"I swear! He totally needs to get his cheerleader pom poms back like he did for Mara if wants to up his game"

"Nope, I still can't see it. Mick, trying to be a cheerleader?" Joy giggled at the image.

"Amber convinced him that it would help win me over" Mara mused, catching Joy up on last year's antics.

"And did it not work for you two? So why shouldn't he do it for Kelly! EEEEP! I can start a 'kick' scrapbook…or does 'melly' sound better?" Amber squealed.

Nina stood carelessly leaned against the back of the dining table, surrounded by Amber, Patricia, Mara and Joy. They weren't exactly the best of friends Nina and Joy, but they were talking and that was as good a start as any. Their American guests were currently out sightseeing in England; they were on vacation after all and this was their first time in England. Meanwhile, the girls of Anubis were just talking about Amber's latest love guru scheme, and Nina was too busy giggling to notice the door to the house open and Eddie walk in. If she had taken the time to notice, then she wouldn't have been as taken aback when he strode into the room, took hold of her wrist and brought his lips down to hers in a crash of built up passion and emotion he'd been keeping back from longer than he even thought.

Back before these last few weeks when they'd become each other's confidant. Back before they became good friends. Back before Patricia, even.

Way back to the first moment that he took in her being, when his mind couldn't process everything that was there because of the knowledge he lacked.

But now he knew; he was the osirion, and she was his chosen one. And he loved her.

At first, all Nina could register was shock as her eyes stayed wide open and alert, not focusing on the feel of Eddie's lips on hers, because if she did that, there was no going back. But the four pairs of eyes she could feel burning holes into her head, and the glare she just knew Patricia held on her face. Because though she still refused to admit it, Patricia's feelings for Eddie never went away.

As Eddie pulled away from her, re opening his eyes, his hands remained cupping her cheeks as his eyes pleadingly stared into Nina's.

"Tell me that you didn't just feel something when we kissed"

"Eddie, what are you doing…" Nina worriedly kept glancing to her left at her friends who were now staring at the two; one pair of concerned eyes, one pair of surprised ones, one pair of gleeful eyes and another that were burning straight through her.

"Tell me that you didn't just feel something when we kissed" he reached for her hands and held them tightly in his, squeezing them reassuringly as if this would make this all okay.

"I-I…I c-can't…No. I-I didn't" she gulped closing her eyes wishing this whole mess away, before once again looking to her friends to see their reactions.

Eddie, sensing this, looked at their friends now with anger before returning to Nina "stop LYING TO ME!"

At the sudden outburst, the remaining house members trailed out into the hallway to see what exactly was going on.

"Eddie, please, stop" she tried weakly, but to no avail.

"You know you did! You're only saying that because you don't want to hurt your friends, because that's the type of person you are! You're sweet, and kind, and selfless, and you never, ever, ever make any of your friends second best. But god forbid you ever put your own needs before your friends! But if they were your REAL friends Nina, they'd want you to be happy with the guy who's falling in love with you…"

At this, it was safe to say that an evident gasp escaped from every single Anubis house member's mouth, except one. From one, came a deep growl.

"You're-you're falling in love with me?" Nina whispered staring at her feet.

"Yes, why wouldn't I be? You're beautiful. Along with about five billion other qualities that I could mention, just maybe not in front of our whole house" Eddie lifted her chin with one hand, leaving one hand interlocked with hers.

Nina blushed and smiled a little at what Eddie said, and as she looked back up into his eyes, she could see Fabian in the hallway looking onto the scene in front of him, and saw a slight frown upon his lips. Ha, good she thought for as much as she liked Eddie, she was still deeply hurt that her very first love had simply abandoned her in the way that he did.

But as Nina glanced once again to her left to see the no longer angry but just simply hurt eyes of one of her closest friends, she knew that she couldn't do this to Patricia. No matter how much it broke her heart.

With a hurt expression on her face and an expression already filled with regret, she looked back to Eddie, "I can't, I jus- I'm sorry" she pulled her hands back before running out of the house with tears already blurring her vision.

After the whole house had just witnessed Eddie's failed attempt at finally winning over Nina, they were stunned to silence as Amber fled from the house running after her best friend. Until Patricia interrupted it.

"Nice going, Edison. Proclaiming your love to a girl who's still in love with your roommate? Well done" Patricia sneered but anyone that knew Patricia, knew that this was just a reflex to hide her hurt and pain at her ex-boyfriend's words.

"Oh, shut up, Patricia" Eddie rubbed his temples as he closed his eyes trying to register what just happened.

"Seriously dude, what was that? Were you taken over by an alien or something" Alfie walked into the dining room to join the girls, closely followed by the rest of the guys waiting out in the hall.

"No Alfie, I wasn't 'taken over by aliens'" He groaned in frustration before turning around to face all of his friends. "I'm in love with Nina, okay? I AM IN LOVE WITH NINA MARTIN! Not like it matters, because apparently your happiness is soooo much more important than hers" Eddie scoffed at Patricia.

"Did you ever think, Mr Big shot, that she just doesn't have feelings for you?" Patricia narrowed her eyes at Eddie, hoping that they were just slipping into one of their old little heated arguments that were only to hide their true feelings for each other. But somehow, this time, she didn't have much hope.

"Don't you think, Patricia, that if she really didn't have feelings for me, then she would have just slapped me right after I kissed her? And wouldn't have been constantly looking over at you to see if you were mad at her? And she wouldn't have ran out crying! And no, that wasn't because she was embarrassed, it was because she's such a good friend that she'd never want to see you hurt! And if YOU were as good a friend as her, Patricia, you'd run after her and tell her that you want her to be happy with somebody that cares for her so much. Even if that somebody's me" Eddie quickly walked out of the room and slammed his bedroom door, where he resided for the rest of the evening.

"Awk-ward…" Jerome commented raising his eyebrows, resulting in him getting a slap on the arm from Mara. But then she took hold of his hand and dragged him along to his room.

At least there was one happy couple in the House of Anubis.