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Chapter 11

The rest of the week passed quickly and the Murtaugh's really began to settle in at school. It was Friday morning and tonight Sarah had her date with Ethan. She still knew very little about him and had only spoken to him a couple more times since he had asked her out.

Sarah had time to spare before she had to leave the house to go to school, so she started looking through her clothes and deciding what she was going to wear. After about five minutes of looking through and comparing outfits she had decided what she was going to wear, she had just wished Lorraine was her to give her opinion.

"Sarah are you coming?" Jake shouted.

"Yeah just a sec," Sarah said as she grabbed her jacket and bag and headed off to school.

"Nervous for your date tonight then?" Mike smirked.

"Shut up Mike," Sarah smiled.

"Someone's getting embarrassed," Jake said.

"Yeah," Mike laughed. Sarah was getting embarrassed she didn't like speaking about boys. Especially to her family because they all just teased her.

"Well Jake when was the last time you went out on a date?" Sarah said, knowing this would shut him up.

"I can't remember," he replied.

"Exactly it's been so long you have no clue when it was. At least I'm being asked out on dates," Sarah replied. She was getting a bit tired of Jake making comments about her date all week, so she thought she'd annoy him too, by reminding him that he hasn't been on a date in ages.

"Okay, calm down I was only joking," Jake said.

"Where's Elliot this morning? He not walking with us?" Sarah asked.

"No he said he was walking with Jessica," Jake replied.

"Oh" Sarah replied. Her patience was really being put to the test. She just wanted Elliot and Jessica to tell her the truth. She was becoming close to just asking them 'so why you keep it hidden form me', but she had been able to keep it in.

Jessica and Elliot had chosen to walk the longer way so they didn't bump into Sarah, Jake and Mike, because they knew that they would make it awkward. Kim had stormed off in a mood with Jessica when she told her she wouldn't be walking with her and instead would be walking with Elliot.

"I just feel bad about it because she really wasn't too happy," Jessica said speaking about Kim.

"She'll be fine about it later, don't worry about it," Elliot said.

"I suppose you're right," Jessica smiled, "what did Jake say when you said you were walking with me?"

"He just alright cool, so it wasn't a problem," Elliot replied.

Jessica and Elliot had arrived at the school now and Whitney and Vanessa were looking on giving Jessica dirty looks.

"He's with her again," Vanessa said squinting her eyes.

"Yeah what is going on between them?" Whitney began to think.

"Well we could just ask Sarah, after all Jessica is her sister," Vanessa suggested.

"Yeah we should do that" Whitney agreed.

Jake, Mike and Sarah arrived at school and Jake and Mike went over to speak to Elliot and Jessica, but Sarah said she had to go do something so she could avoid speaking to them both.

"Sarah!" Vanessa called from the other side of the corridor.

"What do you want?" Sarah said.

"Nothing really, I was just wandering, what is going on between your sister and Elliot?" Vanessa asked.

"Nothing" Sarah replied.

"Doesn't really look like nothing, I seen them at the mall the other day and this morning walking to school together seem like more than nothing, don't you think?" Vanessa asked, knowing that she would really annoy Sarah.

"Well they're friends," Sarah replied, she wasn't going to tell Vanessa that she knew they were more than just friends.

"I think they could be lying to you Sarah, they seem a lot closer than friends in my opinion," Vanessa said. She loved trying to stir things up and hoped this would upset Sarah.

"Whatever," Sarah said before she walked away just ignoring the silly comments Vanessa had made, even though she knew herself they were true.

The bell had gone for first class. Jessica walked in to her biology class and sat in her usual seat next to Kim.

"Oh so I am good enough for you now, while Elliot's not here then?" Kim said.

"Come on don't be like that," Jessica replied.

"Well I walk to school with you every day, and then when Elliot calls and asks do you want to walk with me, it's like oh stuff Kim and leave her to walk herself," Kim said. She was pretty angry at being dumped for Elliot.

"Oh come on we come from a family of twelve you had other siblings to walk with," Jessica replied. She sometimes felt as though her and Kim relied upon each other to often, and now that they were growing up, they would need to learn to stand on their own two feet.

"Yeah but I wanted to be here early today so I could get some books I needed from the library, and as well as you knew that and you agreed to come with me," Kim said.

"Look I'm sorry let's just forget about it," Jessica said. She knew if it had been the other way round that she would have been very annoyed as well.

They didn't say much after that but as the class went on they began to forget about it, and talk as they normally would.

Mrs Brown their biology teacher started the lesson, about ten minutes in she was interrupted by Ryan Scott turning up late for class.

"He is so hot," Kim said. Ryan was tall and had blonde hair which was swept a little over to one side. He had sparkling blue eyes and beautifully tanned skin. He was adored by most girls in his year at school and loved to life up the attention he got form girls.

"I know he is," Jessica added. Kim had had a crush on Ryan for ages now, but so did most of her year so she had never really got a chance with him.

"Have you heard, he's single now?" Jessica asked.

"No!" Kim replied, "Since when?"

"Yesterday," Jessica replied, "His relationship status on facebook changed to single,"

"Oh well it won't stay that way for long he's got all the girls in our year chasing after him," Kim said.

Mrs Brown began to speak, "So I have organised you into pairs for a class project that will be done out of class so it will be up to you and the person you are paired with to find time to work on this together".

"This should be so easy," Kim said.

"I know and she hopefully put us together again," Jessica said.

"I will reveal who you are paired with nearer the end of the lesson as I have a few changes that have to be made, so on you go and get on with the work that I've give you," Mrs Brown said.

"Kim! Stop staring at Ryan," Jessica giggled.

"Oh was it that obvious? He's just so good looking it's hard not to stare," Kim replied.

"Yeah it was quite obvious, surprised he never noticed," Jessica laughed.

"Jessica, Kim could I please have a word" Mrs Brown said calling them over to her desk.

"Yeah Mrs what is it?" Kim asked.

"I just thought I'd let you know but for this paired project I was wanting to separate you two since you're always miles ahead of everyone else, and put you the ones who are struggling a little with this as it will hopefully improve their grades," Mrs Brown said.

"Yeah okay then," Kim said.

"It's fine with me," Jessica replied.

"Okay thank you girls, this should hopefully really help improve their grades," Mrs Brown said.

Jessica and Kim returned to their desk and were both disappointed and not getting to work together, but they weren't wanting to argue with Mrs Brown.

It was nearly the end of the lesson and Mrs Brown asked for the class's attention as she began to read from the list who was paired with who.

"Kim Baker you are with Emily Clark," Mrs Brown revealed.

"Well that's not too bad she is really nice," Jessica said.

"Yeah she is pretty cool," Kim replied.

"Jessica Baker you are with Ryan Scott," Mrs Brown said.

Kim gasped, "Lucky you!"

Jessica smiled back, she knew the all the girls in the class were jealous of the fact she was with Ryan, and that was why they were all staring at her.

"Go sit with your partner for the last five minutes and discuss when and where you are going to meet up," Mrs Brown said.

"Jessica come sit over here," Ryan shouted over. Jessica was pretty nervous to work with Ryan, as she had never spoken to him before and every girl would love to be her right now.

"Well I did pretty alright there did I? Got put with one of the smartest people in the class so this project will be the easiest I've ever done," Ryan said as he sat back in his chair.

"If you think I'll be the one doing all the work by myself then you can think again!" Jessica replied. She wasn't prepared to have Ryan walk all over her and leave her to do all the work.

Ryan sat up in his chair and looked a little surprised, "alright maybe this won't be the easiest project I've ever done, So when and where do you want to meet up? He asked.

"I don't mind what suits you?" Jessica asked.

"Well I would say my place but we can't go their because my house is in the middle of being decorated so it's the whole house is like upside down right now, and I'm not allowed anyone in," Ryan replied.

"Well you can come to mine if you want?" Jessica asked, she didn't really want to invite him round because it's always quite loud since there is nine kids living there, and that made it hard to study sometimes but it didn't look like she had much choice.

"Yeah that would be cool, Where shall I meet you since I don't know where you live and what time?" Ryan asked.

"How about I just meet you outside the school at like half four?" Jessica suggested.

"Yeah that's fine with me," Ryan replied.

Class had ended and everyone began to make their way to their next class.

"I honestly still can't believe that you were paired with Ryan Scott and that he is coming to our house tonight!" Kim said excitedly. Jessica smiled back, she was quite unsure about working with Ryan because she was really quite nervous around him, because well Kim was right he was really good looking. He was very cocky though, because he didn't just think he was good looking, he knew he was and he this went straight to his head.

"Yeah I don't mean to burst your bubble Kim but he is only coming round to work on this project with me so you probably won't see a lot of him," Jessica replied.

"Oh well but he will still be in our house so I will still see him and might even speak to him," Kim smiled. Kim may have had a crush on Ryan for a while but she had never really properly spoken to him before. One of the reasons being she never really given the chance or put into a situation where she would talk to him and also she was too shy and knew he was out of her league.

"He is really full of himself Kim, I mean I can see why you like him because he is hot, but seriously he is not got a good personality," Jessica replied, having only really just spent the last five minutes with him but she knew from that five minutes that he was full of himself and only thinks about himself.

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