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Chapter 9
It was the first day back to school after summer vacation and the Murtaugh's first day. Jimmy had given them a lift there and they met with the Baker's outside the school, who directed them to the school office, so they could find out their classes and timetable. It turned out Elliot was in the Same class as Sarah and Jake, Mark and Kenneth were in the same class and Becky, Lisa and Robin were in Jessica and Kim's class.
"That is awesome dude that we're in the same class," Jake said as Elliot was handed over information about his timetable and teachers.
"Yeah it is," Elliot smiled. Sarah didn't seem quite as happy as Jake was about it all but that was expected, as her and Elliot may be speaking and friends but Sarah hasn't forgotten what he has done to her.
The bell rung, "Well off you go to class then," the school reception said.
"Yeah we've got maths first," Jake said to Elliot.
"That's not too bad, maths is so easy," Elliot replied.
"Oh yeah how could I forget you're a total wiz kid and are a straight A student," Jake said remembering that Elliot was really smart. Well after all he was forced by Jimmy into studying all the time along with the rest of the Murtaugh kids so it was no surprise that they were all straight A students.
"Can't help I was born with brains," Elliot laughed.
They walked into their maths class and everyone was sitting in their groups on the chairs and tables catching up after not seeing everyone during the summer vacation.
"Sarah!" Naomi, one of Sarah's friends said as she ran up to hug Sarah, "Where you been? Not seen you in ages!"
"Hey, I was away with my family to the lake," Sarah said.
"Oh cool, we have loads to catch up on, guess who I had a summer romance with?" Naomi said.
"Dunno," Sarah replied.
"James Dickson, but we ended things last week wasn't really working, but oh my god can you believe it, I was going out with James Dickson!" Naomi said.
"No way" Sarah said, James Dickson was a boy who went to a school a few miles away and all the girls fancied him.
"Yes way, only for like 4 weeks but still we dated for 4 weeks," Naomi said. Naomi was very different from Sarah, she was really girly and was a bit of a drama queen. Even though her and Sarah were quite different, they had been good friends about two years now after meeting on the school's lacrosse team.
At times Sarah found Naomi very annoying and sometimes questioned herself as to how they ended up friends, but then she would remember how an amazing friend Naomi was, always looking our fot her friends.
"Ohh," Naomi said as she looked behind Sarah, "who is the hottie standing with you brother?"
"Ah that's Elliot," Sarah replied, "Elliot Murtaugh,"
"Oh the one you were going out with until like not long before the summer?" Naomi asked, looking very shocked and confused.
"Yeah," Sarah replied.
"You never told me he was that hot! But don't worry he's your ex and I don't do that to my mates," Naomi said.
"I wasn't worrying about that," Sarah said.
"But why is he here?" Naomi asked still looking confused.
"His family moved here," Sarah asked.
Mr Fuller the teacher walked in, "Now quieting down people!" He said raising his voice to be heard. Everyone hurried back to their desk.
"Mr Fuller this is Elliot, he's new," Jake said as he introduced Elliot to Mr fuller.
"Hi Elliot I'm Mr Fuller, I'll get you seated in a minute".
"Okay," Elliot replied as he looked around the classroom and took in the new surroundings.
"So tell me did anything happen with you and Elliot at the lake then?" Naomi whispered.
"Nope," Sarah replied giving a simple one word answer as she didn't want to go into detail.
"Naomi and Sarah please stop talking," Mr Fuller said, "Right everyone if I've finally got your attention I'd like to introduce your new class mate, Elliot Murtaugh," he said as he pointed over to Elliot and everyone turned their attention towards Elliot.
"Hey," Elliot said as everyone looked at him.
"Now do you know anyone here then?" Mr Fuller asked.
"Yeah I know Sarah and Jake, our dad are friends, spent summer with them," Elliot answered.
"Very good, I'll sit you on the desk next to Jake's then, so he'll keep you right," Mr Fuller said as he pointed to the desk next to Jake's.
Mr Fuller started to talk about fractions and started writing formulas up on the board. About fifteen minutes into the lesson there was a knock on the door.
"Come in," Mr Fuller shouted. In walked a boy with brown hair spiked up and dark brown eyes, he was average height for a boy his age and walked over the teacher handing him a note. All the girls stared on as he walked over towards Mr Fuller.
"Another new boy and what's your name?" Mr Fuller asked.
"Ethan," He replied.
"Two new hotties in one day, Christmas must have come early this year," Naomi said. Sarah just laughed.
"Okay Ethan if you want to go sit in the desk behind Sarah's, the one just there," He said as he pointed to it.
Naomi smiled at Sarah as he walked past and sat behind her, "Lucky you," she whispered.
Sarah shook her head, "Shut up".
The morning went by fast and already it was lunch. Sarah was walking down the corridor towards the lunch canteen, "Hey Sarah," a voice from behind shouted.
Sarah turned around to see Vanessa and Whitney shouting her name. Sarah was quite unsure why they were speaking to her they never did. They were the popular girls of the year and were usually seen hanging about with all the boys.
"Yeah," Sarah said.
"See that new boy you were speaking to earlier, "Vanessa said.
"Who Elliot?" Sarah said.
"Yeah someone told me you were going out with him, is that true?" Vanessa asked. Sarah hated Vanessa and Whitney, they had been two people she had never got along with, and they would always try to make her life difficult. But Sarah never let it effect her, she just laughed at their silly comments, she was too strong a character to let someone like Vanessa and Whitney bother her.
"I did go out with him but not anymore," Sarah replied, "Why are you asking me?"
"No reason," Whitney asked.
"Yeah well if you're thinking of trying to get in about him, I would think again he isn't into desprate girls like you," Sarah smirked, Sarah wasn't afraid of speaking her mind and she had had plenty of run ins with them two before. She knew them too well to know that the only reason they were asking was about they were obviuosly intrested in Elliot.
"Ohhh, she did not just say that?" Whitney said as her face turned red with anger.
"Yes she did," Vanessa replied, "You really think you're all that don't you?"
"Yeah but all you really are is a little pathetic tomboy," Whitney said.
"Correction I don' think I'm all that and you're the pathetic one's, I mean seriously you're the ones who are here asking me about Elliot all just because you think you can get with him," Sarah replied.
"Oh you know something you have really annoyed me," Vanessa said as she flicked her hair and turned around.
"Oh you're welcome to him by the way, because in case you don't remember me saying he is my ex and we speak now just because our families are close and if they weren't we wouldn't," Sarah said before she turned around.
Vanessa screwed her face, "That girl really frustrates me, and I will one day bring her down," Vanessa said.
Sarah walked into the canteen and sat beside Naomi and a few of her other friends and also Jake, Elliot and a few of Jake's friends.
"You okay you look a really annoyed?" Naomi asked as Sarah sat down.
"I'm fine some people just really irritate me these days," Sarah replied.
"By the way, Elliot is so sweet, you should never have let him go," Naomi said totally changing the subject.
"I had my reasons," Sarah replied. She hadn't told anyone that Elliot had cheated on her, she barley told anyone at school about Elliot in the first place. She liked the fact that it was her business and because no one knew him they weren't interested, where as if she went out with someone from school everyone would know everything about them.
"What?" Naomi asked, wanting to know Sarah's reasons. It had always bugged Naomi that Sarah never shared much with her and never opened up to her. She knew nothing about her relationship with Elliot.
"It doesn't matter," Sarah answered.
"If you're sure but if you need someone you know I'm here," Naomi smiled.
"Aw thanks," Sarah replied.
Vanessa and Whitney walked over towards the table that they were all sitting at.
Sarah sighed as she knew exactly what they were doing here to try and get with Elliot just to get at Sarah.
Elliot was sitting at the end of the table and Vanessa walked right over swinging her hips form side to side with her skirt pulled up to make it shorter than it already was and her top pulled down to show off her cleavage. Vanessa put one of her hands on the table stuck out her hip and placed her hand on it.
"I believe we haven't been introduced to each other," Vanessa said.
"No," Elliot said.
"I'm Vanessa," Whitney coughed to hint, "and this is Whitney".
"Hey," Elliot said looking confused.
"And you're Elliot right?" Vanessa asked.
"Sure am," Elliot replied. Vanessa looked over towards Sarah and gave her a dirty look.
"I am trying to eat my lunch here you know?" Elliot said trying to pass on the message to Vanessa that he's not interested in speaking right now.
Sarah gave Vanessa a smug look back," Ugghh," Vanessa said sighed as she left the table.
"What was all that about?" Jake asked.
"I know," Elliot replied, "Who is she anyway?"
"Just some attention seeker, ignore her she does everything she can to get all the boys attention," Jake replied.
"I'm away to the toilet," Sarah whispered to Naomi, " back in a minute,"
"Okay," Naomi smiled.
Sarah grinned as she walked past Vanessa and Whitney and they both gave her dirty looks back.
"Wooaahh," Sarah said as she walked into Ethan the new boy. Ethan dropped the tray with his lunch on it onto the floor.
"Ah I'm so sorry," Sarah gasped as she tried to save what was left of his lunch, which was only a bottle of juice and a packet of biscuits as everything else had splattered all over the floor.
"Just watch were you're going in futu," Ethan stopped talking as he looked at Sarah, "You know what it was my fault don't worry about it".
"No let me give you some money to buy something else, I'm so sorry," Sarah said as she took money out of her pocket, "here take it"
"No it's fine no worries," Ethan smiled.
"Please let me make it up to you, I feel so bad for ruining your lunch," Sarah said.
"I know another way you could make it up to me," Ethan said.
"What?" Sarah asked, not looking every amused.
"Movies this Friday?" he replied.
Sarah smiled as she thought about it, "Come on, I mean you did ruin my lunch," Ethan smiled as he pointed to his lunch splat all over the floor.
"Yeah okay then," Sarah replied.
"Well give me your number then and I'll text you later in the week," Ethan said.
Sarah gave him her number before walking away to go to the toilets, with a huge grin on her face.
Lunch finished and everyone headed to their next class. Sarah, Jake, Elliot and Naomi had biology. Sarah hadn't stop smiling right through the class.
"So are you going to tell me what's made you so happy? And don't say nothing again because I'm not stupid," Naomi asked for the fourth time.
"Okay, okay, I'll tell you," Sarah replied, "At lunch I walked into the new boy Ethan and he dropped his lunch so I ruined his lunch, and said I'd give him money to make it up to him so he could buy a new one, and he said it's fine don't worry about it, and then said he said, I know a way how you could make it up to me though, movies on Friday"
"Awww that is really cute, I can't believe he asked he out to the movies," Naomi said really loudly.
"Keep your voice down he's just over there, he'll hear you," Sarah said.
"Who asked you out to the movies on Friday," Jake said as he turned around from the desk in front.
"No one," Sarah replied.
"Don't lie who?" Jake asked again.
"It was the new boy Ethan," Naomi said. Sarah hit her from under the table and gave her a look to let her know she wasn't happy she told Jake.
"Ethan asked you to the movies?" Elliot asked as he overheard the conversation.
Sarah sighed, "Yes, now can you all shut up and stop speaking about it please," Sarah said.
"Ah look at you getting embarrassed," Jake smiled.
Elliot turned back round to face the front. He knew this was the first boy Sarah had been linked with since him and he suddenly felt quite jealous. He knew some day she would move on, but he just had the impression it wouldn't be so soon, but he couldn't exactly say much he had already moved on to Jessica, although he didn't want anything to happen now.
In the next class, Geography Sarah had been paired up with Elliot for doing work that consisted of working in pairs.
"Yeah so it's this one," Elliot said as he pointed to the sheet of paper and filled out the answers. Elliot knew all the answers and was flying through the work so Sarah just took a back seat and let him work on through it.
"You really are a brainiac," Sarah laughed.
"Well you can do some of it if you want? Elliot offered.
"Oh no am fine with you doing it," Sarah giggled.
"Ah ok then," Elliot said as he continued to work through it, "So you like Ethan then?" he asked.
Sarah looked awkward as she thought of how to answer the question, "I don't really know him well at all so I'll go to the movies see what he's like".
"Well good luck for you," Elliot said.
"Thanks," Sarah said.
"It's good your moving on I suppose, I mean one day you had to," Elliot said.
"Yeah well I'm sure you'll move on to someone else soon," Sarah said even though she knew he had moved on the Jessica, but he didn't know she knew.
"Yeah I'm sure I will too," Elliot may had already moved on but he suddenly realised that to Sarah she was moving on first, even though it was him who moved on first, but he doesn't know that Sarah seen him and Jessica, and him and Jessica were nothing serious, so if Sarah got serious with Ethan then she would have properly moved on first.
Elliot didn't like the idea of Sarah being with someone else especially if he wasn't. He suddenly felt as if he had to prove to Sarah that he was over her and ready to move on too.
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