A/N: Hi! This is my first story, and I hope you enjoy it! I really wanted to publish this before Season 3 started, so this story will probably have nothing to do with the new season beginning tomorrow. Already! I'm so nervous! Anyways, I know this first chapter might seem a little cliché or… bad, but it'll get better I promise! I hope you like it!

Chapter 1: Before Things got Weird

It was the end of October, the 27th to be exact, and Anubis house was finally at ease. Just five weeks ago was the end-of-exhibition party, and everyone who knew about the "strange things" that went on prior to the celebration was glad it was over and done with. Lets get caught up shall we?

Patricia and Eddie: Still dating, still at each others' throats with insults (but with more feeling behind it), and both still witty and critical. Most of all, they both have no more secrets.

Eddie was one of the newest editions to Sibuna, because of his "special" role he now has, and so, he was told all their secrets. Currently, he and Nina (well, mostly Nina) were trying to figure out all they could about the Chosen One and the Osirion. Sibuna had searched almost every book in the entire Frobisher library, and even some in the secret study. They couldn't find a thing. Most of the group had started giving up.

Who was in Sibuna now, you ask? Well obviously there was Nina, Fabian, Amber (the original "founders"), Patricia, Alfie (of course), Eddie, Joy, and Jerome. I know what you're thinking,

"What? Why Jerome? Why would he even want to be involved?"

Well, to answer your question, the group had thought he should be formally included because of the first mystery and having witnessed the second one. (Plus, you know he was kidnapped by Rufus, the professional maniac. So it kinda makes sense.)

That left Mara and Mick. Though Mick wasn't supposed to be at the house any more; things can change. Mick was going to stay at the school for a few more months. He was planning to go back to Australia sometime in the New Year. He said it was because he wanted to spend some more time with his friends, but everyone was silently thinking that he really just wanted Mara back.

Mara didn't want him back though. She was officially dating Jerome, and even though she didn't like him any more after what happened (and for what he said about Jerome), she was still really nervous when he announced that he was staying. She was so nervous that she didn't even see the tensions between Jerome and him, at first.

Another thing Mara was clueless about was Sibuna. Everyone, including herself, thought she was the smartest in the house, but who was one of the two people who had no idea about the mystery? Hum… not Alfie. Not Amber. Not Eddie. Oh yeah, Mara! The rest of the house had no idea how she had missed this major detail. If you think back you realize: Wow! Nina found out about this in less than twenty-four hours of being in Britain. And Amber Millington found out third out of eight people. Oh sweet, clueless Mara. When will you learn?

Moving on, to Alfie and Amber: they were actually working out well. Who would have thought? I bet you're wondering what Alfie's "conditions" were. 1. Amber had to dress up like an alien with him, and play a life-sized version of one of his favorite video games. 2. Amber couldn't come up with any more "conditions" of her own 3. If either of them wanted to break up (Which he was hoping they wouldn't) the other would have to comply. Amber agreed to his demands (the first one rather reluctantly) and they were both very happy. Jerome was especially joyful about Alfie's conditions because he now had a blackmail video for when he wanted something from Amber.

Joy had much more "joy" in her life, too. She had been forgiven, and the things she did were forgotten. She and Nina had apologized to each other about everything, and she was happy to have her old life back… well kind of. Now she was even closer to her housemates, plus her now new friends, Nina and Eddie. Joy had tried as hard as she could to erase her feelings for Fabian, and now they were back to being good friends; just friends! She had even started to take a small liking to Mick. It was too bad he was still trying to get Mara back.

Last but certainly not least, were Fabian and Nina. They cleared everything up. They talked about every little misunderstanding that and taken place, and they each discovered what they were overlooking about their relationship. They were back together and going wonderfully strong, but they had actually begun to act like they had before, when Nina first came to the school. They were shy, nervous, and they both blushed a lot. Despite that, they had gone on an actual date. It was a movie date with the entire house, but it was still a date. Everyone enjoyed themselves, but none more than Nina and Fabian; it was technically their first date. Though they never really got any private moments (if they did they were usually interrupted), they enjoyed just being around each other; nothing made either of them happier.

Eventually, after a week of being walked in on, while trying to talk or have a "moment" they found their solution. It was a nice day in the middle of November, and Fabian had been reading in his room next to the open window. There was a knock on the door, and Fabian let them enter. Nina came in the door with a smile on her face.

"Hey what's up, Neens?" he had asked.

"I found something spectacular," she said, "I want you to see it." She grabbed his hand and led him into the hallway.

"Where are we going exactly?" he asked as they walked out of the house and towards the woods

"You'll know when we get there," Nina answered with a smile, and continued to pull him into the forest that they held their Sibuna meetings at.

Eventually they came to a fork in the road, and Nina walked right. They went around the corner, and stopped at some low trees that were obstructing the view of whatever was behind it.

"What's wrong? Are we lost?" He asked with slight worry in his voice.

She shook her head, "Nope." Nina then proceeded to pull back the branches of one of the trees, and behind it was indeed a spectacular view.

In front of Fabian's astounded expression and Nina's smile, was a beautiful pond. There were trees surrounding the entire place; both tall and strong-looking, and small with leaves that draped in front of the trunk like rain drops. The water was dazzling in the October sun, and plants were growing out of it everywhere. There were water lilies and even some trees sprouting up. In the grass surrounding the pond were flowers of all kinds of colors and sizes. In the far end there was a small bench that looked like it was there for ages. In one word, it was amazing.

"Whoa."

"I know! Isn't it beautiful?" Nina asked with a gin.

"Definitely!" Fabian agreed, "How did you find this? Knowing you, you probably just stumbled upon it."

Nina laughed, knowing that was exactly what happened. She was mindlessly talking a walk, got lost, tripped on a root, and fell through the trees, and landed in the park-like area.

"Do you think someone came here before us, and they planted the all the flowers, or something? Because I don't think some of these would just happen to grow here, and I'm pretty sure benches don't 'just grow' either." Fabian asked.

"Yeah probably, but it seems like they're long gone by now by the looks of that bench," she began to walk towards the other end; Fabian followed her, loosely holding her hand. They looked at the bench for a few minutes, and then sat down next to each other.

"This place is beautiful. It makes me feel relaxed and giddy at the same time. I didn't think that was possible," Nina laughed. Fabian gave a light chuckle, and put his arm around her shoulders, and she rested her head on his.

Fabian couldn't think of a time when he had felt happier either. Especially since he was with Nina; the scene just added more to his delight.

They sat like this for who knows how long; not saying a word, but eventually they had to leave because it was almost four, and everyone was probably wondering about them. They reluctantly got up, and turned toward each other.

"So do you think we should tell the others about this place?" Nina asked.

"Well maybe we could keep it to ourselves for a while," Fabian suggested, "I mean we rarely get time to be alone at the house. Here we won't be interrupted."

"I like that idea," she said, "and since we are alone…" she trailed of. Fabian leaned down to kiss her for the first time without being interrupted (something that was very foreign to both of them), and it was even more wonderful than the scenery around them.

So that place in the woods became "Nina and Fabian's Spot," and when they went there everyone was clueless as to where they were. Usually when they went to their spot, they didn't say much; they just enjoyed the quiet and the pleasure of each others' presence. They did homework, read, explored, or sat on the bench with Fabian's arm around Nina's shoulder, and her head on his.

Many a time, had Amber tried to find out where they snuck off to, but she was never quick enough, or she simply couldn't follow them well without them hearing her. Sometimes they heard her coming and took a detour so she couldn't follow. When they lost her they'd laugh softly to each other about her crazy love obsession.