It's been a long time, and I apologize, but I now will be updating once a week. Doesn't that make you feel better? Anyway, like I said last chapter, this story will be ending soon. I think you only have until chapter thirteen…

Disclaimer: I do not own HoA.

"Yakker's right, Nina," Eddie laughed. "What's the harm?"

"Fine!" Nina yelped. "I'd rather kiss Fabian, okay? Happy?"

There was a pause. Nina slowly bit on her lip and waited for their reactions.

When no one said anything, Nina blushed and looked at the ground, struggling to hold in her tears. She knew Fabian didn't like her like that. There was a complete silence for a moment, other than the silent pounding of the rain, which had decreased to no more than a light drizzle.

"Really?" said a voice, and without looking up, Nina knew it was Fabian.

"Looks like you'll have to repeat your question, Nina," said Jerome. "Seems like Fabian here didn't quite hear what you said." His teasing was stopped short by a hit from Mara and an icy stare from Patricia.

Nina glanced up. "I said-" The American was cut off by Fabian touching his lips to hers. Nina sat for a moment, shocked and confused before she responded, kissing him back.

The House of Anubis teens, even Jerome, stayed quiet while the two had their long overdue kiss. Amber was grinning, bursting with excitement, and when the two moved apart, she let out a loud squeal.

"I knew it!" she cried. Patricia looked at her friend with a raised eyebrow.

"Really?" she said sardonically, "we couldn't tell. Everyone knew, Amber, even Krueger boy over there." Using her thumb, Patricia pointed to their new house mate, who looked at Patricia in mild surprise. It appeared she had taken his first name, Eddie, and added Krueger so he was now the famous villain from the horror movie, "Nightmare on Elm Street". Whatever. Eddie wouldn't let that get to him. He supposed he could live with being nicknamed after a pshycopath. He didn't mind much, really. He could already that this Patricia girl would be fun to be around and tease.

"Did you?" Amber asked, turning to Eddie. Eddie nodded, knowing she was referring to what Patricia had said only seconds before that even he knew Fabian and Nina liked each other.

"Of course, Blondie."

"The name's Amber," Amber huffed before turning to look back at the oblivious Nina and Fabian.

There was another short silence before Jerome, who apparently couldn't stand it, cried out, "Well? Are you two dating or what?"

Nina and Fabian blushed again. "I-I don't know-" Nina began as Fabian said at the same time, "Only if she wants to-" The two looked at each other and turned an even deeper shade of pink.

"Aww!" Amber cooed. "You two are adorable."

"Yes," Jerome said, "if by adorable you mean revolting." He was silenced by Amber's glare. "Alright, yes, Amber, fine, they're adorable." When Amber looked pleased he added, "Adorably gross."

Amber scowled.

"Well," said Fabian, ignoring the small row the two blondes had just had, "I'm not too sure yet." He cleared his throat. "Um, Nina, would you-"

"Yes," Nina said quickly. Fabian blinked at her.

"But you didn't even know what I was going to say."

"Fabian," said Patricia with an eyeroll, "we all knew what you were going to say."

"No, I mean, I could've asked if she would rub my feet or something-"

"Fabian," Nina said, smiling, "shut up. Yes, I'll be your girlfriend."

Fabian beamed, leaning forward to kiss Nina again.

"You know," said Alfie, watching them, "if this is what they're going to do all day, I'm not too sure I want them to go out."

"Oh, Alfie," Amber said, laughing, "of course you do." She gave him a hard stare. "Right, Alfie dear?"

Alfie gulped, not even bothering to remind Amber they weren't even dating. "Right Amber…sugar."

"Who would've thought," said Mick, "that it would be Fabian who made the first move?"

"Well technically, it was Nina, because she said she would like to kiss him in the first place," Mara reasoned.

Eddie shook his head. "If we're going by technicalities, it should be Jerome, because he asked Nina the Rather."

"And he suggested to play," Alfie added.

"No," Amber said stubbornly, "it was really me, because I suggested Truth or Dare-"

"But you didn't know that was going to happen!" exclaimed Alfie. "It's more me because I suggested going outside."

"But you didn't know either!"

"If we're going by technicalities, though," said Mick, "it's me, isn't it? Because I made the handle fall off-"

"You mean to say you did that on purpose?" Eddie raised an eyebrow. "Not the best way to get Nina and Fabian together, mate. If I were you-or any of you, really-I would just shove them in a broom closet, lock it, and throw away the key."

"Wait a moment," said Nina, and everyone looked at her and Fabian in surprise, slightly forgetting they were there. "Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"It's a great idea," proclaimed Patricia, smirking at Eddie. "Because if one of us were to get in trouble, it would be him, and he'd probably be expelled."

Eddie glared. "Yakker."

Patricia scowled. "Krueger!"

"Ladies, ladies," said Jerome, causing both Patricia and Eddie to glare at him for being called a lady, "calm down, won't you? There's enough blame to go around."

"Shut it, Jerome," Patricia huffed.

There was another long pause.

"So…are we going to play anything?" asked Mara. "I'm rather bored."

Patricia nodded agreement. "My bum's starting to hurt," she complained, causing her housemates to look at her in disgust, and Eddie to chuckle. "What? It's true."

Nina blinked. "Right." She looked around. "So it's my turn to ask someone, right?" Everyone nodded. "Well, alright…Jerome, would you rather play would you rather, or would you rather play truth or dare?"

"That sentence made little sense, but truth or dare," Jerome grinned mischievously. "It appears you have a plan forming in that head of yours, Nina. Care to share?"

"Sure, Jerome, come here."

The tall male stood obediently, and in a few strides was next to where Nina said. He crouched down next to her, ignoring Fabian's worried look. "Well?"

Grinning, Nina drew Jerome closer to her and Fabian, whispering her plan into each of their ears…

Well, there it is! Four chapters left. I had a lot of fun with this chapter, especially the things Jerome said. Sorry if the characters seem OOC, but I had to twist them slightly to get them to fit more humorously.

Thoughts?

~D