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Jonny's POV
7:15 A.M. Jonny and Jerome's room
Well this is just getting weird. I started to look through the files I found. Nothing really interesting. Then I got to Joy's file. What is so important about this girl that Jerome had me sneak into the principal's office just to get. I looked the file up and down. Then when I turned the page it had a smaller folder inside the file. It was weird because the front said 'The Chosen One'. I opened it and it had a picture of an old cup, almost like a chalice. There was a bunch of symbols that make no sense. Then I looked at the next page. It was a letter of some sort, I will read it later after school. The next page terrified me. It was the black figure with the mask. Except, it wasn't black. Underneath the picture it said, Anubis. Just Anubis. No house involved, like the sign hanging outside. It sounds familiar. I will look it up later. I took out a letter opener and lifted up my mattress. I made a slit right above the seam then stuck the files in there. I am really good at hiding things. I left my mattress back down. I turned around and Jerome came in.
"Where were you?" I asked him. I knew he wasn't anywhere downstairs because I went to get a brownie and to go to the bathroom when Nina and I got back from the school.
"In the lou."
"No you weren't. You weren't anywhere downstairs." When he said this he knew I was on to something because he had a surprised looked on his face.
"Oh, no I was upstairs in that lou." He just tried to cover.
"Why? No one was in the downstairs one when I got home."
"Jonny, I have to get dressed." He said opening a drawer and picking out a uniform. He glared at me and then left the room. Jeez what's up with Patricia and Jerome? They have got to be the disreputable ones of the house. I took one of the uniforms out of the plastic wraps and took off my clothes. Someone knocked, on, the door.
"Who is it?" I asked trying to hurry putting my pants on. When I zipped them up, Mara opened the door. Great she is seeing me shirtless. "Hi."
"Oh, um…" She said turning her vision to the other side of the room.
"Ha, you are fine come in." She entered and closed the door behind her. "What's up?" I asked her.
"I was wondering if you needed help finding your way around school today?" She was blushing and staring at the floor. Honestly she looks really cute, and those halls are a mess.
"Yeah sure I would like that." I smiled at her. She was trying to hold back the blush.
"Okay, I will see you in a little bit." She looked down at the floor and walked out while I put my shirt on.
Mara's POV
Oh my God! He is so hot! I saw him shirtless. I saw him shirtless… Crap! I have never liked a guy before. What am I going to do? I walked into the kitchen and Trudy was setting stuff out on the table.
"Do you need some help Trudy?" I asked her.
"Oh no this is the last of the servings, but thank you sweetie." I walked into the dining room and saw Jerome was eating sausage patties in my spot.
"Um, Jerome? What er you doin?" I asked him.
"I'm afraid of pretty boy for right now. He's very, um well, let's just say we got into a disagreement." He answered me.
"That lovely boy? Oh please Jerome. If he had gotten Victor to smile, then there is no doubt in my mind that he is an angel." I smiled as Trudy made that remark.
"Oh Mara, have I ever told you how beautiful you look?" Jerome stated. What is he trying to get at here?
"Are you trying to make up for stealing my seat? I mean out of all people you had to steal mine?"
I asked him.
"Well I think you are the only person who would tolerate it, Fabian and Nina are all lovey dovey sitting next to each other and you can't move Amber and Mick apart. Patricia doesn't want to sit next to a bloody American and you are just a sweet girl." He is just kissing my bum now.
"Thanks Jerome. Almost five years since we met and you are now just saying these nice things." I smiled at him, sarcastically of course. Nina walked into the room.
"Good morning." She said smiling and hopping to her seat.
"Good morning. You seem in a good mood." Jonny came through the doorway and stood behind her.
"Yeah I- AHHHH!" Jonny tickled her side. She slapped his arm. Do they like each other? I will ask her first period. Jonny started giggling.
"Oh hi Mara." He told me acknowledging that I was sitting in the seat next to his.
"Yeah I stole her seat." Jerome pointed out.
"Why?" He asked him.
"I felt like it." Jerome claimed. I knew it wasn't true so I rolled my eyes. Jonny walked over to his seat and pulled it out. Then when he sat down I could tell he was hungry because of all the food he put on his plate. Fabian snuck in behind Nina. He grabbed her sides and started tickling her.
"Hey!" She giggled. Fabian started laughing.
"So, our picnic today? Are you still okay with it?"
"Of course." She put her hand on top of his. Then I looked back at Jonny and all of the food he had put on his plate was mostly gone. I looked at Jerome and he was astonished by how quick he ate. I giggled and Jonny smiled at me. Patricia and Amber walked into the room going to opposite sides of the table. I honestly don't think that they are okay with living together in the same room. Oh well. Then I heard someone come in through the front door, and to my guess, it was Mick. He came into the kitchen and took a sausage patty and left. Probably to get ready like usual. I started eating modestly while Jonny was almost finished with his second plate of sausage, eggs, and hashbrowns with his fourth glass of pumpkin juice.
"This juice is really good, Trudy." He said.
"Ha, you should try her homemade pumpkin juice." Mick said walking into the room fully dressed and showered. That was quick, it's only been a few minutes.
"Pumpkin juice? Is that what this is? I have never seen any at the store back in Fresno." He said.
"Is that where you were from?" I asked him.
"Yeah, and me and Nina went to elementary school together for 3 years." He pointed out. Maybe that's why they are very comfortable together.
"What is elementary school?" Amber asked.
"It's secondary school." Trudy answered.
"What?" Jonny asked.
"The education system here is very different than the US so let us not discus is at the moment." Trudy replied. Jonny looked at his watch after he finished his second plate.
"Do you want to go now? It's 7:45." Jonny asked me. Goodness the way they tell time is so confusing.
"Yeah sure." I answered.
"We don't have to be in class for another forty five minutes." Patricia stated.
"Yeah I know but I was going to show him where his classes are." I said standing up and grabbing my stuff. "Let's go." Jonny and I walked out of the dining room.
Jonny's POV
"Well this looks nice in the morning. The wet air and damp grass. It's really nice and cloudy. I like it like this, it never rains in the valley. It's very dry and the ground is cracked. The grass is dead instead of being a dark green and soft. It's really different here." I explained to her. She smiled looking at the ground. "You guys are lucky to have whether like this."
"We." She said leaving me puzzled.
"Huh?" I asked her.
"You are going to live here now for most of the year." She reminded me.
"I don't think that I could ever get used to so much beauty." Should I flirt…eh why not? "Especially with you around." She was trying not to smile, but she couldn't hold it back. She looked at me, blush and all.
"You think I'm pretty." She asked me hold her hand over her heart.
"No." I paused to a moment to let it sink in and confuse her, and when she had the puzzled face… "You are gorgeous." I let her know.
"Wow, no one has ever said such delightful things."
"What!" I exclaimed. "No one? That is preposterous!" Once I blurted that out she looked as if she could believe her ears. I kept my look of disgust on my face just to make it seem like I mean it, and I do but it's not that outrageous.
"So did you play any sports?"
"Yeah. I played football and water polo over in Fresno and I was on the swim team."
"You mean soccer?" I forgot….
"Yeah, as you call it." I told her scratching the back of my head.
"Nina's on the swim team." I could feel my eyes widen.
"What about water polo?" I asked her.
"Yeah. But I can tell you this… she's not in soccer." She joked.
"Of course not." I laughed. We got to the front of the school and entered the building.
"Let me see your schedule." I handed her the paper.
"Ok look at this." She pointed to the letter A on the wall. "Your first class is A01. The teacher is Mrs. Johnson. Now down this hallway at the turn, it's B. At the end of B is the drama room…" She explained the entire way around the school to me. It was nice and quiet, no one in the school except Mr. Sweet and us for another few minutes.
We entered the dance room.
"Mara?"
"Yeah?" She answered me.
"What's that hallway?" I pointed to two big, old fashion double sided doors next to the entrance.
"Oh, no one goes in there." Mara answered.
"Why not?"
"Well, I don't exactly know. It's not against the rules. I have never been down there though." I thought about it for a moment. Why would people not use that hallway if it was perfectly good. Unless it's not.
"Come on." I told her walking into the hallway. The doors were heavy with glass paned windows.
"I really am not sure if we should be in here." She said frightened.
"Look come on. Nothing's going to happen to you, I won't let it. It's not against the rules to be in here. But, if you want to wait for me you can do so." I told her wanting to pick what she wanted.
"I will go with you." She said, attempting to be confident. As she walked towards me I guided her through the dark hall. It wasn't pitch black because there were windows up above, small windows though. We saw a door at the end of the hall.
"Do you want to go in there with me?" I asked her.
"Why are you so interested?" She asked me.
"Because I want to learn the history of the Frobisher's."
"The one's who built the school? They disappeared." She explained to me.
"I think there's more to it than that. Sweet acted pretty shady." I told her.
"What?"
"Nothing come on." I lead her into the room. This room happened to blind us from seeing anything in front of us.
"Jonny?"
"Yes?"
"I'm scared." I looked into all that I could see of her face and put my arms around her.
"It's fine." I assured her. I took out my phone and turned on a flashlight. Across the room on the wall, there was a light switch. I went to turn it on and there were newspapers everywhere. "Huh. It looks like the school papers. For tomorrow." I picked one up, Really I was lying.
"Oh okay. I am going to class now. If you need help, go to Mr. Sweet." She rushed out of the room. I looked at the papers. They were all of the girl that Jerome was looking for. Joy Mercer.
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