Jerome was smiling all the way to Anubis house, Mara Jaffray was his tutor, Mara Jaffray the girl he had a crush on since he saw her.
Jerome ran up the steps to Anubis house and looked at his watch as he walked in. It was 3:50, he had 10 minutes to get ready for his study date with Mara.
Jerome walked into his room and saw Alfie playing some game.
"Hey dude what took you so long?" He asked not taking his eyes off the game in his hands.
"Got kept behind" Jerome replied as he began to chance.
Jerome changed from his school uniform into a red top with a black waist coat and blue jeans, he fixed/styled his hair, before taking his math books and getting ready to leave.
"Where are you going?" Alfie asked as he paused his game and sat up.
"Mara's going to help me with my math work" Jerome said as he put his books into his bag.
"Good luck."
"Thanks."
"I meant good luck for Mara, you stink at maths" Alfie laughed and Jerome threw a pillow at him.
"I'll have you know I'm great at Math, It's Algebra I can't do" Jerome said slinging his bag over his shoulder "I mean, who the heck decided to put letters with numbers?"
"Haha, well have fun" Alfie said as he un-paused his game and lay back on the bed.
Jerome knocked on Mara's door at exactly 4:00 and waited for her to open the door.
"Jerome? what are you doing here? I'm expecting someone" Mara said as Jerome leaned against the door frame.
"Would this someone be an extremely handsome guy who is horrible at algebra and needs help from a beautiful girl, such as yourself?" Jerome smiled "Hi, I'm Jerome Clarke and I'll be your student for today" Jerome smirked as he took hold of Mara's hand and shook it.
"You're my student?" Mara asked dumbly.
"Yes I am, may I come in?" Jerome asked. Mara nodded slowly before moving aside to let Jerome in.
Mara had gone over it for over an hour now, and Jerome was still not getting it, he was normally quick to understand things, but not this.
Jerome was now on the floor banging his head with his math book.
"Jerome come on you can do this" Mara encouraged him.
"No I can't" Jerome sighed "It's too hard."
"Tried one more problem before we call it a night" Mara said turning the page and reading the problem out "okay, 2x-4=10 solve for x."
"I don't know" Jerome moaned.
"Okay how about I go through it step by step?" Mara said joining Jerome on the floor "Here" Mara said handing Jerome a pen.
Jerome took it and got ready to write in his math jotter "I still don't think I can do it."
"Can you add?" Mara asked.
"Yes" Jerome answered.
"Can you divide?"
"Yes, adding subtracting, dividing and multiplying, it's all easy" Jerome said becoming very frustrated.
"Well that's what algebra is" Mara explained.
"What?" Jerome asked raising an eyebrow.
"Let me show you and easier way for you to understand" Mara said "The first part, for this problem you add 4 to both sides of the equation, what do you get?" Mara asked hoping she was explaining it well.
"14" Jerome replied without needing to think hard, his brain was like a calculator, he could add and subtract in a blink of an eye.
"Yes. 2x=14" Mara smiled "Now the next part, all you do is divide both sides by 2, and you get?..."
"7" Jerome smiled.
"YES! so what you write at the end is?..."
"X=7?" Jerome half smiled not sure whether he did it right or not.
"YES, YES, YES you brilliant person" Mara squealed in delight as she kissed his cheek "2(7) - 4 = 14 - 4 = 10 do you understand now?"
"Yea, it's easy!" Jerome smiled "I can't believe it clicked, who knew algebra could be so easy?"
"Yea and it only took you about 2 hours to get it to click" Mara said as she sat back up on the bed.
"Don't ruin my happy moment" Jerome warned with a smile "Do you want to call it a night?" Jerome asked sitting on the bed with her.
"I think I might have to" Mara smiled as she rubbed her eyes "I'm so tired" Mara yawned as she sat up beside Jerome "But I must say well done, when I found out I was tutoring you, I didn't think you were going to take it seriously, you proved me wrong" Mara smiled.
Jerome smiled to before leaning in, Mara looked confused at first and didn't know what to do, without thinking she pulled away and stood up shocked. Jerome sat there feeling weak, pathetic, embarrassed,he felt emotions he never felt before, he felt the blood rushing to his cheeks as they sat/stood there in an awkward silence, before Mara broke it.
"I think you should leave" She said not looking him in the eye.
"I'm sorry" Jerome explained as he gathered his books quickly, he was so embarrassed, he just wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, "I'm really, really sorry" Jerome apologized as he ran out the door. He was in such as rush to get out he didn't notice he left his algebra book behind.
Mara shut the door tight and sighed. She wanted to kiss Jerome, she wanted to kiss him so much, but she was afraid, and she pulled away,and now she wished she hadn't.
Jerome ran into his room and collapsed on the bed.
"So how did it go?" Alfie asked.
His answer was another pillow to the face.
"That bad?"
"No worse" Jerome sighed sitting up "I think I might have ruined my chance to be with Mara, and in the process destroyed our friendship within three seconds."
"That's a new record for you" Alfie joked trying to lighten the mood, in result he was hit by another pillow.
OK so all that algebra math junk, if you're sitting at home reading this and you say "That's not the correct answer" You're probably right, because I Stink at Math. so don't hate me If I did the math wrong :/
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