After a few weeks, the Students of Hartfeld begin to return. The football team returned with a victory and a party followed shortly after at 14 Willow Tree Road…

The sun shone through the purple curtains and onto Mia's face, waking her up from her sleep the following morning. She rolled over resting her head on Chris's chest who appeared to be still asleep. As she snuggled into him, Chris slowly began to stir.

He wrapped his arms around her shoulders to pull her closer to him. He looked down at her with a grin on his face. "I've missed this"

Mia reached up and pressed a kiss onto his lips that lingered for a few seconds "I've missed this too" She responded softly as she slipped back into his arms.

Mia stared up at the ceiling deep in thought, her face vacant. Should she tell him?

Chris noticed her vacant look "Everything okay?"

Mia paused as she mentally prepared what she was going to say next. "Chris…I…I have some news-'' She was interrupted by loud shouting coming from downstairs.

Chris's attention was grabbed by Zack's angry shouts from down stairs. He looked back at Mia "We'll talk later, yeah? When there's less noise"

Mia bit her lip and nodded. "We should probably find out what's going on down there"

She let out a small sigh as he left the room. It was times like that where living in a shared house became difficult, there rarely was any 'private time'.

Mia quickly put on an old top and sweat pants then ran downstairs to catch up with Chris, who was stood in the kitchen along with the rest of the house mates.

"What the hell, what the actual hell?!" Zack continued to shout with Kaitlyn stood next to him with her jaw open in shock as she read the piece of paper in Zacks hands.

"What's going on?" Chris asked cautiously.

"This letter! Has anyone seen this or am I the first one?" Zack responded

All your house mates shake their heads to signify that the letter had not been read.

Zack sighed "The house…it's got so much wrong with it including the boiler that the house needs an inspection…and if the inspector finds anything else, we risk loosing this place…"

Abbie raised an eyebrow "What else is wrong with this place apart from the boiler?"

"The spongy wood that holds the house in place, the windows that we haven't had the funds to replace, the creaky floors, the loose front step… there's a whole list" Kaitlyn responded.

Mia stayed silent, this was not the news she wanted to hear. She couldn't loose the house, not now.

Chris scratched his head "Can we not just fix the issues before the inspector comes?"

Zack shook his head, waving the letter around in the air "The inspector is coming on the weekend. That only leaves us with five days to fix everything. Even then, there could be more issues with the house that we just don't know about."

Mia sighed and pulled out her mobile "Let me call Gabriella. Considering she's the landlady, she may be able to help."

"Gabriella, it's Mia."

"Oh hi, Mia. How are you?"

"Not good, we have a huge problem…"

Mia continued to fill Gabriella in on the news that they've woken up too.

"Mia, I'm sorry. I don't know what to suggest. I don't have much money at the minute with taking care of Rico and all. I can do a little to help but I don't know if it will be enough."

"We really can't lose this place, we have no where to go."

"I'm sorry. Scan me through the letter so I can have a proper look and I'll let you know if I can come up with any sort of solution"

"I'll scan it through to you in a moment. Sorry to spring this all on you"

"No, it's fine. Just take care of yourselves, I'll be in contact again soon"

Mia slammed her phone down on the kitchen side and ran out into the back yard, slamming the door behind her.

Abbie, Becca and Zack moved into the living room with the laptop to find out more information.

Chris and Kaitlyn remained in the kitchen.

Kaitlyn gently nudged Chris "Hey, I was going to follow her out there to speak to her but you'd probably be the best person…"

Chris nodded in agreement and sighed "She's seemed kinda down since we've been back…has she mentioned anything to you?"

"I know what you mean. She's usually so happy and positive but in the last week or so, it seems forced… but no, she's not said anything to me." Kaitlyn shrugged "I know she's my best friend but if she was going to tell anyone anything, it would be you"

"I'll go and speak to her" He replied as he headed towards the back door, grabbing Mia's coat on the way out .

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Chris wandered out into the back yard. He spotted Mia sat on the front steps of the summer house with her head in her hands.

"Mia?" He called out.

She didn't respond. He made his way through the snow and sat down next to her, putting her coat over her shoulders and stroking her hair.

Mia looked up to him, tears streaming down her face. "We can't lose this place. We've made so many memories here already… so much hard work has been put into this house to make it ours"

Chris wrapped his arm around her waist "We might not have a choice. If the worst does happen, we'll just have to temporarily move back into our dorms until something else becomes available."

Mia shook her head "No all the dorms are filled… We'd have to find something off campus… I doubt there would be anywhere available that would fit all of us."

Chris looked down at her and wiped the tears off of her cheeks "If I have to walk half way across town just to be with you, then I will."

She shuffled herself closer to Chris's side and wrapped her arms around him, burying her face into his jumper. "I love you"

"I love you too, gorgeous"

Mia pulled back and looked up to him with a smile on her face.

Chris chuckled "There's that smile I've been missing" he paused briefly "So what was it you wanted to tell me earlier?"

Mia's smile weakened. She analyzed the situation. Earlier that morning felt like the right moment to tell him but that courage was gone and now definitely was not the appropriate time to announce the fact they were going to be parents.

She waved her hand and shook her head "Oh it's nothing, don't worry about it"

He gave her a concerned look but didn't say anything.

Mia broke her eye contact with him and started to stand up "Lets go back inside…It's cold just sat here"

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Mia took her coat off as the warmth of the house hit her then went to join the others, Chris following closely behind.

Kaitlyn gave him a look to question if he'd manage to get anything out of Mia. He subtly shook his head as a response.

Mia took a seat next to Kaitlyn. The rest of the house mates gave her a concerned look. Mia took a deep breath "Guys, I'm good. I just needed a moment to myself… Now have we got any suggestions?"

Abbie screwed her face up and hissed "Sebastian!"

Chris raised an eyebrow "Huh?"

"Well it's obvious. An argument broke out at the party between us, him and Tyler. He then all of a sudden disappears, next thing we know are basement has been broken into and our boilers been sabotaged!" Abbie continued

Becca folded her arms "Ugh, which means it was probably him who reported it to health and safety"

Abbie rolled her eyes "This is all Tyler's fault! If he hadn't of brought Sebas-"

Before Abbie could even finish her sentence, Zack snapped back "Just because your talk didn't go to plan last night, you can't blame this on Tyler! It wasn't him who sabotaged the boiler!"

Mia looked between Abbie and Zack then back to Abbie again "Zack's right, it's not fair for you to blame Tyler. He didn't do this… I'm going to go and find Sebastian… I'm going to try and talk to him."

Everyone started to stand up and edge towards the door.
Mia blocked the door "I think it would be better if I went alone"

The others stepped back and agreed amongst themselves.