A flash of blond hair and black shirt ran after Spencer just as Nate started to lay back down.

"Spencer get back here!" Juliette yelled,running past her cousin a flash of blond hair trailing behind her. She ran up the stairs and around the corner,almost tripping on the top step as she did so. Seeing her cousin holding what he stole,she rolled her eyes and sped up,determined to catch the little miscreant. However,the 11 year old forgot to account for the carpet under her feet. The carpet got jumbled up under her,and she crashed to the floor with a thud,her hair in her face and banging her right knee in the process.

Juliette got up and walked to the wall,breathing heavily,both out of anger and because she was getting tired of running.

"Let me in!" Juliette kicked the wall,as if expecting that to do something,although of course nothing happened,and the young girl slumped down,sitting on the mahogany floor.

After a couple of minutes just sitting their,waiting for something to happen,Juliette was reminded that she needed to speak to Nate about something. Slowly getting up off the floor;for she was comfortable the way she was,she sent one more kick to the wall before sneaking back down the hallway she just came and down the stairs,eyes on Nate the whole time. Seeing as he was sleeping,she walked in front of him,bouncing up and down on her toes as she waited for him to wake up.

Juliette flinched back after being slapped. Her lower lip wobbled and she sent her best glare at him, which didn't seem to do much.

"I just wanted to ask you a question!" She yelled, covering the red mark that was forming over her right cheek. The eleven year old walked away, trying to force little tears back into her eyes. Seriously, how much could one person overreact?

Juliette was about halfway across the room (the couches where on the far wall) when she felt a strange tickling sensation. She started giggling uncontrollably, even though she was trying to be mad at her cousin.

I hate you!" She giggled, the words losing their effects with her laughter. "You're evil!" She yelled, still chuckling at the feeling.

As the spell hit Juliette,she stopped laughing and lay on the floor for a second,catching her breath before she got up and followed behind to the door.

"The basement?" The blond asked. She was never allowed down there, in fact when Thomas watched her he wouldn't even let her stand too close, but she heard some stories about the place,and it sounded exciting. Terrifying of course, but exciting none the less. Her green eyes grew wide in excitement and she started to fidget now, the explorer in her taking over.

"Are we going down there?" Juliette asked looking up at her cousin .

Alexa walked up to the door of a house she had never been to before. Her father said the kid who lived her invited her over and well she liked meeting people so it should have been fine. She knocked on the door then waited for a response.

"Looks like somones here. Ramsy! Get the door." He called for his house elf.

"Ok sir." The house elf said walking up the stairs to get to the door. Ramsy then opened the door. "Ahhh Ms. Cambridge. My masters were expecting you. Come in. They were just about to go down to the basement." The house elf said welcoming the new guest.

Lex looked down at the house elf with a smile. She didn't have one personally but she thought they were pretty neat. "That sounds fun," She said as she walked through the front door and entered the first room of the house. She looked back at the elf. "What's in the basement?"

"I couldn't say because even I don't know." the house elf replied closing he door, and following her down the steps.

"We're in here." Nate said as he heard the guest entering the house.

Alexa walked down the steps when she heard a voice calling from the basement. "Oh, hi there." She greeted when she got to the bottom.

Juliette grew more excited at the sight of the key, and found it hard not to squeal. The skeleton key allowed Nate to get into any room in the entire house, even the rooms that where locked with charms and spells. She wasn't going to try and get the key off of Nate, because she knew she wasn't going to come out well in the end if she did, but she never seen one of them before, and it was a little exciting.

"Cool!" Juliette whispered in her softest voice.

Alexa looked from the boy to the girl he had said was his cousin then back again. She gave them both a smile. "Hi there, the name's Alexa" Then she listened as he talk about a chimaera and some kind of door. Ooo, this seemed interesting enough! "Alright, lead the way."

Juliette smiled up at the visitor, waving slightly in an awkward way.

"Hi Alexa! I'm Juliette. Welcome!" She smoothed her hair and bent over to tie her shoe, which always seemed to come undone no matter what the case. Her fingers moved quickly, tying her laces into a triple knot that looked virtually indestructible. Nodding to Nate to signal him to move forward, she looked excitedly at the two other people.

Juliette nodded as she walked in, following behind Alexa and trying to stand on her tip toes so she could get a better look. However, the surprise was well worth it when she entered the dusty room.

"Woah." Her mouth shaped itself into the single word, but no sound came out, Juliette being careful not to awaken the creature in case it attacked. She looked at Nate for the next move, watching intently to see what he was going to do with the chimera.