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Chapter 14
It was Saturday morning and most of the Baker's were still asleep on bed, apart from Tom and Kate who were away out doing the grocery shopping and Jake and Mike who were sitting downstairs talking.
"So you got any plans for today?" Mike asked.
"Well I was supposed to be going down to the skate park with Elliot but it's bucketing rain outside so that won't be happening," Jake replied, "what about you dude?"
"Well I was maybe going to be meeting some friends from school at the skate park as well, but yeah that won't be happening either," Mike replied as he looked out at the rain as it bounced off the ground.
"Typical that it's be nice weather all week when we're at school, and then Saturday comes and its pouring rain," Jake said.
"I know," Mike replied, "so it looks like we'll be staying in all day," he sighed.
"Yeah nothing else to do," Jake said as he also sighed.
Soon Kate and Tom arrived home with many bags filled with the week's worth of shopping.
"Nobody else up yet?" Kate asked as she looked at the time and seen it was eleven.
"No," Jake replied, "or well maybe they are awake but they're still in their rooms".
"There are usually more of you up by this time," Kate said as she disappeared through to the kitchen to begin unpacking the groceries.
Jessica woke up to find she had two texts, one from Ryan asking if she was free at all over the weekend to meet up for study or if she'd prefer to leave it until Monday. Her other text was from Elliot asking if she fancied doing something during the weekend.
She replied to Elliot first saying yeah, so that then she could find when they would be doing anything, so she would know when she was free so she could get back to Ryan to let him know. But as usual Elliot seemed to be taking ages to reply it had been half an hour now since she replied.
Jessica didn't want to look rude and not reply to Ryan so she just told him she wasn't sure when she'd be free because she was maybe meeting a friend. A few minutes later her phones buzzed with a message from Ryan saying that he could do Sunday but not today because he had a basketball game for the school.
Jessica made her way down stairs and by this time so had everyone else and they were all eating breakfast at the table.
"You know lunch is suppose to be in an hour," Kate said, "but none of you will be hungry by then because you don't get up until after eleven to have your breakfast".
"We were all tired mom after a hard week of school," Mark replied.
"Yeah, after all it was the first week back after summer, it comes as a bit of a shock to the body. You know after weeks of long lies and relaxing it suddenly has to get up early and work," Henry replied.
Kate laughed, "Yeah don't you all sound hard done by. Try having twelve kids and having to run after them. Now that comes as a shock to the body."
"Tell me about it," Tom said.
"Well if it's too hard then why did you have twelve children then?" Kim asked.
"Because we wanted a big family and it's not too hard for us. I'd say we did a pretty good job so far," Tom replied, "Anyway if I was you I wouldn't be complaining because if we had only decided to have two or three kids then you wouldn't be here now. None of you would because if we wanted a small family we'd have stopped having kids after Lorraine or Charlie".
"True," Mike said, "But we love that you guys decided to have a big family".
"Or else we wouldn't all be here," Mark said.
"Yeah and we wouldn't have the eleven amazing brothers and sisters that we have," Kyle added.
"Clearly I'm the most amazing one though," Nigel said with a cheeky smile.
"Oh cute Kyle," Sarah said, "And Nigel, I think you'll find you're not the most amazing one, it's obviously me!"
"You're all the most amazing," Kate said ending it before someone else claimed to be the most amazing one.
"I love how we keep having these cute family moments," Kim said, "First last night, now today. You all feeling alright?" Kim joked, "We don't usually show our family love other each other this often".
"Sure am," Henry replied.
After breakfast everyone began getting ready for the day. Elliot had finally replied to Jessica;
Hey fancy doing something tomorrow then?
Elliot xxx
Jessica stopped a second before she replied. She knew that if she met Elliot tomorrow then she wouldn't be able to meet Ryan for their Biology project. But she also knew that she could just meet Ryan on Monday so replied saying that yeah she would like to do something.
Elliot got back to her and suggested they went a walk or something which Jessica agreed to, before getting back to Ryan to let him know that their biology project would have to wait until Monday.
Sunday came and by now the rain had cleared and the sun was out, and everything was beginning to dry out. Jessica had gotten ready for eleven in the morning and asked to borrow some money so she could buy herself some lunch before Elliot came to meet her and the two of them left.
"Jake," Sarah said as she walked into his room where he and Mike sat playing Xbox.
"Yeah," Jake replied.
Sarah sat down next to Jake and Mike.
"Do you think that there is anything going on between Jessica and Elliot? They are always meeting up and going places just the two of them," Sarah asked. She didn't know herself is they were an item and she had really wanted to know, she had seen them kiss but she still was not certain if they were in a secret relationship.
"I don't think so, I think they are just friends," Jake replied. He had asked himself the same question, but Elliot was his friends and he thought that if he was then he would have told him. "I think they have a really strong friendship, you know from being at the lake Jessica spoke to him when none of the rest of us did and she was the only one that was there for him, so they have a close bond now. I think Elliot opened up a lot to Jessica while at the lake, so he probably still finds it easy to open up to here now".
"You not think Elliot is to blame for Jessica and Kim not being so close anymore. You know how we were saying the other week after their argument it's like they're growing apart a bit," Sarah said as she thought about it and it all made sense in her head.
"Yeah maybe actually," Jake replied, "Because it looks like Jessica goes to Elliot when she wants to talk to somebody and not Kim".
"There was something that happened when the Murtaugh's first moved here that I thought was kind of weird," Mike said as he though back to that day when him and Jessica watched movies and there was an intense atmosphere between Jessica and Elliot.
"What was it?" Sarah asked looking interested into what Mike was about to say.
"Well when they first got here, Elliot ignored Jessica, like he tried his best to avoid her. I asked Jessica about it and she said she had no idea why, and I said I thought you guys were close at the lake, and she said they were and nothing had happened to make him act strange, but since he had got here he just was acting funny with her," Mike said as he continued to think about how strange it was.
"I noticed that too," Jake said, "I asked Elliot why he seemed to be being awkward around Jessica, because we bumped into her at the shop and I told her to wait for us but she said she'd rather not because she didn't feel welcome. It was aimed at Elliot. Then when I asked him about it he acted clueless and said he wasn't being awkward around her".
"Remember we heard raised voices a bit that same day when me and Jessica were watching films and you came in with Elliot then shouted on me to help you upstairs. So Jessica and Elliot were left alone for a couple minutes and sounded like they were arguing but we couldn't make out what they were saying," Mike said.
"I never asked Elliot about it because I knew I wouldn't get an answer as he was already trying to claim he wasn't ignoring her," Jake said.
All this started to make Sarah think that maybe there weren't a couple then after all or that they were and they split up then and that would explain the arguing, and that now they were back together.
"So does that mean you do or don't think that they are together?" Sarah asked.
"No, I don't think so," Jake replied pretty confident that they were just friends.
"Hmm I not sure Jake," Mike said, "It's strange how the only hang out just the two of them, because they are never together really when other people are around".
"Well then maybe we should try do some investigating to find out then," Jake said. He was beginning to think that maybe Mike was right. He would be pretty annoyed if Elliot was with Jessica, because after all they were supposed to be best friends and getting with his sister behind his back was a pretty big deal.
"Yeah well first of all you speak to Elliot see what you can find out," Sarah said.
She knew she had seen them kiss and knew that most likely that they were together but she had waited long enough now for them to confess they were, so she was just going to try and prove it. She wasn't going to forgive them for this either, Jessica had betrayed her because she knew while at the lake that Sarah wasn't over Elliot yet and she still kissed him. As for Elliot he has already hurt her and had promised he would never hurt her again.
Then the whole keeping it secret and getting together behind Sarah's back just hurt her more and made her even more angry. But until she knows for sure that they are together and that she has prove then she will just have to continue acting as if she never saw anything at all.
Part of Sarah doesn't want to find out because if she does everything will change. Right now she is making a pretty good job of pretending it never happened and is actually beginning to be friends with Elliot again. She had nearly forgiven him for cheating on her with Sophie and was ready to move on from it and forget it.
"Sarah if we were to find out they were together would you be annoyed?" Mike asked, "Or are you over Elliot and if you thought they both really liked each other, be happy for them?"
Sarah paused as she thought about it. Yeah she would be annoyed and she had said to herself she wouldn't forgive them, but Mike had made her think. If she really was over Elliot then she should be happy for them shouldn't she? But then she remembered how she had told Jessica at the lake that she wasn't over him and Jessica still kissed him so she betrayed her. Then Elliot had still continued to hurt her after saying how he would never do anything to hurt her again.
"Yeah I'd be really annoyed," Sarah replied, She couldn't explain her reasons or else she's had to tell them that she seen Jessica and Elliot kissing.
"Well I'll speak to Elliot see if I can find anything out," Jake replied.
"well should me or you speak to Jessica?" Mike asked Sarah.
Sarah thought about it, she knew Jessica would never admit anything at least not to her anyway, "How about you speak to Jessica and I'll speak to Kim maybe she'll know something," Sarah suggested.
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