Right here we are. Two requests for more Peddie moments, so this chapter is with Patricia and Eddie in it. Also yes, this is Fabina, Jara, and Peddie. And, I don't own Micky Mouse!
Chapter Five, Anna
Patricia
The floorboard above us creaked. "Anna Penn! Who was she, Eddie?" I shouted in desperation. Was there really a ghost in this house? Jerome, screaming? The plank that had almost fallen on Mara?
"I don't know!" he yelled back. "All it says is that she was Emily Penn's younger sister!"
Suddenly we got very quiet. The silence was almost worse than the yelling. His green eyes looked at me for a long moment. "I have a feeling we might be about to find out." His eyes flicked away from me, giving me a sense of relief. For some reason I didn't like looking directly into his eyes like that.
"Eddie," I whispered. "I'm scared."
"You should be," an eerie voice said.
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Patricia
A girl stood, hovering in front of us. She had curly blonde hair with deep brown eyes and a pale mouth. Light seemed to radiate out from her, and her simple white dress with brown ties shone in the suddenly dim room.
"Wh-who are you?" I whimpered in fright.
Her brown eyes lit up. "My name is Anna."
"Anna Penn," Eddie gasped.
The web page behind us started to glow and lifted off the screen, before our very eyes. It hovered in front of us as the girl just looked at us, her fingers twitched slightly.
The glowing lines of text read:
Anna Penn 1980 - 1991
Unsolved Murder Case
Anna Penn was born in Oxford, and she and her sister moved to Scotland in 1988. Emily Penn died two years later in another unsolved murder case, while Anna held the estate with help from parents and guardians for another two years. She died aged 11, whereof she went missing and was found two days later.
"Find the murderer," her lyrical voice turned into a low hiss.
"What murderer?" I yelled as she began to disappear. "Who is it?"
The room was empty, but one last whisper died out. "Find their grave, or find yours."
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Eddie
Patricia was shaking, I could see. I wasn't so sure my hands were steady myself. We had just seen a ghost, and had been told to find somebody's grave; or we'd die?
"Eddie," she finally said in a slow voice.
"What is it?" I asked, not really paying attention.
There was a pause. "I think we need the mystery geeks." she said, as if uncertain.
"Yeah."
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Eddie
We sat in the kitchen, the candles helping to cheer us up a little. I wished the lights would work, even though I couldn't admit it.
We had exchanged our cups of tea for cups of hot chocolate, and we hadn't talked much since we had both seen Anna. It was hard to believe it was real, but I guess that's the problem when you go to House of Anubis. Maybe it was a group hallucination! For some reason the thought made me laugh, and that probably wasn't a good sign but I didn't care. "Yakker," I said.
"Mm?" She asked, staring out the window.
"We'll figure out whatever it is." I said, trying to act all comforting, like in a movie.
"You know how cheesy you sounded when you said that?" she turned to me, a scowl growing on her face.
Before I knew it, we were both standing up and we were yelling at each other. Or at least, our voices were raised.
"Well hey, at least I was trying to be nice! Sorr-ee, won't make the mistake again!" I told her, furious.
"Good, 'cuz you don't do it very well!" she retorted.
"Maybe it's just because you don't know how to be nice, you don't want other people to be nice to you!" I told her angrily.
'Well, at least when I'm nice to people, it doesn't sound like a line from a bad movie! Who are you, Micky Mouse?" she said.
Slowly, I started to laugh. "M... m... micky mouse?" I wheezed out.
"That wasn't supposed to be funny!" she punched me in the chest, but it didn't hurt.
"Right then, Minnie the goth!" My eyebrows went up at the thought.
"Oh, you little..." Patricia screwed her eyebrows, thinking of a suitable insult.
It was then I realized we were close together. Like, really close together. She had punched my chest and afterwords she hadn't moved away. "Uhhh..." I said intelligently.
Suddenly the door swung open. "Hi guys!" Nina chirped, and then quickly became silent.
"We got lost in the woods," Jerome complained sourly from behind them.
I quickly moved away from Patricia. "Well, look who needs a better sense of direction..." I trailed off.
Jerome scowled at me.
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Nina
"Uh, guys? There's a problem," Mara said, biting her lip.
We were all sitting in the living room, around the fire place. We hadn't told them about the letter we found yet, because it didn't seem that important. I figured me and Fabian would tell Patricia about it later, just in case there was something Sibuna-y going on.
"What is it?" I asked.
"Well, there are only two bedrooms. And in the two bedrooms, there's only room for two people." She said, waving her hands around.
"Soooo..." Jerome drawled from behind Mara. "One lucky couple get to sleep in the living room!"
All at once, everyone started stuttering. Mara started asking Jerome what he meant by couple, and then he said awkwardly he just meant as a figure of speech, and then Patricia and Eddie started some argument about 'what couple', and me and Fabian just stuttered over and over again about 'not a couple'.
Thanks Jerome.
So, in the end, we pulled names out of a paper bag.
Oh, they were so going to kill us.
Patricia and Eddie had to sleep in the living room, one on the couch and the other on the floor.
This was not good.
Okay so when I get 3 or more reviews I will update. Enjoy, and prepare for Peddie moments in the next chapter!
~Iceshadow~
