Chapter 5: Sibuna's Back

It was Sunday morning and when Erica woke up, she felt the best that she had been since she had gotten to England. Of course she was still feeling hurt and knew that it would take time before she was truly feeling herself again, but she had woken up feeling happier then she felt yesterday. That had to be a start.

"Good morning Victor" Erica greeted him when she was walking down from the attic, on her way down to breakfast that morning.

"Oh, good morning" Victor replied, looking rather surprised that someone in the house other than Trudy had made an effort to actually talk to him.

Erica smiled, to her Victor didn't seem at all grumpy or grouchy like Eddie had described to her when he was at home back in America.

When Erica walked into the dining room, she noticed straight away that everyone was already seated at the breakfast table, well everyone except Eddie.

"Hi Patricia" Erica smiled, taking a seat next to her.

"Hey" Patricia waved.

"Patricia do you want to do something with me and Mara today?" Joy asked.

"Sorry I can't, I'm helping Eddie out with the French homework" Patricia lied.

"But Eddie's fluent in French" Erica frowned, causing Patricia's eyes to shoot up.

"Oh I meant that he's helping me" she replied, trying to cover up her lie.

"Okay. What about you Erica do-"

"Please don't call me by my name" Erica interrupted, whilst snapping her eyes shut thinking that if she closed her eyes she wouldn't have to hear someone say her name. She suddenly didn't feel that tiny ounce of happiness inside of her anymore. It was like one minute she was fine and then the next she wasn't.

"Oh sorry" Joy apologised. "Do you want to do something with me and Mara today?" she asked.

"Erm okay" Erica replied nervously, not really sure whether she wanted to spend the day with Joy and Mara or not. Sure they seemed like nice girls but then again she hardly knew them. She also couldn't understand why they would want her to spend time with them. Were they just offering to be nice? Probably because she was younger than them and they wouldn't want her to feel anymore left out than she already did. That was the way Erica saw it. She had only agreed because it would save her from being stuck up in an old attic by herself all day. Erica also knew that if things got too much for her, she could make an excuse to leave.

"Good morning" Eddie then mumbled, running a hand through his messy hair as he entered the room.

"Eddie you look exhausted. Did you even sleep last night?" Alfie asked.

"Hardly" Eddie muttered before taking a seat next to Erica. "By the way you're in my seat but I'm going to let you stay there" he told Erica with a smile, whilst ruffling up her hair playfully.

"Erm, thanks" Erica frowned.

"Are you alright?" he then asked her quietly as his face softened.

Erica shrugged her shoulders. She didn't know if she was alright or not.

"Eddie are you going to be okay to help Patricia out with that French homework today?" Joy asked.

Eddie frowned. Since when was he going to be helping Patricia out with French homework? But by judging the look on Patricia's face that she was sending him from across the table, something must have been important, so he decided to go along with it.

"Eh yeh, I think I will be" Eddie replied. "Why don't we go and do that now Yacker" he then suggested before grabbing an apple and leaving the table, with Patricia following closely behind.

"Since when did Eddie put homework before food?" Joy questioned, causing everyone to shrug.

Erica looked confused. She could tell that something was up.

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"What's this about French homework?" Eddie asked when he and Patricia walked into the bedroom that Eddie shared with Fabian.

"It was a cover up, I couldn't tell everyone that we were going to be figuring out what the picture we found last night is" Patricia explained. "But I also do need your help with the French homework, so it wasn't a total lie" she added, making Eddie smirk.

"I've been up all night looking at it; I have no idea what it is. I don't think I'm as good as Fabian with the whole research thing" Eddie told her, taking a seat down on his bed.

"Do you think it's time to get the gang back together?" Patricia asked, sitting down next to Eddie.

"Yeh I think it is" Eddie agreed as he took out his phone and began texting Fabian, Alfie and KT to meet him and Patricia in his room as soon as possible.

"So erm-"Eddie began but instead he wrapped his arm around Patricia's waist and kissed her gently on the lips. "Thanks for spending some time with Erica last night" he smiled.

"It was no biggie" Patricia shrugged, leaning her head down on Eddie's shoulder.

"Of course it was I think you really cheered her up" Eddie replied. "But then she seemed really down again at breakfast" he added.

"I think that might have been because Joy called her Erica" Patricia explained.

"Ah, I honestly don't know what to do about the whole name thing" Eddie told her.

"Neither would I but hopefully things will get better" Patricia replied.

"I hope so" Eddie murmured.

With that Fabian, Alfie and KT all came walking through the bedroom door, causing Eddie and Patricia to pull away from their small embrace. Fabian, Alfie and KT had all noticed that the five Sibuna's were now all together again and they each wanted to know what was going on.

"So what's this about?" KT asked eagerly as soon as she had walked through the door.

"Has anybody noticed the ring that Erica wears on her finger?" Eddie started.

"Yeh I saw that yesterday, it looks a lot like the ring that Victor wears" Fabian replied, causing both Eddie and Patricia to look at each other with puzzled looks on their faces. Why hadn't they noticed this?

"Fabian are you sure it looks like Victors?" Patricia asked.

"Positive. Why?" he answered.

"Well last night when Patricia and I were up in the attic with Erica, her ring began to shine and the light flowed all the way to the window which led us to this" Eddie explained, holding up the picture that he and Patricia had found. "We have no idea what it is" he added as Fabian took it from him.

"Fabian, what are you thinking?" Patricia asked as she noticed the look of concentration on his face.

"I think we have another mystery on our hands" Fabian replied and with that everyone's right hand shadowed over there right eye as they all chanted 'Sibuna' together.

"I'm going to do some research on this" Fabian told everyone.

"Well I hope you can do a lot better than I did" Eddie replied. "Does anyone have any questions?" he then asked.

"Yes I do" Alfie then said. "Where does Erica get her freckles from because you don't have them and neither does Mr. Sweet?" he asked whilst laughing, causing Patricia to shoot him a glare.

"Our Mom has freckles" Eddie frowned and with that Sibuna set off to work.

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