Opposites Attract

Chapter One

I've always known opposites attract.

That's why Mick and my relationship worked so well. But, he wasn't my only opposite in the house. I didn't know that until it was too late, and she came and took him away. She was the reason it all happened. But I'm getting ahead of myself. I should probably get back to the beginning of the term.

"Oh sweeties! It's so good to have you all back!" Trudy exclaimed to everyone that was listening while bustling around in the kitchen.

Everyone just mumbled replies back, including me.

We were all put back in the same house and everything felt so familiar. Except for the fact my room was in the attic. I hadn't seen it yet, but no one had seen their rooms. We were all forced to stop and eat dinner by Trudy. Things were strangely quiet; usually it was so loud that I couldn't hear myself think, especially on the first day of a term.

After more silent eating, we finally finished and Victor shooed us off to our rooms so we could unpack and make his 10:00 curfew.

I was unsure about this whole my-room's-in-the-attic thing. What if something popped out and scared the crap out of me, like I don't know, Jerome and Alfie? At least I still had my wonderful boyfriend Mick to protect me, and beat the crap out of them if they did.

Slowly I opened the door. It creaked intimidatingly, but still opened. Suitcase in my hand, I started up the stairs, prepared for the worst.

It actually wasn't that bad. If I hung some curtains, and used a little paint, it could actually be kind of...comfortable I guess. I turned around to examine the rest of the room and stopped dead in my tracks.

"Trudy!" I called running down to the stairs.
"What's the matter?" she asked with concern etched on her face.
"Why is there another bed in my room?" I asked.
Relief flashed across her face, "Oh, Victor must have forgotten to tell you. You have a roommate that's new here. Her name is Heather and she's here on a scholarship. She seemed very nice when I met her a few weeks ago. Her plane from Wales must have gotten delayed. She should be here-" but Trudy was cut off by the sound of a doorbell, "about now! Excuse me, I better go get that."

I watched as Trudy opened the door and a girl a little taller than me walked in. She was skinny, had cold dark blue eyes, hair that was somewhere in between long and short that didn't look quite right. It was angled in and stick straight, but it looked somewhat glossy. She was wearing a headband with her hair in a messy bun, and she wore a baggy pink blouse with black leggings. She had that 'I'm-too-good-to-be-here' look on her face. Lucky me, I was stuck with her.

"Mara, dear, show Heather where your room is, then introduce her to everyone please."
"Sure thing Trudy," I replied trying to hide the sarcasm in my voice while turning to head up to my room, which I now shared with Heather.
"My name's Heather in case you didn't know," she said to me, trying to make conversation.
"I'm Mara," I said, which was followed by an awkward silence.
"So, where's my room at?"
"Our room is in the attic. The guys' rooms are on the first floor and the rest of the girls' are on the second floor. Mick and Fabian share, so do Jerome and Alfie, Nina and Amber, and then Patricia and Joy. Then our room is in the attic."
"Cool, when do I get to meet the others?"
"After you unpack. Victor has a curfew, and every night at 10:00 he makes a stupid speech about wanting to hear the pin in his coat pocket drop," which caused us both to giggle.

After about half an hour, we were both unpacked, and we had about an hour and a half left.

"Are you ready to meet the others?" I asked.
"Sure, I don't want to end up getting lost later."
"Okay follow me," I said as I lead her to Amber and Nina's room.

I knocked and waited for Amber or Nina to open it. Amber appeared an she had a confused look on her face when she saw Heather.

"Hi Mara and..." she trailed off.
"Heather," she filled in.
"Oh, nice to meet you. Nina, come here!" she called.
"What is it?" Nina asked coming over.
"This is Heather," I supplied.
"Um, hi I guess," Nina replied awkwardly.
"Heather's new here, and my roommate. She got here late and I thought I'd introduce her to everyone."
"Oh, well good to meet you. I'm Nina and this is Amber," Nina said motioning for us to come in.
"Nice Taylor Lautner poster," Heather said laughing.
Nina just blushed and Amber tried to stop Nina from blushing, "Don't be so shy Nina, it's not that weird. I used to have a picture of Taylor Lautner, but then I replaced it with a picture of David Beckham."

Heather and I both laughed. Maybe she wasn't THAT bad after all.

"I should probably show Heather around the house before curfew, see you Monday," I called turning to leave.
"So who are you going to introduce me to next?"
"Patricia and Joy, then I'll introduce you to the guys. There's Victor's office which is off limits unless you like getting yelled at."
"Thanks, I'll have to make a mental note of that," she said laughing.
"Well, here is Patricia and Joy's room," I paused and knocked, waiting for a reply.

"Mara, what is it? Joy and I are in the middle of a rom-com marathon. Oh, hi," Patricia slowed down and stopped yelling once she realized Heather was standing there.
"Patricia, this is Heather. She's my roommate and she wasn't here at dinner so that's why you didn't see her before," which was basically the same thing I said to Nina and Amber.

"Oh, hi Heather. I'm Patricia and that's Joy over there," Patricia explained, pointing to Joy who gave a shy wave.

"Since you guys are having a rom-com marathon we could do this tomorrow at school during lunch or something," Heather put in trying to make amends.

"Could we? That would be great. Thanks!" Patricia said as she closed the door to her and Joy's room.

"She's not usually like that…it's just that she hasn't seen Joy for a while and they're best friends," I said trying to assure that Heather and Patricia didn't get off to a rocky start. That definitely wouldn't be good…

"I don't mind. I can understand what that would be like."

"Well, do you want to go meet Mick and Fabian now?"

"Sure, they're downstairs, right?" she asked trying to remember what I had said earlier.

"Yeah, let's go."

We headed downstairs and as we turned I looked at the clock that Alfie broke (A/N: Remember, she doesn't know it was Fabian, so let's just say she heard Victor yelling at Alfie for breaking it) the previous year. We only had an hour left.

I knocked on Mick and Fabian's door. Mick opened it and kissed me on the cheek.

"This is Heather, my roommate, she got here late, and I'm showing her around. Heather, this is my boyfriend Mick, and Nina's boyfriend Fabian," Fabian seemed to blush when I said that.

Fabian extended his hand, "Nice to meet you Heather."

"We should probably go, it's almost 10:00 and she still hasn't met Alfie or Jerome, and we still aren't ready for bed," I said trying to avoid an awkward silence.

"See you around I guess," Fabian said followed by Mick kissing me on the cheek again and saying goodnight.

"I like Fabian, he seems nice," Heather said.

"You mean, like like? Because he is definitely Nina's."

"No, I mean like friend like. And no offence but Mick seems a little…"

"Yeah, he can be like that sometimes, but he's really sweet once you get to know him," I defended.

"I bet you really know him," she said jokingly.

"Oh shut up. Well, here is Jerome and Alfie's room. I can't guarantee that nothing will pop out at you or that you won't end up screaming. They enjoy pranking people and scaring the crap out of you."

"That's weird, I like to prank people," she must have seen my eyes get wide, because she said, "don't worry, I won't prank you, you're my friend."

"That's a relief. Anyway, here we are." I knocked on a door for hopefully the last time I would have to tonight.

"Hey Mara and alien girl," guess who opened the door.

"I prefer to be called Heather, but my real name is bleep bloop blop," I had to laugh at that, especially since Alfie had that I-knew-it look on his face.

"Jerome get over here! Mara brought an alien!"

"What are you going on about now Alfie?" Jerome asked in an annoyed voice walking over to the door.

"Jerome, this is Heather, my roommate. She got here late so that's why she wasn't at dinner. Heather, this is Jerome, and the one that called you an alien is Alfie."

"Oh, so now I'm referred to as 'The One That Called You an Alien?'" he asked looking hurt.

"Yes, you are, since you call people aliens," I retorted.

"Anyway, this is Heather and she's new here."

I don't know why, but I couldn't help but feel a pang of jealousy when Jerome and Heather's eyes connected. It seemed as if he liked her and she liked him. I knew they'd probably be a couple soon, but a weird emotion surfaced when I thought about that. I liked Mick, didn't I?

"Come on, we should probably be getting ready for bed," I said, desperate to get out of there.

A/N: Ok! First chapter done! Review and tell me what you think. And the reason they are all still in the same house is because the teachers in "The Society" didn't want to risk them spilling the secret to anyone else. I just came up with that. And also, I just watched an episode of The Suite Life on Deck, the one where there's the ghost on board, and I noticed that on his laptop it said JESSE BELLE but on the ghost's hat it said JESSIE BELLE. That and when they are looking at the recording, it's sped up but they say "innocent" at normal speed. I just thought that was kind of weird. And I don't own House of Anubis or The Suite Life on Deck. 5 reviews for chapter 2!

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