HEY GUYS. I've been an absentee writer lately… sorry. There isn't any excuse per say.. it's just the way life's been happening, you know?

I didn't want this to happen so soon, but since I know everyone knows what's going to happen.. let's just let it happen.

HannahKay xx

Mara

May 12: The Shocker

I was jockeying three to-go cups of coffee down a busy London street when my cell started to ring. I groaned, shifting one of the cups in my arms and tentatively reached for my phone, careful to not jar the cups. My fingers fumbled with the snap on my jacket, jerking the phone to my hands.

"Hello?" I asked them, straightening my stance and wedging the phone between my shoulder and my ear as I pushed on toward the office.

"Mara!" Amber's voice screeched from the other end of the line and I winced at the ecstatic sound. She had that teen match maker kind of voice, high and shrill, always surprised.

I guess because of this fact I wasn't very excited by her tone until she said –in a wail of joy-, "Joy's getting married!"

That most certainly wasn't what I was expecting. I forced my way into the office, hands now clutching the cups of coffee as my face contorted into a surprised smile. "Joy's getting married?"

She giggled excitedly. "Joy's getting married!"

I exhaled slowly. "Joy's getting married."

"To Jerome." Amber added and I let out a shaky laugh.

"Who else, Amber?" I asked, pushing my way toward the intern's cubbyhole of an office. Slowly, I sat the coffees down in Emily and Donald's cubbies before slumping in my chair. "Why didn't Joy call me?"

She was silent for a moment. "She's a little busy." She answered quietly, a made up answer I was certain.

"I'll call her tonight." I answered quietly, sipping my coffee. "Thanks for letting me know."

After a moment she hung up and I sighed, opening my bag and pulling my laptop out to start it up. Interns don't get computers, but we do have access to a printer in case we're needed to print something…that they'll email us.

"Always the early bird, Freshman." I groaned at Marin's voice. "So eager to please."

"Always a pleasure, Martin." I replied, probably a little too sharp, but the blonde haired menace got under my skin and he knew it.

He chuckled, taking Donald's coffee from his cubby and taking a sip. "Mhm. Just the way you like it. Thanks, Freshman."

"I obviously got it for Donald, Martin, but thanks for taking his." I snapped, standing up.

His grin widened. "Course, sweetheart." It was a sickening sound, his voice so smooth and calculated.

"Don't call me that."

"Why ever not, sweetheart?"

"Because I'm not your sweetheart! You don't even like me."

He chuckled. "Who said I didn't like you?"

"It's obvious! You treat me like an incompetent child and drink my coffee and-"

"And?" He challenged and I registered the fact that he was extremely close to me, merely an inch or maybe two apart.

"You're an ass!" I yelled despite his closeness, hands shaking angrily.

He barked out a laugh. "There we go! Let it out, Freshman!" He goaded, grinning at me while I glared at him.

"You're insufferable! Why must you constantly degrade me by calling me 'Freshman!' My worth isn't counted by how old I am, Martin." I hissed his name, it tumbled angrily from my lips like a curse and his smile only grew wider. "Why're you doing that?!" My voice was venomous, ice cold rain on an early December day.

"What?" He asked, blue eyes alight with content and I groaned.

"Smiling at me like that! Why must you-"

Words failed me.

It all happened too fast.

A splash on the front page of life.

Headline "FRESHMAN INTERN MAKES OUT WITH SENIOR" (because reporters generally tend to take things up a notch no matter what happened).

In print below would be a picture of the moment when our lips crashed together, his hands forcing me to his -surprisingly-firm body by my waist.

An interview, maybe, when I'd whisper in cold blood that I "sort of liked it."

CUZ I KNEW YOU WERE TROUBLE WHEN YOU WALKED IN...so shame on me now.

hannahkayxx

PS: no one has figured out my lovely little plot twist yet... hahahhaahah *masochistic laughter* review. let me know.