A/N: okay so i'm posting this today because i needed some season three peddie (and i like to see my friends cry over their otp hehe) but it might not get updated for a while, so bear with me! Oh, and enjoy! c:
One crush. One love. One touch. One kiss. One secret. One treasure. One hope. One happiness. One life. One summer. One BIG, mistake, was all it took to end everything.
Eddie woke up earlier than usual one morning during summer break, getting up to stretch while letting out a very sleepy yawn. After doing so, he looked out the window of his bedroom at his mother's house and stared out into the open. The room he'd known his whole life. He could hardly believe that a room that brought him the best of times as a child would only now bring him the worst of memories for possibly the rest of his life. He had no clue as to what would happen next. What would school be like now that she was gone? What would he say to everyone when they realized that the two of them were barely in the same room as each other anymore?
Wasn't it only months ago that the two had gotten together? What happened to all of that? It puzzled the boy beyond belief. He thought things were going particularly fine; rather well, actually. So what was it that made her feel different? Was it something that he had said to her? Something he did maybe? Or maybe… maybe it was the whole bringing her to America thing in general. Whatever it was, Eddie was seriously wishing it hadn't happened. Patricia was the first girl that he really loved. So maybe she wasn't his first kiss, but he was hers. Maybe he didn't really show it most of the time, but it actually really meant a lot to him. Just like she meant a lot to him.
The boy sighed, walking out of his bedroom and into the kitchen for breakfast. His mother smiled at him, saying good morning in a cheerful tone. "Morning Mom," he replied, sitting down at the table. Eddie's mom always had breakfast waiting for him when he woke up. It was 8:30am in America, Eddie having woken up at 8. Usually he would sleep in until 9 or so, but how could he hardly think about sleep with everything else on his mind? His mother must have noticed that he was sort of pushing his food around on his plate, not really eating.
"What's wrong, Eddie?" she asked, taking a sip of her coffee. Eddie sighed, dropping his fork and looking up at the women in front of him.
"Just thinking about a lot of stuff," he said, trying to be vague. It was a good plan, despite the fact that his mom could see right through vagueness. She knew about the breakup, and tried not to mention any part of it, or Patricia's name. As she walked by, she patted Eddie on the back gently and kissed the side of his head. "Mom," Eddie groaned. He was practically an adult now, and the fact that his mom still kissed him like that was kind of annoying. Although, at this point, the gesture was comforting as well. His mom laughed as she left to take care of the laundry. A slight smile formed on the boy's lips as he finally started eating. School would start up again in a few days, but for now, Eddie didn't want to think about that.
Not thinking about school was kind of hard at that moment once he heard his phone go off, receiving yet another message from Nina about the chosen one and the osirian. Eddie rolled his eyes whilst letting out a sigh and read the message. "Great, another thing to remember," he mumbled. Shoving the phone back in his pocket, the American finished his breakfast and cleared the table before going back to his room to finish last minute packing. Part of him was glad to be going back, but the greater part was dreading it. So many things could go wrong this term.
Well, Eddie was definitely right about things going wrong this term. So many things had already happened within a week. Everyone knew about him and Patricia splitting up, they found out why Nina wasn't coming back, and now everyone thought he and the new girl, KT, were a thing. As if! He was just trying to figure out this great evil, and KT was helping him. They were helping each other, and that was it. Patricia seemed to believe they were a thing, which was what hurt the most. Well, that, and the fact that she didn't seem to really care at all that they broke up. It just didn't make sense to him. Nothing made sense anymore, really.
Eddie sat alone in the room he shared with Fabian, laying back and staring at the ceiling. Just then, his roommate walked in. "Hey, what's the matter?" the boy asked. Eddie shrugged.
"Chicks," he simply stated. Fabian laughed, walking over and sitting on his bed.
"And by chicks, you mean Patricia, right?" Eddie sat up and looked his friend in the eyes. As he was about to protest, he let out a sigh.
"Is it that obvious?" The brunette nodded and mouthed just a bit. The blonde let out a huff/laugh. "Yeah, I mean Patricia. I don't see what her problem is. I'm not into KT that way, and I don't know why she would think that I was." Fabian got up from his bed and walked over to Eddie's, sitting down beside him.
"If I could make a suggestion, why don't you just ask her?" Typical response. It was the obvious answer, and truth be told, Eddie want quite sure why he hadn't asked her in the first place.
"Right, well if I can ever get a word with her, maybe I'll try that." Fabian gave him a pat on the shoulder and a slight smile before getting up to leave.
"Good. Oh, and good luck because I told her you wanted to see her so she's probably on her way downstairs right now." With that, the boy took off rather quickly before Eddie could stop him. Eddie's eyes had widened at his words.
"Fabian!" he shouted. Goddammit, why did he fall for that? What was he supposed to say to her? The boy thought he would have time to think of something, not have to come up with it on the spot! Eddie rushed out of the room and not looking where he was going, bumped into Patricia, knocking her down.
"Hey!" she screeched, falling on her butt. "Watch where you're going next time, slimeball! I mean, Eddie," she corrected herself, looking up at the boy with an annoyed expression. Eddie had a shocked expression when he knocked the girl over, lending her his hand to help her up.
"Sorry Yack- I mean, Patricia. Listen, Patricia, I need to talk to you." The redhead raised an eyebrow, taking his hand to help her up but immediately letting go after.
"Yeah, Fabian mentioned that. Well, go on then, I haven't got all day." Eddie shook his head trying to sort out thoughts and find a good place to start.
"Well it's about our breakup. I–" Patricia cut him off right there.
"Save your breath, weasel. I told you, I'm cool with it. You even agreed, so what more is there to say?" The boy was too late to respond, and the girl shrugged, and turned to leave.
"No, Patricia wait!" she didn't listen. Eddie sighed angrily and kicked the doorway as hard as he could with his foot. He decided after a minute to just go after the girl. It's not like she could get very far. Eddie left the room and headed down the hall to find her. "Patricia," he called out. When he got into the living room, Jerome was pestering the redhead about something. He and Alfie were blocking the staircase, not letting her go up to her room.
"Just let me through, Jerome! I'm not messing around! Move!" Patricia was desperately trying to break through the two of them so that she could escape to her room. Being curious, Eddie wanted to know what was going on.
"Oh look, Trixie! Here he comes now. Maybe you should tell him, or I will," Jerome's voice spoke.
"Tell me what, Clarke?" When Jerome stepped aside, the girl tried to make a run for it, but Alfie he got her trapped in his arms.
"Let me go, Alfie!" she screeched, trying to fight her way out. It wasn't working at all. Jerome walked over to Eddie with a smug look on his face.
"Patricia here, as you may know her, has a bit of a situation, Eddie. You see, ever since you and KT have become a thing–" that's where Eddie cut him off.
"We're not a thing."
"Now now Eddie, let me finish. Ever since you and KT have become a thing, sneaking around campus, writing fake letters from girlfriends, all that fun stuff, Patricia here has been keeping a little secret of her own. Are you going to tell him, Patricia? Or should I?" The redhead turned in Alfie's grasp.
"You tell and I'll claw your eyes out!" It was clear that she had been crying.
"Cool with it, she says. You broke up, and she's totally cool with it. So cool, that she's started cutting," Jerome informed Eddie. "Alfie, show him her arms." Patricia struggled very hard to fight from them rolling up her sleeves.
"Get away from me! Let me go!" Finally, Eddie saw the scars on Patricia's arms. The red head couldn't even look at Eddie. All this time she had been pretending not to care, pretending like it didn't hurt. Well clearly she was lying.
"Behold, the truth is revealed," Jerome said with an evil smirk. "And only you and KT are to blame, Eddie. How does that feel?" Eddie's eyes widened at the sight of Patricia's scars. He clenched his fists as Jerome spoke to him, anger rising up inside of him. "I bet Mr. Sweet will want to have a talk with you both. I can't imagine what he'd say." Finally the anger was too much to bear. Eddie had to let it out somehow.
"You're sick, Jerome!" Boom. Eddie's fist came back and popped him square in the face. "KT and I, are not a thing. I don't care what you say, or what you show me or try to make me think or feel. You could never possibly understand that I don't give a damn about anything or anyone more than I care about Patricia!" Jerome was holding his nose that was probably broken, and trickling blood.
"I think you broke my nose, Miller!" Eddie really didn't care at that moment. He was fired up, and he wasn't sure he could calm down. Jerome walked toward him to throw a punch back, letting go of his nose that was now dripping onto the floor. Eddie ducked and pushed the other boy back, punching him again. Patricia and Alfie remained on the staircase in shock.
"Quite frankly, as of now, I don't give a damn about that either!" Eddie was about to jump on him again when Fabian came in and broke the fight up.
"Hey! Eddie cut it out, stop it, alright?" A few of the others who had just gotten home came into the room as well to find out what was going on. In all of the fuss, Patricia was able to finally slip away upstairs. Eddie was faster, and somehow beat her there.
"Patricia, we need to talk!" Tears streamed from the redhead's eyes as she pushed him into the room, entering after him and closing the door behind her. "Patricia, KT and I are not a thing, trust me! You know, I may not say it all of the time mostly because it's hard, for me to say, but I really care about you Patricia. I've never felt the same with any other girl, and before we split up…" he paused, trying to bring himself to say it. "I thought I loved you." Patricia actually seemed surprised at this.
"Eddie…" she started to say. The girl was looking for a way to put her words so that she could say them. Man this was harder than it seemed. "Eddie, I really care about you too, but I guess I thought the whole thing was moving too fast. I mean, you're the first guy I've ever been with," her voice dropped to a whisper as she continued. "And my first kiss. But how do we know if we're right for each other? That almost never happens when you meet someone for the first time, fall in love with them and live happily ever after. How do we know it's going to work like that? How do I know that I actually love you and everything works?" Eddie paused her for a second. Did she really just say it?
"Did you just say you loved me?" Eddie asked in a hushed tone, needing confirmation. Patricia blushed slightly, looking down at the floor and drying her eyes.
"Well…yeah…" she answered him. Even she herself was shocked. Did she really just admit to being in love with him when she was the one who broke up with him in the first place? "You must think I'm completely stupid," she mumbled. Before Patricia could lift her own head, it was being lifted by someone else who was extremely close to her now.
"How can we know, if we don't give it any chance?" the boy spoke, answering her questions. Just like that his lips were on hers and vice versa as the girl's arms wrapped themselves around the boy's neck, her hand tangling itself in his dirty blonde hair. Eddie's hands took her waist and pulled her tightly into him so that their bodies were pressed against each other. They kissed for several minutes before breaking. "I really think I love you, Patricia, but I don't want to push you any further than you want to go." The redhead bit her lip and listened to the boy talk.
"Shut up and kiss me."