Hello, sorry I haven't updated, just that I've been having exams, tennis matches, trying to skateboard…I also found out that two of my friends were leaving…Yamani and Meghan, I'm so upset! Anyway here's the chapter.
Punishment
We had been sent to the Pharaoh's chambers early that evening, "do you realise what you have done Ptomley?" He shouted angrily, I had to hand it to the boy, he wasn't crying. Ptomley looked at the ground before answering, "I'm sorry father."
The Pharaoh looked at his son, I could see in his eyes that he forgave his son but…
"Ptomley you don't apologize to me. You apologize to the priests." He paused looking sternly at his son, "do you understand?" Ptomley nodded, and turned to leave. The sphinx followed quietly behind the now slumping boy.
"I'm sorry Ptomley, I didn't mean to get you into any trouble." The sphinx told him. The boy looked at me through sad eyes, "It's not your fault."
When we arrived at the temple we had to apologize to ten very angry priests, I hate apologising for things, it just doesn't feel right somehow!
"You must go and receive your punishment from Anun now." Said one of the priests. I looked at him as if he had gone mad, but we did what the pharaoh asked us to do? Why give us a punishment? I glanced at Ptomley, he was nodding.
"Well, what you waiting for? Go!" And Ptomley and the sphinx left quickly and quietly not looking back.
When we arrived at Anun's 'office', it was a mess; you could hardly find anything in that room. We sat down on the two stools waiting for the advisor's arrival. All through out the silence both the boy and the sphinx did not talk or even look at each other, when we did however we quickly looked away again, I glanced out of the corner of my eye to find that the young prince was trying to suppress tears.
"Are you ok?" I asked him, stupid question to ask is it not?
He nodded solemnly, but I could tell that he was quite upset; "it's just-" Anun entering the room cut him off.
"Well you know why both of you are here, do you not?" We both nodded our heads. "Your punishment will be cleaning my room." He told us with his lip curling upwards into an amusing smile, was it amusement or was it something else? Malicious? Distaste? Whatever it was I didn't know were to place it at the moment.
"Go now! I'll be back later." He said whilst walking out of the room. Ptomley sighed, "I guess we should get on with it." And with that he started sorting out a pile of scrolls on the desk. I looked round the room distastefully, great! A well-respected djinni such as myself shouldn't be doing this. Punishment, what kind of punishment was this? It was more like 'I can't be bothered tidying my own office up, so I will make the prince and that demon do it for me!' Was more like that. The sphinx quickly glanced over to Ptomley who was struggling to stack the now sorted scrolls on to the empty shelves, what did this guy do? Had a mental break down and flung all the scrolls out of their shelves? I decided that maybe since it was my idea, to help the boy out.
"I'll take these you continue with the rest." I told him, Ptomley just looked at me with those sad eyes, why is he sad? I thought.
"What kind of punishment is this Ptomley?" I asked him, trying to cheer him up. The boy looked at me and shrugged, "a very stupid one." He replied.
I grinned; at least we were finally speaking!
I hoped you liked this chapter.
