Summary - What if Eddie fell for Nina as soon as he saw her, but what if he fell for her again?

Eddie and Nina used to be best friends. He comforted her, laughed with her, and was there for her. He had a major crush, and so did she. The perfect relationship torn apart by a single sentence. Then, Nina disappears out of Eddie's life, and he doesn't know where. Until he shows up at Anubis House.

Nina POV:

I can't believe Joy! Seriously! If I was gone for a term, nothing would be the same, yet that's exactly what she thinks. I wish I could talk to Eddie about this. He wouldn't answer anyway. I still can't believe what happened.

Flashback

"Hey Eddie!" I greeted my boyfriend kissing him on the lips.

"Hey," he replied trailing off. That wasn't his normal greeting.

"What's wrong?" I asked concerned. Is he going to break up with me?

"My dad called." Short, and heartbreaking.

"What happened?" I asked concerned. I knew Eddie has had trouble with his dad leaving him when he was a baby, and this was concerning me.

"He wants me to visit him in England for a weekend for him to explain," he continued as if he had eaten something sour.

"You're not going?" I asked shocked. I knew he didn't like his dad, but I learned to savor what parents you had.

"Why should I? He abandoned me and my mom!" He was surprised that I wanted him to.

"You should see if he has a good explanation, or if he's wasting your time. You need to savor what parents you have." I said with slight hurt in my voice. He knew my parents were a touchy subject.

"He's dead to me." he said determined.

"So if you never saw him again because he died, you'd be okay with that?"

"I'm not you. I won't have to go through that. Not that you're doing a good job. It's been 7 years. Get over it." he said. I gasped. I couldn't believe he said that! I slapped him,started crying, turned around and ran home. I didn't care that it was 5 miles away from his house. As soon as I got home I went upstairs, and called the school his dad was headmaster at. It was one thing I promised I'd never do, but I couldn't see him anymore.

End flashback

I started crying. I got up and locked the door.

Eddie's POV:

Well, here I am. At Frobisher for my dad. I wish I could talk to Nina, but I haven't seen her since my screw up. I was hurt and I was venting and she was just… there! I don't even know where she is! It's been driving me crazy until I walked into my house and her words floated through my head. "Savor what parents you have," so I'm trying to make up with my dad. I walked to Anubis House. I sighed and knocked on the door. A woman answered it.

"Hello dearie! I'm Trudy your housemother!" she said warmly.

"Eddie" Introducing myself, I stepped into the house. It seemed exactly the type of house Nina would love. Old, with secrets underneath. I saw a girl who could be an exact replica of a Barbie doll. She reminds me of Jayda, Nina's old best friend.

"I'm Amber Millington!" she said excitedly.

"Eddie Miller." I shook her hand.

"Come in to the dining room! We'll be eating soon." She took my hand and dragged me into the other room. "Introduce yourselves guys!"

A brown haired geeky looking kid said, "I'm Fabian Rutter."

A smart looking girl with black hair said, "I'm Mara Jaffary."

A girl that had red hair and different color streaks said, "Patricia Williamson."

A girl with brown hair said, "Joy Mercer."

"I'm Jerome Clarke." A guy with dirty blond hair said.

"I'm Alfie Lewis, are you an alien?" A guy with a mini Afro said.

"No, but I'm Eddie, Eddie Miller." I said.

Amber suddenly turned to Fabian. "Have you seen-"

"In her room, has been since this afternoon." He turned back to a conversation with Mara.

"Stay here Eddie. I'll be right back."

There was a sudden silence and they were all studying me.

"Where are you from Eddie?" Fabian asked.

"Laguna Beach, California." I said.

"Well, any beauties on the beach." Jerome asked.

"Just an ex-girlfriend that disappeared off the face of the Earth." I stated.

"What-"

Joy was about to ask something when Amber's scream of "LET ME IN!" echoed through the house. Patricia and Fabian exchanged a worried glance. Huh. Amber started to storm down the stairs. "She won't let me in."

"I think we could tell by the way you yelled and ran down here." Jerome was funny I'll give him that.

"Fabian help, please?" Why did Amber sound so worried, and who were they talking about? They went back upstairs and Patricia seemed really worried, and everyone else was talking. I heard 3 sets of feet and turned around to be greeted by a face I never thought I'd see again.

"NINA?"

Nina's POV

"NINA?" I hear. No, it can't be. It sounds like Eddie? I look up to see the face that's been haunting me.

"EDDIE?"

"You know each other?" Amber asked me. I didn't answer I was too surprised.

"What are you doing here?" He asked me.

"I could ask the same thing." I stated.

"You said you-" he started. I cut him off.

"It doesn't matter what I said, it matters more what you said." I was already near tears again.

"I'm sorry Nins-"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" I yelled. "Only my friends call me that, and you lost that right." I could see the Anubis kids flinch, but my eyes were trained on the one person who betrayed me.

"I was venting, and you were just there!" He kept flailing his arms around.

"Hey guys, clue us in?" I heard Alfie ask, but I didn't care.

"Well, I was just there, like I'm just here, but guess what? Now I'm gone." I start to walk away with hot tears pouring out of my eyes.

"Nina, please," His voice sounded so broken, but I knew I would never fall for that again. "I'm here because of those words you told me."

I spun on my heel and everyone, even Patricia, took a step back at the murderous look in my eyes.
"That's the same reason I'm here. Those were the harshest words anyone has ever said to me, that includes Patricia. I came here because I thought you wouldn't listen to what I said. Well guess what Eddie, you're nothing to me anymore. You ruined absolutely any chance of anything when you said those words."

"Wait, this is the girlfriend you said disappeared?" Jerome asked.

"Ex-girlfriend." We said in the same tone cold and void of emotion.

"I know you were hurting." he said.

"Yeah right." I scoffed.

"I know you were hurting because you slapped me." Everyone gasped. "Way to go Captain Obvious." My voice was dripping with sarcasm.

"You've never slapped me before."

"Put yourself in my shoes Eddie. You picked and picked at the touchiest subject, and when I came here the next week, not only were your words still burning in my heart, but Amber had to ask what happened to my parents, and Patricia had to act like a witch about it." I turned on my heel and ran up to the attic. When I got up there I locked the door and cried my heart out.

Amber's POV

"Well that went well," Eddie muttered. All the Anubis kids glared at him, but he hadn't looked up. I heard him let out a frustrated growl, push past us to his room, and slam the door.

"What was that all about?" I asked.

"I don't know." Fabian stated. As if I couldn't have figured that out.

"We should go check on Nina," Patricia sounded concerned. I saw Joy drag Patricia to the kitchen. Hm...

I followed them, but ducked under the window. Fabian and Alfie did the same.

"Why is everyone always all over her?"

"Did you not see how upset he made her?" That's so insensitive.

"She's stealing everything!"

"What are you talking about? Nina hasn't stolen anything."

"She stole my friends, my room, my seat, both at school and here, and she also stole my Fabes!"

"You were never going out Joy! Nina's done nothing wrong, and I can't believe you would say that!"

"Sure, go ahead to your little Scooby gang, with you all following Nina around like lost puppies." Rude, just rude.

"We don't follow her around like lost puppies, and that's really mean to say Joy!"

"I've seen stuff, probably worse than whatever you're dealing with now. Why can't I be in on it Patricia? I know why, and it's because Nina's the leader. She doesn't like me getting close to Fabian, so she's not letting me in on anything." I'm about ready to go in there and wring her neck!

"Not a single word of that is true. If that's why you're so mean to Nina, then grow up! That's not the reason you're not in on anything. If there was anything to get in on. I gave Nina half a chance when I thought she was involved with your disappearance, and now we're great friends! Give her a chance, you won't be disappointed."

"In a way, she was involved in my disappearance."

"And how is that? She helped find you! You're so ungrateful!"

"If she hadn't come here-"

"If she hadn't come here, you'd still be sitting at home, with nothing but a computer and a chess board."

"Fine! If that's how you feel, maybe we shouldn't be friends anymore. One of the main things about being friends is siding with one another. I would." She walked out of the kitchen and ran upstairs.