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"Sophie! Arzhur!" someone hissed, "Mr Johnston is just around the corner! Look out!"

Sophie pulled away, and looked at the girl who had spoken.

"Jennifer! Thankyou!" Jennifer Highsdale was in Sophie's maths class. They didn't really talk much, but they had come to a bit of an understanding with each other. They smiled at each other, and Jennifer stepped into the elevator. The doors shut, just as Mr Johnston walked up, but he was too late, and missed it.

"What were doing?" Sophie asked.

"I was getting my Iron tablets. You need to be more careful. Hi Arzhur! I'm Jennifer Highsdale; I don't think we've been introduced." Jennifer spoke a mile a minute. Though normally coming off as a shy girl, when she became comfortable with her surroundings, she would open up completely. She held out her hand, and Arzhur took it, as he said

"Hi. I'm Arzhur." Sophie and Jennifer laughed.

"Yes I think we established that. So Sophie, are you excited about the British Museum tomorrow?" Jennifer asked

"YES! I can't wait! And, since it doesn't open until ten, we get to sleep in til at least nine!"

Arzhur laughed. "You'd do that anyway. If you had the chance, all you would do is sleep and read and eat." Jennifer and Arzhur laughed again. Sophie punched Arzhur in the arm playfully. The elevator dinged again, and Sophie said

"Well, this is our stop! Cya Jen."

"Cya Sophie. Sit near me on the bus tomorrow, we can catch up and stuff!" she said, with a wink and a glance in Arzhur's direction. Sophie laughed again, as Arzhur looked between the two of them, quite confused. The doors shut, and Jennifer was taken to another part of the building.

"Well wasn't that a lovely chat." Arzhur said, as he and Sophie walked to their room. "What did she mean by 'stuff'?" he asked, as they reached their room and he opened the door. Arzhur had gotten the hang of key cards by now, but still thought of it as a novelty.

"I'm so glad we can sleep in, I am so tired, I could…" Arzhur couldn't understand the rest of what Sophie said, because she was yawning, "…and then one time I ate some rotten berries. Man there were some strong gases eeking outta my butt that day." Sophie snorted in laughter, then couldn't contain it anymore as she burst out, laughing louder than she had ever thought possible.

Arzhur was just looking at her with a dazed expression on his face.

"What do you mean my butt?" He said, not having heard this slang before.

This just made Sophie laugh even harder. When she had FINALLY calmed down, after a few minutes, Arzhur said gravely

"No I'm serious, what's a butt?"

Sophie looked at him with her mouth and eyes wide open. She blinked, opened and closed her mouth a few times, and said

"Oh, well… Oh my goodness! Would you look at the time! Why, it's almost 9:30! We'd best be getting to bed!"

"SOPHIE!" Arzhur said angrily, "What's a butt?"

This was said just as there was a knock on the door.

"Coming!" Sophie called, punching Arzhur in the arm again. "I'll tell you when you're older" she whispered jokingly. She pulled open the door and came face to face with Gules.

"Oh." She said, the smile she had just worn melting from her face. "It's Gules. Hi Gules."

"Hi Sophie, Arzhur. Listen, I…I need to talk to you."

Sophie stepped away from the door, and Gules came in.

"It's just, Sophie, I really miss you. I know… I know I haven't been the best friend recently."

Sophie rolled her eyes, and mumbled, "You can say that again."

Gules looked down, and then continued

"It's just, when you were going off the other day, I just wasn't feeling myself. And then when Eleanor started talking to me, I just…needed to blow off some steam…and then you disappeared, and then Megan was taken off. And Eleanor just started being so nice, I couldn't help myself! Oh, but I was wrong to go off with her Sophie, I know that now. We've been best friends since we were little."

"Correction Gules." Sophie replied, "We were best friends when we were little. Maybe you going off with Eleanor was for the best. I think…I think it's time we went our separate ways as friends. I mean, we're just too different. I like History and Drama, you like sports and Parties, and Adam Brody and Orlando Bloom. I hate Orlando Bloom and Adam Brody, just as you hate King Arthur, and Caesar. Maybe you should go see if Eleanor will have you in her posse."

Gules looked at Sophie, dumbfounded.

"If… If that's how you want things to be… then, I guess I'll be going." Gules walked to the door, then looked back at Sophie, "Are you sure this is the way things?" she said.

Sophie nodded, and shut the door.

"Sophie?" Arzhur called, "Are… Are you ok?"

She shook her head, and he pulled her into a hug.

"Shh" he whispered. "It's going to be ok Sophie. I don't know what will happen, but it will be ok in the end."

Sophie rubbed her head against his shirt, taking in his scent.

"Now would you PLEASE tell me!"

"What?" Sophie said

"What is a butt? I'm dying to know!"

Sophie laughed. "Well my, my! It's rather hard to explain Arzhur…"

"Can we google it!" he said, extremely excited by the prospect of using a computer again.

"Ok, ok!" Sophie said, laughing into his shirt again. She hadn't pulled her head out, and had it clenched in her hands. Sophie showed no signs of letting go. "And while we're at it we can check my email, and set up an account for you. We'll go down after breakfast tomorrow morning, have an early start!"

"Well that means we need to get to bed, so we can be up in time. You can have the bathroom tonight. I'll be in here changing."

Just as Sophie and Arzhur were collecting their stuff, someone knocked, rather loudly, at the door.

"Just a minute." Sophie called. She pulled open the door, expecting one of the other students, but found a man standing there in a black suit.

"My name is Randal Orton. I'm with the Government, representing Her Majesty the Queen. We would just like a few words with you two please, regarding the events at the Tower of London earlier this week." He spoke very sternly, and was so tall Sophie had to look up at him. Arzhur came over and joined her at the door. Randal Orton was even slightly taller than Arzhur was.

"I'm sorry sir." Arzhur said politely, his hand on the door. "But it's late, and we have an early start tomorrow, and we've been up late and up early all of this week. If possible, could you come back maybe later this week?"

"But that is unacceptable! It is most important that discuss this now." Randal was desperate to have a word with Arzhur and Sophie.

"I must apologize, but we can't. Goodnight sir." Sophie said, shutting the door and locking it.

Sophie sat on her bed and patted the space beside her. Arzhur stood and stared at her, not knowing what to do. Sophie sighed, stood up, took his hand and pulled him down next to her.

"So" He said. Sophie rested her head on his shoulder. Arzhur slung his arm around her.

"What do you think he wanted to talk about?" She said.

"I don't know something important he said."

"I highly doubt that it was as important as he said. It never really is. It was probably something like… 'We need to bring you in for your own protection, as we think terrorists may try to harm/kidnap you. Also, could you give us your parent's phone numbers address and names so we can do a background check, tap your phone lines, read your mail and find out every little secret you have.'"

Sophie laughed. When she realized Arzhur wasn't laughing, she looked at him. Their eyes locked. Arzhur leaned down and kissed her. Sophie was surprised by his sudden actions, but deepened the kiss, to go with the flow. They fell back against the bed. Their hands roamed. Arzhur trailed kisses down Sophie's jaw line, going down her neck. He pulled the strap of her singlet down past her shoulder, and continued kissing her. Sophie pulled him back up to her and kissed him again. Sophie reached down to the bottom of his shirt, and tugged. Arzhur raised his arms and Sophie pulled it off, throwing it into the corner of the room. She ran her hands over his chest, feeling the muscles that had been built up in his past life, which had joined him in his new body. Arzhur slipped his hands into her shirt, and then pulled it up as well. His hands searched her back, running them across her smooth skin.

It was when he began to fumble with her bra that Sophie stopped him.

"Arzhur!" She gasped

He sat up suddenly

"Sophie I'm… I'm sorry! I… I just didn't realise…" He said, in a very distressed voice.

"No, no it's… its ok. If I wanted us to stop sooner, I probably should have said so." She stood up, retrieved Arzhurs shirt and handed it to him, and picked up hers and put it on. "I think it's time we got ready for bed. It's almost 10 o'clock."

Arzhur nodded, picked up his things and went into the bathroom.

Sophie sat on her bed and ran her hands through her hair.

"What am I going to do?"

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