"Still can't believe she is going through with this," I mutter, waving my torch around the place. It was the night of Nina's ceremony and Patricia convinced everyone to attend, except Mick who, for once, seemed like the smarter on out of all of us at the moment. I stood beside Mara with Fabian and Amber across from us as we stood in front of the door to the attic, their torches shining onto their face. It was midnight so the house was to remain in darkness by Victor's orders so torches were needed. Patricia, Alfie and Jerome were getting Nina for the ceremony.
"She thinks that it will make living here easier," Fabian explained. I stopped my torch on Fabian, blinding him slightly.
"It's Patricia we are talking about, something like this will not shut her up about Joy," I said.
"You guys need to get your priorities straight. What if Nina gets attacked by a ghost or something?" Amber said, looking spooked. I rolled my eyes at her comment.
"The attic is not haunted, Amber!" I told her for the third time.
"Tell that to the poor students up there," She said. Before I could argue further, the door to my shared room opened and Patricia emerged, looking rather stupid with the torch shining upwards to her face. Nina followed her along with Alfie and Jerome who copied Patricia. They were both idiots. We stood in silence for as moment before Amber spoke up.
"Where's Mick?" She asked Fabian. I sighed deeply. It took her this long to realize he wasn't here?
"He didn't want to come, tired or something," Fabian explained but was quickly shushed by Patricia. She began to speak soon after.
"Oh, spirits of Anubis house guide the new girl on her initiation quest and keep her calm in the haunted attic."
"It's not haunted," I mutter under my breath. Is Patricia really saying all this rubbish?
"Oh come on, this is ridiculous," Fabian said, obviously agreeing with my inner thoughts. Patricia shushed him again.
"Unlock the door," She told Nina. Nina nodded and stepped forward, reaching it and unlocking it. Before opening the door, she turned around to ask something.
"I just have to go up there and bring something back and I'm done?" We all nodded. "You guys didn't booby trap the place, right?"
"Of course not! Go," Patricia told her. Nina did so, opening the door and entering the stairwell. We all looked in to see what it was like. It had been a long time since any of us saw the attic, let alone the stairs to the attic. As Nina reached half way up the stairs, Patricia came forward and closed the door on her.
"What are you doing?" Amber cried.
"What do you think?" Patricia replied, pulling the key out of the lock. What the hell is this girl thinking?
"Hey, what's going on? Let me out!" Nina cried from behind the door.
"You heard the girl, let her out!" I tell Patricia but she wasn't listening.
"Not until you tell us what you know about Joy's disappearance," Patricia told Nina. Not this again!
"I don't know anything!" Nina shouted beyond the door.
"Then, you'll have to stay in there until morning," Patricia said as if it was perfectly alright.
"Alright, Patricia you've had your fun now unlock the door!" Fabian said.
"Yeah, Patricia this is getting silly!" Mara continued.
"Listen to the smartest one amongst us!" I pressed, hoping Patricia would finally see sense. But it's Patricia I'm talking about and sense didn't seem all that familiar with her right now.
"Whose side are you on?" She asked us with a sneer.
"The sensible side that doesn't involve locking someone in the attic!" I told her but she ignored me and returned to the door that was keeping Nina from us.
"Last chance, newbie. What can you tell me about Joy?"
"For the love of..." I mutter, absolutely sick of this.
"Nothing! I know nothing!" Nina cried in desperation.
"You're really not gonna leave her in there, all night, are you?" Fabian asked, seeming distressed by all of this. Nina soon began banging the door; it was extremely loud and would probably alert Victor at some point so we are now on a schedule.
"Let me out!" She kept calling from beyond the door. "Let me out!"
"Stop banging!" Patricia said.
"No, keeping banging until Patricia sees what a moron she has become and Victor will come!" I said after her probably earning a glare from her but I don't care, she's gone completely off the deep end with all this rubbish and locking the poor girl in the attic was not the answer.
"Hey! Open up! There's something up there! Nina called, sounding terrified.
"Open the door!" Amber said.
"The zombies are coming!" Alfie added sounding convinced that there were indeed zombies there.
"Not helping Alfie!" I told him.
"Hurry!" Mara said. Everyone began telling Patricia to open the door and quickly but she was too slow as Victor soon turned up.
"What's all this noise?" He asked, shining his torch over us. Nina stopped her banging. Why? She could have just kept banging and save herself. Then again, that would not help at all with the whole 'Patricia' thing.
"What's going on?" Victor said, eyeing all of us as he flipped the light switch. "Why are you all out of bed?"
He moved forward, towards the door. Everyone stood silent, not daring to mutter a word. He began to eye the door before turning to us again.
"Where you trying to break this door down?" He said, looking at Amber who shook her head vigorously.
"No, we..." Patricia began, earning Victor's attention. "Thought we heard...mice. That's all."
"I think it's probably a rat," I say, looking at Patricia. "Mice would never do such a thing." I gave a smirk as she looked shocked at the fact I might let slip what really happened here.
"Get to bed, now!" Victor's voice boomed, making us spring into motion and move to our rooms. Patricia and I quickly entered our room as Patricia closed the door behind us.
"You have become such a creep, Patricia!" I tell her as soon as the door is closed.
"Me? Sorry for being worried about my best friend!" Patricia retaliated, walking up to me so we're now face to face.
"By all means, worry but don't torment a girl that has bugger all to do with it."
"What makes you so sure she's innocent? She appears the day Joy leaves and takes her place!"
"And that gives you reason to suspect her? Look, just give me the key so I can let her out," I say, holding my hand out for the key. Patricia backed away slightly.
"No way!"
"You aren't gonna get anything out her, even if she does know. Are you seriously that cruel that you would keep her locked in there?" I ask, trying to find a little bit of decency in Patricia. She turned on me and went to the window, opening it and threw the key out of the window. My eyes widened at this as she turned around with a slight smile on her face.
"Well, nothing we can do now," She said before making her way to bed, leaving me just standing there. Did she really just do that? God, this girl...just this girl!
"Not only are you a moron but you're a heartless bit-" I was cut off by the door to our room being opened. Fabian and Amber soon walked in.
"Patricia, give me the key!" Fabian said, making Patricia rise from her bed. He's was about a minute too late.
"Good luck with that," I told him, earning myself a confused look. "She tossed it out the window."
"You did what!" Patricia stammered slightly, unsure of what to say.
"We won't be able to find it until morning," Amber said.
"Was it that obvious?" I asked.
"Well, this is a right mess," Fabian said, pacing around the room.
"I think we should tell Victor everything," Amber suggested. It was really our best option right now.
"No! You can't do that!" Patricia said, trying to convince us not to.
"We can't just leave her there," Fabian said.
"Hang on," I said, going over to my side of the room and pulling a draw out to find a few large paper clips stashed in the corner. I take on before closing the draw.
"Right, off we go." Fabian, Amber and I left the room, keeping an eye out for Victor at all times as we approached the door to the attic.
"Nina," Fabian whispered.
"I hardly think she can hear you," I said, going over to the door and kneeling down to the lock's level.
"You never know," He replied. I began to pull the paper clip apart to get it ready.
"Do you know what you're doing?" Amber asked in a whisper. I nodded.
"Not the first time I've done this," I whisper back. Before I could put the broken clip into the lock, the door know rotated and the door swung open, forcing me to the ground as the other two jumped in fright. Nina came from the other side, breathing heavily before smiling at us.
"Hi," She said. "What's up with you guys? You look like you've seen a ghost and...why are you on the floor?" She asked us. I pushed myself up, brushing myself off of any dust as Amber spoke.
"How did you..." Nina bet her to the punch as she pulled out a hair pin. Huh, she had the same idea. I showed her my paper clips with a smirk.
"Great minds think alike," I said, earning a slight giggle.
"Shh, you'll have Victor up again," Fabian warned us. Nina closed the door after her before returning to us.
"So...you alright?" I ask. Nina merely nodded.
"So, what was it like up there? See any ghost?" Amber asked. I couldn't help but grunt at her question.
"Please say no," I mutter.
"No, just some mice and spiders...and possibly a rat," Nina told us.
"Huh, called it," I smirk as we began walking to our rooms.
"You are so brave!" Amber told her with a grin. After taking another check, Amber said her goodbyes.
"Night guys, see you in the morning." We gave our own nights as she trotted off into her own room, leaving me, Fabian and Nina alone.
"You did well," Fabian told Nina which I nodded to.
"Yeah, not a lot of people return as you heard," I said in a mock voice, earning a slight laugh.
"Thanks guys, don't tell Patricia but...my hands were shaking so hard that it took me three tries to get the clip in the lock," She said.
"Don't worry, your secret's safe with us," I said to her, Fabian nodded with me. Fabian then left us to go back to his room, leaving just the two of us.
"I'm proud of you, Yank. This will rile up Patricia so much..." I trail off as I look at Nina, noticing that she had the eye necklace I kept envisioning her with. She saw that I was looking at it and began to stutter a response but I spoke before she could speak.
"Thought you didn't have anything like that?" I ask.
"I...I only just got it but...how did you know I was going to get it?" She asked and it was my turn to stutter.
"I...I told you, I saw it a while ago."
"Yeah but I don't think this is the type of thing that went into mass production. How did you know I would get this?" She pressed. Oh god, oh god, what can I say? Wait...
"Did it help you by any chance while you were up there?" I say, remembering my vision from earlier. Nina's eyes widened and her mouth gaped as I asked this. I was right.
"How...do you know something about this?" She asked. I merely smiled slightly.
"Looks like something is going on. You are a curious one," I tell her.
"I could say the same thing about you," She replied. I nod.
"Never mind that. We should get to bed before Victor comes." I turn but Nina grabs my arm to stop me.
"How did you know about the necklace and how it helped me up there?" She asked again. I looked at her, eyeing her slightly before answering.
"Call it...intuition."
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