More Than I Should

The rest of the day dragged on for Patricia. She saw too much of Eddie. She just wanted to pretend he wasn't there. Pretend he wasn't already way too close to KT for Patricia's liking. They weren't in a relationship, nothing was going to prevent him from moving on. He was a free bird. They were friends, they weren't anything more now.

Of course it occurred to Patricia that there was the slim chance she had overreacted. Just a minor chance she was upset over nothing. She was upset that he had said they were friends. She was upset he didn't say that they had dated. She was upset he sat next to KT. Mostly she was upset at herself.

Eddie had no clue what he wanted right now. He wanted to talk to Patricia. He wasn't sure what he had even done to upset her in the first place. Past experience lead him to believe he should just confront her, but other past experiences made him want to just give her some time to cool off before he tried to talk to her. Thats what he decided to do, just give her a few days to herself.

He'd try to talk to her in a few days. Not only would it allow her to cool off but also give him time to think. He needed to figure out what to say and how to say it. Just a few days was all he needed.

Patricia was the first one back to the house. She had stormed up to the room she shared with KT and Joy. She threw her bag to the floor and threw herself on the bed. She let a muffled scream out into her pillow. Her anger finally spewing over. Then her anger turning into a few brief tears. Suddenly reminded that it was her own fault in the first place. After all she had broken up with him. It was a stupid reason, she could admit that. Well she could admit it to herself anyways, admitting it to him or anyone else that? Well that seemed impossible.

She buried her face deeper into her pillow. She was hoping her roommates would ignore her when they came up to change out of their school clothes and then head wherever to do homework. Patricia didn't stir when she heard the door open, she kept her face buried in the pillow.

"Patty."

"What," Patricia growled into her pillow. Sure she was thankful that Joy was the one to come into the room and not KT.

"About you and Eddie. What happened today? Yesterday you were excited and happy because he was here. Now today you've been mad."

"I was just being nice to the newbie, and today I found out he was a rat," Patricia spat, still keeping her face into her pillow.

"He's the guy from this summer Patricia. If you didn't want me to find out you should've deleted that chum chatter picture. So what happened," Joy's voice rang through the room.

"Fine we were friends."

"There's more to it than that Patricia. When are you going to tell me the truth about you and Eddie," she heard Joy question. This finally got Patricia to sit up. Though it was only to attempt to change the subject.

"How about after you tell me the truth about you and Jerome," Patricia spat. Joy and Mick had barely broken up, but Joy had been close to Jerome for quite awhile. Patricia figured it had something to do with the two weeks she hasn't heard from Joy over the summer. The only thing Patricia knew about those two weeks was that Joy and Mick had broken up for some reason. She also knew that Joy and Jerome were sure acting weird around each other.

"There is no me and Jerome."

"Good. There is no and there was no me and Eddie," Patricia snapped. Joy didn't respond instead just left the room. She would likely go do homework with whoever remained in the house.

Patricia stewed in silence. Not wanting to touch her homework. She didn't want to leave her bed the rest of the night, but figured she needed to make an appearance at dinner. She didn't want to draw more of the houses attention to the Eddie situation. They knew they were friends, and thats all the needed to know. That's all anyone needed to know. No one needed to know they dated. No one needed to they had been more than friends. That was that.

Patricia laid in bed until her phone started blaring her alarm for dinner. She made the decision to finally change out of her school clothes before heading down. Grabbing a pair of skinny jeans and a comfortable shirt, she changed quickly. She was about to shove her feet in a pair of flats when she noticed she had an unread text. It was from Eddie. She had no will to read it right now. She was mad she never deleted his phone number. She had debated on calling him several times after they had broken up and never did.

She shoved her phone into her pockets and her feet into a pair of shoes. She finally decided to make her way downstairs. She arrived to the dining room in the midst of Jerome pestering everyone about signing up for donkey day events. Patricia for a brief moment remembers agreeing to do the wonkey donkey.

"Okay newbie what about you," Jerome asked Eddie.

"Well Jerry you've gotten everyone else signed up what about yourself?"

"Well-"

"He has a point Jerome," Joy sing songed.

"Fine. So, newbie I think the wonkey donkey would be perfect for you, and you know who signed up but doesn't have a partner? Patricia. So Patricia, Eddie, consider yourself wonkey donkey partners," Jerome responded. Patricia froze. That meant she and Eddie would be tied together. She didn't want to lose otherwise she figured she could quit after a few minutes. An entire day, tied up with Eddie. Wouldn't that be fun?

"If you can beat Patricia and I at the wonkey donkey, I'll pay up one hundred and fifty."

"It's a deal."

"But, since you partnered Patricia and I, I get to pick your partner. I think Joy."

Random Sunday update. I'd update tomorrow but I have a cow show and I'm staying the night with a friend that also shows.

TOR AIRS TOMORROW. I have a video tribute to upload sometime tomorrow between the show and work.

But seriously sorry about no updates been so busy with work and getting ready for the show so.