Ch 2, House of Anubis, opowiadania, Paragon & Osirian, Surviving Ouroboros
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Chapter 2: Awkward Breakfast
Eddie was the last to the table, having taken the time for a prolonged cold shower.
Luckily there was still an ample amount of food to feed the plethora of growing boys that were housed there.
You know other people would like to use the shower too," Jerome called him out as Eddie sat down and piled food atop his plate.
Well, you can understand my not knowing that when it smells like you frequently don't," Eddie shot back.
"OOOOH, he got you there Clark," Patricia laughed, "You really do need to stop wearing that cologne, it smells like the back end of a donkey."
Jerome looked disgruntled for a moment.
"Well I for one like the way he smells," Mara announced pointedly.
"And she's the only one with an opinion that matters," Jerome smiled smugly.
"Ugh get a room you two," Fabian remarked as he passed a quiet Nina a butter knife.
Breakfast continued like so for another five minutes, the only two not really participating in the furthered conversations were Eddie and Nina.
"Hey Eddie could you pass me the jam?" Fabian asked.
Eddie looked up as if Fabian had just accused him of kicking his cat, "Uh yeah sure. Anything for you buddy?"
"Thanks? Are you alright? You seem a little off." Fabian asked.
"Off? Not all! Why would I be off?" Eddie stuttered as he reached over the silent Nina to hand Fabian the strawberry preserves.
Fabian quickly removed the jar from his out stretched hand, allowing Eddie to extricate his arm, during which time it gently brushed Nina's wrist.
CRACK.
The two jumped apart as if they been shocked, the glass in front of them cracked nearly in half for apparently no reason.
"I'm so sorry, Neri!" Eddie said suddenly, "Are you hurt?"
Both of them to froze as they turned and looked directly into each others eyes.
"What did you just call me?" Nina asked her, eyes wide in horrified surprise.
"Nina?" Eddie back pedaled. He couldn't believe he had actually called her that!
Stupid dream!
"No you called me Neri," Nina accused.
Before he could continue his denial, she grabbed him by the scruff of his jacket and dragged him from the room until they were out of ear shot of their staring house mates.
"Did….did you have a dream last night?" Nina whispered uncertainly.
"Did you?" Eddie replied stupidly.
"Just answer the question Eddie. Did you or did you not have a dream last night in which we were in ancient Egypt and I was a priestess named Amneris and you were a boy named Khai?"
"Wow, okay, that was creepily accurate," Eddie responded, "Yes, I had a similar dream…and Um does a make-out session in a garden mean anything to you?"
Nina turned bright red and nodded her head infinitesimally to acknowledge his words, "It didn't feel like a dream," she espoused the conversation, "It seemed more li-"
"Like a memory," they finished in stereo, their expression mirrored masks of mixed horror and surprise.
"Why do we look like them?" Nina whispered as she looked into his currently green eyes.
"I…I don't know. Maybe we could ask Fabian to research-"
"NO! Fabian must NEVER know about this. He'd be devastated if he found that I spent the majority of last night making out with his best friend as he pushed me up against a wall!"
The two of them blushed scarlet at the memory.
"You're right, he'd kill me if he knew I woke up with a boner over his girlfriend," Eddie muttered absentmindedly.
"You what?" Nina asked confused.
"Nothing! We should probably finish breakfast, class starts in twenty minutes and I don't like working on an empty stomach."
Eddie nearly ran as he headed back towards the dining room.
"Eddie, wait!" Nina called out causing him to stop his escape, "Meet me at the library after school I want to research whatever it is that's going on."
Pausing for a moment to consider, Eddie finally nodded before quickly walking out of the hallway.
With a sigh Nina disregarded her own rumbling stomach and began to walk to class early, all the while trying her best to repress the feeling of his lips on her skin.
'Gods I'm a horrible person,' she thought as she exited Anubis house and walked across the lawn.
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