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House of Power Rangers

Chapter 11: House of Messages

Nina didn't always use her laptop. She usually preferred to use her textbooks when she was doing work because they were easier to get up and she was way less likely to get distracted when she did; she would often end up going on to the school website. However today she was using her laptop because there were a couple of sheets of work that she had lost which she needed to reprint. Logging into her email was something she usually avoided because there were usually emails from her friends in school which she knew she couldn't reply to. However, that was where her sheets were, so she had no choice today but upon opening her email she found messages from everyone; Fabian (there were a lot from him), the rest of Sibuna, even from Jerome, Joy and Mara! They weren't recent though… except one. Most of them were from early in September when she had emailed Eddie about the letter. The others must have seen it and realised that she could still use it. They stopped a couple of weeks ago, around mid-October when they probably realised that she wasn't going to answer them. No matter how tempted she was she wasn't even going to open them. She saw a few words that kept popping up 'KT', 'New American,' 'Miss you'. She couldn't open them… except for one.

It came from a few days ago and she was going to ignore it, how she ignored the others until she saw who it was from. Eddie. This was weird. She hadn't heard from him in a few weeks (he was still her Osirian so it helped ease his mind to know that she was okay and just to have an occasionally check-up… they were also best friends) so she wouldn't have been surprised to see the email if it wasn't for the fact that it was this email. She had made another email account with a fake name which she had shared with Eddie alone. This was the email that they were supposed to use to keep in touch with each other just in case somebody at Anubis house somehow logged into his laptop. The email she sent about the letter was her own mistake. However, the subject of the letter simply read 'URGENT!' She had to open this one but when she did there wasn't much to see except, 'Check your email.' She furrowed her brow before going back to her inbox as she heard movement outside her door. She typed in the name of the documents she needed before scrolling down to open and print it. She would check her other email afterwards.


The printer was in the living room so after sending everything she needed to print she got up and left to collect them. As she walked past the kitchen, she saw Mike and Antonio inside, Antonio trying to cook and Mike trying to help but also messing around a bit, walking past the indoor dojo she saw Kevin and Mia, sitting on the floor just talking. Clearly, they were taking a break from sparring because Nina could see them sweating. She reached the living room, walking straight to the printer just as the front door opened, a deep laugh sounding throughout the room as Jayden and Emily entered the house both carrying bags.

"Did you really?" Jayden asks, shutting the door with his foot, continuing an earlier conversation.

"Yeah, I was terrified! I didn't know what else to do," she laughs.

"Hey guys," Nina smiles as they stepped into the room. It hadn't finished printing yet.

"Oh, hi Nina," Emily replies, still smiling. Emily and Jayden often went to get the groceries together. Seeing all the pairings around the house Nina was glad that her teammates were bonding.

"Hey," Jayden says, stepping closer, looking at what she's printing. "School?" He questions.

"Yeah. History. I lost a few," she explains. He just nods.

"Right, well we should take this to the kitchen. I think Antonio's waiting."

"He is," the gold ranger calls, causing the three to laugh. The red and yellow rangers leave Nina in the living room. Nina finishes collecting her now printed out sheets before going back to her room.


"Ugh," Nina groans, throwing her head down onto her desk.

"That doesn't sound good," a feminine voice says behind her. Nina lifts her head turning to look at the source even though she already knew who it was. "Sorry for barging in," Emily says shutting the door behind her.

"Don't worry about it. I could use a break. What's up? You seem quite smiley," Nina notes going to join Emily sitting on her bed. As much as Nina liked having the room to herself sometimes, she wished she could share with the others (which is possibly linked to why she sometimes, today, leaves her door open). She doesn't mind too much though. She likes this room.

"Do I really?" She asks reaching up touch her cheeks.

"Yeah, what happened?" Nina asks intrigued. It wasn't much because Emily was always smiley, but it was a little bit more than usual. Only someone who sees her practically every day would even notice.

"Okay so I haven't told anyone else yet but," she leans forwards before whispering, "Mike asked me out on a date."

"What?" Nina whisper shouts. "No way! When? Just now?" Emily nods.

"Yeah, Jayden and I stayed in the kitchen for a bit after we dropped off the things, just talking with the others then Jayden and Antonio went out to the back and we were just talking then he asked me with I would like to go out with him, like on a date," she explains.

"Then what?" Nina asks, eager to know more.

"I asked where and he told me, maybe he could take me to an arcade which I laughed at." Nina laughed at this too; of course, Mike would take a girl to an arcade on their first date. Nina had to admit it did sound like a fun idea though. "I told him, I'll think about it and now we're here."

"So… do you want to go on the date?"

"I don't know. I mean I like spending time with him, he's nice and funny but I don't know if I want to date him. What do you think I should do?"

"Well, I'm not an expert but if you're not sure, I'd say go on the date. See how you feel about it. You never know how it could turn out," Nina advises.

"Thank you, Nina," Emily smiles hugging her.

"Of course!"

"So, what about you?" Emily asks pulling back. Nina laughs as she gets up, walking over to her desk.

"What about me?" She's completely out of lined paper!

"Are you crushing on someone right now?"

"On top of training and schoolwork I don't really have time to be crushing on anyone right now." She walks over to her door to grab her jacket before pulling the door open.

"Anyone? Not even Jayden?" Nina doesn't get to reply because somebody else does.

"What about me?" The brown haired, blue eyed guy asks, stopping by the door. He must've been walking past but now they've drawn attention to themselves. Why did she have to open the door?

"Oh, I haven't spoken to anyone, one on one in a while, not even you," Nina says. It's a terrible lie (which is annoying because usually she's a pretty good liar), she knows, and he'll probably ask her about it later but right now she needs to leave. "Anyways, I'm completely out of paper so I'm quickly gonna go and buy some if that's alright."

"Yeah sure, do you mind if I come with you? I forgot to buy something for Mentor earlier," he says as Nina puts on her jacket. It was early November now, so it was beginning to get cold.

"Of course," she smiles as he goes to get his jacket from his room. Nina walks back over to her bed where Emily is still sitting, smiling. "Stop smiling as though you're all innocent."

"What? Now you get to talk one on one," Emily jokes causing Nina to hit her with a pillow which Emily grabs as Jayden comes back to the door.

"Are you ready?" He asks to which Nina jumps up.

"Yup, let's go." As she walks out of the room, she turns back to shake her head at Emily.


Nina was correct in thinking that Jayden was going to ask what they were really talking about, so she just played it off as girl talk. Of course, it worked; guys never wanted to know what happened in girl talk (even though they all secretly do).

"So how do you feel about Antonio being back? From when you were younger, I mean?" Nina asks him as they walk. It may not have been the actual thing her and Emily were talking about, but she wasn't lying when she said that they hadn't had any one on one time in a while, so this was nice.

"Honestly, it just feels kind of surreal. Like when you came, I couldn't believe it. I'm glad though. I really wasn't expecting to see him again. Not like this at least."

"It's good that you're happy. It's not every day that friends come back, especially with lives like ours," Nina muses, thinking about her friends in England. She wishes she could've at least said bye…

"Your boarding school was in England, right?" Jayden asks, as though he could hear what she was thinking.

"Yeah. It looked like Hogwarts," she smiles, remembering her first day. It wasn't particularly pleasant at the time but looking back, she wouldn't change anything… except maybe the sweater she wore. She'd wear one that doesn't shrink when wet.

"Do you miss your friends from there?" He asks. She nods.

"Of course. I was only there for two years but we went through a lot together. I met some pretty amazing people," she says smiling fondly.

"Tell me about them." Nina looks up at him, smiling softly; he seemed genuinely interested. He was a bit taller than her, enough that she had to look up. How tall was he actually? She wondered.

"Really?"

"Yeah. I want to know."

"Alright but remember that you asked for this," she says to which he laughs. "There were nine, well actually if I include teachers, eleven, wait twelve," she says, pausing to count on her fingers before just saying "there were quite a few people. Should I start with teacher, girls or guys?"

"Let's start with teachers," he says, smiling at her energy. She couldn't help it! She loved to talk about people important to her.

"Alright, well we'll just do four of those. Mr Sweet, we just called him Sweetie but never to his face, intentionally," she adds remembering that one time Alfie accidently did. "He was the head teacher and a science teacher. He was an interesting man. He could be really sweet, hence the name but he earned his place as head teacher for a reason.

"Then there was Mrs Andrews, she was our English and French teacher. She was strict but in a good way. She also clearly loved being a teacher. She cared about us students. And there was Trudy who wasn't really a teacher, but our house mother at Anubis house."

"Anubis? As in the Egyptian god of death?" Jayden asks.

"Yeah, the school loved ancient Egypt." Jayden had no idea just how much. "When I tell you her cooking and baking was legendary, I'm not kidding. She was so kind as well. The last is also not a teacher. He was actually the housekeeper or caretaker, Victor. Every night he would stand in the foyer and say in his deep voice 'it's ten o'clock! You have five minutes precisely then I want to hear a pin drop,' then he would actually drop his pin to see if he could hear it. If he couldn't we'd get into huge trouble. He was actually very scary yet somehow, I still miss him. I guess because even though he and his stuffed raven were very creepy, he actually wasn't a bad person. He was just a bit misguided.

"Now we'll move onto the girls. First, there was my roommate and best friend Amber Millington. At first, I didn't think we'd be as close as we were; she was very girly and pink and fluffy but as we spent more time together I realised there was so much more to her than just that and she's actually a very good friend.

"Then another one of my best friends was Patricia Williamson. She is a tough girl, kind of snarky at first and honestly still once you know her," Nina laughs causing Jayden to smile too. "But she is very loyal. She'd do almost anything for her friends. She kind of hated me at first because a misunderstanding but she warmed up to me eventually."

"What did you do?" Jayden asks, intrigued.

"Nothing! It was just bad timing. I arrived the day one of her best friends, Joy, went missing."

"Missing?" He asks, his brow furrowing as they enter the town centre. It was kind of late so the stores would be shutting soon.

"Yeah, her dad had randomly pulled her out of school for some weird ceremony, but they left all her stuff behind, so we thought she'd been kidnapped, and the school were covering it up."

"Sounds fun," he laughs.

"It wasn't but anyways. Mara Jaffray was another one of the girls who lived there. She was really smart and one of the first students to be kind to me there. We didn't talk much which was sad, but she was really sweet anyways which just leaves Joy. We had an interesting relationship because she came back for second year, but she thought I was replacing her. It was… complicated because she also had a crush on my boyfriend at the time." Nina says kind of rushing at the end as she feels rather than sees Jayden look at her.

"You have a boyfriend?" He asks, curiously.

"Had. Past tense."

"What happened? Did he do something?" He asks her as they approach the shop where she was going to get her lined notebook.

"No… I had to stay here. Join the team," she says, finding the right aisle.

"Oh, I'm sorry," he tells her genuinely, once again kind of surprising her. The reason it surprised her wasn't that she thought Jayden was difficult to talk to - because he wasn't - it was just Nina didn't think he would want to know about this stuff. It was a surprise but a good one.

"Don't be. The last time I saw him was over four months ago and we were friends first and I would tell you about him now but," she says pulling up her sleeve to look at her watch, "I think the store you're looking for shuts in about ten minutes. You go there and I'll meet you back here."

"You're right!" He exclaims realising the time, "I'll be back in a minute." She laughs as he leaves quickly before turning to walk further down, almost walking into someone.

"I'm so sorry," she says before looking up and seeing familiar green eyes. "Kendall."

"Nina, hey. What are you doing out this late?" He asks smiling at her, he was almost the same height as Jayden. She reaches beside him to grab some the notepad she was looking for before holding it up.

"Paper. I'm out," she says.

"Home-schooling right," he nods.

"Why are you out so late?" She asks, walking with him to whatever aisle he's going to.

"We just found out my mum's day long fake marriage was invalid and got a princess to marry the guy she really loves instead of James so we're celebrating," he explains, grabbing a couple of bags of crisps. Nina just says,

"And I thought my life was complicated." She doesn't even bother to ask for an explanation. "The others are around here somewhere too. We split up to go to different shops since our time was limited," he explains as they walk over to the tills to pay.

"Fair enough," she nods as they're called forwards to pay. "So, what else have you been up to apart from fake marriages?"

"Are you paying together or separately?" The cashier asks. She got long dark hair, tied up in a ponytail and light blue eyes. She's very pretty. Her name tag reads Michelle.

"Separately," Nina says at the same time Kendall says,

"Together." He turns to her grabbing the notepad. "I got this."

"What no, Kendall you don't need to do that," she says but he doesn't listen. He hands the girl the money once she scans the items before handing it back to Nina. "Thank you."

"You're welcome," he smiles. Chivalry is not dead; Nina thinks to herself as the girl hands Kendall his change.

"Excuse me," the girl, Michelle, says before they can turn to leave. "You're Kendall Knight from Big Time Rush, aren't you?"

"Yes, I am, Michelle," he smiles at her kindly. The stores going to be closing in a couple of minutes, so they are the only people left around, expect for a couple of people at the back.

"Could I take a picture with you?" She asks hopefully and nervously.

"Of course! Do you have a camera?" He asks her. He seems so natural at it, Nina wonders how often it happens. She doesn't know if she could ever get used to that. Michelle pulls out her phone, before taking off her work jacket to reveal a pretty top beneath.

"Do you want me to take the photo?" Nina offers to which Michelle nods handing her her phone. Kendall wraps an arm around her shoulders while she puts an arm around his waist; it's cute. She takes a couple of shots before noticing Kendall's still holding his bag. "I'll hold these." She reaches out and takes them before taking a couple more photos. "Alright, here you go. I hope they're okay," she says handing Michelle her phone back as she scrolls through them, grinning from ear to ear.

"They're perfect! Thank you so much, both of you," she says as Nina hands Kendall his bags back.

"It was great meeting you, Michelle. Have a great day," he waves as they leave.

"You too," she replies before coming to shut the door.

"Does that happen often?" Nina asks once they're outside the shop.

"People asking for pictures. Yeah, kind of but I don't mind too much. I'm glad they like our music," he replies.

"That's really sweet," she tells him to which he just smiles. "But you didn't answer my question earlier. What else have you guys been up to?"

"Well, our manager, Gustavo, is planning on writing a new song so hopefully we'll be recording again soon. Apart from that I really don't know what's been happening. One of us does something dumb and we usually spend the rest of the day trying to sort it out. It's surprisingly fun."

"Kendall!" A familiar voice yells, running up to the duo. Nina turns to see the helmet wearing member of the band. "Nina! Hi!" He exclaims, noticing her for the first time before hugging her, lifting her off the ground.

"Whoa! Hi Carlos," she laughs at his hyperactivity as he puts her down.

"I got the drinks," he tells Kendall, holding up the cans of soda. "Anyway, what were you guys talking about?"

"Just how it sounds like things are going good for you. I'm glad." Nina tells him.

"Yeah they are," Carlos replies before leaning forwards, blocking Kendall from seeing his mouth with his hand and whispering to Nina "Maybe except in the romance department. He and his girlfriend broke up a couple of months ago. He was shattered,"

"Carlos!" Kendall exclaims obviously having heard.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Nina says awkwardly but really feeling bad for him.

"Don't worry about it," he says, glaring at Carlos. "I'm good now anyways."

"Good," she smiles.

"What about you Nina? Any special guy?" Carlos asks, shocking Nina. She wasn't expecting that.

"Carlos! Stop!" Kendall exclaims at his friend again.

"It's alright but no. There's no 'special guy'," she tells him, blushing.

"So, when are you coming over again?" Carlos asks, as though he didn't just embarrass his friends. It kind of made Nina want to laugh.

"Honestly, I don't know if I'll be free until around Christmas," she sighs.

"Christmas? Why?" Carlos exclaims, Kendall looking slightly disappointed too.

"Things have just been really busy. I'm behind on my schoolwork because I've been stuck on something for these past few weeks, the whole family tradition thing is getting harder and I'm just all over the place. I'm really sorry."

"Yikes, that sounds like a lot. I hope you're able to get through it all," Kendall replies.

"Me too," she sighs. "I will definitely be over for around Christmas at least. I know you guys are meant to be going to Minnesota," she says as she feels someone come to stand by her. She looks to see Jayden.

"Oh hey, you're back," she smiles.

"Yeah, I got it," he replies.

"Erm, guys this is my friend Jayden. Jayden, you remember I told you about Katie, well this is Kendall her older brother and his friend Carlos," she says introducing them as Jayden puts out his hand for them to shake.

"You guys are from Big Time Rush, right? One of our friends listens to your music while she cooks. You're good," Jayden compliments.

"Thank you so much," Kendall replies.

"It was great seeing you guys, but we should probably start heading back," Nina tells them.

"You're right, it is kind of late," Kendall agrees.

"It was great meeting you guys," Jayden smiles.

"You too," Kendall replies.

"Bye guys! Tell the others I say hi and sorry," she says as she begins walking away with Jayden.

"We will, bye Nina! Bye Jayden!" Carlos waves.


Luckily, Jayden didn't question her too much about the guys. He just wanted to ensure she was being careful which of course she was. She knew that now she knew Katie was alright she shouldn't really be seeing them anymore… but they were already expecting to see her again. After that though, she didn't plan on going over again. She knew she shouldn't it was for all their safety.

"So, your ex-boyfriend…" Jayden begins, clearly wanting her to continue their earlier conversation.

"Fabian Rutter. He was so sweet from the beginning. He was such a good friend, always helping me and others and he was really smart too. I do miss him but honestly not as a boyfriend. I miss him as a friend which is weird but maybe we're better off like this." Jayden doesn't say anything to this, he just lets her continue.

"During first year, his roommate was Mick Campbell. He was an athlete and I really didn't talk to him much at all, but he was nice enough.

"There was also Alfie Lewis. He was like a little brother. He was always so playful and energetic. Sometimes it got annoying, but he meant well. He wouldn't do anything to hurt anyone else intentionally.

"Then there was his partner in crime Jerome Clarke. Jerome was… interesting. He was a very mischievous guy. He did care about people, but he didn't like to let it show. A lot of the time he would get bored and do things to mess with others, or he would blackmail us but honestly, I just think he was lonely sometimes. I didn't realise at the time but looking back Alfie started hanging out with us more than him and even when he did, he would be quite secretive about what was happening. Either way, I do miss him, regardless of how annoying he could be.

"And last but not least we have Eddie Miller. Technically it's Edison Sweet, his dad is Mr Sweet, the headteacher but either way he prefers Eddie. He's one of my best friends. It was weird because when he first came during the second year, we were the only two Americans in the house, but we didn't actually talk that much. Then towards the end of the year something happened, and we realised we had a lot more in common than we thought. Then during the summer, we hung out a lot because it turned out he lived not too far from me and we just became very close," Nina says fondly… also remembering she hadn't yet opened his email. Noticing the look, she was getting from Jayden she added. "We're just friends though. Really good friends."

"Okay," he replies, smiling at her response.


Once Nina got back to the house, she went straight to her room to quickly check her secret email. She hadn't checked it in a few weeks but there weren't too many messages, she opened them all, some of them, telling her about what's been going on in Anubis house (Amber left!), some telling her about her friends, some about Patricia, some about a new girl KT who was apparently her replacement, (she knew it was a joke but at the same time it slightly hurt but clearly he hadn't forgotten about her which she was glad for. Not that she was ever worried he would) however the most recent one was asking her how she was. He didn't know why but his Osirian senses were tingling and they're saying something's wrong. Please let me know you're alright. The sensation to come back is getting stronger. Looking at the date she realises it must've been from when she had her concussion. While it was only mild, going into battle the next day didn't help her at all. The next couple of days consisted of the hospital room and this (horrible) chicken and mushroom soup that Mia had kindly made her.

"Knock, knock," Emily says, standing by her open door. She probably should've have shut it for when she was emailing Eddie, but the email was sent so she just closed her tab and shut her laptop before turning to the other blonde.

"Hey," she smiles, getting up.

"Dinner's ready," the yellow ranger replies causing Nina to hesitate which she notices. "Antonio and Mike cooked it."

"Great because I'm starving!"

"Was your one on one talk that exhausting?" Emily asks innocently.

"First of all, our one on one talk was great and secondly, I do not have a crush on Jayden," Nina says whispering her second point, but Mia was in the kitchen when they entered.

"Who has a crush on Jayden?" She asks, turning to face the other two girls causing Nina to bury her head in her hands as she sat down. The girls probably weren't sleeping tonight.

Whoa chapter eleven is done and so is 2019! That was our final chapter for the year! For the decade! That so crazy! Anyways so this chapter was a lot longer than I remembered but oh well! Bonding with Jayden and Emily yay! What do you think about dating within the team? Good idea or nah? (Also, random note, I remember it took practically all my willpower the write 'soda' instead of 'fizzy drinks'). I hope you enjoyed the chapter and wishing you all the best in the new year! Thanks for reading!