"Quit it! You're making me dizzy!" Patricia exclaimed, giggling as Eddie twirled him under his arm one more time.

"Okay, okay!" Eddie released her hand, allowing her to regain her balance. "Do you want a drink?"

Patricia took his hand and led him to the table where the various drinks were. Mrs. Peters was watching over the drinks so that no one could slip anything into the drinks.

"Hi guys." She greeted the two. "Having fun?"

"We are, thanks." Patricia said as Eddie handed her some pink lemonade.

"It's nice to see you guys here." Mrs. Peters said.

"Well, it's nice to be here." Eddie took a sip of his lemonade.

"Guys! You made it!" Drew said, giving the couple both a big pat on the back. Eddie chocked on his lemonade as Drew did so.

"You really thought that we'd miss it?" Patricia rolled her eyes and smirked as Drew poured himself a cup of punch.

"Nah, but you never know." Drew shrugged.

"Where's Piper?" Patricia asked.

"Bathroom. She's been on my arm all night. It's starting to get kind of old." Drew's smile wavered a bit. "Must've been some fight you guys had."

"It was." Patricia shortly responded, obviously not wanting to openly talk about it.

"Fight?" Eddie suddenly asked. "You and your sister got in a fight?"

"Yeah…" Patricia quietly replied. She had "conveniently" left that out of any conversations with Eddie. "We did."

"What about?" Eddie asked. He was completely oblivious to Drew shaking his hands behind Patricia, telling Eddie not to ask.

"I'll tell you later." Patricia said, making a small motion to Drew's mom.

"How about you tell me now?" Eddie softly said, taking Patricia's hand. He led her to an empty area in the yard. "What happened?"

"It was a stupid fight." Patricia shrugged. "I said that Drew and Piper needed to stop breaking up and getting back together every month. Then she told me that I was the one with the emotional problems, not her."

"Oh, Yacker. I'm so sorry." Eddie held his arms out for a hug, but Patricia shook her head.

"But she's right, isn't she?"

"Patricia, she had no idea what she was saying. It was probably one of those in the heat of the moment kind of things."

"Then why hasn't she apologized?" Patricia asked, her eyes showing hurt.

"Piper probably thinks that you won't forgive her if she does." Eddie offered.

"I guess." Patricia gave a weak shrug. Eddie wrapped her up in a hug, in which she had no choice but to accept it.

"Hey, did you ever figure out who told Jackie?" Eddie asked as soon as they separated.

"No one did."

"What do you mean?" Eddie asked, knitting his eye brows together.

"Jackie had no idea when I called her."

"Then who told Ava?"

"Well, only three people knew about it. You, Drew, and Piper. Obviously, you didn't tell Ava. Drew wouldn't even say 'hi' to Ava, so it probably wasn't him. So that leaves Piper, who is Ava's friend." Patricia gave Eddie a half-smile.

"So you think Piper did it?" Eddie asked.

Patricia looked over Eddie's shoulder. "There's only one way to find out."

Eddie looked over to see Piper standing by the backdoor on Drew's arm. They were talking to Brianna— one of Ava's friends. He looked back at Patricia. "Are you sure this is a good idea?"

"It's now or never. Let's go." Patricia walked ahead. Eddie sighed and followed suit.

When the couple reached Drew, Piper, and Brianna, they instantly stopped talking and looked at Eddie and Patricia expectantly. Except Brianna, who rolled her eyes.

"I need to talk to you." Patricia grabbed her sister's wrist. She drug Piper to an area where no one could hear them.

"What is it, Patricia?" Piper sounded slightly annoyed. "I was trying to talk to Drew."

"Did you tell Ava about me cutting myself?" Patricia asked.

"Why?"

"Because someone did and it sure wasn't me or Eddie."

"Fine! Sorry, Patricia!" Piper looked genuinely apologetic.

"Why would you do that?!" Patricia swallowed a bit to soothe her drying throat. She could not believe this!

"I was mad, and I wanted to get back at you, so I told Ava." Piper began to explain. "I felt bad as soon as I did and told her to say Jackie told her."

"You think that makes it better?! Piper, it's going to be spread around the entire town!" Patricia looked disgusted with her sister. "And you wanted to get back at me?! Like saying that nasty stuff about my 'emotional issues' wasn't enough!"

"Not for that fight we had!" Piper quickly shook her head. "You moved out, Patricia!"

"I couldn't take it there anymore! With you and me fighting over ridiculous stuff and dad lecturing me about hanging out with Eddie, how was I supposed to live there?!"

"I—I never thought about that…" Piper said softly, looking down.

"Correct, you didn't. Why? Because everything is about you, you, you. It always has been!" Patricia snarled before turning on her heel and leaving.

Piper just stood in that spot and watched her twin storm away as the tears welled up in her eyes.

"Everything okay, Yacker?" Eddie asked Patricia as soon as she reached where he and Drew were standing. It seemed that Brianna had gone back to where Ava was on the dance floor.

"Fine." Patricia shortly responded. Her expression told Eddie to not push any further.

"Eddie and I were just talking about that ring you have." Drew said.

"What about it?" Patricia asked, looking at the vintage red ring.

"We were thinking about where it came from before the antique shop." Eddie explained.

"Like, what if someone killed someone while wearing it?!" Drew excitedly suggested.

"Yeah right. It was probably on some caveman's hand millions of years ago and then it was buried." Eddie joked.

"Or maybe a prisoner wore it as they were being executed!" Patricia laughed, going with the joke. Eddie laughed with her,

"Guys!" Drew rolled his eyes at Eddie and Patricia's jokes. "This is serious!"

"Right. Most serious conversation ever." Patricia smirked.

Mr. Williamson cleared his throat as he approached Mrs. Williamson, who was standing and gossiping with Ms. Miller. Mrs. Williamson looked at him and pursed her lips slightly. Ms. Miller thankfully took the hint and said goodbye to Mrs. Williamson before the situation got even more awkward.

"So…" Mr. Williamson awkwardly began. "Patricia's living with you now."

"She is." Mrs. Williamson took a sip of her iced tea.

"How'd you convince her?" Mr. Williamson half-joked.

"I didn't have to!" Mrs. Williamson exclaimed. "She was unhappy at your place, so she moved in with me and she loves it!"

"But—"

"How could you suggest that I forced her to move in with me?!" Mrs. Williamson huffed, and then walked off.

"They're cute together, aren't they?" Alfie said to Piper as he approached her. He was looking at Patricia and Eddie, who were looking through the songs list. Drew was DJ-ing, so the chances of one of their songs getting selected to play were pretty high.

"Yeah." Piper said, obviously thinking of something. "I'm actually kind of jealous."

"Why?" Alfie asked. "You're dating Drew, aren't you?"

"I am, but…" Piper sighed. "Eddie's always there for Patricia and I guess I want that too. Drew is great, but… He thinks everything is a joke and isn't very romantic at all."

"Are you saying that Patricia and Eddie are romantic?" Alfie raised an eyebrow.

"Well, they go on dates and stuff and go places together. Drew and I just… Text each other and go to the water park."

"That sounds awesome! Dude, you get 24/7 water park access!"

"Not when you're supposed to be girlfriend and boyfriend and all the boyfriend wants to do is go on scary rides."

"Oh." Alfie said. There was an awkward moment of silence before Alfie broke it again. "Want to dance?"

Piper thought for a minute. She then shrugged. "Yeah, okay."

Alfie grabbed her hand and happily led her to the dance floor. To Piper's surprise, she actually had a lot of fun.

"Well you two look like you're having fun." Fabian approached Eddie and Patricia, his hand in Nina's.

"We are." Eddie said, dropping on of Patricia's hands so that they could face Nina and Fabian. "Why aren't you guys dancing?"

"Oh, I don't do fast songs." Fabian explained.

The loud music stopped at that moment. Drew tapped the microphone.

"We're slowing things down a bit, folks! Grab a partner and dance!"

"Just Give Me a Reason" by P!nk and Nate Ruess began playing, and couples immediately began swaying to the music.

"Not a fast song." Eddie pointed out.

"Now you don't have an excuse." Patricia smirked. Eddie smiled and pulled Patricia in to begin dancing again.

"May I have this dance?" Fabian lightheartedly bowed to Nina.

"You may." She giggled and took his hand. They took a couple steps away from Patricia and Eddie so that both couples had plenty of room and began dancing.

"Well, this has been an interesting year." Patricia suddenly commented.

"It has." Eddie nodded in agreement. "At least Ben wasn't here to make it harder."

"That's true." Patricia agreed.

"But you know what?"

"I feel like you're about to get super cheesy here." Patricia rolled her eyes, but smiled.

"Just go with it."

"Okay, fine. What?"

"No matter what, I'll always be here for you." Eddie gave her a indisputable smile.

"Promise?" Patricia asked.

"I promise." Eddie leaned forward a bit. Patricia met him halfway and they kissed, letting the sparks fly around them.

And… that was a… *cough* interesting ending. I liked it until the last sentence. Anyway…

The next book will be called Our Time Together as I posted you my twitter peeps out there! (Also to my Twitter people, stay tuned because I will be giving out spoilers and stuff for the next book! My Twitter is on my profile page for anyone who's interested, and I DO follow back!) (: It will be out most likely sometime this week. I need to plan a little further and would like to get at least 3 chapters ahead in outlining.

PLEASE tell me what you want in the next book! I will try to include it!

Well, this has been a wild ride and I have REALLY enjoyed it! THANK YOU GUYS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH FOR ALL OF YOUR SUPPORT! I CANNOT DESCIRBE THE IMPACT Y'ALL HAVE HAD ON ME! (:

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