"WHAT?" I shouted. This couldn't be happening, but somehow, it was. I felt myself grip my phone even tighter.

"I'm sorry, honey, but we just don't have the money to keep you at the school." Mom said gently. Her tone just made me angrier.

"Why don't you just take Piper out of her school? It costs a heck of a lot more than mine!" I screamed.

"You know that she's there on a scholarship." Mom sighed. Oh, yeah. Perfect Piper had a scholarship. Of course she did because she was, well, perfect.

"Then apply me for a scholarship to my school!" I bellowed, desperate by then. I needed to stay.

"We tried, sweetie, we really did. Your father and I tried everything we could to keep you there, but nothing worked. We're coming to pick you up tomorrow at noon." Mom was saying when I hung up and threw my phone onto my bedside table. I didn't want to listen to her try to comfort me.

I only had a day until I had to leave my friends who I considered my second family… including Eddie. That last realization hit me hard and the next thing I knew, I was curled up into a ball on my bed. I hardly ever let myself cry, but this was one of those rare times when I did. Suddenly someone opened the door open, and then shut it.

"Trish? You okay?" asked Joy. I shook my head and wiped my tears with my hand. She sat down next me as I wiped my mascara covered hand on my bed sheet, not caring if it left a stain.

"What is it?" I could feel my heart breaking even more when I told my best friend what my mom had just told me minutes ago.

"Oh," She said, choking back tears. Suddenly, Joy engulfed me into a bear hug and we were crying onto each other's shoulders. We stayed in that position for what felt like hours, but what in reality were a few minutes. When we were all cried out, Joy pulled away.

"Wait… Your Eddie's dad is Sweetie. Maybe he can convince him to let you stay!" Joy said with a hopeful smile and red, puffy eyes. I shook my head.

"I don't want special treatment just because my boyfriend's dad is the principal." I told her. She nodded and as she did, her smile turned wistful.

"I thought you would say that. What will you tell Eddie? He'd do just what you don't want to do if he knew what was happening." Joy said.

"Then he won't know. I'll just tell him that I'm going on a family vacation or something, but tell him the truth when I leave, okay?" I asked her.

"I will… W-when are you leaving?" Joy asked, but I could tell by the tone in her voice that she was afraid of the answer.

"Tomorrow at noon." I sniffled. She nodded slowly as she tried to accept this. Apparently, she couldn't and neither could I because we were wrapped in each other's arms again, crying even harder.

"I'm going to miss you so much, Trish!" she wailed into my shoulder.

Little did we know, Eddie was right outside the room with his ear pressed against the door whispering, "You're not alone on that one, Joy."

It was the next day, 11:34, to be exact, and all of the Anubis House students were gathered in the living room to hear my 'news'. The lie I was about to tell them was planned out very carefully by Jerome, Mara, Joy, Sibuna, and me; everyone in the house besides Eddie and Victor, but Victor knew I was leaving. I had told them all what was really happening and they all said I should tell Eddie, but I told them the same thing I had told Joy; I don't want special treatment because his dad is the principal. We all had said our real goodbyes right then.

"I'm going to Paris with my family for a week! I leave at noon!" I said with fake excitement in my voice and a false smile plastered across my face. Lying was something I was good at because of all of the times I've lied for the sake of Sibuna.

"That's great, Patricia!" exclaimed Nina. She had gotten a lot better at lying than she was last term.

"You're so lucky! Paris has the most amazing clothes ever! Is there any chance I can come with?" Amber pouted.

"While you're there, spit on someone from the top of the Eiffel Tower. It's one of the best pranks ever!" Jerome instructed.

A bunch of others congratulated me before Eddie, who was glaring, spoke up. "Are you sure your family doesn't have the money to keep you at the school? Is this is all just a sham so that I don't make my dad let you stay?" Eddie asked sarcastically, sounding hurt before he stormed out of the room. Then I heard his and Fabian's bedroom door slam. When the shock that he knew was gone, I ran after him.

I opened the door without knocking to see him sitting on his bed with headphones in, listening to Linkin Parkon his iPod. He turned his head in my direction, glared, and then took to examining the wall. Irritated, I grabbed his iPod and sat it down on his bedside table before sitting across from him. "Hey!" he protested and began to reach for it.

"How did you find out?" I whispered. He stopped and looked me in the eyes for the first time today. They were full of pain.

"Next time you and Joy are crying so loud they can hear you in Australia, I promise I won't check on you," he answered and made himself comfortable. We were pretty loud…

"Look, I'm so-" I started to say.

"Save it, Patricia," he cut me off. Patricia, not Yacker? He must be genuinely hurt. "Couldn't you just take the special treatment? Just this once? You leaving won't just affect you. It affects everyone else, too! Especially me!" Eddie yelled.

"Because it's my choice, not yours and no it doesn't!" I retorted. I was mad because I knew he had a point.

"Yes it does! Do you realize how hard it'll be for me to live without you here?" he screamed. We were both standing now.

"Not too hard because you have Nina, the girl that you'd rather date here!" I yelled, knowing I was crossing the line.

"You know I don't want- wait, maybe you're right! She would be a heck of a lot better of a girlfriend than you!" he bellowed. I stood there, shocked that he would actually go that far.

"Then have fun with your new girlfriend, Edison. We're through." I sneered and ran from the room to see my mum and dad standing there.

"Hey, Honey," Dad said, smiling. One of his arms was around Mum's shoulders, the other holding one of my bags.

"Have you said your goodbyes?" Mum asked. I just nodded, picked up the rest of my things, and went outside. My parents unlocked the car and I climbed in and looked out the window at Anubis House for what could have been the last time.

*about 10 months later, a week before school starts*

I was sitting on the couch, watching the X Factor with Piper when Mum came in the room. "Patricia, honey, I have some exciting news." She said.

"You're not pregnant, are you?" I laughed and she shook her head.

"Nope. Your father and I have the money to send you back to your old school for your senior year." Mum told me. First, I was shocked, but that quickly passed and excitement came. I was going back to my second family… including Eddie.

Well, that was fun to write. By the way, in the story they were a month into the school year when she had to leave. I'm so sorry I haven't been updating Our Last Chance! I'll do it soon, I promise! Review?

Sibuna and Peddie forever! Especially Peddie!

~Kat