The House Of Anubis

7. Cylinders

7. Cylinder

Later that day I found a clue to where the treasure might be. I walked in the dining room. "Fabian." I called him. "Let me see the picture you took in the attic."

Fabian handed me his phone. I studied the hieroglyphics. "Look"

I began. "The bed symbol means underneath, the stair symbol means stairs or latters, and the eight tally marks mean the number eight. So what if the treasure is hidden in the eighth stair?"

"You think so?" He asked.

"I brought my bike tools." I said, "It's for prying up floor boards."

"Yes!" Patricia yelled as she was on her laptop. She was sitting on the couch. "I got an email from Joy!"

"What's it say?" Mara asked next to her. I hoped it said to get Patricia off my back.

"I'll read it." She said. "Dear Patricia, Sorry I haven't been in touch lately. It's been crazy since I left. Anyway, I just want you to know i'm okay. I know it's odd of me to dissapear, but my Dad's buisness went under and he need to get me out of there as soon as possible. I was a bit shocked, myself. I hope you all alright. Love, Joy"

Patricia's mouth flew open. But she didn't buy it. "There's no smiley fame at the end, Joy alway's puts a smiley face at the end. And it's from another email adress."

"Well, a new email adress makes sense if Joy moved houses." Mara said.

Patricia looked at me. "I'm sorry, for driving you crazy, Nina."

I smiled. Finally, she apologizes. "It's okay. You were just worried. I would've been worried also."

That night Isneaked down and Fabian was waiting for me at the end of the stairs. I brought my bike tools with me. We went to the eighth stair.

I started prying the stair up. Once I lefted the stair up we found a key!

"I wonder what it's for." I wondered. I heard Victor comming down the stairs.

"Go go go!" I whispered. We both ran to his room.

I peeked out and saw Victor comming down and he slipped on the stair that we had pryed up!

Victor went back to his office. "Well, I better get going." I said and went to my room.

The next morning everybody was talking about Victor's fall.

"Hey, guys." Patricia laughed, "Did he you guys hear Victor fall and broke his leg?"

Everyone started laughing. Good thing they didn't know the whole story because if they did.... I would've been a goner.

Trudy came through the door holding the plates. "It's a sprained ankle, that's all." She said.

Victor came with a door. He had a cane with him. He eyed me and Fabian first, then the rest. "Something is going on with you kids." He said loud and clear, "and i'm going to find out what it is!"

Later that day while Fabian and I walked to class we talked about last night.

"Victor is on to us." Fabian said as he opened his locker. "I don't think we should go to the attic in a while."

"But, we can't that key opens something. I don't know what it opens yet, but I want to know."

"You know, for a sweet polite girl, you're a risk taker."

"Only when it's worth the risk."

Fabian smiled at me then his fake turned dissapointed.

"What?" I asked. Did I make him feel uncomftorable?