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Disclaimer: I do not own House of Anubis, if I did then Patrome would have happened. Jerome's been paired with everyone really except Patricia. It would be great but I do like Peddie.
House of Trying
"I feel like we need a date night soon," grinned Amber as she sat down next to her boyfriend Logan.
Logan replied, "We do, if it was possible we'd have a date night every night but life gets in the way."
"So Friday?" she asked.
He laughed and confirmed, "Friday."
"I'm a much better boyfriend than you; we have dates on non-stereotypical date nights," yelled Jerome, butting in to their conversation to get Patricia's attention. She was talking to Mara instead of him.
Patricia patted him on the head.
"If we are having a battle of the boyfriends then I must win, did you read my letter?" shouted Zach.
The girls were all laughing now, boys are ridiculous.
Fabian said, "Do you guys remember the talent show when I sang in front of the entire school? I win."
"I DRESSED AS A KNIGHT!" screamed Logan.
"WELL I…." the boys started arguing about who was the best boyfriend, there was lots of yelling.
The girls stopped laughing and just exchanged partly scared and partly amused glances. Thankfully the doorbell rang and ended the ridiculous argument. Nina got up to answer the door and was met with the slightly familiar face of Ryan, Catty's date partner but not yet boyfriend, best friend of Cole (Josie's boyfriend).
"Hey Ryan, come in, you here to see Catty?" asked Nina as she welcomed him quickly through the door. She needed to be nice to him. She needed to win Catty back. She led him into the living room and said, "Ryan's here guys, I'll go get Catty." She yelled upstairs for Catty who hurried down.
Ryan waited awkwardly in the living room as Fabian and Amber glared at him, the others were being friendly but in a forced way. Another awkward factor in the situation was that Catty was upstairs with Mick.
"Amber stop it," hissed Alyson, "Mick has never admitted any feelings towards Catty, Catty likes this guy, be nice."
Amber replied, "Sorry my loyalty is to Mick."
Alyson snapped, "Well mine is to Catty."
The girls glared at each other angrily.
Alyson stood up and smiled kind of scarily at Ryan which creeped him out a little bit, but she continued to smile and said, "How was your date with Catty?"
"Great," he replied, "She's really nice."
"She is, a bit weird, but nice," laughed Alyson.
Ryan shrugged and replied, "Weird is interesting."
He and Alyson chatted about the date until Catty finally came downstairs, Mick wasn't in sight.
"Hello stranger," grinned Ryan at Catty.
"Ryan, we saw each other two days ago remember," she replied rolling her eyes.
Ryan said, "Which was far too long. Are you busy? You did promise you would teach me how to skateboard today you know."
"I thought we were joking," she laughed, "But I would be happy to, I'll just go get my board and my spare one."
Alyson made Ryan feel comfortable again by talking to him and Nina joined the conversation; the other Americans were nice too; however the British residents all remained silent and angry looking.
Catty gave Nina a grin when she saw her being nice to Ryan, she appreciated it.
"Let's go," said Catty leading Ryan out the door.
HOAHOAHOA
Mick didn't really know how to handle this. If he was upset he'd usually go for a run or something but he didn't want to go downstairs and see the others and he definitely didn't want to go outside and risk running to Catty and Ryan.
"I need some ice cream," he decided, "But instead I will figure out this clue."
Mick paused, pulled a face and then realised he was talking to himself.
He muttered, "I'm losing it," and then he repeated the clue to himself, "Tempt Anubis with Dying Blood. What does that mean? Dying blood?" …. "I'm still talking to myself" … "Maybe Catty will like me if I figure this out by myself… honestly Mick, did I just say that? I sound like a whiny teenage girl, you should just tell Catty how you feel… but Ryan…. Just figure out the clue, it'll solve all my problems… of course it won't really but I should do it and I should stop talking to myself."
He was going through a bit of a Smeagle/ Gollum phase and wasn't really enjoying it.
There had never been a moment where Mick had felt this much pressure to do well, even in sporting events. Sport came naturally to him, but this, this was different. He knew he wasn't the smartest guy around. Or did he? It was what he'd been told all his life, he was never encouraged to be anything more, but he was trying to change that. Studying a lot more helped and he'd started reading, reading for pleasure, which he thought was a step in the clever direction. Mick really liked Catty.
Catty's laptop was next to him, on and open (he was upstairs in her room) so he decided to start by googling dying blood.
A lot of information was available but not much was useful: there was something about an incurable disease, blood poisoning, world of warcraft and a song by flesh crawl. Google suggested searching for dying blood pressure which brought up mostly stuff about the signs of dying.
"No way," said Mick as realisation dawned on him. He decided to call Sally, "Hey Sally… yeah I'm good… um, this is a bit weird but I was wondering about Mr Winkler and his illness, he's dying isn't he?"
"Yes, Mick, he is," replied Sally. She had feelings for Mr Winkler, but she was still turning down his affections because he was dying and he didn't know she knew and because she is Sally Holmes, whose life is insanely crazy.
Mick told Sally the clue and asked, "You don't think we could use his blood as part of it? I can't think of any other way to find dying blood."
"That's pretty clever, but how will we get him to give us blood?" wondered Sally suddenly feeling quite nervous.
Mick laughed and said, "Tell him you love him, he would do anything."
"Mick!" exclaimed Sally, "You know it's not that simple."
"So you admit that you love him?" teased Mick.
"No!" she yelled, "Why don't you go tell Catty that you love her and stop letting her go on dates with another guy?"
Mick frowned and replied, "Because she wants to go on dates with another guy, not me."
Sally shouted down the phone, "How do you know that? You have never told her you're feelings, how is she supposed to know and say no to Ryan without knowing how you feel!"
"You said know a lot then," laughed Mick, "Has she said anything to you?"
"Ummm, let's move on," said Sally quickly, "Tell the others your intelligent plan and I'll think more about Jason. Have a nice day."
Mick looked at his phone in disbelief for a few moments; he was firstly shocked at what Sally had implied about Catty and secondly about the fact that women was also his teacher. Life had certainly been interesting since Catty had become his best friend.
HOAHOAHOA
"I hope Mick is okay," sighed Nina who was curled up with Fabian in his room. Her face pressed to his chest, they were sat on the floor, leaning against Fabian's bed.
"He'll be fine," said Fabian, "I honestly don't think Catty and Ryan will last that long, do you?"
Nina replied, "No, I don't. Catty has dated quite a few guys but she has never had a serious, go on more than 4 dates with, boyfriend."
"Good," grinned Fabian, "Now can we talk about something else?"
Nina asked, "Like what?"
"Like how much I love you," he answered.
"You are so cheesy," she laughed but she kissed him anyway.
They were kissing when Mick walked in. He groaned, yelped, stuttered and apologised for interrupting them and they laughed. Then he told them about what he'd figured out about the clue and his conversation with Sally.
"That is really clever Mick!" exclaimed Nina pleasantly surprised.
"Thanks," he said, "Well there's not much we can do about it till Sally decides what to do so I'll leave you guys alone again."
Fabian gave him a grin of thanks and Mick winked at him, Nina looked back and forth between them and decided the best course of action to take would be to hit Fabian around the head.
Fabian didn't appreciate it.
"What was that look you gave Mick?" she asked.
"It was a thank you for leaving, now I get to kiss Nina again look," he answered, then quickly added, "Because I love her so much, and she is beautiful and awesome."
She kissed him again.
I needed that Fabina moment there. Season three is great but I need some Fabina in my life. The more I watch season three the more Fabina I think I will need to write. I hope this is okay.
That was a very Mick chapter. I like my Mick. Not the show Mick but my Mick. I hope you do.
The start was just a joke but I'm now considering making them have a real battle of the boyfriends. What do you think?
I left school today but have exams over the next month, however I'm hoping to finish this by the end of the summer and then who knows...
Thanks for reading and please review.
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