"Eddie, can you pass me the salt?" Nina asked moving her fries around with her plastic cafeteria fork. Nina looked up from her so called 'lunch' and crinkled her eyebrows together. Eddie sat there, right in front of her, staring blankly at his hand smashed hamburger. Eddie was so deep in thought that he missed Nina's question; but he didn't miss when Patricia walked right past their usual table and sat down at a vacant one. He tilted his head to get a look at everyone at the table. Everyone was eating except Mara. She was reading yet another book; shocker. Eddie sighed and crinkled his eyebrows. He sat up from his slouched position and turned toward Amber.
"Did I do something wrong last night, Amber?" Eddie asked in a desperate tone. Everyone had been taken aback by it. "Eddie, I've never seen you like this. You really like her don't you?" Fabian accused. Amber gasped. "You do like her!" She squealed. Joy tried to shush her, but it was useless to get the bubbly blonde to be quiet. "I knew you guys would." Amber smirked. Eddie looked down underneath the table and blushed deeply. "Well, he's not denying it." Jerome popped a deformed grape into his mouth. "I say he does like Trixie." Eddie caught himself, once again, starring at the stubborn redheaded teen. "Okay," Amber sighed. "What did you do? Why is she ignoring you?"
Eddie threw up his arms in frustration. "I don't know! I didn't do anything wrong." Eddie thought about every detail of what had gone on last night; trying to think about what would've made her so upset. Eddie explained how the rest of the night went to the group.
"And then she kissed my cheek and walked inside her house." Eddie finished remembering the sparks all over again. Amber squealed yet again and caught the attention of the few tables around them. Eddie looked over to Patricia and was grateful she hadn't been looking that time. "Yay! Peddie!" Amber's excitement got the better of her and she went to talk to Patricia. Everyone widened their eyes in alarm. Amber was half way to Patricia's table when the group sped out of their chairs; leaving a distracted Mara behind. Jerome and Nina got a hold of Amber's arms while Alfie and Fabian grabbed her legs. They dragged her out of the cafeteria earning a few baffled looks. The double door swung shut behind them leaving a confused Patricia starring after her group of friends.
"What the actual hell, Amber?" Eddie screeched as they made it into the hall. The four teens set Amber back on the ground. "Are you trying to get her to hate me?"
"No need to get colorful with your language, Edison." She ditzy blonde scoffed. "I was just going to ask her what was wrong." Well, I'm stupid. Eddie thought. Joy looked at all of her friends faces. She could tell they were concerned for Eddie; she was too. He's never felt this way about a girl before. "Never thought I'd see the day when a girl drove Edison Miller crazy." Jerome smirked.
"Shut up, Jerry." Eddie groaned throwing his hand over his eyes. "Joy?" Fabian asked eyeing Eddie. "Hmm?" She hummed starring at her stressed friend as well. "Why don't you go talk to Patricia, yeah? See what wrong?" Fabian suggested nodding his head toward the lunch room doors. "What?" Amber demanded. "I want to." She complained. Alfie patted her shoulder sympathetically. "It's alright, Ambs." Joy sighed dramatically before entering the large, white room. Here we go. She thought.
Patricia had been watching the door for a while now; just waiting for her friends to come back. After fifteen minutes had passed she decided to see if everything was alright. She left her table and untouched lunch and headed to the door. Starring at her shoes while walking, she accidentally ran into someone.
"Why don't you watch where you're going?" Patricia spat pulling herself off of the cold tile. She got a glimpse of the persons face and immediately felt guilty. "Oh, hi, Joy. I'm sorry." Patricia mumbled eyeing her shoes. Joy smiled. "It's okay, Patty." Patricia groaned and shook her upper body like a child. "What's with all the nicknames?" The redhead narrowed her eyes. "Trixie, Yacker, Tricia, and now Patty?" She listed them off on her fingers. Joy giggled and shrugged. Both of their faces became serious a moment later. "So," Joy caught Patricia's attention and guiding her to an empty table. "Why are you ignoring us?" Patricia sighed. She knew this was coming. She couldn't escape the interrogation. "Piper, my sister, and I are fighting. She told my parents something she swore she wouldn't. I've just been thinking. I didn't want my bad mood to get you guys down, and I'm sorry that it came across the wrong way." Patricia couldn't stop the words that were flowing from her mouth. She just felt so terrible that her friends thought she was being rude. She wasn't used to having so many people care.
"Awe, Patty, it's okay. You just needed time." Joy completely understood. She really did just need some time. Patricia couldn't stop the hot tears from forming at her eyes. Before she knew it she had tears spilling out of her eyes and pulled away from Joy. Patricia got up off of the table and headed for the doors. She stormed out of the lunch room with Joy on her heels. Patricia spotted Eddie leaning up against his locker talking quietly with Fabian and Nina. She sped over to him and nearly knocked him over when she collided with him. Her arms wrapped around his torso and she unusually sobbed on his shoulder. Eddie didn't hesitate to snake his arms around her waist and kiss her hair.
Hi! I know, I know. I haven't posted in forever and I'm so, so, so sorry! I got a review asking why I start my paragraphs in italics and I wanted to tell you why :)
The reason I do that is because I'm not sure how to do the line separator thing so I just use italics indicating that it's a new scene thing :)
I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! I'm trying to update on the weekends because school just started back and I'm in this new program that gives me more work than the other program I was in. But, I promise I will do my absolute best to update asap!