Chapter 5: More Trouble For Jake

At dinner Jake is just staring at Sarah and laughing.

"What?" Sarah asked him getting annoyed.

"Nothing. Mark just said something." Jake told her.

"What did that loser say now?" Sarah then asked him.

"He told me to tell you to stay away from him." Jake told her.

"Me stay away from him? Me?" Sarah replied.

"That's what he said." Jake told her.

"I hate him." Sarah said to him.

"You don't hate him." Mark B said to her.

"She loves him." Mike said to Jake.

"That's it Mike. You're dead meat." Sarah told him as she got up from the table.

Mike gets up from his seat and runs. Sarah runs after him. Kate gets Sarah off of Mike.

"Sarah, controll your temper." Kate told her.

"But, he started it." Sarah said to her.

"How old is he?" Kate asked her.

"Nine." Sarah replied.

"And how old are you?" Kate then asked her.

"Fifteen but," Sarah told her.

"But, nothing. You're six years older then he is you should know better." Tom told her.

Mike sticks his tongue out at Sarah. Sarah gives him a dirty look and Mike runs off.

Jake gets a phone call from Max. Max invited Jake to go down to The Juice Bar. (A place where kids can hangout and not care about any thing except who pays for the drinks and food.) Kate tells Jake he can go and Sarah goes with him.

They get to The Juice Bar. Max, John, Nick and Rob are there. Jake goes over to them.

"Hey, Sarah my cousin Mark is over there with some of his friends." Max told her with a smirk.

"What is it with you and Jake?" Sarah asked him.

"Nothing. I just thought you might want to know that my cousin is here." Max replied.

"I don't want to see him." Sarah told him.

"Then don't look behind you." Mark M told her.

Sarah cringes as she hears his voice. She has her fist clinched.

"Hello Mark." Sarah said through her teeth as she turned around.

"Hi Sarah." Mark M replied.

"What do you want?" Sarah asked him crossing her arms.

"I just came over here to say 'Hi' ." Mark M told her.

"You said 'Hi' . Now, bye." Sarah told him.

"You haven't changed." Mark M said to her.

"And you still think you can still play basketball." Sarah replied.

Mark M friends laugh at him.

"How was that foot cream shampoo?" Mark M asked her with a smirk.

"I knew that was you." Sarah told him pointing her finger at him.

"And it was you that put laxatives in the cookies you gave me." Mark M replied.

"You had it coming." Sarah told him.

"All I did was call you a Tomboy and you flipped out on me." Mark M explained.

"I'm not a Tomboy." Sarah told him.

"Then why are you wearing a Chicago Bears shirt with jeans and sneakers?" Mark M then asked her.

"Shut up before I give you a fat lip." Sarah warned him.

"For a girl you're very violent." Mark M replied.

"I'm not violent." Sarah told him.

"Yes you are. You just threatened to give me a fat lip." Mark M told her.

"That was a promise not a threat." Sarah told him.

"I don't have time to get into an argument with you. I have better things to do." Mark M told her as he walked away.

"Like, work on your jump shot!" Sarah yelled to him as he was leaving.

Sarah goes to walk around and see if she can make friends since she's stuck in Miami for another three years.

Jake and Max go sit with Rob and John.

"What happened to Nick?" Max asked them.

"His girlfriend." John replied.

"That boy is whipped." Rob told them.

"At least he has a girlfriend unlike us." Max replied.

"True." John said to him.

"I can get a girlfriend if I wanted to." Rob told them.

"Then go get one." Max told him.

"Fine, I will." Rob told them as he got up to go look for a girlfriend.

He comes back five minutes later.

"Where's your girlfriend?" Max asked him.

"I didn't get one." Rob told them in a low tone.

Jake sees a girl he likes.

"Who's that?" Jake asked Max.

"Oh, that's Nicole Graham." Max told him.

"I'll be right back." Jake told him as he got up to talk to her.

"I hope you told him that's Justine's old girlfriend." Rob said to him.

"I forgot that part." Max replied.

Jake goes over to Nicole.

"Hi, I'm Jake Baker." Jake introduced himself to her.

"Hi. I'm Nicole Graham." Nicole replied. (Nicole is the same height as Jake and has long brown hair. She's wearing a pink t-shirt with jeans and white tennis shoes on.)

"I'm new here and just wondering if you have a boyfriend." Jake said to her.

"No, I don't have a boyfriend. Where are you from?" Nicole asked Jake.

"I was born in Midland but, moved to Evanston." Jake told her.

"Your from Midland? I'm from Midland also." Nicole said to him.

"No way." Jake said to her.

"Really I am." Nicole replied.

"That's so cool." Jake said to her.

"I miss Midland." Nicole said to him.

"I miss Midland also." Jake said to her.

"How do you like it so far?" Nicole asked him.

"It's too hot." Jake replied.

"You'll get use to it." Nicole told him.

"How old were you when you moved here?" Jake asked her.

"I was ten." Nicole replied.

"I moved to Evanston three years ago." Jake told her.

"And now you moved here." Nicole said to him.

Justin walsk over to them.

"Are you talking to my girlfriend?" Justin asked him.

"She told me she didn't have a boyfriend." Jake replied.

"Justin I'm not your girlfriend anymore." Nicole told him.

"You're my girlfriend until I say you aren't." Justin told her.

"Dude, she doesn't want to be your girlfriend anymore." Jake told him.

"I should puch you in the face." Justin said to him.

Max walks over to them.

"Justin, leave Jake alone." Max told him.

"Max, stay out of this." Justin told him.

"Nicole was talking to Jake and your jealous. Get over it she doesn't like you anymore." Max told him.

"Max, do I have to hurt you?" Justin asked him.

"You couldn't hurt me if you tried." Max told him.

"I'll deal with you later." Justin told Max as he walked away.

"Max, I could of took him." Jake said to him.

"I know. I just wanted to make sure that I got under Justin's skin." Max told him.

"You know one day he's going to get into a fight with you right?" Nicole asked Max.

"He doesn't scare me." Max told her as he walked away.

Nicole and Jake continue to talk.