A/N:. Here we are hope you enjoy, its shorter than the others but I'll make it up too you all with a long reunion scene!

WARNINGS: LANGAUGE!

Jake's day was miserable to say the least without Sarah.

He wasn't used to being without her, often he found himself wanting to tell her things, only to get to their room and remember that she wasn't there.

He had lost the spark in his eyes. His normally bright eyes were now dull. They had gone from melted chocolate to mud.

When his siblings got home it was much better though. Not one as the same as usual. And all were missing Sarah.

It seemed that without her the family was falling apart.

From the way it was at the dinner table, Jake could practically predict how the family would be at the end of two weeks.

He would no longer be talking to anyone, and Jessica and Kim would only talk to each other.

Mark would seek comfort from his animals and Henry rather than Kate.

Nigel and Kyle would sense the change in tension and stick even closer to Henry than they already did.

And Mike would be lost, unsure where he belonged in the tangled up mess that was now the Baker Family.

It wasn't looking very pretty and he went to bed feeling dejected and miserable despite his texting with Sarah.

Sarah was up early the next morning, wanting the day to be over as quickly as humanly possible, she knew this was going to be hell.

There was no uniform thankfully. So she dressed in the clothes she was most comfortable in. Another pair of denim shorts, and a tee. She grabbed one of Jake's hoodies from her bag inhaling the smell that was only him. Bag over her shoulder she was ready for her first day.

She was dropped off at school, and headed to the office to get a time-table, and map. Her schoolbooks from her school in Midland were in her backpack, she wasn't buying new ones for just a month.

As soon as she stepped into the building she knew this was going to be a lot different from her school in Midland. This was a school full of cliques and a hierarchy, and being new had just placed her at the bottom. It was her against the rest.

The classes before recess passed uneventfully, she sat at the back, a dark expression on her face, and her headphones in her ear. Her work was done as minimally as possible and she vacantly returned the stares of those that looked at her. She wasn't here to make friends, or to make enemies. She was simply here.

It was recess when the real fun started. She was sitting outside under a tree on the edge of what was the oval, when she was approached. This girl, she could tell, ruled the year level, and the people following behind her just wanted a taste of what it was like to be in the presence of "royalty", and to maybe get a sense of power.

"Hi, I'm Amber, I haven't seen you before are you new here?" Amber such a suited name to one who ruled Sarah thought and had to bite back the sarcastic comment that wanted to shoot out of her mouth.

"Hi I'm Sarah" she replied in a sickly sweet voice instead, replacing the headphone back into her ear.

She only looked up again when she felt a tapping on her shoulder.

"I wasn't done talking to you."

Amber still had the false smile plastered on her face, and the ones around her were looking on in amusement and what the new kid was going to get today.

"And what made you think I wanted to talk to you?" Sarah asked, taking the headphone out of her ear and standing up. It amused her greatly that she had a good 3 inches on the girl standing before her, she thanked the fact both her and Jake were tall.

Sarah was glaring at the girl, challenging her to start a fight.

All sweetness was lost from Amber's voice as she replied, "I can make you life hell, or I can make it easy. I rule here, there's no doubt about it so you better listen to what I have to say and listen well..."

Sarah cut the girl off with a swift eye roll; no one threatened her and got away with it.

"How about you listen here, I'm taller than you and stronger than you, not like that's difficult anyway, and have the power to cause you great pain. Make my life hell, I don't give a fuck. Nothing you could do would make me follow you, or even respect you. I've known you for less than a minute and already I can tell that I would rather have no friends than you. Your first impression on me is less than impressive. Whore...slut...bitch..."

Here Sarah had no reputation, though she would now.

Amber silently fumed in front of her.

Sarah, from taking a quick glance around at the audience that had gathered, knew she wasn't the only one who thought what she did. Everyone knew Amber was a bitch, and a slut. Her skirt was hemmed to just above the middle of her thigh. She was only in Year 9, and already dressed like a cheap whore.

"You lesbian skank, I will not have someone question my control. You are going to suffer, and at my mercy."

That made Sarah snap, and with lightning fast actions she had slapped Amber across the face.

"Like hell I will. You have no idea what I'm like or why I'm even here. Let me give you a hint: My parents sent me here because they couldn't handle me anymore. As for school, my reputation and record would get me rejected from most boarding schools. My life actually can't get any fucking worse. So mess with me and I'm more likely to fucking rearrange your face than respect you.

Sarah stalked off, leaving Amber to fume. Her headphones were planted firmly back in her ears blasting Offspring.

Jake dreaded the starting of school. He knew it would be bad, since only he was at school, Jessica and Kim wouldn't be there until next year.

He walked through the school gate's i-pod in ears ignoring the whispers that surrounded him. He had never been through those gates without Sarah at his side.

He knew it would be bad, but he didn't expect it to be as bad as it was.

He ignored the jests and whispers almost all day till lunchtime, it was then he couldn't take it.

Walking to his locker he heard a couple of kids in their year discussing where Sarah had gone.

"Maybe their parents got sick of having a bitch in the family and sent her away," one said.

"Nah, I reckon that her and Jake were an item, even if that's sick and wrong, and got caught by Mommy and Daddy" the other said sending them both into hysterics.

That put Jake over the line, no one talked about Sarah like that. If it was about him he didn't care, but not about her they didn't.

He walked over and slammed the nearest one into a locker punching him in the face before, grabbing the other one and slamming their skulls together.

"No one insults Sarah and gets away with it" he hissed at them through clenched teeth. He slammed them both into the lockers and started punching. The crowd around had started the clichéd chant of "Fight, Fight, Fight".

Both boys had slightly recovered from their heads being slammed into objects and had started closing in on Jake, yet the adrenaline and anger that coursed through him stopped him from thinking rationally after all he did tower over the two of them anyway so what did it matter that there were two of them and only one of him.

One went high and one went low, but Jake seeing it took a step back and watched their two fists strike nothing but air.

They tried again, and again but while they got nothing in, Jake had given the short one a nice black eye and the taller one a swift kick to the balls. This had him kneeling over in pain

They may have been more muscled but they weren't as skilled as he was and were just swinging blindly. Before they could get a hit at Jake, a group of teachers had come in and separated them. Each boy was restrained by a teacher, though that didn't stop the hissing and snarling of insults that spurted out of all of the boy's mouths.

Jake struggled against the teacher, as the taller of the two boys started on about how Sarah was a slut and probably got sent away to another state.

Unfortunately Jake had the only teacher that could restrain him, and his attempts to get loose were futile.

So now he sat in the Principal's office.

In exactly the same position as Sarah was sitting.