Sorry it took so long! I've been busy with other things! I'll try to keep updating today, even though I have school and I have to watch my little sisters while my brother gets braces. Please forgive me if I don't get to. But I'm making it my day goal to upload every single drabble I need to write. Four more to go...

This was prompted by...justkeeptyping!

Jerome's POV

"Hey, come on, mate; we're going to be late." Alfie told me for the umpteenth time.

"I can't find my tie," I mumbled, shuffling through my clothes. When nothing came up I moved over to Alfie's dirty side. I mean, I'm not a very tidy person myself but…Alfie's a pig.

"Did you leave it in Mara's room last night when you two were studying?" he asked, making air quotes when he said studying.

I rolled my eyes, straightening. "Maybe,"

I brushed past him and bound up the stairs to the second floor. I knocked on Mara's door before slipping in. Without a second glance I knew my tie wasn't in here. The three girls that lived in here are all very clean and I would have noticed if something was out of place on Mara's side of the room. I groaned, dragging a hand through my dirty-blonde hair. I can't go to school without a tie and I have to go; I'll get in trouble. It's not that I care, I'll just get detention, but having detention means taking time away from Mara and I really don't want to do that. I remembered I have an emergency tie in my locker at school and bolted downstairs so I wouldn't be late. When I got to my locker and unlocked it I searched through my books, notebooks, textbooks and pranks for my spare tie but it wasn't there. I rested my arm against the locker beside mine and leaned my head on my arm. Where are my ties?

"Hey, Jerry, why so glum," Eddie smirked at me, opening his locker.

"I can't find any ties, I need to wear my tie or I'll get in trouble." I sighed, slamming my locker shut.

"Go ask for another one." Eddie shrugged as if it was that easy.

"It's not that easy. They need to order a new tie and it'll take God knows how long to get here. And I don't need a new one, I just need one. I know I have two, one that I keep at the house and one here, but this one isn't here and neither is the one at the house. Right, I used the tie I keep here, for a prank last week. I'm not getting that one back." I explained.

Eddie raised an eyebrow at me and chuckled. "Go ask Fabian, I think he has a few extra."

I nodded my thanks and headed off to find the dork.

"I'm sorry, Jerome, all of my extra ties are being washed right now," Fabian said to me sympathetically when I found him.

"Dang it," I mumbled, stalking off. I spotted Mara walking out of a class room and jogged up to her. "Hey, Jeffray,"

"Good morning, Jerome." She smiles up at me.

She stopped at her locker and spun the combination into the dial.

I waited for her to finish trading books and close her locker before I spoke again. "I can't find my tie,"

"Oh, is that why you don't have one? I thought you were just protesting against the school uniform requirements."

"Really, Jeffray, can you see me doing that?"

She raised an eyebrow at me with a closed mouth smile.

"Don't answer that. Anyway, I most likely won't be able to hang out after school, I'll probably have detention."

"Alright," she sighed.

My eyebrows furrowed when I looked at the tie around her neck. I reached my hand out and took the tie between my thumb and forefinger, bringing it up to examine it. Mara was pulled forward with it and giggled, pushing my stomach to get me to let go.

"Jerome, we're in school."

I flipped the tie over and sure enough, there it was in red: Jerome Clarke.

"This is my tie, Mara," I chuckled.

"What?" she looked at the name sewn into the fabric. "Oh, I'm so sorry, Jerome. It was lying on my bed—"

"Alfie was right, I did leave it in your room." I shook my head in amazement.

She reached up and moved to untie it.

"No, its okay, Jeffray, I'll manage." I grabbed her hands and draped them over my shoulders. "It looks much better on you than it ever did on me."

She giggled again and moved her hands to the collar of my shirt. She unbuttoned one of the fourth buttons and pulled the tips of the collar, pulling it apart. "You should not where a tie more often." She smiled up at me with a flirtatious smile. She sighed and pulled me to our next class. "Let's get to a room full of people before I do something that'll get us expelled."

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#8: "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." -Acts 1:8

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-Rachel