Chapter 8

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CHAPTER 8

*Sarah* Jason had me in such a good mood that the day, it was just flying by. As I was putting my books away and getting ready for lunch I saw my friends walking over towards me. Rob came over and tussled my hair and grinned a goofy smile at me. "Wassup, Sarah?" He asked. "Not much," "You ready for lunch?" Megan said whilst giving rob and I a curious look. "Sorry guys, my step brothers want to introduce me to their friends today, hopefully it won't take too long and we can hang out before lunch ends!" I felt bad, these guys had welcomed me into their group and now I feel like I'm blowing them off. "Haha, It is fine Sarah, like you said hopefully we will see you before lunch ends," Andrea said cheerfully. From only knowing Andrea for a short amount of time I was already jealous of her. She had this incredible smile and she was so nice and happy. Hopefully her personality is contagious. "Hang on a tick!" Rob said before I could leave. "Who are your new step brothers? Maybe we know them?" "Ah you might, John and Lucas Venear?" I answered. "You married into the Venear family?" Rob said with a bit of worry to his voice. "Is that a bad thing?" I asked curiously. Rob and Andy shared a look and then Andy said. "Ah, well the twins aren't too bad, but let's put it this way, I'm just glad I don't have to meet their friends." "Well I did notice yesterday that they were sitting with that Jennifer chick, but I'll play the nice new step sister and hopefully it won't turn into world war 3," I said with a grin. Although this time if she said something I wasn't going to play codfish and stand there with my mouth open! Oh no, I'll show her that I don't care who her dad is and that she is no higher up than anyone else that goes to this school. "Well good luck!" Megan said and then the 4 of them walked away. I made my way over to where John and Lucas were sitting and gave them a slight tap on their shoulders. "Hey! Here she is," John said with a big smile. I swear it felt like I was his new toy and he loved to show me off to everybody. "Everyone this is our new step sister, Sarah, Sarah this is everyone!" "Once again John, kudos on the great introduction," I said jokingly Everyone started introducing themselves properly and it seemed like they were all nice people, I don't know what Andy was talking about. But then something completely out of the blue happened. As I was saying hi to a few people at the table, I was tackled all of a sudden into a hug. I had been attacked by none other than Jennifer Wells! "It's so nice to finally meet you, I'm Jennifer and I hope that we can be best friends!" She said with the biggest smile plastered on her face. Although this was nothing like Andreas smiles, Andreas were sincere. Jennifer's were obviously fake. Why would she want to be friends with me? She was just calling me dork yesterday! But then it all clicked. Friends with me means she has an in with John and Lucas. I wanted to say so much to her, bring up the whole incident that had happened yesterday in front of

everyone but, I don't want to cause trouble... I just won't take any of her crap if she decides to deal it out. So I just nodded. She gave a quick squeal and sat back down at the table, sitting next to Lucas and by the looks of it was complimenting him on his muscles. Wow I wonder if she knows how to be subtle? Before I could think too much on it I felt my pocket vibrating. I took my phone out and saw that my dad was calling me, he must have just landed in Italy. "Guys my Dad is calling me, I better take this." I said to the twins. "Oh really?!" They both got excited and rushed up to me and put their ears up to the phone so they could hear. A slight feeling of joy rushed over me when I saw Jennifer's expression when she no longer had Lucas at her side. "Hey Dad, how are you and Carol?" I asked into the phone. "Hey Sarah! Honey, I'm great Carol is great, we landed about an hour ago and I thought I would call you to let you know all is well!" He replied, attempting to be spritely. I could hear the jet lag in his voice. Both John and Lucas started talking into the phone, being over excited and asking question after question. All I could hear was my Dad and Carol laughing on the other end. "Hi boys, no we haven't had any pizza or pasta or gone on a gondola ride yet, we're still in the cab on our way to the hotel" He replied, when the boys caught their breathe. "Well you call us as soon as you do!" John yelled happily. "We will! So you want to spe-- oh we just pulled up at the hotel, we'll have to call you later on tonight. I love you all!" "Love you too," I said back to the phone, and then he was gone. "They just arrived at the hotel, they're gonna call again tonight," I said to the guys. "Ah, okay" they said in unison. I was just about to say my goodbyes when I noticed Jason taking his seat at the table. I couldn't help but stare. "Dude, where have you been?" John asked. "Tony called, I was a bit preoccupied." He replied, keeping steady eye contact with John while he spoke. All of a sudden the guys went serious. It made me wonder who this Tony guy was and why he made all the guys like this. "Is everything okay?" Lucas asked. "Yeah nothing to worry about," He said with a smile that took my breath away. I realized I probably looked like a complete idiot looking at Jason the way I was and straightened myself up. "Well, it was really nice meeting you all but I've gotta go." I immediately felt bad when I saw Jason. He looked like he wanted to come over to me and stop me from leaving. I gave him a quick sorry smile. I really hope he doesn't think I'm running away from him, but I can't blow my cover. "Aww, really? But we were just getting to know you" said one of the new guys I had just met, I think his name was Damon. "Sorry maybe another time?" "I'll hold you to that" he said with a wink and then went on with a different conversation, with a guy who I think his name was Tyler. "I'll see you guys around!" I said with a smile. "Yeah okay, see you later, Sarah!" said Lucas. "See ya!" said John.

With one last look over to Jason to say I was sorry, I then made my way over to my friends table. They all looked at me with worried expressions. "How did it go?" "We're you treated okay?" "Did they hurt you?" "Oh god, they didn't, they didn't make you join the cheer leading squad did they?!" They all said jokingly. "You guys are idiots. They were all pretty nice, although one thing did kinda freak me out, I may have to be sterilized..." I said jokingly. They all looked over dramatically worried. All I could do was laugh. "Jennifer," I continued, added in a pause for affect. "Hugged me." "Oh god, we have a code red! A CODE RED! CALL A MEDIC!" Rob yelled, making a few table nearby turn their heads. "Why would she do that?" Megan asked, with an astonished look on her face. "I'm thinking she's using me to get in with either Lucas or John or both, she said she wanted to be best friends!" I said laughing. "Man that girl is on a mission to sleep with every guy in school!" Andy said. We all started laughing. Mid laughter, I stopped when I could feel something cold and wet running up my hand. I tried to look down without making it look totally suss. When I looked at my hand, I saw the most beautiful miniature ice sculpture of a flower in my palm.

I looked over at Jason to find him staring at me, with a slight smile playing on his lips. I blushed and mouthed 'Thank You' back. Never thought Jason to be the gooey romantic, I guess first impressions aren't always right..

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