"So, how was it with Victor?" Patricia asked when Lily came up the stairs.
"Patricia, stop." Lily answered and blushed.
"Come on, did he kiss you?"
"No. We hugged."
"Oooh" Patricia teased and went to her room.
Lily walked into her room and saw Mara unpacking.
"Mara!"
"Lily!"
Both girls shouted and hugged each other.
"So, you still into Victor?" Mara asked.
Lily nodded and blushed again.
"You still okay with me?" she asked.
"Of course silly." Mara answered and hugged her friend again. "This term. You are going to sweep him off his feet so he will be much nicer to all of us."
"Sure." Lily laughed.
After a long day Lily and everyone else were tired. Tomorrow the school would begin. Lily felt a little nervous. It was so funny to be back again and her mind was of course with Victor. He was so cute when he had hugged her today. It felt good and she missed it already.
"It is ten o'clock. You will have five minutes precisely, and then I want to hear a pin drop!" Victor shouted from downstairs. Lily shivered when she heard that. She had missed him so much, his voice, the decisiveness in his voice. It was wonderful.
"Ohh, I just love that man." Lily said to Mara.
"I don't quite understand why you do, but I won't judge you." Mara answered. "Good night."
"Night."
Lily was happy when school began. There was a new teacher, mrs Denby, who was pretty cool, but still a bit strange somehow. But Lily didn't have time to think about that. She looked at Mara and Jerome who looked so happy together. Love, was wonderful, she thought. Poor Fabian, was very upset about Nina and his friends tried to cheer him up with Sibuna, but he insisted there was no Sibuna without Nina. Eddie spent quite much time with the new girl KT and some new girl Willow was following Amber all the time. She seemed to admire her, for some reason. This Willow was kinda funny. So overly positive all the time. And she sometimes spent time at the Anubis house.
After dinner Lily couldn't wait to pay a visit to Victors office. She went up the stairs and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Victor called and she opened the door.
"Lily, how can I help you?" Victor asked. Lily came in and closed the door.
"Well, I just wanted to say hello." she said.
"Say hello?" Victor said with an eyebrow raised.
"Yes, to Corbiere of course. I haven't seen him all summer." she continued fast.
"Feel free to." Victor said and gestured towards the bird on the table.
"Hello Corbiere." Lily said and stroke the black ravens feathers.
"So, did you two have a nice summer?" Lily asked.
"I suppose." Victor answered. "Did you?"
"Yes. You know, my dad went to Egypt so I asked him to bring some souvenirs and I got something for you." Lily said and took a tiny little pyramid key fob out of her pocket.
"For me?" Victor asked. He was surprised.
"Yes. I thought you might like it." Lily said and gave him the key fob.
"Well, thank you very much dear." Victor said and smiled. "How thoughtful of you to think of me in the summer." He looked at the tiny pyramid in his hands and was amazed.
"It is supposed to bring luck." Lily said.
"Yes. I can see the ankh symbol." Victor said. "Thank you. Luck is something we all need."
They were quiet for a moment and looked at each other. She wanted to hug him or kiss him but didn't dare to.
"Well, I'll just be going then. Just wanted to give you that." Lily said nervously and went to the door.
"All right. Well, thanks again for this key fob." Victor answered as nervously as her.
"I'm glad you liked it." Lily said and went out. "Bye Corbiere." she said and waved at the stuffed bird on the table and closed the door.