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Chapter 24

It was early in the morning and Jake lay on his bed buried in his own thoughts.

"Hey Jake are you alright?" Mike asked noticing Jake was awake.

Jake didn't say anything.

"Jake!" Mike said

"Oh sorry did you say something," Jake said.

"Yeah I asked if you were alright," Mike replied.

"Yeah I'm fine," Jake answered.

"What were you thinking about? You looked a bit lost in your own thoughts," Mike asked.

"Just what I'm going to do so that Sarah will forgive me," Jake replied.

"She will forgive you eventually you just need to give her time there's not much point in beating yourself up about it," Mike said.

"She might not because I've never seen her like this mad before," Jake replied.

"Neither have I but she's your sister and whether she likes it or not you're always going to be a part of her life so of course she will forgive you. Do you really think she's going to still be annoyed at you in a year's time?" Mike asked.

"Maybe," Jake replied.

"She won't trust me," Mike said.

"Do you think you could have a word with her so that she might consider forgiving me," Jake suggested.

"Yeah sure but I can't make her forgive you," Mike said.

"Thanks dude," Jake said.

It was later in the morning and everyone had just finished their breakfast. All the Baker's had figured that something was going on as Jake and Sarah sat at the opposite sides of the table and didn't say a word to each other and Mike sat with Mark as he didn't want to choose sides.

"Tom what should we do they don't seem to even want to look at each other yet again speak," Kate said.

"I don't know maybe we should just sit down with them both and try to help them work thing out," Tom replied.

"You sure that's a good idea?" Kate said having her doubts.

"It's worth a try," Tom said.

"Well ok then but should we speak to Mike too because I'm not sure if he's involved in it or not," Kate said.

"Well I seen him speak to both of them so I don't think he's arguing with them but we could also speak to him to see what their arguing about," Tom said.

"I'll go get Sarah and you get Jake," Kate said.

"Ok," Tom replied.

"Hey Sarah could you please come through to mine and your dad's room we're wanting to have a word," Kate said as she came into Sarah's room.

"Okay," She replied.

"What is he doing here?" Sarah said as she walked into the room to see Jake and her dad sitting there.

"We wanted to speak to you both," Tom said.

"Why?" Jake asked.

"Sarah shut the door," Tom said.

"No I'm not listening to whatever you have to say," Sarah said before she went to leave the room.

"Sarah!" Kate shouted.

"Fine then I'll listen to what you's have got to say," She replied.

"Now for some reason unknown to us you two seem to be having an argument and no longer speaking to each other," Tom said.

"Yeah and," Sarah said.

"Cut the attitude Sarah," Kate said.

"Well can't you two just forget about what happened and move on from it," Tom said.

"No I'm sorry but I can't just forget what happened and move on from it," Sarah said.

"Maybe if you two told us what happened we could help," Kate suggested.

"Trust me there is nothing you can do to make things any better if you ask me you're just making things worse," Jake replied.

"Are you done? Because I just want to go back to my room," Sarah asked.

"Yeah we're done," Kate replied.

"Remind me not to listen to one of your ideas again," Kate said to Tom

Sarah and Jake left the room and headed towards their own rooms.

"You know something Sarah I've apologized loads, I've begged you for forgiveness, I've given you space and yet you just stand there blaming this all on me and your making me out to be the bad guy," Jake said.

"Well in case you had forgotten you were the one who lied to me, you were the one who let me get close to Elliot again not me," Sarah replied.

"Yeah and in case you'd forgotten you lied to me too so don't try and make out that your some kind of saint," Jake shouted.

"But if you had told me the truth in the first place then I wouldn't of had to lie to you because Elliot was the one who made me lie," Sarah shouted back.

"Well he made me lie too. He begged me not to tell you. He made me believe that he was actually really sorry," Jake said.

"He might have been," Sarah replied.

"What he might have been really sorry I don't think so. How could you even believe that after all he has done to you," Jake said.

"I don't I was just saying," Sarah snapped.

"I bet that if he apologized to you, you would forgive him wouldn't you?" Jake asked.

Sarah didn't say anything.

"See you'll forgive him even though he cheated on you with another girl, he lied to you, and he even asked you back out and made you lie to your family. But you won't forgive me. I only lied to you because I thought it was the best thing to do," Jake yelled.

"No I won't forgive Elliot. I wish he wasn't in my live I would much rather I never seen him again than forgive him actually I would much rather die than forgive him," Sarah yelled.

"So would you rather die than forgive me?" Jake asked.

"Well come on then," Jake said waiting for Sarah to answer.

"You know what I don't even care if you forgive me. I'm now passed caring because I've not did anything worse than Mike did but you'll forgive him no problem," Jake shouted.

"Your older you should know better," Sarah shouted back.

"Well that's rubbish too because you forgave Henry earlier this morning, he told me himself," Jake replied, "And it's not my fault your boyfriend cheated on you, lied to you and made you lie to the rest of your family so if you're looking for someone to blame maybe you should blame yourself."

"You were supposed to be my best friend and out of everyone else in this world you know me the best. I trusted you more than anyone else in this world that's why I forgave Mike and Henry but not you. Out of everyone I know you were the one I would of least expect to have kept something like this from me," Sarah shouted.

"Well we all make mistakes and if you can't even forgive me after seeing how sorry I am then I didn't know you as well I thought because the Sarah I know would of forgiving me a long time ago. Yeah sure the Sarah I know would have been annoyed and not spoken to me for a while but not have kept it up for this long and have forgiven Henry and Mike," Jake said.

"Well I don't know who this Sarah you know is but it's not me," Sarah replied.

"The Sarah I know is the Sarah you use to be," Jake replied, "And I wish I could get that Sarah back because she was my best friend not whatever you've turned into these days."

"And I want the old Jake back because maybe you didn't notice but you've changed a lot too," Sarah replied.

"And I just want the old Sarah and Jake back," Mike said as he came out form his room, "Your upsetting everyone do you think any of us want to hear you two arguing."

Sarah and Jake stopped arguing and started too listed to Mike.

"I want my best friends back too. You've both changed. I can barley recognize you two these days. The Sarah and Jake I know would never have argued like this before and I just wish it would stop. You're making the whole family depressed and miserable we all hate seeing you both fighting," Mike said before running into his room crying.

Sarah made her way back to her room with tears tearing down her cheek and Jake went to bathroom as Mike was sitting in front of their bedroom door stopping him from getting in. His eyes had also begun to water and when he got to the bathroom he began to cry.

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