Force of Nature ▸ House of Anubis [3]

chapter sixty. house of phonographs

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            KT's all right, thank God. Fabian and Eddie heard her screaming in the middle of the night and found her in the closet in the main entrance hall—actually, they found her underneath the closet in the main entrance hall. Somehow, and she can't remember how, she ended up locked in there and fell through the floorboards, and, wait for it, right into our secret room. But Fabian and Eddie didn't get a chance to go down and explore it, for two reasons: 1) KT wouldn't let them for some reason and 2) Victor heard commotions and ordered them back to their rooms.

            So I was incredibly relieved to see KT alive and well this morning, but what she tells us about the secret room is, well... a bit creepy. She said there was someone down there, and that's when she started screaming and Fabian and Eddie found her.

            "Frobisher?" Eddie questions at breakfast. It's just Sibuna for now.

            "It looked like him," KT confirms dreadfully.

            "And he spoke?" Fabian asks.

            KT nods, and Alfie asks, "What'd he say?"

            "He said 'stop,'" she answers.

            "Stop?" I repeat curiously. Why would Frobisher tell her to stop? I mean, I get him not wanting us to get into the secret room (considering the guillotine placed there by persons unknown/kind of known), but... just telling her to stop? That doesn't make any sense.

            "See," Alfie says, "I, for one, am willing to take that advice."

            "And then he just—" Patricia looks over at KT with confusion, waving her hands around, "—he just disappeared?"

            "No, I disappeared," KT corrects. "I pushed up against the back wall until Eddie and Fabian showed up. He just seemed to disappear into the darkness."

            Right. Well... that's not worthy of a Stephen King novel at all.

            Eddie comfortingly puts his arm around KT and asks her, "You okay to go back in?" And I don't miss the look Patricia gives—her jealousy problem's just getting worse and worse, isn't it? Not to mention Eddie's problems with her being friendly with Ben. What's going on with them lately?

            "With you guys?" KT says, looking at all of us. "Yeah."

            "After school," Fabian states.

            "Agreed," I remarked. After school, we go down into the secret room and face whatever waits for us down there.

            Eddie shakes his head. "Before. Sooner rather than later, remember?"

            Before I get a chance to say anything (and what would I have said? He's using my own words against me) Joy and Willow come in. It's Joy who speaks, "Uh, hello, people, where's Letdown?" Oh. Oh, crap. I send a wide-eyed look to Fabian and Alfie, who return it with their own looks. How are we gonna get out of this one? "Mara's gonna kill me."