Jerome sat down in a chair his sides were in so much pain, he felt like he had heart burn and he couldn't stop shaking.

Mara, Poppy, Amber, and Nina walked over to him, Nina felt guilty by what she had said to him and needed to apologize.

"Jerome are you alright?" Mara asked.

Jerome just buried his face in his hands and shook his head, he couldn't face anyone, he felt like he had failed everyone, the school, Mara, Poppy, his dad, and himself.

"It's ok gerbil, dad will understand" Poppy said, but Jerome still couldn't look her in the eye.

"I failed him" Jerome muttered.

"No you didn't, you tried your best..."

"And failed" Jerome finished.

Mara and Poppy were about to comfort him more when Alfie zoomed passed them. He got bored with sitting still and he wanted to play with the ping-pong ball.

He grabbed it off the boy and started to throw it in the air.

"Give it back" Giles said with a stern face.

"It's so weird, I LIKE IT" Alfie shouted with a big smile.

"I said. Give" He said slowly. Alfie just looked at him before throwing the ball over the table.

Jerome notice the ball was off and despite the pain he walked over to the ball and picked it up.

"That ball is weighted" Jerome announced and everyone gasped "Am I in denial? or did that look like a total fix?" Jerome frowned.

"Oh is it magic?" Alfie laughed "Have you got anymore tricks?" Alfie asked as he turn to Giles.

"Will the winners step forward" Mr Sweet said not noticing what had just gone on.

Mr Sweet didn't notice until Alfie took off Giles hat. All the ping-pong balls fell to the floor and everyone gasped again.

"That is magic" Alfie smiled.

Everyone else had a look of shock as they booed him.

"He's a cheat, the balls were there the whole time" Poppy said angrily.

"I didn't use them, I swear, Why would I need to?" Giles said but it was obvious he cheated.

"You're lying, you must have used one of these every time you served" Jerome said holding the weighted ball "You little maggot!" Jerome said as he advanced towards Giles.

"Calm down, Jerome" Mr Sweet said before a fight broke out.

"HE'S CHEATING!" Jerome shouted.

Mr Sweet turned to the teacher from the other school to discuss what they should do.

"Can someone make a dissension soon, my feet are killing me" Amber begged.

"Quite, quite!" Mr Sweet said trying to get everyone's attention "We have agreed that after this little dispute, that both teams will play one last game, with new balls" Mr Sweet said as everyone cheer and Jerome would have joined them if he could.

Giles took his hat back from Alfie as he got ready to play again. Jerome decided to rest, his hands where burning now and he couldn't hold onto the ping-pong ball and bat.

Nina walked over, getting ready to apologize when she saw he wasn't looking right.

"Jerome are you ok?" She asked in concern.

"I...I" Jerome had no idea he was in a lot of pain at the moment but he couldn't think about that, this was his last chance to win the shield "I need a break" Jerome said as he ran to the toilet.

Nina looked around at the Sibuna's, Patricia still couldn't talk,Fabian couldn't remember something you told him five minutes ago, Alfie was acting like a five-year old and Amber was acting like a ninety-five year old, and to top it off Jerome was acting strangely.

She couldn't have punished him, he didn't have the mark, he couldn't have. He was properly just mad with her about what she had said before the match

There was only one way to find out, Nina thought as she grabbed Fabian and dragged him to the boys toilets.


Jerome quickly ran to the toilets and leaned over one of the sinks.

He felt so sick, how could he win the shield back like this. There was no way he could get so sick so soon, this had to be something else, nerves?

Jerome thought through all the possible options, when he remembered.

He quickly rolled his sleeve up and sure enough the mark was glowing red.

"What am I going to do?" He asked himself.


"What have I to do again?" Fabian asked.

"You need to go in there and make sure Jerome is ok, and ask him if he has the mark of Anubis" Nina told Fabian again.

"Why would he have the mark of Anubis?" Fabian asked.

"I don't know but he's been acting weird, and I've accidentally been cursing people, It's why you can't remember anything and Patricia can't speak, we need to be sure I haven't cursed him" Nina said sadly " I said something really mean to him, right before he started acting weird."

"Oh ok" Fabian said understanding "so what do I do?"

"Never mind let's both go in" Nina sighed, she'd rather go into the boys toilets then explain it to Fabian again.

Nina grabbed Fabian's hand and he blushed a little, Nina quickly walked in dragging Fabian with her,

They both gasped when the saw Jerome...


I was going to keep going but I fought that was a cool place to leave it, a good cliffhanger for you :J

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