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Chapter 1: Anonymous, Anonymous Everywhere

NINA'S POV

We sat around the dining table eating like nothing ever happened. Of course, that's how they always do it. They act all innocent and stuff here at the house but manage to bully me from time to time.

"Nina, can you pass me the pitcher, please?" Patricia asks me in a fake sweet tone.

"Sure." I forced myself to say as I handed her the pitcher.

"OOOPSS! Sorry." She apologizes, faking innocence, as she "accidentally" poured all the water on me.

"Here, have some more spaghetti!" Joy laughed as she dumped a plate of spaghetti on me. "Oh and don't forget the salad!" she adds dumping a plate full of salad on me too.

They, except for Mara and Eddie, all started laughing.

"Nina, you look pathetic!" Joy laughed.

"Ooohh! That reminds me of an embarrassing story she told me! The time she attended a birthday party and…" Amber started but I cut her off.

"HECK! WILL YOU GUYS STOP IT?!" I screamed coldly. It was loud enough for them to hear me. They all stopped laughing and looked at me, even Amber suddenly shut her black hole – I mean mouth.

"What did I ever do to you guys to deserve this? I mean, SERIOUSLY! I tried my best to be nice to you all and I trusted you all! And this is what I deserve in the end? Being backstabbed, tricked, played with?! I thought you were my friends and best friends…But I guess this is the new definition of friends! Getting information out of someone and using it against them! Like blackmailing? Plus bullying and threatening." I yelled at them. Suddenly, my phone beeped. Someone's calling me.

I took it out and turned my back on them, walking away from the table a bit. I furrowed my eyebrows to find an unknown number calling me, the same one which sent me the text.

"Hello?" I answered.

"Nina, Nina, Nina…Remember how the flood washed away all my "problems"?" a familiar, cold, voice of a girl said on the other line.

"Huh? Who are you?!" I asked, trying hard not to tremble.

"Nina…how could you forget me? Why I'm your ex-best friend" she said on the other line, emphasizing the words 'ex-best friend'.

"Impossible! I-I thought y-you were d-dead…" I stuttered. Then I felt all eyes on me, they seemed to be listening, interested with the conversation I'm having.

"Nina, I can't be dead. After all, I haven't gotten my revenge on you!" she says.

"It's not my fault!" I screamed at her through the phone.

"Oh really? Then why did you leave us to die, Nina? Why?!" she mocks me.

"N-no I didn't. You're the reason why it all happened…Y-you caused their d-deaths…" I say softly.

"Well news flash, Nina. I'm back. It seems like the flood's missed my biggest "problem". So watch your back, I'm back and am coming." She threatens me.

"Why? What's your problem with us?!" I whisper-yelled.

"My problem? You. All of you. Especially you. I want you all to be gone, and now, I'm on the last stage, the final straw. It's only you against me now." She says, anger evident in her voice.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked, confused but my heart tells me that something's bad happened.

"Ooopss..Did the hospital just call?" she giggled evilly.

I hung up the phone, colour drained out of my face, and trembling, I ran up the stairs and into my room, cursing silently.

No. She did NOT just do that. I tried to stop tears from flowing out of my eyes, but I can't hold them back any longer. I don't know why, but she's had a grudge on us for a long time. I thought she was my best friend, but I guess not. She just wanted to get close so she could get rid of us easily.

I remembered when they teased me about my Gran dying; she was still in the hospital at that time. But I hope she's just lying to me. But I can't help it but believe what she said; I know what she's capable of. And it pretty much includes killing people. If I want to fight back, if I want to stay alive, I'd better bring her back.

MARA'S POV

We sat there quietly after Nina left the room. I saw how the colour drained out of her face and I knew right then that something bad has happened, or will happen.

"Do you think she's okay?" I heard Amber ask, genuine concern in her voice.

"Since when did you start caring for her, Amber?" Eddie asked, angrily.

Amber quickly shut up and looked down. And there it is again, the long, awkward silence only to be disrupted by the phone ringing.

"I'll get it!" Trudy called to us as she went to the common room and sat on the couch next to the phone. She picked it up and said, "Hello. This is Trudy Rehmann speaking. I'm the housemother…Oh…oh dear! I see, I'll call her. Please hold." Trudy turned to the direction of the stairs, "Nina! Phone call for you!" she called.

Later Nina came running down the stairs wearing different clothes. Wait…was she crying? It's kinda evident because her eyes were red and puffy when she came down.

I watched her as she sat on the couch and picked up the phone. "Hello? Yes, this is Nina Martin." She listened to the voice on the other line. "W-what? N-no..I-impossible! Tell me this is just a joke!" Nina suddenly screamed which got all the attention of the Anubis students. We all looked at her as she angrily hung up and covered her face with her hands, silently cursing, "Sh*t. Sh*t. Sh*t. This cannot be happening."

I stood up from my seat and walked towards Nina who was still crying and cursing.

"Nina? Is everything alright?" I ask softly.

She quickly wiped her tears away and cracked a fake smile, "Y-yeah. E-everything's perfectly fine" she said with a hint of bitterness in her voice.

"What happened, Neens?" Eddie asked her as Amber walked towards us, looking sad.

"S-she d-died…" Nina stuttered and sobbed once more.

We didn't need to ask who died, because it was obviously her Gran. Her only family left. I hugged her tight as Eddie stood behind her, patting her back.

"Oh Neens, I'm so sorry." I comforted her. "T-the h-hospital was set on f-fire..s-she disappeared in there…t-they s-said everyone w-was burned…" Nina stutters.

I looked at Amber who bit her lips, I know she wanted to run towards Nina, comfort her and ask for forgiveness but I knew she just hadn't had enough courage to do so since she had been a very bad best friend.

"Amber?" I called her softly, which is kind of a gesture for her to come closer.

Amber smiled faintly at me and walked closer to Nina. "N-nina?" Nina didn't respond and just cried there.

"Oh Nina…you don't know how much I regret everything." Amber cries as I released Nina from the hug and Amber hugs her tightly.

"Amber, remember to let Nina breathe, okay?" Eddie reminds her jokingly.

Amber rolled her eyes at Eddie and hugged Nina tightly, trying to comfort her.

"I know it'll take a long time for you to forgive me, but I'm willing to do what it takes just for your forgiveness." Amber whispers to Nina.

I smiled at the two, then looked over to the dining area where to rest of our housemates where sitting in awkward silence. Some looked guilty and wanted to come over and do the same, but they all hesitated and just sat there.

Suddenly, Nina's phone beeped. Amber pulled away from her as Nina wiped her tears then took out her phone.

Someone was calling. I was able to take a peek, but it was an unknown number.

I watched as Nina trembled, bit her lip and clenched her fist before answering it.

"Hello?" she says.

"Nina, Nina, Nina..So? Did you like what I did?" a voice from the other line says.

Don't ask me why I can hear it…I just…can?

"Why? Why can't you just leave us alone?" Nina asked softly.

"Because I want revenge." The other line said.

Nina quickly hung up and clenched her fist. She looked angry and her eyes were filled with pain.

Once more, Nina's phone beeped. A text. She stared at it, hesitating on whether to open it or not. But she opened it anyways. Once again, it was from an unknown number.

It read:

To where to last one's buried.

-E

A tear escaped from Nina's eye as she trembled, reading it. She bit her lip and hesitated for a moment but then stood up.

"Tell Trudy I'm going somewhere and I might be late." Nina said stiffly and coldly.

Before we could stop her, she left.

After Nina left we all gathered up in the common room, still in awkward silence. Then Eddie suddenly stood up. "Okay! I can't take this silence anymore…I'm going" he says as he heads toward the door.

"Where are you going, Miller?" Jerome asks him. "To follow Nina." He says simply. "I really think there's something weird and bad happening around her."

I stood up too, "I'm going with you." And then I walked towards Eddie, just as we were about to leave, I glanced at everyone else who were exchanging guilty looks and hesitated for a while, but then stood up.

"We're coming with you." Amber speaks up.

And then the next thing we knew was we were all sitting in Eddie's car, driving around in circles.

"Do you know exactly where we're supposed to go?" Amber asked impatiently.

"Nope!" Eddie admitted. Everyone groaned in annoyance. "So how will we find her then?"

Then I remembered, "To where the last one was buried." I mumbled.

Everyone turned to me in confusion. "I just remembered something; it's what was written in the text Nina got!" I told them.

"But where?" Alfie asked. "Cemetery?" I suggested.

"Worth a shot." Eddie replied and soon, we were driving all around Liverpool and some nearby places, looking for Nina and cemeteries.

"Wait, why did you want to come with us?" I suddenly asked them, remembering that they hated Nina.

"Uhh..well, we kind of feel guilty. And we wanna apologize." Amber explained suddenly finding interest on the floor.

"What made you do that anyway?" Eddie asked from the driver's seat.

"Well…it's a long story." Patricia sighed. And then they told everything.

"WHAT?! I can't believe you'd believe those kind of sh*t!" Eddie mumbled in anger. "And I thought Fabian was smart…"

"Sorry…" was all that came out of their mouths. "Well, let's put aside all these matters. We gotta find Nina first." Joy spoke up.

"There!" I heard Patricia scream, pointing towards a hill. And there she was. Nina was on her knees, reading something? Then she stood up angrily and walked towards a car parked nearby. She hasn't noticed us at all though.

"Is that…her car?" Eddie asks, squinting his eyes. "Yep. That's her car."

"Eddie, how'd you know that that's her car?" I ask him.

"I've seen it a couple of times during summer in America. And I kinda memorized the plate number" Eddie explains.

"Well, what's it doing there?" Fabian asks. "Maybe aliens abducted the car and transported it here so they can abduct Nina!" Alfie suggested.

"ALFIE!" We all yelled. Alfie raised up his hands in defense, "Just suggesting."

I watched as Nina took out a key from her jeans' pocket. Smiling, she inserted it into the car's keyhole and got in. Within a few minutes, Nina drove away.

"She's leaving! Follow her!" Jerome yelled. "But make sure to keep a certain distance away so she won't get suspicious." I added.

Nina drove through the streets; we actually don't know where she's heading so we sped up a little more so we won't lose sight of her.

"Damn, Martin's a fast driver." Jerome muttered. Finally, we reached to a stop when the traffic light turned red. A forest was located on our side while a clear blue river flowed on the other side, the perfect picnic grounds.

Few cars roamed around this side of the town, where did this road lead to again?

"Wait. Doesn't this lead to the asdfghjkl" Patricia said, her sentence was cut and interrupted by loud screeching of wheels.

"G-guys…?" Eddie called; I looked at him to see him pale white, trembling and looking ahead. I turned my attention to where he was looking and I saw a bunch of blood red clouds slowly heading towards us.

"W-what's that?" I ask, suddenly I heard Amber scream.

"AAAAHH!" Amber yelled. "Jeez Amber! You'll break my eardrums!" Jerome complained to the blonde sitting next to him.

"LOOK!" Amber yelled, hands trembling as she pointed ahead of the road.

And there, continuous screeching of wheels was heard as an old beat-up truck recklessly drove towards them, obviously out of control.

"Is the driver mad or something?!" Fabian yelled as his eyes widened. The truck swerved like a drunken man on a full-speed chase and was fast approaching. It continued to hit numerous signs and even trees as it swerved to both sides of the road.

"Eddie….do something!" I yelled, wanting to grab the steering wheel from him and drive away.

Eddie tried to start the car up. "I-I can't!" He told us.

"WHAT?! Why?!" Amber asked.

"Aliens." Alfie reasoned out.

"ALFIE!" We all screamed at him. Once again, he raised his hands up in defense.

The truck was fast approaching, bright lights filled the car as we all squinted our eyes screaming, "AAAAHH!" waiting for a strong impact to send us flying to another part of the road.

But nothing hit us. As soon as the light died down, we clearly saw it as it drove straight, not swerving anymore, and hit Nina's car. Our eyes widened as her car spun and made horrible, eardrum-breaking, screeching sounds, skidding to our side of the road and finally hit a tree which then caused a minor explosion at the back of her car. Then the truck coolly drove away as if nothing happened.

"NINAAA!" Amber screamed, putting a manicured hand over her glossed mouth.

Weird. I thought it was going to hit us…But then again, Nina's car was just in front of us, only positioned on the other side of the road though, since there weren't any cars heading their way.

Amber quickly opened the car door on her side and ran up to the rather beat-up car on fire.

"Amber, no!" Patricia held her back, who just jumped out of the car, almost trampling over Fabian in the process.

"B-but…Nina's in there!" Amber yelled/whined, tears forming in her sparkling blue eyes.

"Too dangerous." I muttered as the rest got out of the car and joined us.

We stared at the wreck in an almost total silence, except for the occasional sobbing of Amber while the rest tried to hold back their tears. I bit my lip, trying to stop myself from sobbing as tears streamed down my face.

Mick walked over to me and put a hand around my shoulder, trying to comfort me. "Everything will be alright." He whispers.

Suddenly, the "silence" was broken by beeping of phones. We all looked at our own phones, seems like everyone got a message.

I read mines:

See? That's what you get when you interfere or mess with me or my plans. Now back off, or you'll end up just like her. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk. Watch your back now dear.

-S

I gasped in shock at what I read. What did "S" mean by plans? What did she mean by interfering with her ?

I looked at the others who were exchanging phones; I took Patricia's while Eddie grabbed mines and read what we received. The messages were pretty much the same.

"So….is this text a threat or a warning?" Amber asked, utterly confused.

"It pretty much looks like a threat and a warning, Amber." Eddie pointed out.

Suddenly, the truck came rushing back towards us. I cringed, thinking it might go after us next but instead, it turned around and then stopped right in front of us, the driver's seat facing our side. The window by the driver's seat rolled down and a figure hidden by a dark robe and a pair of sunglasses emerged.

"You shouldn't have followed her. That's what she gets for not heeding my warnings. Now, will you disobey my warnings too?" the figure told us. Then the window rolled up and the truck drove away, before any of us could respond.

"Creepy. Very creepy." Jerome muttered. Suddenly, we heard a creak and a crash. We turned towards the wreck and we saw Nina, stumbling out of the car, looking severely wounded and tried to walk towards us.
"G-guys..? W—why..are you here?" she managed to say, standing up straight.

"NINA! Are you alright?" I asked, worried. "Yeah. Yeah. I'm fine, kinda got used to this though…" she mumbled.

We all looked at her in confusion, she just shrugged it off. "Never mind. Anyways…can you bring me to a hospital or something now? Usually, I get dizzy and black out…right about now." She says as she suddenly falls on the ground.

"Weird girl…" Jerome muttered once more as we rushed forward to carry her back to the car.

"Let's discuss everything later, alright?" Eddie told us all as we got Nina into the car and drove off.

"Wait!" Patricia says just as Eddie was starting the engine. She got out of the car and headed towards the wreck. She looked for something inside Nina's car and as soon as she found it, she lugged it along with her, a triumphant smile on her face. It was a bag, Nina's bag to be exact.

"Let's go." Patricia ordered as soon as she got in. I don't know why, but something feels creepy about that bag. There's something in there…not dangerous at all but I don't know.

Patricia was busy rummaging around Nina's bag as we, except Eddie and an unconscious Nina, watched her. "AHA!" Patricia screamed, finally getting a piece of paper.

"I think this is the one she was reading a while ago…at that hill?" Patricia told us once she noticed our confusion. "Ohh.." was what we managed to reply.

Before even reading it, a phone beeped. "Whose phone was that?" I asked. Everyone shook their heads then Patricia searched for something in Nina's bag once more and then took out Nina's phone.

"Probably Nina's." Patricia says as she looks at the phone.

"Unknown number…" Patricia tells us as she opens to read the text.

"So? What does it say?" Amber asks impatiently.

"Can't you wait?!" Patricia told her.

"Okay, it said:

Nina…Nina…Nina…How pathetic of you. Would you let me win that easy? Guess not. But if you want to win this game and save all of your and their lives, you gotta bring her back. Wake her up. Tough decision, eh? Well, it's a win or lose situation. See you later!

-E

p.s. congrats on your 11th. Better thank my twin for that ;)"

"Geez. What's up with weird, mysterious, anonymous people these days?" Eddie mumbled as he pulled into the hospital's parking lot.

But as soon as we got out of the car, we heard Patricia shriek. And the next thing we knew, Nina was out of Eddie's hands and a gun was pointed to her head. And the mysterious gunman was of course, no other than…

A/N:

Yayyy! It's finally finished XD Sorry if it took so long to update, was busy plotting and writing yet another story.

Anyway, I hope you liked it :)

P.S. Anyone know where I can download or watch (free/without viruses or anything else…I guess) all 3 seasons of House of Anubis with complete episodes? I'm dying to re-watch them all, esp season 2 and 3 XD If you know where, mind sharing it with me? You could PM it or something like that.

Thanks!

-Penguinatorx