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Chapter 9 'Sorry' is Hard to Say Sometimes

September 6, 11:55 A.M.

Nina's P.O.V.

After escaping the clustered lunchroom and hallways I breathed in some fresh air as I stepped outside into the sunshine. The open area outside the school lunch area had become my escape during my lunch period. Before I used to sit with Fabian and others from Anubis, but now I sit outside with my new friends from Odin. Sophia, Alan, and Michael.

It had been four days since the "events" had Anubis went down, and I was still in no mood to talk to any of them. I spent the entire weekend inside, in my room, getting texts and calls from them all of Saturday nonstop. It had finally gotten to the point where I threw my phone against the wall in frustration. Too bad that there was a window there and I guess my phone case is stronger than the window protection. Debbie didn't seem to mind though. Apparently that wasn't the first time it had happened. Charlotte on the other hand was a bit mad.

Sunday Amber and Mara came over. I screamed at them to go away but Tony, being the weirdo he is, decided to let them. Apparently both of them are to his taste Michael told me later, though Amber treated him with so little respect she could have passed for Mitch on his bad day. While Amber pleaded with me, Michael attempted, attempted, to apologize to Mara. Michael was really sincere in his apology, but Mara was only half interested in it. I found that to be a bit strange as Mara is usually pretty forgiving.

Of course when they both were about to leave Mara leaned forward and whispered something into Michael's ear, causing him to nod and whisper something back. After they left Michael had to assure everybody that it wasn't something perverse, and later told me that Mara had forgiven him.

Monday was probably the worst Monday of my life. Everybody was staring at me and whispering behind my back. During our History class I had to sit next to Fabian, fidgeting every time he turned towards me. I really wanted to get over this charade, but I wouldn't be the one to apologize! He attacks my friend and accused him of terrible things! It's not my job to say sorry!

Now instead of sitting inside I was outside. I had always noticed Michael and some other people sitting outside under a tree and that Monday I decided to join them. It was pretty nice and today I brought along an old blanket that I had found in Odin for all of us to sit on.

"Hello everybody!" I said cheerfully, unrolling the blanket. They all responded with hellos and helped me with unrolling the blanket. Now readjusted on the blanket, we fell into a steady stream of conversation for several minutes. Alan even threw food at me jokingly halfway through and I couldn't help but think of Jerome and Alfie. No matter how mad I am at them, I can't stop missing them.

"Whoa! Check out Tori today Michael!" Alan said, doing a mock whistle and thumbs up sign. Michael spun around and smiled. Tori was definitely pushing the uniform code to the limit, with her blouse half open, her hair unkempt and flowing freely, and that darn gold cross flopping around her chest.

"You should go keep her warm Alan!" Sophia remarked dryly. "I can see goose bumps on her from here!" Alan did not see the joke in her statement and adjusted his tie and walked quickly towards Tori.

"Someone should go and stop him before something bad happens, don't you think Sophia?" Michael said. Sophia shrugged and continued to eat her sandwich. Michael stared at her expectantly. "That was rhetorical Sophia." He stated. Sophia looked at both of us, groaned, and got up, moving towards Alan to drag him away from Tori who was already moving a little bit faster away from Alan. Michael and I laughed a little bit at desperate Alan.

"It reminds me of Alfie and Amber." I said, "He was always going after Amber like there was no tomorrow. It's too bad they didn't get together, they would have made a really cute couple." Michael stared at me for a little bit smiling. I stared back at him blushing. "What?"

"You need to get back with Fabian." Michael said. I raised my eyebrows at that. That was the last thing I thought I'd here from Michael of all people.

"He insulted me and you! I shouldn't be the one to start apologizing!" I retorted.

"You slapped him." Michael pointed out taking a bit of his lunch.

"I doesn't matter." I said, a little louder than I would have liked too, and a couple people around us looked at us briefly and I smiled weakly, edging them to continue their own conversations.

"Look Nina!" Michael said firmly, "Mara told me that things at Anubis are not going well. Fabian is tearing himself apart over there."

"Good." I replied, though I regretted it the second I said it.

"Nina, Fabian needs you. And you need Fabian." Michael said, inching himself closer to me. He put a comforting hand on my shoulder and I let in a sharp intake of breath. Michael noticed and quickly removed his hand. "Sorry." He muttered.

"It's fine," I said, shaking my body defeated. "But you're probably right. I'm done with this. Every day I miss Fabian's touch. His smell. His muscles holding me clo-"

"OK! Whoa!" Michael said, "I don't need to hear more!" We both began to laugh and continued eating in silence for a little bit until Sophia came back dragging Alan with her. I couldn't help but notice that he had a rather large red mark on the side of his face.

"I only told her that she would of looked better with a few more buttons undone!" Alan said lamely in excuse.

Nina's P.O.V.

5:43 P.M.

"You do know that its dinner time probably here, right?" Michael asked as we went up the stairs at Anubis House. I shrugged.

"Ya, but maybe after we all apologize they'll let us take some food back to Odin. Debbie's making Lasagna and after her last pasta dish I don't want to see what that looks like!" I said, shudder at the thought of the black goo that came out of the pot on pasta night. Tori started shouting in Italian about apparently how Debbie had ruined the food of her people. How does somebody mess up pasta anyways!

Michael knocked on the door and then shivered from the cold. I looked at him shocked. "Your cold?" I exclaimed.

"Don't judge me!" Michael said, "I'm from Florida! Nice, sunny, no snow Florida! Not the cold mountain heights, frozen lakes of England with its misplaced life forms that call themselves 'English men'!" I laughed, remember Stephen Colbert's joke about England from the other night, so I decided to play along with it.

"Fabian isn't a misplaced life form." I replied playfully. Michael just grunted.

"His brain is right now." He said slyly. My mouth was agape and I punched him on the arm kind of hard. At that exact moment, Jerome decided to open the door. He stared at both of us for a couple of seconds.

"Well that's a good start to making amends with us Nina." Jerome said. God he was frustrating! Why did I ever miss him?

"We've come for apologies all around Jerome. Can you please let us in?" I asked as politely as I could. Jerome stared at Michael, hostility written all over his face.

"Is he here apologize too? Or just for some moral support?"

"He's here to apologize too, Jerome. But I think you guys also owe him one too." Jerome looked at me stunned.

"For what Nina? Fabian was defending your honor!"

"Why does it matter to you Jerome?" Michael asked politely. "It wasn't like you were insulted in anyway."

"Oh yes I was!" Jerome declared. "When you insult her you insult-" he stopped suddenly when he realized what he just said and that we were both staring at him expectantly. "Never mind, you want to apologize, fine! Come in! This ought to be a fun evening!"

First off, sorry for the short chapter. The second half was suppose to be the apology's, but after reduing the scene twice I decided that I needed more time. Hope you don't mind, but I work towards perfection and making sure you guys enjoy reading!

Next, does anybody have any idea were Nina is from? I haven't really done any research, and I hope that you guys know. Trust me, it's important where she's from in the next chapter.

Next (again), I hope you guys checked out A Reviewing Reader's story Only a Dream?. If you didn't SHAME ON YOU! Do it now! (Just go to my profile and look under my favorite stories)

Finally just some extra behind the scenes info: The last part where Alan comes back to the group with a slap mark is actually taken from a real scene from my life. My friend decided to be clever and ask a girl out but swaying her off her feet. Unfortunatly it didn't go so well and he said something kind of stupid. Imagine the slap that Alfie got from the girl in House of Discovery and then multiply it by like 10. His ears were still ringing for about 10-15 minutes!

That's it for now and as always...

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