Chapter two! The spider door thingy! I don't own HOA!

"Nina, we still have time to go if you want to." Amber said as she sat down on my bed. We were waiting on Fabian to get back from his movie date with Joy.

"I'd rather not go and watch Fabian and Joy holding hands in the front row if you don't mind." Alfie came in with the spider we found on his face, acting like it was eating him. Amber hit him and the spider fell, opening at the bottom.

"Look at what you've done now Alfie!" I picked the spider up and three smaller spiders came out, each one with a different blob of color on its back.

"Wait, if this is the spider, then these must be her daughters! Look, the colors on their backs are the same colors as the wires in the tunnels! We got this!" I high-fived Alfie.

"Now what do we do?" I opened my mouth to reply we go, but then I thought about how everyone was afraid to go without Fabian.

"Why don't we wait for Fabian to get back, okay?" They nodded and then went about to fighting over stuff, like normal.

"Nina, we're going downstairs to get something to drink. Would you like to come with us?" I shook my head and they went on ahead. After I was sure they were gone, I got the spider on my back and took each of the three daughters in my pockets, two in the back, one in front, I got some shoes on and went down stairs. No one was by the unlocked door. I went down and got to the spider wires.

I stood in front of them for a while before I got the guts to do anything. After a deep breath I started in.

Fabian's Point of View:

I came back to the house after the movie. I couldn't wait to tell Nina about what I just saw. The forgotten ruler sounded just like the woman we were dealing with. I knew Joy was trying to do little things, like hold my hand and wrap her arms around my shoulders, but I moved in a clever way to avoid it. She knows that I still love Nina.

I opened the door and left to Nina's room without a word to Joy and knocked on the door. When it opened I expected Nina, but it was Amber.

"There you are! Where's Nina?" She looked around me.

"Nina stayed here, remember? But I wish she went, there was some nice stuff in there."

"So you mean she isn't with you?" I shook my head.

"Why would she be with me?"

"I tried to talk her into crashing your date, but I guess if she isn't with you then she didn't do it. I wonder where she is."

"What do you mean Amber? When was the last time you saw her?" I came in and sat on Nina's bed.

"Well you see, I was seeing if she wanted to crash your date with me, but she said no, and then Alfie came in and had the spider thing and it broke, but it turns out that the 'daughters' were inside the spider all along. Alfie and I argued and then went own for some water and when we came back, she was gone."

"Wait, rewind for me the part about the spider?"

"Alfie dropped the spider when he came in here and three mini-spiders with yellow, silver and red paint on them fell out. We figured that out and so I asked her what she wanted to do about it and she said we should wait for you." She shrugged. "What do you think?"

I fought with myself in my head. She wouldn't go down there without me on such a dangerous thing, and she wouldn't go alone either, the hooks are too far apart for that. But there is someone else who could go: Patricia.

"We need to find Patricia." We got up and left to her room, she wasn't in there. She wasn't in Mara and Joy's room either. We went downstairs until we heard her voice. "So we know she didn't do anything." I continued to fight with myself.

She wouldn't go alone. But then again she's done more dumb things in her life than this, but she wouldn't do something like that. I got a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach all of a sudden. "What is it Fabian?"

"Go back into your room. She'll turn up somewhere but just in case I'm going down to the tunnels and see about her."

"Would you like me to come with you?" I shook my head and she nodded hers. I went down to the cellar door and made it down to the tunnels. I ran as fast as I could go through the labyrinth and over the chasm and through everything else. Once I was halfway there, I heard a faint scream.

Nina was down here. Hearing her in trouble made me move faster. Once I got to the current challenge, I saw her with the giant spider on her back. One of the small spiders was on its hook and she was close to the other one.

"Nina!" She turned around to face me. I noticed she had two lines on her cheek where the silver venom burned her. Her bewildered look made my face turn into a glare. "What do you think you're doing down here?"

It took her a moment before her face became just as hostile as mine was. "I was finishing this challenge until you came down here."

"Get out of there right now! It is too dangerous for you to be in there doing this all by yourself."

She scoffed. "I was doing okay until you came in here and threw me off!"

It was my turn to scoff. "If you had it down, then why do I see venom lines on your face?!" She paused and brought her hand up to her cheek. She touched it lightly and winced and a part of me winced with her. "Just get back out here and we'll talk about this."

"What, go back out just to go right back in? How about no." She kept moving forward to the next hook.

I huffed. "Nina, get back out here now!"

She froze and I did once I realized why she froze. "What did you just say? Who do you think you are, my father?"

I sighed. "Nina, just let me help you!"

"I don't need your help Fabian, I got this." She moved closer, her hand by a red string.

"Nina, your hand!" She moved it around and got to the next hook and placed the red one on the hook.

"I know where it was Fabian, I'm not blind." She rolled her eyes. She went over to hang the silver one on its hook. As she was moving I was on edge, waiting for her to finish. As she was getting closer there was a cluster of yellow strings. "I wonder what those do." She reached out to touch one.

"Nina, don't do that! You have no idea what they are or what they could do! They could be just as bad as the silver ones."

"That's just a risk I have to take." She reached out and grabbed it with her hand.

"NO!" I yelled out for her.

Nina's Point of View:

Fabian came down to find me, but he was without Amber or the rest of them. I couldn't help the flutter when I heard him. I was sore and burnt. I had two burns on my cheek and a few other places of my body, he didn't see those though. One was my hand on the top.

"That's just a risk I have to take." I reached out to the yellow cord and grabbed onto it.

"NO!" I heard him yell.

My vision began to swim. I saw the cord moving and vibrating and tangling themselves in each other. I screamed. I moved my hand out to stop a cord but at the last minute it moved and I started to move around, freaking out. I was vaguely aware of Fabian yelling out for me. I heard him say something about him coming to get me, but I knew he couldn't because he was with Joy at a movie. My sense of time was thrown off. It must have been during school that I was here, why else would I have my uniform on.

Soon I was grounded by someone putting their arms over mine, and the second I felt that touch, everything became clear. I knew that Fabian wasn't with Joy and that I was wearing regular clothes and not at school right now.

"Nina you're alright now. You're alright now." Fabian was whispering in my ear. I nodded. "Let's get you out of here."

I shook my head. "I'm this close to making it Fabian, I can't just stop." He nodded.

"At least let me take the spider." He took the spider off of my back and we both went on. He went to the whole in the wall of the spider and I continued to the silver hook. Once I placed it on the hook, the door opened. I smiled and looked to Fabian, who smiled back, but there was a groaning noise and the door started to shut. I jumped through the wires.

"Nina, don't!"

I looked to the door and back to Fabian. "This might be the only chance I get. " I jumped through the door and it shut behind me.

I felt along the wall and then some noise alerted me to look ahead. I saw a lion-like thing and its mouth opened and its eyes glowed red like a demon's eyes. I let out a blood-curdling scream.

"Nina, what is it!" I heard Fabian.

"There's something in here! Get me out of here!" I beat on the door as the lion kept glowing and opening its mouth.

"I'll get you out, don't worry!" The worst thing to tell someone who is freaking out is 'don't worry'. As he was doing something or thinking I was kicking the door. I got tired of kicking and went back to the other side of the hall. I turned around and ran at the door.

As it opened I ran into Fabian and to avoid falling, he picked me up at the waist and spun me around twice and let me down, his hands still joined at my back and mine joined at his neck.

"Fabian!" I buried my face in his neck and he held me close to him. I let a few tears fall because of my fear.

"It's okay now Nina, I'm here, I'll always be here." He nuzzled his face into my hair. After a while I pulled back.

"Thank you for coming to get me."

He smiled and nodded. "Just don't ever scare us like that again. You had Amber worried too, when she came back and tried to find you." I smiled. "So you and Amber were going to crash the movie were you?" He smirked and I blushed.

"It was her idea and I didn't want to go through with it, and obviously we didn't."

He laughed. "I wish you would've crashed it. It would've kept Joy away from me and it might have gotten her to stop doing anything."

I gave him a look. "What do you mean?"

"I had to keep on avoiding her moves, like trying to hold my hand or something like that. It was not a fun time. I did learn some useful information though."

"What did you learn?"

"Do you want to informational answer first, or the other one?"

I scrunched my eyebrows up. "What?"

He smiled and leaned in the put his forehead on mine. "One of the things I learned was to go to movies with you and no one else. I also learned to never leave you alone while there is danger or else you will go alone and then scare the death out of me."

I smiled. "I thought you already knew that last part."

He laughed. "I thought I did too, but apparently I needed to learn it again." He waited a moment. "Don't do that to me. I thought you were dead or worse. I need you here with me." His voice a whisper on my lips. Soon, his lips were on my lips. I responded to him. I missed this, and not because Jerome kept interrupting either.

He pulled back at the same time I did. "Now let's get you cleaned up." He let go with one hand, but held onto my waist as we went back up.

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