When the Lion Roars [House of Anubis]

thirteen. Bad Decisions

Soon after Amber was declared leader, they scheduled another Sibuna meeting for the next day and Fabian told them he hoped to have found something by then. Shortly after, Mick came in and they all dispersed throughout the house.

The next evening, Alfie was planning something for Willow, having struggled to protect his cake from everyone else in the house he had thankfully been successful in keeping its existence a secret from Willow. He had just set everything up in his room and texted Willow to meet him in there 10 minutes later. He was now walking into the kitchen to get the cake, where he saw Amber filling a glass up with water from the tap.

"Hey Amber," he said as he opened the door to the cupboard that the cake was stored in.

"Hi," she replied timidly. It was no secret to anyone that Amber still liked him. Everyone knew this, except Alfie of course, who was absolutely clueless in the matter. She was the first person he ever loved, and loving someone that much will never go away from him, it's just that he now saw it as more of a friendship kind of love, as opposed to romantic.

"What are you doing?" He asked as she leaned against the counter by the hatch with her full glass of water and he took the layer of cling film away from the cake.

She raised her glass slightly as an answer, and he nodded in reply. Then she asked, "you?"

"Getting a date ready for me and Willow"

Her face fell slightly when he said this, but she still slowly nodded her head once. Alfie was too focused on the cake to notice this, and instead of asking what was wrong he asked a completely different question, "What candle do you think I should use: French vanilla, honey glow or lavender? I didn't know which would be best and you know how Willow automatically likes everything you like"

"Doesn't she just..."

There was an awkward pause as Amber looked to the floor.

"So, the candle?"

"Oh, right, yeah. Um," she hesitated before lying to him about her favourite, "honey glow"

"Right, thanks Ambs," he happily said in a rush as he half ran-half walked back to his room.

Amber sipped her water.

*~*~*~*

"So what are we actually going to see?" Arabella asked Patricia and Dan as they prepared to go to the cinema together.

"I wanna see Legend," Dan said.

"Seriously?" Arabella asked, "But that's rated, like, 18"

Patricia and Dan just looked to eachother and then stared at Arabella blankly.

"What?"

"Belle, love," Patrica walked up to her and placed her hands on her shoulders, "you're 20"

"Yes thank you Patricia I know that," she said, shrugging Patricia's hands off her shoulders, "It's just that-"

"Aw," Dan mocked in a childish voice, "Are you too scared to see a big girl movie?"

Patricia laughed at him.