"So I heard that you and Eddie got in a fight the other night." Ava smirked meanly at Patricia. Patricia shouldn't have been okay with it, but she wasn't fazed at all. She was in a good mood today and didn't really feel like letting Ava get to her today.
"Yeah, but we made up. We're totally fine now." Patricia shrugged. "Drinks?"
"A fat-free, mango smoothie for all of us." Ava demanded. "I also heard that you only have one parent in the house right now."
"That's none of you business." Patricia snapped. Ava was going too far. Patricia turned on her heel and left. She walked into the kitchen, where Eddie was tossing a salad.
"Hey, Yacker." He smiled at her.
"Hi." She shortly replied.
"Is something wrong?" Eddie looked up from his salad and scanned Patricia's face for what was going through her mind.
"Nothing." She turned away from him and concentrated on putting ice in the blender.
"Yacker…" Eddie sighed and walked toward her. "Tell me."
"It's fine, Eddie." Patricia grumbled back.
But Eddie knew it wasn't fine. He put an arm around her. She quickly shrugged it off, to Eddie's surprise and disappointment.
"Quit, Eddie." She snapped.
Eddie was slightly hurt. But he wouldn't give up. He was Eddie Miller-Sweet after all. He snaked an arm around her waist from behind.
Patricia—who was becoming increasingly annoyed—whipped around and scowled at her boyfriend. She gave him a look as if she were resisting from choking him.
In response, Eddie began tickling her. He knew for a fact that Patricia was ticklish right below her jaw line. She giggled involuntarily, trying to pull away from Eddie.
"Eddie!" She gasped for air. "Quit!"
"Not until you tell me what's wrong!" Eddie smirked as Patricia tried to catch her breath. When she finally did, he looked at her expectantly.
Patricia sighed and bit her lip. "My mum… I really thought that she'd be back by now."
"Oh." Eddie shifted. He wasn't sure what to say. "I'm sorry."
"She texted me last night, too. She wants to know if I want to live with her when she gets a place." Patricia looked down.
"Yacker…"
"And my dad wants me to live with him, too! And I don't want to go back and forth! What do they expect me to do? Choose?!" Patricia was dangerously close to tears. She nervously rubbed her forehead. "I can't deal with all of this right now!"
"Yacker…" Eddie was at a loss of words. Sure, his parents had divorced, but his dad had left without looking back. He never had to choose between them.
"And Ava's out there rubbing it in and…" Patricia gulped, trying to push the tears back down. She couldn't finish without crying. She was sick of having 10,000 emotions running at once. Patricia wished she could go back to the beginning of the summer, when Eddie had first come back. The feelings then were so… easy to deal with.
"I'm honestly not sure what to say, Patricia." Eddie said looking directly into her eyes, even though they were glancing around the room. "I really wish I could help, but… I don't know what to do."
"Does anyone?" Patricia weakly joked. "I miss it, Eddie."
"What?"
"Our old relationship. The one before all of this. We used to go on dates, and come home to my dad wanting to strangle you if you hurt me. I even miss Drew teasing us." Patricia softly admitted.
"Things weren't as complicated then." Eddie agreed. He felt a bad feeling rising in his chest. This sounds like a breakup talk!
"I just…" Patricia trailed off. "I want it back. I want everything back. I want my mum back, I want us to be back to our old selves, I want Drew and Piper to walk in on us," Patricia paused, smiling at memories.
"You know, Yacker." Eddie gave her a little wink. "I think we can get us back. I'm not so sure about the rest, but we can definitely go back to the crazy, immature, fun couple we used to be."
"Okay." Patricia smiled and shrugged.
"Starting with this." Eddie smirked and stuck his hand in some nearby ranch. He then smeared it on Patricia's cheek.
"Weasel!" She pretended to look mad, but laughed. "I would get you back, but Ava's gonna throw a tantrum if I don't bring her these drinks soon."
"Hurry up." Eddie said, adding a little wink.
"Shut up." Patricia threw back, smirking. She carried the four smoothies out on a tray and set them on the table.
"Uh," CeCe gave a look of disgust to the smoothies. "They're melted."
"Well, Yacker and I were just having a bit of fun, if you know what I mean." Eddie said, throwing an arm around his girlfriend's shoulders. It appeared that he had seen Ava sitting there and decided to have a bit of entertainment for himself.
"Omigosh, Eddie!" Patricia blushed.
"I'm sorry for you, Eddie." Brianna flipped her hair.
"Why?" Eddie tilted his head.
"You have to deal with her on a daily basis." Dylan finished.
"Who? Ava? Sadly, yes." Eddie laughed at his own joke. Patricia giggled next to him.
"Excuse me?" Ava let her jaw drop, before quickly recollecting herself. She stood up quickly. "Let's go." She sauntered out of the café, the rest of her 'friends' trailing behind her.
Patricia and Eddie just looked at each other and laughed.
Sorry! Going to bed! Goodnight!