He found her on the steps of Anubis House, staring off into the distance. "Are you okay, I didn't see you at school today." Eddie asks. Then he notices the suitcase next to her. "Patricia?" Then he notices that she was crying.
"Hey what's the matter?"
"Piper was in a car accident." She says in the most trembly, broken voice he had ever heard.
But instead of bursting into the whole, "is she okay" and "what can I do to help" He simply asks the same thing she asks him when he has terrifying visions, or when he wakes up from bad nightmares. "How bad?"
She sighs and turns to look at him. "She's on critical condition." She takes a shaky breath and continues. "She's my twin! I don't want to lose her!" she squeezes her eyes shut. "Her teacher was driving. He wasn't paying attention. She got the worst-" She broke off with a sob.
Eddie pulled a tissue out of his pocket (he had one for some random reason he couldn't remember) and handed it to her.
She sniffled and sobbed, then with a final huff, she cleared her throat and stood up." A driver is picking me up in five minutes to take me to take me to Bradford. I don't know when I'll be back."
Even though she was sad over her sister, Eddie couldn't help but feel a little hurt. But like a good boyfriend, he stood up, hugged her and said "Take as long as you need, and don't worry about any of us."
She smiled. "I already said good-bye to everybody."
He glanced around, and then pulling something out his pocket (again, what was with all of the random stuff in his pockets?) he handed it to Patricia. "Here" he said. "This is a signed copy of Bruno Mars's new CD. Take it and give it to her." Patricia smiled gratefully. "
Thanks Eddie! Oh, this will definitely cheer her up!" Then she frowned. The black cab had pulled up to the house driveway, the cabbie poking his head out the window anxiously. "Bye, Eddie." She whispered. He smiled weakly. "Bye Patricia."
Anyone else suffer a case of major squeals every time they think about these two? Hopefully it's not just me.
