"Great idea Fabian, come sit next to me and we can talk about it." Joy cheered as she pulled Fabian down next to her for dinner.
"What's for dinner?" Eddie asked as he walked into the dining room snacking on chips. Vera snatched the chips out of his hands as she placed the potato's in the center of the table. I glared at Fabian and Joy who seemed to be having fun.
"You can sit here if you want?" I asked Eddie in my most flirtatious voice. I saw Fabian look at me through the corner of my eye.
"I would love to." Eddie sat next to me. You had to admit he was quite good looking.
"You do realize he eats with his mouth open?" Patricia groaned.
"He burps too." Fabian added.
"There is so much love here my hearts about to burst." Eddie said sarcastically.
I laughed, it was pretty funny. I'm sorry Fabian, but he is cute, he has that bad boy edge, but I think he can be sweet.
"So Nina, I notice you have an American accent, when did you move here?" Eddie asked.
"One year ago." I told him. Eddie scooched his chair closer to me. I couldn't help, but see Fabian not pay a single piece of attention to me and Eddie; he looked to into what Joy was saying.
"You know, for a boarding school girl, you actually really pretty." Eddie whispered to me.
"Stop it." I couldn't help but giggle, still nothing. Amber was talking to Alfie about what to wear to the masquerade, Mara was chatting with Jerome about a debt or something, and Joy and Fabian were laughing away.
"Really, your pretty, and Fabians stupid to have broken up with you." Eddie admitted, he was now the perfect guy, cute, funny, sweet, and smart. When Eddie mentioned us breaking up it brought a tear to my eye, not a lot, just one. I felt it roll down my cheek. Eddie lifted his right hand and wiped away the tear with his thumb.
I looked around and saw everyone looking.
"I have to go do something." Eddie walked out. He left, but my blush stayed. I didn't mean for that to happen.
"Excuse me." Fabian threw down his napkin and left too.
"What was that?" Amber shouted.
"I don't know, it just happened." I admitted.
Then we heard a shout. It was coming from the hall. We followed the noise to the source, it was Fabian and Eddie.
"It's your fault you didn't have to break her heart!" Eddie shouted.
"Don't bring Nina in this!" Fabian shot back.
"It's not my fault you don't love her!" Eddie challenged.
"I don't love her? I would take a bullet if I had too, you don't know how strong I have fallen for Nina." Fabian shot.
Eddie pulled his arm back and just when I thought Eddie was going to hit Fabian someone walked in.
"Is this a wrong time, should I come back when you guys are done with this?" It was girl, she was pulling in a bag.
"Hi, I'm Eddie." Eddie opened his fists and reached out.
"No, it's like this." The stranger pulled her hand into a fist and stuck it out; it took Eddie a while but soon bumped fists.
"American are you? Very nice, I thought I would stick out." She laughed.
"Who are you exactly?" Fabian asked.
She was about to answer when we heard Victor coming down the steps.
"Emily, took you long enough." Victor groaned.
"Yeah, yeah, I don't control the plane," Emily pushed past Eddie and up to Victor. "So how's life Uncle Victor?" That caught us of guard.
"Uncle, Victor I thought you didn't have any family left?" I said.
"Kept me a secret, aw Uncle Victor so sweet." Emily laughed leaning on Victors shoulder.
"Go to your room before I send you back to where you came from." Victor threatened.
"One problem with that, I don't have a room." Emily shrugged, a smug grin on her face. I could all ready tell she was trouble.
"You'll room with Mara, she has the Attic room." Victor groaned.
"K, see ya in the morning." Emily lugged her bag up the stairs, down the hall, we heard a click, another click and stomping up the stairs.
"Get ready for bed!" Victor stomped off to his office, yup they were definitely alike.
"I didn't know Victor had a niece." Nina said.
"Neither did I." Amber added.
"I have to room with her, what if she's just as evil?" Mara complained.
"I think she seems pretty fun." Patricia laughed.
"What are all you buffoons still doing down there? Get to bed!" Victor shouted. For the next 5 minutes all you heard was us scrambling around to get ready for bed.
Mara's POV
I walked into my room and Emily was still awake.
"What's your name?" She asked once I walked in.
"M-Mara." I hesitated.
"Nice to meet you Mara," She yawned.
"Same to you, so why do you suppose your uncle kept you a secret?" I asked. "Sorry, it's kind of personal."
"No, it's fine. Well, My Uncle, Victor, has always been… out there I guess. He wasn't the nicest person around, he was always so annoying and always had such harsh discipline, and so my mom cut him off, saying he was a bad influence. They haven't talked in over 10 years." Emily finished.
"If he is such a bad influence then why are you here?"
"I think I'll save that for another time."
"I understand." I said as I slipped into sleep.
I awoke the next morning by screaming. The rest of the house must have heard it too because they were all awake.
We followed the noise to the source; it was coming from Victor's office. Him and Emily were having an argument.
"That doesn't answer my question!" Emily yelled.
"You are a teenager and I am your uncle, this conversation is over."
"Like hell it is!" Emily yelled enraged.
"Don't make me send you back to your drunk ass mother, now to answer your question I do what I do because I can because I am an adult and you are the child, understand?"
"Vous imbécile, tout ce que vous jamais pensé, c'est vous. Je suis votre nièce putain de Dieu, qu'est-ce à moi hein? Pourquoi ne pas vous arrêter ce que vous faites et tout sauf le fait que je suis fait, vous aider avec ceci. Je suis toujours un adolescent comme je l'aiété pendant presque 40 ans! Je suis supposé être 52 cette année!"
"Would you stop speaking that gibberish? No one understands a single word your saying, now get ready for school!"
"Ass hole!" Emily shouted stomping out of the den. "Did you guys enjoy the show?" She rolled her eyes at us as we scattered back to our rooms. Emily was down before any of us and she just stood in the living room chatting with Trudy.
Fabian's POV
"Emily and Victor had quite the fight." Nina laughed.
"I didn't know her mom was an alcoholic." Amber said.
"No one did." I shrugged.
"What did you make of that sentence?" Amber asked Nina. She was the best in this house who spoke French.
"Absolutely nothing." Nina laughed.
"Come on, let's get to school." I pushed everyone out the door to see Emily walking with Eddie.
"What are they doing?" Nina asked.
"Talking, duh." Amber said.
"No Amber, I meant why."
"Well I don't know, I can't hear that far." You guys should already know that Amber isn't the smartest girl in England.
"Come on, we're going to be late to class. You know how she gets when we're late for class." Nina groaned. We walked into the class room just before class started. The funny thing was Eddie and Emily weren't there. I know they should be here, but they weren't. They weren't there for the rest of class, or next class, or the class after that either. It was the last class of the day and they still weren't there.
Emily's POV
"Well my mom started drinking 4 years ago, when I was 13. It wasn't that bad, she used to only drink at night, then she would drink all night and have 2 to 3 every day, then it got to the point that she was either drunk or hung over all the time," I told Eddie. "I'm sorry, I must be boring you."
"No, actually my dad is the same, except with drugs." Eddie and I lay on the ground in the woods staring up at the tree tops.
"Come on, let's get to French class." I helped Eddie up and we ran to class. We flew open the door and everyone stared at us.
"Late for a class on your first day, Que Dieu ait pitié." Mrs. Andrew rolled her eyes.
"Well we are here now. I guess we'll be cleaning toilets on Saturday like Victor would always do?" I laughed. I could hear Eddie snickering behind me.
"Take your seats." Eddie and I sat at the middle table in the middle of the room.
"Class repeat after me." Then Mrs. Andrews said something in French and made everyone say it back, I wasn't the slightest bit interested so I didn't pay any attention.
"Emily, do you think you're better than the rest of the class?" Mrs. Andrews put the spot light on me. I nodded.
"Repeat it Emily, or I will call your uncle."
I sighed, rose from my chair, and spoke French. "Je peux parler français, je suis de France, donc cette classe I rien pour moi." I speak French, I'm from France.
"Eh bien je m'excuse, je ne savais pas que. Dis-moi où es-tu?" Mrs. Andrews asked suspiciously.
Well I'm sorry, I did not know. Tell me where are you from?
"Je suis originaire de Paris, Albi, Ajacco, et à Laval. Villes très jolies. Dites-moi, êtes-vous de la France?"
I'm from Paris, Albi, Ajacco, and Laval. Very pretty cities. Tell me, are you from France?
"Je suis originaire de Albi."
I'm from Albi
"Well, if you want me to rep-" Mrs. Andrews interrupted me.
"No, that won't be necessary, well done Mrs. Pilar, you just saved yourself from detention." I grinned at my accomplishment.
"Nice one Emily." Eddie grinned.
"You guys should go out." Someone behind me randomly said. I turned around.
"Who are you?" I asked.
"My names Amber, Amber Millington." The blonde smiled.
"Well nice to meet you Amber, aren't you in my house?" I asked, she nodded rapidly. I looked at the guy next to her.
"Who are you?" I nodded to him.
"My names Alfred, but my friends call me Alfie." He said.
"Well I'm Emily." I said.
"So if you speak French so well, why did you sign up for French?" Alfie asked.
"Easy A, duh." I laughed.
"I don't know why I thought I would hate you?" Amber laughed.
"Thanks?" I looked at Eddie wondering if that was a compliment or insult, he just shrugged.
"So are you?" Amber asked.
"Are we what?" Eddie said.
"Going out?"
"Yeah." I laughed.
Eddie looked at me with a confused look, I shot him my best just go with it look.
"Yup." Eddie snickered.
The bell rang and Eddie and I jumped up and ran out in hysterics all the way out the building.
"What do you say we take this prank to the next level?" Eddie grinned.
"What do you mean?" I asked, we were still standing in the school yard.
Eddie didn't say anything, instead he looked up, saw the house walking out of the school, he grasped the back of my neck and smashed our lips together, after a few seconds of being shocked I kissed back.
"I told you!" I heard Amber shout.
"Damn!" Someone else shouted.
We didn't stop though. He was an amazing kisser, not like anything we have back home.
"Get a room." A girl shot.
Once we noticed that they weren't going to leave we stopped, I grinned, he grabbed my hand, and we walked back.
Nina's POV
This is good, I can be with Fabian without worrying that Eddie is going to try to break us up. I thought to myself as Fabian and I held hands through the court yard and to our house.
When we got back to the house we saw Joy walking down the steps in the skimpiest outfit in the world.
"Hi Fabs." Joy said in a flirtatious voice.
"Hi Joy." I made sure to wave to her with the hand that Fabian was grasping.
"So Fabian, the masquerade is tonight, did you ask anyone?"
"Thanks for reminding me Joy." Fabian thanked. Joy lit up in delight.
"Will you go to the dance with me?" Fabian asked still facing Joy. "Nina?" I would have laughed so hard at Joy's face, but instead I just said yes, gave Fabian a kiss on the cheek and grinned as Joy stomped up the stairs in her 4 inch stilettos.
"Guys," Amber whispered. "Look at this." We followed Amber into common room. The rest of the house was already there.
"What is it Amber? We have to get ready." I whispered. She just pointed to whoever was asleep on the couch.
My gaze followed theirs to Eddie and Emily. Emily was resting her head on Eddie's shoulder and they were both asleep.
"They look so peaceful." Jerome 'cried' "I don't like it." There's the Jerome we know and almost love.
"Get up!" Jerome shouted behind them.
"Holy shit!" Emily shouted throwing her fist up nailing Jerome in the nose.
"Damn!" Jerome yelled falling back.
"I am so sorry!" Emily said, jumping behind the couch.
"Eddie get up, you have to get ready for the masquerade." Amber asked politely.
"5 more…hours." Eddie begged I his sleep. Emily rolled her eyes and leaned next to his ear, whispering something, Eddie shot open his eyes.
"I'll be ready in an hour." He jumped over the couch, stepped on Jerome's back, and walked to his room.
"What did you tell him?" Jerome asked getting up holding his back.
"I don't know." Emily's voice trailed as she went to get ready.
After hours of getting ready Emily, Mara, Amber, Patricia, Joy, and I were both in the halls, ready to go down to our dates.
Eddie's POV
We waited at the bottom of the steps as the girls came down. Emily looked stunning, her dress, her mask, her hair, everything! (ALL OUTFITS ON PROFILE)
Fabian's POV
Nina looked so beautiful, more beautiful then she has ever looked. Joy on the other hand looked a little…. Whorey if you ask me.
Alfie's POV
Oh my gosh, Amber looks amazing, like an angel.
Jerome's POV
Patricia walked down the steps gracefully, like an angel. She looked magnificent.
Mick's POV
Mara was more than beautiful, better than stunning. She was so pretty. I think I love her…
Emily's POV
I linked my arm with Eddie as he handed me a white rose. 'I'm worthy of you' I thought to myself.
"You look beautiful." Eddie said.
"You don't look to shabby yourself." I mentioned back.
"Come on guys, let's get to the party." Amber rushed.
This will be a very exciting night…