Nina closed the door to the house and sighed. Her Gran had died, and now everyone was treating her like she was a two year old. Her boyfriend was being all sweet, but she was used to that. She smiled slightly. But her housemates were treating her like she was some frail invalid. Her housemaster had even softened toward her. Her housemother was being herself, trying to comfort her, but giving her space to breathe in too.

"I just wish that they`d leave me alone."

She sighed with regret. She missed her Gran. She wanted Trudy to comfort her, but she knew that her housemother already had her hands full. Without thinking, Nina called out.

"Trudy, can you come here for a minute?"

Trudy ran up the stairs.

"What is it, sweetie?"

"I just wanted to know, have you ever lost somebody close to you?"

"Yes, I have. My parents."

"Do you understand when I say I feel so empty, incomplete?"

"Yes. I felt the exact same way. For a while, I simply wanted to join them. Go and be a spirit with them. I knew I was crazy, but I just felt so alone. They were the last of my family, and when they died, I just felt like ending my life."

"I feel like that."

"Don`t do it, though. Because you never know where the path God charted for you will take you next."

Nina hadn`t taken notice of her housemother`s religious views before. She hadn`t taken enough notice of Trudy herself.

"Thanks for that, Trudy. You are a mother to me. Mothers are angels without wings."

She hugged her housemother, careless of who might be watching her.

Nina somehow felt like she was hugging her own mother, as Trudy gave her a gentle squeeze, then tenderly lifted Nina onto her lap.

"Trudy, do you think that I might be a mother to a child like you are to me some day?"

"I don`t doubt it. But, Nina, please choose somebody who`ll look after you and treat you with proper respect."

"I will do, Trudy. I will do."

They sat in a hug, until Amber ran in.

"Nina, why on God`s earth are you sat hugging Trudy, of all people to hug?"

"Because I want to! She`s like the mum I don`t have, Amber! Your mum runs a business in London. My mum runs a business in Heaven!"

"So what?"

"So what? Amber Millington, you are such a blonde!"

Trudy gasped, knowing Nina was calling her best friend stupid.

"Yes I am. I am a blonde."

"And a complete dumb blonde at that!"

"Oh, that is it!"

Nina and Amber pounced on each other, while Trudy tried to pull them apart.

"No, no, girls... Ow!"

One of them had accidentally hit Trudy.

"Oh, no, don`t hit each other!"

Trudy succeeded in getting between them.

"OK! You are young women, not toddling street boys! No fighting!"

Amber yelled "Get out of the way, old lady, or else you`ll end up injured too!"

Nina screamed "Don`t you lay a finger on Trudy!"

Then a dark figure came in to the room...

Cliffie! So, what do you think? Here are couples I`m putting in:

Jara

Peddie

Amfie

Moy

Fabina.

If you want any fights, just review with which pair or group you want fighting. If you want any other couples, just tell me in a P.M. or review. Whichever suits you. Until next update, Random Dizzy. :D