Hey guys!

I hope you're ready for some drama, cause I've got plenty of it. Maybe too much... tell me what you think.

Unfortunately in the 24 hours since I last posted I haven't been able to secure the ownership of House of Anubis, just in case you were wondering.

See you at the bottom!

Mara's POV

I looked at my watch and frowned. Mick had left to go for a run after supper and he still wasn't back. Usually I wouldn't have worried, but once again he was out running with Charlotte.

I originally hadn't minded Charlotte, but now I wasn't so sure. She and Mick had heaps in common, and I knew it wouldn't be long before she tried to steal him from me, just like Amber had.

"Do you think Mick and Charlotte would make a good couple?" I turned to Patricia. We were sitting on the dining table doing our biology homework (or should I say I was doing my homework and she was copying the answers).

Patricia frowned and looked at me. "Why are you asking if I think your boyfriend would look good with someone else?"

I sighed and rubbed my temples. "I just… they've been spending a lot of time together."

"They've been running twice," she pointed out. "I really don't think you've got anything to worry about."

"Still…"

"Look," she sighed. "If you're so worried, why don't you just ask him?"

That was actually a really good idea. "You're right," I nodded. "I think I'll do that."

We went back to our homework. About ten minutes later I heard the front door open and Mick and Charlotte's laughter echoed through the house. Immediately I felt the jealousy bubble up inside me.

Mick entered the common room but Charlotte wasn't with him.

"How was your run?" I asked coldly.

Beside me I felt Patricia collect her books and leave the room.

"Good?" he was clearly confused by my tone.

"And how's Charlotte?"

Immediately his face cleared. "Are you jealous? Of me and Charlotte?"

"Why? Is there something to be jealous of?" this line made me think back to the previous year before we had started dating. I'd been jealous that he was training with Miss Robinson and almost gotten her fired and him expelled.

There had been nothing going on then, so why should there be something going on now?

But this is different, I reminded myself. The idea of Miss Robinson and Mick was ridiculous, but him and Charlotte… not so much.

"Why don't you trust me?" apparently Mick had remembered that occasion as well. "If I say that nothing's going on, why can't you just believe me instead of making such a big deal of things?"

"I'm making a big deal of things?" I asked, properly annoyed now. "Don't I have a right to be concerned when you keep going off with some other girl? I thought I was supposed to be your training partner."

"Just because you're my girlfriend doesn't mean you get to control my whole life," he pointed out. Typical Mick, thinking I wanted to control him. Maybe if he had two brain cells to rub together he might be able to look after himself. "I am allowed to have other friends you know."

"I never said you weren't. I just like to know what you're doing."

"What are you, a stalker?" he was annoyed now. "You don't own me Mara."

With that he stormed off to his room, leaving me alone as I sobbed silently.

About half an hour later I decided to make my way up to my room. I left the common room to find Mick and Charlotte chatting in the hallway just outside Mick's room.

I stopped short and glared at them. It was a few moments before Mick noticed me. He glared right back at me, and after a minute Charlotte turned around to see what he was looking at. We faced off for a few minutes before Mick did the last thing I expected him to do.

He kissed Charlotte.

On the lips.

I turned away to hid the hot tears that were running down my face and hurried up the stairs. I knew it! There had been something going on between them!

The next morning I was the second last person down to breakfast, the only exception being Charlotte. I immediately noticed the tension in the air. I'm not joking when I say that it was so thick you could have cut it with a knife. Everyone was completely silent and they kept shooting angry glares at Mick, who looked up and glared at me when I entered.

There were two empty seats left at the table, one next to Mick and the other between Joy and Jerome. As I sat down next to her I vaguely wondered why Joy was eating breakfast with us when she was supposed to be in Isis House, but to be honest I had bigger things on my mind.

At this point Charlotte entered the room. She looked around for a moment, her eyes landing on the only empty seat, which as I mentioned before, was right next to Mick. I was annoyed to see a look of sympathy pass over Nina's face as she looked at her roommate. Without a word the dirty blonde got up and moved, leaving her seat for Charlotte.

This immediately annoyed me. Only the night before Nina had been comforting me. Why was she in Charlotte's side now?

"Jerome, could you pass the juice?" Patricia asked sweetly. I had to work hard not to grin- I could see exactly where this was going and for once I didn't care.

Either Jerome hadn't realised what was going on or didn't mind, because he passed Patricia the jug without hesitation.

Within seconds its contents were all over Charlotte.

"Patricia!" Fabian and Nina exclaimed in unison.

Charlotte stood up in shock, wiping the liquid off her now sopping clothing. With one last glance around the able she left the room.

I served myself some cereal trying to avoid looking at my housemates. Suddenly Mick scraped back his chair and stood up.

"Erm… I have an announcement to make," he told us. "My family's decided to relocate… to Australia. I'm going with them."

There was a shocked silence, but he was only watching me.

"Australia?" I echoed numbly. "But that's… on the other side of the world."

"That is the basis of its appeal," he said coldly before pushing his chair in. "Anyway, I'm going for a run."

He quickly left the room. Breakfast continued in an awkward silence.

"You know she has a boyfriend," Nina said eventually.

"And does he know that she's going around kissing other boys?" I asked coldly.

"She was really upset last night," she insisted. "Mick definitely kissed her, not the other way round."

"Upset that she kissed him, or upset that she got caught?"

Nina huffed in annoyance. "Listen Mara, none of us are denying that Mick did the wrong thing. But you can't blame Charlotte in any of this.

"And what if she'd kissed Fabian? How would you have felt then?" I countered.

She just stared at me for a moment. "That's different," she pointed out eventually. "Fabian's not my boyfriend."

"Oh please," I scoffed. "Charlotte told us all about how you two go on secret attic dates. I don't know why you're standing up for her, she can't keep a secret."

"That was a joke," Fabian interjected calmly. "Charlotte knows that now. We were just messing with her."

"Exactly," Nina continued. "And therefore it is different. But that's beside the point. You can be angry at Mick all you like, we all are, just leave Charlotte out of it."

I was tired of arguing, so I just got up and left the room, my half eaten bowl of cereal still on the table.

I didn't go to school though. I was annoyed, and I needed to channel this.

I headed up to Nina and Charlotte's room, a revenge plan forming in my mind. Everyone thought I was sweet an innocent…and I was. Just not to people who tried to steal my boyfriends.

Charlotte's laptop was on her bed, and easy target. I picked it up and sat against the door so nobody could get in before opening it up. She didn't even have a password on it, so soon I had opened up her Skype and was searching though her call history.

The person she had spoken to most frequently was some guy called Angus, so I clicked on the call button and waited patiently as it rang.

"Hello?" I heard a male voice. Its owner's face soon appeared on the screen. "Oh. Hi."

"Hey," I said. "I'm Mara. You're Charlotte's boyfriend, right?"

"Um… yeah?" he seemed very confused. "What's up?"

"I just thought I'd give you a bit of an update of what's been going on around here."

"Um… okay."

"Well more specifically, I just thought I should tell you about what happened between my boyfriend… sorry, ex-boyfriend, and you're girlfriend last night."

Angus frowned.

"I caught them kissing," I told him bluntly. "Just thought I'd let you know."

With that I hung up, leaving him to contemplate the information I had just given him.

Oh Mara, what have you done?

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Next chapter should be up on Thursday. See you then!

-Bobbi