A/N: Sorry if this chapter is kinda lame... the next one will be better I promise! Please review if you like my story btw :)
Eddie fit in rather nicely at Anubis House. Sure he had a sort of bad-boy attitude but he could be decent at times. Within a week it was clear he liked Amber, and the blonde girl knew this. She knew that he liked her and she knew that Nina liked him. The only problem was that she liked both of them and couldn't choose. After thinking about it for a bit, Amber thought why should she have to choose when she could have them both? It was like a cute little love triangle, and besides, this would show Nina that she shouldn't mess with Amber like she did with the whole picture thing from before.
Amber had secretly been seeing Eddie behind Nina's back and had asked Eddie if they could keep it quiet for a while. Nina eventually found out though, and got pissed at Amber for it. Amber didn't really care too much. Besides, she calmed Nina down after Amber was through with her. She knew what Nina liked. Eddie knew nothing about Nina and Amber's relationship. Luckily they kept it secret from Mara as well, which wasn't all that hard because the girl was always studying at the school library and such. Amber kind of liked the idea of having a boyfriend and a girlfriend even if they weren't technically dating as of yet.
It was Saturday at Anubis house as Patricia and Joy walked downstairs already dressed and ready to go to the store with Trudy. Fabian was finishing up his breakfast since he got a later start than the girls. Jerome walked into the kitchen and saw the girls all getting ready to go somewhere and immediately chimed in. "What is the baby coming already Patricia? I thought you weren't due for another three months?" He smirked at the girls and laughed at his own joke.
"Oh knock it off, Jerome," Trudy scolded. "Fabian, are you almost ready dear?" Fabian had just finished the last bite of his muffin and nodded to Trudy while chewing. He pulled on his coat and joined them as they were about to head out of the house. Victor came down from his office just at that moment and stopped them.
"Trudy, how I hate to interrupt," he said in that deep and mysterious voice of his. "But I must have a word before you leave. Come, come, it will only take a moment of your time." Trudy excused herself to follow Victor upstairs.
"I wonder what his deal is," Joy whispered. Just then the three of them heard footsteps coming their way. They all craned their necks to see who was coming. Joy smiled when she saw it was Mick. "Mick!" she exclaimed. He smiled back and gave her a kiss.
"I just wanted to say a quick hello and goodbye before you guys left. I'm going for a run and then I'm practicing sports, so I don't know how long I'll be. I'll probably be in the shower when you guys get back." Joy gave him a hug before he left again. "Have fun shopping guys," he added before heading out. They said goodbye as Amber waltzed into the room next.
"You look particularly happy, Amber," Fabian commented, noticing how the girl was smiling and practically skipping. She stopped at Fabian's words.
"I'm just a relatively happy person, Fabian. Nothing wrong with that, now is there? Anyways, where are you lot off to so early?" Patricia stepped forward to answer her. In the past two months she had been showing a lot more.
"Where going shopping, Amber, for the baby." Amber didn't think she was serious for a second.
"Patricia's going shopping?" she said, as if she wasn't talking to the redhead. "Patricia, do you even know what little girls like?" Patricia seemed slightly offended by this comment.
"Actually I do Amber considering I was one, remember? I think I'll be just fine." Joy pulled her friend back before this escalated any further. Amber could tell what Joy was thinking.
"Alright, I guess I'll leave you to that. Oh, but Patricia if I were you I'd make sure you don't get anything too gothic. Don't want to scare the poor girl." With that last comment Amber skipped off and upstairs to her room probably to find Nina.
"Don't listen to her, Patricia," Fabian advised. The red haired girl nodded and was glad that Trudy came down at that moment. It stopped her from turning around and going after Amber anyways. Fabian wrapped his arm around Patricia's waist as they headed out and into Trudy's car. Joy sat up with Trudy and left the couple to sit in the back. The brunette looked back at them once they started moving.
"So Patricia, what colors are you guys thinking of painting the attic now?" Patricia's eyes went wide. She hadn't even begun to think about that. She opened her mouth to answer but no words came out. Luckily, Fabian had been thinking about it for her and saved her by answering.
"We were thinking of a light orange color, and maybe getting her a yellow or pink crib," he told her. Patricia nodded in agreement. Joy smiled at the suggestion.
"That seems like a lovely nursery," Trudy complimented. "A nice color scheme of pink yellow and orange would do perfectly. I can already picture it. We'll have to move Patricia's bed up there as well, and I'll get the boys to help me clean out the attic and rearrange everything. We can build the crib once it's up there and get some new furniture. Oh, it will be lovely dears, just wait." The three of them listened to Trudy go on and on about the new nursery they would make.
Patricia smiled a few times at some of her suggestions. She wouldn't admit it to just anyone, but she was kind of excited to see how the nursery would turn out in the end. It gave her a little something good to look forward too. The girl felt Fabian put his arm around her and she leaned up against him, feeling a bit tired still from this morning. The brunette boy took notice of this and whispered to her. "Sleep if you want, I'll wake you when we get there." Patricia nodded, thankful for the little extra sleep.
When they got to the mall, Fabian woke her like he promised. Joy handed her a brush to run through her hair before they went in. The three students followed behind Trudy the whole way, looking around in the stores to see what they had. Trudy had even gone as far as to make a list of what they would need. The first thing they were looking for was the paint for the walls and carpet for the floor. The carpet they found easily picking out a nice cream colored one. "Fabian, be a dear and get a carriage or two?" Trudy had asked him very politely. The boy went to fetch two of them, giving one to Joy and keeping one for himself. The carpet went into his carriage as they continued on to find the perfect shade for the paint.
Patricia and Joy went off to look at some of the sample cards. "Oh hey look," Joy called. "This one's pretty." It was a light shaded orange titled 'tropical paradise' and it was perfect. Patricia especially liked it because it was too off from her usual color schemes. The paint went in with the carpets. They paid for their things and moved onto the next stop, furniture. Patricia was granted the honor of picking out Annabel's crib. The one she picked out was rather pretty as Joy described it. She even picked out a nice pastel pink crib mattress to go with it.
"See, you're not so bad at these things," Fabian encouraged her, giving her a quick kiss. The redhead smirked as they went along. They had gotten pretty much everything this baby would need furniture wise. A crib, mattress, cradle, changing table, high chair, an infant swing, a bouncer, dresser, rocking chair, play pen, toy chest, and a stroller. Anything else they thought of along the way they could get later. Joy was excited now because it was time to get the baby's clothes which was what she had been waiting for. They had to make a few trips to the car for all of the stuff, but it was worth it.
Fabian and Trudy kind of split away from the girls, telling them that they would be getting some baby toys and other things while the girls got the clothes and that they would meet back here after. Fabian was totally fine with this, as he would not be much of a help to the girls. Joy and Patricia immediately started looking around and in no time at all they had found some of the cutest little outfits of sorts. "Oh Patricia look at this," Joy called. She held up a little red and white polka dotted dress that was extremely cute. "Isn't that cute?" Patricia smiled when she saw it.
"I like that, Joy. Throw it in, it's cute." Joy was glad that Patricia was enjoying this more than she thought. When they were finished they had a lot of cute things for Annabel and they went to pay for them. The girls spotted Fabian and Trudy heading back at the same time, which was excellent timing.
"I see you girls had a bit of fun," Trudy said with a smile. "Alright, let's head back before we're tempted to buy anything else." She gave a slight laugh as she led the kids back to the car. Patricia was suddenly glad that they went shopping. It took her mind off of the bad things and made her more happy and excited about becoming a mom even if she was young.
They got back to Anubis and sure enough Mick was in the shower. Trudy had called for some help from the door. Mara and Alfie went to help her since they were both sitting right there. "What is all of this, Trudy? It weighs a ton!" Alfie complained.
"Stuff for the nursery," Trudy answered him. "You boys are going to help me clean out the attic today and tomorrow so we can start building the nursery up there for Patricia. Oh and Mara dear you'll be moving into Joy and Patricia's room once it's built since Patricia will be moving up there." Mara nodded with a smile, thankful to not have to share a room with Nina and Amber any more.
"I can help too Trudy," Mara chimed in. "The more help the faster it will get done, right?" Joy also offered to help out too. Trudy was surprised at first but gladly accepted the extra help.
"Why that's so kind of you girls. Yes Mara, the more help the faster it will get done. We'll start after lunch. Soon that dusty old attic will be as good as new."
The attic only took about a week all together to clean and repaint. They spent the next weekend building all of the furniture and such and it was done by Sunday eve. Everyone was really impressed with how it came out considering some of the guys were groaning and complaining about not wanting to clean and build. Throughout the week of cleaning Trudy had picked up a few more furniture like things such as another dresser for Patricia and a few nightstand tables and a lamp. Patricia really liked the way Trudy and everyone arranged the room. She gave Trudy a big hug and a huge thank you when it was done.
The redhead spent a lot of time up there by herself when everyone was at school. When school let out, Fabian and Joy would stay up there with her for a few hours, keeping her company and such. Little did Patricia know she would be spending an awful lot more time up there than she thought.
After school that same Monday, Nina followed alongside Eddie as they both made their way back to Anubis. "Hey," Nina said, smiling at the other American. Eddie barely noticed her.
"Oh, hey," he said back, not wanting to be rude. "Why didn't you come help with the attic last week? Even Amber came for a day." Nina shrugged. She really didn't have a reason why. She just didn't feel like it?
"I don't know, I guess I didn't want to." Eddie laughed sarcastically.
"You didn't want to. Classic answer, Blondie. Maybe it's because you and Patricia don't get along. Yeah, I know that's the reason so you don't have to hide it. I know you don't like her and she definitely doesn't like you." Nina sighed, crossing her arms.
"She's not exactly very welcoming," the female argued. Eddie had a comeback already in his mind.
"You wouldn't be very welcoming either if some new girl came around trying to steal the person you liked first from you. You may think that's exactly what Patricia did to you, but it's not. She liked Fabian before you did. They were practically dating anyways when you showed up drawing all of the attention to you." Nina didn't have a response. She knew the boy was right. "Look, I'm not trying to be a jerk here. I'm just telling you that you might want to start being a little nicer to Patricia and she might be nicer to you."
Nina tucked a stray piece of hair behind her ear and kept walking. "So are you some sort of expert on friendships now or something?" Eddie stopped in his tracks turning to face the girl. He walked towards her, making her walk backwards until he had her pinned up against a tree. Nina's warm breath blew against his skin; their faces literally an inch apart.
"I'm not an expert, but I do know a thing or too." Nina looked into the dirty blonde's warming brown eyes.
"About friendship?" she asked again. Eddie paused before answering.
"Friendship, relationships, anything of that variety," he answered. Nina swallowed hard trying not to let the boy intimidate her. The only thing was, that him being so close to her, literally so close that their noses almost touched, did intimidate her because she had no idea what would happen next.
"What exactly do you know about relationships?" He moved even closer to the girl so that their chests were touching. He got so close to her in fact, that he could hear her heart racing. He pushed closer to her before crashing his lips onto hers. Nina kissed back, wanting more. She wanted to use her hands but he had pinned her arms back against the tree as well. It drove her crazy not being able to do anything but kiss. Their bodies were pressed as close together as they could get, and Nina could practically feel his body against hers through their clothes. All of this was happening and all she could do was kiss back.
Eddie pulled away from the girl, not bothering to answer her question and walked away. Nina didn't go after him although typically she would. She just stood there, still backed against the tree, confused and yet pleased by the kiss. Should she tell Amber? How would the other girl react? Nina didn't know what exactly to do. As she stepped away from the tree a note fell from her pocket. It read; meet me outside Anubis at 10pm.