A/N: Sorry it's been so long since my last update guys, now that marching season is over I should have more free time. Key word should. I apologize if anyone seems OOC, especially Patricia. There is a swear word in this chapter, don't say I didn't warn you, but it seemed necessary at the time I was writing it to get the point across. Disclaimer: I do not own House of Anubis.

Monday July, 5 2015

When the girls got upstairs, we decided who would room with who for the few days we'll be staying here.

Mara, Joy, K.T, and Willow will be sharing their old room, and Patricia, Amber, and I will be sharing Sarah's room.

Patricia still won't speak directly to me, and ignores me whenever I try to talk to her.

"Will you switch rooms with me Mara?" She asks.

Mara looks at me avoiding eye contact before answering Patricia.

"Sorry Trixie, but the four of us really want to room together, and you're being immature. Just talk to Nina already."

"What is going on up here? It's past ten!" Victor bellowed as he entered the girl's corridor.

Mara quickly ducked into her room, so Victor turned to Patricia and I. "Well?!"

"I don't want to share with her." Patricia sneered as she gestured to me.

"You know what, its fine. Half of my stuff is in a pile on the floor anyway, I'll just sleep on the couch or something." I said trying to avoid another argument with Patricia. Getting on her bad side never ends well.

"No one is going anywhere! Go to bed and quiet down." With that said, Victor returned to his office and Patricia and I silently returned to our room. I need to talk to her tomorrow.

Tuesday July, 6 2015

I woke up the next morning to an empty room, everyone else was already down at breakfast. When I walked in, I couldn't help but notice that Mara was sitting at the head of the table on Fabian's left. That's my seat, I thought trying to ignore the pang of jealousy I felt whenever I saw those two together.

I turned to Patricia, ready to set things right, only to see her holding a glass of orange juice poised to dump on me. I grimaced as the sticky liquid ran into my eyes. "I guess I deserved that." I said as the room went quiet. "We need to talk, Patricia."

However, she still continued to ignore me. "Why are you still ignoring her, Yacker?" Eddie asked.

"I'm only doing to her what she did to us."

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind, Patricia." Mara warned.

"Stay out this Mara!" She snapped.

"Patricia I know you're upset, but please come with me to our room so we can sort this out." I headed upstairs and she followed me, closing the door behind her. She was silent. Uh oh. A silent, angry Patricia is a ticking time bomb, and she's about to blow up.

"Patricia, I know what I did was wrong, but..."

"No 'buts' Nina, I don't want to hear your excuses. You could've at least answered our calls and messages, let us know you were still alive! Do you know how worried we all were? Rufus, Senkhara, or some other psychopath could've kidnapped you or killed you and we wouldn't even have had a clue!" Before I could get a word in edgewise, Patricia picked up her argument again raising her voice with every word. I'm sure they could hear us downstairs. In fact, I'm sure all of England heard us.

"Do you know how devastated Fabian was when you didn't come back? Did you have to break up with him through a fucking letter! You let us worry about you and didn't even bother to contact us. What kind of a friend does that, huh? Did you even care about us at all?! " She was practically screaming at this point.

Her words hit home. I know I hurt my friends, but I only wanted to protect them.

"Of course I care about you."

"Yet it was so easy to forget all about us, wasn't it? Not give us a second thought, yeah?"

"I could never forget about you. Never. You all became family to me, and while families feud we still stick together and love each other. You were there for me, and I'm sorry I wasn't always here for you, but I wanted to protect you. Something terrible would've happened if I stayed and I couldn't let any of you get hurt. You've been through enough because of me and stupid Egyptian curses, I couldn't let it happen again! I'd do anything to keep you safe, even if it means I have to stay away. Did you ever think how much it hurt me to leave everyone? Contact would've made it so much worse, to know exactly what I was missing out on, but unable to do anything about it." By this point we both had tears starting to fall.

"Oh, Nina." Patricia whispered as she pulled me into a hug. "I'm so sorry. I let my own feelings get in the way of not considering yours at all."

"Did Patricia 'I'm never sorry' Williamson just, apologize?" I acted surprised, and indeed I was. She almost never cries or apologizes, and the fact that she's standing in front of me doing both shows me just how upset she really was.

"I guess I did."

"Are we on speaking terms again?" I ask hopefully.

"Yeah. Friends?"

"Definitely. Patricia, would you mind being the first person I interview?"

"Sure, I guess. Ask away."

I pull out my tape recorder to record her answer. "So Patricia, what does friendship mean to you?"

Alfie's P.O.V

I can hear Trixie arguing with Nina. After some shouting, a swear word from Trixie, and some more shouting, they seemed to have resolved their argument.

The girls were still upstairs, but nothing too interesting was happening so the rest of us sat in the common room waiting for them to come down.

"Hey mate, what do you say we plan a little prank on our old friends here. It'll be like a trip to the past, for old time's sake. Lewis and Clarke, pranksters extraordinaire!"

"Sure man, sounds like fun." I wasn't really listening to what Jerome was saying, and I guess he noticed.

"Alfie, buddy. Are you alright? Pranks have always been our thing, why aren't you excited?" He asked me, a note of worry in his voice.

"I'm fine, just confused is all."

"What about?"

"Willow and Amber. I mean I love Willow, but I don't think I'm in love with her. We're so alike, and Amber's exactly opposite. Now that Amber's back, I realize that I missed her more than I thought, and I don't know how to feel about that."

"Well opposites do attract, and you spent so long chasing Amber that maybe you still have some feelings for her. Talk to Willow, see if she still feels sparks and, if she doesn't, well you know what to do."

"Thanks, man."

A/N: Hope you enjoyed that, thanks to all of my reviewers, especially FABINALIVES and houseofanubisfan2 for your wonderful advice and p.m.'s. As promised last time, if you review I'll send you a preview. If I forgot to send you one please pm me to let me know and I'll make it up to you. Thanks also to my guest reviewers. Love you guys! ;)