LIVING IN FEAR

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Takes after "The Kids Stay In The Picture". Just imagine that Scott finally told the others about his stepmother. Everything belongs to Fox Family. I own nothing.

Sixteen-year old Scott Barringer paced back and forth in his dorm. What had he been thinking? He knew better than to tell! It was one of Elaine's rules.

"Hey. You okay?" He turned around to see sixteen-year old Daisy Lipenowski.

"I never should have told," he responded.

"You had to. What she was doing was wrong," Daisy reminded him.

"I broke the rules, Daisy! Now she'll come after me!" Scott burst out.

"Rules?" Daisy asked.

"No. No. Forget it. You wouldn't understand," Scott dismissed.

"I can try," Daisy responded. Scott didn't answer, just stared in space. He could just see his twenty-six-year old stepmother.

"What did I tell you, Scotty?" Elaine asked angrily.

"Not to tell," Scott muttered.

"And yet, you did it anyways," Elaine accused.

"I'm---I'm sorry," Scott responded.

"Sorry's not going to help you Scotty," Elaine. She approached him.

"No. Get away," Scott said, stepping back.

"Don't fight me, Scotty. It'll just make things even worse," she warned. However, Scott continued to move backwards. Daisy watched as he fell onto one of the beds. He began to breathe heavily. Elaine reached out and began to pull off his jacket.

"You've just made it worse for yourself, Scotty," she told him.

"No," Scott said. He flinched.

"Scott?" Daisy asked. He put out a hand as if warding something off. "Scott!" Daisy cried. She knelt down in front of him and hugged him tightly.

"Scott, it's just you and me. We are the only ones here," she said firmly.

"Scotty," Elaine said.

"Scott's she's not here. She's just in your head. It's just us," Daisy repeated. Finally, the boy looked at her.

"Daisy?" he asked.

"Yep," Daisy answered. "Now, talk to me. What's going on?" she continued.

"I---I broke one of the rules. I told," Scott said plaintively. He fell silent.

"Keep going," Daisy instructed.

"She---she always threatened to hurt me worse if I told," Scott whispered. "And---and I had to pretend like everything was okay, that it wasn't happening."

"I'm sorry," Daisy said

"She'll come after me, Daise. She'll---she'll---"

"Ssssh, sssssh, ssssssh," the girl interrupted soothingly. She hugged him again. And they just stayed like that.