Alfie's mouth was hanging open. When Jerome first told him Amber's secret all he heard was 'Amber's secret is...' then stopped focusing before asking who told him. Jerome obviously realised that his words had passed straight over Alfie, so told him again. Alfie couldn't get over it - it made no sense. Amber? A tomboy? He'd never heard anything so bizarre in his life, and so decided to ask Amber himself. Shaking his head to get himself back in reality, he pushed his way past Jerome and flung open the wooden door. He rushed into the common room. "You were a tomboy?" he yelled pointing to Amber. Her jaw dropped and she turned to face Mara.

"How could you?" she yelled, slamming her magazine down onto the coffee table and running out of the room. She rushed up the stairs to her room with tears streaming down her face. She couldn't understand why Mara had betrayed their friendship. Of course, they had had their arguments, but Amber still thought Mara was her friend and had trusted her. Nina spotted Amber crying, and went to comfort her, but Amber pushed he away and locked the door behind her.

She threw herself onto her bed and sobbed into her pillow. She heard a knock at the door and Mick's voice say, "Ambs? Are you alright?" Mick waited for her reply, but could only hear her gentle sobbing from inside the room. He knocked once more and the door flew open. Amber stood there, mascara running down her face. She was wiping away tears, and there were new tears forming in the corner of her eyes, threatening to fall down her face. She ran at him and pressed her face into his shoulder, hugging him. Mick hugged her back. "What happened?" he asked, not caring about the mascara stains on his jacket.

Between sobs Amber managed to say, "You know the secret thing?" Mick nodded. "Well Alfie came in and asked whether my secret was true as loud as he could and everyone heard. Mara was the only one I told she... she betrayed me." And with that Amber was crying again. Mick hugged her again and rubbed her back with his hand. She moved away and wiped away her tears. "Thanks," she said before following Mick down to supper. Amber sat in Mick's usual place since she didn't want to be next to Mara. Mick took her place.

Throughout the whole of supper no one talked, but every time Mara caught Amber's eye she noticed that Amber was shooting daggers at her. After they had all finished, Mara got up and immediately left the room. She walked up to her room and lay down on her bed. She didn't know why Amber hated her so much, she hadn't said a word to Alfie. The it hit her - Jerome was the only one to speak to Alfie before he asked Amber, so it must have been Jerome who heard them talking. She decided to confront him about it, but only when the two of them were alone. She knew it would be fairly awkward between them, but she knew that it must have been him, and couldn't stand getting the blame. She usually wouldn't act like this, but she'd just had enough of the prankster.

Later on, when Mara found Jerome alone in the common room, she sat down next to him silently. He looked at her and bit his lip slightly. 'Damn, she knows,' he thought. He just stared at Mara and waited for her to say something. She didn't say anything, just stared back at him. "Okay, just tell me what I did," Jerome said, sighing heavily. Mara still wouldn't say anything, so Jerome decided to annoy her. "Mara loves Alfie! Mara loves Alfie!" he sang, running away from her and into his room. She chased him, and banged hard on the door when he wouldn't open it.

"Jerome!" she yelled, trying her best to sound angry, but she was laughing a little. He opened the door a tiny bit.

"Yes, Ms. Lewis?" he asked. He knew Alfie was out shopping with Amber, so he couldn't object to it.

"I'm not Ms. Lewis," she objected. She tried to push the door open, but Jerome was a lot stronger than her. "It was you who told Alfie, wasn't it," she said, rather calmly.

"Told Alfie what?" he asked, pretending to not know what she was talking about.

"You heard me and Amber talking and told him her secret, didn't you?" she questioned. Jerome just shook his head. Mara sighed, but didn't give up. There was only one way to get him back - use what he had used on her. "Jerome loves Patricia! Jerome loves Patricia!" she sang, running up the stairs. Jerome chased after her. She tried to hold the door closed, but Jerome was stronger and pushed the door open, sending her flying onto her bed. She folded her arms and turned away from him.

"Fine, fine, it was me!" he admitted. The only reason he admitted to doing it was that if Patricia heard Mara running around singing that he loves Patricia then she was sure to tell his secret, and he didn't want anyone finding out.

"So you'll tell Amber?" she asked.

"Nope," he replied.

Mara was angry now. "Why not? You told me!" she yelled. At that moment, Patricia happened to walk past the door. She backtracked, then opened the door.

"He told you 'cos he loves you," she said simply, then walked away. Mara's jaw dropped and she was staring at Jerome. He looked away from the spot where Patricia was standing and over to Mara. He went a deep shade of red.

"I don't, honestly, Mara," he said, backing slowly out of the room. "Don't believe her, she's lying," he said. "I don't," he repeated, before he legged it out of the room and back to his own room. He fell backwards onto the bed. Alfie was back from his shopping trip, so he looked at Jerome on his bed. He knew something was up, but wasn't sure to ask him what was wrong. "I'm going to kill Patricia," was all Jerome said. Alfie raised an eyebrow.

"Why?" he asked.

"She can't keep her big mouth shut!" he yelled, sitting up on his bed. "I wish I knew her secret, then I could tell everyone that to get back at her."

"She pulled the cat prank," Alfie said, then realised what he'd done. "Don't tell her I told you," he begged. "She'll murder me!"

"Of course I won't, mate," Jerome said, but Alfie wasn't sure he could believe him, but he had no other options, so decided he needed to believe him. Jerome smiled deviously; he was so going to get back at Patricia.