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Chapter 16
It was Monday morning and all the Baker's kids were getting ready to leave to go school.
"Kids if you want I'm just away to leave to go to work I can give you all a lift?" Tom offered.
"Yeah that would be good," Mark said as they all agreed.
"I hate school," Sarah complained as she got into the car, "Why has it got to start so early".
"I know," Henry agreed.
"Yeah but if I started later it wouldn't finish until later," Jake said.
"True," Henry said.
A few minutes later they arrived at the school, "Bye kids," Tom said as he drove off.
"Bye," They replied.
It wasn't long until the bell rang and they all made their way to their first class. Sarah, Jake and Elliot had Geography and they were working in their pairs again so Sarah found herself paired with Elliot together.
"So how did your date with Ethan go on Friday?" Elliot asked Sarah.
"It went good," Sarah replied.
"So will you be going on another date with him then?" Elliot asked.
"Well we haven't planned one yet, but yeah I would," Sarah replied.
"He's not asked you on one again yet?" Elliot asked, trying to hint that maybe he won't ask her on another one.
"Well no," Sarah replied, she could see Elliot was on purpose saying this to try make her think that Ethan was no longer interested.
"I seen him speaking to a group of girls earlier maybe he's just a bit of a player," Elliot said. He had seen him speaking to a group of girls earlier but that was only because he was asking where he had to go as he still didn't quite know his way around. Elliot was beginning to feel jealous and had surprised himself actually as he thought he was over Sarah, but the thought of her being with someone else made him really jealous.
"That doesn't mean he's a player," Sarah replied with an angry tone in her voice, "He could have been speaking to them for any reason! Why are you being like this?"
"Being like what?" Elliot asked.
"Trying to put me off him," Sarah replied, "And just to let you know I don't care what you say about him and I can date whoever I want to and I don't need you sticking your nose in. In case you forgot we're not together anymore because you ruined it by cheating on me. Can't you at least try and be happy for me!"
"I don't mind who you date, it's none of my business," Elliot replied, "nothing wrong with looking out for a friends is there?" Elliot could tell that he was being a bit of a jerk and now Sarah probably knew that he was jealous.
"Yeah there is nothing wrong with looking out for a friend, but when you know nothing about him and you try and put me off him then it's a bit more like trying to ruin it".
"Okay I'm sorry," Elliot replied.
"Let's just forget about it," Sarah said as she got on with the work they had to complete.
The period had finished and Elliot walked with Jake to their next class. Elliot knew that Sarah could tell that he was a bit jealous of the fact that she had been on a date with Ethan but he didn't like the idea of her being with someone else. He knew it would upset him seeing her with another boy. Elliot knew he should have never have made up lies about Ethan because maybe he was a really nice guy but he couldn't help himself in the moment,
"Are you trying out for the school basketball team? The trails are after school today?" Elliot asked, trying to take his mind off Sarah.
"I don't know, I use to be in the team but I quit last year," Jake replied.
"Why did you quit?" Elliot asked.
"I just did, I lost interest a bit," Jake replied.
" You should try out for this year's team, I'm going to," Elliot suggested.
"I don't know," Jake said as he thought about it.
"You should, you're well good," Elliot said.
"I'll think about it," Jake said.
"Hey Jake, Hey Elliot," Jessica said as her and Kim walked passed them in the corridor on their way to biology.
"Oh hey," they replied as they noticed it was Jessica and Kim.
"I still can't believe that you're going to be sitting with Ryan this period," Kim said as they continued to walk to their next class.
"I probably won't be though because the projects to be done at home and not in school," Jessica said, reminding Kim that it was to be done in their own time.
"Oh yeah," Kim said.
They got into class and sat down at their desks and started talking to Robin, Lisa and Becky who were in their class too.
Mrs Brown their teacher came in and told everyone to settle down and listen, "Now I hope you have all began to work on your projects and are getting on with that in your own time. Today I have to go to a meeting so another teacher is going to be along to cover the class. So for today I am just going to give you extra time to work in your pairs on your project," Mrs Brown said before she left the classroom and one of the other Biology teacher came in to cover and just sat at the teachers desk and said they had their own work to get on with.
"Well it looks like you will be working with Ryan today then," Kim said to Jessica as she stood up to go sit with Ryan.
"Yeah I guess I am," Jessica smiled back.
Jessica sat down next to Ryan and got her books out of her bag.
"I think I seen you yesterday," Ryan said as he too took out his books.
"Where?" Jessica asked.
"Next to the skate park you were with that new boy who is friends with your brother Jake," Ryan said.
"Oh yeah that was me," Jessica replied, "Where were you?"
"I was just walking past, I was on my way to go meet a friend. I was going to shout over and say hey but I wasn't certain that it was you," Ryan said.
"Oh well it was me, so you should have shouted over," Jessica smiled.
"So is he your boyfriend?" Ryan asked.
"No Elliot's not my boyfriend," Jessica said sadly.
"He isn't? It looked he was because he had his arm round you when I seen you," Ryan said, "And you must want him to be because you said no rather sadly there".
"No he isn't we're just really good friends," Jessica said. She liked the fact that Ryan actually thought that Elliot was her boyfriend, because it made her think that they looked good together.
"But you want him to be though?" Ryan asked.
"It's actually so complicated though," Jessica said.
"What makes it complicated?" Ryan asked.
Jessica was surprised that Ryan was taking an interest in her love life, but at the same time she wanted to talk about it. She had never got to open her heart up to someone about the situation yet, apart from Kim but that was only because Kim basically forced it out of her.
"You can't say anything to anyone though! Especially Sarah!" Jessica said as she started to tell the story.
"I won't," Ryan said.
"To make a long story short, Elliot is Sarah's ex boyfriend they went out for nearly a year but never saw each other because they lived miles apart. They split up and we went to the lake on family vacation during the summer and the Murtaugh's that's Elliot's family were there too. So Jake had found out Elliot had cheated on Sarah but Elliot had convinced him not to tell Sarah. Then while this was happening Elliot convinced Sarah to take him back. She soon found out Elliot had cheated on her and that Jake knew but never said anything and fell out with both of them and Mike too because he knew," Jessica paused as she took a breath.
"Alright," Ryan said as he tried to follow what happened.
"Then due to all the fighting Mike ran away and we all blamed Elliot. Then when I was looking for Mike I ended up being with Elliot just because we were both by ourselves and decided it was safer to be together. We soon found Mike and after the night with Elliot I thought he was generally sorry and gave him a chance as a friend. We grew close and we kissed on the last night. He then moves here and ignored me for a few days, then said he didn't want a relationship because he didn't want to hurt Sarah anymore. So there you have it," Jessica finished.
Ryan took a few seconds to say anything as he tried to make sense of it all in his head.
"To be honest that Elliot sounds like a right jerk," he said, "He's a cheat and a liar as also appears to manipulate people to covers his tracks. Then he tries to get with his ex's sister. Come on Jessica you can do a lot better".
"I know he sounds bad but he had a really nice side and he really understands me. He is someone I can talk to and I do really like him," Jessica replied.
"Yeah but does he like you? I don't understand why he wouldn't want a relationship even if he doesn't want to hurt Sarah, it's still just as bad to lie. The truth may hurt but a lies worse," Ryan said.
Jessica knew he was right she was also surprised by the fact that what he was saying made sense. She never had considered Ryan to be the sensitive type.
"All I'm saying is if it were me, and I had gone out with Sarah in the past but now really liked you and even if I didn't want to hurt Sarah, I wouldn't be able to help my feelings," Ryan said, "and if I really liked someone I wouldn't let anything get in the way or stop me being with them".
Jessica could completely understand what Ryan was saying and right now there was nothing more she wanted than to be with Elliot. Nonetheless though she could still understand why Elliot didn't want a relationship because he didn't want to hurt Sarah and neither did she. She knew that it would probably cause friction throughout the whole family.
"I know what you mean," Jessica said. Ryan had given her a lot to think about, "So are we meeting after school for this project?"
"Well I have basketball trials straight after school, but I can mange after that," Ryan said.
"Okay well you can come to mine if you want?" Jessica offered.
"Yeah that's cool with me. If you want you could come watch my basketball trials and then we could go straight to yours afterwards?" Ryan suggested.
"Yeah that's fine," Jessica replied.
It wasn't long until the class finished and as usual Kim came rushing over to Jessica to ask about Ryan.
"So is he coming to ours tonight?" Kim asked.
"Yes but first he's got basketball trials and he asked me to come along and watch and then we'll head straight to ours. You want to come watch the trials as well? I don't really want to be sitting watching by myself," Jessica asked.
"Gutted!" Kim exclaimed.
"What?" Jessica looked confused.
"Well I'm going round to Emily's house at the time Ryan is at our house so that me and Emily can do our project," Kim replied, "But yeah sure I'll come with you to the trials," she smiled.
"Thanks Kim," Jessica said.
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