Chapter Two

"Another fight?" Kate asked looking at her son in disbelief, while Jake carefully placed the icepack against his black eye, wincing at the sensation. "Jake, this is the third time this month that you've gotten into a fight." Kate shook her head and sat down in the chair in front of him. "What has gotten into you?"

Jake rolled his eyes, knowing this speech was going to come. "It wasn't my fault okay?" Jake defended himself. "The other guy started it." And this was true. This time anyway. Jake had been fighting with this guy called Parker Evans and it seemed like he was it his job to make Jake's life a living hell. Although this time it was Parker's fault, Jake did kind of overreacted the other times. But this time, it was personal and Jake wanted to make sure he got what he was asking for. "He insulted my family okay? I had to do something." He shrugged, not seeing what the big deal was.

Kate sighed. "Well it was good that you were looking after your family. But fighting him? Jake you know better than that." She shook her head. "Did you get any punishment?"

"A week of detention." He told her, already dreading it.

"Well at least something good came out of it." Kate said and Jake knew by the tone of her voice she was disappointed in him. "Go up to your room. I'll send one of your brothers and sisters up when dinner's ready."

Jake sighed knowing he'll probably get his punishment later. He didn't say anything and went up to his room that he shared with Henry and flopped onto his bed when he got there.

"Woah what happened to you?" A voice exclaimed. Jake sat up a little to see Mike standing in the doorway.

"Nothing." Jake grunted, he sat back down and rolled over to his side facing the wall.

Mike realising Jake wasn't going to say anything else about the subject, he changed. "Do you have an extra pair of skates?

"I thought you did?" Jake asked.

"They're not for me. They're for Mark." Mike explained. "I'm teaching him how to skate."

"Since when did you two become best friends?" Jake asked him. Lately, he, Mike and Sarah hadn't been hanging out with each other as much as they did. Jake didn't really hang out with any of his siblings anymore, just his two best friends Chris Atwell and Haley Saunders. Even Sarah didn't hang out with anybody out of the family. But then again Sarah wasn't herself nowadays.

Mike shrugged, not knowing the answer himself. "Go ahead." Mike grinned at his brother and looked around for the skates. Seconds later he was out of the room.

Henry came home an hour or so later after Jake had come home. School had finished an hour ago but with the SAT's coming up, all that Henry had been doing was studying and he was hating it. He couldn't wait for these next couple of weeks to fly through that way he would no longer have to study.

He sat at the table and was about to take out some more books to work on one of his projects when Sarah came in, looking like she wanted to talk to him about something.

"Henry you just came home from school and you're already studying? Haven't you been studying for the past few weeks now? I think you should take a break." Sarah said, worrying about her brother.

But Henry shook his head. "No I'm fine. I just really need to work on this project. It'll only be for about an hour at least." He told her.

She rolled her eyes. "Whatever. Listen I was wondering if I could talk to you about Jake."

"What about him?"

"Aren't you worried about him?" She asked and he turned to look at her.

"Why should I be worried?" Henry asked her curiously.

"Haven't you noticed that he hasn't exactly been talking to any of us? That he's been getting into fights pretty much every single day and yet hasn't explained why he's been getting into them?"

Henry shook his head. Yes, he had been noticing his brother's unusual attitude and the fact that he had been getting into trouble more than usual. But he didn't think it was anything to worry about.

"I have noticed but I don't think it's anything you should worry about."

Sarah frowned. "Are you sure?"

Henry nodded. "I'm positive. He's probably just going through some things at the moment and he probably just needs to sort them out."

"If you say so…." She trailed.

Henry raised his eyebrow at her. This was the first time in a while he had seen her looking so worried about one of their siblings.

"What do you care anyway? You haven't exactly been sister of the year lately."

Sarah looked hurt. "Look, just because I haven't been hanging out with you guys doesn't mean I don't care about you. You're my family, I always care about you."

"It doesn't seem like it." Henry muttered before working on his project indicating that the conversation between him and Sarah was over.

The brunette stared at him. "Whatever." She said annoyed and stomped off.

Authors Note: Hey guys, I'm so so so sorry for not updating this story sooner. I really didn't think that I would get so many reviews on it and that people actually enjoyed it. But I kind of had writers block for a while and just went off writing for ages but seen as its 2014 – has it really been two years since I posted this? (damn, I'm sorry) I'm going to try and update this more regularly (but let's just see how well that works out) and write more stories.

I apologize for this chapter I just wanted to give you guys a little filler chapter or something to say that I haven't forgotten about this story.

Again thank you guys for all the reviews and I will try and update this more – if you guys could give me ideas for chapters that'd be great. Anyways hope you like it and that most of you will still be with me and if you are please review.

-UnpredictablyReckless