"Okay what was up with you at dinner?" Joy questioned as she and Patricia were in their room that same evening. Patricia fiddled with her fingers, as she took a seat on her bed.

"I don't know what you mean Joy," She answered as she looked up at the dark harried girl.

"Well after Jerome brought up Eddie ypu just kind of spaced out, what's up with you?" She nodded and chewed softly on her lip. It seemed to be a habit that she had picked up since the past summer.

"Patricia," Joy sighed. "There is something going on with you, and I'm worried. Besides how did you even meet Eddie in the first place? I didn't even know that he was here, let alone meet him until diner time." Before she could say anything, her phone beeped across the room. She could see Eddie's name pop up on the screen, and she followed Joy's eyes. Joy saw the name too.

"Patricia," She threatened. "Tell me." The redhead got up off of the bed, and picked up her phone. A message from Eddie. She held her breath, and without another glance at Joy, she slowly read the text message.

We need to talk, meet me out on the front lawn.

Patricia nodded to herself, and left the room before Joy could question her even further.


"So you wanted to talk?" She questioned as she took as seat across from Eddie on the grass in the front of Anubis House. Eddie slowly nodded as he watched her fidget with her jacket.

"Look I know that I should have told you this a while back, but I'm sorry okay. I know that you got that voicemail, I meant ever word that I told you," She barely looked up to meet the American's eye.

"Do you seriously expect me to believe that? I saw you kiss that blonde, I didn't just hear about it, I saw it. I know that she kissed you in the first place, but the thing is that you kissed her back,"

"I hoped you would because it's the truth," She shook her head, and started to get up to go, but Eddie gripped her wrist, and pulled her back.

"Eddie," She said between her teeth. He nodded a bit, and she yanked her wrist away from his grip. She didn't turn to look at him as she walked back up to Anubis House.

She bit her bottom lip, and walked up the stairs to her bedroom. Joy was still awake, and she sat cross legged on her bed, a magazine in her lap. Patricia went to her dresser to grab a pair of cotton shorts and a Sick Puppies tee shirt. Just before she exited the room to go and change into her night clothes, Joy's voice filled her ears.

"Don't think that you can get out of our earlier conversation, because you can't,"


The night went by fast, and the next was a Saturday, which meant that the Anubis residents had the weekend off before they officially started school. Like her last night in America, Patricia was up early, five in the morning. She found herself wide awake, he mind focused on the memories of the summer. All those times that she wished, no longed, to see her father. She reached for her cell phone that sat on the bedside table. It was dark in the room as the sun was still not in the sky. She lowered the volume of the phone and began to scroll through her pictures. The first one almost made her choke on her own spit, she had forgotten about it. It was from the night of the date, she and Eddie's date to be exact. Their smiling faces were pointed towards the camera, and it almost brought a smile to her own lips to look at them. She shut her eyes, pressed the lock on her phone, and threw it down by the foot of her bed. With her eyes closed she let a couple tears escape. She somehow wanted it to be the summer again, and she wanted to be back with Eddie, back with her Aunt Marie. Away from this house, away from Joy, away from her guilt, and away from England.

She wanted to crawl down the stairs of Anubis, and into Eddie's room, that he shared with Mick, into his arms, to tell him that he excepted his apology, but she knew that it wasn't that simple. They still needed to talk, she still needed how she truly felt about him. She longed to feel his lips on her own again, to fell his kiss, and to feel his breath as he pulled away to plant a kiss on top of her head. She knew the truth, she knew that she missed him, but she didn't want to tell anyone the truth except for him. With Eddie on her thoughts she shut her eyes and tried to fall asleep, but she couldn't. There was to much on her mind. Her cell phone beeped softly from where it laid by her feet, and she reached down to pick it up. A text, and a familiar name popped up on the screen.

Yacker? Are you up? She smiled a little bit, but she really wanted to text the American back, but she knew that if she did, then she would be in the zone with him again. The zone where she could to easily be hurt and crushed by him again, and she didn't know if her heart could take that again.


So there you all go, another chapter! I hope that I can post the next one soon! Thank you for the reviews! Keep it up! :)