CHAPTER 2

All the hugs and conversations went by so fast that I don't remember much. Fabian and Mara had left and met with Fabian's uncle. Flashbacks came back when Fabian and I went to meet him when I was marked by Senkhara my second year. Fabian's uncle looks up at me and smiles a small smile as if he knows that Fabian and I broke up. Oh of course he knows! Fabian is holding hands with Mara and I am on the other side of the hall of the airport. Fabian looks back at me and gives a small sweet smile. My heart almost skips a beat. I return the smile. Then I look away realizing that I broke up with him to protect him and he found a new lover, I am happy for him.

Amber had to drag me to the train before we missed it. We only have a few of our bags, because everything else had been shipped to the house. Amber has a lot of stuff… obviously! Amber had fallen asleep with her head on my shoulder. I let her rest there. It has been an hour and I feel sleepy, but I have to stay awake.

"Amber. Amber? You have to wake up." I say quietly shaking her a little bit feeling guilty of waking her up. She stands up and grabs two of her suitcases off of the shelf over our seats and we rush off. I call a taxi and me and Amber sit on a bench. It took ten minutes for the taxi to get here. "Oh, finally! I want to get to the house." Amber grumbles with her saggy eyes. The cab-driver gets out of the car and I know him. "Hey!" I say. It has been years but I still recognize him as the first English person I had a real conversation with in England.

"Are you going back to Anubis house? I thought you would of graduated." He says. "I did graduate, I am the house's new caretaker, and I have brought my British friend Amber with me." They shake hands and then we get into the cab. Amber and I discuss what is going to happen and what has happened so far. So Robert Frobisher-Smythe had two wives which he had one child with each. A daughter and a son. His daughter Sarah never had children but his son did. Now he has died, he has a granddaughter named KT who took my place. Nice.

He had been cursed by a god, I believe it was Anubis, Fabian said. He also decided to add that Mara knows. He didn't bother to explain why, but that's their business.

SQUEE! I hear kicking me out of my train of thought. I look over and see that it is Amber squealing out the window. "Nina! Look!" Amber yells. I move over and lean over Amber out the right window and see the giant brick building of the school has arrived.

I feel the car slow down and Amber immediately jump out of the car. I jump out right after her. We both look at each other and we know what the other is thinking. "WE'RE BACK!" We both scream and we throw our arms in the air. We look back at each other and we say "Sibuna." And put our right hand over our right eye.

Then we both squeal and hug each other and we both are jumping up and down. Then we both go for our bags. I pay the cab driver and wish him a good day then Amber and I run for the house. We run down the path and we pass three teens walking down the path from the house. I stop. "Hey?" I ask. "Do you live in Anubis house?" I ask. I hear one of Amber's suitcases wheels stop. "Umm… Yeah. It's right down the path." A boy responds with two glazed donuts, one in each hand. He reminds me of Alfie. "Oh yeah, we know, we were students. I am your new caretaker. And this is Amber, she is going to be helping me out.

The two girls and the boy looked shocked. Probably because I am young. "Cool, well, welcome back." The boy says and they rush away worried. What was that about? I ask myself. But I kind of brush it off and hurry to the house. I beat Amber to the house due to her high heels. I get up the stairs and Amber is sanding beside me.

As I reach for the door, it swings open, just like the first day. "Well, we went back to the freakiness fast." She says with her British accent. We smile at each other and we run inside. The sound of the wheels on our suitcases change do to the floor. The walkway looks different, I look up and realize that the chandelier is gone.

I smell muffins, and not just any muffins… Trudy's muffins! Me and Amber both get the same idea and drop the handles to our suitcases and I hear the click-click of our suitcases falling to the floors and we run through the kitchen and hug Trudy, she jumps in surprise and we scream, "TRUDY!" She turns around within our arms and wraps her arms around us.

"Welcome back girls! Hello s. Martin, would you like me to show you to your office?" She says to be funny. "Why thank you!" As we are about to leave, we hear a ding from the oven. "Oh, the muffins." She puts on a oven mitten and she pulls them out. "It's okay Trudy." I say and I pull a hot chocolate muffin off of the tray and rush out. Amber does the same and we run out and rush to our old room.

Our stuff is there, I was half expecting our stuff not to be in the room, since it is meant for students. I sit down on my bed and I lay down and so does Amber. Then I stand back up and go to sit next to the wall and I peel the purple wallpaper. I see the dashes and Sarah's name from when she was little.

I put my hand on the wall.

Sarah is standing in front of me, in her night gown and her paper white hair, but she is wearing her locket. She didn't die in the necklace, I had it at the time. "This is what connects us, what connects every descendent of Amneris. You must find the person who possesses it, the descendent to Osiris is no longer the Osirian and no longer possesses the eye of horus. You need it to fight the new danger that is coming alive. You must hurry." She says. "But where do I start?" I ask. "With the locket." She responds. She vanishes and I feel a shaking feeling.

I wake up and see Amber in my face. I shake the sleepy and scary feeling away. "What happened?" Amber asked me. "We need my locket back."