Chapter 8: Sarah's Plan

During her first class Sarah was thinking ways to make Mark leave her alone. Sarah looked at the list.

'Soaking underwear in meat? So, three years ago. Give him a charlie horse with my lacrosse stick? Maybe. Make fun of his basketball skills in front of all his friends? Did it last night. Tell him I'll beat the crap out of him if he doesn't stop bothering me? Nah, he would probably think I like if I said that. Perfect.' Sarah thought to herself as read the list.

Mark is still wondering what she's doing.

'I wonder what the hell she's thinking about. The more I keep looking at her the more I think she's cute. Snap out of it Mark. You hate her and she hates you. Her hair looks great that way. I hope I brushed my teeth today. God, she looks hot.' Mark thought to himself as he kept watching Sarah.

The bell rings and Sarah and Mark leave. Mark rushes to catch up with Sarah.

"Sarah, wait up." Mark said as he tried to catch up with Sarah.

"What now?" Sarah asked him.

"I was wondering if maybe and it's all right if you don't want to, you and me could hangout after school sometime?" Mark asked her.

"Me and you hangout?" Sarah asked him.

"Yeah." Mark repiled.

Sarah starts to laugh. "Oh man. Mark you had me going. Me and you hanging out that's rich." Sarah told him still laughing.

"I was serious." Mark told her with a serious look on her face.

"You were actually serious?" Sarah then asked him.

"I was until you laughed in my face." Mark replied.

"I thought you were joking. I didn't know you were actually serious." Sarah told him.

"Forget it now." Mark said to her as he started to walk to his next class.

Sarah grabs Marks arm.

"You got quite a grip for a girl." Mark told her.

"Mark I'm not going to hangout with you if you keep making remarks like that." Sarah told him as she let go of his arm.

"Is that a 'Yes' ?" Mark asked her.

"I'll see you at Rana's after school." Sarah told him as she ran off to her next class.

"I'm the man." Mark said to himself as he went to his next class.

Jake and Max are going to there next class. Then Justin and his friends stop them.

"It's the guy who stole my girlfriend and his loser friend." Justin said to them.

"Justin, I didn't steal your girlfriend, this loser did." Max told him sarcastically pointing to Jake.

"Max, now is not the best time to be sarcastic." Jake said to him.

"Listen to your skaterpunk friend Max." Justin told him.

"Justin, go bother someone else." Max said to him.

"I will after I'm done with you two." Justin told him.

Max leaves and Jake follows him.

"Max, why did we just do that?" Jake asked him.

"Because Justin is an asshole with a grudge. And thanks to you we're on the top of his shit list." Max told him.

Jake goes to his next class and Max goes to his.

After school Sarah goes home before she goes to Rana's to meet Mark. She gets something just in case it's a set up. When she gets there she sees Mark at a table with some friends and he waves her over.

"Hi Mark." Sarah said as she sat at the table.

"This is Sarah." Mark said introducing Sarah to his friends.

Everyone says 'Hi' to Sarah. Then a girl comes over to them.

"Hi Mark." She said to him.

"Hey Ruthie." Mark said not excited to see her.

"Who's that?" Sarah asked one of Marks friends.

"That's Marks old girlfriend Ruthie Stockten." The friend said. (Ruthie Stocken is 5'4" and has long brown hair and was waering a blue t-shirt with jeans and white tennis shoes.)

"And your name is?" Sarah then asked him.

"Kevin McMillen." Kevin said as he introduced himself. (Kevin is 5'7" and has short brown hair. Kevin is wearing a plain black shirt with short jeans and black sneakers on.)

Mark doesn't look too happy to see Ruthie there. Ruthie is talking to him and Mark seems like he's ignoring her.

"So, who are you?" Ruthie asked Sarah.

"I'm Sarah Baker." Sarah replied.

"That's good for you." Ruthie said to her.

Mark gets up to go to the bathroom.

"Are you trying to steal my boyfriend?" Ruthie asked Sarah.

"Ruthie, he broke up with you." Kevin reminded her.

"I don't even like Mark." Sarah told her.

"I see the way you've been looking at him since I got here." Ruthie said to her.

Sarah takes out the waterballon she had in her backpack.

"Don't you dare." Ruthie warned her.

Sarah throws the waterballon at her and it's filled with shaving cream. Ruthie has shaving cream all over her. When Mark comes back to the table he sees Ruthie's covered in shaving cream.

"I don't even want to know." Mark said as he sat back down.

"She threw a waterballon at me filled with shaving cream." Ruthie explained to him.

"That explaines alot." Mark told her trying not to laugh.

Mark starts to laugh now and Ruthie gets up and walks away.

"That waterballon was meant for me, wasn't it?" Mark asked her.

"I brought it with me in case this thing was a setup." Sarah told him.

"Actually it was a setup." Mark told her as he pulled a watergun from underneath the table and starts to spray Sarah.

Sarah screams.

"Mark! You are so dead!" Sarah screamed at him.

Mark's friends start to laugh at Sarah. Sarah leaves in tears.