Chapter Twenty-Nine: Treat Her Like

A/N: Okay to those of you Victorious watchers, I didn't want to make it seem like Beck and Eddie were related, so I basically used the characters of Beck and Jade in this chapter, and named them Avan and Liz… you should probably get that ;)

To Emma: I threw a character in there for you. I'll give you a hint… the boy with the bread =)

Disclaimer: I don't own House of Anubis

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Treat her like...

"Hey, hey…" Eddie jumped off the boardwalk, and onto the beach, a cloud of sand flying up around him. "Hey." He took Patricia's left hand in his, and slung his right arm over her shoulder.

"Hi." She laughed skeptically.

"These." He turned her around. "Are my cousins; Josh and Avan."

"Wassup!" The shorter of the two boys, Josh, followed in Eddie's footsteps, jumping over the boardwalk rail and landing smoothly on the ground.

"Yeah." Avan grabbed onto the lower pole, and pushed himself underneath, feet touching the ground before he let go. "I don't risk my life stupidly at beaches."

Patricia laughed. "Eddie's willing to risk his life stupidly on any occasion. She ruffled his hair with a smile on her face.

"Ha, dissed by your girlfriend! In an extremely believable British accent!" Josh cracked up. "I like her."

Patricia rose her eyebrow at him and quickly looked around to make sure there wasn't anyone else he could've been talking to. Although she highly doubted it. "I don't see your girlfriend around here." She countered.

"Well, that's because…" Josh let out a defeated groan.

"Man, I think she is British, just to let you know." Avan patted Josh's back sympathetically.

"Are you?"

Eddie rolled his eyes. "No. Not only did I move to England, by she's only been speaking in a British accent. What do you think?"

"Well." Josh shrugged. "There are plenty of girls here that would be willing to go out with you. It could have been a jok-"

"There are plenty of girls here what?" Patricia looked at Eddie, a scowl forming on her face.

"Hey there are guys here that have been drooling over you all afternoon."

"That's because I'm in a bikini, and British. Guys haven't been drooling over me, they've been staring dumbfounded at me like I have ten heads."

"Whatever babe." Eddie kissed her cheek. "Keep in mind that you're the girl who's with me."

"Mmhhm." Patricia kicked the sand at her feet defeatedly, although she would never admit that he had won.

"C'mon." Eddie dragged Patricia further down the beach where their families were already setting up. "You should meet Avan's girlfriend." As they got closer to the umbrellas, and numerous towels, marking the "Miller/Williamson territory" Patricia spotted the girl immediately. Her skin was pale, which completely contradicted with her dark black hair. She was rubbing sunscreen over all of the skin that was showing with her black bikini and shorts on. She didn't seem intimidating to Patricia, she seemed almost normal. It was almost like a relief from her Joy who is too emotional, her Mara who is a genius, Nina the nerd, and her best friend, Amber, the diva.

"Hey." Patricia pulled Eddie down with her, onto the towel next to the one Avan's girlfriend was sitting on.

"Do I know you?"

"Okay." Patricia looked over at Eddie, who merely shrugged. "I'm Patricia."

"Liz."

"Nice to meet you."

"Yeah, I don't really do nice greetings."

"Neither does Patricia." Eddie sighed. "She dumped milk on my head because I was bet into dancing with her. Liz's head perked up and she turned quickly to Patricia.

"Seriously?"

Patricia shrugged. "And dumped water on two of my now best friends."

"One's annoying and perfect and one's ditzy and hopeless?" Liz started hard at Patricia, but the growing excitement in her features was undeniable.

"Oh yeah." Patricia laughed.

"I've been there." Liz turned back towards the ocean, and continued to apply the sunscreen.

"Hi." Avan laid a hand on her shoulder and crouched down next to her, placing a long kiss on her lips that she returned. As this continued, Patricia exchanged a look with Eddie uncomfortably, which just made him smirk more. "You guys having fun?"

"She's better than Vega." Liz shrugged.

"Um… great?"

"You guys want to hit the ocean?" Eddie asked.

"Oh-"

Liz cut Avan off. "I don't swim in the ocean."

"…why?" Patricia asked.

"I don't want to talk about it." She snapped.

"Liz." Avan warned.

"You know what happened to me in the ocean in thir-"

"But they don't." Avan motioned to Patricia and Eddie. "Please?"

With an eye roll, and a scowl Liz quickly explained; "When I was eight… a dolphin chased me. It was harassment."

Patricia smiled. "There won't be dolphins. C'mon."

"No!"

"Liz, just put your feet in. Even if there are dolphins, they can't get to you if your ankle deep."

Liz complied, but still complained about both dolphins and how much she disliked twins the entire way down to the water. As they got closer to the glistening blue ocean, the two couples split up in different directions, seeming to forget about the others.

Patricia and Eddie spent their first few seconds laughing at the whines coming from Liz before jumping into the ocean themselves. While Liz and Avan stayed ankle deep, and absolutely no further, Patricia and Eddie got themselves wrapped up in a childish and yet enjoyable splashing war. As he used his arms to propel whatever amount of water he could towards her, she hopelessly flailed her limbs about in an attempt to even get a single drop of water on his face. "Okay that's it." Eddie declared. "I won, and you can't splash so you're going under."

"Eddie, what are you- No Eddie!" Patricia pleas didn't even make Eddie think twice about what he was doing. In a second his left hand was on the small of her back, and his other around her neck lightly, and she was under the water's surface. "Are you kidding me?" Patricia spat once she had finally been let go of, come up for air, and fixated her vision on her shirtless boyfriend who was grinning like a three year old child. While even Patricia would admit that splashing was not her strong point, she had absolutely no difficulty hitting his arm repetitively, a smile still plastered on both their faces. (Even though Eddie was ready to wince in pain when she wasn't looking.)

"Okay you can stop now." Eddie pleaded, grabbing onto her wrists and leading her deeper into the water.

"I should drown you or something."

"That's not very kind."

"I know weasel. That's why it's called revenge."

"I could dunk you again." He warned, raising an eyebrow, and smiling when she covered her smirk with a scowl. "Hey you know what we should try?"

"What?" She groaned instinctively.

"That thing Percy and Annabeth did."

"What 'thing'?" Patricia asked skeptically.

"Did you not read the Heroes of Olympus?

"Sure I did." Patricia shrugged. "Percy and Annabeth do lots of things, like Annabeth tackling him to ground, and kissing. The two are easily confused."

"Mmhmm." Eddie smiled. "Remember the last book? They kissed underwater…"

"We aren't demigods stupid." She flicked his head. "I am not kissing you underwater. There are disgusting things in the ocean and personally I feel that being above water actually sorta helps me from dying when I'm kissing you."

"Fine." Eddie winked. "Here it goes." Ignoring Patricia's disapproval once more, he dunked them under the water, bringing his lips to hers. "Well that was short." Eddie sighed disappointedly the second they came above the surface.

"You idiot!" Patricia tried her hardest to stay mad at him, but it seemed so impossible when he was grinning so cutely. Shaking her head, and trying to hide the smile and laugh she felt coming on, she wrapped her arms around him, pulling him into a tight hug. "I love you." She whispered, barley audible, but plenty loud enough for Eddie to hear her.

After the initial shock, of Patricia hugging him and then telling him, for the first time, that she loved him, Eddie regained his "cool" enough to tell her he loved her too. "so much," he repeated, hugging her closer and trying to capture the amazing feeling of her in his arms, both knowing, for the first time, for real, that they loved each other.

…she's ALL that matters to you.

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A/N: The difficulty of writing this chapter was that Eddie always treats her like she's all that matters to him… so it was more of this idea that I had wanted to write about earlier and just threw in there for fun. I hope you liked it!

~Grace