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Chapter 3 Odin House

August 23, 12:03 P.M.

Nina's P.O.V.

'I can't believe it!' I screamed through my head, 'Odin House! Where the heck is that anyways?"

We had just emerged from the assembly, about twenty minutes after Mrs. Andrews had made the big announcement that would change my entire junior year. I was putting on a brave face for everybody in the group, holding onto Fabian as tightly as possible. He was so sweet, and without him in my house I don't think I can make it through the year. 'Your tougher than this Nina! You can do this!' I kept telling myself mentally, but every time I did the words seemed farther off, as if blocked by the overwhelming fact that I won't be with Fabian all the time.

I wanted to cry out in sadness, fear, and anger at my future, 'Brave face, Nina! Brave face!' I told myself. I was doing alright, Amber, however was not trying to hide her emotions. Her eyes were so red, it looked like they were bleeding at one point. She was burying her face into Mick's chest, lifting her head up every now and then to breath and cry something inaudible.

The rest of the group was in shock as well. Gone were the looks of deviousness and incompassion on Jerome and Alfie's faces, instead replaced by ones of shock and sympathy. I think the sympathy was more directed at Mara and Amber's grief, but I'll take what I can get at this point. Mara was holding up ok, but Patricia. She looked ready to pound anybody into the ground who so much as breathed wrongly near her.

"How the bloody hell could that do that!" Patricia yelled at nobody in particular, "After everything that happened last year, you'd think that they'd have some brains and keep Nina in Anubis! What could their reasoning possibly be! Is this some way to get back at us for destroying their elixir? Or have they moved onto their next pet project of torturing students by making their social lives miserable!"

"That's enough, Patricia!" Fabian said, "Nina doesn't have to hear this right now." I looked up into Fabian's eyes, hoping for some sort of response. But for the last couple of minutes, Fabian had pretty much been avoiding eye contact with me. He'd hug me and whisper something encouraging, but he never looked me in the eye. Maybe the pain of spending the year with Joy and not me was getting to him? Judging by his look, he was in just as much pain as me. I gave myself a small breath, and then put on my best leader face. I turned to the group.

"Look, I'm going to go talk to Mr. Sweet about the house placement. He could probably fix this, and since nobodies moved in yet, I'm sure he'll let me go back Anubis without much commotion."

Patricia shook her head angrily, "School policy, Nina! If one person starts asking for a house change, soon other people will and then it will be crazy! You're stuck in that rotten house for the rest of the year!"

"Unless she gets kidnapped…" Jerome muttered. Patricia's rage burst and she hit him hard enough that he had to stagger back a little. Mara gave a shocked look.

"This isn't solving anything!" Mara complained. Amber, still buried in Mick's chest raised her hand signaling us to be quiet. She sniffed a couple of times and then raised her head, looking at us with the best pride eyes she could manage.

"If we can't do anything than Daddy will!" We all looked at her confused as she pulled out her phone, "Mick's dad got Trudy her job back, why can't my daddy get Nina back into Anubis House?"

"I don't think it's the same thing, Ams." Alfie said, "And the teachers don't have anything to lose like they did with Trudy. It's perfectly in their right." As much as I had wanted to despise Alfie at that moment I couldn't. He was talking realistically, I was done for. Fabian still wasn't saying anything and Amber started to cry again.

"My BAFF!" She launched herself into my arms, causing me to stagger back into another girl.

"Hey! Watch it clutz!" She said to me.

"I'm sorry!" I said half-heartily. The girl looked oddly familiar, like I had seen her somewhere before. She was wearing a loose, sleeved top with some skinny jeans and pretty nice shoes. Her hair was braided in the back and she allowed a few strands of hair to face down her checks. Her hair looked really nice, not many girls could pull that off. But her hair was her only redeeming quality of her face. The rest was bunched up in a scowl.

"Charlotte! Get away from them!" I froze in place. That voice, almost sing song like with a siren quality to it. I felt a chill go up my spine, my nemesis and enemy for life. The one who had almost ruined everything last year after I spent a year trying to save her worthless butt!

"JOY!" Patricia yelled. She started walking towards her, fists clenched, but Mick and Alfie held her back. Joy merely chuckled at her ex-friend.

"Patricia, still an uncontrollable temper I see. Not very lady like, no wonder you're alone." Jerome had to step in to hold Patricia back, Joy laughing again. Behind her were a couple of her other friends, laughing along also like a pack of hyenas following their leader.

"Hello Nina, didn't think you'd be coming back this year. American's can be so uncivilized socially, showing off all that skin. Teh, no class." Joy began looking at her nails while her friends ooh'd behind her, laughing at me. I felt my face go red, but my mind was too clouded with emotions to find a proper response. I'd probably just embarrass myself more and that's the last thing I needed right now.

"Hello Fabes." Joy said, smiling seductively, "How was your summer?" Fabian just stared at her, his face filled with rage. Joy just smiled back, "Not talking now? That's ok. We have an entire year in the same house to catch up."

"You little witch!" Patricia screamed, struggling again to get out of the boy's hold on her, "You did this, didn't you?! Sending Nina to some godforsaken house on the other side of campus!"

"I assure you, Patricia, that I had no hand in this. Perhaps it's just fate trying to tell us something." Fabian hugged me a little tighter.

"I wouldn't count on it, Joy." He responded completely monotone in voice.

"It doesn't matter. It happened once before, and I have confidence it will happen again. Come on Charlotte, you need to help us with a couple of things."

"But Joy, I need to get to my house!" Charlotte protested. Joy gave her an icy glare and Charlotte nodded her head.

"See you at the house, Fabes." Joy said. She winked and gave a little wave before disappearing into the crowd. We stood there for a little bit before I decided to break the silence.

"I think I ought to go too. I have a little bit of a walk to get to Odin House." Fabian looked at me for the first time. He looked like he was about to say something, but his mouth wouldn't form the words. Instead he kissed me, and hugged me tightly.

"I won't be so bad right? We still have the same subjects mostly, so we'll probably still have a ton of classes together." Fabian was really trying here so I nodded and kissed him back. I gave everybody else hugs, telling them that I would see them tomorrow. They all nodded grimly, Amber bursting into tears again. I walked away, heading towards my new home.

12:26 P.M.

The other side of campus was surprisingly nice, so much so that I was surprised I never made it over here before. The air of antiquity that surrounded the Egyptian Houses on campus was replaced with a more tranquil and nature filled scene. Each house was raised up on some ground surrounded by a small wall with an entrance and stairs leading up to it. There were a total of seven along the large gravel walkway that separated the houses into two sides.

Three houses lay on each side, students entering them with friends or waiting outside for their house head to open the door. At the very end there was a culvesack like area was a fountain in the center. A Hammer stood in the center of it, with an eye engraved on it. Below the hammer, mermaid statues were laying around it, squirting water out of their mouths or hands. Each one looked content and happy. Surrounding the fountain was a wall where mosaic carvings of people and animals decorated it. It was very beautiful, and I couldn't help but think how Fabian would love to look at this. He could obviously understand more than I could about what each design was describing.

I must have spent a little too much time looking the mosaic as a guy came up to me with a questioning look on his face. "Excuse me, are you lost?" He asked, with an American accent. I smiled, an American!

"Um no, I'm just admiring these carvings." He came up next me, smiling.

"Oh ya. I've spent a lot of time looking at these. I could tell you what each one means and who's in them if you want." He was really nice so far, but I had only known him for about a second. Could be some guy just looking for a girlfriend and thinking he'd get dibs on the new girl. Though he was good enough looking that I don't think that he needed to do something like that. His blonde hair and green eyes almost blended together with his tan skin, and his shorts and sweatshirt made him look like he was from a sunny part of America.

I smiled politely, "Maybe another time, I'm trying to get to my new house, Odin House. Do you know which one it is?" He smiled again.

"Of course I do, I live in it! It's the biggest one here." He pointed towards the house right behind us at the end of the culvasack. It was really big, bigger than Anubis probably. "Still only eight students live here though. Last year it was seven, but I guess you make eight, Nina." I gave him a quizzical look.

"Not to sound rude, but you know me how?"

He chuckled a little, "Not to sound rude either, but it's kind of hard to not know who you are. Come on, the House is waiting for us." He began moving towards the house, so I decided to follow him, pushing that ominous reply into the back of mind. "I'm Michael Ericson by the way."

"Oh, pleasure to meet you, Michael." We moved up the stairs towards the house. The house itself was positioned in the center of the plot of land. On both sides there were flowers and statutes, beautiful and amazing. I felt again I was in some high class neighborhood, like the one my Aunt and Uncle lived in. Despite my animosity of the place I couldn't wait to explore the area.

By the front door I saw five other students huddled around with luggage. I immediately spotted my own, recognizable by massive American flag on the front. Three of the students were looking at it, talking amongst themselves while another was on her phone texting someone. The final one was smiling at us as we walked up. He had shorter, brown hair around the ears and about mid-fore head in length. His pants looked a little ragged, but nothing to drab or ruined with soot or dirt. And no cuts too.

"Michael! It has been too long!" He said coming up and hugging Michael. The both laughed and feeling out of place I decided to go get my luggage. "And you must be Nina eh? I'm Alan, Alan Mars!" He grabbed my hand and started shaking it hard. I just stood there and smiled dumbly, what else was I suppose to do? So far everything was going great, my reception much better than my first day at Anubis.

"Um ya that's me! I'm from America!" I said, closing my mouth, remembering that's what I said the first day at Anubis House. 'This isn't Anubis,' I thought to myself 'Don't let this place change you.'

Alan gave a sly grin, "Oh cool!" he turned around towards Michael and mumbled something, I'm not sure what but I heard 'guess' somewhere in the sentence. Michael stifled a laugh, and the other three students moved away from my luggage to greet me. The first one up was a very fit girl with short, blond hair and piercing blue eyes. Her face was modeled into sheer determination, like somebody used to getting their way. I noticed her athletic attire and prayed silently that she doesn't go out for morning runs like Mick. He made a ton of noise, which most of the house members didn't need or necessarily liked.

"Sophia Evenstad." She said bluntly, shaking my hand. She had a small accent, but it wasn't heavy. "Your Nina Martin then?" I nodded my head, "Hmph, I hope the rumor aren't true." She muttered to herself walking off.

"Don't mind her," Alan said, "She's always cranky without her morning run!" I noticed he'd adopted an American accent, rather poor one I might add.

"What are you doing?" Michael asked, a quizzical look on his face. Alan gave him an exasperated look.

"Making her feel at home!"

"You didn't do that for me?" Michael complained. I could tell that he was joking but one of his, sorry my, housemates decided to use it.

"You aren't a beautiful young lady Davidson, although you do have some of the qualities." He sneered and turned to me. Already I didn't like this guy, his attitude reminded me of Joy, and the devious look on his face could give Jerome a run for his money. He looked innocent enough, but I've dealt with enough people to see them for the greasy, slimly individual's they are.

"Names Anthony King II, though everybody calls me Tony, Nina. You are quite popular in my book, so much I'd like to call myself a fan of Nina. I know almost everything about you, the most important thing being you hips and lips. So smooth and lush!" He smiled and bent down holding my hand, leaning closer and closer. I pulled away, figuring out what he was trying to do. His lips were near the crooks of my fingers.

"Then you must know that I'm in a relationship with someone." I asked coolly. I didn't want to come off as stuck up brat that the group was going to live with for the rest of the year, but he was making it hard.

He smiled and laughed, backing up and giving a mock bow towards me. I could see Michael's face filled with scorn. Only three people left, with one of them absent. The final guy was sitting on some luggage. His black hair and darker clothes matching perfectly, and his eyes gave him a mysterious aura.

"Mitchell Prescott. But I go by Mitch. Don't even think about calling me Mitchell, 'k?" His British accent was kind of slurred, and as soon as he spoke I got hostile vibes. I simple nodded and muttered 'I'm Nina Martin.'

Everybody turned to the girl, still on her phone. Her dark hair and tanned skin flashing in the sun. 'She's beautiful no doubt,' I thought to myself, feeling pangs of jealously. But I quickly put them behind me. I don't get jealous, unless it's over Fabian.

"Tori, you going to say hello?" Tony said in a childish tone. "Tori" looked up from her phone, her brown eyes staring at me intensely.

"Victoria Dicce." She replied simply. I thought for a second, that last name was familiar.

"The last name sounds familiar." I said to nobody in particular. Tori just rolled her eyes at me.

"I'm the daughter of the Italian Ambassador to England. I hope it's important to you… American del pensiero!" She muttered, squinting at me with a smug look on her face. She returned to her phone, texting someone.

"She like that to everybody," Michael whispered, "I wouldn't be offended."

"And here she is! Finally!" Tony shouted. An older women, probably in her early forties came up smiling.

She looked anything but forty.

The glasses she wore were very nice quality, and the clothes she wore gave the impression of someone half her age. She didn't over do it or anything either, it was a nice look that gave the impression of someone sympathetic and caring towards everybody. Especially students. Behind her came up somebody, Charlotte. I guess that she was the eighth member, and so far she already hated me and was in line with Joy.

Great start.

"Oh hello sweethearts how are you all?" She cried, coming up to hug everybody, except for Mitch, who she just smiled and nodded at with him giving a slight smile. She turned to me, her eyes showing nothing but affection. It felt like meeting Trudy again for the first time.

"Hello, you must be Nina! We missed you last year!" She said hugging me. "Welcome to Odin House! I'm you housemother, Debbie Wilson."

"Hi! Nice to meet you Debbie!" I said, thinking that maybe it was rude to call her by her first name. Trudy was ok with it so it just slipped out. Debbie didn't seem to mind, squealing with joy.

"I'm sure we'll all have a great year together. Now, let's get inside and I'll give all of you your schedules and room assignments! Come on Nina!" She began moving towards the house, pulling out a key from her oversized handbag. We all moved to get our luggage, except for Tori who's luggage was picked up by a smiling Alan. Tori ignored him completely, as if he was her servant. I was quick to pick up the vibe that she treated everybody like this.

Everybody had filed inside the house except for me. I stood outside for a second, admiring the landscape and the house itself. I breathed a couple of deep breaths to myself, and then moved up the steps and into the cover of the house.

I know that I promised to write about the House itself, but I was running out of room. This is my longest chapter ever! Next one you will learn the lay out of the house, the schedules, and any previous drama's that the House Members have had with each other. This is a brand new world for Nina, she will have to adapt.

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