The Hunting (A House of Anubis Story)

Chapter 5

Joy POV

"First we shall go shopping!" Amber squealed as I gave a groan.

"Shopping I never guessed," Patricia muttered sarcastically.

"Fine then we'll go to the spa first!" Amber screeched.

"Ok! Calm down Amber," Mara said.

"Your aura is beginning to cloud with anger," Willow spoke randomly as we all gave her a confused look.

"Ok, spa it is," KT spoke up.

We pulled up to the spa as we paid the taxi driver. Amber marched into the building leading the way.

"My usual times...seven," Amber told the front desk lady. She gave a nod as she led us each to different rooms. Ooh massage.

After a little while all of us were done with our massages.

"Facial time!" Amber squeaked. We rolled our eyes and followed Amber.

"This is so nice," Mara spoke in a daze as they finished putting facial stuff on her face and put cucumber slices over her eyes. They put the little green circles over my eyes as I relaxed.

"A girl could get used to this," Patricia muttered as I gave a small laugh.

"So relaxing," Willow moaned.

"We needed this," KT stated.

"A break from that house. A therapist would need therapy after spending an hour there," Patricia whispered as we all laughed.

"She has a point though," Amber spoke as a worker began to rid my face of the mask.

"I've only been there a day and I can tell it's gonna be quite...fun this year," Nina spoke struggling on her choice of words as the worker massaged moisturizer into my face.

"All done," the worker spoke happily as Amber jolted up and headed to another room. We followed her silently until we got to a room with a single hot tub in it. Amber threw wraps at us as we all gave her a look.

"They provide wraps. They're kinda like bathing suits but wrap form," Amber smiled as she headed for another door. She changed and shooed us in before getting in the hot tub. Once all of us changed we lounged in the hot tub just talking.

"Ok it's time, the moment we've all been waiting for," Amber spoke as we all gave her a confused look, "Let's talk...boys!"

"Amber!" we groaned as she smiled.

"What? We have to fill in our newbies somehow," Amber defended herself as KT and Nina made a face at the word newbies.

"Fine," we all moaned as Amber clapped in delight.

"Well, I've dated Jerome but he cheated on me. And then I dated Alfie but he kinda had this thing for Amber and now I'm single and I'm enjoying it," Willow spoke in her flower-child way.

"Ok, so I dated Mick but once he left for Australia I started to like Jerome then we broke up and I started dating Jerome but then Jerome cheated on me," Mara whispered. Aw poor Mara I feel bad for her.

"Um, I had a massive crush on Fabian but I don't like him anymore and it was only just a crush. Then Willow and Mara asked me to help them get revenge on Jerome but then I started to like Jerome and now we're dating," I muttered with embarrassment. Nina had this look in her eyes when I mentioned I used to like Fabian. Omg I knew it, she so likes him I thought to myself.

"Well Alfie liked me and I didn't do anything for awhile but then I started dating him but when I left for fashion school he started dating Willow and then him and Willow broke up and I think he likes me," Amber rushed on her words as Nina and KT gave her a weird look. Amber and Alfie don't look like they go together but they're actually not half bad together.

"Trixie," I spoke knowingly.

"I've never had a boyfriend nor have I had my first kiss," she uttered softly.

"Shut! Up!" Amber spoke in two intervals.

"Yes Amber. It's true," Patricia whispered.

"Your mud baths are ready," a lady suddenly came in and informed us.

"Ooh mud baths!" Amber squeaked as she got out of the hot tub and grabbed her clothes. We strolled into a room that had multiple separate mud baths.

"So back to previous conversations," Amber said after we got settled.

"Amber, all of us went," Mara spoke confused.

"Now it's who we are crushing on," Amber replied in a duh tone.

"No one," Willow and KT spoke automatically.

"I like my boyfriend," I smirked. Amber rolled her eyes as Nina gave a laugh.

"I like Alfie," Amber told us sheepishly.

"Amber!" Mara spoke in shock.

"Well you like Mick again," Amber yelled back. All of our jaws dropped in shock as Mara's eyes went wide.

"How did you know that?" she questioned.

"Oh it's as obvious as the fact that Nina likes Fabian and Patricia likes Eddie," Amber replied nonchalantly. Now it was Patricia and Nina's turn to be shocked.

"What? I do not like Eddie," Patricia spoke defensively as her British accent got thicker than it already was.

"And I don't like Fabian," Nina said, blowing a piece of her hair out of her face.

"Oh puh-lease!" Amber shouted.

"I don't like that Slimeball and never will!" Patricia yelled back before giving a loud sigh.

"What if I do like him?" Nina asked us almost silently.

"Well he likes you," Mara said as Nina gave her a questioning look.

"What? How would you know that?" Nina asked.

"Have you seen the way he looks at you?" KT questioned her. Nina shook her head no as we all laughed.

"Ok well that's enough on boys. So...Nina, KT, where are you guys from?" I inquired.

Nina POV

I gave KT a look as I thought about if I should tell them the truth.

"We live in California. But we all moved there at age four when we met. I used to live in Texas," I told them.

"I used to live in Pennsylvania," KT spoke up, looking at me uneasily.

"Guys, I'm moving to Australia and so is Mick," Mara suddenly told us," I got accepted to this school for the gifted."

"That's great Mara!" Joy exclaimed.

"Yea but I'm gonna miss you guys!" she replied.

"Aw!" we all chorused. A timer suddenly went off, making us jump.

"Pedi and mani time!" Amber screeched getting up.

After awhile we were all in plush white robes, getting our nails done. Amber told the ladies what to give us which we all protested to at first.

"You know, you should be listening to what we want done to our nails," I spoke as the lady began to file my nails.

"Ok two things. One Miss. Millington told us not to listen to any of you. And two when was the last time you got a manicure? Seriously, all of your nails are bitten down to little nubs and have dirt under them," the lady retorted. I glanced down at my nails to see,sure enough, she was right. My nails were bitten down to stubs due to one of my many nervous habits.

"Why is there so much dirt under your nails?" the lady asked. Work, digging up graves on our last mission and setting up cameras and perimeter sensors I thought as I glanced over at KT. She seemed to be having the same talk with the woman doing her nails. All of us girls were complaining over the fact that Amber picked what we were having done to our nails, when she yelled quiet.

"I chose something that represents you," she told us.

"Um not to be rude but you don't know us," KT pointed out as she gestured to me and herself.

"But I do. I looked at all your clothes and I've seen your decorations," she spoke.

"Creepy," Patricia muttered.

"You can go to your pedicure chair now," one of the ladies told Amber.

"Seriously Amber that is a little creepy," Joy spoke up.

"You call it creepy I call it investigation," Amber defended herself. I laughed as my got into the pedicure chair. I hit the massage button as I relaxed. My phone buzzed as I carefully picked it up and unlocked it.

From Eddie:

We have a problem.