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Chapter 7

Something's not right. I saw Charlotte flirting with Jerome. These past few days, she's been acting really weird. Is this what they call jealousy? Or is it because the words Charlotte said before she was "taken" by Nephthys are still stuck in my head until now? I called Jerome and he said goodbye to Charlotte.

"What's with you and Charlotte lately?" I directly asked him. He was taken aback by what I said and coughed.

"Nothing. We're just friends." he looked at me as if nothing happened earlier. I sigh and left him.

While I'm walking in the hallway, I heard Mara calling me.

"What's wrong?" She asked me when I passed by her but I just continue walking.

I'm fixing my assignments inside my room. I saw Jerome entered the room without knocking and Mara, who is reading a book on her bed left us both. Oh Mara, why'd you do this to me.

"Hey." He said, I sigh.

"What do you want?" I asked him, still occupied with what I'm doing before he entered. 

"Since you saw me and Charlotte talk earlier you're not noticing me." I just looked at him, with a poker face and he started doing the puppy eyes, "I'm missing you already." I just continue fixing my bag, now putting my textbooks back inside and not saying anything. I was surprised when he pulled and kissed me. A long and passionate kiss. I pulled back and walk out of the room leaving him alone.

I'm a stupid girl falling in love with a stupid boy named Jerome.

I go downstairs and saw Joy, smiling at me as soon as she saw me.

"You're blushing Diana!" She said.

"What? No, am not."

"Yes you are. What happened upstairs, huh?" Then she starts laughing. I looked at her. Then we both look at who's going down the stairs, she looked at me again. "Okay, what happened to you both upstairs?" Her smile getting bigger and giving me and Jerome a suspicious look.

"Nothing happened! He talked to me in my room and I left him alone." I said and go straight to the dinning table to eat. I saw Jerome sat beside me and look at me.

I whispered, "What?" and he started smiling.

"It's just that I love your face when you're blushing." He told me. I am so down today.

"Just, don't tell them that you kissed me. Okay?!" I whispered again.

"Sure." He answered and he started eating with a big smile.

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Morning came and it was just an ordinary Saturday. I don't know what am I going to do today except that today's our laundry day. I still can't get over Jerome kissing me a few nights ago. It's really awkward after that. I haven't talked to him yet and I'm planning to just don't talk to him at all because he is so hard to read on! One minute, he flirts with other girls, ignoring me. Then the minute after, he kisses me. 

I got out of the room to have breakfast and saw Charlotte with the Cup of Ankh. I go towards her.

"Charlotte? What are you doing with the Cup of Ankh." She looked at me and her eyes turned blue. Just like Nephthys. Wait...

She started running.

I called Nina, Eddie and Fabian and told them to run after Charlotte.

"What? Why?" Fabian asked me after going towards me with a confused look at his face.

"Just run, don't have time to explain things!" I answered.

As I told them, we started finding Charlotte. She's off the Anubis House.

"Where is she?" Eddie asked and we form a circle.

"Okay, Nina and I will look for the Warehouse, and you and Eddie go to the Forest Cellar." They all agreed and we all split up.

As soon as we got into the Warehouse, I can smell Charlotte's cologne but no sign of her.

"Why do you think Charlotte got the Cup of Ankh?" Nina asked me.

"She's not Charlotte..."

"What? But she acts like Charlotte." She told me. I stopped walking and looked at her.

"Nephthys' controlling Charlotte after you got her. That's the Ceremony that Nephthys did to her." I explained to Nina and she just looked at me, nodding. We continue searching for Charlotte but no sign for her here so we go out of the Warehouse.

We saw Eddie and Fabian, with the Cup of Ankh but Charlotte's not with them.

"Where's Charlotte?" I asked them.

"We just saw the Cup of Ankh inside the Cellar." Eddie said. I saw someone running after them.

"It's Charlotte!" with her eyes blue, she seems angry and Eddie, Nina, and Fabian ran. "Charlotte! Stop! I know you're still there!" I said and she fell down, unconscious.

We tied Charlotte in a chair, still unconscious. We're going upstairs since we're going to left her in the Cellar but I felt that my body froze. I can't move. Eddie and Fabian saw it same as Nina.

"Where are you going Hathorian? I'm not yet finished with you." A deep voice told me. When I look at where it came from,  I saw that Charlotte's awake.

"What do you want?!" I asked her. Trying to get out of her hands. Fabian and Eddie can't even grab me.

"Your boy." she wants Jerome. But why does she needs Jerome? I mean, in what way Jerome is involved here.

"Why him?" Nina ran upstairs. Eddie, Fabian, me, and Charlotte/Nephthys are left here in the Cellar.

Nina came back. With Jerome.

"Diana..." I heard Jerome said as he's coming in my direction.

"No! Don't come near me!" but he didn't listen to me, "Jerome! No!" I can move now, and I try pulling him but he still continues walking as soon as he saw Charlotte.

"Nephthys." he said, I release my hands in his arms and was now confused.

"Ah yes, Jerome Clarke." Charlotte said. I can feel my head aching and my vision's starting to get blurry. 

Edited: 07/12/21