The Lost, The Stupid, & The Mummy

By BTTD28

Chapter Nine: Trouble in the Past

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"See how brave your man was…blah, blah, blah. God, her voice is annoying!" Kaylee mocked when she was finally alone. "I don't need to know what happens. He obviously chose you!" She screamed at the locked door. But then, curiosity set in and Kaylee began to thinking, until finally she decided that it would be nice to know what or how things went wrong. She grabbed the elixir and pulled out the stopper. "Maybe it won't hurt as bad this time." She was wrong.

"Ow, Or I could be completely wrong!" She screamed once in the safety of the past. Her face burned and the open wound on her cheek stung like hell. But at least she was back and maybe she'd get to learn some more information. She saw Khepri run up the stone stair case with Imhotep at her side. "Oh, there's the happy couple."

Imhotep took Khepri's hand and pulled her into his kiss and in the pit of Kaylee's stomach…anger began to boil. Obviously something ruined this happy relationship.

"I'll see you there tonight." Khepri said with a wink as when he finally decided it was time to let her go.

"I love you, Khepri."

"I love you more." Khepri giggled as he left.

"Oh, I'm going to puke. I just wanna run up and smack her. Oh if only Amber was here, she'd talk some sense into her…me… Khepri!"

" Khepri!" Someone screamed. A girl about Khepri's age ran up to her giggling.

"Hey Naqiyah , what are you doing here?" Khepri asked giving her a huge hug.

"I just got back from my trip, did you miss me?" Naqiyah asked.

"Of course I did, I had nothing to do while you where gone." Khepri said.

"You're such a liar! I just say you with Imhotep." Naqiyah said accusingly.

"Oh, yeah, about that." Naqiyah started seriously, but could hold in a giggle as her face reddened. "You've missed a lot."

Kaylee couldn't see Naqiyah 's face, so she moved around behind Khepri and almost fainted. Khepri's friend Naqiyah looked exactly like Amber. "Whoa, does this mean…" Kaylee started thinking. "I knew it! I just knew there was a reason Amber and I clicked so well! We were friends in a past life!"

"Khepri, I'm so happy for you! You always had a thing for him." Naqiyah said taking Khepri's hand. "Does you're father know?"

"Um…no," Khepri said. "I'm not quite sure how I'm going to tell him."

"I think he understands…I hope." Naqiyah said.

"I'm not sure…but no one must know." Khepri said.

"But here's the problem sweetie, you're not very good at hiding it." Naqiyah laughed. "I mean look at your face, I've never seen your face this red…well, except that time we put a frog in Nefertiri's soup. You're eyes have never sparkled so much!"

"Too bad it's all going to end with him choosing that walking billboard for depression." Kaylee said to herself. "I just wish I knew how and why."

The two girls walked up some stairs and disappeared from Kaylee's view. She expected to be thrown back into present time, but she wasn't. She looked around and noticed someone dash around a corner. "Oh dear, someone was eavesdropping. Better go check on Imhotep, looks like this could be bad." Kaylee said running up the stairs into the palace. "Wait a minute; is it sad I know exactly where I'm going?"

She turned a corner just in time to see Imhotep walking into his bedroom chamber. Kaylee followed closely behind to see what he was up to. He walked past a large indoor pond and straight to his bed. He would've walked right past it if he hadn't have noticed the note. He paused and stared at the note for a second, looking like he was scared of it. The gently he took the note and read it. Kaylee tried to get around him to see what it said, but he crumpled it before she could see it and stormed off to a small torch in the corner of his room. He set the note on fire and stood there to watch it burn.

"Great, now I'll never know what it said." Kaylee whispered.

He turned and walked straight past her to a small desk. She watched the note burn a moment longer and then turned to where Imhotep was writing a note. She quickly realized this could be a key moment and she rushed over to his side. She only caught who it was for… Khepri, before he folded it up and hurried out of the room.

"Slow down!" Kaylee said even though she knew he couldn't hear her. He came to a small door and quietly opened it. Kaylee crept up behind him and tried to listen to what was going on. Then she found herself wanting to touch him, just to see what would happen. She reached out her hand and touched his upper arm. He spun around so fast it almost knocked Kaylee down. He looked around curiously for the someone who he'd never see. He slowly crept through the door and out of sight. Kaylee's heart was pounding as she went in after him, she found her self on top of a small staircase. The pharaoh was explaining rules of some sort and Imhotep stood at his side. When the pharaoh was finished speaking, he sat and watched two girls walk into the middle of the floor. He started talking to Imhotep and Kaylee had to rush off to hear what he was saying.

"Where have you been?"

"I got caught up; it'll never happen again my lord."

Khepri walked up to her father and bowed. She looked at Imhotep, "You wanted to see me?"

Imhotep looked at her strangely, "I did?"

"Is this not the note you sent me?" She held out a piece of parchment.

Imhotep looked at it and seemed to recognize the hand writing. "Pharaoh, I must speak to your daughter alone, about her lessons. Will you please excuse us?"

"Go quickly, before you miss your sister's fight." He motioned to a girl standing in the corner.

The couple walked out without touching or looking at each other which was throwing Kaylee for a loop. That is until they got out of complete view of everyone, and then Khepri hugged him suddenly. Tears dripped from her eyes as she spoke, "Are you sure?"

"I'm I sure of what?"

"You-you wrote me that note didn't you?" Khepri cried.

"No, but this means someone knows, Khepri." He said. "Someone knows about us."

A/N: Wow, this doesn't look good. Sorry it's so short, but I left my head phones at home so I couldn't write to my little groove. More to come tommorow!