So now you guys hate me because I didn't update when I said I would…I'm so sorry, it's just last week was absolute insanity for me, I had so many quizzes and things due and then exams to study for this week. I really do sincerely apologize, but I also felt like I owed my readers of my other story to update for them too, so I did that first since I waited to update that for longer. Thanks for all of your support and being so patient. Daddy Directioner, I so appreciate your follow and favorite! Neddie24Surviver I know we talked about it already, but thanks for reviewing:) from a hopeless teen you're so sweet, I'm glad you're enjoying it so far and that you like having Trudy, it definitely is weird to imagine her being like 60 though! KayBear365, you're excitement just made me smile, I'm so happy you like it. NicoleDWalker1, I'm really glad you are liking it so far, hopefully chapter 1 will bring just as much if not more than chapter 1!
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Disclaimer: I do not own House of Anubis or most of the OCs in this story, or any songs, prouducts, etc. that I mention. I only own my storylines, Ruby, and my OCs from other stories.
Justine's POV
"Ruby, Ruby…" Vanessa and I coaxed Ruby awake, I shook her shoulder gently. It was only midnight, but Ruby's yelps and flailing had woken us both up after lights out.
"Mmm!" Ruby groaned, swatting my arm away and jerking her head left. "I don't know!"
I flicked her arm, shouting "Ruby!"
"I don't know who that is!" Ruby screamed bolting up, wide-eyed, she and Vanessa bonking foreheads. I cringed, feeling a bit responsible.
"Ow!" Vanessa cried, pressing her palm against her forehead.
"What? Who…sorry," Ruby muttered groggily, grimacing as she rubbed her own forehead.
"Sorry, kinda my fault…" I apologized. "Anyway, Ruby are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine…just a bad…a bad dream…" she lied, trying to put it off as no big deal.
"Well who are you looking for then?" Vanessa rejoined, nosily. I made a "seriously?" face at her. She shrugged. "What?! If I'm going to have a headache, I might as well find out what's going on."
"Nothing is going on! Let's just go back to sleep! I'm fine! I'm sorry for waking you up!" Ruby huffed, flopping down as she pulled her multi-color chevron printed sheets over her shoulder.
"Ok, we're not stupid," I refuted. Ruby chuckled when I eyed Vanessa, second-guessing my statement for the both of us.
"Wha…hey!" she shrieked, crossing her arms. "But really, you were squirming all over the place Ruby."
"Ok…I don't know what's going on…" Ruby sighed. "I just keep hearing things…and I don't…just, let's not talk about it right now, maybe in the morning."
"Fine," Vanessa whined, dragging her feet as she shuffled back to her frilly blue covered bed.
"Ok," I agreed firmly, understanding, then sauntered back to my own bed, kicking my purple body pillow that matches the large violet and mauve flowers on my black bedspread. I couldn't help but think of, surprisingly not the Ruby weirdness, but Matthew as I tried to fall back to sleep.
I woke up around 6. I wondered where Vanessa was because I hadn't heard her get up but her bed was empty. Ruby was still asleep, so I grabbed my new, clean, uniform that I was being forced to wear for the first day of school and set out simple black flats, before heading to the shower.
I caught my mind drifting to Matthew again. I tried to shake the thoughts, I didn't like him, we were just friends. We had gotten to know each other when he moved to America, a few years back, before his dad got the job offer here at the school. I really shouldn't have told everyone his secret and I should've at least let him know I was coming, I thought, feeling a bit guilty.
I decided I would go talk to him before breakfast. I ran into Dani, who was as chipper as ever for 6:30 AM, as I went back to my room. I pulled on sheer, black, lattice-printed tights under my gray skirt and slipped on my shoes.
"Morning," Ruby grumbled, scratching her head as she stood up. "I think I'll go shower."
"Yeah okay," I replied, moving in front of the mirror to give my outfit a final check. With my roommates gone, I decided to play music while I did my make-up. I pressed shuffle on my black I-phone 4s and Avril Lavigne's Complicated began blaring. I wondered if my phone was reading my mind. Of course this is the song that would play.
Before I knew it, I was smudging my eye shadow, re-adjusting my maroon blazer, marching down the stairs, knocking on the door to Matthew's room and standing face to face with Nathan, who had just answered it. "Umm hi?" he said, crinkling his eyebrows at me quizzically.
"Is Matthew here?" I blurted, it was a little rude, but I was nervous.
"Sure," Nathan replied, curtly. "Matt! Justine's here!"
"Oh hi," he greeted with a wide grin as he came to the door, also dressed for school.
"Hi," I replied, barely smiling back. "Listen…"
"I'm gonna go eat," Nathan interrupted, shoving past us. Matthew and I shifted awkwardly.
"I'm sorry about not telling you…" I tried again.
"Don't even worry about it!" he reassured. "I think it'll be cool having you here.
"Great…" I said, firmly, excitedly, any other words I'd planned on saying disappearing. Matthew moved a bit closer, invading my personal space.
"No one texted me to come back!" Vanessa exclaimed frantically as she rushed in the door, beads of sweat on her forehead. Matthew and I jumped apart.
"You didn't tell us where you went!" I reminded bluntly.
"Oh right, well I was…" she trailed off as Nathan came out of the kitchen with a plate full of pancakes, humming.
"Hey Vanessa!" he called. "Looks like you had a nice run!"
"Yeah…I did thanks!" she chimed, blushing. "See he knows where I went!"
"I mean you're covered in sweat," Matthew told her, I stifled a laugh as she looked down at her neon pink Nikes with electric blue swooshes and soles.
"Right…well I better go get ready for school!" she managed, darting up the stairs.
"Ready for your first day lovelies?!" Trudy asked, jetting out of the kitchen. "You need to come eat!"
At breakfast, I saw how everyone put their own spin on the de-individualizing uniforms. Dani's white knee socks had hot pink, red and gray argyle printed on the sides. Asther replaced his button up with a black and white striped t-shirt. Robin added touches of red and blue with accessories, and Vanessa, did the same with pastel blue. Ariadne had on her favorite knee-high black boots and both Logan and Ashton wore tennis shoes. Others simply untucked their shirt or wore their tie differently.
Breakfast was fairly quiet, as everyone wolfed down Trudy's meal. "And here's more eggs," Trudy said, setting a skillet down on the table.
"Trudy, have you ever heard of someone named Nina?" Ruby asked, meekly, as Trudy headed back to the kitchen.
Trudy whirled back around, looking at Ruby skeptically. "Why yes I think so, an American girl Nina, lived here a long time ago now, sweet girl…"
"Really, oh, uh thanks Trudy!" Ruby replied, then picked at the food on her plate with her fork, as if everyone wasn't so interested in what she'd said.
"A word, Ruby?" I requested, sharply. Both Vanessa and I stood up.
Ruby rose slowly, hunched over and followed us into the entry hall.
"This is about your dream isn't it?!" I hissed.
"Kind of…" she admitted.
"Well…" Vanessa invited her to explain, tapping her foot impatiently.
"I really don't know! Someone…something…a voice told me to find Nina," she whispered.
"Well who's Nina and why is she of importance to you?" I interrogated.
"I told you I don't know! Would we be having this conversation if I did?!" she growled.
"No need to fight," Vanessa intervened. "Besides, this girl is American, so how are we supposed to find her anyway?"
Silence. None of us had any ideas.
"It's easy, you find someone who knew her," A different voice informed us. We whipped around to see Ariadne leaning against the wall by the kitchen door.
"What?... How?..." Vanessa stuttered.
"You need to learn to be more secretive," Ariadne remarked. "We're not all as oblivious as you think."
"How much do you know?" Ruby panicked, gulping.
"Enough," Ariadne taunted, "You might as well just let me help."
Vanessa's face looked like she'd just eaten something sour, or maybe ate Laffy Taffy since she apparently hates that. Ruby looked shocked. I hoped my frustration wasn't visible.
"So what's your idea then?" I challenged.
"The headmaster Mr. Miller," she eluded, waiting.
"Who cares about Mr. Miller!" Vanessa snapped.
"We should," I realized, "he went here right?! He might know something about this Nina girl!...Ariadne you're a genius." She just smirked knowingly.
"C'mon we've got to get to school early then!" Ruby urged, scampering into the dining room to grab her school bag, the other three of us did the same.
"Mr. Miller thank you so much for agreeing to meet with us before school!" Ruby gushed.
"Anytime, it's always nice to connect with the students and gives me the opportunity to meet our new faces and catch up with the older ones," he noted.
"Yeah, yeah, that's nice," I rushed, anxious to get to the point, "but is there anything you can tell us…"
"What she means to say," Ruby corrected, cutting me off, looking at me with one eyebrow arched. "Is that I've learned about someone named Nina and I was wondering if you knew any Ninas and if you could tell me anything about her?...Well if you did know one."
Mr. Miller looked completely perplexed. He opened his mouth, trying to speak, but only drew in a breath.
"Already causing trouble on the first day!" a voice boomed, and Alec was shoved through the doorway followed by an abnormally skinny young woman, her platinum blond hair tightly gathered in a bun.
"Good Morning to you too, Ms. Boulstridge," Mr. Miller griped.
The woman scowled back. "This young man has tried to steal my cellular phone," she grouched.
"It was a dare," Alec defended, not actually helping himself.
"Oh phone call!" Mr. Miller faked. "If everyone would please step out of my office, Ms. Boulstridge, I'll deal with…"
"Alec," he introduced himself, grumpily.
"Alec, I'll deal with Alec in a few minutes, I believe this is the phone call I've been waiting on for a while," Mr. Miller beguiled, I think we could all clearly tell he wasn't receiving a call.
"But…" I started, only to be dragged out of the office by Vanessa and Ruby, Ariadne just ahead of them and Alec behind us, followed by Ms. Boulstridge, who slammed the door shut, glaring at us each as she passed by.
"Well she's scary!" Alec commented.
"Shh!" the four of us girls shushed him.
"Wait what are you guys doing here? Ruby, you seemed weird earlier are you alright? Somebody tell me what's going on, what are you doing?" Alec questioned, seeing us stick our ears to the crack in the door.
"Shhhh!" we hushed him again, listening intently. He leaned over to listen at the door too.
"Nina? It's Eddie…I think we have a problem…" I heard Mr. Miller say. A problem?! What kind of problem?! "Yeah, I think it's starting again."
"Hey, Nina's that girl you mentioned earlier right Ruby?" Alec clarified.
"Alec!" Ruby spat, smacking his shoulder with the back of her hand, just as the office door swung open.
So what does Ruby's dream mean? Do we know all of it? What will Eddie do with them? Who is Ms. Boulstridge? Who all is going to be drawn into the mystery? Did anyone else enjoy our Mattine and Nathessa moments?
Well I hope you guys liked the chapter, I know everyone wasn't as involved, I promise they'll start to be, I just have to start somewhere, so please don't be too upset with me; all characters will have a chance to have the chapter in their POV. Next chapter will be our first Male POV I think! Also, I try really hard to update for you guys and just because I have so much fun writing, but it is very time consuming for me and I am so busy I can't even explain to you guys, so again thanks for your patience, I hope you'll continue to be able to deal with waiting. On breaks like maybe Thanksgiving and Christmas, I should have an easier time updating. Of course, let me know if you're unhappy about how I portrayed your character, so I can change it and also feel free to share your ideas or things you'd like to see:) You guys are the best!
P.S. Thinking about changing the title, so here are my choices, I'll also create a poll if you'd rather not review! Let me know if you have any input or other suggestions!
-Keep it the same, I still like Anubis Revisited
-New Title: Repeating History
-New Title: Chasing the Past