Childhood Friends:

As my cab pulled up to my new school, I got out the brochure to find out where my house was. Once I unloaded all of my suitcases from the trunk, I paid the driver and started to find where I was staying. It took a while but eventually I came to a biggish, old–looking house. It was beautiful. I took a couple of steps towards it and saw its name on a sign near the door. 'Welcome to the House of Anubis' it read. I couldn't help but smile as I opened to the door to my new home. It felt so good to be back in England. You see I spent the last 8 years of my life in LA, California living with my gran. I used to live in England with my parents but after a fatal accident; I didn't have a choice apart from moving. Yeah it meant leaving all my friends behind but now I am back and I plan to stay as long as possible. I got a scholarship at a boarding school in Liverpool and – here I am!

Anyway, as I was saying, I opened the door and walked in. It seemed as if everybody was at school because I called out but got no response. I placed my suitcases on the ground and just looked around the hall. It was really old and kind of creepy – I loved it! There was a door the left of me that led into the lounge/dining area and right in front of me there was a corridor leading to more rooms and a staircase with some symbols that looked a bit like eyes on them. Just as I was taking in the atmosphere, a short, motherly woman came up to me and to my surprise, gave me a massive hug!

"Oh hello darling! Welcome to the House of Anubis, I am sure you'll love it here," as the woman babbled on, I found myself, once again, smiling. It already seemed like I was at home, "My name is Trudy and I am the house mother here. You're Nina right?"

"Yes – that's me" I said chuckling a little.

"Well Nina, Victor is the caretaker but he is rather busy now so you'll have to forgive him for not introducing him to you yet. Now let me give tour."

The next minute, I found myself being dragged around the house by Trudy. I was shown to my room; apparently I was sharing with a girl named Amber I think? I was told about the attic and the cellar and how they are out of bounds. Then Trudy helped me unpack my things. She told me all about the students that lived here. There was Amber (my roommate-to-be); the boy-crazy, girly girl who was a bit of an airhead, Patricia; the Goth-chick who really couldn't care less and had a hell of an attitude, Mara; the genius of the house who was very academic, Mick; the athlete, also a bit of a 'meat-head', Jerome; the prankster who you had to watch out for, Alfie; Jerome's faithful sidekick who was always cracking jokes and loved aliens, and finally Fabian; the sweet, caring, science one. As Trudy was telling me about Fabian something in my head was sounding familiar but I wasn't sure what so I just left it.

After what seemed like hours, Trudy apologized and said that she had to go prepare dinner because the house-members would be arriving soon. I took this as an opportunity to freshen up so I had a shower, changed into a summery, floral dress and white sandals, reapplied my make-up (not too much, just a nice natural look), and waited. Finally, I heard the door opening and some teenagers chatting. As Trudy welcomed them and told them that I had arrived, I slowly started to make my way downstairs. When I reached the bottom, they were all staring at me – I blushed.

"Uh hey! I'm Nina, I just moved from America so…yeah…" I blushed even more and didn't really know what to say. Luckily, they all seemed to accept that and started to introduce themselves.

"Hey I'm Amber! I can't wait to share a room with you! We are going to be BFFL'S I just know it!"

"I'm Patricia – don't annoy me and you should just about survive here." At this I gulped, I couldn't tell whether she was serious or just joking!

"Hi! Nice to meet you, I'm Mara. I'm sure you'll enjoy yourself here – it is an excellent school"

"Hey – I'm Mick"

"Have you ever seen a ? Cause I have it was AWESOME! Oh yeah – I'm Alfie by the way." I laughed at this.

"Why hello there fair maiden. I am Jerome and if there is anything you need help with, do not hesitate to ask me." He then reached for my hand and lightly placed his lips on it. I blushed even more remembering that Trudy had also said he was a little bit of a 'Casanova'.

I stared around at my fellow classmates and then got confused. I could have sworn Trudy said there were 7 of them but counting now I realised there were 6. I started to wonder if I had just imagined Trudy saying that but then, as if on cue, the most gorgeous boy on the whole earth walked through the door. He stopped when he saw me and stared at me with a confused but happy face. He then opened his mouth to speak.

"Nina?" he said. I beamed at him, "Nina is that really you?"

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