The Journal

Chapter 12

They stared at the wall , this keypad was well hidden in their belief .
They cautiously got up and walked towards the keypad, it looked old and  functioning.  It had three bulbs that emitted green light. It seemed that the password was a four digit number .
"A four digit number ." They said in unision .
"Er the year of his birth ?" Edward guessed.
"Maybe ." Nate said as he typed 1960 . The keypad buzzed and flickered red light , indicating they had guessed wrong . One of its green bulbs turned red pointing to the obvious.
"Great ! We have only three more tries ." Nate said desperately , running his hands through is hair.
"The year of his death ?" Barbera said twirling her hair.
"How can he put the year of his death as his password when he died!" Emilia reasoned .
"Maybe the year would be the password . Maybe he died after putting the password ." Bera said thoughtfully .
"It sounds far fetched but we could give it a shot ." Nate said .
He typed in 2010 but then again the keypad flickered and buzzed .

"Gosh this is the last try . Think ! Think !" Nate urged himself , Emilia could sense that he was tensed. She looked at him as he paced back and forth thinking to himself the possible digits that would fit in. She put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

"You know what !" Bera said casually as she sat on the desk , with a sigh of frustration.  She hated to think too much.

"Get down from the desk and what ?" Nate ordered said annoyed . Barb ignored him and continued.

"If I were doctor Perseus , I would keep my password as the degrees of the cabinet key ...." Bera began .

"And in that way no one will be able to crack the code unless he had the key and the brains and more likely he would only have one of them !" Emilia finished for her .

"Give it a shot !" Edward urged to him it seemed as the brightest idea .

"Okay , here goes ." Nate said as he typed 6030 in the keypad .
Emilia had crossed her fingers , Edward was sweating and Bera was clutching onto a starnd of her hair on the right next her ear .

"Why are you clutching on to your hair ?" Emilia hissed .

"It's a lucky strand of hair ." Bera replied on moving her eyes from the keypad .

Unlike the last few times the last bulb did not flash or flicker red light . But instead the wall in front of them moved .

The skeleton had stopped moving and the wall seemed to move towards them .
They stepped back in awe and fell on the ground , the wall was fake , no wonder the the cabinet looked small . The thirteen bricks from the wall moved each moving in the opposite direction of it's neighbour .

Once they moved there was a small creak and the wall opened . The inside was pretty dark .

Nate was the first to recover , he took a few small steps towards the wall , his face held a curious but a feared expression . He was breathing heavily .
Emilia followed Nate , she got up slowly and cautiously taking evey step with a worried expression . She frowned when Nate came to a halt .

He look behind him and jumped a little when he saw her . This caused her to crack a smile and turn behind her .
Edward had got up not soon after Em . Turned to help Bera up , he stuck out his hand whose usual home was the jeans pocket . He feared that they would be caught and would be sent to jail .

Bera on the other hand was more worried about her appearence , apparently she would look horrible if she didn't sleep . Though she did sleep the whole of afternoon and most of the evening she still needed more sleep according to her .

Nate stepped foward into the dark pit of a room . He fumbled to find the light switch but Emilia beat him to it . He flashed her a smile and got a good glimpse of the room .

Like the room behind them there was a desk , a lamp and a book shelf . But there wasn't any skeleton . The desk was full of dust and the four coeners of the wall had spider webs much to Bera as well as Emilia's disgust .

The three walls of the room was painted in olive green colour and had a bleach blue carpet on the floor .
Nate went in and opened the drawer , in it were mostly pens , pencils and erasers .

He opened the cupboard under the drawer . Though it hadn't been opened for years the cupboard didn't even creak or creat any kind of a sound .

Meanwhile Edward was examining the the books in the shelf . There were several books all either in green , black or red covers . They were all pale due to their lack of use and because of having been left untouched for years .

Edward felt sorry for the books he deeply loved books more like he adored them . He went through a couple of books and their names .

One said How to decode scripts , the other said Patterns in coding . The book with a pale blue cover said Scripts : Interpreted . The book with pale red colour said What are scripts ? The olive green book said How to interpret scripts . In general all the books had something to do with scripts .

Edward flipped through the yellow pages of the book . He realised that Dr.Perseus must have been an Italian or more likely a european because the matter in all the books were in Latin , Greek and Spanish . Though Edward had studied spanish for three years he inly knew the present tense and not the past which apparently changed the whole conjugation .

Emilia on the other hand was not researching but was staring at the two symbols on the wall . On the right was black coloured semi circle with the the drawimg of what looked like a horse next to it and the drawing of a tent with dots around it right below .

Next to it were two arrows one below the other facing the opposite side . On laft was a picture of a sun with a bow and arrow next to it and below it was a tent with dots around it .

Somehow to Emilia the picture on the right seemed familiar . She was pretty sure she had seen it somewhere but she could not put a finger on what it was .
She gazed at the picture for a long time and then looked down on the ground , the picture seemed so familiar to her .

As she was looking on the floor she noticed a shadow walking towards them . She quickly turned arpund to see who it was . But could not believe her eyes when she saw who it was .
"Aunty ?"

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Hello ! Thanks a zilliob for reading the 12 the chapter of 'The Journal' .
Hope you enjoyed reading it ! :)

Joke :
What did Ron Weasley say to Hermione Granger when she was tutoring him on the History of Magic ?

Ron : What do you mean ?
Hermione : When you nod your head yes but you wanna say no .
Ron : WHAT DO YOU MEAN ?

What Hermione meant was that Ron would nod his head yes while she explained although he didn't understand a thing and wanted to say no he did not understand .