Author's Note: This chapter is based off of http(:/)www. nick. com/videos/clip/house-of-anubis-catch-up-on-the-mysteries-week-three-TBHD1250-02. Html (delete the spacings and parentheses). Enjoy! I don't really think this week Mara will disappear but I'm sure she will by season's end.

Mara had been gone for a full day: No notice or anything. After she had caught him and Alfie breaking in to the library and having saved their rears, his worries of her not speaking to him came true. It was lucky she had come in the nick of time or then maybe his fate would had end as his father. Before she disappeared, she had recently seemed more reserve as if she had forgiven him a mid-week but avoided contact with him to...save him. She had been spending time with Vera which was very odd and he came to hear her sobbing when he walked past her door a few times.

And now she was gone...the last time they've spoken was a day ago, right before she had disappeared, when they met in the hallways. She had seemed stress.

"Are you going somewhere?" he'd asked as she jumped, heading out of the school doors.

"T-There's something I've got to do," she whispered; he could sense her worry.

"Do you want me to come with you? It's the least I could do," he smiled, both of them remembering her assistance when he'd meet his father only a week previously. But she stood silent, just watching him painstakingly. Were those tears in her eyes?

"No...no, thank you but..." she fumbled with her fingers. "I've got to do this alone," her voice was barely audible.

Before she walked, he grabbed her by the sleeve. "I'm here for you, Mara," he motioned. Sadly, she smiled.

"I know," her voice cracked. "And that's why I have to do this," she grabbed his hand, her clutch all the answers in the world for how scared she was.

He didn't understand then but looking back now, he knew; she was in trouble.

Breakfast was set, the majority of the boarders there, Sibuna glad to have recovered the amulets by now.

"Mara's missing," said a voice. They all turned to see Jerome at the door, out of uniform. "I'm going to go look for her. Who's with me?"

The table laid quiet. "Well?" Jerome clearly looked disgruntled. "Joy? Patricia? She's your best mate!"

"Jerome," Trixie made a face, "she could just be seeing family; she doesn't have to tell you everything."

Alfie made an apologetic face, knowing he was part of the reason why Mara had gotten angry with them as she found them at the library earlier that week. "Actually, she's told him nothing all week-"

"What is going on here?" Victor's voice erupted from behind Jerome. "You boy. Why are you not in uniform?"

Jerome straightened to his full height. "I'm not going to school, sir," he said bravely. "I'm going to go find Mara."

"Nonsense, I'm sure she'll turn up all in good time-" Vera began to say sweetly.

"No disrespect, miss," Jerome interrupted, "But..." he turned to Victor. "Sir, you've always been like a father to me when my own dad wasn't." Jerome softly said to the stern housetaker. "I've...for the most part, tried to obey every one of your rules. But sir, the one person who accepted me and helped me conquer my past...she is missing and I will do everything in my power to go find her—with your permission or not," he looked at Victor straight in the eye. Everyone held their breathe, even Eddie. No one had told Victor off recently, unlike how Eddie had done so with ill grace.

What seemed like minutes later, Victor nodded. "I shall go call the police." And with that, he took off as Jerome's hand flew to cover his mouth, the overwhelming of the situation at hand taking into effect now.