I don't own House of Anubis!

Nina's Pov

I can do this. I can do this. I repeated to myself. I stood outside Anubis House ready for another year. I stood gripping the bronze door knob, debating if I should use my key from last year or knock. This may not sound like a lot to you but, If I use the key then it will seem like I kept Anubis in mind when I packed it. Or, it may be a little too casual for the first day. On the other hand, if I knock it might seem like I forgot about Anubis when I packed and forgot my key. But, it might be okay. Maybe they changed the locks! Oh my god what if the changed the locks so I would come back?

Am I even welcome here anymore? Who's to say Victor won't kick me back out as soon as I step through the door because I ruined his little society of his? Maybe I should knock, then if nobody answers in… ten seconds let's say, I'll use the key. At this point the key was probably leaving marks in my hand I was holding onto it so tightly. I raised my hand and knocked softly three times knock! knock!knock! then, I started to count in my head one, two, three- before I could get to four the door swung open to very excited Amber. Her faced looked like it was a plastered into a huge plastic-surgery smile.

"Nina!" she squealed pouncing towards me to give me one a her death hugs

"Amber!" I squealed back, giving her a hug

She was all squeezy and happy when she stopped squeezing and pushed me off

"Nina! How dare you?" she asked, looking very serious

Had I done something? I asked myself

"What?" I asked

"You came here and didn't tell me about your boyfriend!" she squealed and started bouncing up and down

"Boyfriend? Amber, I don't have boyfriend" I smirked

"Oh, that's awful! Why did you break-up?" she asked

"I never had a boyfriend, Amber" I chuckled

"Fabian never asked? I'm going to kill that boy!" she stampeded out of the entrance way to the boy's hall revealing what she had been covering up; The house I had been missing for the past two months, completely unchanged.

I pulled the bag I had carried with me on the plane, my red suitcase with the black trim, behind me as I stepped into the house. All of the sudden, I hear a muffled yell;

"Fabian! You are such wimp! And, a liar! You said you would ask her over the summer!" Amber I thought to myself

"Amber!" Fabian I thought to myself, just thinking he was thinking about asking me out, gave my goose bumps "No! I can't!" he yelled back

"Yes you can! She's in the foyer!" Amber yelled back, I looked around; nobody else was in the foyer! I bit down on my lip and studied my luggage tag as if it were stating the meaning of life. I didn't want him to know I was listening in on his conversation/argument with Amber. Then, I heard a door slam in not too far away and I swear, my heart skipped a beat.

I heard footsteps coming towards me and looked out of the corner of my eye (I was still pretending to be focused on my Gap luggage tag I got three years ago). Fabian was walking towards me a he rubbed his hands together and coughed "Ah hem"

My head "shot up" I smiled at him and there he was. I straightened up and smiled so big my ears could feel it.

"Hey" I said, my hands quivering

"Hi" he smiled

"How was your summer?" I asked, small talk is all I could think of

"Great" Obviously he didn't get the whole small talk thing

"Anything interesting happen?" I asked

"Um… yeah, I did a lot of thinking…" he trailed off

"Thinking? About what?" I asked

"Oh, well, you see… I was, well I" his words just tumbled out all wrong "I was at home and… I thought… maybe, um… it's okay if you don't but…" just before he said whatever he was trying to say

"Nina! I heard you were back! How was your summer?" Mara, I love you but, did you have to spread the love now? I thought to myself

"Oh, great Mara, it was fun" Yeah, you get a boring generic answer for interrupting my future boyfriend from speaking After I thought that though, I thought it was a kind of funny so I kind of giggled. It was a very awkward for all of us after I finished my little giggle fit because it sounded like I was laughing at my answer which wasn't funny at all.

"So…" my voice trailed "Anybody up for helping me unpack?" I asked casually

"House Meeting!" Trudy called from living room

"I guess it'll have to wait" I said as I began to shuffle to the living room

I sat down on the very comfy chair and asked;

"What's this about, Trudy?"

"Let me wait for the others to come" A few minutes later, the others came in and sat on the couch or the floor

"Okay" Trudy started "As you may have noticed, Victor is not here right now. This is because sadly, and this is a tragedy, he passed away over the summer"

The whole room was silent, I knew too much. This was bound to happen after the elixir ran out but, I didn't want to admit it. I felt like this was my entire fault. Although, he was supposed to die, years ago, far before any of us were born. So, I couldn't decide how to feel. I wasn't sad or happy. I was just confused. I could tell the rest of the Sibunas felt the same way because they all looked very guilty. The only innocent people in the room were Mara, Trudy and Mick. They just had a blank/sad look on their faces.

"How did he die?" Mara asked

"He… died of old age" she had no idea how right she was

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