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Chapter 35
Elliot stood by the school gates as he waited for Sarah as she had agreed to speak to him. Kim walked past him and then stopped and turned around to face Elliot, "I just want you to know that I don't blame you for this. It's all Jessica's fault!"
Elliot was surprised that Kim wasn't putting any part of the blame on him at all, "Thanks it's good to know that you are holding me responsible but if I'm being honest is it my fault that Sarah is upset eand I know I haven't did anything directly wrong to you put I still shouldn't have gotten with Jessica behind Sarah's back. I should have been more honest," Elliot replied.
"We all should have been more honest. I knew about you and Jessica and never said anything to Sarah, but then Sarah knew about Ryan and Jessica and never said anything to me," Kim said before she carried on walking home.
A few minutes later Sarah arrived, "Thanks so much for agreeing to talk to me," Elliot said.
"I suppose you deserve the chance to say your side of the story," Sarah said as they began to walk.
"I just want you to know that I never intended to hurt you," Elliot began to say.
"Jessica said the exact same words but you both still did. I don't know who I'm more annoyed with because Jessica is family and you don't do what she did to your family. But then you had already hurt me before by cheating on me with Sophie and you promised that you would never hurt me again and here we are again, in the same situation where you've hurt me again," Sarah replied.
"I know I made a promise not to hurt you that is why I never told you about Jessica. I made her not tell you. It was me that made the decision to keep me and Jessica hidden, not hers. But you have to realise that it killed me having that secret and that is why when I moved here I called off the relationship which had begun at the lake," Elliot said as he tried to show Sarah that he did care about her and that is why he called things with Jessica off.
"But you couldn't stay away from here could you?" Sarah asked as she knew it was obvious since they were always spending time together.
"No I really liked Jessica but the problem was I still had feelings for you," Elliot confessed.
Sarah came close to admitting that she did have feelings for Elliot too but then she couldn't bring herself to admit it.
"I know what I did was wrong and I don't deserve you Sarah I never did, all I did was hurt you. You can do so much better," Elliot said to Sarah as he knew that he was bad news for her but even when he tried his best not to hurt Sarah, somehow he still found himself hurting her.
"What about Jessica?" Sarah asked, "what happens now between you. I know about it now there is no reason to keep it a secret now is there?"
Elliot hesitated to answer. He hadn't spoke to Jessica since he found out that she had a thing with Ryan as well as him.
"You know something I actually think I understand what you're going through because what I put you through is now what I feel since Jessica went behind my back and had this thing with Ryan," Elliot thought it must have been karma and that he probably deserved it after everything that he had done.
"I don't feel sorry for you know. Even though I know what Jessica did was wrong I still can't feel sympathy for you," Sarah replied. In a way Sarah did feel that Elliot deserved it and that it was about time he had a taste of his own medicine.
"I didn't want you too," Elliot said.
"You still never answered my initial question," Sarah reminded Elliot, "what is happening with you and Jessica now because I would much rather hear it from one of you than anyone else,"
"Nothing," Elliot replied, "I have nothing to say to her right now. Sarah could see that Elliot was genially hurting and that he did obviously care for Jessica and that is why he was hurting now. "Could you ever see yourself forgiving her?" Elliot asked.
Sarah thought about it for a minute, "Right now no, I need time to get over it. Who knows what the future holds so I wouldn't want to say if I ever would. What about you?"
"I feel hypocritical if I don't because I'm just as bad because what she did to me is the same as what I did for you," Elliot replied.
"It's not about whether you are just as bad or not. It's about whether you can forgive her actions and forget about them," Sarah said to Elliot, "You should speak to her," Sarah advised Elliot. Even though she was annoyed at Jessica and didn't want to speak to her, she still felt that Elliot and Jessica had some unfinished business to sort out.
"I will if you will?" Elliot said as he felt that Sarah and Jessica needed to speak to make progress and maybe so that they could eventually sort this out.
"I don't know about that. I'll think about it. But seriously you need to talk to her. You need to hear her reasons that same way that I'm here hearing you out and your side of the story," Sarah said. Elliot agreed with Sarah and felt that Jessica deserved the chance to give Elliot her side of the story and the reason why she got with Ryan.
"Yeah but then you need to hear Jessica's reasons as well," Elliot reminded Sarah.
"Well I'll think about it then," Sarah replied.
"So where does this leave us?" Elliot asked he wasn't sure exactly what grounds he and Sarah were on.
"Well I can't forget about this yet, I need time to get over it but things are better than they were this morning," Sarah replied to Elliot.
Elliot felt a little bit better now because at least Sarah took the time of her day to speak to him and at least they were having a mature conversation rather than arguing.
Elliot and Sarah headed back towards their houses. Jessica was in her room and noticed them out of her window. She walked over closer to her window and hid behind her curtain so that they couldn't see her. Jessica was surprised to see them together. She couldn't understand why Sarah wouldn't even listen to her yet she was hanging out with Elliot.
Jessica really wanted to speak to Elliot but she could tell that he wasn't interested in speaking to her. Jessica knew that she had ruined everything. She had never been lucky in love before and now she had falling for two boys at once and she had gone and ruined it with both of them.
Jessica wanted all of this to be over and she knew that she it would have to try and speak to Sarah and Kim first to try and sort it out.
"Sarah," Jessica said as she walked into Sarah's room, "Can we please talk?"
"I don't want to hear anything that you have to say," Sarah said as she turned her music he had on up louder so that she couldn't hear Jessica.
"But yet you'll speak to Elliot?" Jessica shouted so she could be heard over the music.
"Yes I will. It's up to me who I do and don't want to talk to," Sarah shouted back.
"That is just unfair. You can't be that hurt otherwise you wouldn't have even spoken to Elliot," Jessica said. She couldn't understand how Sarah didn't even want to hear her out yet she was quite happy to spend time with Elliot.
"Don't you dare say that I'm not hurt. You're suppose to be my sister and yet you did this to me?"
"But if you knew all along then why didn't you say something? You've been planning all this arguing and drama the whole time. You've just been waiting for it to be out in the open. You are totally just over reacting, because if you were that upset then you couldn't have pretend that everything was ok and been that nice to me," Jessica couldn't understand how Sarah could have played all happy families if really she was this annoyed and upset with her.
"I'll admit I have been waiting for you two to tell me but it did take this long but I never planned any of this arguing. I hate it why would I want to cause all of this?" Sarah replied.
"You're not even making any sense anymore. I think you are just trying to play the victim here and get everyone else to take your side and hate me. Well congratulations because it worked because right now I don't have a single friend and everyone in this family is on your side".
"Yeah no one wants anything to do with you because of what you've done you've got no one to blame but yourself!" Sarah replied, "Anyway you are just coming in here shouting your head off because you're clearly jealous that Elliot wanted to speak to me but he wants nothing to do with you,"
Jake, Mike and Mark came into Sarah's room, "what is all the shouting about?"
"I'm not jealous!" Jessica replied, even though she knew herself that she was, "You clearly still in love with Elliot or else you wouldn't have spoken to him and you wouldn't be brining that into this just now".
"I do not, not that you would care anyway because you never bothered to tell me about you and Elliot," Sarah replied.
"Guys!" Mark said as he tried to stop them but they both ignored him.
"I asked you heaps of times if you still liked Elliot and you told me you didn't see you and him ever getting back together, so I did care and I did ask you if you felt anything for him. If you told me you wanted to be with him then I would have backed off there and then but Elliot also told me he didn't see you and him ever being together again and that you were part of his past".
"Oh my god you're obviously trying to make me jealous now but it's not working," Sarah replied.
"Stop it!" Mike shouted. Next thing Jake, Mike and Mark knew was that Sarah and Jessica were now physically fighting and pulling each other's hair.
"Calm down this is so stupid" Jake shouted as he pulled Sarah off of Jessica, "Look at you two you are suppose to be sisters and you are like hitting each other".
"She started it," Sarah said.
"It doesn't matter who did but you don't realise that this is effecting the whole family. You two and Kim need to sort this out!" Mike said. Even though Mike was one of the younger ones he always tried to act as the peace maker and acted much more mature beyond his years.
Mike and Mark took Jessica back to her room and tried to calm her down but by this point she was in floods of tears.
"I'm so sorry I didn't mean for that happen, I just wanted to try and sort things out but instead they are worse now than they were before. I'm sorry that it puts you guys in an awkward position."
Mike and Mark felt awkward right now because although they knew what Jessica did was wrong they felt bad leaving her in her room by herself as she sat their crying because they could tell that she had no one she could talk to.
"Look Jess things will get better over time. Sarah won't stay mad forever," Mike said as he tried to make things better.
"She might," Jessica replied.
"She won't Jessica. You are her sister and she will get over it eventually," Mark said as he tried to reassure her.
While Mike and Mike were trying to clam Jessica down, Jake was trying to calm Sarah down.
"What was that all about Sarah? "Jake said even though he didn't need her to answer it because he knew the answer, "Come on that was ridiculous, if we weren't here you would have probably really hurt Jessica there because you are a lot stronger than her" Jake said as he spoke about the fight that had just happened.
"She just kept going, I told her to leave way before it all got out of hand," Sarah said defending herself.
"Sort it out Sarah because this is affecting the whole family. Do I have to remind you that already Mark and Mike have run away. We don't want them or anyone else running away again because they feel that they can't handle this house anymore. But if anyone does it will be on you guys and I will hold you's responsible," Jake warned Sarah before he went to leave her room.
"Jake wait," Sarah shouted, "I'm sorry I didn't mean for it to get that bad. I will just try to keep out of Jessica's way so that it doesn't happen again," Sarah apologised.
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