"Tell me now?" she asked innocently, and he began to wonder how exactly he was going to tell her. After all, it isn't exactly the easiest thing to tell a person. She rested her hand on his arm, and the already many butterflies in his stomach multiplied. 'Well, it's now or never.' He thought. So he took a deep breath and began.

"I never wanted to break up. I don't remember why we broke up in the first place. I wanted to keep you and protect you from guys like Mason. Call me crazy, but I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. I wanted to wake up every morning to your beautiful face, and compliment you on the simplest things. Because frankly, I love you Nina Martin, and you probably want to kill me now since I confessed my feelings for you right after you got out of a bad relationship." Well, that could have went worse, but it could have went better too. Oh great, I probably look like a huge idiot now. "Don't hit me!" Fabian added quickly, scooting away.

But Nina was silent. It wasn't really comfortable silence, but it wasn't exactly uncomfortable either. It was just silent. The quietness of their surroundings made it feel as if time had slowed down. That being said, it felt like hours before Nina had said anything at all, even though in actuality it had probably only been a minute. "How long?" she asked, and time resumed at its normal pace.

"Would it be too cliché if I said it was love at first sight?"

"Just a bit." Nina murmured and then she lightly punched Fabian in the arm.

"I suppose I deserved that."

"You could have saved me from a lot of tears, Fabian Rutter. If only you had told me this beforeMason came along!"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I only began dating him because I thought you didn't like me anymore!" She had still liked him when she began dating that jerk? Fabian was shocked, and didn't exactly know how to take it.

"How could you not think that I like you? I only try and make it as obvious as possible." He responded.

"Joy." One word. One three letter word, and the events of the last seven months caught up with him. It wasn't completely Joy's fault, but a lot of the blame fell on him too."

"Nina, I'm so, so, so, so, so sorry. I tried telling her that I still had feelings for you, but she kept at it. You can't blame her though. I really didn't try hard getting my point across, did I?"

"That's why I thought you didn't like me anymore."

"I've always liked you. Love you, even. I always will too."

"I think I might love you too, but I don't trust my heart at the moment. So let's give it time. I don't want to give my heart away to the wrong person, not again."

"I understand completely." And he did. Sure it hurt him a little, but Fabian was also sure it was nothing compared to heartbreak.

"I think we should get back to the house. It's getting late, and I'm not in the mood to get grounded. Besides, Trudy's going to town on Saturday and who knows, she might take us."

"Good thinking!" Fabian said, and he slid off the rock. Then he proceeded to turn around and catch Nina when she slid off as well. They were standing so close, it was almost if they were in a dream. Of course it wasn't a dream though, because no dream of Fabians would have a broken-hearted Nina.

Silently, they walked back to Anubis House, because neither of them had anything left to say.

When Fabian and Nina got back, Amber was waiting by the door. Immediately she took Nina upstairs so she could be told everything. Meanwhile, Fabian waited in the living room where Eddie and Patricia were snogging, and Jerome was...yo-yoing? Around ten minutes had passed until they all heard a scream from upstairs.

"HE DID WHAT!"

So that was kind of a cliffhanger right there. That was also the last chapter before the epilogue. The epilogue is my favourite part, personally, for reasons that are my own. I got my first male OC submission yesterday, and I need more for my BIG House of Anubis story, female entries are of course also desired. The link to the application is on my profile if your interested. Feel free to leave a review, and I hope you all have a good day, because I'm nice.

~ThatOnePersonWithAFace