Impossible; House of Anubis (B1)

[58] House of Sting

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When Camilla joked the 'special date' would be prom night she didn't actually mean it, though of course, it was actually the date of the prom causing her to hate herself for putting that out into the universe as a joke to bite her in the ass.  So on top of Prom and all the stress that was going to be – cos she still lived with Amber – they had to worry about Rufus and the teachers trying to put the cup together. How she was going to manage that in heels Camilla had no clue.

When Camilla explained this to Fabian during study hall, after he had shown her the Star alignments of Isis and Osiris, the boy couldn't help but burst out laughing at how genuinely worried she seemed to be mainly about the heel's situation over everything else. One of the many things he loved about his sister was how with everything they were dealing with, and the high stakes of it all, something as small as wearing heels to defeat evil was what had her the most worried.

Fabian was actually wiping tears from his eyes (both twins ignoring the odd looks from the people around them as Camilla threw a pillow at her twin knowing he was laughing about her worry about walking in heels) as a very angry sounding Amber came into the room on the phone, "I don't care! I paid for next day delivery and it hasn't arrived! If you ruin my prom I swear I'll... Okay, I'll hold." Amber looked at the Sibuna club in exasperation as she settled herself down to wait for whoever was on the other end of the phone.

"Okay," Nina started up as the twins finally stopped mucking about, "I'm just worried about keeping the puzzle pieces safe until after the chosen hour."

"I know..." Fabian agreed as he stood up, holding a hand to help Camilla up and the two made their way around the couch so they made a wee Sibuna huddle, "it's fine carrying them around with us but, what if the teachers organise another bag search or something."

"We all know how Victor loves those," Camilla added with a sigh, rubbing at her collarbone through her shirt.

Patricia seemed to get an idea as she gasped, "Leave that with me," she told them all with a smile, "I've got an idea."

"What is it?" Nina asked softly but Patricia looked pointedly behind Nina and refused to speak on the subject.

"I'll tell you later okay?" Patricia said stiffly, causing the rest of them turned to see Jerome had just wandered into the room.

"Tell her what?" Jerome demanded.

"The less people that know the better," Patricia was instantly on the defence as she crossed her arms and glared at Jerome. Clearly, she hadn't forgiven him for snooping even if he had given them some useful information, you know, the day and the time. "loose lips." She added to pointedly back up that fact.

"I have told you," Jerome argued back pointing his finger at Patricia, "I am going nowhere near Rufus ever again." Just as he said that his phone started to ring, and it didn't take two guesses for any of the Sibuna's to figure out who was texting him. "Speak of the devil," Jerome hissed as he looked at the caller ID. "Literally, I'm surprised my phone didn't burst into flames."

"What's he saying?" Alfie asked from beside Jerome.

Jerome read the message before his face paled, "it's not repeatable." Was all he muttered before putting his phone back in his pocket and Camilla leant over to Fabian and whispered.

"I bet it the process of mummification," Camilla whispered to her brother, "Rufus's favourite way to kill someone."

"Shhh!" Fabian told his sister but the grin on his face gave away he found the idea highly amusing.