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“So it’s been one year and Nina still has no idea who you are?” Eddie questioned K.T over the phone.
On the other line, thousands of miles and an ocean away, K.T nervously played with her nails. Every time Eddie brought this up, a strange feeling overtook her gut. It was a mixture of guilt and nerves. Because, yeah, it had been a year and K.T still hadn’t come clean to Nina about her past. Now, she feared it was too late to ever do it.
“Why would she?” K.T counted back defensively, trying to put her guilt on someone else. “It’s not like any of you ever mentioned me to her.”
Eddie scoffed. “When would any of us ever had the chance? None of us, not even me, her so called protector, has spoken to her since that summer before senior year.”
K.T’s heart dropped. If only they knew just how much Nina talked about them all, and vice versa. Her conversations with Nina about Anubis house were always filled with guilt and longing by Nina. While Nina never actually told her the whole story about why she couldn’t come back or her adventures at Anubis house (because she was still completely unaware that K.T had been to Anubis house senior year and knew all about the infamous Nina Martin), Nina talked about Anubis house all the time. Although, those conversations were always awkward on K.T’s end because she had to act completely oblivious to it all.
“Fabian is the one you dated, right?” or “Amber was the blonde one? You’re roommate?” were just some questions that K.T had to routinely throw in to keep up her charade.
“You know,” K.T replied. “She talks about you guys all the time. It’s just a bit awkward on my end because she has no idea that I also went to Anubis house and practically took her spot.”
Somehow, by some strange coincidence or joke by the universe, K.T and Nina had not only ended up going to the same college, but they were also roommates at NYU. It wasn’t until after she had brought up a story about her time at Anubis house and had accidentally name dropped a certain raven haired boy, that K.T knew for certain that her roommate was the Nina Martin.
“She’s pretty awesome,” K.T continued on. “I can see why you all missed her so much.”
K.T and Nina had quickly become best friends. They shared a lot of the same interests, a lot more than Nina was aware of. If you’re asked Nina, her and K.T’s shared interest included liking cookie dough ice cream and watching Friends every Saturday night. Nina had no idea that their shared interests also included solving ancient Egyptian mysteries, somehow being connected to ancient Egyptian gods and getting some kind of liquid poured on you by Patricia Willamson.
“Yeah, well...” Eddie trailed off. He never knew what to say when they talked about Nina. There was so much history there and it just always felt too weird. What kind of trick was the universe trying to pull by having K.T and Nina meet?
“You should try and reach out. She would love that.” This was a sentence that K.T was sure she had told Eddie a hundred times now over the past year. But every time it was rebutted with the same excuse from Eddie:
“If she really wanted to talk to us, then why doesn’t she try and contact one of us?”
K.T shook her head. Why couldn’t he, or any of them really, see this? “It’s different for her. She thinks you all hate her or something for how she left things. She is scared that none of you will ever want to talk to her again.”
This sucked. All of it. Nina’s and Eddie’s and Fabian’s and all of the Anubis house’s residents stories were so intertwined. They were bounded together by something so much bigger than themselves. But, because of pride or nerves of whatever it was, they were all too scared to try and repair that severed cord that intertwined them.
Eddie let out a frustrated sigh. “K.T, I want nothing more than for Fabian to reach out and talk to Nina again. I can see how, even after two years, her absence still hurts him.”
After they graduated from Anubis, Eddie had decided to stay in England for university to be closer to his dad and Patrica. Becoming Fabian’s roommate at university was just the icing on the cake. Because, really, Fabian couldn’t get away from Eddie no matter how hard he wanted.
K.T ran her fingers through her curly hair. How was she ever going to convince either Nina or Fabian to reach out to the other. Wait... Yes! That’s it! Why hadn’t she thought of it before? If Nina or Fabian were too stubborn to try and reprimand things on their own, then K.T and Eddie were going to have to take matters into their own hands.
“I have an idea!” She exclaimed to Eddie on the other end. “You know how you planned on coming to NYC in a couple weeks for a visit…”
“Nope. No way. It’s not going to happen.” Eddie interrupted K.T on the phone. He could already see where this plan was going and he was not okay with it.
K.T ignored Eddie’s pleas. “Well what if you brought Fabian with you, and we got him and Nina to meet up “accidentally” while you two are in the city!”
Eddie shaked his head over the phone. “K.T, no. We are not playing Lindsay Lohan in the Parent Trap and forcing Nina and Fabian into the same room. There are a lot of open wounds between the two of them.”
K.T let out a groan. Why could’t he see how brilliant of an idea this was? “Come on,” she whined. “You said it yourself, it's killing Fabian. And it’s killing Nina too.”
“Look,” she said taking on a much more serious tone, “Fabian and Nina are meant to be in each other’s lives- whether that be as best friends or as more. You know it and I know it, and I wasn’t even there to see the two of them together. I saw how Fabian reacted when he found out Nina wasn’t coming back. I see the way Nina talks about him. And as some of their best friends, we have a responsibility to help them be happy. So are you in or not?”
Eddie stayed silent. This was a bad idea. A very bad idea. He could already see Fabian and Nina yelling at him. But....there was something else too. Something that made Eddie think that this was a good idea. Something that, despite the voice yelling at him that this was a bad idea, made him decide to agree.
“Alright, yeah, whatever…” Eddie sighed.
“Ekk!” K.T squeaked on the other end. “See you and Fabian in NYC in two weeks!”
This was such a good idea! K.T mentally patted herself on the back for it. Nina and Fabian were going to thank her for it.
This was such a bad idea! Eddie mentally slapped himself for ever agreeing to it. Nina and Fabian were going to be so mad at him.