Chapter 5
"Nina Martin. What are you doing? This had better be good." He says eyeing me. I am terrified.
"What were you doing in here?" He demands. I quickly make up a lie.
"Um, I was...getting...getting a closer look at Corbiere. I'm sort of an amateur taxidermist" I say pointing at the bird. Victor gives me a strange look but quickly recovers.
"GET OUT!" He booms. I quickly run past him
"And don't let me catch you in my office again" He shouts as I run out of his office. Once Victor is out of sight I turn back to Chloe, Alfie and Jerome. I take the key out of my pocket and showed it to them. Alfie and Jerome smirked whilst Patricia frowned.
"Lucky" Alfie said. Jerome nodded.
"Very lucky" Jerome agreed.
"We'll see how lucky she is tomorrow night" She says. I roll my eyes at her and I walk back to my room where Joy and Patricia were waiting for me.
"Nina! Thank GOD. Did he catch you" Joy asked frantically. I shook my head.
"No Joy I didn't." I assured her. Just then my laptop started to ring. It was Yasmin!
"Joy! Do you want to speak to Yasmin" I ask her. Joy's eyes light up.
"Uh yea I do!" She runs and sits next to me. Patricia stood beside her. I click accept.
(K-Katie, J-Joy, C-Carter, Y- Yasmin, S-Sasha, D-Dylan, P-Patricia, N-Nina, A-Katie Sasha Carter Dylan Yasmin)
N: Hello? Anyone there?
Y:Neens.
N: Look who I have here with me
A: JOY.
J: Hey guys good to see you.
D: Wait who's that behind you.
J: Guy's this is Patricia
P: Hi! Joy has told me soo much about you guys.
C-Nice to meet you. So how's life in England
N-When you have a roommate that blames you for kidnapping her best friend...Not good
K:I feel so sorry for you
J: Hey! What about me! I've had to room with her since I was 11!
S: We feel sorry for you as well
N: So what's the latest and greatest?
Y- Well, I'm still doing choir, Sasha is now head cheerleader, Jade is still not being completely honest with her parents-
K-Yasmin and Dylan started dating
Y-KATIE!
K-Sorry
N-Yas, that's great news.
(In the background Victor is doing his pin speech)
P: Curfew.
N :( Groaning) we talk to you soon yea.
A :( a chorus of 'yes' and 'yups')
N: Bye you guys
A: Bye Nina. Bye Joy.
YASMIN BRIGITTE HAS SIGNED OFF
After talking to Yasmin and everyone, I didn't feel as scared as I should be for tomorrow 'inanition' ceremony. We said goodnight to Patricia we started to get ready for bed. Chloe walked in and simply scoffed at us. She didn't say a word to us before jumping into bed. I also climbed into bed and switched off my light. Within Half an hour I was fast asleep...
~Next day~
I woke up this next morning with a pit in my stomach. I knew that today was the day I went up into the attic. I got dressed quickly and tied my hair up into a loose ponytail. I then rushed down the stairs. I didn't bother going to breakfast because I didn't want to make thing awkward. I went into the History classroom and sat down. I rummaged through my bag and found my Ancient Egyptian book. I am a bit of a nerd. In my old school I was called Nerdy Nina so now I only ever read these type books when I was alone. I felt someone standing behind me. I whip my head around only to find Fabian. I place my hand on my heart.
"Fabian! You scared me "I say to him. He chuckled softly.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to. I-I came to find you as you weren't at breakfast this morning and Joy started freaking out again. She went to check the woods with Patricia" HE explains
"Oh, Sorry. I should of left her note" I say sheepishly. He came over and sat down beside me. He noticed the book in my hand. He smiled slightly.
"You like Ancient Egypt?"He questions. I sigh and nod
"So do I" He says excitedly. I smile at him. Then everyone else comes into the History classroom. When Joy caught sight of me, I could see her physically relax. She rushes to us and sat at the desk that was closest to me.
"Nina Marie Martin. Don't you ever, and I mean EVER, scare me again." She scolds. I couldn't help but laugh. Whenever Joy scolded anyone (unless she was properly mad) she always had an amused glint in her eye. Patricia and Fabian joined in. However hard she tried she couldn't keep a straight face. She started laughing as well. We then heard a voice behind us.
"All the world's a stage, and the women and men merely players" We all turned to face a man in his 20's. He had jet black curly hair and dark chocolate brown eyes.
"Hey, my name is Jason Winkler and I'll be your History teacher. I'll also be your drama teacher" introduces
"You're Mr Flemmings replacement?" Asks Mara. Mr Winkler nods.
"Yeah I am" He confirmed
"Wow! I'm so pleased he had a heart attack". The whole class burst out laughing. Amber then realised her mistake.
"Sorry, that didn't come out right" She says sheepishly.
After that History went pretty normally, we got assigned partners to do a History project. I got with Fabian and Joy went with Patricia. After History I decide that I would go to the woods again as we had a half an hour break. I was about to leave when Patricia caught me.
"Where are you off to now?" She questions.
"Uh, no where" I lie. She raises her eyes at me.
"Fine. I was going to the woods" I admit.
"Okay. Can I come with?" She asks me. This took be by surprise.
"Sure. But where's Joy?" I ask. Patricia shrugs.
"She said that at the end of yesterdays lessons her teacher asked her to see him at break today"
"Oh" I respond. We walk towards the clearing. I find my tree and start climbing. Once I reach a thick branch I perch on it. I completely forgot that Patricia was with me until she called up to me.
"Hey! You go to leave me down here on my own?" I lean down and help her climb up.
"Wow!"She breathed. I agree it really was an amazing view. From here you could see the school and what everyone was up too without them knowing. Patricia turned to me
"How did you find such an amazing view?" She asks. I shrug.
"I don't know. I've always loved to climb trees and on my first day, I needed a break from everyone so I came here and this was the first tree I saw." I explain to her. After ten minutes we decide to head back to school as we literally had 5 minutes before class started. We had science with Mr Sweet. I take my normal place next to Fabian and Joy. However I wasn't paying attention. I was studying the locket Sarah gave me. One million questions started running through my head. Why was Sarah so desperate for me to find this treasure? And what was her connection to Anubis house? Should I tell Joy about this? Or Fabian? Or Patricia? I needed to tell someone or I'm sure my head will explode!
"That's nice does it have a photo inside?" Someone asks me.
"No" I say quickly stuffing it under my shirt. I see that the person was Fabian.
"I'm sorry! I was only trying to make convosation." He apologises quickly. Thankfully Mr Sweet came up behind us.
"Mr Rutter, fari argentums aurum tacere, Silence is golden" He tells him.
"Sorry sir" Fabian mutters. Chloe then raises her hand.
"Mr Sweet?"
"Yes Chloe?"
"I've been meaning to ask you about the school photo graph" Chloe says sweetly. Mt sweet looked confused.
"I fail to see how that applies to Pascal's law" He states.
"Why has KT been erased from the photo?"
"Uh oh, crazy conspiracy alert" Alfie jokes.
"That is ridiculous notion Chloe" Mr Sweet. He then continued on with the lesson. Once the lesson was over, I saw that Fabian had left. I'd better go and apologise to him. I rushed out and found him at his locker.
"Fabian wait!" I call to him. He turns to face me.
"I'm sorry if I acted weird before. You've been so nice to me and it was kinda" Fabian cuts me off
"Rude?"
"Well I was going to say snippy but yea, rude works too" I say after considering it.
"It's okay. Look you're not seriously going to go through with 'inanition' nonsense are you? You don't have to you know". I sigh
"Yes I do. I'll never live it down if they think I'm scared" Fabian smirks.
"You're tougher than you look" He compliments. I smirk at him too
"Only if you mean willing to do absolutely anything to survive the dangerous world that is English Boarding schools" I Joke. He chuckles lightly and we walk towards Drama. I sit down with Amber one side of me and Joy. Suddenly Alfie jumped up.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" He screeched running around the room. The whole class burst out laughing. When he came near us, Amber whacked him with her magazine.
"Thanks Alfie, some of us are trying to learn here" She scolds.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" Alfie screeches again, running until he meets Mr Winkler.
"And what exactly are you supposed to be Alfie?" Mr Winkler asks.
"He's a mosquito in a spin dryer obviously" Joy states.
"You are good Mercer" Alfie says, giving Joy a high five.
"Right well, now onto something a bit more serious...Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'." He says and he starts handing out the books. Amber leans over to me and Joy.
"See. I knew I was right. There's an article in here that says that if your boyfriend isn't paying you enough attention, you have to flirt with someone else to make him jealous" Joy giggles at her ridiculous idea and I had to agree. Who was she going to try and make Mick jealous of? Mr Winkler came round by us.
"Swap please Amber" He said holding out the book. Amber smiled sweetly at him.
"Do I have to sir?" Mr Winkler gives her a semi stern smile and she reluctantly hand over the book. I shake my head laughing. There were no words to describe what was probably going through Ambers mind.
"Amber, you and Alfie can do this scene" Mr Winkler said. It was the part where Juliet confesses her love for Romeo. Amber stood up and walked on stage.
"O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo. Deny by father and refuse by name. If thou wilt not, but sworn my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet."
"Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this" Alfie looked a little too happy.
"Tis but thy name that is my ememy: thou art...thou art is truly the yummiest boy I've ever seen Romeo." Wait a second, that not in the script.
"That's not in the script Amber" Mr Winker calls to hr. And then she did something that no of us would ever expect her to do. She kissed him. Everyone's mouths dropped. And by the look on Alfie's face I could tell that he was just as confused as the rest of us were.
"WOW" Jerome exclaims. Mick storms of angrily.
(Later that night, because I can't be bothered to write the rest of the day out)
I could hear clock bells chiming midnight. Chloe, Alfie and Jerome shone their torches in my eyes
"Are you Nina Martin?" Chloe question. I nod my head. What kind of a question was that?
"Is there anyone her that can confirm that?" She asks.
"Me?" I say in utter confusion.
"Are you for real?" Alfie aks.
"SSSHHH" Chloe hisses.
"Nina are here to prove that you are brave enough to live in Anubis on the graves of all your ancestors that you will never tell a living soul about tonight" Chloe syas edging closer to me at her evry word.
"I swear" I gulp. Chloe then leads me out the room where everyone(Baring Mick) was standing by the Attic door.
"Where's Mick?" Amber asks Fabian, making him jump.
"didnt want to come. Tierd or something" Fabian explains.
"Shh" Chloe hisses at him.
"Oh Sprits of Anubis house, guide the new girl on her initiation quest and keep her from harm in the haunted Attic"
"Come, on this is ridicoulos." Joy protests.
"Shh" Chloe hisses again. She then turns to me.
"Unlock the door." Slowly and carefully i walk up toward the door and put the key in the lock. I quickly turn around to face Chloe.
"I just have to go up there and bring something back? And then i'm done? I mean you guys didn't booby trap the place or anything did you?" Chloe shook her head
"course not. Go" I unlock the and walk inside. Im barely in there for 5 seconds when i hear the door slam shut and lock.
"Hey! What's going on? Let me out! " I say loudly.
"Not until you trll us what you know about KT's dissaperence." I hear Chloe voice from the other side.
"Nothing I know nothing!" I shout desperately. I was starting to panic. What if Chloe locked me up here forever. I hear something up the stairs.
"There's something up here!" I scream. I start to bang on the door.
"What's all this noise?" I hear a booming voice. Victor. I fall silent.
"What's going on?Why are you all out of bed?hmm?" Victor questions.
"Were you trying to break down this door?" He asks.
"No we... thought we heard mice thats all" Chloe says. I didn't stay around any longer. I ran up the stairs and into the attic. I close the door behind me. I could hear him walking up the stairs. If he caught me, I would be in deep trouble...
Sorry for not updating. The most likely time i will be udating though is at weekends
BYYYYYEEEEEE