A/N Sorry I didn't update earlier! From now on I will aim to update AT LEAST once a week.

If you like House of Anubis, why not check out my stories: Sibuna Jr and In the Shadows, which is a crossover co-written with crushedrose. Yeah, I'm shamelessly advertising myself… badbadbadbad ah well.

Disclaimer: I own nothing (except Lyssa and Lola..)

The next morning, Lyssa awoke feeling thoroughly sorry for herself.

She missed England. Sure, Lola was awesome but she just didn't have the memories with her that she had with her friends from back home: Bianca, May, Molly and Gayle were her closest friends and she hadn't spoken to them, it seemed like, forever.

She trooped down to the kitchen and grabbed some cereal and then went back upstairs. She was bored, so she called Andre for a chat (Lola was at her old house with Jade and Beck packing boxes of her stuff to move in). There was no reply so she went through to her mother's room, only to find Cat asleep in Andre's arms.

She should have been happy for them- She was the one who set all of this up, after all- but all she felt was rejection.

If she was home, she'd have gone round to Gayle's. She loved all of her friends but she'd known Gayle since she could remember and her parents were just like Lyssa's second parents.

She began tearing up so she opened her laptop and grinned when she got 5 notifications:

Gayleeeeeeee is online

BiancaIsTheGirl is online

Molly;) is online

May is online

You have been invited to a group chat with Gayleeeeeeee BiancaIsTheGirl Molly;) May

She giggled at May's lack of a creative nickname- always a joke between the girls- before joining the chat and switching it to video, glad to see a friendly face from back home.

'Spill. The. Beans.' Molly leaned into her webcam eagerly, and so Lyssa began to explain.


It had been hours and hours since the chat started. Lyssa was happier than she had been in ages. They'd chatted about random, stupid, little things- from May's astoundingly high school levels (no surprise there) to Gayle's most recent running title and the banner the girls had made to support her. This made Lyssa feel more homesick than ever.

Before now, she had always been president of Gayle's fan club, making the banner, organising the cakes etc.

As she was about to sign out she was struck with a wave of painful fear, the type which makes you want to double up and cry for all eternity.

'g-guys?' she asked, struggling to hold back tears 'promise me something?' she continued. After receiving comments along the lines of 'Of course' and 'anything' she went on. 'Please don't forget me. I'm scared that when- when I get back you'll all have loads of inside jokes without me…'

The girls rolled their eyes and laughed, then Bianca said

'Don't be stupid, we were worried you were forgetting us! All this talk about Lola this, Lola that, Lola's so cool, Lola's been adopted. We thought we'd never match up to the awesomeness of Lola!'

'You guys!' Lyssa shouted, a mixture of sobs and hysterical laughter wracking her body.

'As if!'

As she went to shut down the computer she began feeling thoroughly better about everything, and resolved to stop being such a spoilt brat. Her mum was happy, and it had only been a few weeks anyway! Hadn't it? Come to think about it, Lyssa hadn't really been keeping track of time.

She checked the date on her laptop and gasped:

It was August 28th.

That meant that… She worked it out on her fingers.

Using English term time…

She had one week until the end of the summer holidays.

She had to go home in one week.

A/N :o Lyssa has to go home!

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