I try to write one short story about every Baker. The first one is a story about Sarah.

I try to make as less as I can, but I can not promise that there aren´t any mistakes.

I do not own Cheaper by the dozen.

Fairytale gone bad Sarah

She did not thought it would end like that. It felt so wrong, being pushed away.

"It is because of her, isn´t it?", Sarah Baker asked her boyfriend Elliot Murtaugh.

"No", he answered.

Sarah opened her eyes and watched him confused. But it had to be because of this other girl, that now she, Sarah, was not good enough anymore.

"Look, Sarah. We had a nice time..."

Sarah suddenly saw herself and Elliot sitting at the lake, holding hands.

She remembered everything, the sunset, the silence, the smell of fresh air. Sarah had become a little bit nervous then, knowing something would happen to her. It was when Elliot lay his arm around her and kissed her on the front of her head.

"I have to tell you something, Sarah..."

"..but I have to tell you this. You have to know what I feel now." Elliot did not look in her eyes. Like it was hard for him. But what did he know...

"I just have not the same feelings for you anymore. It changed..."

"It suddenly changed? From one day to the other your feelings changed?!", she cried out loud and made her hands to fists. That could not be true. They have loved each other. That could not be over so soon.

"..I love you." It seemed like it took a lot for him to tell her, but the moment he did, Sarah´s heart made a jump and then beat twice times faster then normal. It was like the sun shined only for them, like the birds would only sing for those two young lovers.

"But we were happy", Sarah told him. She did not understood what happened here. Why it happened. Was suddenly the world against her?

It was like the world would move one in one with her heartbeat.

"I love you, too." Suddenly those words weren´t so strange anymore. They were just correct.

She turned her head and let Elliot kiss her softly.

"Please, Sarah. Don´t make it so complicated", Elliot moaned.

"I am not making it complicated. I just tell you the facts!" Sarah noticed, that she had screamed. Some of the other peoples around them gave them unpleasant looks.

Elliot rolled his eyes, like she was getting on his nerves. Was this the sweet boy she had given her heart? It had been so perfect...

"Come on, Sarah", he told her. "I want to watch the sunset with you.."

"So it´s over now...", a voice asked, sounding much like hers.

Elliot nodded. "I am sorry Sarah."

"Don´t..." She grabbed her bag and started to run, up to the Bakers house, into her room, where she fell down on her bed and started to cry. Outside someone laughed and Sarah wanted him to stop because laughing was so wrong.

"Sarah?" She turned her wet face to the door were someone had said her name and saw Jake standing in the door, making an uncontrollable beat with his feet and not seeing into her eyes.

Sarah came home late this night, singing softly in joy, when she met Jake on the floor.

"Where have you been?", he wanted to know.

That was definitely the wrong sentence, it was nothing he should care for.

"Why should I tell you?"

"I worried about you..."

Lie, was the word, that was formed in Sarah´s mind.

"I have been out with Elliot." Sarah recognized Jakes eyes becoming smaller.

He behaved so obnoxiously. Tonight was a good night to let him see this.

She went up to him and spoke very slowly.

"It has been so nice."

"Go away, Jake!" Sarah did not want him to see her like that. She did not want that he had a chance to feel like the winner.

He did not went. "What´s wrong?", he asked instead of it.

"Mum and Dad have been worried", Jake said, while Sarah could see that he tried to ignore her last words, but it did not work so well.

"And angry", Jake tried to smile devil. "They are angry, because you did not come home the time they told you to..."

"Stop behaving like a goody goody, Jake", Sarah said angry. Why did he not hold her back free, like she would have done?

"Everything is nice, Jake. Go skating now and leave me alone, because that´s what you want to do!", Sarah screamed, not thinking for the other family members that could be in the house.

"Like I said, I was worried", Jake told her, making a grim face.

"But you do not have to worry. I can look after myself very well. And if I am allowed to remind you, Jake: You are just my little brother. You don´t need to look after me, okay?"

"You would not care, either", she told him. "Or it would be great for you..."

"It´s just that you live in a fairytale, Sarah. And one day you will wake up and..."

She cut him off. "Stop that Jake, I know what´s wrong with you. You are jealous! You are jealous, you can not handle your sister going out with your best friend!" With that, Sarah slummed her door and did not speak to Jake again.

"You can tell me", Jake said shyly.

She could not hold it anymore. "He broke up!", she cried. "He left me alone, we are not a pair any longer."

Jakes face froze for a moment, then he sat down next to her and put his arms around her. This moment Sarah broke down finally and let the tears fall down on his shirt.

"Do you want me to kill him for you?" Jake asked.

Sarah had to laugh. "No...I think it´s enough if you stay with me now..."

Please review and tell me what you think (and perhaps if there are serious mistakes). If you want, you can tell me, about whom the next chapter shall be in yor review, you can choose between Lorraine, Kim and Nigel, because those are the stories I have already written.