Chapter 10

Melody's POV

I stormed back into the house not even caring that school was about to start. "You! Why aren't you in school." yelled Victor from his office.

"Oh shut-up oldie." yelled back at him.

"Go and get to class." he said sticking his ugly face out of the window. I sneered at him.

"You know I'm not having a very good day at the moment. So if you value your life then you should SHUT-UP!" I screamed at him. I stormed up the stairs and into the attic. I knew that the others would want to know where I was so I had to find somewhere to hide. I took out my locket and started to look. I spotted something and went for a closer look. It was a little hole that looked like my locket. So I put the locket to a hole shaped like it and all of a sudden a secret panel opened. "Wow. That was unexpected." I said walking into the little room that had just appeared. Then I saw the eyes.

Now when your trying to find a place to hide and its also very dark in the place that you are going to hide, finding a pair of eyes just staring at you can be very scary. "Ahhha!" I screamed. The eyes didn't move so I walked closer. I waved my hand in front of them and nothing happened. I touched the thing I thought was its face. It felt like a canvas so I took it of the wall. It was a picture of a little girl and I knew it was the same girl from my locket. Then I remembered that my mom had told me that the girl's name was Sarah. "What's this?" I asked myself looking at the back. I saw hieroglyphics.

From my many lessons on hieroglyphics I recognized them. It said something about the 8th step. "Oh my God. Who's that?" asked Anna coming into my room and looking at the portrait. She scared me so badly that I dropped my locket, which I had out to compare the pictures, and the portrait. They both clattered to the floor. "Anna, what are you doing up here?" I asked her. She just shrugged.

"I came up here to yell at you and to get you for school, but now I want know what that is." said Anna and I rolled my eyes at her.

"If I tell you, you have to promise not to tell anyone. Ok? Do you promise?" I asked her looking into her eyes and she nodded her head. "Ok good but first let me put this back up, and try not to scream." I told her putting my locket in the hole and watching the door open again. Anna looked scared out of her mind. I put the portrait back up and closed the door.

"Ok so what do you want to know?" I asked when we were walking back to school. "Well first off who was that girl?" asked Anna.

"Her names Sarah, and she was a family friend. My mom knew her. She gave my mom this locket and my mom gave it to me for our birthday." I said and Anna looked confused.

"You and your mom have the same birthday?" she asked.

"Yup. Same day, same time, same month. 7 A.M. on the 7th day of the 7th month." I said

"Creepy." said Anna and I laughed.

"Ok second question. How did you open that panel with your locket?" asked Anna and I just shook my head.

"I have no idea." I said and we walked into our first class. Anna took a seat next to Aaron but I just stood there not knowing were to sit.

"Ok class welcome back. Today we'll be going into Egyptian mythology." said Mr. Rutter coming into the classroom not even noticing that I was standing there. "Oh right. Class we have a new student. She's from America and being new, can someone giver her a seat?" asked Mr. Rutter.

"There's a seat open next to me." said Lilly and I knew that I was about to be torchered. "Thank you Miss Mercer. Do you mind sitting there Miss Martin?" asked Mr. Rutter and I smiled and went to go and sit. I passed Anna and mouthed, HELP ME! She smiled and gave me a look that said, You'll survive. Don't worry. So I went to go and sit.

"Now to make up for kissing my boyfriend, you'll be doing ALL my homework. Hope you know French!" whispered Lilly. I smiled and said to her in French, "Oui je fais et vous êtes stupide. Obtenir la fille intelligente à faire vos devoirs, vraiment? Donc, grossier." (yes I do and you are stupid. Getting the smart girl to do your homework, really? So rude.) She looked at me confused.

"What?" she asked and I laughed. She is one big idiot. "Whatever so heres my homework. I want an A+ on it so DON'T screw up!" she said. I rolled my eyes and started to take notes on the topic for class.

After the bell rang I went to French. What most people didn't know is that I took French for 5 years. I took Spanish for 8 years and Greek for 3 years. I was very bilingual. "Bonjour class. We must welcome a new student. Miss Marin, can you tell the class your name and where you are from in French? Class after she is done I want someone to tell me everything she said in English, please." said Mrs. Andrews and I got up and faced the room.

"Bonjour mon nom est Mélodie et je suis de Austin, au Texas, aux Etats-Unis." I said and everyone just stared at me. Then someone raised their hand. It was Micheal.

"I think she said, Hello my name is Melody and I am from Austin, Texas in America." said Micheal blushing a bit. Mrs. Andrews nodded and I smiled. Anna smiled to and Lilly looked sour. I sat back down next to Anna. "Good job! I didn't know you could speak French." said Anna.

"Miss Martin do you speak any other languages?" asked Mrs. Andrews. I nodded. "Well what languages do you speak?" she asked me.

"Spanish, Greek, and I'm learning Chinese." I said and everyone stared at me.

"Can you give us a demonstration of each language, please." asked Mrs. Andrews.

I got up again. "Um ok." I said and giving my demonstrations. Everyone just stared at me."What?" I asked and everyone just started to clap.

"That was amazing!" said Adam.

"Falls to the floor with amazement!" said Aaron falling off his chair and onto the ground.

"Wow. Your pretty and you can speak different languages! That's AWESOME!" said Micheal and I blushed and sat back down not liking the attention. I kept my head down the entire class period.