Amber found Nina in their room. The girls had previously decided not to bombard Nina- but to let only one person question her. Nina sat with her magazine attempting to try not to think about last night. She had already gone over the night a thousand times in her head.

She wasn't ready to go downstairs yet. She was scared that Fabian would be there. She was scared it would be awkward. And mostly she was scared that things would forever be different between her and Fabian. She didn't want to lose her best friend.

Amber flew into the room and cut straight to the chase (against Mara's express wishes to be subtle).

"Why didn't you kiss Fabian last night?" she demanded.

Nina stopped flipping through the magazine and looked up at Amber with a faint blush.

"How'd you know about that?"

"I asked the first question," said Amber flipping her hair.

This was a perfect moment to say "None of your Business!" but Nina liked Amber so she said nothing.

"Well? Why did you break his heart?" demanded Amber passionately with her hand dramatically over her own heart.

"Break his heart?" Nina nearly laughed. And if the situation wasn't so sad to her, she certainly would have.

"He has Patricia, I'm sure he'll survive," replied Nina dryly. Then Nina gasped.

"Patricia doesn't know that Fabian tried to kiss me, does she? Oh she is going to kill me!" cried Nina slapping her forehead. After all that, if Patricia found out about Fabian trying to kiss her- then she lost both Patricia as a friend AND Fabian!

"Why does it matter if Patricia knows?" asked Amber. It took her a bit, but after a lot of blinking, she finally came to the proper realization of what was going on.

"WAIT! You don't think Fabian and Patricia like each other- do you?" and as Amber said it, things pieced together for her.

"They do." Nina said it so assertively that she didn't even realize that she had allowed herself to believe what she saw to be true. She had been thinking so much about Fabian and Patricia- that she hadn't once considered that maybe they weren't together. That maybe she was wrong.

"No way," said Amber making face. And then she laughed.

It didn't process to Nina at first what Amber said. It was her turn to have the words to finally seep into comprehension.

"W-what?" Nina asked hardly daring to hope.

"YOU THOUGHT THEY WERE GOING OUT!" Amber sang joyously laughing.

"Shhhh!" shushed Nina still thinking, but this time with a sinking feeling. She had made a big mistake last night with Fabian, and was now going to have to fix it! She felt terrible. The poor, sweet boy had practically asked her out and she had coldly turned him away. At the same time she felt a bubbly feeling rise in her chest- she liked Fabian and didn't have to hide it!

"So you like him?" asked Amber.

"Yes," said Nina, now without hesitation.

"You lied in Truth-or-Dare!" said Amber sounding scandalized.

"I thought Patricia liked him! I didn't want her mad at me again!" she explained.

Amber's phone started to play a pump-up tune that seemed to parallel with Nina's feelings at the moment, Nina wanted to talk to Fabian- immediately.

"Oh- that's daddy I have to go now!" Amber squealed, "He's taking me out of school for a few days to see my family. My mum is taking me shopping for my summer wardrobe," she explained.

Nina wasn't really thinking about what Amber was telling her. She just nodded and gave Amber a hug. And as Amber walked out the door- Nina made a request, "Hey Amber? Please don't tell anyone about my mistake in thinking that Fabian and Patricia were going out- I want to be the one to tell him," she said.

"When are you going to tell him?"

"Right now," Nina confirmed.

"I'm SO excited! Don't worry- I won't say a thing!" said Amber.

And with that Amber left. Amber walked with confidence out the door after hugging Trudy goodbye. When her father picked her up she sat in the back of the extravagant, leather seated car utterly pleased with herself. She had saved a relationship and would certainly treat this nice shopping spree as a reward. I am such a matchmaker. If only my own love life was as easy to solve, Amber thought with a sigh.

Meanwhile, while Amber and Nina were having their illuminating conversation, Mara and Patricia sat in their room waiting.

Their conversations continually came back to wondering what Nina and Amber were talking about.

Mara didn't like that Amber went up to talk to Nina. Amber was too unpredictable and would most likely give away what they were doing. Mara still didn't know Nina very well and feared that Nina's reaction may be harsher than Fabians.

Actually, his reaction initially scared them all. He was always so calm and pleasant that no one had realized that he had any backbone. After that episode, everyone in the House would think twice about ever walking over Fabian again. Fabian proved that he could stick up for himself and Nina had brought that out in him. All in all, everyone was impressed and eager to see him and Nina together.

"This won't work," said Patricia, frustrated. She was so set on having Nina and Fabian together that she was concentrating all her efforts on this problem. Just like when Joy mysteriously disappeared, she could think of absolutely nothing else. When Patricia got her mind set on something she would accept only success. And now that the Joy mystery had been put to bed with Victor's computer chat with Joy, she had nowhere else to put her efforts but here.

"Why won't it work?" asked Mara.

"Oh please Mara, you are SO naïve! Do you think Nina is really just going to tell Amber-of all people- why she rejected Fabian?"

"I thought it might work," said Mara quietly.

"No way! We are wasting time. We need to inspire her to tell the truth and tell us how she really feels about Fabian. She HAS to like him. I refuse to believe that she doesn't like him- it's just not possible!"

"Wow Patricia. Are you ok? You're starting to scare me," said Mara in her heavy British accent and giving Patricia an odd look.

But Patricia wasn't listening. She jumped up on her bed and yelled, "I got it!"

"Got what?" asked Mara, not sure that she actually wanted to know.

"I have the perfect way to prove Nina's feelings towards Fabian! Why didn't I think of it before?" she said shaking her head.

"What?" Mara asked again.

"The perfect idea!" said Patricia running out of the room. Mara could do nothing but follow.

They walked down into the kitchen and sat at the table. Mara didn't like to be left in confusion so she kept asking Patricia what her idea was.

"You'll see," was all Patricia would say.

They saw Fabian come down and sit on the couch on the other side of the room with his textbook. He had changed clothes from earlier. He was wearing his leather jacket with dark red flannel that looked surprisingly good together. The girls couldn't help but feel pride in how they had made Fabian so much more appealing in his attractive new outfits.

Jerome and Alfie also came down a little later and goofed off in the kitchen where it was their turn to clean up from breakfast.

They all heard Amber shout goodbye to them all as she hugged Trudy goodbye and left the House with her dad. To Patricia and Mara, this was an obvious sign that Amber had nothing to tell them about her talk with Nina. Patricia was ready to put her plan into action.

"There she is! Time to put my plan into action," muttered Patricia as she watched Nina walk into the room and up to Fabian.

"What plan?" Mara asked again.

"To get Nina jealous," said Patricia getting up and quickly making her way to Fabian before Mara could say anything to stop her.

Nina walked up to Fabian, a bit jittery. She wasn't good at this, but it was her turn to make the next step. Fabian had tried to make a step towards her last night, and she had backed away- now she had to be the one to make the step towards him.

"Hey Fabian, I need to tell you something," she said shyly.

Fabian got up from the couch and gazed at her. Suddenly, Patricia swooped in, grabbed Fabian by the neck and pulled him down into a dramatic kiss.

The air was suddenly sucked out of the room as everyone stopped what they were doing. Suddenly there were crashes coming from inside the kitchen. As the kissers broke away, everyone's attention was diverted towards to source where the loud crashes came from.

Apparently Jerome had dropped a stack of Trudy's nice plates.

They heard Victor's heavy footsteps running from upstairs.

Everyone's attention went back to Patricia and Fabian and Nina.

Patricia's eyes flashed at Nina challenging her to say something.

Nina wanted to kick herself. She was being so stupid! Her love for Fabian was obviously clouding her judgment. This kiss finally proved to her than Patricia liked Fabian and Amber must have been mistaken. No more uncertainty- she would have to accept it. Nina made a one-eighty turn and left the room as Victor came in the room to yell at everyone and ask about all the commotion.

But how could anyone tell Victor that all the commotion was simply part of the teenage love life?

A/N: I apologize about the complete absence of Fabina in this chapter. I changed directions for this story so there won't be any Fabina until NEXT chapter (To any of you who were waiting for it- Trust me, I am too. But I think that Fabina is largely meaningful if there is some background to it).

Next chapter coming the next 2-3 days (or less hopefully). Keep reviewing and I'll keep writing.

Thanks for reading.