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His day could not have got worse. He had homework from ever subject, had failed his science test (purely because he hadn't revised) And just found out that Poppy's birthday was in two days and she was expecting concert tickets to a band he had never heard of.

But when he opened his bedroom door, all that anger evaporated. Mara Jaffray was lying on his bed, fast asleep, his doctor who blanket covering her. And he smiled. He saw her algebra book on his desk, they had got into the habit of doing homework in his room after school, she must have been exhausted. Smiling, he closed the door behind him, and headed over to her.

"Mara," he whispered, placing his hand gently on her shoulder, "Mara get up," he sat on his bed, shaking her, but Mara simply moaned cutely, and rolled over snuggling her face into his chest, her hand limp on his stomach. Jerome froze, looking down at her. She looked beautiful.

He couldn't wake her up, not if she looked like that. So he lay there, rather uncomfortably, and let her sleep.

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Mara yawned, waking up, frowning. Then she looked around and laughed quietly, she must have fallen asleep. When she noticed Jerome, snoring lightly beside her. She sat up, stretching her arms, and carefully getting off the bed.

She felt alert now, alert and awake. She jumped back onto the bed, bouncing lightly and laughing. Jerome groaned, blinking his eyes open, smiling once he saw her. "I see you had a good sleep,"

"You have a surprisingly comfortable bed," Mara grinned

Jerome sat up sleepily "You should spend more time here then," Mara whacked his arm playfully and his grin widened "So, what do you want to do now?"

Mara played with his hand as he watched her, his love filled with so much love. "Um... I don't know," she shrugged apologetically "What do you want to do?"

Jerome sat up, catching her shoulder and kissing her softly. Mara kissed him back eagerly, and remembered why he was so much better for her than Mick. Jerome was so much softer and sweeter, a million times more romantic and he seemed to actually care about her. On some level, Mick had never really loved her, and she had never felt this way about him.

Mara pulled away, her hands around his neck "We could finish up some algebra?"

"That's what you think about after I kiss you?" Jerome teased, pulling her back when she tried to go to the desk "No, we know all the algebra we need,"

"Oh yeah," Mara teased, burying her face in the crook of his neck

"Yeah, JC+MJ=LOVE,"

"Not technically correct," Mara laughed, blushing. Jerome pulled her back to kiss her again, very lightly on the lips "It would be-"

"Yeah yeah," Jerome rolled his eyes "Fine, let's do some homework,"

Mara cocked her head "You'd do homework with me just because I asked you too?"

"I do whatever you ask me to, Mara," he grinned. Mara smiled at him

"That's...so kind," she leaned forward to kiss him again, and the two lay back on the bed. "Let's just rest,"

"With you by my side? Any day,"

And the two fell asleep in each other's arms.