Sorry I didnt update today. I had CRCTs): Anyways here's chapter 6. Hope you like it. -Mustacher

EDDIE'S POV

I carried Patricia back to the house while I thought. I felt like a superhero and a bad guy at the same time. I need to be more careful because today was another close call. If the group wouldn't have been there for me, Patricia might be a sinner.

As we walked back to the house, it seemed like the darkness had a way of becoming darker. The shadows loomed everywhere and the moon and the stars were nowhere to be found. Patricia looked serious in some deep thoughts so I planned to perk her up. I reached around her back.

"Do you feel that?" I asked in a teasing voice.

"What?" Patricia asked catching on.

"This!" I tickled her and she threw her head back laughing.

She squirmed and shook with laughter and finally got out "Stop, stop, I can't breathe!" I finally stopped and she situated herself in my arms.

"Jerk," she said once comfortable again.

"Um, I'm the one carrying you so I wouldn't be yacking...Yacker," I retorted.

"Fine...Slimeball," she said. I pretended I was about to drop her.

"Whoa!" I pretended while waving her back and forth.

"Hey!" She screamed. Her face just made me laugh. As soon as I started to laugh she hit me. With all the added weight of her in my arms, I lost my balance and fell flat on my bottom.

"I'd do better walking on my own two feet!" She said while getting up and dusting herself off.

"Yacker, come on, you hit me," I tried to reason while I stood up.

"Oh so now you can't even take a punch," she raised her eyebrows. She tried to walk away, but I grabbed her wrist and turned her towards me. I glanced over her shoulder to see where the group was and noticed they were several yards in front of us. Knowing that they couldn't see us, I crashed my lips into Patricia's soft ones.

Just seconds after we started kissing, Fabian called,"Eddie? What are you doing?"

I pulled away laughing. "Oh...nothing," I grinned. Patricia giggled and I held her hand as we caught up to the group.

Once we got to the house, we surveyed the hallway then retreated to Fabian and my room. Once the door was closed everyone released their breath.

"That was too close," Fabian sighed.

"Way to close," KT agreed.

"What are we going to do! That Frombie Zombie is trying to take Patricia!" Alfie panicked.

"Guys!" I tried to calm everyone down,"Let's just worry about tomorrow. Frobisher could come back tonight!"

"That's right," said Fabian.

"We can't fall asleep because that only gives Frobisher an opportunity to kidnap us," KT said.

"So...what do we do?" Patricia asked.

"We should take turns staying awake," I said.

"What about school?" KT said.

"Well, we might not get as much sleep, but we each still get some sleep, and this way Frobisher could never get us while we're asleep," Fabian helped me.

"Ok, there's 5 people here so one of us is going to have to stay up alone," Alfie said.

There was a silence where everyone looked around. "I'll do it," Fabian said rather awkwardly.

"Ok, so me and Patricia will take the first shift, then KT and Alfie, then Fabian you take the last shift," I said.

"Sibuna?" Everyone nodded.

"Sibuna," we all said.

Within a few minutes, everyone except me and Patricia were asleep. I reached into my drawer and pulled out a deck of cards. Before we new it, Patricia and I were already 20 games deep in Old Maid.

"Ok, this is boring," Patricia said as I shuffled for our 21st game.

"Do you want to play another game?" I suggested.

"No," she said quickly.

"Then what do you want to do?" I asked.

"We only have 20 minutes left," she shifted over to me,"Let's just talk."

I crinkled my brow and smiled. "About what," I asked being genuinely curious.

"I don't know," she replied,"Anything." I sat back while she crawled over to me. She sat right next to me and placed her head on my shoulder closing her eyes. I thought for a second. Anything was a broad range. After a few seconds of thinking, I thought of what I had been wanting to ask her for a while.

"Yacker?" My voice cracked.

Patricia laughed at my voice before saying,"Yes, squeaky-voice?"

"That was the best you could do?" I said raising my eyebrows.

"Whatever! What do you want?" She said in a teasing voice.

I took a deep breath before asking her,"When did you fall for me?"

"What do you mean?" She tilted her head on my shoulder.

I took her hand. "I mean when did you start liking me?"

She sighed. "I don't really know. You snuck up on me," she brushed my knuckles with her thumbs.

"Ok, then when did you know that you liked me?" I couldn't help grinning while I questioned her.

She didn't answer right away. She thought for a second then said,"When we danced for the first time."

I smiled remembering every detail. "I'm just a tin can in front of a tank," I teased.

"Shut up," she laughed. She threw back her head to look at me. I laughed at how ridiculous she looked. I couldn't resist so I just leaned in and kissed her. I could feel her smiling into the kiss. I couldn't help but smile too.

Out of the blue, an alarm rang right in my ear. "Ah!" I screamed. Everyone popped up and laughed.

"Niiiice," Patricia teased.

"Now it's your turn to shut up," I grinned while my face turned a bright, crimson color.

"Alright guys," KT stood up and stretched,"It's me and Alfie's turn. You two can go to sleep now."

I was relieved to finally get some sleep. Patricia and I scooted over to a spot on the floor against the wall and I grabbed a blanket. Patricia situated her head on my chest while I covered us both in the blanket. I was immediately even more tired, but I managed to hear Patricia murmur.

"Tomorrow, I ask you the questions," she whispered so that KT and Alfie wouldn't hear.

I smirked and managed to say,"Can't wait." I took a deep breath and closed my eyes before blindly wandering into sleep with Patricia's hand in mine.