The next morning, Joy pushed through the doors of Anubis house half dizzy from the previous night. She was hung over from drinking for the first time, and it didn't feel so good. Mick had taken her to a club like place and the drinks were all alcohol based. Joy wasn't even sure how they had gotten into the place being underage, but she stayed quiet about it. The small girl was tired of being compared to Mara as a "goody-two-shoes." Therefore, she drank. It wasn't just one or two cups either. Joy ended up drinking five cups of the stuff, topping Mick's three.
Surprisingly, Mick had been the smarter of the two, knowing that he would have to carry Joy's drunken ass back to Anubis; which is what he ended up doing. The blonde came to the realization that it would be far too difficult to carry Joy all the way upstairs. Even though Joy was very light weight while sober, when people are hung over and unconscious they tend to weigh more. The boy just decided to sneak her into his and Fabian's room for the night. When he got to the room however, Fabian was nowhere to be found. Mick, tired from carrying the girl, gently laid her down to sleep on Fabian's bed for the night and climbed into his own bed.
Now Joy was awake, and had a massive headache. She had taken a walk outside, trying to remember what happened last night and why she woke up in Fabian's bed. The bright lights in the house hurt her eyes. Blinded, the girl stumbled up the stairs, clinging onto the railing for support. Once she got to her and Patricia's room, her hand missed the doorknob three times before grasping it, realizing it was locked.
Not even bothering to think of a good enough reason that it could be locked, she removed the bobby pin from her hair and was able to pick the lock. Slowly, it turned and the door opened. It was darker in the room than the rest of the house. Then again, it was still early at 5am. Joy clumsily walked in, palming the wall for the light switch. The immediate brightness had the girl's eyes tightly closing, trying to adjust in an instant. "Oh my," she started, rubbing her eyes so that she could see. When her eyes finally fluttered open, her jaw dropped and she screamed loudly at what she saw.
Patricia and Fabian snapped awake in terror, hearing the loud piercing scream. "Shut the door!" Patricia barked. Joy did what she was told and turned to face them both with her eyes closed.
"Patricia, a word in the hall please?" she more demanded than asked. Patricia got up out of bed to put the rest of her clothes on as the brunette girl walked out. Just by looking at Joy she could tell she was hung over. Fabian turned to look at Patricia.
"I thought you said the door was locked?" Fabian spoke. Patricia threw him his clothes from last night, which he caught.
"It was! Shut up, get dressed, and stay here," the red-haired girl ordered. After pulling her shirt on over her head and fixing her skirt, she started for the door before stopping a minute to crawl back up the bed and lightly kiss the boy on the lips. "I'll be right back." Her hand barely began to pull the door open before Joy grabbed her arm and yanked her into the hall.
"What the hell do you think you two were doing?" Joy asked, demandingly. She crossed her arms, waiting for a response.
"Um, sleeping?" the girl answered, obviously.
"You were both sleeping in the same bed, in your underwear, if that even! Victor could've found out!" Patricia waved the girl away.
"Oh please, Joy! You're just jealous that I got him before you! And you shouldn't be, because you're with Mick! Don't think for one second that Fabian didn't tell me that he walked in on you and Mick doing practically the same thing. At least Fabian and I had the decency to but some of our clothes back on!" The brunette threw her hands in the air, bewildered.
"You're unbelievable! You knew that I liked Fabian! Did you both do this to get back at me or something? Because that's just foul!"
"Maybe I like him too, did you think of that? Maybe I've just never told you because you always said you were going to ask him out, but never did! You're with Mick, Joy! You can't have them both, it doesn't work like that." Fed up with all of this, Patricia stormed away from Joy and back into the room, heading straight toward the boy. Joy walked back into the room as well. Patricia could tell that Joy was watching them. She took Fabian's hands in her hers and placed them on her waist, then pulled him closer to her, and kissed him with Joy watching. Fabian kissed back, not knowing that Joy was watching from the hallway.
Pulling away, she took hold of his hand and intertwined their fingers, leading him out of the room and past Joy, with a look that said "I won." Tears started to form from the smaller girl's eyes and ran down her now red cheeks. She knew that everything Patricia had said had been right, but it still hurt that she would do that. She hadn't realized that this was almost exactly how Fabian felt before. The door slammed closed as Joy fell onto her bed, crying. She thought she would be crying forever.
*Two weeks had passed –give or take a day, and Joy and Patricia had hardly spoken to each other. They used to be best friends, and now it was if they were barely even friends at all. Fabian and Patricia weren't exactly 'together', but maintained a 'friends with benefits' relationship since the first time. They've slept together two more times since then as well, and whenever Joy was around, she would be very clingy with the boy; going over to talk to him, or kissing him on the cheek or something like that. Most of the Anubis kids were oblivious to Patricia and Fabian's relationship, as everyone was in preparation for the arrival of the new girl.
The Anubis kids were all sitting in either the living room or kitchen when they heard a knock at the main doors. Some of them looked excited, and other's looked like they couldn't care less. Trudy came rushing in, an eager smile on her face, to answer the door. A small, friendly looking dirty blonde girl stood behind it. "Hello dearie! Welcome to Anubis house! Nina, I presume?" Trudy invited her in and gave her the usual welcome and such. After Nina was informed about everything she needed to know, she allowed herself to meet everyone and introduce herself.
"Hi! I'm Nina, and I'm from America," she started, a smile on her face. Fabian was the first person she noticed. He was extremely cute, in her opinion. The boy was also the first person to actually say hi to her, as well.
"Hey," he greeted, standing up and walking towards her. He immediately fell in love with her eyes. "Welcome to Anubis. I'm Fabian, by the way; Fabian Rutter. The brunette held his hand out to hers. Nina realized that she probably looked stupid, staring at the boy. She smiled, and shook his hand.
"Thanks, I'm Nina Martin." Fabian didn't know at the time, that this girl would change everything.
"So, um… have you gotten a tour of the house yet?" the boy asked, trying to make conversation. The girl tucked her hair behind her ear and smiled shyly.
"No, not yet, I uh, wanted to introduce myself first. But I am kind of excited about going to boarding school." The boy smiled back at her.
"Well then, would you maybe want me to show you around a bit?" Nina bit down on her lower lip, giggling under her breath. She tried her hardest not to blush, and agreed, following the boy out of the room. Patricia watched them talk back and forth, a jealous and disgusted look on her face. She could see that Fabian liked the new girl, and did not approve of it one bit. Yes, she realized that she and Fabian weren't exactly official, but they might have been, if it wasn't for Nina. The new girl had been there for not even five minutes and already she was ruining everything!
Suddenly, Patricia got that sick feeling in her stomach again; the same one she had been getting recently. Covering her mouth with her hand, the redhead ran to the bathroom and hurled. The nausea had been bothering her for a few days now, and she got cramps in her stomach from time to time. This was the second time she threw up since. It would have been her third, but the very time, she swallowed it.
Joy had been walking down the hallway when she thought she heard Patricia's voice. Curious, the brunette followed the sound and eventually found the girl kneeling on the bathroom floor, clutching her stomach. "Oh my god, Patricia!" Joy exclaimed, rushing in to help the girl up. "What happened? Are you alright?" Patricia grabbed the girl's arm and pulled herself up shakily.
"I-I'm fine, Joy. Just a bit of nausea, that's all. I-I'm just sick." Now the girl felt dizzy and extremely light headed-like she could barely stand on her feet. Joy looked concerned. Even though the two were fighting, Joy was determined to find out what was wrong, and help her friend.
"Patricia how long has this been going on?" The redhead didn't answer at first, avoiding the question. "Come on, you've got to give me some answers Trixie. We're supposed to be best friends, remember? And we certainly haven't been acting like it lately." The girl hesitated, but answered.
"About two weeks…" came mumbling from her lips. She explained all the illnesses she'd been having or feeling since it began. It made her curious enough to ask this next question.
"Patricia… when was your period due?" Patricia ran a hand loosely through her hair and shrugged.
"I don't know, a few days ago, I think. It's late," she answered. Suddenly this made perfect sense to Joy. Her jaw dropped slightly.
"Oh my god, Trixie… you're…" the girl was interrupted by Patricia's hand slamming against her mouth.
"I'm not pregnant, Joy! I'm not!" The brunette had to pry the girl's hand off of her mouth.
"How do you know, Patricia?" Joy asked. She paused, thinking for a minute. "Trixie… how many times have you and Fabian had sex?" The girl replied softly with three. Joy's eyes widened and her jaw dropped further. "Three times?" she cried out loud. "Didn't either of you think to use protection, for crying out loud? I wouldn't be surprised if you were pregnant after three times of unprotected sex in two weeks!"
"Fabian might have mentioned it… but at the time I told him I was on birth control, which I am, so I don't see how I can be pregnant!" Joy gave the girl a look. She didn't say anything at first, but the look was enough.
"Obviously it didn't work," she stated. She grabbed Patricia's arm, pulling her into Mara and Amber's room. "Come with me." Once they were there, Joy began to rummage through Amber's draw until she found what she was looking for, and handed it to Patricia.
"You want me to take a pregnancy test?" Patricia asked, unbelievably. "Why does Amber even have these?" She didn't even want to know the answer.
"Go take it," the smaller girl enforced, pushing her all the way back into the bathroom. Patricia tried to convince her that she wasn't pregnant, but Joy wouldn't have it. "Then why are you scared to take the test?" Patricia glared at the girl, knowing she was right. "I'll wait here," she told her. The red-haired girl closed the door and nervously ran a hand through her hair, biting her lip.
"I'm not pregnant," she told herself. "I can't be; I'm only sixteen!" After nervously pacing back and forth for a few minutes, she looked down at the box in her hand. "I can't believe I'm doing this…" she whined. The girl took a deep breath and shakily opened the box, not knowing what to expect from this. God how she hoped that this wasn't true