Force of Nature ▸ House of Anubis [3]

chapter thirty-seven. house of history

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            The rain drenched us all the way back to Anubis House. There was no way we were getting in to save them from whatever the adults were doing right now. I hadn't wanted to leave at first—my boyfriend and my best friend are in there for Anubis' sake!—but Eddie insisted we go back when we tried to get into the gatehouse, but the code had changed.

            Entering the kitchen through the door in the laundry, KT tells him pointedly, "Eddie, we can't just leave them there. Ashley, tell him!"

            "The keypad's changed," Eddie points out before I get a chance to put my two-cents in. "The cellar door is locked. Okay, what are we going to do, sit out in a rainstorm all night?"

            Fabian looks at him aghast. "If Alfie, Patricia, Jerome, and Joy are the descended, that means evil is—"

            "The adults can wake Frobisher-Smythe," Eddie interrupts, "and a terrible evil is unleashed. I know."

            "Okay. So let's go to Frobisher's office, go through his diaries."

            "This is no time for more study," KT retorts. "We're all in danger!"

            "Look, my dad's there, okay?" Eddie reminds us. I scoff, crossing my arms. The same dad that literally started a scholarship fund to get me, Jerome, Alfie, Patricia, and Joy into the school and into Anubis House, who stole the bracelet after setting KT and I up as distractions? "He wouldn't let anything bad happen."

            "He wouldn't let anything bad happen?!" I repeat sharply. "He's the freakin' Seeker, he's orchestrated this whole plot, Eddie! He's letting bad happen right now!"

            "Mr. Sweet is in this up to his neck," KT agrees with me. "We need to get them out of there before the ceremony happens."

            "Yeah, how?" Eddie questions. I glance at the others. I don't have a clue of how we get in there to rescue them before the eclipse. "I will think of something, all right?"

            "The eclipse is tomorrow," KT reminds him. "Can you please think faster?"

            "Look, arguing is getting us nowhere," Fabian interjects as Eddie opens his mouth to retort. "I say we go to the antechamber. Maybe he left us a clue, something that can help us, anything."

            "I'm with Fabian," I add. "We can't get them out of the gatehouse right now. Frobisher's left us a lot of clues in the past, so... let's go."

            Eddie reluctantly sighs. "Yeah, it's worth a shot." He glances over to KT, whose eyes are on her phone as she quickly types something on it. "Who are you texting?"

            KT looks up. "Alfie and Patricia. Someone needs to tell them who they really are."

            "Yeah, good call."