Well, I hope you guys enjoy this chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it! We get a lot of secrets revealed in this chapter and maybe even a fight! Or two! Who knows? Heck, I don't even know! (I left my notebook in the car, which is currently at Olive Garden on a date with my parents... hehe… Oops) so enjoy!

"Do I look okay?" Patricia asked her sister. She was wearing a black shirt with a white triangle on it, a long necklace with a star on it, a red skirt, and her black combat boots.

"You look great, Trix!" Piper gushed. Patricia looked at Piper, who looked amazing. She had a white shirt on with silver threading in it, a short jean skirt, and gold ballet flats on. Patricia was secretly jealous her sister could pull an outfit like that off.

The girls walked in, arm-in-arm, while "Party Rock Anthem" by LMFAO was playing. Patricia sniffed the air for alcohol or any other suspicious smells. Just punch, grass, and perfumes; the usual. Patricia relaxed slightly. Piper was relieved to see her sister less tense. Patricia also spotted Eddie, who was talking to Drew. She decided to only talk to him if he approached her.

"So," Drew said to Eddie, on the other side of Drew's backyard. "Are you going to ask Ava to dance? Or Patricia?"

"I don't know, Dude." Eddie sighed. "Ava keeps flirting with me, but something tells me she's a bit of a…" Eddie stopped, not sure what the right word is.

"A whore? She is. She'll move on. You can't hurt her. Patricia, on the other hand…" Drew trailed off.

"What happened to her exactly? I know she probably made you promise not to tell, but I'm really curious." Eddie said.

Drew looked around to make sure no one was listening, and then lowered his voice. "Her ex, Ben, I don't know if you know him or not, he kind of… took advantage of her."

"By 'took advantage of her', what do you mean?" Eddie whispered back.

"She trusted him, like really trusted him, and then… It was at one my parties. It was also partially my fault. I should've been what people were bringing in. Ben had a lot of alcohol… She tried to get him to stop drinking, but he wouldn't listen to her." Drew paused.

"Then what happened?" Eddie urged.

"Patricia tried to take the beer bottle from him." Drew explained. "Ben went nuts. I'd never seen him like that before that awful night. He pushed her to the ground and slapped her. But, now, I'm hearing he raped her, too. Somebody said they saw it."

"What?" Eddie gasped. "Why didn't anybody try to stop it?"

"Whoever saw it was probably afraid of Ben, too." Drew shook his head.

"Why didn't she call the cops?" Eddie asked, trying to calm down.

"I guess she was just in shock."

"Wow… No wonder she doesn't trust me." Eddie ran his fingers through his gelled hair. "Why would anybody do that to her? How can Ben live like that?"

"He was drunk. And he hasn't apologized, which shows he's not sorry for abusing her."

"Did she just… go home after that? How can she do that?"

"She went home almost immediately after that, then pulled me aside and told me the next day."

"Wow… Just… Wow…" Eddie said. He was pretty much speechless now that most of his questions had been answered.

"You have to promise that you won't tell her—or anyone for that matter—that I told you. This is just between you and me, right?" Drew clarified.

"Of course." Eddie agreed. He spotted Patricia, standing with her sister, who was talking to Ava and her other friends. Patricia, who was playing with her silver necklace, looked bored. "Hey, Drew?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you think you could make a slow song come on when I get over to the dancing portion of the yard?" Eddie asked.

"Yeah, dude. Who are you going to ask?" Drew asked Eddie.

"The one who deserves to be happy." Eddie said, then walked toward the girls.

"OMG!" Ava squealed. "He's totally walking this way. Do I look okay? I bet he's going to ask me to dance!" The rest of the alphabetties squealed along with her.

Patricia felt her heart sink, knowing it was probably true. To her surprise, Eddie dint even look at Ava when he walked over.

"Hey, Eddie." Ava said, batting her eyelashes at him.

"Hey." Eddie said quickly. He turned back toward Patricia. "Can I talk to you for a minute?"

She looked at Piper, then back at Eddie. "I guess." She shrugged. She followed him to a spot where they were out of earshot from everyone, in the very back.

As they left, Ava turned to her friends. "He's letting her down gently, I bet." Brianna, CeCe, and Dylan nodded in agreement. But Piper knew better.

Eddie took a deep breath, gathering all of his courage. "Will you dance with me?"

To Eddie's amazement, she shook her head. "I don't dance. No one asks me because they know they'll get crushed like a tin can under a tank."

It took Eddie a second to respond. "Well, I don't dance much, either." He sighed. "I'm just a tin can, in front of a tank, asking her to dance with me."

Patricia couldn't resist his originality. She smiled at his joke. "One dance. One."

Eddie nodded, and to Ava's disappointment, but Piper's delight, Eddie took Patricia to the dancing area. It started out casual for a few seconds during the faster-paced "Payphone" by Maroon 5, but when Eddie gave Drew the nod, it slowed down.

"Let's make this one a slow dance. So grab a partner and have fun." Drew quickly announced with the microphone.

"Oh no." Patricia groaned. "You planned this, didn't you?"

"Maybe." Eddie shrugged. "You do know how to slow dance, right?"

"Maybe." She mocked. Eddie looked at her. "Okay, no."

Eddie smiled at her. "It's easy. You just put your hands like this." Eddie put her hands around his neck. "And I put my hands here." He put his hands on Patricia's hips.

"Uh…" Patricia said quietly. She wasn't so sure she was comfortable with this.

"Is this okay?" Eddie asked her. He loosened his hands to show her he wasn't going to pull anything.

Patricia shifted. "I guess." She looked around at all the other couples dancing. "Now what?"

"We just sway back and forth to the song." Eddie said, showing her.

Piper smiled at her sister over from where she was standing with the alphabetties. Ava caught her smiling.

"What are you smiling at?" she demanded.

"Patricia and Eddie." She answered.

"That was supposed to be my dance!" Ava huffed.

"He probably just feels bad for her." Brianna comforted her friend.

"Why would he feel bad for her?" Dylan asked.

"She's not even a virgin." CeCe said, flipping her hair.

"What do you mean?" Piper asked.

"She didn't even tell you?" Dylan gasped.

"No, but you're going to." Piper commanded.

"She did it with Ben!" Ava said.

"You didn't know that?" Brianna asked.

"No!" Piper said, frantically shaking her head. "I didn't!"

"Well, it's true. Ask her yourself." Ava said. She turned back to Eddie and Patricia. Piper's thoughts were racing a million miles an hour. How could Patricia not tell her?

Wow! Long chapter! The next one will also take place at the party; I just had to split them up because of the lengths. Big twist, right? Also, THANK YOU to all my amazing reviewers, especially the ones who wished me good luck at my choir concert! I was SO touched! (: