Chapter 21: Liar
Mark M is pissed at Mike because now the Bakers think that Mark M told Mike to tell everyone that Elliot tried to kill him.
"Why, did you try to get Elliot in trouble?" Sarah asked Mark M outraged.
"He did it himself." Mark M replied.
"I can't believe you would tell Mike to say that." Sarah then told him.
"I didn't." Mark M then told her.
"Then, why would he say something like that?" Sarah then asked him.
"I don't know." Mark M said to her.
Then he thinks for a minute.
"Wait, Mike said that he was going to get me back for locking him out of your house." Mark M then told Sarah.
"You think he's trying to get you back?" Sarah then asked him.
"That has to be it." Mark M then told her.
Sarah rolls her eyes at him and walks out of his room. After Sarah walks out Mike walks in.
"What do you want?" Mark M snapped at him.
"I froze. I wanted to tell them what Elliot did but, I couldn't." Mike said to him.
"Mike, don't lie. I know that you and Elliot planned that whole kidnapping." Mark M told him.
"Mark, you have to believe me." Mike pleaded.
"You got me Mike. You made me look like an idiot in front of everyone." Mark M then snapped at him.
"You think that I wanted Elliot to tie me up to a chair and leave me to die?" Mike then asked him with tears in his eyes.
"Mike, I don't want to see or hear you for the next two days when this vacation is finally over." Mark M told him.
"But," Mike tried to say.
Mark M glares at Mike and Mike leaves his room. Mike goes to his room and locks the door. He lies on his bed and stares at his ceiling.
"Why doesn't anyone believe me?" Mike asked himself.
Mike looks out the window and decides to run away. He climbs out his window and shimmies down the drain pipe. He gets on his bike and rides it to a gazebo that overlooks the ocean. He sits on the bench and just stares out at the ocean.
Sarah storms into Mark M's room.
"Where is he?" Sarah asked him outraged.
"Where is who?" Mark M then replied.
"Mike." Sarah then told him.
"He's in his room." Mark M told her.
"He's not answering." Sarah then told him.
Mark M and Sarah go to Mike's room the door is still locked.
"Mike, open the door." Mark said knocking on his door.
"Mike, it's Sarah please open the door." Sarah said sweetly trying to make Mike open the door.
Sarah tries to open the door but, it's still locked.
"I have an idea." Mark M said as he went into his room.
When he comes back he has his wallet in his hand.
"Good idea. Maybe, if you bribe Mike with money he'll come out of his room." Sarah said to him.
"That's not what I had in mind." Mark M told her.
He takes out his school id and slides it through the crease between the knob and the wall and unlocks it.
"Or that could work." Sarah said to him.
They walk into his room and don't see him. They see an opened window.
"What did you say to him?" Sarah then asked him.
"I told him that I thought that him and Elliot planned his kidnapping." Mark M explained.
"You called him a liar?" Sarah then asked him.
"No. Well, yes." Mark M then sighed.
"He's a sensitive person. You can't call him a liar. He'll get upset and run away." Sarah told Mark M punching him in the arm.
"Would you stop hitting me!" Mark M yelled.
"No." Sarah told him as she slapped him in the back of the head.
"I'll let that one slide." Mark M told her rubbing the back of his head.
Mark M and Sarah go downstairs.
"Grandpa, can I drive your Z?" Mark M asked Don.
"Why?" Don then asked him.
"Please?" Mark M pleaded with him.
"If you get a speeding ticket I'll kill you." Don told him.
Mark M takes the keys to the Z.
"Dad, can I go with Mark?" Sarah asked Tom.
"Sure." Tom said to her.
Sarah goes outside with Mark M and gets into the Z.
Mark M looks at her.
"He's my little brother. Plus, he wouldn't get into a car with you after you called him a liar." Sarah smirked.
Mark M shruggs his shoulder and they go looking for Mike.