Can someone please explain to me how I can have 7 visits to chapter 2 and 8 to chapter 3? i mean do people honestly read one chapter but not the one before it? I'm so confuzzled! Don't forget to review if you think you're had a genius theory. Everyone who gets it (and by it I mean anything) right gets pie. (And not fictional pie. I'll track you down to give you real pie. Wait that's creepy... maybe just fictional pie then.) And this children is what happens when you spend a snow day writing a fan fic and will spend tomorrow's snow day doing the same!

Chapter 9

House of Confrontations

Sarah was sitting on her bed waiting for me when I arrived the confrontation was imminent, but I kept myself cool and collected. She could say anything she wanted and I would be fine. I'd keep my cool and not punch her in the face. After everything her mom has done for me she deserved to be treated well.

"I came back and saw you were gone but your stuff was still here," Sarah began accusation thick in her voice. "I thought you were leaving?"

"Nope," I told her climbing into bed. "Your mom talked me out of it."

"So where were you? I noticed the bathroom was empty and your bed is cold."

I gave Sarah an *are you kidding me* look before replying nonchalantly as I sat up, "Did you think to check it or Alice?"

Sliding out from the shadowy corner where she'd been standing Alice replied coldly, "It was my idea. But you still haven't answered the question Snoopy, where were you?"

"Who's snooping in whose business now?" I reminded Alice. Sarah knew it was true and looked guilty, but Alice remained cold. Why on earth did Sarah not stop Alice if she felt so bad? Sarah was the one with the power of Osiris or whatever. "And I was the same place as you. The tunnels."

"How do you even know about the tunnels snake-breath?" Alice asked pressing her face against mine.

Turning away I muttered under my breath, "You're one to talk." Alice, luckily, didn't hear and I continued. "They're not your tunnels, and Sarah's mom told me about them."

"Your mom knows about the tunnels?" Alice asked surprised spinning to face a shrugging Sarah.

"Your mom does too. All of your parents, the ones who went here at least, minus Greg's dad, know about them." I told Sarah and Alice who clearly thought they were the first to discover the catacombs of Anubis house. "Did you honestly think the tunnels stayed that dust free in 125 years? They're dusty, but not THAT dusty."

"But they were closed, all the traps back on. Well not all of them, but the ones that turned on and off were," Sarah told me. Considering the fact that they thought I was the chosen of Apophis they sure weren't keeping very tight lips.

"Must have reset them upon graduation I don't know," I told the girls with a shrug. "There were no Chosen Ones or Osirians around to use so the Egypt stuff stayed away and no one even knew the tunnels existed. Then you get your dream from Osiris..."

"I told you she heard more than she said," Alice interrupted, but I continued like I hadn't noticed.

"... and head down there to reopen them. What I want to know, is where you think these scales and mosaic are? They're not in the tunnels, I went to the end. So where do you think they are?"

"Ha!" Alice exclaimed. "You think we're thick enough to tell you where they are so you can just go and steal them for your boss."

"I'm not working for Apophis!" I yelled at them and knew for the first time that it was true. I wasn't working for Apophis, that's the kind of thing you tend to know. "But someone in this house is. If it's not me, which I swear it isn't, and it's definitely not Anubis because he had no want to be in those tunnels, then it's one of your little gang."

"Don't listen to her Sarah," Alice blurted out. "You know it's just lies. No one in C.O.E. could be influenced by Apophis without someone noticing. We've known each other our entire lives! Who's the odd ball here, Luce, she's it and we both know it." C.O.E. Children of Egypt-original.

"Believe whatever you want," I told them turning on my side. I'd tried to warn them, but it was futile. Alice seemed to take my lack of fight as a confession, but her adamant need for me to take the blame as Apophis's chosen one seemed a bit fishy. Sure, maybe she wanted to protect her friends, but maybe she wanted to protect herself.

It would make sense for Alice to be working with Apophis. She was in it from the beginning. She knew all the other chosen. Her prickly nature bordered on chaotic (Apophis is god of chaos.) No one, Sarah especially, would suspect Alice's motives until it was too late.

But that wasn't true because I was involved now. Alice could hide but she had nowhere to run. If she was working for Apophis I would find out and I would protect the Universe from destruction no matter what.

Alice continued to yell and before Sarah had time to shush her Andy kicked open our door and let out a bellowing roar, "What do you three delinquents think you're doing up? It is three hours past lights out! Sleep now. Office first thing in the morning. If I hear one more peep from this room... you'll regret it for the rest of your lives. Now to your room Miss Miller!"

Alice shuffled away and I again wondered if maybe it was Andy after all. It seemed that, despite my theories, I wouldn't know who to stop until it was too late.