Beauty and the Pharaoh

Chapter 3

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I got the disciplining of a lifetime on Monday, Aurora refusing to drop the fact that I hadn't taken time over the weekend to update her on what happened with Dom at the birthday disaster. No matter how many times I told her I was busy, it didn't help.

I was busy, though. My Saturday was spent doing two cake orders and then having my world turned upside down while babysitting a potential Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. Then on Sunday, I completely forgot that I had another cake to make, so I spent the entire morning doing that, delivered it at noon, and then went to check on said Pharaoh again, only to realize that I hadn't left him anything to eat for breakfast.

He was infuriated, so to make up for that (since I actually did feel bad—no one deserved to starve, not even a cruel Pharaoh), I prepared a big lunch and dinner for him. And breakfast and lunch for the next day. I boxed it all up, put it in the fridge and taught him how to use a microwave.

With that, I would like to have moved on with my life, but I couldn't... mostly because all this craziness was still so hard to wrap my mind around and... well, he looked so pitiful, and it was making me feel bad. With nothing much to do except pace around trying to figure out potential ways to travel back in time, and watch cartoons, he seemed so... helpless. It made me feel horrible... horrible enough to have this man constantly in my thoughts. And worst of all, I couldn't tell Ro this, even if she was my best friend.

She would think I was nuts.

"Are you listening?" Aurora snapped as we walked to our lockers after class.

"Yeah, I'm sorry, Ro," I sighed, "I was just so busy!"

"I was worried sick!" she exclaimed for the hundredth time that day. "And when I went to your place, you weren't even there! And your parents were no help either!"

I stopped walking and then hugged her tightly. "I'm so sorry!"

"Dom really freaked me out y'know? When he told me that he ran off with a bloody nose and left you with some weirdo... I gave him a black eye for it!"

I scoffed. "No!"

"Probably why he's not at school today," she looked around as she said it, as if trying to spot him, "that or he's getting high somewhere to put out the pain."

I hated to admit that I felt an odd sense of satisfaction, but after the stunt Dom pulled with me, maybe he deserved the bloody nose and a beating from Ro. "Dom was being weird and the guy punched him because he thought he was harassing me," I lied, trying to make her feel better. "He didn't mean any harm."

"Yeah, Dom mentioned he tried to kiss you. I slapped him for that."

I snorted into a fit of laughter.

After thanking Ro for her unwavering desire to defend me, I hurriedly left school and hopped onto the first crowded bus I could catch. While I still had my brother's car at my disposal, I never brought it to school because I didn't want to risk damaging it. The last thing I needed was to be the reason something bad happened to the gift my parents got my brother for the achievement of getting into law school... for following the right path.