fun.