Goodbye Town

"Patricia how was your summer?" Joy shrieked as she threw her arms around her red harried best friend. Patricia smiled softly and chewed on her lip. It was their first day of the term at her boarding school back home. The two girls trudged towards Anubis House, where they lived. She glanced at Joy as she pulled back from the hug.

"Uh it was okay," She bit her lip again as they reached the front door of the house. She knew that she was lying, but it still hurt. She knew that she couldn't tell Joy, not just yet. Joy nodded and opened the door so they both could walk inside.

"Trudy!" Joy yelled as she then went in to wrap her arms around their house mother who had greeted them. Patricia shrugged and looked around the common room of Anubis House. It still looked the same from the day that she left the last term. She offered a wave to Trudy and went up the stairs, to her bedroom, to unpack her suitcase.

Once inside, she settled down on her purple sheeted bed, and let out a sigh. She picked at her nails and shut her eyes, only to have the peace interrupted when the door opened. Her eyes glanced over as a girl entered, a girl who the redhead knew quite well. Mara Jaffrey. Patricia smirked and got up off of her bed to hug the dark harried girl.

"Patricia, how are you!?" Mara beamed as she set her bags down on top of her bed on the other side of the room.

"I'm good," She knew that was a lie too, but she let it slide. Mara seemed to buy it though as she simply opened her black duffel and started to unpack her clothes. Patricia sifted her feet, and did the same. Anything to get her mind off of Eddie. The funny thing was, it had been a month and a half since she left America, yet it felt like it was yesterday.

"Hey have you seen Joy?" Mara questioned as she turned to face Patricia.

"Um yeah she was downstairs talking to Trudy when I left to come up here," She nodded at the redhead, and disappeared out of the door. Patricia sighed again as she started to unpack again, she was alone.

The first thing she heard when she entered the dining room, was conversation, a lot of conversation. Then she heard a voice that stopped her dead in her footsteps, because Joy had to tug on her arm so she would step forward. Patricia looked at her hands, she knew that voice. After another glance at the kitchen, she saw the back of his head as he was facing the counter. After taking in a deep breath, she started to pile her plate with dinner. Patricia kept her head low to her food, and prayed that the rest of the Anubis residents wouldn't notice. Because gosh if he saw her.. But as he turned around, she knew that he saw her curls, he knew that it was her.

"Yacker?" Her words caught in her throat, and he eyes sifted to the rest of the teens in the room. They didn't notice so she slowly let out a breath. She was the only one that heard the words escape his lips. Eddie didn't say anything as he took a seat beside Mara, and he didn't look at her.

"So Patricia have you met Eddie yet?" Jerome questioned. He was a prankster, brown hair, really tall. Mara did say once that he had a soft side, but no one really knew. Not even his best buddy, Alfie Lewis. Patricia looked up from her food, but she did not dare look at Eddie.

"Yeah we've met," And that was all she said as she got up to place her dinner plate in the sink, and then she walked out the front door of Anubis House. The room went silent, but Eddie turned to watch her walk. She still looked the same, and he longed to go after her, but wouldn't it look odd in the prospective of his other housemates? So he just sat there and ate his dinner, as she had tugged on his heartstrings just a little bit more.

Well there goes the first chapter! What do you all think?