A Christmas for History to Remember

Chapter 2: My Boring First Night

After finishing up my conversation with Ahkmenrah, I walk upstairs, pass the cavemen, noticing them playing with bones, I then say, "Still using bones?" They turn around and begin grunting and saying things in words I don't understand, I then toss them a small ball, telling them, "Quest for fun? Well give it up, here's the answer." One of them catches it, tosses it to another caveman, and they laugh and shout. I chuckle, before turning the corner I hear, "Newest dum-dum give me gum-gum.", I see a stone head looking at me, "I brought better gum-gum for you, flavored gum-gum.", I pull a stick from the wrapper, open it, then stick in his mouth, he begins chewing, letting out a 'mmm', I tell him I figured he be into it.

Soon I hear men running my way while yelling in a foriegn language, I sigh, "Oh great..the Huns. Gotta let 'em recognize me." Soon the men and I face each other, the leader, Atilla yells out foreign words, while I yell back in gibberish, he soon recognizes my face, saying in foreign what I expect to be, "Oh Rebecca, I didn't recognize you, it's been so long. Are you the new nightguard?"

I nod and tell him that I am, he gives me a big tight hug, which makes groan in pain and tell that it's too tight. He lets me go, I then watch him walk away with the other men, while I head to the hall of African mammals, soon entering, I knew to be careful of the lions. I then hear a monkey chipping from the tree, I look over seeing a Capuchen snickering at me, he then swings on a vine, grabbing my key-ring, I say, "HEY! GIVE THOSE BACK, YOU SNEAKY THIEF!", he blows a raspberry at me, making me a little peeved, he then gets out of the trees and room, running away with my keys.

I go chase him, when I hear Teddy riding up, "I see Dexter's keeping his tradition alive and well." I look his way with a frown, "Did he do this with Larry too?", "Indeed, Dexter loves to play around. Just don't do what Lawerence did often. Which is slapping him." I sigh, I was gonna do this out of anger, but now I remember how I never hurt my dog.

I then hear this from the hall of miniatures, "Boys, we got us a railroad waiting, let's blow this stand!", I rush that way, soon seeing Jedediah and his men trying to blow up a mountain on their display, "Woah, woah, Jed. If you blow a hole in that mountain, you'll hit a wall, so stop it." He turns my way, "Beautiful, we've gotta build this darn railroad, and that there mountain is in our way. We're blowing a hole in it!" I then watch as the dynamite they planted blows nothing in the mountain, Jed sighs, "Manifest Destiney's gonna have to wait, boys!", "I told you it wouldn't work, Jed.", "I'd actually like it if you called me Jedy, okay? May I call you Becky, gorgeous?"

I feel a blush creep upon my cheeks, this cowboy's quite a sweet-heart it seems, he notices my blush and says, "Oh man, I didn't mean.." I put my finger on his left shoulder, "No, no, don't be. I find you to be quite sweet." He chuckles, "Usually I'd be offended by the word 'sweet', but coming from you I feel like it's okay." I nod, I begin to think about if I should bring up my feelings, but decided to hold them in, "I'm glad I didn't offended you, Jedy. It seems we'll get along very well."

He grabs my finger, puts it to his lips, kisses it, and says with a flirty tone, "Ohh, very well is understating things, I bet we'll get along the best, even better than I do with Ockie." This makes me blush more, I look away from him, and try to gain my composure, I hear this from the Roman display, "Men, we have to keep expanding!" I look down at Jedediah watch him massage my finger, I moan quietly, and then say, "Je-Jed, I'm going to check on Octavius." He releases my finger which I put that hand at my side, while he tells me, "I'll be here when you're done."

I then go over to the Roman display, look down at Octavius, and say, "Octavius, you'll never be able to expand your empire! All you'll hits a wall." He looks up upon hearing me, he shrugs, "We must try, Rebecca.", he then sees my blush, asking, "What happened?" I gain my composure, I then quit blushing and say, "Nothing really. Jed just flirted with me." He nods, "Ah, I didn't expect that from him, but yet not many women talk to us.", I nod, he then says, "I've been meaning to compliment you on your looks as well. You're like Aphrodites, the goddess of beauty to me." My blush returns, this was getting too intense, I know I used to crush on both men, but they've waited too long, Ahkmenrah's the man of my dreams now.

Octavius smiles, "If I've made things awkward, just let me.." I lean down and put my finger on his shoulder, "You haven't, I was just not expecting this.", "Well you are obviously the most beautiful woman to chat with me, and not many women do so." He then grabs my finger, strokes it, saying, "I will be by your side through thick and thin. We shall become great friends, just like me and Jedediah." I nod, he then says, "Have a good night, my dear. Hopefully I shall see you again before sunrise." I nod and feel my blush fading away, soon I'm back in the lobby

There I see Ahkmenrah, he's sitting on a bench staring at his lap. I go over to him, and say this which makes him jump a bit, "Hey Ahkmenrah. What are you doing?" He then stares into my green eyes, scoots over allowing me to sit beside him, which I do, he then tells me, "I've been thinking about what would happen if the tablet my father had made for me runs low on its magic again."

I place my hand on his shoulder, "What happened the last time?", "Larry, Teddy, Dexter, me, a few other exhibits traveled to London to first learn the secrets of the tablet.", he then smiles before continuing, "Larry then had to restore the tablet with moonlight. We would have failed to come back to life if Lancelot didn't finally understand how the tablet wasn't our goal, but instead we were the goal." I nod during this, I had dreamt of traveling to the British Museum many times, I then tell him, "I'm just glad you all survived." He hugs me, kisses my cheek, and says, "I am just as glad, my dear.", he then realizes what he did, and he stutters out, "Oh de-dear, I-I am so sorry, I don't know what..came over me.." My cheeks felt like they were heated, I then feel my body shake, he then holds me tight, "I hope you are not mad at me."

I look deep into his eyes seeing concern and sadness, "I could never get mad at you.. I like you and want to be friends.", his smile returns as he tells me that he'd be honored to be my friend. I smile back and stop shaking, I then notice through the window a bit of sunlight, I sigh and say, "Darn! It's almost daytime, I wanted this to-" Ahkmenrah puts his left index finger in front of my lips, "Shh, we shall continue tomorrow. Want some help getting everyone and everything ready?", I smile and nod, he then says, "Just know that this is the only time I shall aid you.", I nod again as we stand up and begin walking through the halls.

End of chapter 2: My Boring First Night

Next:

Chapter 3: A Debate During the Day

Note: I know this didn't feel like a 'Boring night', but trust me compared to the following nights this one is tame.