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"Are we still friends?" Jerome asked nervous for the answer.
"No."
"What?" Jerome's eye's widened. He stared at Mara, Jerome couldn't believe that this was happening.
"No, no I meant the conversation yesterday didn't make me uncomfortable and it make me so happy that you can open up to me" Mara said calming Jerome down.
"Oh, well it's because I trust you that I open up to you" Jerome smiled, not noticing the frown on Mara's face.
Trust, trust, trust, you can trust me, I can trust you.
It was getting too much for Mara, she was never good at keeping secrets and with all the guilt on her shoulders, she didn't know how much more she could keep it up.
"Mara, are you ok?" Jerome asked concerned.
"Yea, yea I'm fine" Mara smiled.
"Are you sure?" Jerome was not very convinced, he couldn't help it, but he worried all the time for Mara, he just cared...
"Yes" Mara laughed and gave Jerome an award-winning smile "I should head to class" Mara said smiling and walking out the room.
When she was down the corridor she looked back and sighed with relief, she couldn't lie to Jerome, but she couldn't break her promise to Poppy. What was she going to do?
School went by slowly for Mara she had tried to avoid Jerome as much as possible, but after class he would walk with her and at lunch he asked if they could sit together.
She wanted to say yes, but if she did she would have told him and he would never forgive her.
The last lesson was done and Jerome ran up to Mara as she walked down the halls.
"Are you sure we're still friends?" Jerome felt lonely, and hated, he knew Mara could never hate anyone or anything but it seemed to Jerome that she had avoided him all day.
"Of course, I've just been busy."
"Good, then can I walk you home?" Jerome asked with a smile.
"I'd love to but I promised Poppy" Mara said as she walk towards the computer library turning to Jerome.
"You and Poppy seem to be spending a lot of time together" Jerome narrowed his eyes.
"Well we are friends" Mara said as she walked away.
"Hey what took you so long?" Poppy asked as Mara walked in and sat at a computer.
"Sorry, Jerome wanted to walk me home" Mara said as she switched the computer on.
"See I told you he cares" Poppy smirked.
"No, he was just being a good friend" Mara smiled and Poppy rolled her eyes.
"So should we do this?" Poppy asked.
Mara stopped to think, should she? yes she made a promise to Poppy.
"Yes, let's do this" Mara half-smiled.
Mara typed into the family search 'John Trent Colbert, Hackney, London'
She hit enter and waited for the results to load. finally the results page came up and showed three results for 'John Trent Colbert, Hackney, London'
"So which one is my dad?" Poppy asked.
"We call them all and find out" Mara said picking up her phone.
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