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Jerome tapped his fingers against his stomach. He was lying back on the sofa in the common room of Anubis house. The other boarders of Anubis were scattered around the room. They were all talking about random things. They were bored, and they didn't know what else to do but sit and talk. But what were they to talk about? They hadn't a clue.

"So the plural for 'goose' is 'geese', right? What's the plural of 'moose'? It's not 'meese', is it?" he asked.

"I think it's just 'moose'." KT spoke up.

"Or is it 'mooses'?" Patricia wondered

"'Mice'?" Alfie suggested.

"No, that's the plural for 'mouse'." Eddie corrected.

"But if the plural for 'moose' is supposedly 'meese' and not 'mice', but yet we're not sure which is the correct plural, why can't the plural for 'mouse' be 'meese'?" Alfie debated.

"What?" Willow turned to him with confusion etched on her face.

"Or what about Platypus," Joy piped in.

"Platypi?" Eddie recommended.

"Platypuses." Patricia put in.

"Platy…people." Willow finished lamely.

"Octopus is the same way. Octopi, Octopuses, Octopeople." KT listed.

"These are all important questions that, unfortunately, will remain unanswered." Jerome sighed dramatically.

"Actually that's not true." Fabian stated.

"Fabian, don't be a party pooper." Jerome ordered.

The room was silent again and Patricia pulled out her earbuds, holding one out for Eddie before playing her music. Fabian and KT shared a blanket as they read the Egyptian mythology book he held. Joy texted away on her phone; and Alfie played on his Gameboy while Willow flipped through a fashion magazine. Jerome tapped his foot lightly to the faint sound of Sick Puppies he could hear coming from Patricia's iPod, but his mind wondered to Mara.

It had been a week since they had kissed in the park, and neither of them brought it up. They weren't dating, and they hadn't stopped being friends or hanging out. But Jerome felt like their friendship wasn't as solid and...less awkward than it was now.

He tried to make a point in asking her out, but he just didn't know how. He feared rejection, and not because he would feel unwanted and worthless, but because he would feel unwanted and worthless to Mara. And that would hurt worse. He was about to get up and look for Mara, but she was suddenly kneeling next to him with a smiling playing on her lips.

Jerome swallowed. He wanted kiss her again, but he didn't want to make anything awkward in front of their friends. She leaned forward a little and bit her lip.

"Would you like to go out on a date with me?" she asked in a shy whisper.

Jerome grinned and nodded before he pushed forward and brushed his lips against hers; kissing her sideways. She giggled when he pulled away and they both stood, walking out of the room hand in hand, leaving their friends sitting in shock at what they had just witnessed.


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