A/N I don't really expect people to read this as I know House of Anubis isn't very popular nowadays, but once upon a time this show was so important to me so I make sure to rewatch it every year. This year, during my rewatch, I started to look up fanfiction for Fabina (the first couple I ever shipped) but I couldn't find anything I really liked. So I figured I should write something myself. So this story is more for myself than for anyone else but if someone out there is reading this and is a hardcore Fabina shipper, like yours truly, please review and help me improve!

Fabian POV

Three hours later, I'm still in the library, cramming for the Egyptian Hieroglyphics exam tomorrow. Why did I take this class again?

I used to be so passionate about this stuff, I used to be a walking, talking, Ancient Egyptian encyclopaedia. But all that has seeped away. I'm not sure why. Maybe because I'm learning about all this stuff, not actually living it, unlike at Anubis. But "just learning" about something has never quenched my excitement before.

I guess I've lost my enthusiasm because... God, it's so pathetic I can hardly admit it to myself. But, though this is the kind of college course I always wanted to study, I'm at this university, half a world away from my family and friends because of my blind hope.

Nina had told me a long time ago that this is where she wanted to study, Columbia University, in New York. She also told me that this is the course she wanted to take. So I had built up my expectations so high, I was sure we'd meet again here. But alas. We have not.

Classes started 3 months ago and there's no trace of her. She could be here and we just keep missing each other, but it's seeming unlikely.

Anyway.

I think the reason I'm not loving the "college experience" as much as I should is because it's not what I'm expecting. I was expecting Nina and a happy ever after. Not a huge hieroglyphics exam worth 25% of my final grade.

I've come to the conclusion that the book I'm studying from is just far too complicated. I'm going to go to the Ancient Civilisations section of the library to find a new book.

I turn the turn to go to the section I'm looking for when I see the back of a girl, browsing the Egyptian section.

This is the first red flag, as I'm sure I'm the only student in this whole university who visits this section. I've never seen anyone else over here before.

The girl, probably around my own age, is carrying a pile of books that are taller than her head.

As she starts to turn around to go back to the main library, she understandably trips and her books fly everywhere.

I immediately get down on my hands and knees to help her gather her books when we both look up and face each other at the same time.

"Nina?"