House of Anubis: Triad of Memphis

House of Explanations/House of Character

Jared forced Jonah and Sarah to explain everything in his and his brother's room. They started from the beginning when Sarah introduced the idea to the point where Jonah attempted to win Lucille back on behalf of Jared. They intentionally left out the kiss seeing as he didn't yet know and shouldn't know for as long as possible.

"So you impersonate me to get my girlfriend back for me, assuming I'd be so thick to not figure out sooner or later?"

"Well..." Jonah trailed as he glanced over at Sarah.

"I can't believe you two. Now I have to fix everything." He was on his way out the door when he paused for a moment and added, "I never thought I'd say that."

He hurried to Lucille's room where she was sitting on her bed. She glanced up to look at him.

"Should I guess first this time?" she remarked.

"It's Jared," he admitted. "And before you find any liquid to throw on me, I had nothing to do with it. And I can't believe Jonah and Sarah would even go that far-I mean-that's more in my character than it is in theirs and...they really didn't mean any harm; they just hate seeing us this way. And I kind of do too."

"But...Jared, I kissed him," Lucille told him truthfully. "I kissed him thinking he was you."

Jared remained silent for just a moment. He was compelled to act angrily, but he'd rather not be that way during an "intimate" moment with Lucille. "Well what does that really mean, right? We both know who that was meant for and if you kissed the wrong guy...well just kiss the right guy next time?"

Lucille's lips curled into a slight smile.

"Sorry, I'm not very good with advice."

"I miss you."

Lucille stood up and walked straight into Jared's arms where he enveloped her close and tightly, and she did just the same.

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When they returned to school, Sibuna found the time to discuss important things as they were escorted to the school. They whispered among themselves, all of them reunited seeing as Jared and Lucile decided to make up and forgive Jonah and Sarah. Jared and Sarah were updated on all they had missed, and William informed them of all the information he'd gathered from Niamh about Rusk.

"Wait, I knew all that," Jared declared once he finished.

"It would've helped a lot if we'd known sooner," Sarah admitted. "How did you find out?"

"I was helping Niamh with...things," he glanced over at Lucille who seemed disapproving of it but not as much as she used to be.

"Alright, so Rusk has to be an enemy," Sarah stated.

"But we don't know if he's with the society," Jonah added. "He seems to be buddies with Mr. Harvey, but Mr. Rainier is another story."

"He was also asking about some artifacts, right?" William mentioned. "Probably the ones in those bags of Mr. Rainier's."

"So we can assume he knows about this ritual thing too?" Lucille clarified. "Does he know he needs me? He's seen what I look like; he's seen my locket-"

"Lucy, I think as long as this campus is on lockdown, you're safe," Sarah reassured. "But this also puts pressure on us to solve the next task which is piecing together Nefertem's staff. After that, we should only have Ptah left, and then we can finish this."

"After school then," Jonah finalized. He held his right hand over his right eye. "Sibuna."

The others did the same.

"Sibu-what now?" Mr. Carroway asked them. They were just arriving to the school and he happened to overhear this among their whispers.

"Sibu-" Jared blurted out, attempting to save them on instinct. "-nana," he finished. "Sibunana. We were just discussing what we would name a new fruit we discovered and the winner happened to be sibunana."

Mr. Carroway just grunted and headed back to Anubis house. The rest of Sibuna dispersed, Lucille sticking to Jared's side though.

"Come on," Jared cried out. "You've got to give me something for that genius."

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Rachel found Tyler in between classes in order to speak with him.

"I've been thinking about what you said," Rachel began, "about 'giving me up'. And I realized what you meant."

Tyler tried to walk away, but Rachel used both her arms to hold him in place.

"What do you want me to say in this conversation?" Tyler asked.

"I don't know. Something about it maybe."

"Okay...here's what I have to say about it. Think about what you're getting your heart into before you actually get into it. And think about who else's heart is at risk before you claim you like them for how 'adorable' they are. Do you know how many hearts you'll end up breaking if you keep going on like that?"

"I-"

"-I'm not saying you're a bad person. I really, really like you, after all. But now I'm just afraid I'll get my heart broken if we surpass anything we're at now."

"Okay?"

"Okay." Tyler nodded and headed off.

Rachel just stood there to take it all in-all that Tyler had expressed to her, influenced by her recent break-up with William. She didn't mean to seem as though she was so careless and reckless. Typically, that was the least of her character. But in this moment, it seemed to define her.

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It took me a week, but I did it. I have one more week of these tests, and then I'm out for school, and then I can get back to writing more on here and bringing back the discussion questions. Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Until next time, Aristocrats