Chapter Three:

Patricia ran across the street, through the door, up the stairs, and slammed the door. Why did she ever think coming here was a good idea? Why didn't he tell her he was with someone else? She could feel her mascara dripping as she sat down on her bed. She unlaced her black boots, took the black lace bow out of her hair and lay down. She didn't realize how tired she was until she drifted off to sleep.

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"Find anything?" Eddie asked nervously.

"Who was she?" The man asked.

"Answer my question."

"Feisty today aren't we?"

"Fine, please answer my question."

"That's better, and no, nothing new since last week."

Eddie placed both hands on the counter, countering the man sitting on the bar stool, the stool next to the one Patricia had been sitting on. Eddie had been meeting with this guy everyone Saturday for the past month.

His name was Archie. He studied anything ancient Egyptian. Archie knew quite a lot about the title of Osirian, so Eddie made sure he knew quite a lot too. At first Eddie just started talking to Archie about what being the Osirian meant. Then he found out that the Paragon and Osirian must always be separate.

The only way for that to happen would be if one of them left Anubis house. He knew he wouldn't, he had something to stay for, but so did Nina. The only option left was to find to something that would rid him of his title. That's where Archie came in, to help him find that something.

"Now you answer my question." Archie said in his calm yet threatening voice.

"What?"

"Who was that girl?"

"No one"

"I know as much as you that she is not just anybody."

"Why does it matter?" Eddie said nervously. He didn't know what Archie was thinking.

"Nothing, I suppose it doesn't really matter. I have to go. Till next Saturday." With that Archie stood up, dusted himself off, and walked down the hall and out the door, leaving Eddie alone staring at the spot where Archie just left.

He stood there staring into space when he realized what Patricia must be thinking. She must think that he's cheating on her or something. He peered out the window just to make sure her grandmother's car wasn't in the driveway, it wasn't.

Eddie headed out the door and then looked down. He was still wearing his pajamas. He quickly ran upstairs, threw on clean clothes, combed over his hair, and headed out the door. Thankfully her house was only across the street so it was only a minute before he was standing outside her door. He knocked no answer. He knocked again, still no answer. He was slightly worried. The third time he knocked he pressed his ear against the door waiting to hear steps that never came.

Where was she? She couldn't drive. She would have walked somewhere. He quickly thought of all the places within walking distance.

He decided that she must have headed in the direction of the boardwalk, so that's where he headed.

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Patricia woke up threw on some more comfortable clothing, redid her makeup and decided to go walk around the boardwalk. It wasn't far from her grans house; it took her only a few minutes to get there. The sky was blue and since most people were enjoying the beach the bored walk was nearly empty.

She wandered around for a while stopping ever so often to go into a store and poke around. She didn't know why but her favorite stores were the ones with odd little trinkets. Patricia got hungry and tired after a while so she decided to head back to the house. Her gran would be home soon anyways.

She was almost home when she noticed the car in Eddie's driveway was gone. Maybe he took his new girl out she thought to herself. Patricia couldn't quite admit it but she knew she was jealous. Jealous of whatever thing weaseled its way into Eddie's life. Unless nothing did. Unless his words to her "trust me" Meant something was happening and she was being too oblivious to notice. Maybe she should trust him, or possibly not.