Almost 3 months. I am so, SO sorry! My laptop was broken and then I had a block and then.. Ugh, sorry!
This chapter id dedicated to all of you, House of Anubis lovers, because you're all awesome, and MERRY CHRISTMAS! :D
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Patricia's POV
Nina's tummy was really showing right now and the doctor said that the baby will start kicking soon.
It has been a month since Aileen came, and I barely got to spend time with her.
She was always with Amber, planning the wedding.
Of course sometimes they called me to help them, because I had to decide on certain things, it was MY wedding, after all.
That's why today Aileen and I are going to see a movie and then to the best Cafe in the city.
"Aileen? Are you ready?" I called while knocking on the door of her room.
She was getting ready in there for the past twenty-five minutes.
"Yeah, coming!" the door opened to reveal Aileen.
She was wearing a white tank top that said "I love cupkae", her favorite blue jeans shorts, her gray all stars (which I bought her for her birthday last year) and her daisy earings.
"Hey! Look at you, so pretty!" I said after checking her out.
"Thanks! You look awesome yourself!" She returned the compliment.
I was wearing a striped black and white tank top, dark green skinny jeans, some black shoes I didn't even know I own and my hair was back in a braid.
"Come on, let's go!" I pulled across the hall and out of the apartment.
~~After the movie, in the Cafe~~
After we ordered and sat down, Aileen started to talk.
"So, Sis." Aileen said, smirking. Her smirk was identical to Jerome's smirk. She never calls me Sis unless she wants something. Uh oh.
"What do you need?" I asked suspiciously.
"What? Why do you automatically think that I need something? That is so hurtful!"
"Oh please, you don't think I know you? Not to mention that you are Jerome's sister..." She chuckled.
"Fine, you got me!" She grinned at me. "I wanted to ask you if we can go and buy your wedding dress and the bridesmaids's dresses tomorrow."
That kind of shocked me. We have three months untill my wedding and she wants to buy the dresses now?
"I know, the wedding will be in a long time, but..." Now Aileen seemed a bit nervous. "I wanted to help you pick the dress, and I have to leave in a week. You know how we need to be in the house a week before school starts."
"Fine, we'll go tomorrow! But Nina comes with us too, I need at least one sane person!" Aileen nodded in agreement.
Nina wasn't one of my bridesmaids, because she would be busy with the baby. It's the same with Fabian.
Instead of him, there's my brother. Which means that instead of Nina, there's Aileen.
And Mara is my maid of honor. She's my best friend, since Joy and I are no longer friends.
Actually she is kind of my enemy. We all hate her for what she did.
But I don't want to think of her now.
Suddenly, Aileen stood up.
"Kyle!" She ran over to some guy. He was tall, had dark brown hair and blue eyes.
That's Aileen's boyfriend!
I had to smirk at the thought of how could I embarass her.
She is my sister, right? Well, not exactly, but it feels like it!
I know! I've got the perfect idea!
Aileen and the boy hugged and he kissed her cheek.
"Leeny! What are you doing here?" He asked, walking her to a table.
"I'm here with my siste- Oh shit!" She turned around and started to walk towards me, holding Kyle's hand.
"Kyle, that's my sister. Well, not exactly. She's my brother's fiance, but she's like my sister." I grinned at Kyle and shook his hand.
"Hello, you must be Aileen's boyfriend!" He nodded quietly and Aileen blushed a little. "I'm Patricia, but you can call me Trixie, everyone does!"
"Nice to meet you, Trixie! Leeny told me about you!" He grinned a large grin, and I saw that he's not as shy as I thought he is.
"So what are you doing here? Don't you live, like, thirty minutes away from here?" Aileen said after bringing a chair to Kyle so he can sit with us.
"We havn't seen each other the whole summer, so I wanted to come visit you." Aileen blushed.
"That's very sweet." She whispered quietly and kissed his cheek.
"I'm going to leave you two here to catch up with each other, BUT!" They looked up at me, concerned about what I was going to say. Were they afraid of me? Ha ha. "But, Kyle, you're coming to have supper with us, and the rest of the family." Kyle looked relieved, but Aileen's eyes widened with fear.
'No. Way. He's not ready for that!' She mouthed to me.
I chuckled.
"He's coming!" I said and walked out of the cafe.
I took out my phone and pressed 7 on speed dial.
"Hey!" A friendly voice answered me.
"Hi Nins, listen, I need you to tell the other girls to be at my place in ten minutes. Okay?"
"Sure, Trix!" I grinned.
"Thanks, Nins, you're the best!"
"I know that, now I gotta call them. Bye!"
"Later!"
I hung up and started walking up the street.
I live five minutes from the cafe, but I need to change into clothes that I don't have problem with ruining.
Somehow, most of the time the four of us are cooking together, it ends up with a food fight.
Which suprisingly me or Amber start. I think living with Jerome (or Alfie, in Amber's case) changed my (and Amber's) thiking about food fights.
I kept walking and got to the elevatore.
I waited a few moments and then the door opened and a little girl and her puppy came out.
"Hey Nikki! How's mum today? Is she feeling better?" Nikki, the little girl, was a girl I used to babysit when she was younger, three years ago.
Since we lived in the same building, we stayed friends.
"Yeah, she's better. Trix, can I ask you two questions?" She asked in her little cute voice.
"Of course, what is it?"
"Uh, the first one.. Is it true that Aileen is here? Mum wants someone to babysit me and Sammy when she's going to the doctor tonight." Sammy is Nikki's twin sister.
Nikki's father had died of cancer four years ago, when she and her sister were only one year olds.
"Oh, yes, she's here." I grinned at her. "But she can't come over tonight, we're having supper with her boyfirned." Nikki looked down, sad, so I knew this is time to tell her what's on my mind.
"But I thought of an idea, that you and Sammy will love!" She looked up again, curious. "Would you like to come over now, with Sammy, and both of you can help me, Mara, Nina and Amber cook? You can bake your famous cookies, I havn't tasted them in months!" Nikki's smile was so big, I couldn't stop smiling myself.
"That would be so great! I just have to take Pancake for a walk and then I'll tell Sammy and we'll come! Thank you Trix!" She was so happy that she skipped her way out of the building.
Just before she was out, I remembered that she had another question.
"Wait, Nikki!" I called and she turned around, still smiling. "You said that you want to ask me two questions.. What was the other one?"
"Oh." She blushed slightly, barely noticable. "Actually, it's something Amber told me."
Oh no, if Amber said that... I'm probably going to explain her now about why Amber loves abs so much. Last time it was so hard.
"Amber said two things. The first one is that Nins is pregnant, which is weird, because... Sammy said that she has a pillow in her shirt in case she trips over something..." Nikki said quietly, obviously embarassed because of her sister.
I could barely hold back myself from laughing.
A pillow in her shirt! Where did Sammy bring that from?
But I couldn't laugh. "Why don't you ask Nins yourself abuot that later, okay sweety?" I grinned at her and she pulled her award winning smile back out.
She may be only five, but she's deffinately going to be an actress, a singer or a model when she grows up. Maybe even all of them.
"Now, what was the other thing Ambs told you?" This time her blush was deeper. Great, this must be about why Amber has a carton figure of shirtless Robert Pattinson.
Maybe Nikki shouldn't visit Amber that much...
"Oh, that... Amber said that, uh, you and Jerome are getting married.." I havn't told Nikki? But she also didn't know about Fabian and Nina's baby...
But she only got back from her grandmother's house last week after being there a few months when her mother was sick..
That explains it.
"Why don't you see yourself?" I grinned and showed her my hand with the ring. Nikki's eyes got bigger and she opened her mouth a little in shock.
"Patricia! It's so beautiful!" She wrapped her arms around me. "Congratulations..."
We stayed like this, hugged, for a few moments and then I remembered that the girls are probably in my apartment and I should be there too.
"I have to go, okay Nikki? But don't forget to come over with Sammy later!" She nodded and I walked in the elevator.
~~In the apartment with the other girls~~
"Hey girls, sorry I'm late, I was talking to Nikki and- What happened here?"
I finally turned around to look at them and what I saw... It was shocking.
"Amber! Nina! Mara! You started the food fight without me?" They looked down, ashamed of themselves.
"I am disappointed of you." But I said it with a grin on my face. "Come on, let's start cleaning it up. Nikki and Sammy are coming to help us later, and we don't want to be bad example, right?" They all nod quietly.
After a few quiet minutes of scrubbing tomato sauce off a wall, one of us dared to talk.
"Girls, I know what's gonna make it better!" Amber said and pulled her iPod out. Music, of course. We always use music, but we also always forget to put on music.
She turned her iPod on.
Long Live by Taylor Swift started playing. Amber is addicted to Taylor Swift.
With music we worked much faster, and had our usual sing along thing.
After ten minutes, we finally finished cleaning and started making food. Mara's making pasta, Amber's making a salad, Nina's making a banana cake and me... I was the supervisor.
Every time we cook one of us has to watch that nothing goes wrong.
After about ten minutes of cooking, there was a knock on the door. Nikki and Sammy.
"I'll get it" I told the girls and went to the door.
"Hey Nikki and Sammy, why don't you come in?" I said and the two girls walked in shyly. Then I noticed that their mother was also there. "Hello Tammy, how is your head?" Tammy is a nice woman, but she is sick most of the times. She is only three years older than me, she's 26, and the twins were born when she was only 21.
Since we moved to this building, we've been friends. Not as close to me as the Anubis girls, but still, she is amazing.
"It's okay, just a headache." But I knew she was lying. Tammy always had headaches, since her huband died.
But still she was a great mother and loved her daughters more than anything.
"Oh, I hope it will get better soon." I said and she nodded with agreement.
"Thanks, Trix. And thank you for watching the girls, I didn't know what to do, and they can't come to the doctor with me." She smiled sadly.
"You know how much I love them, and Aileen missed them, so much! She asked me a few times if they're back yet, she'll be so happy!" Tammy nodded again. "Sorry I didn't ask earlier, but would you like to come in for a drink? Nina can make her delicious tea..." Tammy loves Nina's tea, it help her with her headaches.
"You know how much I would like that, but I have to go, it's going to take a while to get to the doctor."
"Oh, okay, I hope the doctor will help!" We grinned at each other and she left.
"Okay, Nikki you can start making your cookies and Sammy, do you want to make your special home made ice cream?"
"Yes!" They both said in unison and then started laughing.
"It happens a lot lately." Sammy explained and I smiled at them.
Jerome's POV
That's it, after a long day at work, I'm finally going home!
To my loving fiance, my great sister and to a group of psychos that I call my friends.
"Girls, I'm home!" And the girls showed up. But not the girls I expected to.
Mara, Nina, Amber and Patricia.
And then I heard the squeal.
"Jeromy!" And two little girls showed up and junped on me.
The Anubis girls started laughing like idiots.
"Sammy! Nikki! I havn't seen you in such a long time!" I hugged both girls and they chuckled.
"So why are you all here?" I asked after letting them go.
"Oh, right, I was going to call you." Patricia said and I rolled my eyes, grinning. "When Aileen and I were in the cafe, we met Kyle, Aileen's boyfriend. So I left them there to catch up, because they havn't seen each other all summer, and invited him to supper with us and the rest of the family, which means Anubis House and Nikki and Sammy if they want to."
Wow, that's going to be a fun evening.
"There's only the cake and cookies that we're waiting for, and they will be ready in 30 minutes, and Aileen and Kyle will probably be here in an hour, so we should get ready." Amber said and all the girls nodded and left out to their own apartments to get ready and bring the boys.
"Will you hang out with Sammy and Nikki meanwhile? Okay, thanks!" Patricia said and ran to her room.
"Hey Jeromy, can we play hide and seek?" Sammy asked, making puppy eyes.
"Of course we can, you don't have to puppy-eyes me!" I chuckled and started counting.
~~30 minutes later~~
"Okay, I'm done, and just in time so the cookies and cake won't burn!" Mara and Mick were the first one to arrive.
I could almost read Mick's mind: 'I'm so lucky to have Mara!'. I have to admit, she looked pretty nice.
She was wearing a dark green dress, tall black heels and silver heart earings.
It was nice, but I knew Patricia will be much more beautiful.
She turned off the oven but left the cookies inside. "So it won't get cold."
"I'm here, I'm here.. No need to worry!" Amber said as she walked in quickly, Alfie following her. It was kind of funny, since his mouth was open with amazement. I guess he still hadn't realized that he's dating Millington.
She, too, looked good.
Amber wore a dark purple dress, which had a silver belt on it, white heels, a small pink heart necklace and pink heart earings.
It was nice, but too Amberish for me.
"Did something burn? I hope not!" Nina saide as she entered, Fabian by her side, having a proud look on his face.
'My wife is fat, yay!' that must be what he's thinking.
Of course I know that it's nothing like that, but can't a man joke with himself without being judged? I guess not.
Nina Rutter wore a dark grey dress and short silver heels. She also had a blue and silver bracelet and it looked nice.
All the guys came to sit with me on the couch. Sammy and Nikki still played hide and seek, but I got tired.
"So what do you think of Aileen's boyfriend?" Alfie asked me and all the guys stared at me.
What are they, girls? Suddenly they're all... Gossipy...
"I'm okay with it, she's a big girl, she can take care of herself." They all looked at me suspiciously.
"Okay, if you say so..." Mick said and started talking to Fabian.
"Is everyone here yet?" Trixie said and the next thing I saw was my beautiful soon-to-be-wife.
She was wearing and dark blue strapless dress and black sandals. She had her butterfly necklace and I just wanted to lift her and spin her around in the air.
And as everyone knows, Jerome Clarke gets what he wants.
"Jerome! Put me down!" She giggled and I grinned.
Patricia only giggles when I pick her up.
"Of course, my princess." I said, causing all the other girls, including Sammy and Nikki to 'awww'.
Suddenly the door opened and Aileen and a boy, I guess Kyle, walked in.
"Hey, everyone! This i- Nikki! Sammy! I havn't seen you girls in such a long time!" She immediately ran over to the twins and hugged them.
"And I'm Kyle, nice to meet you all!" Kyle introuduced himself with a smile and closed the door behind him. "Hey Trixie! And you must be Jerome, Leeny's brother?" He asked.
Leeny. He already has a nickname for her. But it's okay, right Jerome? Yes, it is.
Great, I'm talking to my mind.
"Yes, I'm Jerome, nice to meet you Kyle, Aileen told us so much about you!" Aileen turned around quickly.
"Did not! I mean.. I did talk about you a little, but-"
"Only every meal! Kyle took me there, Kyle did that, Kyle-Kyle-Kyle..." I said, causing Aileen to blush even harder.
Kyle just chuckled and grabbed Aileen's hand.
"Aww aren't you two adorable together?" Amber squealed. "You're like young Fabina, except that you're not Fabian, and Aileen is not Nina.. I know what you are! You're Kyleen!" Haha, that's gonna be fun!
"Hey, I'm guessing you're Amber? Leeny told me abuot you so much! She said that you're planning Patrome's wedding together..?" Oh no, he called us Patrome. Amber's gonna love him.
"Aww you have a nickname for her? That's just so adorable! And yes, I'm Amber and this," She pulled Alfie over out of nowhere, "This is my beau, Alfie!" He nodded at Kyle.
"Nice to meet you two! Hey, Alfie, Leeny told me that you wrote a joke book, and since my brother is a prankster and I wanna get back at him, can you teach me some tricks?" Suddenly Alfie looked much more interested, "Come on, my dear boy, a lot of information, not enough time to learn." And he put his arm around Kyle's shoulder and started walking him around the room while all the other stared at him.
"Okay everyone! Come to the table! Supper's ready!" Nikki called in her childish voice, causing all of us to smile at her.
We sat down and Mara brought the pasta and meatballs.
So inviting... But I can't have a food fight, not when Nikki and Sammy are here.
We started eating and chit-chatting nicely, and I was just talking to Patricia about our date last week when Nina screamed.
"Ow! The baby.." She yelled, "It just kicked!" She grabbed Fabian's hand and put it on her bump.
"It kicked again!" Fabian yelled happily and stood up.
Now we all stood up and rushed to put our hands on Nina's bump.
I couldn't believe that it finally kicked!
It looked like Fabian had even a harder time believing it, because he was practically jumping up and down from joy.
"To the baby's kicking!" Sammy and Nikki called in unison and drank their orange juice.
"To the baby's kicking!" We all repeated and took a sip from our drinks.
And that's it. I worked on it since noon, and now it's 1:55 A.M.
I hope you'll review my hard work, even if it's to say bad things, I just want your opinion, is that too much to ask for?
Well, good night..
Merry Christmas! :D
Or Happy Hanukkah, you choose :)
