Disclaimer: I don't own House of Anubis.
Guys, we've reached the end. After this, we only have the epilogue left to go. I've had a great time writing this, thanks for understanding my decision not to make a sequel. Hope you like this! Tell me how the ending was please, I'm not quite sure what I feel about it.
It wasn't exactly a secret relationship or anything, but Eddie wasn't sure if Patricia was a fan of affection in public, so it never really happened. Maybe they sat at a little closer at the lunch table and maybe they joked around more, but their friends seemed to have thought they reconciled. None of them had really figured it out yet, and it had been a good two weeks now.
Eddie was in his father's office today but he was due back any minute, and Patricia fixed her gaze on Alfie, trying to see if Eddie was right. Were Amber and Alfie really dating? They exchanged discreet glances, soft smiles, and Patricia tried hard not to let her jaw drop. She hadn't been expecting that.
It was when she felt a kiss on her cheek that Patricia looked up with a raised eyebrow. It was obviously Eddie, but he had just kissed her cheek in school and that hadn't ever happened before this. He was beaming as he sat down next to her.
"Good time with your dad?" she whispered, and Eddie nodded animatedly.
"The best," he enthused. Patricia smiled- anyone could tell Eddie never had the greatest time with his dad but he looked fairly happy today. Maybe Mr. Sweet had finally called him Eddie instead of Edison.
But that cheek kiss must've attracted some attention, because when Patricia finally turned back to her lunch, all her friends were staring at them. She could feel Eddie shaking in silent laughter at their reactions, and Patricia raised an eyebrow, deciding to play innocent. "What?"
"Eddie just…" KT started, shaking her head and rubbing her eyes. She would be lying if she said she had never thought of the two together, but she had never expected it to be this soon, a while after they started talking again.
Willow was the one to finish her sentence, clapping joyfully, "Squee! You're together, aren't you? Oh, that's wonderful, your auras complement each other so well-"
"Willow," Mara rolled her eyes. "There's no such thing as-"
"Wait, you're dating?" Alfie looked up from staring at Amber and eyed Patricia and Eddie suspiciously. "Really?"
"Why, what's wrong?" Eddie stifled his laughs and swung an arm around Patricia. "We can't date?"
"No, you can," KT assured. "I mean, we all saw it coming-"
"We did?" Nina raised an eyebrow. "I never thought they'd get together." She looked around the table for a sign of agreement, but everybody was simply shaking their heads. Patricia raised her hand slightly.
"Wait, you all thought we'd get together?" Several murmurs of 'yeah' and 'it was pretty obvious' went around, and Eddie rolled his eyes. He hadn't thought they were being that obvious about anything- maybe his friends were all just extremely perceptive.
"It was pretty obvious, mate," Alfie shrugged.
Fabian nodded, "I remember trying to talk Eddie out of making the bet in the first place." He looked almost wistful while he reminisced, and Patricia smiled lightly. The bet, the bet that started a chain reaction, setting off one thing after another. If it wasn't for the bet, would they even be dating today? Or would they just be neighbors, strangers at school, saying 'hi' to each other as they passed one another in the halls? She wasn't to the point where she would call the bet a good thing and she probably never would be, but even Patricia had to admit that it did have a huge effect on their relationship. It was how they met; it was the reason Eddie took the first step.
"And I remember when he came to me for girl advice," Alfie sighed, placing his chin on his hand. Eddie looked at him quizzically.
"Uh, Alfie?"
"Yeah?"
"I never came to you for girl advice."
Alfie simply shrugged, "I know, I wanted to be part of it though." Everyone at the table laughed at this and he pretended to wipe some tears from his eyes, voice sounding broken as he took his napkin and blew into it forcefully. "They-grow-up-so-fast!" Eddie let out a chuckle and even Patricia had a hard time keeping a smile off her face as their friends openly grinned at Alfie's acting. Willow was giggling stupidly as the rest of them tried to catch their breath from laughing so hard. Alfie had actually produced tears earlier and was now wiping them away. Patricia grinned, surveying her small group of friends and then looking back up at Eddie beside her. He still hadn't taken his arm off of her, but just this once, she wasn't objecting.
Eddie dragged Patricia over to his locker at the end of the day so that he could get his homework. He didn't have much, considering it was nearing the end of the year, but it was still enough that he and Patricia had set up a study date. (Okay, maybe he was intent on having a 'date' more than 'studying.') After being with her for a good two weeks, Eddie had gently guided Patricia through how to make out one day and by the smirk on her face, he could tell that she knew what study date meant just as well as him. It was funny, really, because the first time they had actually had their first deep, passionate kiss was when they had started play fighting. All their best kisses seemed to occur during an argument anyway.
To his surprise, Jerome was standing against his locker with crossed arms and an interested expressions. Eddie felt Patricia stiffen beside him, and he had to admit, even he was a little curious as to Jerome's motive for being there. He hadn't talked to Jerome in so long. "Hey, Jerome."
"Edison," Jerome nodded, eyes darting between Eddie and Patricia. "So, a little birdie told me earlier that you two are currently dating. True or not?"
"Why do you care?" Patricia scowled, crossing her arms.
"I don't," Jerome shrugged, trying to appear nonchalant. But he simply couldn't turn down good gossip and his head shot up. "But are you dating?"
"Uh, yeah," Eddie rolled his eyes, not sure why Jerome really needed to know.
"Interesting," Jerome noted. "I should've seen it coming, really, I mean, Amber did and since when is Amber smarter than me?" He nodded at the two of them awkwardly before smirking one last time and heading off. Patricia was mildly surprised, having expected more commentary.
"Hey," Eddie called, and Jerome swiveled around. "What 'little birdie' told you?"
"Why, my dear friend Alfie Lewis," Jerome smiled. "He's dating Amber, didn't you know?"
"So you guys just…" Eddie searched for the right words. He wasn't even mad at Alfie, because it wasn't like he and Patricia were trying to hide their relationship. "Became friends again?"
Jerome sighed impatiently, "Yes, Edison. Bit slow, aren't you?" He smirked and looked between Eddie and Patricia again. He bit his lip thoughtfully, "I suppose you two could be good together…"
"Never asked for your blessing," Patricia muttered under her breath, but Jerome seemed to hear.
"Well, I gave it anyway, you can thank me later," he said cockily. "Well, I must be going now-"
"Thanks," Eddie suddenly said. Both Patricia and Jerome gave him strange looks and waited for him to elaborate. "For making that bet. Seriously, I probably owe my relationship to you." For once, Jerome looked dumbfounded and Eddie crossed his arms and smirked. It wasn't often anyone won against Jerome Clarke, but when they did, it was definitely a moment to cherish.
Jerome let out a stiff 'you're welcome' before leaving. Patricia raised an eyebrow. "You don't think we'd be together if it wasn't for the bet?"
Eddie shrugged, smiling, "I guess we'd get together eventually, because you know, we're pretty awesome together, but I don't know. I probably wouldn't have talked to you without the bet." Patricia looked mildly offended and Eddie began gathering his books. He scoffed, "What, like you would've ever talked to me if it wasn't for the bet?"
"Ugh, cocky Americans," Patricia rolled her eyes and Eddie swung his backpack over his shoulder.
"Ugh, annoying Brits," he mimicked teasingly as they headed out the door. He wiggled his eyebrows, "So, about the study date…"
"Oh, I have a lot of homework," Patricia nodded, playing along.
"Same," Eddie smirked. "Might take a long time to complete."
"Sounds perfect."
So much for staying under the radar, Patricia thought later as she pressed her mouth against Eddie's, the ex-popular guy she had vowed she would never forgive for anything. Life had taken so many turns over the year, and she definitely wasn't who she had started off as, she thought as their textbooks got shoved off to the side.
But if this was what happened when she didn't stay under the radar...
Then Patricia decided that maybe, just maybe, she could handle the attention.