Notice: I don't own any of the character they all belong to FFC. I only own the newbies.
P.S. You might want to read S&S lovestories starting with the nightmere for better understanding of this story.
Also on one of the episodes it says everyone is wearing a mask. Well on this story Shelby reveals her mask. And
you find a person you never knew exsisted. So on this chapter, Shelby changes dramaticly as she reveals her real
self and takes off the mask.
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It had been a week since the talent show. The cliffhangers sat at the table with the newbie. Jen was all over Scott which pissed Shelby off.

Shelby: (dryly) So.... litte miss Jen why are you here?
Jen: Oh I was on drugs and my parents didn't know what else to do so they sent me here.
Daisy: Why did you get on drugs?
Jen: Oh well my brother had really hot friend and to get him to notice me I started doing drugs. No reason really just got hooked on them.
Daisy: Peter, is not going to go with that.
Jen: Well I thought I'd tell him.... I don't know maybe (starting to smile) I know I'll tell him I was abused by my father and I ran to the streets. No ( smiling harder) I'll tell him I was hooker on the streets. That will blow his mind.
Shelby got up.
Shelby: Yeah it will because he won't know why anybody would pay money for you.
With that she ran off.
Daisy: You bitch.
Jen: (clueless of what she had done) What is her problem?
Daisy: Oh maybe because you just made fun of her past.
Jen: (sarcasticly) Oopps.
Daisy: You are nothing but a little whore. Oh Shelby was right about one thing, Peter would wonder why anybody would pay money to be with a person as ugly as you.
Daisy then got up and ran after Shelby. Scott followed her. Everybody else also got up and left except Jen.
Jen: Well that went well.
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Next day after classes all the cliffhangers are sitting at a picnic table. Peter and Sophie comes out with a huge box. And lays it down on the picnic table.

Peter: Shelby, you have got mail.
Shelby: What is it.
Shelby grabs the box and pulls it over toward her.
Peter: I don't know maybe you should open it.
Shelby slowly opens the box afraid of what she will find. When she opens it up all she finds is newspaper. She removes the newspaper and pulls out over twelve trophies.
Juliet: Wow, I don't even have that many.
Juliet picks up one trophie. And reads it out loud.
Juliet: The Dance Connection winner for Loistown Shelby Merrick.
Auggie picks up a trophie and reads it outloud.
Auggie: The Dance Connection county winner Shelby Merrick.
Ezra gets intrested and picks up a trophie and reads it outloud.
Ezra: The Dance Connection state winner Shelby Merrick.
Juliet: Wow you won a lot of compitions.
Shelby: Thanks
Shelby stills has her attention on the box and the stuff inside it. She picks up a stack of newspapers and throws them on the table. Daisy picks one up and starts reading it out loud.
Daisy: The next worldwide dancer will be coming out of this small town of Loistown. Yes that's right our Shelby Merrick will be the youngest dancer to ever go around the world as a world-wide dancer for the famous dance company The Dance Connection. Shelby has to win one more compition and she will go around the world from Spain to France and many other countries she will also be the youngest dancer to ever do this, since the youngest person was seventeen. The owner of The Dance Connection Sir Charles Jinks says this about young Miss. Merrick. " She is very talented young dancer. You can not take your eyes off her when she is on stage. She will be the next biggest dancer. She is way above technic for her age. And very talented. I have high hopes for Miss. Merrick and more then likly those hopes will be feeled."
Juliet: Wow did you ever make it.
David: No, if she did why would she be here.
Juliet: Oh.
Shelby: No princess, I did not. Two weeks before the compition I ranaway and my mother did not find me until three weeks after is was over.
Shelby slowly lifted a letter from the bottom of the box and read a loud.
Shelby: Shelby,
I have packed all your trophies and everything else dealing with your dance days because I wanted to recindal your memeories. The national contest is coming back and your teacher wants you to try out again. After seeing you dance at Horizan I saw you still had the passion for it and so did your teacher. We both think you ready for the world-wide compition and we would like to enter you again. Contact me with the answer. Imagine Shelby, Prais, Ireland and many other countries, your dream come true. Don't let it go this time.
Yours truely,
mom.
With that Shelby put back the letter and everything else and got up to leave.
Sophie: Shelby, what about your package.
Shelby: Throw it away there isn't nothing in there except for junk.
Peter: But Shelby these are your memories.
Shelby: That's right, Peter, memories, and dreams. Dreams that I supposivly threw away so long ago because I wanted to. Don't you get it she still blames me, and anything that happened in the past can go up in flames for all I care.
After she finished her last sentence Shelby left.
Scott: So what are we gonna do with this stuff?
Juliet: We can't throw it away. I mean look how good she was.
Peter: We'll keep in my office. Till Shelby wants it back.
With that Peter grabs the box and leaves with Sophie.
Juliet: Wow she used to be really good.
Daisy: Yeah, I didn't even know. I can't belive she never told us. I wonder why?
Scott: Probly, because she didn't want to let us know she had gift that that bastard ruined.
Daisy: You're probley right.
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It has been four days since Shelby got the letter from her mom. She had called her mom and told her the answer was no. The group sat at a table. When a black car pulled up and a boy about eightteen stepped out. The guy walked up to the table.

Guy: Shelby
Shelby looked up at him with wide eyes.
Shelby: Oh my.... John. I can't belive it's you.
With that Shelby jumped up and hugged John.
John: I missed you, Shelb.
Shelby: I missed you too.
John: Shelb, I'm here because I want you to come and be my dance partner for this years The Dance Connections.
Shelby: John, I can't. And.... (trying to not cry) and you need to leave.
With that she walked off. And the boy left.
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The next day the girls cabin. Shelby is in the bathroom getting dressed and Juliet is on the bed.

Shelby: Hey Jules, I left my shirt out there will you hand it to me.
Juliet: Yeah
Juliet started to get up when John walked in.
Juliet: You can't be in here.
John: Where's Shelby?
Juliet: In the bathroom.... getting dressed.
With that John walked into the bathroom.
Shelby looked up and saw John standing there. All she had on was her bra and jeans.
Shelby: What are you doing in here? Get out!
John: Not until you listen to me.
Shelby: Get out!
Trying to cover up.
John: Shelby, I've seen you more naked then that.
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Meanwhile the rest of the cliffhangers were sitting at a picnic table when Jules came up and sat down beside Auggie with a confused look on her face.

Auggie: What's wrong?
Juliet: Oh.... um all I know is that Shelby was in the bathroom getting dressed and asked me to hand her a shirt. Well I was about to when *John* came in and went into the bathroom where she was *not* fully dressed. Anyway she told him to get out and he said no and that he had seen her *more* naked then that.
Scott: (turning red) He is going to die.
With that Scott jumped up from the table.
David: This is going to be fun to watch.
With that all the rest of the cliffhangers followed Scott to the girls dorm.
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Shelby: Get out, John.
John: No!!
The door opened to the bathroom and in walked Scott who closed the door behind him.
Shelby: Get out, Scott!!
Scott: Not until he leaves.
John: Well I'm not leaving.
Scott: Well then neither am I.
Shelby: Both of you get the hell out.
Just then the door opened again. In walked Peter.
Peter: Okay what is all this commotion about?
Just then Peter looked and saw Shelby in a bra and jeans.
Peter: Ohh umm (trying to cover his eyes)
Shelby: Can't a girl get some privicy.
Peter: Okay everybody out. Except you ( pointing at Shelby) You get dressed.
Peter threw a shirt at her and walked out. When he got outside the bathroom he saw all the cliffhangers standing there wondering what was going on.
Peter: Okay everybody out on the picnic tables. Now!!
With that everybody left.
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Shelby walked toward the picnic tables to see Scott and John glaring at each other.

Shelby: John, what do you want?
John: I want us back.
Shelby: Well that isn't going to happen.
John: Why not Shelby? Don't you remember that night. (yelling) Don't You!!
Shelby started to cry.
Shelby: Yes, I remeber that night, John. I remember you hid the closet when he came in there. And I remember when he got on top of me you ran out and kicked his ass. Yes, I remeber, John. I remember the next night I got it worse because of that. Now will you leave, please.
Shelby started to walk off when John grabbed her.
Shelby: Let go of me!!
She yelled as he let go. She turned her back to him.
John: I still love you, Shelb.
Crying harder and yelling.
Shelby: I love you too. Don't you understand that. I love you with every ounce of my body. I love you with every breath I've every taken, ever will take and am taking. Don't you get it I love you, John.
John: Then why can't we be together?
Shelby: Because he took my mom and ripped her a part. He took my sister and ripped her a part. He took me and ripped me a part. Hell he even took you and ripped you apart. But the one thing I begged him not to rip apart was us, our love, and he did, he ripped it to shreads. He ripped our dreams, he ripped them all.
John: We can fix them.
Shelby: No, we can't. I've tried, John. I've tried so hard. I tried there, I tried on the streets, hell I even tried here. But I couldn't because everytime I tried he ripped them apart again. And I don't have the strenth no more, John. We will never get married on June the eigth, at four thirty p.m.. The exact same day we first danced together. We will never get married in the Spanish Gardens, and live in a condo in Paris with two kids and dance for the rest of our lives. We won't, John, because he just rips it apart again.
John: But I love you.
Shelby: Damn it, John don't you get I love you too. Hell I was born to love you. My heart is you, my lungs are you. I was born to be with you. And her ripped it to shreads. And now I can never dance again. Because everytime I do when they clap for me all I see is him. His smile, his horrible eyes. Him. Just like everytime I look at you I see him. I see him.
John: But Shelby, we were meant to be together.
Shelby: I know, John, don't you get that. But I can't live seeing his face every funkin' night of my life. Or hearing voice everyday. Because John when I'm with you that's all I think about. Damn it, why can't you just move on so I can.
John: But...
Shelby: (cutting him off) John, I've told you everything. And I'm sorry it's not what you want to hear. But it's the truth. So will you leave, please, just leave. Before I say something I don't mean.
John: I can't.
Shelby: (trying to just make him leave. she dries her tears and then puts on the tough act) Don' t you get it. Wow you are dumb. This was all a game. Honestly, I hate you. I'm sorry but I have to tell you the truth. It was all a game. I needed you so I could go and win all the compitions. I used you. Okay now you know the truth. The whole time I was laughing at you. Okay there you have the truth now will you leave. I mean I hate you, so just go.
Not knowing what else to say John walked off to his car and left. Shelby started to cry and ran to her dorm. Everybody just sat there on the picnic table thinking of what they just saw and wondering what to do next.
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That night Peter called group. Shelby came in and looked like death warmed over.

Peter: Okay. How do you feel.

Juliet: Worried. Auggie
Auggie: Worried. David
David: I feel like a coward.
Everybody looked at him.
David: Because no matter what I went through I'd never be able to go through what Shelby went through today. Ezra.
Ezra: Same as David. Scott.
Scott: worried. Daisy
Daisy: empty. Shelby
Shelby: Dead
Peter: Why do you feel that way, Shelby?
Shelby looked up from the floor.
Shelby: Because my heart just drove away after I told it that I hated it. Now I have a question for you, Peter. Why am I here? When I have no heart. When the reason I was born is gone. Damn it, Peter answer me. Why am I here when my heart is not beating no more, when I can't breath no more. Why am I not six feet under. Why am I still here on earth?
Peter:Shelby, you went through the toughest moment of your life. But it isn't the end.
Shelby: (cutting him off) Don't give me none of that bull shit, Peter. I just gave up the one man I ever loved. The one person I was born to love. Why, Peter? Why can't I just die now. Walt has succeeded he has killed me but I don't know why I am still here on earth. I don't understand why I'm not dead when all I want is to be dead. I just want to go away and never look back. I just want to die.
Shelby got up and walked off to her dorm.
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That night Shelby couldn't sleep so she went outside to the gazebo. Daisy followed her and sat down beside her. They didn't notice that Scott was behind the gazebo.

Shelby: How can you love somebody, that everytime you look at, you only see the person you hate the most?
Daisy: I don't know. But I know that you just did the most bravest thing I've ever seen done.
Shelby: What told the one person, that you were born to love you hated him.
Daisy: No, you gave up the one person who meant the most to you because you loved him.
Shelby: I'm not following you.
Daisy: You knew, you could never make him happy so you broke your own heart to give the kind of love he needed. You gave up your own heart to save somebody elses. And I could never do that because.... because I'm not that strong. Shelby, you are a survivor. You do what you have to to survive. And you had to move on which meant giving up your first love. That is what I call a survivor.
With that Shelby and Daisy left. Scott got up after they left and walked toward the dorm. Not knowing what to say or do. He only knew the one person he loved the most he didn't know nothing about. Except her mask.
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So you wonder what happens to Shelby and Scott. Well you'll just have to wait. Any advice or anything write to me at lovewriter_13@hotmail.com