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Egypt. The pyramids all around me as I walk with my friends to the one in front of us. The sun is setting and turning the mood blood red. The sky grows darker and darker until its pitch black. Luckily Chloe, one of my friends to the right of myself, has a bright flashlight in her hand, to the left of me, Lana and her boyfriend stand to the side, holding hands, being a couple. I ignore them. We approached the pyramid in front of us, taking our time to walk as such. “Well we finally made it.” Chloe said. “We did. We did.” I said. “Let’s go in!” A boy farthest from Chloe would say. I turned my head. “Alright if you want too.” I say blushing. “Well I don’t want to go in, looks stupid.” Lana said, taking her boyfriend and walking off. “I hope you get eaten by something!” Chloe and I would scream back at her. “Damn what a f**.” The boy would say. We both giggled.
As we go into the opening that no one else seemed to ever find before. A giant hallway engraved with hieroglyphics with a big door blocking any entry farther then 10 yards. There were four open rooms, two on each side. “Wow this is freaky….” I said, looking over to Chloe and the boy. They both smile. “I like it. This is cool.” She started to walk over to the door. The boy got there first, his hair flowing backwards as he walked faster then Chloe. Chloe was surprised. “There’s English on here, it says we need 4 keys for each door, one from every room. There are ten doors. Use all the keys for the very last, grand door.” He read word for word. His voice made my heart flutter. But I had no idea why. “Well let’s start.” He said. I walked into the first room. It was full of dust, spider webs, and little pots and things. Things to eat on sleep on, and other Egyptian things you would see in museums. It was weird, but I started looking on the floor, in the pots, and under and over things. “Found it!” The boy yelled. “Got one too!” Chloe said after. They both went to the last room. I still could find mine. I got on my hands and knees and looked around, shuffling dust and dirt all around. I sneezed once. Finally I found one. It looked like a piece of rusted metal, but in the shape of an old fashion key. “Got the last one!” The boy and Chloe yelled. I walked over to them at the door. We put all four keys into the door, and turned them one by one. The door we came in from shut closed hard and fast, and the one in front of us slowly opened through the middle, and slid sideways into the walls. “Cool.” We all said, and started walking through the open doors.

There were 9 other rooms exactly like the first. We found one after the other of the same keys, and we were determined to get the last door open. The door was grand, and as tall and wide as the walls and ceiling around and above it. The last room hallway was giant. Bigger then any houses walls could ever dream of. The door was also beautiful beyond words. “Well the last door.” I would say, looking back at Chloe and him. “Sure is.” He would say, smiling at me. I blush, looking into the front room. “Well I got this room.” I suggest, walking to the room I had my eye on. He comes from behind me and holds my hand. Trying to hide my face I ask, “What?” … “Let me come with you this time.” He would say, holding my waste. We walk into the room alone, leaving Chloe to search the other room diagonal from it. She seemed she could care less about it. The room we walked into was huge, and just as dirty as all the others, the floor was wooden boards stacked on one another, and shelved as tall as the wall was, covered in webs and dust. But broken pots filled the slots. It looked almost wonderful. I moved over to touch one as he let go of my body. Turning away from him, I started stroking the broken artifacts, mystified as almost in a trance to how wonderful they felt, and made me feel. Almost as instantly as I felt that, I suddenly found myself pinned to the ground, feeling new warmth wash over me. I look up. “Wha…?” I ask, but cut off by the sudden intake on pressure on my mouth. Thinking straight I suddenly relies it’s him, pinning me to the fragile floor boards. I manage to push him away for a moment. “What are you doing?” I ask confused. “What you want me to do, I can hear your thoughts, you love me, and frankly, I love you more then you know.” He says, licking the back of my jaw and neck. I shiver under him. “Please stop.” I ask, pushing up on his chest. He doesn’t move, or stop. “No…please, let me.” He pleads. As he moves to the bottoms on my shirt, a sudden shout comes from the room. Managing to find the key quincidently sitting next to us, I grab it and shove him off as hard as I could, even though it hurt. He flew off and landed at his side, clawing up to follow me. I run to the nose.

Standing at the doorway, I become to scared to move, there, hanging from a hole in the floor, the shape of a square, as though one of the dirty tiles had fallen through in the room, was Chloe hanging for her life from a pit of black. I look over to her. “Help me.” She asks. I walk over to her. “Its alright, I’ll get you, your going to be fine.” I reach out my hand for her. “No, it’s too late. He’s already yours; you’ve shared your thoughts with him. There’s no point in me being here.” And with that, she lets herself fall. Tears rolling down my face, I look over to the boy standing in the doorway behind me. He looked terrified. “Well,” I say. “Here’s the key…” I say, finding what she had dropped. “Now please, go to the other room, and find the key, I’ll go in the one next to this one.” I stand. “Let me come.” He asks, trying to follow me. “No, go!” I say, and run into the other room.
Placing all the keys into the door, I looked over to him. “Ready?” I ask, placing my hands onto the door. “Ready as I ever will be.” He says, eyeing me up and down. I roll my eyes. “Its your fault Chloe died.” I say, and push the door open.

On the other side of door, it’s something we didn’t even dream of ever being there. We walk into a huge room, the size of the room we came out of in Egypt, but the floor, walls, and ceiling were covered in an ash gray tile. To the front there was a giant mask, like the one on pharos coffins, but much, much larger then life sized ones, sat on the wall. Bellow it was a stand with golden letters carved into it, describing it, and an example picture. Dazzled, I look around the room more. On either side of the wall, there are four glass cases with ancient treasures in them, also having description plates under them. There were two like that sitting in the middle of the floor. Baffled, I look over to him. He looks as confused as I am. We walk, holding hands, through the room.
As we got to the very back wall, farthest away from the door we came from, I turned back, and there was no door, but clearly a line through the middle of the wall, stating that there is something to push there. There were also displays there, as though the door is not supposed to be there. “This way.” He says, pulling me to the left, were a short hallway with the same tiles line the walls, but cuts off into a wooden, gift shop area. Confused, we walk into it. People conjoin in this area, so much its hard to walk hand in hand. There are big glass doors that show desert area all around it. Daylight is certain here and above it, it states “Welcome to California.” Confused I look around. Nothing is on sale, and I couldn’t understand what people were holding up, talking about, or looking at. It was all invisible to me. He comes back and tells me we should leave. I nod in agreement. Walking back to the room we were in, there were no people to be seen, and we walk back through the big door we came into. Walking out of the pyramid, we stand on the sand with bear feet, and look up at the night sky. “Well, that was an adventure.” I say, tears rolling down my face. He looks up to the sky as well. “It sure was.” He agrees, taking my hand.