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Welcome Back!: Chapter 19

Nina's POV

I looked down, and saw

Jerome fall down a hole in the floor.

I just stared. I could see a few heads looking down the hole. Alfie looked up at me.

"What'd you do?" he asked.

"I...I don't...I don't know," I said.

"It looks like he fell down some tube thing," Patricia said.

"Well, the sooner we can get to Jerome, the sooner we can close that, and the sooner I can get down," I said.

"Well, obviously you can't come down now," Fabian said.

"Guys?" someone called. It sounded like it came from the tube.

"Jerome?" Patricia asked.

"Yeah," he said.

"Are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah, but you guys have got to come see this," he said.

"One problem," I started. "I can't get-Aaah!" I slipped and fell straight through the tube, feet first.

"Uuh," I said as I hit the ground. That was like a slide. I looked up and saw Jerome. "Hi," I said.

"Hi," he said. He held out his hand and pulled me up.

"Nina, are you okay?" Fabian asked, clearly worried.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I just-Woah," I said when I noticed my surroundings.

"What?" Amber asked.

"You guys have to come see this," I said. We, Jerome and I, were in a room covered with gold things. In the back was a tunnel (I think)

"Okay, look out," Fabian said. I moved out of the way.

When Fabian reached the bottom, I asked, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'm-wow," he said, his eyes widening.

"Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?" Jerome asked.

"Okay, no one else come down. We might need a rope to help us up. But first, I want to explore this tunnel," I yelled up the tube. "Does anyone have a flashlight?" Jerome and Fabian looked at me, confused. "Does anyone have a torch?" I asked.

"Yeah, here it comes!" Amber said. A flashlight slid to my feet.

"Okay, you guys, find some rope just in case. Fabian, Jerome, and I will explore and tell you what we find," I said. "Okay, guys. Let's go."

I turned on the flashlight and started walking toward the tunnel. Jerome and Fabian stayed close behind. Fabian was holding my hand, either because he was afraid he would get lost or because he thinks I'm scared. Either way, it's sweet.

After a while, the tunnel started to have passage ways. We stopped at the third one.

"I think we should take one of these," I said. "We can't keep going straight. That's what they want us to do."

"Who?" Jerome asked.

"I don't know, but someone, or something," I said. I shone the flashlight to the left. Then to the right. At the right, I saw a picture of the Eye of Horus. My locket started to glow. I held it up the the Eye and a door at the end of the hallway opened. We walked to it.

When I stepped through the door, I realized I was in a passage way. Another one.

We followed it to the end. There were to ways to go. One to the left, one to the right. We decided on the one to the left. We ended up at a dead end.

When we finally reached the end of the right side, we found ourselves in the cellar. A secret room, cool.

We went back to the attic.

"Hey, guys!" said. They all jumped.

"Where did you guys come from?" Patricia asked.

"Well, we followed these different passages and ended up in the cellar," I told them.

"Guess we didn't need this rope then," Mick said, holding up a rope.

"Nope, sure don't," I said.

"It is ten o'clock! You have five minutes and then I want to hear a pin...drop," Victor bellowed.

"Better get back," I said. We all went to our rooms. Before Fabian went downstairs, he gave me a peck on the cheek.

"Night," he said.

"Night," I replied. He dropped my hand and headed downstairs. I smiled to myself and walked into my room.

"Aw! You guys are so cute together!" Amber squealed. I shook my head.

I went to the bathroom, changed into my pajamas and went back to my room.

Then I remembered that I gave the necklace to Patricia. I snuck to Patricia and Joy's room (kind of Mara's) and knocked. Patricia answered.

"Hey, do you have the necklace?" I asked.

Her hand flew to her neck and she pulled out the necklace. "Yeah, why?"

"Because I need it," I said.

"Why?" she asked.

"I want to look at it. I don't know why, but I'm getting a bad vibe from it," I said.

"No!" she yelled, then slammed the door in my face. I heard Victor's footsteps, so I ran into my room and shut the door as quietly as possible.

I pressed my ear against the door.

"Idiotic rats!" he whisper-yelled. I pulled the door open just enough so I could see. He was at the attic door, fumbling with his keys. When he finally got the right one, he opened the door and went upstairs.

I followed him.

Okay, I know I've been doing Nina's POV for a while now, but I just find it easier to write that way. I will change POVs next chapter, though.

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