Mr. Sweet and Eddie were in Eddie's room discussing Eddie's behaviour at school, it was certainly not the best, so naturally, Mr. Sweet wanted it to improve. Soon, Eric was shouting and Eddie wasn't happy with that.
"As your father I demand that your behaviour at school improves. Teachers have been complaining about you disrupting their lessons." Mr. Sweet told his son in a disapproving tone.
"Oh really? Are these 'teachers' you? Just because I played a couple of practical jokes on you. Who would've thought that you don't know how to take a joke?" The younger Sweet replied sarcastically. "Jokes make the lessons more interesting."
"That is it! If you do not change this witty behaviour at school, you'll find yourself back at home with your mother before you could even get a lady friend!" Mr. Sweet yelled.
"Of course you can't handle being a dad." Eddie said with a humourless laugh. "You're not used to being a dad. Just when life gets harder, either you walk out or send someone away."
"You are not to speak to me that way Edison! I'm your dad!" Mr. Sweet said as calm as he could.
"Like I would ever call you dad, Eric! You've never been a father to me and you never will!" Eddie said angry yet hurt as he remembered how he and his mother had suffered when Eric had walked out on them. The Millers were well off, but the father figure presence was always missing and nothing could ever fill that empty space, not even money.
At this point Eddie didn't care if the whole world had heard him admit that Mr. Sweet was his father. However, that thought soon changed.
Eddie had already told Patricia about his days in America and about his family as well. He had told her how much he was hurt when his father walked out on him and his mother. No matter how much he tried to deny that he was over that fact, he couldn't. However, he never mentioned his dad's name once, whenever he mentioned him, he would refer to him as 'dad'. The American figured that he'd better tell Patricia fast about Mr. Sweet before she finds out from somebody else and be hurt that he doesn't trust her enough to tell her that. Her opinion is of high significance to him.
Patricia was in the kitchen with her fellow Sibuna members when they all heard Mr. Sweet and Eddie yell at each other.
"This is strange. Why is Mr. Sweet here? Victor isn't even here!" commented Alfie.
"Perhaps Patricia should go check it out. Eddie is her boyfriend after all." Amber replied. The redhead decided to follow the blonde's advice for once and went to Eddie's room to check out the situation only to hear Eddie admit that Sweetie is his father!
The door was ajar so she just pushed the door open. No matter how long Eddie had thought of telling her in the right way, that all changed when she heard him yell it to his father in his room.
"Mr. Sweet's your dad?" was all Patricia could say. Shocked and surprised could not even begin to describe the way she was feeling at that moment. She did not expect the two to be related in a million years.
At Patricia's statement, the other Sibuna members gathered in the door of Fabian's and Eddie's room all with a shocked look on their faces.
Eddie looked from his dad's face to Patricia's face to his other housemates faces and his gaze settling on his girlfriend's face or as he liked to call her 'Yacker', but this is no time to discuss what he likes to call her or better what she likes to call him because right now she is thinking of a few adjectives to describe him...
After a moment looking at Yacker's face, he looked at his housemates and told them to get lost. At that moment all that mattered to him was Patricia, who was currently running out of the door. He told his dad that he would stop by his office to talk to him later and ran out of the door after Patricia. Eddie went up the stairs into the girls' dorm and straight into Patricia's room only to find a surprised Joy and no Patricia. He went out of the girls' dorm just as fast as he came in. The blonde American looked into every room of the house but to no avail, she just wasn't there.
When he was passing from the foyer, he heard Amber, Nina, Alfie and Fabian talk and he overheard Amber saying "When did Eddie get so rude?" He did not stay there long enough to hear the answer... he was too busy looking for his girlfriend. There was still one room that he hadn't checked: The Laundry Room. Just as he was about to go in there he heard Amber say "Eddie, you shouldn't go in there. Vera doesn't like it when we go there to play hide and seek!"
"I'm not playing hide and seek! I'm looking for Patricia!" the blonde American said.
"Awwweeee! How cuteeee, but I saw Patricia go out the front door about a half an hour ago." the blonde British replied.
After muttering a quick 'thanks' Eddie dashed out the front door and luckily Victor didn't catch him to tell him 'No running in the house boy!" If luck was not on his side this morning, it seemed to be now because after a minute in the forest he saw her sitting under a tree looking at the clouds. Eddie knew that Patricia liked to think while looking at the clouds. 'They help me think better' she once said when he had asked her about it.
"Why did you run out on me like that?" Eddie asked after a moment of silence between the two.
"I'm really surprised that Mr. Sweet's your dad. I wouldn't have expected that in a million years!" the redhead explained. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I don't know... I was afraid of your reaction to it. So, are you mad at me?" The American murmured.
"Should I be mad? Cause I'm not." She said. "Come on let's go! It's getting depressing here!"
"Go where?" Eddie asked.
"Play a prank on your dad? Like the one we did in the science lab the other day, but better?" Patricia answered.
"Uh… no thanks. I still haven't told him about us." The boy replied.
"What are you waiting for to tell him? The world to end?!" Patricia said exasperated. "And how on Earth would he know that we're together unless someone tells him?"
"Hey! This is my dad who we're talking about here! Do not talk about him that way!" Eddie yelled.
Patricia looked at him wide-eyed. He had never yelled at her before, not even when they hated each other's guts.
"Go on protecting the man that was never there for you, see if he cares cause I don't." The Brit replied in the same tone and level as the American.
"Y-you don't care?" The boy stuttered shocked. He never expected to hear a person he cares so much about tell him that. She had stooped too low this time.
The girl was shocked too at the words that had just come out of her mouth and said nothing. In the heat of the moment she had said whatever came to her mouth first, and this time, she said the worst words she could ever tell him. She knew that she had taken this too far this time.
"I think we need a break." She said quietly before she ran away deeper into the forest.