Disclaimer: Actually, I own a few characters already. I own Joshua, Greg, Mr. Puceton and a few more characters along the way. However, the C.B.T.D cast still belongs to the writers and creators and WB.

A/N : Now that I know that the sequel to the movie is undergoing script scrutiny, I can rest my mind at ease without worrying whether I'll be able to see the characters again or not.For some reason, this chapter is mighty long, longer than what I usually type for God knows why. But I hope you bear with me and read it!

Rating: PG-13. Just in case!

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The Split of the Dozen

By avren

7 Operation Affairs

The bright ray of sunlight that managed to seep through the velvet curtain in their room awoke her from her dreamless sleep. Jessica yawned widely and climbed down from the upper bunk of their double four-poster bed that she shares with her twin, Kim, who was currently in deep slumber. Looking at the clock, it was six fifteen. "Come on Kim, wakey-wakey!" She nudged Kim's shoulder to try and wake her up and moved towards her closet to take a fresh change of clothes for school today. I'd better hurry or else Lorraine will hog the bathroom again. Before she headed out to the bathroom, she realized that Kim was still asleep. " KIM! Wake up!" she hollered, exasperated." School starts in an hour!" Finally hearing some rustling of the sheets and a muffled "Alright, alright, I'll get up," from Kim, she finally headed out of the room to go and wake up the other deadbeats in the house. Why do I always have to be the rooster in this house, she sighed, and It's not as if they don't have an alarm clock or anything, she reflected as she moved towards the room opposite theirs - Mike's room.

The aroma of bacon and eggs were already diffusing through the house from the kitchen where her mom is currently cooking breakfast. Kate doesn't usually wake her children up. The honor of was given to her. Lucky me. She reached Mike's door and knocked twice.

"Mike?" She called out hoping that he was already up but she received no response. He must be sleeping like a dead man again. She just shook her head in weary and opened the door.

The first thing that she noticed which was unusual when she entered Mike's room was that he completely covered from head to toe with his blanket. That's weird. Normally, Mike doesn't like to use his blanket cos' he once said that it was suffocating to use a blanket during his sleep and even when he does use it, it should be on the floor by now as he would have kicked it during the night. Frowning, she ventured towards the bed to wake him up. She tugged back the blanket and gasped. Where's his head?! She pulled the blanket further down to find a different 'Mike'.

A bolster for a body and a pillow for a head. Well, at least he made an effort before sneaking out.

" Looks like he's going to be in trouble," she said in a 'tattle-tale' voice. "But what was he doing last night?" She threw back his blanket on his bed and strode directly towards Jake's room to confront the two of them. She quickly assumed that it was Jake cos' who else was Mike closer to? Mark? Not in a million years.

Along the way to Jake's room, she banged on the doors of Charlie, Henry and Lorraine's, ordering them to wake up. Without even knocking on the door, she barged her way through, only to find the same scene that she found in Mike's, minus the makeshift dummy.

"Now where the heck are they?!" she asked aloud to no one in particular, scratching her head in bewilderment. "Okay, " she started to analyze, "Mike's not in Jake's room, and Jake is not in his, so," as she slowly got the connection, " SARAH'S!" She finally concluded.

She stomped out of the room towards Sarah's to demand an explanation for their disappearance. She did not want to sound out the alarm to her parents yet because she wanted to be the first one to find out what was happening. Kim emerged from their room in a sleepy and disheveled state and scrunched her eyebrows in confusion at Jessica's behavior. "What's wrong?" she asked, walking towards Jessica, who stopped to wait for her.

"Both Jake and Mike are out of their beds the whole night, and I figured they're in Sarah's." She explained and crossed her arms in front of her chest and beckoned Kim to follow her to Sarah's room.

"But what could they have been doing late at night and for the whole night?" Kim wondered.

"Probably they're up to some prank that they're gonna pull off today or something worse. But rest assure, If it involves the both of us, I'm going straight to Dad, no doubt about that." She warned.

They reached the closed doors of Sarah's room with the large sign of 'Butt out. Or else.' Kim turned towards Jessica and said, "After you then." "Fine." She silently turned the knob and pushed the door open and found the three amigos, sprawled haphazardly across one another, each trying not to fall out of the single sized bed of Sarah's. Laughing slightly at the sight in front of them, they crept silently towards the bed and Jessica gave the signal.

"THE HOUSE IS ON FIRE!" They screamed near the ears of the threesome and even they were a bit startled when Mike, Sarah and Jake simultaneously jerked awake in surprise and banged their heads, resulting in a chorus of 'Oww's and 'My head!' from the sleepy trio. Kim and Jessica stood there, giggling at the funny sight in front of them and waited until the trio extricate themselves from the tangled sheets and legs due to the lack of space on the bed.

Finally, after they had separated from the tangled mess they were in, Sarah, who was sitting on the bed, Jake who was leaning against Sarah's dresser and Mike, who had sprawled himself back on the bed, stared back at the evil twins that had rudely awaken them from their less-than-two-hours of sleep. "What WERE the both of you thinking? Waking us up like that? Nearly scared the skin off me!" Sarah began her tirade stemming from the lack of sleep and her still ringing ears that had suffered the pain of the shrill voices of her twin sisters.

"Firstly, "Jessica started, "We have school remember? The institute of education that all of us have to attend in order to gain knowledge which will be starting in just about forty-five minutes!" The trio's eyes widen at the revelation as their eyes traveled to the nearest clock to check whether it was true. "Darn!" they gasped and they quickly scrambled from their positions to get back to their own rooms and get dressed for school but their actions was halted by Kim's order. "STOP! Hold on a minute!" They stopped dead at their tracks and turned to Kim, confused.

"What? Aren't YOU getting ready for school too?" Jake asked.

" Hello? Did the knock on your heads affect your brains or what? If you're still clueless on what I'm talking about, let me inform ya'. You're busted for being out the whole night and unless you give us a good explanation, I'm telling Mom and pops." Jessica threatened as she tapped her foot impatiently, waiting expectantly.

The three of them exchanged shifty glances while Kim and Jessica just looked on. "So? What were the three of you doing here, out of your own beds the whole night?" Kim prodded on.

They were then interrupted by Kate's holler from below. " KIDS! Are you ready yet? Come down and have your breakfast and hurry! School starts in forty minutes!"

Sarah spoke up. "Could we explain later, at least after we're dressed for school and are on our way there?" She urged Kim and Jessica, while moving towards her dresser to grab a clean pair of clothes for school.

"And please don't tell Mom and Dad first, we'll explain to you the whole story but I don't think now's the right time for it. Please? Or else he'll triple our punishments." Jake pleaded while Mike just looked down to the floor, not really meeting their eyes.

Kim and Jessica looked at each other and gave in. "Fine. But you'll have to tell us the whole story. Every single detail." Kim demanded and the three of them nodded their heads simultaneously. Sarah interjected, "So could you guys now get out of my room? I need to get dressed and I think you should too cos' we're already late for breakfast and Dad's not gonna be happy."

As Jake and Mike rushed out of the room to their own to get dressed, Kim and Jessica also moved hurriedly out of Sarah's towards their own. Hearing Sarah shutting the door close behind, Jessica spoke up to Kim. "So, what do you think they might be up to? Another prank?"

"Did you notice the way they glanced at each other just now?" Kim pointed out. "It seems as if they know something but are reluctant to say it out."

"Well, I just hope that it's not just another prank that they're pulling. I've had enough from the last one that they pulled." Hearing another 'KIDS, Hurry up!', they hasten their pace and took their showers and changed to their normal school wear and hurried down to breakfast, unaware of the shocking revelations that awaits them after school.

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At Breakfast

Sarah's pov

Pulling down her yellow Gap shirt over her head, she smoothen the creases and grabbed two hair bands off her drawers and her backpack that was hanging from the bedposts and went out of her room. Just at the same time, Jake also walked out his room and upon seeing Sarah he hurried over to her.

"Do you think Kim and Jessica will tell Dad?" He asked, shifting his backpack to the other shoulder and grabbed his skateboard near the mouth of the staircase leading to the living room. Sarah was trying to tie her normal pigtails but her backpack was obstructing her from doing it properly so she handed it to Jake. "Hold this for me for a while could'ya," she shoved her backpack to him and he just shrugged. Climbing down the stairs, they continued their conversation.

"Nah, I don't think Kim and Jessica will blab. They've already said they wouldn't and I'm sure they'd really want to hear our explanation." Sarah replied as she tied one half of her pigtail as they continued down to breakfast.

"Well, I hope so too, cos' particularly, I don't think I'd want another punishment besides the one that I've already got." Jake said.

As they entered the dining room, all the rest of their siblings were already seated and was hastily chomping down their bacon and eggs, prompting the both of them to quickly sit down so that they could at least grab off some of the bacon that was left. Sarah glanced at her Dad who was just reading his daily newspaper at the head of the table and Jake caught her glance and raised one eyebrow at her. She shook her head and quickly seated herself beside Nora while Jake sat beside Mark.

Kate looked at them and started with her morning naggings. "What took you so long to get dressed? Oh never mind, just hurry up and eat! You've got only twenty minutes to get to school. By the way, " she turned to Nora, "Could you get me some stuff after work on your way home?"

"Sure Mom, what do you want me to pick up?" Nora asked.

"Oh, its just some groceries that I've forgotten to pick up the other day and I can't pick it up today cos' I need to take your brothers and sisters for dentist appointment after school today." Groans came from the kids and she said, "Dentist appointment for today is only for Nigel, Kyle, Kim, Jessica and Mike. And as for the rest of you," looking at Jake and Henry and Sarah, "Yours will be on the fourth week of this month." Cheers came from Mark, Jake, Sarah and Henry while glares come from the other half of them.

"How come Charlie and Nora and Lorraine have no dentist appointments?" Mark asked.

"That's cos' WE know how to take good care of our teeth, not like you guys, rotting your teeth away on sweets and chocolates," Lorraine piped up.

"Yeah right, whatever. It's probably because the dentist is horrified by the state of YOUR teeth that he doesn't want to see you anymore!" Sarah retorted. Snorts and snickers were heard but before Lorraine can retort back, Tom interrupted.

"Okay, break it up!" Tom ordered before another quarrel erupted. "Finish your breakfast and quickly get in the cars! Charlie, you take the normal bunch, I'll ride with Nora. Your mom will be taking the rest of them."

"Okay, sure dad," Charlie replied as he swiftly took a swig of his orange juice and got up from his chair. "Okay guys, hurry, I need to be in school a bit early so I have to drop you guys earlier," he urged and walked out of the dining room, grabbed his car keys on the front table and his backpack and went out of the door.

"But I haven't even finished breakfast!" Jake complained out to Charlie but he was already out of the door.

"Here," Kate grabbed a few pieces of toast and bacon and wrapped it in a napkin and handed it to Jake," Eat these on the way. Just hurry, your brother's already waiting, " she urged, beckoning Sarah and Henry to do the same. They grabbed their packs and their lunches from their mom and kissed her goodbye. Lorraine also headed out cos' she is taking the same car as them.

"Dad, I also need to get going already. They're having a teacher's conference and we need to get there early," Nora also got up from her chair and kissed her mom goodbye and went out of the door.

"Okay, guess I'll be going now then, " Tom said to Kate and hastily pecked her lips and grabbed his case by the door. "Okay then, drive safely! See ya!" Kate waved them goodbye.

Outside, Henry yelled shotgun and got to sit at the passenger seat beside Charlie, leaving Sarah, Jake and Lorraine at the back seats. Both Sarah and Lorraine were grumbling cos' they were seating next to each other. Jake did not want to switch places with Sarah, as he wanted to have the window seat. Thus, Sarah was huffing and disgruntled while Lorraine just ignored her and applied her daily dose of compact powder. As Charlie drove off, Sarah turned to Jake and said, "Good thing we don't have to go for the dentist appointment today, cos' we need to get down to business."

"Business? What business? " Henry asked, turning back to look at them from the front seat.

Jake glared at Sarah for saying that out loud as they were not supposed to tell the others yet. Sarah grimaced at the slip that she had just given and quickly thought of a lie. "Oh, its nothing really. It's just this project that Jake is helping me with and I need to finish it a.s.a.p. " She smiled innocently, hoping that Henry would buy it.

"Oh," Henry said, and turned back to the front.

Sarah mouthed, "Phew. That was close," to Jake and he whispered back.

"When do you want to tell him and them?" indicating to Henry, Lorraine and Charlie.

"As soon as we got evidence. Hopefully by tonight." She leaned towards Jake and whispered so that only he could hear her.

"What are the two of you whispering conspiratorially about?" Lorraine suddenly spoke, startling them for a moment.

"Nothing," Jake quickly said.

"Yup. Nothing that would interest you anyway," Sarah added. Lorraine just looked wryly at them and looked outside the window. There were a few minutes of silence in the car before Jake spoke up again.

"Hey Henry, I thought you had a performance coming up? Didn't you say you had a solo or something? You ARE in the school's concert band, aren't you?" He inquired from the back. They were just a few more blocks from their school.

"I'm surprised you remembered. Yeah, I have a solo performance in the concert." He replied, but sounded non-committal to the topic.

Charlie glanced sideways and beamed at him. "Well, that's great then! When's the concert? Are all of us invited to this concert? " Charlie asked, sounding eager, which seems to make lift up Henry's spirit since his favorite brother is taking interest in his passion.

"Yup! All of you are invited. It'll be on the fourteenth of June and it'll be held at the Holthingham's Concert Hall and people need to pay to see the concert but for family members of the band members will get in for free!" He spouted in a single breath, surprising Jake and Sarah, who has never seen their brother this enthusiastic before.

"Fourteenth of June, " Charlie pondered for a moment, "Let me recall, I remembered something that also falls on that day. Hmm…Oh right! It's me and Beth's anniversary on that day!" Charlie revealed, but upon seeing Henry's downhearted face, he added. "But I'm sure I'll be able to make it for your concert and maybe, I'll bring Beth along! She'll get to see the best clarinet player in town!"

Henry's spirit was uplifted again by those words and he beamed widely at Charlie, who smiled back. The trio at the back just watched on with interest as their brothers bond with each other.

"Alright, stop it already with the flattery and sappiness in this vehicle," Sarah spoke up, "It's making me nauseous and I haven't even eaten much for breakfast!" The rest of them just snickered until Charlie spoke up.

"Alright guys, we're here. Same time, same place after school. Don't be late!" He reminded as Sarah, Jake and Mike got off the car and slammed the door shut.

Henry leaned forward at the passenger seat's window and retorted, "Just make sure YOU are not late just like the time when you arrived late cos' you went back to Midland to see Beth!" Henry recalled.

"Right. Okay then, see you guys!" Charlie and Lorraine waved them goodbye and zoomed off in the other direction.

Walking towards the school entrance with Jake rolling along on his skateboard, they passed by dozens of other kids who were milling around the school compound while waiting for the school bell to ring. Forrest Green Junior High was the typical American school but since they are from the affluent part of the country, the kids can affords things that average students like them can't. But those kids that show off their assets are only a minority because most of the other kids behave just like any average student that comes from average family income. Thus, they don't have much difficulty adapting to the new environment, although, there are some groups that tend to make the lives of new kids miserable, like their encounter the other time with Joshua and some of the popular girls in school.

However, Henry, Jake and Sarah have no trouble blending in since they each have their own common interest. Henry fitted in well with the school's band society as he was previously, also in a concert band playing his favorite instrument, the clarinet. Jake, since he is a skateboarder, usually hangs with the skaters and they were sort of the cool gang in school but are not so much bothered about social status that they have. Sarah, as most people see her as a tomboy, fitted in well with both the athletic girls and guys as she is good in sports and have a flair for break dancing but nobody knew about that except only for Jake. But Sarah had sworn him to secrecy never to reveal that to anyone and he had no choice to oblige because if he does not, she has threatened to do something that he shudders just thinking about it.

Just then, the school bell rang just as they entered the doors of Forrest Green Junior High. "Lucky we're just on time," Henry said, as they headed towards their lockers to dump their backpacks and grab the books that they need for their lessons. Overhead, the school's sound system blared indicating an announcement. Most of the students strained their ears to listen as the message was read.

"Will all students please proceed to the school hall for a briefing. It will start in about five minutes so please be seated by then".

"Hey, wanna ditch this briefing?" Sarah asked the other two but before they could reply, the message continued.

" And if anyone is thinking of skiving off from this will be dealt with severely. This briefing is compulsory and I require full attendance. " And the message ended off.

"Darn, it's as if he knows what I was thinking! Sigh," Sarah grumbled and tugged open her locker and dumped her bag in and slammed it shut.

"Hey-hey! No need to get all violent, Sarah. Pity the locker," Henry teased and just received a raised eyebrow from her. "Hey, I'll see you guys later, okay. I'm gonna meet my friends so you guys go on ahead to the hall." Henry waved as he separated from them and assimilating himself with the throng of students that were all heading towards the hall.

Sarah waited for Jake as he throws his skateboard and backpack into his locker that was just a few lockers down from hers and slammed it shut. "Let's go then."

They followed the horde of students into the large hall that can is able to hold about more than a thousand students at once. "Are you gonna sit with your friends or do you wanna sit with me?" Sarah asked when she saw him scouring the place for his friends.

Turning back to her, he said, "Nah, that's alright. I'll just sit with you since I can't possibly find them in this mass."

"I feel so honored," she replied dryly as the connotation that her brother had said stung a bit.

Jake realized what he had said and quickly changed his sentences," Oh, I didn't mean it like that. I just meant..." But Sarah cut him off.

"Oh never mind. No need to apologize. I'd do the same if I were you too," she grinned as she said this, and Jake just slugged her arm affectionately. A voice interrupted them for a moment and they turned to find Greg and a few of his other pals.

"Hey! Finally found you guys! Mind if we join you?" Greg asked and Sarah just shrugged," I don't see why not. Just hope we'll be able to find seats," she said and looked around the hall to find vacant seats.

Spotting some, she called out. "There's a few seats over there, let's hurry over," she urged and they made their way over to the spot there a few vacant spaces are available to fit the five of them.

Sarah walked through the row into the near end of the aisle and was surprised to meet Kristy, her best pal in Forrest Green, and she was sitting with Mandy and Felicia, all of who were on the same basketball team as hers. And sitting in the row in front of them were five popular girls. Upon seeing them, she wanted to find some other seats but seeing that all the other seats in the hall were occupied, this will have to do.

"Hey! Didn't see you from over there just now. You don't mind sitting with my brother's pals do you?" Sarah asked Kristy in which she replied, "Sure, no problem. Go ahead and sit."

"Thanks."

To Jake, "We can sit here," and leaning closer to Jake, she said in a softer tone, "If you don't mind the popular girls sitting in front ogling you but I'm pretty sure that you don't. Well, your friends certainly do not mind." She said, gesturing at Greg and the other guy, who was already flirting with the girls in front of them. Jake looked over at them and just shook his head at them.

"Hey guys," he called to them, "we can sit here." They all sat down with an order such that Sarah was sitting beside Jake and on her left is Kristy, Felicia and Mandy and sitting on Jake's right is Greg, Matt and Dan. "Oh by the way, Sarah, that is Dan," pointing to the blonde haired guy that was flirting with one of the popular girls, "and this is Matt." He introduced the brown haired guy that was sitting beside Greg and he smiled at her which showed a deep set of dimples and said," Hey."

"Hey to you too," Sarah smiled back. She then turned to introduce her friends to them but the introduction was cut short when the vice principal tapped into the mike to call everyone's attention.

"Good morning students. I'm sure you're all wondering why I asked all of you to assemble here this morning. Well, there are a few important announcements that I'd like to make and…."

To Kristy, she muttered," Will she get on with the message already! " Kristy snickered and went back to listen as the vice-principal continued.

"…some major events that will be taking place in our school this year. First and foremost, is the Forrest Green Annual Concert Synergy! As you all have already heard or seen the flyers around the school, our school's concert band will be playing their pieces at the Holthingham's Concert Auditorium and I hope to see everyone of you there to support your school's concert band! The tickets will be available at……"

" So guys, will you be going to this thing?" Sarah leaned sideways to speak to Felicia, Kristy and Mandy while the vice-principal was going on about the ticket prices and ticket booths.

"Will YOU be going?" Kristy posed the same question to her. "Yeah, I have to, I mean I will be going cos' my brother is in there and he'll be playing a solo performance during the concert." Sarah explained.

"Well, if you are at least going to be there, I might as well go there too! And I'd want to see your brother, the one that is playing the solo performance. Is he any good?" Felicia asked, genuinely interested. Jake, who overheard their conversation, joined in, "Well, we've heard him play before the last time but recently, he haven't played anything at all at home on his clarinet, so we don't know whether he's any good or not." Sarah just nodded in agreement.

"Oh well, I'm in then," Felicia said and Mandy also joined in too. "What about you Kristy?" Mandy asked her.

"Maybe, I'll have to see whether I'm free or not on that day. I just hope it's the latter cos' I've never been to this kind of concert before. All the previous concerts that I've been too are punk rock and hip hop concerts but never a school band concert," declared Kristy.

Jake, heard this and asked, " You've ever been to a Simple Plan concert before?"

"Yup! It was during their worldwide tour last month and they definitely rock the hardest!" she said enthusiastically.

"Wow! You actually went to their world concert tour? That's awesome! I've been dying to go-" but he was interrupted by Sarah, who shushed them as their vice-principal was looking directly at them and they quickly fell into silence. When the VP continued his speech, Sarah whispered to Jake.

"I think that blondie is ogling at you," she hinted to the girl that kept turning backwards in her seat to throw glances at Jake.

"Oh yeah?" he said, non-committal and replied, " Whatever, she's not my type," he said casually and just ignored the girl and went back to listening to the vice-principal that was still droning on about the announcements. Kristy was looking at them and when Sarah noticed her watching, Kristy quickly turned away and pretended to listen to the figure on stage. What's that all about? Sarah thought to herself and shrugged it off and just managed to hear the sentence that made her groan outwardly.

"…and the whole form class of Ms. Jenkins will be performing their play at the Forrest Green Annual Theatrette which will be in October and the whole school is eagerly anticipating the event just like the Synergy concert. Let's give them a round of applause for their effort that they will be putting in these shows!"

Scattered applauses were heard in the hall as some was either not listening or they were not bothered at all. Sarah slumped further down in her chair while Kristy, Felicia and Mandy clapped excitedly beside her and were throwing her weird glances when they saw her behavior. Beside her, Jake heard her groan and realized something that the VP had just mentioned in her announcement.

"Hey, isn't Ms. Jenkins YOUR form teacher? Does that mean you're performing?" Jake's eyes widened in surprise.

Sarah answered by slouching further down in her chair and slapped her palms over her face as if trying to hide away. "Please don't remind me, I'm miserable as it is." She muttered as the vice-principal dismissed them to go back to their respective classes for their lessons.

The thunderous sounds of students getting up from their seats and moving towards the exits of the hall prompted them to follow suit. Mandy spoke up. "Sarah, why aren't you excited at all about this play?" she asked as they were moving out from the seats towards the back of the hall where the exits are. Mandy, Felicia and Kristy were all in the same form class as her. "Yeah, you should feel lucky cos' you're the –" but Kristy's sentence was muffled as Sarah clapped her hands over Kristy's mouth to prevent her from blurting out the secret and smiled innocently at Jake who was hearing their conversation.

"She's the what? " He halted in his steps and turned around to hear Kristy's slip.

"Oh it's nothing, I'm the nothing. She's just rambling nonsense to get me excited about this play. No biggie," she smiled pretentiously at Jake and he just raised his eyebrow questioningly at her weird behavior and turned back and joined his friends who were already out of the hall. When he was out of earshot, she rounded on Kristy who had almost let it slip in her previous sentence.

"What? What did I do?" Kristy asked, clueless of what she had done. "You almost told him! I don't want any of my family members to know. Not now and not anytime soon!" Sarah said exasperatingly.

"But why? Don't you want to tell them that you've got the lead for the school play? It's an important thing! " Felicia cried out.

"It's just that," Sarah paused for a while and sighed, "I'm afraid that I will make a fool of myself on stage cos' I don't think I can act." Unknown to them, their greatest rival, Veronica and her posse is right behind them and heard her.

"You don't need to worry about making a fool out of yourself cos' you're already a fool, so why bother?" she leered behind them and they swiftly turned around and glared maliciously at her.

"Who asked YOUR opinion, Barbie? You and your sheep and go roast yourself at a pit and no one will care!" Kristy snapped furiously at her and Felicia and Mandy had to hold her arms to prevent her from launching herself at them.

"And why the heck was SHE made the lead whereas the prettiest and the best actress in school is standing right here, ready to take on the role?" Veronica proclaims and looked at Sarah with disgust.

"Well, it's just probably because everyone is SICK AND TIRED with seeing YOUR face up on the stage all the time and MAYBE, Ms. Jenkins is also thinking along that line that's why she gave Sarah the role instead of you!" Mandy defended.

"Well, looks like Sarah has her own protector and I'm sure she needs to have one considering that her own family probably forgets that she exist with all the other kids in the house!" She sneered while her posse just sniggered at Sarah.

Sarah snapped back. "FYI, Little Miss Perfect! I DIDN'T CHOOSE to be made the lead alright and I would drop this role IN A HEART BEAT but it looks like I'm stuck in this stupid play cos' Ms Jenkins wouldn't let ME quit and it's WORSE enough having YOU breathing your STINKING BREATH down my neck so why don't YOU and YOUR POSSE just BACK OFF!" Sarah finished her tirade leaving Veronica and her posse taken aback by her outburst when someone interrupted from behind.

"Now what is the commotion here?" the voice, belonging to none other that Mr. Puceton, demanded as he loomed into view. Darn, just my day. Better leave before I get another punishment.

"Oh, its nothing really. We were just going back to our class now. Come on guys," Sarah turned and walked away, beckoning Mandy, Felicia and Kristy who were shooting daggers at Veronica and her posse as they moved towards their own classroom. Unfortunately, their first lesson is with Ms' Jenkins and Veronica is also in their form class so Sarah had to bear with the play AND the brat together ion the same room.

Please let this day end fast, Sarah moaned inwardly as she and her friends went to the seats at the back and settled down and waited for Ms. Jenkins to start with her lesson.

As her mind wandered away from the lesson, she thought to herself. Let's just hope the day doesn't get any worse, but little did she know that there is more waiting for her at home.