Force of Nature ▸ House of Anubis [3]

chapter sixty-two. house of treason

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The house wasn't safe. And our lunch break was nearly over anyway, so immediately, Eddie and I agreed to find another empty classroom to sort this all out in. As the six of us pile inside, I close the door, swallowing. I'm not liking the fact that one of us has betrayed Sibuna.

"But it can't be one of us," Patricia insists, like she has been the entire walk over. "We're the good guys, remember. Are you absolutely—"

"Sure?" Eddie finishes as he glances at me. "Yes. My visions, what she hears, they've... never been wrong before."

"We're sure," I state certainly, yet nervously. Frobisher's voice told Eddie that there were two vipers in our nest—and one of them is me. He still thinks I'm going to help him. Eddie hasn't mentioned it yet, but he will. I won't go to Team Evil, never.

"I don't believe it," Fabian says, his eyes and voice hurt. "I trust all of you with my life. I have trusted all of you with my life before."

"Yeah, but if one of you," KT says, and I take note of her phrasing here, "has gone rogue, you could sabotage everything that we do."

"You?" Alfie quotes. "It could be you."

"Yeah, but isn't."

"Well, it isn't me!" Alfie says. "Team Evil would want someone smart or super grouchy."

"Hey!" Fabian comments.

Eddie cuts in, "Look, whoever it is, you'll have to make a mistake sometime."

"Well, in the meantime," Patricia says, "how can we trust each other?"

A tense silence follows. I look at Eddie, taking a deep breath, and finally, I give the answer. "We can't."

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The tension between us is too much to bear. That's why, for the rest of the day, we wind up splitting up. I stuck by Eddie the whole day, sitting next to him in every class we had. Alfie was by Jerome, Fabian was by Mara, Patricia by Joy, and KT by Willow. Even the others could tell something was wrong, but no one asked.

I don't like not being able to trust them. Especially considering the only person I can absolutely, unequivocally trust didn't destroy the phonograph is Eddie. I really did not want to be at the point where the only person in Anubis House I can trust is him.

"Have you gotten any of those weird feelings?" Eddie asks me in a whisper at my locker, keeping his voice low so none of the others hear. "Like, about anyone in Sibuna?"

"I..." I have to take another deep breath, one of many. "I've been getting some since last night. I thought it might have been Patricia but now I'm worried it's KT."