Chapter Four: When She's Quiet

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When she's quiet...

Eddie pressed pause on his iPod, and called "Come in!" through the door. "Fabian's not here." Eddie reached for his iPod again, expecting Nina to leave.

"I'm not here to see Fabian. I need to talk to you." She sighed, sitting down on the end of his bed, without permission.

"Oookaaayy." Eddie shut his laptop, and put both that and his iPod on the floor. "Hit me."

"Have you talked to Patricia today?" Nina started drawing patterns on her leg, and pulling on the loose jean material.

"uh, no but-" Eddie glanced over at Fabian's side of the room. He could only hope that Nina wasn't attempting to get together with him. That would turn out completely ugly.

"Eddie?" Nina let out a small laugh when he looked up startled at her. "You zoned out."

"Right. Sorry. So, anyways, on with Patricia, why do you want to know if I've talked to her?"

"She's been really quiet. Are you two okay?"

"What? Yeah. Nothing's wrong with us…" Eddie trailed off, silently praying that this wasn't going where he thought it was.

"Oh good." Nina broke out into a toothy grin. "Then do you know why she won't talk?"

"Um, no." Eddie furrowed his brow. "Do you?"

"No, I just was hoping someone did. She hasn't eaten anything, as far as I know, and she's just silent, and- Eddie! Where are you going?"

Silence. Nina let out a defeated sigh, and slumped back. At least she hoped he had totally ignored and abandoned her in his room to go talk to Patricia.

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"Joy?" Eddie hissed into the girl's room.

"Hmmmm?" Joy continued to glare at her laptop.

"I knocked on your door like five times. I thought Patricia was being arrogant. Why didn't you answer?"

"What?" Joy looked up quickly, and then fixated her vision back to the computer screen.

"Never mind." Eddie groaned. "Where's Patricia?"

"She went for a walk – like twenty minutes ago."

"Alone?" Eddie burst.

"Rufus's dead. Calm down, and just go chase her Romeo. I've got work to do, so bye."

Eddie rolled his eyes, and resisted the urge to get mad at Joy.

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"Hey-o" Eddie ducked under a tree branch.

Patricia jumped before turning around and seeing him.

"You trying to kill me?"

"Not intentionally..." Eddie joked, joining her on the dead log she was sitting on, and wrapping an arm over her shoulder. "So? What's up?"

Patricia stayed silent, staring day dreamily at the brown leaves on the floor of the forest.

"Come on" Eddie placed a kiss on Patricia's cheek. "What's wrong?"

"Hormones." Patricia whispered.

Eddie bit his lip from laughing, and gave her a quizzical look.

"Bad day." She tried again.

"Right." Eddie did laugh this time, and pulled her closer to him, until her head was lying on his shoulder.

"I'm just stressed I guess." Patricia stood up and offered Eddie a shrug at her words.

"Stressed about?" Eddie stood up too, and took her hand in his as the couple began to walk.

"Life. Sibuna. School. Stuff."

"Good."

"Excuse me?" Patricia turned on her heel, forcing their hand hold to drop.

"I mean, you can't be human if life doesn't suck you up and get your head in the clouds."

The end of Patricia's lips curved up into a small smile.

"I mean, I suppose you could consider it human nature – birds fly away from predators. We run away from our problems."

"You think so?"

"Have I ever been wrong?" Patricia laughed quietly, and Eddie took her back in his arms, wrapping a secure arm around her waist, and another over her shoulder. "Well except for that one time."

"One time what?"

"When I made a mistake."

"Oh yeah – you're admitting to something… what would that mistake me, Mr. Perfect?"

"I was going to say when I didn't ask you out the minute I met you but now that you're throwing around sass-" Eddie laughed, and hugged Patricia tighter. "Kidding. If I had the guts too, you know I would have asked you out right then and there."

"In the middle of the lounge?"

"Eh, you were pretty, I was hot, it was a pretty great opportunity."

"You realize I would have denied your offer?"

"And what makes you think that… 'cause if I remember correctly, you were the one who came crawling back to me."

"Oh don't even try to-"

Eddie paused in the middle of the driveway, and brought his lips to Patricia's.

"Kiss me." Patricia finished, once they had pulled away.

"That is not what you were going to say!" Eddie protested.

"Yeah I know." Patricia placed her hand over his, which rested on her side, as they continued to walk back to the house, the memory of earlier slowly starting to fade away.

…Ask her what's wrong.

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A/N: What'd you guys think? I'm not sure if it was my favorite…. But personally I didn't hate it. I'm still totally willing (and getting ready to beg) for your ideas on any upcoming chapters. (The next "verse" is When she ignores you… give her your FULL attention.) If anyone, as a story plot for that, I'd love to hear, it and try it out – or you guys can suggest any other scenes, for upcoming lines… if you need to find the What A Boyfriend Should Do thing, I posted it on my profile, so feel free to check it out! Thank you guys… I love you all!

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