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Sorry about the whole chapter 10 mix up, but if you wanna go back and re-read it, this whole thing would make more sense!

"Wow, Mara, you look just like you did before. Beautiful as ever." The tall boy said down to the girl who was sitting in a coffee shop, holding a warm mug of hot chocolate. Mara looked up, and her eyes grew wide

"Edmon?" she asked, dazed

"Yeah, I know," he chuckled, running a hand through his hair "I had a bit of a makeover."

Mara nodded dumbly. Edmon's blonde hair was now dyed a dark black, ruffled by the wind outside. His was taller now, slimmer and apparently stronger. He had a light splatter of freckles across his nose that she hadn't seen before. In other words, he looked…gorgeous.

"So, is there any particular reason you wanted to see me?" he asked sitting down. Mara took a deep breath, before smiling.

"Not really Ed, I just wanted to spend some time with you. Haven't seen you in ages." She shrugged. Edmon nodded

"I would love to spend some time with you Mara, are there any parks around here?"

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One Week Later (So what? I'm allowed to make a lot of time pass in one line if I want!)

"So you won the election?" Edmon asked, as they walked

"Yup," Mara smiled, Edmon tilted the white bag of sweets he was holding to her, and Mara grinned, digging her hand in and pulling out a sugar covered snake. Popping it into her mouth.

"I've missed this," Edmon commented "I've only been here a week with you and it feels as though you've never left."

Mara chewed slowly, before answering "But I did leave."

"Mara-"

"Edmon can we not-"

"No Mara. We have to talk about this," they stopped in front of Anubis house now, it was around midday and the sun shone brightly. "That day, I made the biggest mistake of my life,"

"Edmon-"

"No, it's true. When Cindy came over, I thought she was only coming to talk, I had no idea what she was about to do. But then she kissed me, I was so shocked that I didn't do anything. I didn't move. But then, I did what you do, you know Cindy was a close friend of mine, right?" Mara nodded "Well, I reacted normally, I kissed her back Mara, and it was wrong, so wrong. Then you came round and saw us. I wanted to die, but Mara." He placed one hand on her shoulder, the other hand still carrying the sweets "I love you so much," he shook his head, a sad look etching into his beautiful features

"Edmon-"

"No Mara please, I know what you're going to say 'Oh Edmon, I really want this to work out, but I've moved on. I can't give you another chance. You hurt me so much!" He put on a girlish voice and Mara laughed loudly. But he had been right. That was almost exactly what she was going to say "But seriously Mara, have you ever been with someone, but kissed someone else anyway?"

Mara's face became serious. Yes she had. She had kissed Jerome when she was still with Mick. But did that mean she stopped loving Mick? No, she still loved him. It was just that she loved someone else more.

"So please Mara," Edmon leaned forward, and Mara froze, unsure what he was about to do. Edmon leaned forward, and brushed his soft lips to her pink ones. It was just a light touch, and Mara made no move to move. But Edmon stepped forward, pressing further into her. She smelt like roses, and her lips tasted like sugar.

Mara pulled away first, and looked up at him "Edmon," she sighed, "I-"

"I love you so much," he choked out. Mara watched him, feeling the urge to cry

"See you tomorrow, yeah? At the park?" her voice was slightly higher, she felt so bad.

"Yeah, and Mara, I'm so, so sorry,"

Mara watched him leave, before turning and walking up the steps to the house, what she saw made her blood run cold.

Jerome was stood there.

At the top of the stairs, in all his glory, hair swept forward in the style she loved. Looking down at her. Mara kept her chin up and kept walking, until she was the same level with him.

"Hey Jerome," she smiled lamely. Why she was so afraid? She didn't know. She was doing this for him, wasn't she?

"People call you such a good girl," he muttered, disappointment and helplessness in his tone. "But you're not. Imagine it Mara, if I told everyone that you kissed me while you were dating Mick. That Mick meant nothing to you. That he was just a rebound. Imagine if I told everyone that I was just a rebound, because there had been some other guy you had been leading on for years. Someone no one even knew existed." His words were laced with venom, but his eyes held so much love. "Imagine it Mara. And just imagine the look on their face, when I show them this," Jerome turned his phone around, and there was a picture, of her and Edmon, kissing.

"Oh Jerome," she whispered, sadly. She looked up at him "I was only doing this for you," she carried on in her hushed tone "I only called him here so that I would get over him and be with you properly. I kissed you when I was with Mick because I realised you were the one for me. I haven't been leading anyone on Jerome. It's you, it's always been you." Her voice was so soft, so kind. So ashamed.

Jerome looked down at her, wishing everything she said to be true, but not believing it. "Then say it." He ordered harshly "Say you love me."

"Jerome-"

"You'll say it if you want to be with me!" he yelled, and a tear fell from his eye. One single tear, he wiped it away harshly, and there was no sign that it had ever been there. Mara starred at him. He really cared about this, didn't he? He had cried because she had hurt him so much. Jerome Clarke had shed a tear. And now he was giving her the perfect opportunity to make up for everything. All she had to do was say she loved him, and she would be with him again. It was then that Mara realised she did, in fact lo-

"Hey Mara, I forgot to give you back your head phones…" Edmon drifted off when he saw how the two of them were starring at each other. Jerome turned to him. "Hey," he smiled, sticking his hand out "I'm Edmon, a friend of Ma-" Edmon never got to finish his sentence, because Jerome had shoved him hard, and Edmon had slid back down all the stairs. Landing on his back at the bottom.

"Jerome!" Mara scolded, rushing down to help Edmon, but Jerome was faster. He had longer legs and was just plain faster. He reached Edmon before Mara did, and placed his foot onto Edmon's chest. Edmon wheezed

"Hey! What do you think you're doing?" he breathed, trying to stand but failing.

"Jerome," Mara shook her head as she ran over "Jerome please, think about what you're doing."

"Say it Mara." Jerome said through gritted teeth

"Say what Mara?" Edmon wheezed. Mara's eyes flitted between the two of them, torn. Either way someone got hurt. So effectively, she was just choosing who to hurt. And it was killing her.

She couldn't do this. She wanted to run inside and leave the both of them out here to sort it out for themselves. She wanted to kiss them both, she wanted to explain everything she was feeling without someone getting hurt my her words.

"I love you Jerome!" she screamed finally. Edmon and Jerome stopped breathing. And Jerome removed his foot off of Edmon to stare at her in complete shock. She hadn't just said it had she? Never in a million years did he think that she would.

"What?" he whimpered

"I love you," she said more softly, walking over to him, and hugging him tightly. Jerome took a deep breath in, never happier. He wrapped his arms around her, and laid his cheek on her soft hair.

"Mara?" they both turned to see Edmon, standing now, he was just a bit shorter than Jerome "You don't, do you? You can't love him Mara! You can't! I came all this way because I still love you!"

"Ed," Mara managed to look right into his hazel brown eyes "I can't be with you. It's not because I don't forgive you. Because I do. I do forgive you, I know you didn't mean to kiss her. And I still really like you Edmon. But I'm with someone else now."

"So you mean, if I'd come back, say three months earlier, you and me would be…"

"Edmon," Mara sighed, walking over to him and wrapping her arms around his neck, pulling him close to her. She whispered so quietly into his ear so that Jerome wouldn't hear "Oh Edmon, I really did love you once, you know that right?" she felt Edmon nod "I'm still going to meet up with you tomorrow, okay? But Jerome is most probably going to come along. Okay? Please, can we still be friends?"

"I'd do anything for you Mara," he whispered back. Mara squeezed him tightly before letting go and returning to Jerome. He took her hand and led her back inside.

Edmon starred after them.

Crushed.

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