Chapter 4: The Mystery Begins.

It was Saturday evening, the time of week that everyone seems to love. Eddie wasn't looking forward to his Saturday evening this week though because he had dinner plans with his Father. He didn't exactly want to have dinner with Mr. Sweet though because of all the recent events that had gone on. However Eddie hoped that by going he would be able to get some answers.

"Eddie, can you help me with something please?" Erica asked as she walked down the stairs of Anubis house that evening, interrupting Eddie and Patricia's conversation that the two were having at the front door.

"I can't now I'm on my way out to have dinner with Dad" Eddie told her, hoping that him mentioning Mr. Sweet wouldn't upset her too much.

"Oh. Okay, never mind" Erica sighed and Eddie immediately noticed the sadness in her eyes.

"I could help you" Patricia suggested. "That's if you want me to" she added.

"No thanks, I'd rather be alone" Erica replied as she turned around and began to walk back up the stairs. "Have fun with your Dad Eddie" she added. Erica loved her Brother, she really did but because Eddie actually had a relationship with their Dad, she found it hard to be happy for him. Eddie had the one thing that Erica had always dreamed of having the most and she couldn't help but feel unwanted, unloved and slightly jealous. She couldn't understand why Eddie got to have his Dad in his life and she didn't. Was Eddie better than her? Whatever it was though Erica knew that Eddie wasn't to blame, but it still didn't hurt any less.

"Maybe I should have just told her we were going on a date" Eddie said to Patricia once Erica had gone.

"No, I think she appreciates your honesty" Patricia replied. "Especially because you're all she's got right now" she added.

"Yeh I guess your right" Eddie agreed. "I'm going to get going, see you later" Eddie told Patricia as he kissed her on the cheek before leaving to go and meet Mr. Sweet.

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Not long after Eddie left to go to dinner with his Dad, Patricia found herself up in Erica's room in the attic, asking for her permission to come in. Patricia even had a sandwich and a glass of juice on a tray, deciding it wasn't good for Erica to skip dinner.

"So are you sure I can't help you?" Patricia asked, sitting down on the edge of Erica's bed.

"I'm sure. I didn't really need help with anything, I just wanted to spend some time with Eddie" Erica explained.

"Ahh, well I may not be Eddie but you can spend some time with me" Patricia replied. "That's if you want to" she added nervously.

"Only if you plait my hair for me" Erica replied.

"Sure" Patricia agreed, noticing a small smile creep up on Erica's face.

Both girls were silent as Patricia brushed through Erica's glowing brown locks. Her hair was long and wavy and Patricia knew that it was going to take a while to plait Erica's hair. Patricia had no problem with plaiting Erica's hair; she just hoped that the two would come up with a way to make a conversation flow so they weren't sat in an awkward silence.

"Do you love my brother?" Erica suddenly asked.

Patricia froze; she certainly didn't see that coming. She was also thankful that Erica couldn't see her face right now as a small blush had crept up on her cheeks. Patricia was nervous. She and Erica may not have been in an awkward silence anymore but this had defiantly turned into an awkward conversation, for Patricia that was anyway.

"Um" Patricia mumbled, not really sure what to say. Of course she loved Eddie but was she ready to admit that? She had only just come to terms with it herself.

"You should tell him" Erica suggested.

"Tell him what?" she questioned.

"That you love him silly" Erica replied.

"No way, I haven't even told you that I do yet" Patricia refused.

"Yet" Erica repeated, raising her eyebrow slightly, just like Eddie does. "In a way I think you just did" she teased.

"You are so much like your brother" Patricia mumbled.

"Yes, I certainly am" Erica agreed. "Eddie used to do ballet" she then told her.

Patricia laughed loudly; she now loved where this conversation was going.

…..

"Hey Dad, I'm here" Eddie greeted Mr. Sweet when the pair met up that evening.

"Ahh, I've been waiting for you. We need to have a little chat" Mr. Sweet told him.

"What about?" Eddie asked nervously as he noticed that Mr. Sweet looked rather annoyed.

"I got off the phone with Victor earlier" Mr. Sweet replied. "Why an earth is Erica still at Anubis house?" he asked.

"What do you mean why is she still there?" Eddie questioned. "She has nowhere else to go and she can't go home yet" he explained. "What do you want me to do? Throw her out on the street?"

"Yes" Mr. Sweet answered rather quickly.

"Oh come on Dad, have at least a little bit of a heart" Eddie exclaimed, causing his Fathers face to soften a little.

"Fine. She can stay at Anubis house but the first chance she gets to go home, I want her gone" he told him.

"Oh and one more thing, can Erica go to school here whilst she's staying?" Eddie asked.

"No absolutely not!" Mr. Sweet replied raising his voice.

"Why not?" Eddie questioned.

"I don't want to have to see her" Mr. Sweet explained.

"You're ridiculous" Eddie told him with a look of disgust on his face.

"Instead though I will agree to set her up on an online school" he told him.

Eddie just nodded with a frown on his face. What was his Father's problem?

…..

When Eddie arrived back to Anubis house later that evening, after the worst dinner with his Father he had ever had, he went straight to his room and put his leather jacket down on his bed.

"Hey Fabian, is Patricia around?" he asked his roommate, who was busy with his head in a book.

"She and Erica have been upstairs all evening" Fabian replied, not even looking up from his book. It must be a good read.

Eddie looked confused, was Fabian being serious? He knew that Patricia and Erica got along great when they had met two summers ago and the time Patricia visited again last summer when she was on vacation with her family but Eddie never imagined the two of them hanging out when he wasn't around. Eddie muttered a quick thanks to Fabian before leaving the room and running up the stairs, all the way up into the attic. When Eddie got there, he just stood at the top of the attic stairs, smiling as he saw the two of them laughing and getting along. It was nice and it was the happiest Erica had been since she got here.

"How are my two favourite people doing?" Eddie asked as he joined Patricia and Erica.

"Were good" Patricia replied.

"Yeh, we are" Erica agreed. "How was dinner?" she then found herself asking, taking both Eddie and Patricia by surprise.

"It was horrible. I did manage to sort out school for you though, you're set up on some online school" Eddie told her. "I'm sorry, I did the best I could" he apologised, knowing that having to do online school wasn't what she was hoping for.

"No it's okay, I understand" Erica replied. "I'm just going to go and get changed for bed" she told them.

As Erica turned around to grab her pyjamas, Eddie saw the sudden beam of yellow light glow from her ring all the way to the same picture on the stained glass window again. When he saw the surprised look on Patricia's face, he instantly knew that she could see it to and that he hadn't been imagining it.

"I'll be back" Erica called as she left the room to get changed in the girl's bathroom.

"That's the second time I've seen that now. I thought I was seeing things the first time" Eddie told Patricia as they both ran over to the window.

"Part of the picture is peeling off" Patricia pointed out. "I don't think this is actually part of the window"

Eddie then ran his hand along the picture and then ever so carefully began to peel it off of the window. Patricia was right.

"What exactly is it?" Patricia asked him.

"I have absolutely no idea" Eddie replied.

A/N: So what do you guys think the picture will be and what's it for? I'd love to hear your thoughts.

A few people asked some questions in there reviews. I'm not going to answer them now because they are all due to be answered in future chapters. Some questions have even been answered in this chapter.

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