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"Mara," Jerome whined, burying his face in his arms. He was sat at the dining table, all his books splayed out around him. Mara walked into the room and smiled, everyone else was out, there was a charity fundraising at school. "Please help me,"

Mara laughed, setting her bag down on the sofa, she walked towards him and arched an eyebrow at all the books "The Jerome Clarke doing homework? I never thought I'd see the day," she placed a hand over her heart in mock amazement, and headed just behind him to the kitchen to grab the packet of grapes she bought the other day.

"Oh haha, Jaffray." Jerome rolled his eyes, watching her walk back into the room "This is all the homework I've missed this term, and that CRAZY new teacher, is making me do it all before tomorrow!"

Mara listened, nodding and chewing "Sounds fair." She said eventually, Jerome's eyes widened in shock

"MARA! This is All of the homework. I've done none of it!" Mara sat down opposite him and rolled her eyes "Please Mara," he begged "I'll….I'll…I'll kiss you,"

Mara laughed "Jerome, we're not even dating," Jerome wished it not to be true.

"Still?"

Mara laughed.

"Fine fine, I'll…clean your room."

"You looking through my personal belongings? I think not." Mara gave him a knowing look, the last time he's cleaned someone's room, pages of their diary had mysteriously turned up all over school. Although it had never been proven to be Jerome, you didn't have to have Mara's intelligent to work out who it was.

"What do you want Mara? Anything! I'll do it!"

"Hmm…what does little Mara want from the great Jerome Clarke?" she smiled at him and Jerome felt his heart double in pace "How about…" her eyes widened and she looked down in shame when she thought of something.

"What?" Jerome asked eagerly, fire in his eyes "Thought of something good?"

"I…" Mara frowned, unsure whether she was actually going to say it "Would like you to pull a prank on…Mick." Jerome's eyes widened but Mara rushed to explain herself "I mean, he cheated on me with Joy, and he never really got punished for it! And I know we shouldn-"

"Consider it done." Jerome nodded at her.

And Mara helped him with his homework. Eight weeks worth of homework in one night, they worked tirelessly, English essays, history assignments, math calculations, science formulas, French readings, even Mara got bored.

"Right," Mara yawned "Last piece," Jerome groaned, running both hands through his hair "It says, you're meant to write a 200 word biography on Leslie Michals. Right, easy enough,"

"Um…" Jerome shot Mara a blank and helpless look and Mara let out an exasperated sigh

"Jerome! She's the woman who first came up with the idea of a love potion."

"Oh right," Jerome remembered vaguely about learning about her. "Wow…imagine that, a love potion."

Mara rolled her eyes "Would anyone really use it though? Force someone to fall in love with them? Knowing it wasn't true love." She shook her head at the thought, in her mind it was simply immoral and wrong, something you wouldn't do. Although, ask her a year ago, when she was in love with Mick…she might have done. But now she knew the real Mick Campbell…and she had grown wiser.

"Well it's not ideal." Jerome agreed, stifling a yawn. "But, if there was no other way for them to be with the person they loved."

"Would you use one then?" Mara asked, changing the cartridge in her ink pen "Let's say…you really liked someone, but they just…they didn't you know…like you back," she phrased it delicately even though she was speaking in the hypothetical. "Would you slip them some love potion?"

Jerome nodded steadily "I think I would." But he said it with a little too much feeling, for he was thinking of how he was in that position exactly. He loved Mara, worshipped the ground she walked on. He treated her like a Queen, and wished to be her King. Mara leapt at the chance

"Ooh! Who does Jerome like?" she teased happily. Jerome rolled his eyes "No seriously- I won't tell anyone, who would you give the love potion to?"

"You." Jerome said quickly, whether it was because he was tired or he was fed up of playing this waiting game, he said it. Mara froze, watching him "I'd give it to you, because you could never like me back,"

"Jerome…" she whispered "L-let's get back to the essay."

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Jerome opened his bedroom door, all dressed for school, to see Mara, waiting with her bag. "Hey," he said quietly. Slightly irritated, he had planned on avoiding Mara today, if he had the self control. Mara bit her lip, before thrusting a coloured cup into his hand, with a straw poking out through the lid, so he couldn't see what it was. "What's this?"

"Love potion." Mara smiled, brushing a stray lock behind her ear, which Jerome wished he could have done. "I don't need it…because I do like you, Jerome. I like you a lot."

"Well I don't need it," Jerome whispered back "Because I like you a lot."

Mara managed a shy smile "Why didn't you say something earlier?"

"I was making it pretty obvious." Jerome chuckled

"I thought you were Mr Subtle," Mara wrung her hands together nervously "So…would you like to…go out sometime?" Jerome nodded, taking her hand, and rubbing his thumb gently over her palm

"I've wanted that for some time now," the two walked out the door and down the stone path. Jerome looked at the cup in his hand, bringing the straw slowly to his lips "What is this anyway?"

"Chocolate milk," Mara stated obviously.

"Of course, because chocolate induces the same hormones the brain does when the chemical reaction called love occurs." Jerome kissed her cheek "Very funny, Mara."

"No actually," Mara nudged him "It's because no one can say no to chocolate milk,"

"Surely not no-one," Jerome pointed out "Diabetics?" Mara rolled her eyes and he grinned

"Well it only needs one person to love it," she reminded. Jerome frowned, and Mara laughed "You, silly," Jerome nodded, smiling sincerely, as Mara walked ahead, he watched her, and whispered under his breath

"I already do,"

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