My Adventure in Hell

PG 13-- Adult 'vocabulary' (until further notice)

Higher Ground

Disclaimer: I don't own any one or anything associated with Higher Ground.

Claimer: I own Katie Mathis simply because I am her. And Cole Taylor owns Cole. Obviously! I'm just using him in my story. He is HGMonkey017! He comes in later.

Summary: 14 year old Katie Mathis has a dark past. Naturally that leads to a want of something to 'take away the pain'. So she turns to drugs to do that for her. When she beats the crap out of one of her peers and is sent to Horizon what will she do then to take away the pain? Will someone do it for her?

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1st CHAPTER IN KATIES POV

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"Hey.... um well I'm Katie Mathis and I had a, I guess you could say, 'Rough' childhood.

I was known as the 'bad girl' at school. No one knew how much of a bad ass I could be until I beat the crap out of a 6th grader, when I was in the 8th grade. Well one night I come in from this, OFF THE FREKIN HOOK party and I get busted... big time! I come in all high and smashed and my parents are like "Where the hell have you been" Well I start giggling and crackin' up on the floor and my parents see the blood shot eyes and... guess what? They SEARCH my FREKIN things!! I mean I was like 'damn' when they found my minor stash of some pot, but then when they found the mother load I was hauled off to a BOARDING SCHOOL! Well it's worse then a boarding school.

So here I am on the road to Horizon. Mount Horizon, that is, School for 'At Risk' teens.

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Peter Scarbrow and Sophie Becker were engulfed in their work. Peter, being an optimistic person, was looking forward to the days work. Sophie, on the other hand, was worried and a bit confused.

"Peter?" She quizzically asked.

"Yeah, Soph?"

"I'm a little worried about the newcomer, Katie Mathis. I wonder if the Cliffhangers will accept her. Especially Shelby." Sophie said thinking about the 17 year old blonde girl. "Do you know anything about her?"

"Not much." Sophie was surprised on this answer. Peter usually knew, or thought he knew, EVERYTHING.

"Well, her parents don't know why she turned to drugs, but she did and they were some pretty hard ones. Crystal Meth, Pot, Acid, whatever she could get her hands on. She was placed in a hospital for the withdrawal and then her parents are sending her here. There are some other details too"

"Why did you put her in the Cliffhangers, though? I mean they are a hard core group."

"Well I wouldn't have if she hadn't beatin' a kid to near death. A kid 2 years younger then her, mind you. It says she just sneaked up behind her after they got off the bus and ambushed her. She later claimed that and I quote "The snotty, brat deserved it for talking with HIM! She knew how I hated his guts!" And that's about the time the drugs were discovered." Peter said 'as a matter of factly'.

"Well and let me guess, you being the nice, and handsome, mountain man you are, you welcomed her with open arms." Sophie said inching closer to Peter with every word.

"You know me too well, Soph" He said between kisses

"Oh, really?" She said as she heard a knock at the door.

"Yeah, how 'bout, after we admit Katie, we go to my place and "Explore" each other some more?" Peter said seductively.

"Oooh, Mountain Man, I like the way you think" Sophie said as Peter walked to his office door and answered it.

"Hey Shelby, What do you need?"

"Well there is some family here to meet you. They say they're the new admit." Shelby explained dryly but with a touch of sarcasm.

"Ok, tell them I'll be there in a minute"

"I'm not your dog... you do it yourself." Shelby retorted.

"Shelby!" Sophie said as Peter glared at her. She put up her hands like dogs paws and stuck her tongue out.

"Yes, masters" And she hopped away like a rabbit.

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I, back in the car, however was not having such a great time. Apart from the motion sickness I was beginning to form, I was pissed to no end. And being in the car for 3 DAYS didn't help either!

We had been driving in a hot and sweaty car across the freakin' country for 3 days. I came from North Carolina and we were going to Washington. Luckily, I got to take a plane part the way there. Then our next plane was delayed when we took a pit stop in Nevada for some stupid reason. I think for gas, and of course my dad wanted to make the deadline and look responsible so we rented a car and we're are now on the road there.

Finally after another hour we pull up to a woodsy area with a big sign that said "Mount Horizon, High School"

"Ohhh how summer campish! This should be swell! " I said sarcastically. My parents chose to ignore the comment.

We pulled down the dirt road and up to a bunch of log cabins and followed the signs to the admit building and I watched as they all changed classes. I guessed it was the last class of the day according to the time. It was past 3:00 PM.

My mom got to the building and got out. A blonde girl that looked around 16 or 17 came out hand in hand with another blonde boy. They broke hands and the blonde girl asked my parents who they were. They said that they were the new admit's parent's and the blonde girl went off to tell some man named Peter. When she came back about 5 minutes later she said that Peter would be here in a minute. Her and the blonde boy walked off to some river looking place with some docks in front.

I thought for a moment that they looked cute together and then wiped off my caring face and put back on my bad girl front when the man, who I guessed to be Peter came out. I was still in the car and my legs were practically begging me for a stretch. I got out of the car and stretched out my legs and prepared to get back into the car when my mom shut the door behind me.

"Your lucky I didn't just jump out of that while you were driving, mother dearest." I snapped at them in anger and resentment.

"Don't say those things, Katie! You freak us out with the things you say." My mom said while she looked taken aback.

'Ahh weak spot. Here's my chance to break them' I smirked.

"Well I was thinking about it on the ride here and I figured that I liked black better then white. You don't want it getting dirty." I said to piss my mom off.

"What!?" Both my mom and my dad asked me. I bit my bottom lip to keep from cracking up..

"You know, for my casket when I jump off one of these big ass cliffs! Or maybe you'd like to burn me and dump my ashes all over Yankee Stadium!

My mother groaned and looked defeated. I mentally patted myself on the back for the self accomplishment.

"Mr. Scarbrow." My mom started pushing me into the strange mans hands. "You take her now. We aren't able to take care of her anymore."

"What Care?!? I'm 14 mother! I can practically take care of myself so you can stop trying. Stop fixing your mistakes with my drunk ass brother with me!" I said also in anger and resentment and turned away. "Well Mr. Scarbrow.... You can take me away now."

"It's Peter." He said.

"Huh? Yeah whatever... Peter" I then walked away. Leaving my parents in a trail of dust.

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"Ok, Katie. Hop up on the table." A nurse said.

"Why in the hell do I want to do that? I might ask."

"It's for your physical."

"NO way in hell am I taking a physical. I don't like to be touched. And no way am I dressing in front of you!" I practically screamed at her.

"I promise I wont touch you much and I can go out of the room while you undress and dress." I thought for a moment.... She seems nice... Well then again so did Joe but you don't see HIM keeping his promises.

"Ok... only if you don't go any lower then my waist." The nurse looked confused but she knew that she had been beaten and there was no way she was going to change my mind.

"Ok" She simply stated. "I can live with that."

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After my physical from hell I walked out of the nurses station only to find a blonde woman waiting for me. She put her arm around my shoulder but I shrugged it off.

"Who are you!?" I demanded.

"I'm just Sophie. I'm your councilor. I'm here to take you to get your bags checked."

"What is this? The freakin' airport? Checking someone's bags like I have a damn gun or something!"

"Well, for one, yeah. And for two we do not use foul language here. So I don't want to hear anymore of that. You hear?"

"Yeah whatever, master" I retorted.

'She is so much like Shelby already' Sophie thought.

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When the lady known as Sophie took me to a cabin and said this is where I was sleeping I examined it for a moment.

"Well, since I'm not a prep, I say no comment" I looked at her and smirked as I walked in. The girl that had talked to my mom earlier was sitting on a bed reading a book. Another girl with long brown hair was posting some picture of a Mexican boy on the board behind her bed and another girl was playing cards with herself or something. I took another look and they seemed to be some big cards and I figured she was the spiritual, gothic type and those were tarot cards.

I heard a loud squeal and covered my ears. "NEWBIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"What the hell was that?" I asked cautiously removing my fingers from inside my ears.

"It was Queenie" I heard the blonde girl say. "I'm Shelby, Queenie over there is Juliette and the Goth is Daisy. We did have another girl but she graduated last year. Her name was Kat." Shelby said.

"You can take Kat's bed over there if you'd like" Sophie asked. I sized it up and down and decided it was good enough.

"It'll do." I said while I threw my bags on it. "Which drawer is mine?"

"The 2 and 4th one on the black dresser." Daisy said. "There the only ones open."

"Cool." I started to put my clothes away and came by one of my old softball shirts. It was then that I realized that I wouldn't be playing that in a while.

"Shelby, you take Katie around when she is done unpacking her things." Sophie ordered.

"I'm flattered that I'm actually buddy worthy but cant you get Juliette to do it?" Shelby asked bored.

"No! You are perfectly capable of doing it now get to it."

"Ok Master" Shelby said.

I looked up and realized that she had used my nickname for Sophie and laughed. 'This is going to be a VERY long day!'

***** a/n: Wow that was long! Well review and tell me if you like it.