Chapter 14
*Amber's pov*
I had just walked through the door with Alfie and Samantha when Fabian and Patricia came running down the stairs.
"Have any of you seen Eddie?" Patricia asks.
"No," Alfie says, "We thought he was here all day."
"He wasn't," Fabian says.
"Let's split up and look for him!" I say "Samantha and I will check in the school, and you three can check you know where and the other you know where," I say taking Samantha by the wrist and pulling her out the door.
*Samantha's pov*
You know where and the other you know where? What is she talking about?
*Alfie's pov*
"She must mean the tunnels and the attic," I say after Amber and Samantha leave.
"Good idea," Patricia says, "I'll check the attic while you two check the tunnels. And you should probably check the library and the cellar while you're down there. Victor's not here so this would be your only chance," Trixie says while she takes out a bobby pin from her hair and hands it to Fabian. She takes out the last one in her hair and heads up to the attic.
"Come on," Fabian says. He quickly picks the lock on the door and we go down into the cellar unseen. We look around the cellar first. He's not there. Then, we check in Frobisher's study. Nope. Eventually we make it through all of the tunnels, and Eddie is still nowhere to be found. We leave the tunnels through the passage to the library.
"He's not here," Fabian says, while worriedly running a hand through his hair after we searched the entire library.
"Well come on," I say, "let's head back to the house. Hopefully one of the others have found him."
*Patricia's pov*
I searched the whole attic. Behind every box and where the panel used to be, and he wasn't there. I really hope the others found him. Now I'm sitting in the common room waiting for the others to come back. After about 10 minutes, Amber and Samantha come back.
"Any luck?" I ask.
"Nope," Samantha says plopping down in one of the chairs.
"We checked the entire school and he's not there," Amber says taking a seat next to me on the couch.
"MrSweet's office?" I ask with desperation in my voice.
"He's not there," Amber says sympathetically. "MrSweet isn't there either."
After that comment it's silent. My eyes drift over to Joy, Mara, and Jerome studying and joking at the kitchen table. I wish I could be like that. Normal. Have a normal term with normal friends and a normal boyfriend. Listen to yourself Patricia. I love my friends, and I love Eddie, but sometimes I wish that we could all just take a break from Sibuna and the Chosen One and Osirian thing and just be, well, normal. I hate constantly worrying about some stupid curse or the teachers potentially trying to kill us. What if something bad happened to Eddie? The last time we spoke, I screamed my lungs out at him, and I was wrong. Fabian made it clear to me that Eddie did the right thing, and I never got to apologize. No! Patricia stop thinking like that! Eddie's fine. Any minute now, Fabian and Alfie are going to walk in here with Eddie, and everything's gonna be fine.
And I was right...well partially.
At that moment Alfie and Fabian walk in, but without Eddie. They see that Eddie isn't with us either and Fabian says, "I think we need to talk," and he motions for us to go to his room. The girls and I get up and follow the boys out of the common room. We pass Mara, Jerome and Joy in the kitchen, and we're about to go into Fabian's room when we hear the front door open.