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"And then we can have a family table here," Mara smiled, looking down at the sheet of paper. Jerome rested his cheek on her head, arm wrapped around her, eyes half closed, breathing in the scent of her lavender hair. He never thought he'd like lavender. "Jerome? Jerome are you listening?" Mara frowned

"Yes,"

"Then what did I just say?"

"You said, Jerome, are you listening?"

"Before that,"

"You said…Jerome is awesome," they both laughed lightly. "Okay, fine, what's up?" he leaned away from her and peered down at the page "Right, right…yeah, okay. What's up?"

"The family table," Mara explained "How many seats?"

"Well let's see," Jerome lifted his hand and started counting on his fingers "Your mum, your dad, my dad, your aunt, your uncle. That's five,"

"Jerome," Mara sighed, intwining her hand with his, "What about your mum?" Jerome took a sharp intake of breath

"She's not coming."

"But…she's your mum," Jerome scoffed at this, standing and running a hand through his blonde hair.

"She is not my mum Mara. She's a stranger. And you know what they say about stranger danger," he raised his eye brows expectantly. Mara just sighed

"I want to get to know my mother-in-law,"

"Jeez," he turned and walked over to her bookshelf. Running his hands along the spine of the well kept books "Even if I wanted to, I don't know her details."

Mara stayed seated at the desk, swivelling the chair to watch him with large eyes "Your dad would know,"

Jerome cringed, he had hoped she wouldn't be smart, just for today. But obviously that hadn't happened. "It would just make everything awkward."

"You wouldn't have to talk to her," Mara said softly. Jerome didn't say anything, reading some of the titles of her books, until one caught his eyes. Road to law success Jerome frowned at the title, that wasn't a very Mara like book… "So what do you say?" she asked before he could bring his hand up to collect the book

"Hmm?" he asked frowning, turning to her

"Will you phone your mum?"

"Phone my mum?"

"For the wedding." Just saying it gave her the shivers.

"Anything for you dear," he smiled. Mara laughed, turning back to the table.

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Jerome waited until she had gone to her afternoon classes, he watched her from the window, until he couldn't see her anymore. And then dashed to her room. It was unlocked, as usual and he walked in, closing it quietly behind him, just in case Nina decided to come and check in

"That Nina," he murmured, closing the door "Always seems to be everywhere at once," he moved over to the book shelf and picked up the strange book. It was surprising heavy. He opened the book, and his eyes widened in disbelief, the pages had been hollowed out, and it's place, a small, brown, metal looking book.

Jerome almost leapt with joy at the finding. He pulled the book out, setting the decoy on her bed, and sitting down beside it "Little Jaffray, you've learnt haven't you?" he smiled fondly, wondering how he didn't find it earlier.

He tried to open the book, but found he couldn't. Jerome frowned, taking a closer look. It was password activated. "Of course," he muttered, brain racing, this was Mara. What would Mara's password be?

"I love studying?" he asked the book. The small light flashed red. He grimaced. "I'm a brainiac?" Red "I love Jerome?" Red. He sighed, it was hopeless. Until one last thought came to mind "Books." He said simply, and the light flashed green.

He took a second to relish in the pleasure. It had been a while since he'd done anything like this. University had sort of taken that away from him. But this was great.

He opened the book, and the first page read

This is a diary, property of Mara Jaffray.

See that Jerome? It says Mara Jaffray, not Jerome Clarke. Now because we're friends, please don't read further.

I hope I'm not writing to blind eyes.

Jerome smiled, it was sweet that she assumed it would be him who found it. It was also sweet how he thought that message would stop him. Hardly anything stopped him. "I love you Mara, but come on, give me something," he said mostly to himself. It was obvious that this diary had been started in Anubis House.

He turned the page with a quick slip of the finger, liking that her handwriting was neat and girly and easy to read. Alfie's diary had been a nightmare.

Day One

Dear Diary,

I never really thought about starting a diary, until today. I had the best day today! Mick, THE Mick asked me out! Me? Can you believe it? I am so happy! I can't stop smiling. And the best part of is, everyone is happy for me! Even Amber's acting nice about it!

Jerome winced at the words, quickly realising that he didn't want to read this part, he turned the pages, looking for something that caught his eyes

Dear Diary,

I'm wondering, can feelings change? I've been with Mick for one month now, and I've started thinking about…Someone else. I'm not going to write their name, because I don't think I can even admit it to myself right now. It's so out of character for me. Maybe it's just because I've never had a boyfriend before, this is just a test. Don't worry diary, false alarm, I still love Mick-

Jerome cut off again, but that boy. The boy she was talking about, it had to have been him, he scanned further, looking for confirmation.

Dear Diary.

His Name is Jerome Clarke. There, I said it. I admitted it. To you and to myself. I don't know why though. Mick is perfect. Perfect in every way, he's sweet and kind and thoughtful, and he NEEDS me, no one's ever needed me before.

But I can't get Jerome out of my head. He's like an illness…only a really good illness. I don't know why I like him, like I said before, it's out of character.

He's too tall, he's a prankster, he's mean, he's rude, he's a gossip, he's a player, he's secretive.

But there's something about him. I don't know what, but there's just…something.

Today, during dinner. While Mick was telling everyone the story of how he scored the last goal. I looked up, to see Jerome looking at me.

The Jerome Clarke was looking at plain old me. And I'm not going to lie, I felt pretty special, diary, I felt really special.

His sparking blue eyes looked right into mine, and I stared back, mostly in shock. His eyes looked…curious, as if he were trying to figure something out. And I just sat there, staring…I'm not going to lie. He looked drop dead gorgeous. And I felt pretty stupid for not noticing it earlier.

But then he was mean. He said 'Jeez Mara, shouldn't it be your BOYFRIEND you're staring at?' everyone just laughed it off. But I blushed, partly because he was right. But Partly because of how he said my name.

Oh god.

Jerome's eyes widened slightly. He hadn't known Mara liked him then. It had been a time for him when he just relished in the feeling of pranks. Sure, back then he had harboured some small crush towards Mara, but it hadn't meant anything.

He remembered that day, he remembered saying those words. But he smiled, because Mara had called him gorgeous, he laughed loudly. If anyone was gorgeous, it would be her.

"Jerome? What are you doing in here?"

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