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Chapter 3: The Name

It was Saturday morning and just like every other Saturday morning the students of Anubis house all slept in to at least ten thirty. They had tried many times to sleep in later but through past experiences they had learnt that if you sleep in too late, Victor would bang on your bedroom door and yell at you for being lazy. It certainly wasn't the nicest way of being woken up. It was now coming up to eleven in the morning and the students of Anubis house were gradually beginning to vacate around the breakfast table.

"Is Erica up yet?" Eddie asked everyone as he entered the dining room, taking his usual seat.

"Not that we know of" Alfie replied.

Eddie didn't even know if Erica would come down for breakfast or not. He had never seen his Sister so upset before and had no idea how she would cope with what she was going through. Would she hide away from everyone or come out and just act like everything was completely fine?

"So what exactly happened yesterday?" Joy asked which was something that everyone had wanted to know the answer to.

"Dad just said that he didn't have a Daughter and that he wants nothing to do with her" Eddie explained, not telling too many details because he didn't have many details at all to share.

"That's not like old sweetie at all" Mara commented.

"She must be devastated" Joy said. "Jerome you better be nice to her" she warned him.

"I will be" Jerome rolled his eyes as everyone split off into their separate conversations.

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When Erica woke up she just layed in her bed, deep in her own thoughts. She wished that she never came to England as it had only caused her nothing but sadness. The only good thing about coming to England was getting to see Eddie because even though it had only been two weeks since she had seen him last, she missed him. Also as much as Erica wanted to go home right now, she knew she couldn't because there was nobody there to look after her.

Erica's stomach rumbled and with that she decided to get dressed and go down stairs for breakfast. When she was walking over to the stairs a man was walking towards her. He looked like an old caretaker so Erica just assumed that it was some guy named Victor that Eddie had gone on about before. She had wanted to stay clear of him because from Eddie's description, he didn't sound like a very pleasant person.

"Excuse me what is that ring you are wearing and where did you get it from?" Victor questioned.

"I've had it for as long as I can remember. My Mother gave it to me when I was younger, it was my Fathers" Erica told him. "Well I wouldn't say it's my Fathers because he has no interest in fulfilling that role" She added sadly, feeling as if it was necessary.

"That ring is exactly like mine" Victor told her, holding up his hand so that she could see. "Who is your Father?" he asked.

"Mr. Sweet" Erica mumbled not noticing the bulge in Victor's eyes and the raise in his eyebrows as she was looking down at her ring.

"I see now do excuse me I have a very urgent phone call to make" Victor replied as he made his way into his office. He couldn't help but feel a little sorry for Erica because his Father never wanted much to do with him either. His Father was always much too busy with elixir or trying to solve Egyptian quests, he never really wanted to spent time with him. Victor almost felt like he could relate to Erica a little bit.

When Erica reached the bottom of the stairs she was actually nervous about going into the dining room. Everyone was already in there and she didn't want them to stop and stare at her when she entered the room. Eventually though she took a deep breath and walked into the room.

"Morning" KT greeted Erica, trying to make her feel welcome. Erica just gave her a small smile in return as she took the only empty seat, which thankfully for her was next to Eddie.

"Are you alright?" Eddie asked only receiving a small nod as she poured herself a glass of orange juice.

"Erica would you like me to cook you up a batch of pancakes?" Trudy asked from the kitchen and with that Erica immediately froze, dropping her glass of orange juice.

"What's the matter?" Eddie immediately asked, rather concerned.

"My name" Erica chocked out. "I'm named after the man who hates me" she shouted before getting up and running straight to the stairs.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to upset her" Trudy apologised.

"It's fine. I'm going to go and see if she's okay" Eddie replied as he left the table, making his way upstairs…

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"Can I come in?" Eddie asked as he knocked on the attic wall pretending it was a door.

"Why am I named after him?" Erica immediately asked.

"You will have to ask Mom that" he told her.

"Well whatever stupid explanation she has, I hate my name" she cried, knowing that her name would now affect her life on a day to day basis because the daily reminder of her Father would cause her pain.

Eddie pulled her into another hug, not really knowing what else to do. He knew that there wasn't really much he could say to make her feel better about her name. The only thing she could really do was change it but surely at Erica's age she would need their Mother's permission for that.

"Thanks for being here Eddie" Erica murmured.

"Everything's going to be okay" Eddie whispered, trying to reassure her just the same as he did last night. "Now we're going to get you some breakfast and then we will sort out your school, just like I promised last night" he explained. "Do you want pancakes?" Eddie asked, earning a smile from his Sister. That must have been a yes because every Miller loved pancakes.

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