Remember the Disclaimer, because I am too lazy to write it.
"Ahk! Ahk!" I yelled out to the museum. I had got my essay back and had got a B+, my average mark is around the B mark, which I find quite satisfying.
"He is in his room, what is the matter Jessie?" Sacagawea asked sounding as usual concerned. She had her arms wrapped around Teddy and was riding Tex but her face was lined with concern.
"It's ok Sacagawea, I just wanted to tell him something wonderful." She smiled and nodded, allowing Teddy to ride off.
I ran down the hall way and said a quick hello the the miniuatures who were driving the toy car with Rexy's bone attached, Rexy was not to far behind with Nick on his back. Strange, he usual rides with Ahk.
"Hey NICK!"
"Yeah Jess?"
"Why isn't Ahk with you?"
"He was a little down and didn't feel like going for a ride. He said maybe later."
"Oh, ok…"
I ran even faster to Ahkmenrah's room and passed the guards who stared at me with the usual Harm him and you die expression.
I saw Ahkmenrah, sitting on his tomb with his hands fiddling with a piece of fabric.
"Hey." I said, sounding throaty.
He looked up and gave a slight smile and went back to fiddling.
I moved towards him and asked. "Can I sit?" He nodded without looking up.
It was silence for a few moments, enough for me to see the fabric Ahk was fiddling with. It was light and airy with a goldish colour.
"Nick said you didn't want to ride…"
"I miss it…"
"Miss what?" I asked quietly, not wanting to sound demanding.
"Egypt, my parents even my brother."
"I know that feeling, being adopted and all." I trailed off.
"Adopted?" He looked up at me with his usual intrigued look.
"When you have an adult take you in and treat you like your own after your parents left with an orphanage or…" I gulped "Your parents die…"
"Larry isn't your father?" He sound amazed and I laughed.
"Why do you think I call him Larry?"
"True… What happened to your parents?" His eyes were back on the piece of fabric.
"I was born in Australia, another country apart from America, and well we moved to New York but we were going to visit someone in Alaska…" I started crying and I covered my eyes with my hands.
"T-They said i-it was s-safe for him t-to go in." I said in between gulps, not realising Ahkmenrah's comforting hand on my back.
"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to… I don't want you to cry because I wanted you to tell-" I waved an arm to signal it's ok.
"A bear attacked him, we were just walking and it came out of no where and we, my mother and myself and my uncle, ran off. My uncle ran back after we were safely hidden and went back for my dad. It was about 25 minutes before we went and saw them both… d-dead. The bear had attacked them both."
I squeezed my eyes shut and block out the memories, my dad yelling for my mum and I to leave, my uncle saying, "Everything is fine, Aaron is tough..." My dad and uncle in the snow, dead.
"I'm sorry." I said looking at Ahkmenrah's face. He looked up startled.
"No, don't apologise… I understand it must be a little hard, the memories and all."
"What is that?" I asked, wanting to get off the topic. He smiled weakly again and showed me the fabric.
"It was a piece of my mother's favourite dress, golden silk imported from Asia. I took a piece when I was a young boy and kept it with me forever. It seems it was with me when I was mummified."
"You and your mother have similar taste." I said motioning to his golden cloak. He laughed.
"Well, it was either gold or white and white wasn't my favourite. Anyway, this was what I was wearing when I was mummified."
"You up for a ride now?" He laughed again and nodded. We had barley made it outside when he spoke again.
"I wondered where your eyes came from." I laughed, funny no one asked about them but it probably wasn't a conversational matter.
My eyes were special, not because they were green or because they were beautiful, but because I had tanned skin and dark hair, which usually meant darker eye colour too, but I instead had leaf green iris.
"My dad, my mother was Indigenous Australia like how Sacagawea is Native American, like that only from Australia and my dad was Irish."
"So what was your uncle?"
"Irish too, he just moved to Alaska for the thrill…" I held back more tears as Rexy and Nick came. Jed and Octavius stopped the car and waved to me. I waved back.
"Jessie, thank god you got Ahk out. It's not that fun. Wanna join us?"
"I would love to but Sacagawea is probably waiting for me."
"We can drop you at her exhibit!" Ahk said, smiling at me. I smiled back and accepted.
It was fun, riding on Rexy. It reminded me of when I first came to the museum with Nick and Larry. Usually I would stay at home till they came back or take care of Nick when he didn't go. But now I would join them and Nick would come and usually sleep off by 10pm, which Larry didn't like but he knew he couldn't keep Sacagawea and myself apart.
I got off and Ahk jumped off too just to hug me.
"Thank you for talking. It's nice." He gave me a charming smile and was off with Nick and Rexy, following a mini yellow monster truck. I walked in and saw Sacagawea talking to Teddy.
"I knew you would be with Ahkmenrah, so I was just talking to Teddy. You can go and help Larry now Teddy." He gave me a quick farewell and kissed Sacagawea's hand.
I was yet again, sitting in front of her exhibit, while she braided my hair.
"So, how is Ahk?"
"He is good, he was a little homesick that's all."
"I saw him hug you, he thinks fondly of you."
"You make him sound like a family friend!"
"He is a family friend though!" Sacagawea pointed out.
"Yeah, he is really nice though."
"Are you dating anyone?" I choked on my breath.
"Sacagawea, you do not know what would happen to any boy who went near me. Larry would go crazy and Nick would probably hit him before Larry did, just so he wouldn't get really hurt!" Sacagawea laughed and continued to smile as she commented on how wimpy Larry is.
"I mean he is good with a flashlight but he cannot even fire an arrow farther than his feet."
"Can you teach me archery? I have always wanted to learn it." She smiled and got her bow and arrow from behind an artificial tree.
It was really hard, especially for a wimpy kid like myself. I was exhausted after 30 minutes and said to Sacagawea,
"I think I more like my mother's side of the family, spears and darts are my things." She laughed and said,
"Ahk is really good with a spear, ask him for some training. Hello Teddy!"
I said my "see you soon" and was off to Ahk's tomb. I had visited him more in one day than I had in my whole three months of being here.
I had only approached him once apart from my essay and that was because Nick wanted to know where he was.
I entered and saw him there laughing with Nick who was pulling some monkey face.
"Nick, do you want your face to stretch?" I asked with my hands on my hips. They went still and I laughed.
"Ahk, I was wondering if you had a spear on you?"
"I may, I think one was in my tomb but I am unsure if it is with me. Check behind the wall."
I walked behind the wall and found nothing except a lot of golden items. I looked around for any spear but no sign of one. I must have been a while because Nick was gone when I back around to Ahk's side. I shook my head and he sighed.
"I would show you how to make one, but the craftsmen made it for us. Pharaohs rarely made their own spears." I nodded and smiled at him. He smiled back and I walked out.
"Wait, Jessie?"
"Yes Ahk?" He smiled.
"You didn't say goodnight!"
