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Sorry for the wait. One word: Homework.

Joy hesitantly got up from her seat and walked to Mr. Sweet. She couldn't help noticed that concerned look on Mick's face. She couldn't blame him, she, too, was worried about what was going to happen. Joy followed Mr. Sweet as they walked to his office. Joy knew everything was definitely different. Instead of going straight outside last time, she was currently sitting in his office.

"Now Joy," started Eric.

"I'm not the Chosen One!" Joy blurted out, interrupting Mr. Sweet.

"What?" He immediately sat up.

"I was born on 7 July 15 o'clock," replied Joy.

"Yes I know that," answered Eric.

"So you're not going to whisk me away and ruin my life?"

"…No. Now why would I do that?"

"Uh…" Joy stared at her feet awkwardly. This was definitely different from last time.

"Anyway," said Eric, "I came here to tell you about your father."

Joy's eyebrows furrowed, "What about my dad?"

Eric sighed, "He had called me and told me to tell you that his business is down. He says, if you want, you can take a year off of school. But that's your choice."

Joy barely hesitated, "I want to stay. I'll only be another obstacle for my dad. Besides, I don't want to fall behind in school or anything."

"Ah, good choice, Ms. Mercer," replied Mr. Sweet, "Perhaps you want to talk to your dad. Or do you want me to do it for you?"

"Um, I can talk to him tonight, I guess," said Joy. That was the least of her problems.

Eric nodded, "Good, you may leave." Joy quickly stood up and exited his office. Once out in the hallway, Joy let out a nervous breath of relief. Instead of heading straight for French class, Joy made a split second decision and left for the House.

"Anubis estate was originally built in 1890," Victor lectured. Eddie groaned and rolled his eyes as Trudy and Nina stood there looking amused, "Although it wasn't actually named Anubis until 1922…"

"Oh!" Trudy interrupted, "they don't care about all that boringness, Victor. They're teenagers! It's all about hormones… and vampires." Eddie and Nina held back a snicker. Trudy went on, and pulled Nina with her as the boys followed, "Now, this is the living room through here, sweeties."

Eddie looked around and everything seemed younger, cleaner if you'd like.

"Everything's so old and beautiful," commented Nina, remembering her first time stepping into the house.

"The house must have a ton of stories," Eddie muttered as he poked the crocodile on the table.

Trudy pointed to the kitchen, "I serve breakfast and evening meals, delicious." Nina and Eddie found the portrait of the Frobisher-Smythes.

"Mr. and Mrs. Frobisher-Smythe. The original inhabitants…" Victor said, "They died. Very tragic, isn't it?"

Trudy laughed nervously in the back, "Always off beat, right. Shall I show you both where you are sleeping?"

"Ah, Trudy," Victor butted in, "We have new sleeping arrangements. So if you don't mind, let us keeper new… residents in the commons area. Shall we?" Trudy didn't have time to reply as Victor abruptly exited the room.

Trudy took a step hesitantly to follow Victor. She turned to the two teenagers, "Just stay here. Make yourselves at home. I'm going to talk to Victor." Nina and Eddie nodded as Trudy went to find Victor.

The two settled themselves in opposite seats in the common room. Eddie sighed, "So this is how your first day went, I take it? And why didn't we have Trudy as our housemother. She's certainly nicer than Vera."

"My first day went a bit differently."

"Really? How so?"

"I moved in with Patricia immediately and… Oh no, Joy went missing!" Nina jumped up.

"What?"

"Joy, I totally forgot! She went missing while I was here in the House, unpacking my things!"

"Wait, look at it this way. If your first day didn't go so much like this… maybe Joy won't go missing."

"Or we are all re-living the whole year."

Eddie groaned, "Gosh, that would be torture! A whole year learning things we've already learned before!"

"Eddie!"

"Oh, right. So how do we find our if we are re-living the whole year?"

"Hmm…" Nina thought to herself. "I know! The Cup of Ankh clues in the hallway!"

"The cup of what?"

"C'mon." The two snuck into the hallway. They heard Trudy and Victor talking in the girl's hallway.

"You keep guard up there and I'll… um…" Nina said.

"Do your thing?" Eddie suggested.

"Right." Eddie ran off upstairs as Nina stayed by the staircase.

'Okay, what was that clue again?', Nina thought to herself, 'Under the eyes of Horus a globe and hollow lie, two right for eternity and just one left to die.' Without any more hesitation, she turned the globe twice to the right. It snapped open. Nina pulled it out, and was shocked to find nothing. There was nothing under the globe. Nina looked back into the post, but the hollow part only went as deep as 6 inches.

"Eddie!" Nina hissed as she put the globe back on the post. Eddie turned his attention to her at the wrong moment.

"Where do you think you're going, Edison Sweet?" Victor stepped into view with his arms crossed as Trudy followed behind him.

"I was just, um, looking for the bathroom," Eddie lied quickly.

"The boys' toilets are downstairs," said Victor, "And I don't want to catch you in the girls' bathroom, clear?"

"As a puddle," Eddie mumbled and trudged down the stairs and whispering as he passed Nina, "Thanks a lot." He turned into the boys' bathroom and shut the door.

"Ms. Martin," Victor said from the staircase, "I want you and Eddie to stay in the commons area. You are not to leave unless I say so."

"Okay," Nina responded as she waltzed back into the common room.

"Get off! Alfie sto-"

Patricia approached the two jokers, "Have you guys seen Joy?"

"Dardar dar dar, dar dardar?" Alfie said.

Jerome laughed, "Yeah, about this tall, dark hair?"

"Haha," Patricia replied sarcastically, "Now I've just been to Sweetie's office, and she's not there."

"Maybe she's gone back to the house," Jerome suggested.

"Yeah," Patricia agreed, shoving her way past the two.

Nina and Eddie sat in the common room. Nina had finished telling her story of what had entirely happened in Anubis House for the two years she was there.

"That's a lot to go through," Eddie commented.

"Thankfully, we won't have to go through it again," Nina muttered. Suddenly, a light erupted from the fireplace. The two teens jumped in their seats as the light gradually dimmed, revealing an old woman.

"Did you see that!" exclaimed Eddie, fearing it was just his Osirian-ness acting up.

"Sarah?"

"That old woman you were talking about that had died?" Eddie asked. Nina glared at him. Eddie went on, "Why can I see her?"

"Shh!" Nina exclaimed. The two turned their attention to the smiling Sarah.

"Ah, so this is your Osirian," Sarah raised an eyebrow at Eddie. Eddie shifted, feeling uncomfortable under the glowing woman's (ghost's?) gaze. Sarah turned her attention to Nina instead, "I suppose you are wondering why you're here." Before she could go on, Joy walked into the common room.

"Eddie, Nina, are you- Woah! Why is there a glowing old woman in the middle of the room?" Joy said.

"You can see her?" Nina asked, bewildered.

"Well, yeah, she's basically the brightest thing in the room. Why are the light's closed?"

"The third key," Sarah whispered.

"Huh?" All three teenagers asked.

"As I was saying, I suppose you are all wondering why you are here. In this time period."

"Yeah. Sarah, what's going on?" Nina asked.

"The memory wipe," Sarah said.

"What's that?" asked Joy.

"Everybody in this school, people you have all met has had their memory wiped and rewinded to this day. They do not know what has happened, and they simply think it is only 2011."

"You mean it's not 2011?" Joy questioned.

"Yes and no," answered Sarah. She added, "Everybody thinks it's only 2011. But in reality it is 2012. But you are the only ones aware of that."

"Can you, erm, explain a bit more, please?" Eddie begged.

"Certainly," said Sarah, "There is a shooting star that comes every 500 years. When the shooting star passes, those who look up at it or make a wish will have people they know have their memories 'wiped' or reset to the appropriate or desired time. The only exception is that a Chosen One and their Protector will remember, if the 'wisher' knows them."

"So you're saying that Nina and I remember because we're the Paragon and Osirian. But why does Joy and Mick remember?" Eddie asked.

"Ah, so there is a fourth key," Sarah muttered to herself. She then answered Eddie's question, "Perhaps, she is a witness or a wisher."

The two americans turned to Joy. Nina spoke, "You saw the shooting star?"

"Um, no," Joy stuttered.

"You wished for this to happen?" Eddie questioned.

"No!" exclaimed Joy.

Sarah spoke, "Maybe not intentionally." The three stood in silence, pondering the idea.

Nina looked at Sarah, "How do we retrieve our friends memories back then?"

Sarah smiled, "You will have to go on another quest, of course."

"A mystery?" Eddie asked, "I'm pretty sure the only one here who has had any experience with a whole mystery is Nina. But she had Fabian the geek and Amber the oh-so-brilliant to help her."

"You're forgetting your girlfriend, Eddie," Nina muttered.

"Oh yeah, and Yacker and Alfie."

"Then, from what I hear, the four of you who still have your memories will have to work together instead."

"You want us to include Mick?"

"He has no other choice," Sarah replied as she vanished. Nina sighed in defeat.

"Explanations, explanations," sang Eddie.

"Actually, I kind of already did tell him a few things," Joy confessed. Nina and Eddie stared at her. Joy added, "I didn't know you guys would still remember everything, so I just thought that I have nothing to lose."

"You're right," agreed Nina, "We need as much help as we can get."

"Hey!" Eddie exclaimed suddenly, "Let's all head out to the Frobisher-Smythe library. Maybe we could find things that could help us over there."

"Like?"

"Like a book or something."

"It's a library, Eddie. Of course we'll find a book."

"Whatever."

The door opened behind them and the three teens turned their attention to the person. From the door emerged Patricia with a concerned look on her face. The concerned look melted away as soon as she spotted Joy.

"There you are Joy," said Patricia as she went over to her friend, "I was looking for you in school when-… What are the newbies doing here?"

"We live here now Yacker," Eddie replied.

Patricia seemed taken aback, "Excuse me?"

"Yup. Yacker, you talk a lot, and if you don't mind, we're going to the-" Eddie was interrupted when Nina stomped on his foot.

"We're going to make hoagies aren't we?" Nina sent a glare to Eddie.

"Um, yeah… Sure we are. Hoagies… in the kitchen… food... now that I think about it, I'm getting a bit hungry..."

"What's a hoagie?" Patricia asked, then brushed it off, "Anyway, what are you doing here? Class starts in a few minutes!"

"I was looking for my biology notebook," Joy lied taking out her 'missing' biology notebook from her bag.

"Well, c'mon, we can't be late," said Patricia, "Unless you want to be ratted out by 'ole Sweetie."

"If you are," Eddie butted in, "Tell him you were talking to Eddie Miller, yeah?" Joy mouthed 'why' at Eddie but he only sent her a look that either meant I stepped on a mini Lego or just go with it. Joy chose the latter option.

"Why would that matter?" Patricia questioned.

"Just do it, okay?" Eddie said, pushing the girls out of the house.

Once Patricia and Joy were outside Patricia turned to Joy and asked, "Who were those guys?"

"Like I said, they're my friends," Joy answered.

"No, I mean why are they here and what's their names?"

"Oh, Nina, she's the girl… obviously. But she got here on a scholarship. Eddie got here on a… late acceptance."

"What kind of name is Eddie?" Patricia wondered aloud. She noticed a smile on Joy's face. "What?"

"You like him don't you?" Joy said. She already knew they were going to end up together. So why not play along and get them together faster?

"What!" exclaimed Patricia, "I barely talked to him for 3 seconds and he calls me a Yacker… whatever that means."

"C'mon Patricia, I know you like him," teased Joy.

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!"

"Do too!"

"DO NOT!"

"Fine," said Joy, "Whatever makes you happy when you're with him. Besides, you didn't even deny that you liked him."

"Joy!"

"Ugh, I'll give you a week and let's see your opinion on him," Joy challenged.

Patricia rolled her eyes, "Whatever, but I'll tell you right now my opinion isn't going to change."

"I'll bet you 20 on that."

"Deal."

"You know, it would be wise not to make a bet you know you're going to lose."

"You might as well hand me your 20 now because I'm not going to lose," Patricia said. The bell rang and the two, who were still walking outside, ran to their classes.

Re-update 9/14 8:25 PM Pacific Time: Sorry, I forgot to recap for those who are confused or something.

Recap:
Joy doesn't go missing
Nina finds that a Cup of Ankh piece isn't where it should be
Eddie knows that the library is a place for books.
Sarah appears
Joy, Eddie, and Nina find out that everybody they had met had their memories 'reset' to the year Nina first arrived.
Joy and Mick are the third and fourth keys.
Mick needs to join Sibuna.
Patricia and Joy have a bet on Patricia's feelings for Eddie.

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