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"See?" Eddie said to Patricia, still swaying to the music. "This is fun, right?"

"Fun being a relative term, I guess it is." Patricia gave Eddie a half-smile. The song hit the final slow part and then the final chord.

The song was over.

"Well," Eddie said, removing his hands from Patricia's hips. "I had a great time."

"I guess I did, too." Patricia said. She was about to say something else, but her sister came and whisked her away. "I guess I'll see you later." Patricia said over her shoulder.

"You and Ben had sex and you didn't tell me?" Piper whisper-yelled. "How could you not tell me?"

"Where did you hear that?" Patricia whisper-shouted back.

"You know who told me? Ava, of all people. Is it true, Patricia?"

Patricia shifted. "It's not like that. I wouldn't call it 'having sex'. It's called 'rape'."

"You mean…" Piper trailed off.

"He raped me? Yeah." Patricia avoided eye contact.

"Oh, Trixie!" Piper threw her arms around Patricia. "Why didn't you call the cops? He needs to be arrested!"

"I guess because I can't believe he did that. He was drunk, though, so…"

"What happened exactly?" Piper asked, standing back to look at her sister.

"I was talking to someone, Drew, I think. That's when I noticed Ben had another beer bottle—he had had already five or more before. I pulled him aside, into kind of a hidden corner that was covered up by the house. I told him that I thought he had enough alcohol for one night and I begged him to go home. He told me to 'shut up'. I tried to take the bottle from him." Patricia's eyes began to sparkle with tears. "He pushed me down and I whacked my head on the fence. Then he slapped me… And then…" she couldn't finish without bursting into tears, which Patricia did not like to do at a party.

"Trix…" Piper sighed, hugging her sister again. "You need to go file a police report."

Patricia shook her head. "No. I don't want to have this go any further than it has."

"Will you at least tell Mom and Dad?"

Patricia sighed. "At some point."

The girls stood there, absorbed in their own thoughts for a moment. They both wanted things to go back to the way they were.

Piper was the first to break the silence. "You and Eddie looked like you had fun dancing together."

Patricia smiled and blushed a bit. "We did."

"You know, he seems pretty okay." Piper said. "For an American."

"What do you mean?" Patricia asked.

"He seems good for you." Piper said. "So…"

Patricia's blush got deeper. "So… What?"

"When are you guys finally going to admit you have feelings for each other?" Piper asked, smiling at her blushing sister.

"First of all, I'm not even sure I like him—"

"You know you do." Piper interrupted.

"And, even if I do, what if he doesn't like me back and—"

"He does." Piper interjected. "Trust me."

"How do you know?" Patricia curiously asked.

"I asked him." Piper said, obviously proud of herself.

"You asked him without telling him I liked him, right?" Patricia asked.

"Sure, we can go with that."

"Piper!" Patricia groaned.

"Sorry." Piper shrugged, not really meaning it. "But the bottom line is this: talk to each other. Communicate with him, Patricia."

"It's not that easy, you know." Patricia rolled her eyes.

"Sure it is. All you need to do is tell him that—" Piper was interrupted by Patricia.

"Okay, no. I'm going to go get some punch. I'll see you later, okay?" Patricia quickly walked off before her sister could protest.

Patricia swayed slightly, keeping beat to "Lights", by Ellie Goulding as she poured the pink juice into a plastic red cup. She looked up and saw Eddie looking at her from across the yard. They exchanged smiles for a moment, until Patricia felt a tap on the shoulder.

"How could you do that to me?" Ava said to her.

"What?" Patricia asked.

"You stole her dance from Eddie!" CeCe said, in a "Duh!" sort of tone.

"Okay, first off, you and I are not friends, so I can do whatever I please. Second, Eddie asked me. Third, it's not like I purposely said to him 'oh, don't ask Ava to dance with you', so why are you blaming me?"

"You could've turned him down, you know." Dylan said, flipping her bright red hair.

"Has it not gone through your thick skull that maybe he doesn't like you?" Patricia snapped.

"I feel bad for you. No guy stays with you very long." Ava said. The rest of the alphabetties snickered.

"Excuse me?" Patricia gripped her cup tightly.

"It's just that guys seem to leave you pretty fast." Ava said.

"You know, Ava. Eddie was probably just dancing with Patricia out of pity." Brianna smirked.

"Yeah. He must feel bad because Ben dumped her." CeCe clicked her tongue in a mock-pity sort of way.

"I dumped Ben." Patricia growled.

"Whatever you say." Dylan held up her hands, with a smirk on her face.

"You know why he dumped you? You went too fast for him." Ava said.

"What?" Patricia raised an eyebrow.

"He wasn't ready for sex yet, but you insisted. Slut." Ava flipped her hair.

The words stabbed Patricia like knives. "How do you know about that?" she growled.

"I have my ways." Ava meanly laughed.

"I'll show you ways." Patricia said, dumping her pink punch all over Ava's short, light blue, low-cut dress. Ava screeched in horror as the pink liquid went down into her dress. "Please," Patrica said, rolling her eyes. "It's not like it's acid."

Instead of collapsing to the ground and having a breakdown, like Patricia predicted, Ava took her own cup of lemonade and splashed Patricia with it. Instead of on Patricia's dress, it hit her square in the face.

"Hey!" she said. She grabbed a handful of potato salad from the table next to her and threw it at Ava, but ended up hitting all of the alphabetties. They all shrieked.

Piper, Drew, and Eddie picked that moment to come and breakup the fight. It was a good thing they came because Ava had started to grab Patricia's hair.

"Okay, okay, okay." Drew said, breaking the girls apart.

"Really, Patricia?" Piper groaned, while Eddie said. "Good job, Yacker!" His smile fell when Piper glared at him.

Patricia and Ava continued to glare at each other, even thought the fight was supposedly over. Piper realized this and groaned again.

Eddie waved his hand in front of Patricia's face. "Hello? Yacker? Anyone home?"

Patricia snapped out of it and looked at Eddie to show Ava she wasn't afraid of her threats. "Sorry."

Ava narrowed her eyes, and then looked at Eddie. "Hey, Eddie, do you want to dance?"

"Sorry, I just got done dancing. Maybe later, okay?" He smiled at her. The disappointment flickered in her eyes for just a moment, and then she got a better idea.

"Nonsense, come dance with me!" Ava grabbed Eddie by the wrist and drug him over to the dancing area. Eddie looked back at Patricia, Drew, and Piper.

The rest of the alphabetties put their noses in the air and pranced away, huddling by the dancing people and whispering while watching Ava and Eddie.

"She made him, Patricia." Piper put a hand on her sister's shoulder as Patricia watched Ava and Eddie dance. "He clearly didn't want to go."

"Yeah, don't worry about it, Trixie. He likes you. He told me." Drew added in.

"Whatever." Patricia put a fake smile on her face. "You guys go have fun."

"You sure you'll be ok?" Piper asked, not removing her hand from Patricia's shoulder.

"I'm positive. I clearly need some more punch, though." She joked, motioning to her now empty cup.

"Ok, then." Drew said. He turned toward Piper. "Want to go dance?"

"Sure!" Piper smiled. Patricia smiled back at them. When they had their backs turned, Patricia bit her lip. How many people know about the whole Ben-thing?

She shivered, either from the thought of everyone knowing, or the iced lemonade running down her shirt. Probably both.

Eddie snuck a glance at Patricia while he was dancing with Ava. Ava saw this and used her hand to tip his face back toward her. She just looked so… alone.

That's because she is. A little voice in Eddie's mind told him. She needs someone to talk to.

"Good Time" by Owl City and Carly Rae Jepson ended just then. Eddie took the chance to escape. "Bye, Ava!" he called over his shoulder.

Patricia was stirring her punch with her straw out of boredom when Eddie tapped her shoulder. Not expecting it, she jumped.

"Sorry." Eddie apologized. "You want to get out of here as bad as I do, don't you?"

Patricia spotted Ben out of the corner of her eye with a beer bottle. A surge or fear jolted through her.

"Is that him?" Eddie asked, tilting his head at Ben. Patricia nodded. "Let's go. I'll walk you home." Patricia nodded again.

They could hear the musical beats continuing as they walked away. At first, Eddie felt bad for leaving, but then he remembered what a bad time he was having. He shook his head, remembering dancing with Ava.

"You know she really likes you." Patricia jerked him out of his thoughts.

"Who? Ava?" Eddie asked. Patricia nodded, shivering. "Here." Eddie took off his leather jacket and offered it to Patricia. She shook her head. "Take it. You're shivering, Yacker."

"Fine." Patricia made a show of putting it on, but she secretly enjoyed it.

"I don't like her back." Eddie suddenly said.

"You don't?" Patricia asked, with a little hope in her heart. They were nearing her house now. It was time for Patricia to admit her feelings for him. She opened her mouth, but Eddie interrupted her.

"I like this other girl. She's funny, cute, and a bit sassy. She's really cute, too." Eddie told her. Patricia felt her heart sink a bit.

"Oh yeah?" Patricia asked, hiding her disappointment.

"You wanna know the best part about her, though?" Eddie asked her. Patricia nodded. "I'm with her right now."

Patricia felt her mouth stretch into a huge smile. "Really?" Eddie nodded. They stopped in front of Patricia's house.

"Do you… feel the same way?" Eddie cautiously asked. "I mean, it's cool if you don't, but—"

Before he could say anything else, Patricia planted a kiss on his lips. When they parted, they both laughed nervously.

"I guess you do." Eddie joked. Patricia giggled. "Listen," he said, slightly more serious. "Don't kill him, but Drew told me what happened between you and Ben."

"Don't kill him?" Patricia raised an eyebrow.

"Don't as in do not. I asked him, he told me he promised you he wouldn't, but I made him, so don't be all mad at him." Eddie said. "Anyway, I don't blame you for not fully trusting me. Just know that I would never, ever hurt someone like that. You can trust me, Patricia." He said, using her real name, which showed that he was really serious.

"I believe you, Eddie. And I trust you, for the most part. I mean, we just met, like, a week ago, I need a bit more time." Patricia said, trying not to offend him. "But I do think you're too good to do something like what Ben did."

They smiled awkwardly at each other for a minute, and then a light flickered on in the Williamson's house. Patricia nervously giggled; slightly worried her dad would catch her out here with Eddie. Eddie caught on quickly.

"Night, Yacker." He kissed her one last time, and then took off down the street.

Patricia smiled to herself as she opened the front door to her house.

"Well, you're awful early." Mrs. Williamson said from the kitchen as her daughter entered the house. "Who's jacket it that?"

Patricia realized she was still wearing Eddie's jacket. "Uh… I go cold, so Ben offered me one of his old jackets. I'll return it tomorrow." She lied.

Her mom bought the lie. She then moved on to the next question. "How come you're home so early?"

"I got cold; really cold." Patricia lied again. "I'm going to take a shower, okay?" Mrs. Williamson nodded. Patricia couldn't stop smiling the rest of the night.

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