House Of Hellos

Nina POV

I walked through the door into the House of Anubis that has been my home away from home for the past three years. I am starting my forth year on Monday which is one more than my brother Eddie. No one here knows that Eddie and I are siblings, well technically, twins. I transfered here because my gran became very ill. She couldn't look after both Eddie and I so I came to England to stay with our father who is the Head Master of this school. Gran died after my first year here so Eddie started coming here too. We still go back to America to stay with our cousins for the summer holidays which is nice but I haven't seen Eddie for half of the summer because he left early to go to on a road trip with our cousin Randy.

The first thing I saw when entering the house were the suitcases stood around in random places in the entrance hall. I left mine next to two very familiar shiny pink ones that belonged to one of my best friends: Amber Millington. I smiled to myself then headed through the door to the living room. Sat on the old yellow sofas were Alfie Lewis, Jerome Clarke, Patricia Williamson, Amber Millington, Mara Jeffrey, Joy Mercer, Mick Campbell, KT Rush, Willow Jenks and Fabian Rutter. Alfie and Jerome were having a biscuit eating competition. It's a thing apparently. They did one last year. Alfie won that.

"Nina!" Amber yelled. I grinned as she jumped up and ran towards me, enveloping me in a gigantic hug.

"Hey Ambs..." I said. We broke off and Patricia hugged me next.

"Hey Nina." She grinned.

"Hey Trixie." I answered. Mara and Joy gave me hugs after then KT did. Willow sat staring at the ceiling.

"Willow?" I asked waving a hand in front of her face. She jumped out of her trance.

"Nina." She said smiling. I grinned and gave her a hug. Then Alfie stepped to me and I gave him a hug too. Then Mick, then Jerome did too. I looked at Fabian.

"Do I get a hug?" I asked holding my arms out. He grinned and walked across the room before stepping into them and wrapping his arms around my waist. I put mine around his neck and snuggled my head into the crook of his neck.

"Hey Fabes." I said into his shoulder.

"Hey Nina." He whispered back into my hair. I grinned.

"Hey ewww! Can we stop with the gross mushy stuff please!" A familiar voice said. Fabian and I broke away. We turned to see the doorway where Eddie was standing. There was another full round of hugs before I got to him.

"Hey Eddie." I said wrapping my arms around his neck.

"Hey Ninja." He answered putting his arms around my waist. Then someone coughed and we broke apart smiling to see Patricia stood, hands on hips staring at him.

"Does your girlfriend not get a hug?" She asked before Eddie let go of me grinning and picked her up and put her over his shoulder.

"Hey!" She yelled. "Eddison Miller put me down right now." He grinned and put her down again. He put his arms over her shoulders, around her neck and Trixie put her arms around his waist.

"If I hadn't just not seen you for a month you would have a massive bruise on your arm by now." She explained into his chest. Eddie smiled. Just then Trudy walked in.

"Trudy!" Eddie and I shouted running over and engulfing her in a double hug.

"Oh, hello my lovelies." She said hugging us back. We let her go and sat down with the others. Eddie sat on a sofa at one of the corners, Patricia sat on his knee, Alfie sat next to them and Jerome next to him, Mara sat on his knee. Amber, KT and Joy sat on the other sofa with Willow sat on the arm. Mick sat in the arm chair and Fabian and I sat on the bean bags. We sat talking about lots of different stuff like holidays and America. School is starting on Monday so we have the weekend to catch up with stuff.

"Right, ma darlings, I think it's time to unpack your stuff." Trudy said coming through the door. "Amber dear," She turned to Amber, "do you want help with your cases?"

"Oh, yes please Trudy." She answered smiling. We all stood up and filled out of the living room Alfie and Jerome joking around on the way. We all picked up our cases and went to our rooms. Boys downstairs, girls upstairs. I followed Joy and KT up the stairs to the landing before dropping my case and helping Trudy with Ambers other case.

"Thanks Honey." She said as she smiled appreciatively. I smiled back. She left again and we all went to our rooms. I was sharing with Amber, Patricia and KT. Mara, Joy and Willow were in the other room. I put Amber's case by her bed then grabbed mine from the top of the stairs. I went back to my room and plonked it on my bed. Patricia and KT did the same. We all unzipped our cases and started unpacking.