So if you guys are wondering what happened with my last HOA fanfic, I deleted it. Lost interest in it so I'm gonna write this new one which has absoloutely nothing to do with what happens in the series. This only has to do with the characters and mainly Patrome. So let us begin! I don't own HOA by the way.

Let's get one thing straight. This story doesn't begin with a silly little once upon a time or end with a stupid little happily ever after. I put myself in danger and I never wanted to be a damsel in distress. But one thing is for sure, I did fall in love. This is the story of how a love that could only break my heart happened.

"Are you sure this is safe Patricia?" My best friend, Joy, asked me.

"Joy, this is gonna be fun! Aunt Trudy was nice enough to find a mystery for us to solve." I told her.

"But seriously, murder?" Joy said as we neared the place called Anubis house.

"We did minor cases in high school Joy. It's not like we can't handle these cases." I said with a shrug.

She sighed. "If you say so."

I grabbed her shoulders and shook her. "Come on, who knows what we're gonna find! It's not like we're being taken to our doom."

"You better be bloody right about that last statement." Joy said and I rolled my eyes as the taxi stopped.

We exited the cab, grabbed our luggage, payed the driver and approached the large slightly creepy looking house. But slightly creppy was just the way I liked everything.

I knocked on the door and a girl with short black wavy hair opened the door. "Hello, may I help you?"

"Hi, I'm Trudy's niece." I said.

"Oh come in! I'm Mara, I live here. I'll go call Trudy right now. You can put down your bags." She said with a smile.

"She seems nice." Joy said as she put down her bag and Mara was out of earshot.

"Yeah but no one is ever as they seem." I said before taking a look around.

The house looked old but elegant. Most of the items looked like they were from the Victorian era and most of all, THEY LOOKED EXPENSIVE. Some of them were obviously from Egypt while others, you can never be sure.

"Girls, you're here!" Aunt Trudy came out and gave me and Joy hugs.

"It's so nice to see you Aunt Trudy!" I said with a smile.

"It's nice to see you too! Thank you so much for agreeing to help solve this little case. Mr. Sweet was a good man." She said dabbing at her eye.

I put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry Aunt Trudy. We'll solve this case no matter what."

She dabbed at her eye one more time and smiled brightly. "Oh I shouldn't be so morose. Come on, let me show you to your room girls."

We picked up our bags and she led us up the staircase to a room with pale blue walls and to simple white walls. In no time at all, that place was transformed into me and Joy's little wonderland with a couple of adjustments.

"I'm so lucky your parents allowed you here. This is quite a dangerous case." Aunt Trudy said as we began to unpack.

"It wasn't much of a challenge. Mom didn't mind much. She doesn't mind me anything I do that much." I said as I sat on the bed and let my face fall.

Joy sat beside me and rubbed my back. "Come on Patricia. If we ever want to get settled in, we'd better start."

"That reminds me girls, I'd better get started on dinner. I'll call the other girls to help you." Aunt Trudy said.

"That's not necessary Aunt Trudy." I began but she shook her head vigorously.

"No, no, no, you're the guests. The boarders here will be your family. I know them so well that it feels like none of them could be the murderer." She said before leaving the room.

That was Aunt Trudy. Always so welcoming and nice. She could see the good in everyone. I wanted to be like her. I could easily spot flaws and know what made this person a suspect. You can't change that about me. No one can.

There was a knock on the door. "Come in!" Joy said as she put some of her clothes in one of the closets.

The door was opened by a girl with wavy light brown hair in a pale blue dress and jeans. "Hi, Trudy said you needed some help?"

"Oh yeah, I'm Patricia, Trudy's niece. This is my best friend, Joy." I introduced us.

"Hi, I'm Nina." She had an American accent. She turned around. "And this is my friend-"

She began to look around the room as if expecting to see her friend there. "Hmmm… I wonder where she went off to."

A girl with long straight blonde hair popped up in the doorway in a pale pink dress that reached right above her knee. "I'm here!"

Nina rolled her eyes. "This is my friend Amber. Amber, this is Patricia, Trudy's niece, and her best friend, Joy."

Amber waved at us. "Alrighty then! I'm off to fix myself up."

Nina grabbed Amber's wrist. "Not so fast Amber. Trudy asked us to help them."

Joy shook her head. "You don't really need to. We can settle ourselves in."

Nina merely shook her head. "I'd rather help you guys than help Amber fix herself up. She's been fixing herself for nearly 4 hours and she doesn't even have a date."

"I can look my best and since it's not that hard to make me, why not?" Amber said with a shrug.

"Because it takes sooooooooo long. Never mind our bickering, we should help Patricia and Joy settle in." Nina said.

Amber heaved a sigh. "If we must. Just make sure I don't ruin my manicure."

Joy smiled to hide the fact that she could have laughed her head off.

We continued to talk as Nina and Amber helped us settle.

"So you're here to solve the little mystery?" Nina said as she placed one of my pictue frames on a bedside table.

"Sort of. It's break where we're from and we'd just like to see what happened around here. It got Aunt Trudy all shook up so I thought I'd check it out." I said as I put one of my red cardigans in my closet.

"I wish I could go to your school. Being on break always means more shopping." Amber said tucking a strand of hair behind her ear.

Nina groaned. "That also means more torture for me."

I laughed. Amber spotted a few evening dresses at the bottom of my pile of my clothes and eyed them. "Those look nice! Why don't you try them on?"

I gulped. "No way! Lip gloss and dresses are NOT my thing." I told her.

She pouted and scratched her head thoughtfully. "I really need a couple of friends who can actually appreciate my taste."

"I'm beginning to think that your taste is just a bit too expensive for anyone Amber." Nina said.

"Unless you were willing to give your totally expensive things to someone poor." Joy said.

Suddenly, the door creaked open. "What the-" Yet, I was never able to say hell.

"ATTACK!" A boy that changed my life shouted and next thing I knew, they threw waterballoons.

Likey? REVIEW PLEASE! I know it's totally lame. I was trying out for an approach that some really cool authors use but I don't know if it's working out. Anyway, let's end this with our victory shout.

P- onder on whether I love you or not.

A-lways know that I do even if you annoy me.

T- ell me that you'll never let me go.

R- isk everything for this love I have with you.

O- ccassionally really pissed because of you but still in love.

M- akes me feel like there is one person who actually cares.

E- nds all the misery & pain.

PATROME!