She stepped out of the taxi and wheeled her case to Anubis House. Joy overwhelmed her, she was home. Opening the door she said, "Hello, anybody home? It's me...Nina." "Oh hello sweetie." Trudi said squeezing Nina with a hug. "It's so good to see you." "It's great to be home Trudi." Nina replied. "Is anybody else here yet Trudi?" "Yes sweetie, there all through there." Trudi said pointing at the door leading into the living room.

She opened the door and poked her head around the door to see Eddie and Patricia snuggling on the sofa, a girl sitting next to them. Then on the other chair Alfie, Jerome and another girl, and then on the two single chairs Joy and Mara. "Hi." Nina smiled as she walked through the door. "OMG Nina." Filled the room as everyone rushed to great her back with a hug. The girl that was sitting next to Eddie and Patricia introduced herself as KT and the one that was by Alfie as Willow. "It's so good to see you, how was your flight?" Eddie asked. "Yeah it was good. Yours?" "I flew over with KT so it was alot better than been on my own." Eddie replied. "Where's Fabian?" Nina asked with a smile on her face. Everyones faces slowly dropped as they sat back down awkwardly. Patricia began, "Um, he's..." She was cut off by Fabian walking through the door. "Fabian." He looked at Nina as he heard her voice, the voice he spent a year without hearing, a year missing. He turned around and ran to his room. "Fabian wait." Nina ran after him. "Well, it's never dull around here." Patricia said. "Patricia don't be mean." Mara said with a worried look towards the door.

Nina burst through the door to see Fabian sitting on his bed. "Fabian, what's wrong?" Nina asked. "What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG? HOW CAN YOU EVEN ASK THAT! YOU LEFT NINA. WITHOUT SAYING GOODBYE. WITHOUT EVEN A PHONE CALL!" "Fabian, I..." "DONT! DONT SAY ANYTHING. DONT SAY SORRY OR ASK FOR ME TO FORGIVE YOU BECAUSE ITS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN, NINA. NOT EVER." Fabians face turned red and Nina began to cry. "NINA I'VE MOVED ON SO GET OUT!" Nina left the room in tears and ran back into the living room and gave Mara a hug. "Mara I don't understand. Fabian was so mean. I've never seen him like that before. I knew he would be mad but," she cried some more, "He said he moved on." Mara felt so bad. "Mara, why don't you explain to Nina how 'moved on' Fabian actually is." Jerome sniggered and Alfie laughed. "Jerome." Mara and Joy say together with Joy elbowing him in the side. "Ow." Nina pulled away from Mara. "What does he mean?" Everyone was silent. "Mara? What's Jerome talking about?" As she asked that, Fabian walked back into the room. Everyone was staring. "Nina there's something you should know." Mara said before walking over to Fabian and sliding her hand into his. "Me and Fabian are more than friends. We've been dating for a couple of months now." Before Nina or anyone else could say anything the door burst open and in came flying three girls and a lad who ran straight to the buffet. "Alfie hey how was summer?" The lad said. "It was great Dex, what bout yours?" "Amazing, my mom perfected an mouth watering fudge cake. To die for." He turned to Nina, "Hey whose this?" "Um, Nina." She said without taking her eyes off Fabian and Mara. "Well I'm Dexter, this is my girlfriend Erin and then there's Cassie and Sophia. It's our first year here." "Well, this place will diffidently keep you on your toes." "Oh we know, we were here for graduation. It was SO cool." "Yeah Eddie filled me in over summer." She replied. Then Nina turned to Trudi who was in the kitchen, "Are we still in our old room?" "Yeah sweetie." "We?" Alfie asked. "Yeah. Ambers coming back." She started to leave the room before turning to Alfie, "Oh, and when you finally get round to telling Amber about you and Willow be gentle." And with that she left the room.

"There back Corbiere." Victor stroked the stuffed bird. "Even Nina Martin." He stared at her running up the stairs through his office window. "And to top it off, he's coming, not only to this school, but to Anubis House."

"I'M HOME!" Amber sang as she walked through the front doors. "Amber." Patricia and the others ran into the hallway and hugged Amber. "Where's Nina?" Amber asked before she saw Nina come running down the stairs and embraced her with a hug. "Omg, I'm so sorry I couldn't fly over with you it's just my dad was working and I had to see my mom and my Gran and" She hit her forehead, "Nina I'm sorry, I wasn't thinking." Nina gave her a look that made her realise that she hadn't told anyone. Everyone looked at her confused. "You know with you been away from your Gran and obviously missing her." Amber said as they walked to the table for dinner. "Thanks." Nina whispered as she sat down next to Amber at the table.

"So what've I missed?" Amber asked as they started to eat their spaghetti. "Fabian and Mara are dating, oh and so are Alfie and Willow." Jerome blurted out. Amber spat out her spaghetti and started coughing. "Wow, so alot." She said looking at Nina. Patricia noticed that there were two spare chairs around the table. "Hey, Trudi whys there extra chairs?" "Oh, we have two new student starting. Seth and Bastet." Alfie laughed, "Bastet what sort of a name is that." "What sort of a name is that?" Patricia said. "What would be even more funny if her surname is..." "He hem." Victor coughed as he walked into the room followed by a girl, a boy and a woman. "Everyone, this is Bastet and Seth." The woman looked at Victor. "And my sister, Linda Rodenmaar." Everyone around the table started laughing. "Did you say sister?" Eddie asked. "Yes Mr Miller, my sister." "Please tell me she's doesn't have a stuffed bird called Cambiere because that would just be..." "MR LEWIS." They all tried not to laugh as Victor left the room. "So you're the famous Anubis students." Linda said as she sat at the table. Bastet sat in the seat next to her. "Do you want me to get you a spare chair sweetie?" Trudi asked Seth. He looked at her for a moment, then at Bastet. "He's alright." Bastet answered, "I think he'd rather just go to his room if that's alright." He walked out the room following Trudi. "He seems nice." Alfie smirked. "I'm sorry about my nephew, he's still not happy about been here." "So why are you here?" Amber asked. "Suttle Amber." Patricia said. "You're the new English teacher right?" Eddie asked. "Yes I am, how did you know that?" Linda asked. "My dad's the principle here, Mr Sweet." Eddie answered sipping his drink. "Wow, your dad's the principle. Harsh." Bastet said putting spaghetti into her bowl before eating a mouthful. "And, er, how is it that you know Linda?" Patricia asked. "She's my mom." She muttered staring at her bowl of food.

After dinner Linda left and the students started to get ready for bed. "Nina I'm sorry about Mara and Fabian. And for what it's worth he's an idiot." Amber said to Nina who was sitting on her bed. "Thanks Amber." Nina tried to smile, but failed. There was a knock on the door. It was Trudi and Bastet. "Oh, hey Truds what's up?" Amber asked putting on her moisturiser. "Girls Bastet will be rooming with you this year so I'll leave you all to get settled. Night." She said as Trudi left the room. Bastet stood by the door for a minute before walking over to the spare bed. "So, Bastet. That's a strange name." Amber said. "Amber." Nina glared at her. "What it is." "Look, just because the three of us are going to be rooming together, does NOT mean that we're gonna be friends. Understand." Bastet said before getting into bed and going to sleep. "Well this is gonna be fun." Amber said as her and Nina joined Bastet and went to sleep.

Nina couldn't sleep so she got up and snuck down stairs to get a glass of milk. She couldn't help but think of her Grand. Her Gran. She missed her so much, her smile, her laugh, her smell. Nina's thoughts were interrupted by Seth coming into the kitchen. "Hi." Nina said to him. "You couldn't sleep either hu?" He just stood there. "Do you want some milk?" She asked him handing him the carton. He smiled as her took it and poured himself a glass. "So do you actually know how to talk or are you just on mute?" Seth laughed. "Sorry I'm just not good with strangers." He answered. "If you're not good with strangers then how'd you make new friends. It must be pretty lonely, without friends." "It's not that bad." She raised her eyebrow at him. "I have Bas so I'm not that bothered." "Yeah, she just seems like a barrel of laughs." "Sarcasm, really," They both laughed. "So how you finding rooming with Eddie and Fabian?" Nina asked. "Um, it's. Well I don't really know them. So tell me about them. What're they like?" "Well, Eddie is one of the best mates you could ever have. He's a great listener ands always honest and give the best advice." "What about the other dude? Fabian?" "Fabian's well Fabian. He's sweet, kind, thoughtful. Well he is to people he likes anyway." "I'm sensing there's history." "Yeah we dated." "For how long?" "A couple of months. The first year I was here we were best mates and we started dating at the end of the school year. But the second year I was here we broke up, around Christmas time." "What happened?" "Before we started dating we were best friends and while we were dating we were" "Best friends?" "Yeah. You can't be dating and best friends." "So what happened?" "At the end of my second yeah we got back together. But things got complicated over the summer and I didn't come back last year." "So whys he so mad?" "I told him in a letter. And broke up with him." "Oh." "Yeah. It was harsh of me." "Hey don't beat yourself up. He'll get over it. Besides if he doesn't I can just beat him up." They both laughed. "Thanks Seth." Nina said before saying goodnight and going back to bed. Seth went back to his room and got back into bed. He couldn't get her out of his mind.