Chapter Twenty-Four: When She Says 'It's Over'

Disclaimer: I don't own House of Anubis

A/N 1:Hey Emma! For all of you who don't know my friend, Hungergames811... I have good news. I convinced her to watch Season three, so she's been watching season one and two on , adn texting me all of her questions which I (am very gladly responding too) so the good news, is we've got a new Sibunanator on board! :) (P.S. you know Microsoft Word is old when it doesn't recognize the word texting...)

A/N 2: This is the longest chapter so far! And, don't worry… I threw in a happy ending for all of you who were upset by the last chapter ;) ALSO! I was trying really hard to get all of these up before season three starts, but we didn't have internet for two days and that put me behind schedule. But good news, I've got them all written, so now I'll just be posting at least two a day! Anyway… ignore my incessant chattering and read!

Disclaimer: I don't own House of Anubis

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When she says 'it's over'...

Eddie's arm was slung over the back of the couch. Not too close to make anything awkward, but definitely enough to make him comfortable. KT was beautiful, he'd give her that. She had a perfect smile, and curly black hair that worked so well with her dark skin. She was smart too, and an excellent Sibuna partner. But that was the problem. She was only a Sibuna partner. He was pretty positive. It was just always so hard to decipher. When he was near his girlfriend and KT at the same time, there wasn't anyone he wanted more than Patricia. But when just he and his fellow American were alone, it was hard to deny the tension. Sometimes he would wish they were more than friends. But Eddie always tried his absolute hardest to shoo those thoughts away, which generally proved to be easy. Most times.

"Eddie?" KT waved her hand in front of his dazed face, laughing shortly after. "You okay?"

"Yeah, sorry." Eddie seemingly shrugged off all of the thoughts clogging his brain, and turned once again to face her. "Okay so the doohickey opens the lock thingy mabober. Got it."

"Sure." KT giggled, placing the key in his hand. "The key opens the passage way. I mean it seems pretty obvious. Right?"

"I guess." Eddie looked down at the heavy metal item in his hands. "I don't think it'll fit, but it makes sense."

"You don't think?" KT looked down disappointedly, but brightened up soon after. "Want to test it out?"

"Now?" Eddie looked around the lounge, where only about three other students were scattered around, fully intrigued by whatever unimportant things they had to do after school. Because in Eddie's opinion, nothing compared to houses that talk and have expensive hidden Egyptian treasure buried underneath of them. "Yeah let's go!" he grabbed at her wrist, pulling her up and outside. After she pulled her bag over her shoulder, KT jogged after him, making their way to the barn that they, with the rest of Sibuna, had discovered only days ago.

"C'mon," Eddie motioned to her with his free hand, silently sneaking behind the shed, and keeping as quiet as possible.

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"Trudy do we have leftovers or wh-" Eddie let out a quiet "oh," as he walked into the dining room to find his girlfriend, clearing away the dining room table. Candles and the red table cloth that he knew she liked, were shoved back into the drawer near the oven, and her curled hair was losing its bounce. The gorgeous black and purple dress, that she wore was being completely ignored as she messily shoved all of the left overs into Tupperware, and plates into the sink.

"Yeah." She shot back. "oh."

"I should, uh…" KT pointed towards the stairs before climbing up them quickly and disappearing into her bedroom.

"I'm sorry." Eddie suddenly turned into the whiny three year old boy that he captured so perfectly when he was in need of Patricia's forgiveness. She had, unfortunately, been acquainted with this childish side of him quite frequently recently. "We got caught up in some Sibuna stuff."

"Well I was caught up in making dinner." Patricia started scrubbing plates harder. "You know not all guys have girlfriends, who as picky as they may be about not wanting to go to restaurants still cook them dinner." When he didn't say anything back, Patricia clenched her jaw tighter, and then continued. "And most girls don't have boyfriends that ditch them on their one year anniversary, to hang out with another girl."

"This is exactly how I felt last year!" Eddie countered.

"No it's not!" Patricia defended. "Last year, you were entirely oblivious. The only reason I wasn't spending time with you was because four of my friends and I were trying to keep you from being killed-"

"You weren't protecting me, you were solving a mystery, not guarding the new American."

"You're the freaking Osirian Eddie! Sure it wasn't intentional, but if Senkhara had known who you were, what you were…" Patricia shook her head. "And besides who do you think woke you up when you were about to be marked? Fabian! We were making sure you weren't getting as caught up in the stupid mystery as us."

"Whatever." Eddie sighed. "But still, it's the same feeling-"

"Look Eddie, if you really felt bad last year, than I have absolutely no idea why you'd want me to feel that way. Plus, last year, you assumed I was seeing someone else. Which is ridiculous…" Patricia trailed off, but once glance at him quickly got her upset all over again. "But in my defence, I know you're hanging out with KT. It actually kind of hurts you know?"

"I'm sorry, I really am."

"No Eddie." Patricia shook her head, trying her hardest to avert her eyes from his. "Sorry's not going to cut it. I mean it was bad before. But you completely forgot about the most important night of our relationship so far. You were too busy sleuthing with another girl. I just can't handle it anymore."

"Isn't this a bit irrational-"

"No! We're over." Patricia placed the last plate on the counter, quietly, and started walking out of the kitchen.

"You're being ridiculous!" Eddie called after her.

"What do you care?" She shouted back, loud enough for stupid KT Rush to know the news. "I'm not your girlfriend anymore!"

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A week went by, with her barley eating, and him stuffing his mouth more than usual. With her being the quietest she had ever been, while still having access to her voice, and him being the loudest, and most obnoxious he could conjure when she was near. It was his best attempt at making her jealous.

If he held Sibuna meetings that involved everyone instead of just him and KT,(which had been attempting, out of pure hopefulness) she didn't show up. But if just he and KT snuck off to solve something else, then she would follow them.

It was almost normal again. He felt like he was getting revenge, and she felt like she was getting there. Patricia assured herself that the hopeless empty feeling in her stomach would be gone soon, and then their rivalry could pick up again. Because in reality they functioned pretty well as the world's cutest enemies. And she wasn't going to argue any extra Eddie time, even if that meant throwing nasty comments at each other constantly.

She was starting to get used to not being able to hold his hand, and flaunt him in front of the more popular girls, but it actually hurt. She was willing to come up with any other possible explanation except that she missed him, but secretly she knew she did. Like a burning desire deep in her stomach that desperately needed him in order to put out the flame.

Even though that's as stupid as fricken hell. She constantly reminded herself.

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The faint knocking on her bedroom door made Patricia certain that it was not her hopeless ex coming to apologize again, or any of the guys for that matter. And it wasn't Mara or Joy, because they would've just barged in (it was their room too). Which narrowed it down to either Willow or KT. And since Willow really was more of an acquaintance to Patricia, she figured it just had be KT. Drawing in a sharp breath, and hoping she wasn't making the wrong decision, Patricia called, "c'mon in."

Sure enough, the dark-skinned, frizzy haired, American girl came through the door frame, a shy look on her face, moving her body timidly. "I'm not going to bite." Patricia rolled her eyes and tapped her bed. "Sit, and talk." KT obliged greedily, as if all she really wanted was Patricia's acceptance.

"Um so, I wanted to start by saying I'm sorry for uh, getting in between you and Eddie."

"It's not your fault." Patricia immediately blamed herself for not allowing the American to take the blame. "I got jealous."

"Well, Uh Sibuna's been kind of boring without you. I miss being one of two girls." KT laughed lightly, and then in a joking way turned solemn. "Seriously." After shedding another smile, that Patricia returned lightly, KT continued. "But anyway, today Eddie and I went to the barn, and you were all he was talking about."

"What?" Patricia sat up straighter.

"Yeah," KT grinned. "He was complaining about messing up, and he was asking for my advice. By the looks of it, he misses you much more than he's playing off at. So, um, I think you should talk to him."

"No!" Patricia crossed her arms.

"Just saying." KT shrugged and then stood up off of the red-head's bed. "If you want, I can uh deliver a message."

"Ah so your our own couple counseling owl now?" Patricia laughed.

"How about that you miss him too? But will only talk to him if he gets his butt up here?"

"That should work…" Patricia smiled. "Thanks KT."

"Sure." KT smiled back, happy that she was finally feeling accepted by the Goth of the house. "See you around."

"See ya." Patricia waved lightly as KT skipped out of her room.

She let out a deep breath, before collapsing back onto her bed, and going over exactly what she would be saying to Eddie.

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Patricia looked up from her homework, immediately getting a queasy feeling in her stomach as Eddie entered her room. Brushing her hair behind her ear, and putting her books aside, she stood up, and quickly fixed her skirt. "You getting a bit of déjà vu too?" Eddie asked shyly, with a small grin.

"From the situation or that bottomless pit feeling in my stomach?" She asked.

"So you're nervous?"

"What kind of stupid question is that?" She hissed. "Sorta." She added timidly at the end, making sure to keep it as under her breath as possible.

"Okay if we're both nervous, then let's just not be."

"Honestly, you never make sense."

"Seriously. I think we both know why we're nervous…" He looked at her quickly for reassurance of his claim. "And I figure it's for the same reason-"

"Eddie Sweet, nervous?" Patricia smirked. "I thought you were fearless?"

Patricia laughed when he got stuck up in his answer, completely unprepared to answer her question. She grabbed his wrists and pulled him towards her bed. He sat cross legged at one end, and she hung her legs over the side on the other. It wasn't uncomfortable, or uncommon for them to be here. They generally took this position when they needed to relax. Of course, that stress was generally over homework, but Patricia figured this wouldn't rate as much different.

"I um missed you, and stuff." Patricia surprised herself as the words fell from her mouth, choked up and tangled, but they still managed to come out.

"Really?" Eddie perked up. "KT wasn't just saying that?"

"No! I told her to say that, I mean… I gave her permission to say that."

"Since when are you two friends?"

Patricia looked down at her hands, covered in rings, and her wrists decorated in bracelets, avoiding eye contact with Eddie to the best of her ability. "Since we weren't a couple." She jumped when his fingers brushed past her cheek, and tucked the strand of hair (that secretly was bothering her) behind her ear.

"Look, you two are both amazing girls, in your own, very unique ways." Eddie chuckled, as the nervousness slowly started coming back. "But I don't want to end up like Nina and Fabian, and Joy. I don't need Sibuna to break us up, and I don't want to be trying to get closer to KT because I can't get my thoughts about you straight. And I really don't want it to take months to realize that I'd prefer you over her."

"You were quite an amazing observer last year."

"I am Fabian's roommate, and he does have major girl problems…"

"And I'm Joy's roommate, and she definitely has some… issues." Patricia laughed lightly. "But I really don't want that either."

"So we're cool?" Eddie stretched his arms out to her.

"We're cool." Patricia quickly accepted the hug, holding him close, and feeling so thankful to have him back.

"Oh and, I missed you too." Eddie added, before pressing a kiss to her hair.

Patricia found herself smiling into the crook of his neck, soaking up the feeling of having his arms wrapped around her again, and knowing someone really did care enough about her to come crawling back. And she realized, right there, right then that she would much rather be the cutest couple than the cutest enemies.

…She still wants you to be hers.

A/N: Let me know what you thought! I actually started by having the chapter end at Patricia and KT's agreement, friendship thing, but after last chapter, I figured I should actually have some real Peddie in there :) And yeah…. Their breakup was a lot like Beck and Jade's in Victorious (in Jade Dumps Beck) 'Cause after realizing that KT would be the perfect person for Patricia to get jealous of, the situation turned a lot into Beck and Jades. Love you all!

~Grace