Fourth King of The Fourth Kings

Chapter 4

   I walk out of the staff room straight pass my dad. I see him eyeing me as I make my way to the Egyptian exhibit. I ignore the feeling of coldness I got from his state focusing on Ahk. I stop when I see him sitting in front of the tablet, staring at it. I walk slowly and the Medjay use their staffs to block me from coming in. "daeha tadakhul" he roars to the statues and they move aside. I slowly walk next to him and sit down, staring at the tablet too. "Why are we staring at it?" I whisper. He chuckles. "I'm not sure, I've always found it to be fascinating." He looks at me. "You've come with a purpose Ms. Jane" he says with a grin. I take a deep breath. "Yes I have. I wanted to tell you something" I say. I start feeling my courage slip away from my. My hands shake and I can feel a bit of sweat building up on them. While I'm looking down at my hands I see Ahk take one of them into his. "You can tell me anything" he whispers. I meet his stunning brown eyes. He has a smile that can make a million girls swoon.
   "I like you Ahk." I say. "Well I like you to Ms. MJ. Is that really what you had to say?" He says leaning a bit back. I don't think he fully understood. I laugh a bit and sigh. "No Ahk. I mean I like you, more than a friend." I rephrase. He is silent for a second and he starts to smile, he takes both of my hands and faces more towards me. He looks into my eyes, they are so hypnotizing. He moves a strand of hair from my face. His brings my hands to his lips and gently kisses them. His soft lips. Lips that I thought would be cold are actually human warm. I want to feel them on mine.

   "I like you too MaryJane" he says with flushes cheeks. He lets go of my hands and moves them to my face, cupping it. He pulls me gently and slowly closer to him. We both closer our eyes and I can feel his breath on my lips. "Ahkmenrah." My dad says with anger. Ahk quickly stands up with worry on his face and he backs away. The Medjay's can sense my dads threatening essence and point their staffs at my dad. He stops and backs away. The get closer to him and one scratches my dad with the end of the staff. "yatarajaeu!" Ahk screams, and they kneel down with their staffs straight up. My dad stomps through to me. "Let's go MaryJane. Now." He roars and grabs my arm. Ahk looks at me with sad eyes. He looked defeated and we were. He drags me back to the staff room. "You've done it now. I guess I'll have to take this into my own hands." He says leaving the room and slamming the door. I growl and throw a cup I saw in the counter at the wall and it shatters. Why is he controlling my life like this?! Why won't he let me be happy?!
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Ahkmenrah's POV:
I watch as Larry drags her away. Why is he so threatened by me? Does he not like me? I thought we have gotten along, I've never done any harm. I've just fallen for his daughter... I gather myself and walk to apologize to Larry. I see him sitting at the desk writing things down in a binder. He sees me and looks straight back down to the book. I walk up to the desk and cough slightly. "Mr. Daley. I would like to apologize for courting your daughter. If you would like me to stay away I will do that." I say. The last part hurt to say but I just don't want her to have a bad relationship with her father. Her being happy is all I want. He puts the binder down and nods. I knew it was him forgiving me and I also took it as my cue to leave. I walk back to my exhibit and stare back at my tablet in thought.
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Sometime passes and I hear voices talking not so far from the area. I go closer towards the archway to listen. It sounded like Larry and Nicky. "Why would we give Ahk away?!" Nicky says. I peek my eyes over to confirm it was them and I listen even closer. "I know MJ and I know Ahk. I don't want them together but unless we move him to the museum in England they won't stay away from each other." Larry says. He sound's disappointed but he is also taking this too far. I make myself present. But then I see the light starting to show "Ahk.." Larry says. But I fall to the ground going back to sleep.
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MaryJane's POV:
    I spent most of the day in my bed crying about Ahk. I never even got to say a proper goodbye. I doubt my dad will want me to go back to work at the museum, and I think Ahk respects my dad so much that he would follow his wishes. I hear a knock at my door and see Nicky coming in. "What do you want" I groan and turn over. He frowns at my puffy eyes and tired look. "I need to tell you something." He says sitting at the edge of my bed. He leans his elbows in his knees and looks down at the floor in, what? Guilt? "What's going on Nick?" I say sitting next to him. He sighs and rubs his hand over his mouth. "I told dad I wouldn't tell you this... but I feel too guilty." He stands up and faces me with his hands in his pockets. "Dad moved Ahkmenrah and his exhibit to the British History Museum in England... he did it to separate you and him..." he explains with a said look on his face.

    I'm in absolute shock. I'm so angry. I'm so confused. I'm sad. I'm mixed with so much negative emotion that I feel like I'm gonna explode. I couldn't hold it and my fist flies to the wall leaving a hole. Nicky jumps and looks at me sadly. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner" I turn around to look at him. I try to steady my breath before I try to speak. "We need to follow them" I say. "I'll get us tickets to a flight to England, we gotta get Ahk back." I say and grab my laptop.
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Nicky and I head to the airport with our tickets to board the flight to England. We make it through security and are sitting on the plane. We have over 7 hours to pass and most of the time I'm sitting thinking of Ahk. "You ok?" I look over to Nicky who is giving me a sympathetic smile. I sigh. "Yeah I guess so. I just miss him.." I say looking out the airplane window. Nicky rubs my back soothingly and continues in playing his game. I look down at my lyric note book and think of a way to not only convince my dad to let me be with Ahk but something for him too.
I begin to write.