A/N: Done for the Character and Band Challenge. Song Supermassive Blackhole by Muse

blackhole

'Ooh baby, don't you know I suffer? Ooh, baby, can't you hear me mourn? You caught me under false pretences, how long before you let me go?' Jerome sang under his breath as he walked into the school, it was a Sunday so no one was around. You may be asking why would Jerome of all people would be in the school on a Sunday when he could have been asleep.

The reason was plastered all over the walls.

Mara Jaffray. She was the only person who could get him up this early when there was no money involved.

The campaign posters still covered the walls and they were driving him crazy. A not so subtle reminder of how close he had been to Mara and how far away from him she was now.

'Ooh ooh ahh, you set my soul alight, Ooh ooh ahh, you set...my soul...'

He put a hand on the nearest poster feeling the slickness of the glossy paper he had used. He glared at her image, she was so naive, she had no idea why he had been upset with her. She was so blinded by her infatuation with Mick that no one else seemed to exist.

He hated Mick and he wanted to hate her.

'I thought i was a fool for no one' Jerome sang slowly and the words came out bitter and sharp as he slid his hand down the old campaign poster, 'but ooh, baby, I'm a fool for you...' he sighed ripping it cleanly off the wall and tossing the offending paper into the nearest rubbish bin.

'Ooh ooh ahh, you set my soul alight...' He sang tapping his fingers to the beat as he slid them along the wall ripping down every poster that bore his unrequited loves image.

Unrequited... he shouldn't have those feelings, he was Jerome Clark for god sakes girls were supposed to have unrequited love for him. He sighed heavily ripping another poster down.

He looked at the poster in his hands, holding it so tightly it wrinkled the paper. He wanted to hate her. Hate her for ignoring him, hate her for making him think she cared about him, hate her for confiding in her, hate her for wanting Mick. He started to slowly rip the poster, the rip crept slowly towards Mara, just as he was milometers away from ripping her image he stopped and threw the paper into the bin.

He hated himself far more than he could ever hate Mara. He let his guard down, he genuinely thought that she cared about him in a more romantic way than she obviously did, she made him a better person, she brought out the shinning beautiful humane qualities he had never known he had possessed.

He hated it. He felt awful and now Alfie was always hanging around with Nina, Fabian, Patrica and Amber. Amber was understandable, he knew Alfie's feelings for the blonde and Patrica was usually fun to be around but Nina and Fabian? It didn't feel right, there was something going on there and he wasn't being involved.

He didn't have Mara, he didn't have Alfie or Patrica. He had no one now. It felt empty and angry, a couple of months ago Alfie went no where unless it was with him and now he was being blown off by everyone.

It felt like he was being sucked in by 'a supermassive blackhole...'

If h didn't have Mara then he as reclaim Alfie even if he had to join their little group.

He stood at the opposite end of the hall and looked down where he had started, the walls were bare, no more Mara staring at him reminding him that he loved her and she loved Mick, no longer staring at him forcing him to do the right thing.