"Hey Jerome?" Mara whispered in the dark silence. There had been a power outage in the school, and most of the residents were "out" or "going for a walk" or "organizing a charity event to save the hedgehogs" Nina really was an awful liar. Jerome and Mara had been left alone in the house. Together.
Now, Jerome and Mara were not dating yet. They had just barely become friends in fact. But Jerome had found the secret stash of cookies, and Mara didn't like to be all alone in the dark in the house of Anubis. Jerome, for his part, didn't like being alone in the House of Anubis when there was an opportunity to be alone with Mara in the house.
"Yeah" He replied unsteadily.
"Where is everyone?" She popped another cookie in her mouth.
"Out." He said sarcastically "Taking a walk. Organizing a charity event." He scoffed.
"No, where are they?" She rolled her eyes. "All the time! They're always on a mysterious excursion." He smiled at her use of the word excursion, what a Mara thing to say.
Jerome couldn't explain it, now could he? That would destroy everything that the sibunas had worked for. But there were certain things that he could say, and those were the things that he did say.
"They're off, having an adventure aren't they?" He smiled and shoved another cookie in his mouth.
"Well, why do they get to have an adventure!" She giggled and threw her arms wide, "Why can't we have one too?"
Jerome smiled, Mara wasn't normally this…how to put this, giddy? It was like there were drugs in the cookies or something. Though clearly there wasn't. Maybe this was just Mara being happy, like really happy. He flattered himself that he was the reason that she was this way. But he knew that that probably wasn't the case.
"All right." He said "Let's have an adventure."