I slept about four hours that night, because of a nightmare in which I'm a horrible mother. Fabian didn't seem to get much more than I did because when I saw him the next morning, he looked kinda tired. "Fabian, can I talk to you?" I asked. Fabian nodded and went into the hall, waiting for me to meet him. "Don't worry Nina. I won't try anything." I whispered into her ear. "I know. I trust you. Joy, not so much." she replied. I smirked.
I walked out into the hallway with Fabian and lead him into Jerome's room, knowing that Jerome and Alfie were both at breakfast. "Are you okay? You look beat." I asked, yawning myself. "Yeah. The spirit came into my dream last night though." he said, pulling up his sleeve. I sighed.
"Nina's going to kill you for keeping this from her. Then she'll kill me for keeping it from her." I said. I left the room, as did Fabian. I went back up to my room to get ready for school, having already eaten. Nina and Fabian came up not too far behind me.
"Hey, are you okay?" Nina asked. "Yeah. Just a bit tired. Didn't sleep much last night." I replied. "Worried about being a good mother to the baby?" Nina asked. I nodded, crawling back into bed. "Anyways, you should tell Fabian about last night." I yawned. "Last night? What happened last night?" Fabian asked. "This map was in a secret drawer under the dollhouse." Nina told him, taking it out.
"Looks like a sequence of tunnels." Fabian said. "And look at the Egyptian symbols." I whispered, already falling back to sleep. "That's the jackal mark." Fabian said. "Mark of Anubis." Nina and I corrected. "You think that's where the mask is hidden?" Fabian asked. Fabian then noticed me. "Hey, what's up? Nina, I dreamed about her last night. The spirit." Fabian said. I gave him the look that said don't lie to her.
"What did she say? Did she touch you? Do you have the mark? Look, this is all my fault." Nina said, panicking. "It's not your fault. Look, I probably only dreamed about her because we've talked about her so much." Fabian said, calming her down. I looked at him and shook my head. Thankfully, Nina was too focused on Fabian to notice. "So she didn't touch you?" Nina asked. "No." Fabian smoothly lied. "Oh thank goodness. You had me scared there." Nina said, relieved.
"So because you found the map under the dollhouse, you think that the mask is hidden under the house?" Fabian asked. I was sitting on one of the couches, trying not to fall asleep. "Yeah. I think so." Nina said. "Then how do we get to it?" Fabian asked as Amber came in. "Is that what I think it is?" Amber asked. "Um, a map? Yeah." Fabian said. "Yeah. I was gonna say love letter, but map's okay, I guess." Amber said. I very tiredly smirked. "No. Oh, oh." Fabian said, trying to stop her from looking at it.
"Especially when it's a treasure map! Sibuna!" Amber said. "Sibuwhat?" Victor said, walking into the doorway. "Sup, boo? I'm teaching them American slang. It means something along the lines of-" Nina started before Victor cut her off. "Uh, I really don't care what it means. Off to school, all of you. It's late." Victor said.
I go to get up, but end up falling over towards Fabian, who catches me just in time. "Sorry, she just didn't get enough sleep last night." Nina said, explaining for me. "Go try to get some sleep Ms. Anippe." he said. I sat down on the couch, waiting for them to go to school.
"Oh, Victor, we're recording narration for the school film and we think you'd be perfect." Fabian said. What is he planning? "Hmm, well I do fulfill all those criteria, I suppose. Very well, if you insist." Victor said, agreeing. "Great. I'll record you this lunchtime." Fabian said before Victor went out of the room. "Hmm. Way to go, boo." Amber said, playfully punching Fabian's shoulder. "Victor doing the voice over? Nice choice." Nina said. "While I'm recording Victor at lunch, you can check out the cellar." Fabian said. "The cellar?" Amber asked a bit too loudly for anyone's liking.
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