I am extremely sorry I haven't updated in a while, and I could rattle off a whole list of reasons. Mainly, it was school, as I'm sure many of you know and have/are dealing with. I promise I will try to keep up with the schedule on my profile. Thank you for still caring enough to continue to read my story.

Disclaimer: I do not own House of Anubis.

"And the couple name? Do you think Peddie would do? Or what about Edtricia? No that sounds weird…"

Amber continued to ramble off to Nina, much to everyone else's amusement.

"I wonder what Eddie's talking to Patricia about," said Alfie, looking over at the two. They stood off in the distance, talking quietly.

"Yeah," said Mick, "so do I."

"Really?" Mara raised her eyebrow at them. "You honestly don't know?"

"Well…" Mick looked embarrassed at being spoken to like this by his girlfriend. He rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly. "Not really."

Mara scoffed when the other three boys didn't give an answer. "Right, okay." Turning around, Mara left to join Nina and Amber, leaving the boys to their thoughts.

A Few Minutes Earlier

"Well?" Patricia crossed her arms as soon as Eddie let go of her and leaned back against the large English Oak behind her. "What do you want?"

Eddie opened his mouth, but paused, suddenly feeling unsure. He had known this girl for less than an hour and already she was making him nervous.

Patricia smirked slightly. "Didn't think this through, did you, Krueger?"

"Be quiet, Yakker," Eddie snapped reflexively. When Patricia narrowed her eyes at him, Eddie quickly defended. "You brought that on yourself."

"You're the one that led me away in the first place!"

"Yeah, whatever. I lead you away to talk to you, but you're not making this easy."

"From the way you hesitated earlier, it didn't seem you knew what you wanted to talk about." Patricia smirked smugly when Eddie didn't respond. Pushing off the tree, she turned to walk away. "Whatever, I'm leaving-"

"The kiss." Patricia froze. "Patricia, I wanted to talk about the kiss."

"So?" Patricia spoke without turning around. "What's there to talk about?"

Eddie shifted slightly. "Well, you seemed like you were going to say something, and it seemed pretty important." Even though he knew now was not the time, Eddie smirked. "You were going to say how much you enjoyed it, weren't you?"

"I wasn't," Patricia snapped, turning around. Suddenly she felt defensive. "And even I was going to say something, what else would I say about you, other than the kiss was disgusting, revolting, and gross?" There was a sudden pause, and Patricia regretted what she said immediately. Not that it wasn't true, of course, she reminded herself. She still hated him.

"Is that so," Eddie said icily after a moment. "The feeling's mutual, then?"

Patricia bit her lip.

"Great," said Eddie. "Brilliant."

"Eddie-"

Eddie glared at her, making Patricia stop abruptly. "There's nothing to talk about, you're right. I don't know why I led you over here. Maybe so both of us could get away? Goodness knows it's a madhouse over there."

Eddie and Patricia both glanced over to see Amber jumping up and down squealing while shaking Nina. Patricia turned back to Eddie.

"No," she informed him, "that's normal."

Eddie continued watching them. "You must have an odd sense of what's normal then."

"Tell me about it," Patricia muttered.

There was another pause.

"I'm sorry," said Patricia.

Eddie stubbornly avoided her gaze. "Let's go before the others get suspicious."

Without waiting for a confirmation, Eddie started over to their housemates, leaving Patricia behind. Sighing and rolling her eyes, Patricia followed. She didn't know how to make him stop hating her. She had already said sorry. Besides, why should it matter? It's not like she liked him.

Shaking of the thought that was beginning to form, Patricia continued up the hill.

Expect the next chapter in about a week.

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