Chapter Eleven- I Want to Live in this Moment Forever

"In love, everyone does things that hurt the other person, so there really is no right and wrong. You just have to decide what you're willing to forgive" -Yvonne Wood, Dead Beautiful

Nina knew that Patricia thought that everyone was asleep; after all, it was past eleven o'clock when she snuck out of the room. Nina rolled back over and she was snapped into a vision:

Someone was sitting in a chair and there was a dark figure who demanded, "Tell me what I want to know!"

A voice that sounded both like a man and a woman said, "I can't tell you. I will not give away this information. I'm not even sure what you're talking about."

"Do you want me to hurt your friends?" the man said. Just then Patricia, KT, Nina, Joy, Willow, Alfie, Eddie, Fabian, and Jerome came out of the shadows and all were begging for the man not to hurt them.

Just then she was snapped out of her vision and thought, "That is not a good sign." She decided to wait in the morning as to not worry the others, let them have one night more night of peace. Then she fell into a deep sleep.

Patricia and Eddie walked out the door thinking that they had gotten out without anyone seeing them, but that wasn't so. Willow was just outside the door and she saw them on their way out.

Patricia and Eddie had almost made it out the door until Patricia suddenly turned around and said, "Wait Willow." The girl turned around and Patricia saw that she had been crying.

"Why are you crying?" Patricia asked with sympathy unusual to her normal self.

"I didn't mean to listen the other day; I just didn't want to interrupt so I thought I'd wait outside the door. I only heard a little bit, and I was getting ready to go in to see Alfie. I feel so bad because now all of you guys are really mad at him because of me," Willow said, rushing through her words so she wouldn't cry while speaking.

Patricia put her hand on Willow's shoulder and said, "Willow, that wasn't you're fault. We were just over paranoid and worried. We owe you an apology."

"Patricia, that means a lot coming from you. I'll tell Alfie tomorrow."

She ran back in the house and left the two by themselves. "Wow, Patricia, that was awfully unlike you," Eddie said with shock filling his voice.

"She was sad, and at least for now, I don't think that we have much to worry about," Patricia said quietly. She wanted tonight to be peaceful since tomorrow was going to be hard day for her.

He took the hand that he held and brought it to his lips and gave it a gentle kiss. She smiled through the dark at him and they stood under the tree in the front yard.

"You've been awfully quiet today. Is everything alright?" Eddie asked Patricia after standing in silence for a while.

That boy could pick up on her littlest cues. If one thing was off with her, he was bound to notice. It actually comforted her to know that there was someone who could know when something was wrong and was there for her. "I just want to relish this moment of complete silence. Nothing has gone awry and things have been generally peaceful. I just want to live in this moment before it leaves." She gave a small sigh of pleasure and rubbed her thumb against his hand.

"I know what you mean. This peace feels almost unreal, but I still want to hold onto it for as long as I can," he responded sounding far off.

"I wish that we could stay in this moment forever," Patricia said so quietly that she thought Eddie didn't hear, but he did.

Patricia shivered and Eddie asked, "You cold, Yacker?" He started to take off his jacket.

"No Eddie," she said, "you'll just be cold then." So instead he opened his jacket and she wrapped her arms around him under his jacket and he held her in a warm embrace.

"You were right. I like this idea better," Eddie said with a smirk in his voice. She shook her head in an amused way, but had to admit that she like this idea better too. They stood there for a while longer and then decided not to push the rules any farther that night, and went inside arm in arm.