It was a normal Monday morning at Anubis house, well as normal as things can be at Anubis house. Jerome and Alfie were making their way to the living room for breakfast. Nina, Fabian and Mara were already there enjoying the food that Trudy made. Jerome sat next to Mara and Alfie sat in between Fabian and Jerome.
As everyone else got ready for school Jerome had already left, he was not really in the mood to talk to anyone but that was probably because it was Monday and nobody likes Mondays. Jerome was staring at the ground watching his feet with every step that he took until Mara caught up with him.
"Hey Jerome!" Mara shouted, Jerome stopped and looked up at Mara giving her the chance to catch up with him.
"Hey Mara" Jerome said cheering up a bit "What's up?"
"You left in such a hurry, I was going to ask if we could walk together" Mara said trying to catch her breath.
"Sure why not" Jerome chuckled and started to walk again.
"So is everything ok?" Mara asked looking at Jerome concerned.
"Yeah everythings fine, why do you ask?" Jerome asked looking at Mara confused.
"No reason, just you look a bit down in the dumps that's all"
"Mara I'm fine, honest" Jerome smirked and they kept walking towards the school.
"So how's the long distance relationship going with Mick?" Jerome asked trying to make conversation.
"Well it's hard but we're trying to make it work" Mara said with a smile.
Jerome's face fell at Mara's news but Mara was too happy to notice. They finally got to school and made their way to the student lounge to play a game of chess before class started. Jerome enjoyed the alone time he and Mara had to play chess and just talk about their days.
"Do you want to be black or white?" Jerome asked.
"Any is fine with me" Mara replied. Jerome took the white pieces and started to set up as Mara did the same with the black pieces.
Jerome moved first, he moved one of his pawns forward and Mara did the same.
"We don't talk as much as we use to" Mara said as Jerome was planning his next move.
"What do you mean?" Jerome asked as he moved his knight and Mara mirrored his move.
"It's just we got really close and-" Mara was cut off by Jerome moving his other knight and Mara not paying much attention to their game moved another pawn.
"And then what…?" Jerome asked as he captured Mara's pawn and Mara responded by taking his pawn with her knight, Jerome then moved his bishop and put Mara in check. Mara acted quickly; to save her king she moved one of her bishops to protect him.
"And then after Mick came back and the election, we didn't talk much after that" Mara said watching Jerome carefully.
Jerome moved his knight closer to Mara's side of board and Mara moved her knight and captured Jerome's other knight.
"Well played Jaffrey" Jerome smirked as he brought his queen into play and Mara moved another pawn threatening Jerome's remaining knight. Ignored his knight and continued moving his queen to put Mara's king in check again "Check"
"Well I guess we're talking now" Mara said as she protects her king and simultaneously threatens Jerome's queen by moving a pawn a single space.
"No Jaffrey I'm beating you at chess" Jerome smirked as he moved his knight taking Mara's pawn, Mara concerned about being boxed in moved her king but Jerome moved his remaining knight back and put Mara in check mate.
"Check mate" Jerome said as he got up and headed to class. Mara stared at the chess board stunned that she did not see that coming, she really needed to pay more attention in the next game.
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