Scott's World-CH. 12
Shelby was tossing and turning. She couldn't get the fact that Natalie was with Scott after lights out. She tried to wait until morning to confront her but the tension was continually building up inside her like the lava in a volcano waiting to erupt. Finally she couldn't take it any more and threw her pillow over at Natalie who was sound asleep having luscious dreams about kissing Scott.
"What the heck? What did you do that for?" she awoke suddenly.
"Why were you crushing on Scott?"
By this time the other girls in the dorm were awake also.
Jules, "What's going on here? People are trying to sleep."
"That's right Juliet. You need your beauty sleep. Sorry to wake you but Natalie here thinks that she can take advantage of an emotionally depressed person."
Daisy, "I didn't know that you've been emotional depressed Shelby?"
"Not me psychic one, I'm talking about Scott. She was caught behind the shed tonight making out with Scott."
Juliet, "OMG, you took advantage of Scott. Did it freak him out?"
"You people are sooooo weird. I didn't take advantage of anyone. The feeling was mutual. I didn't force him into anything. He was the one who started it. I can't believe you Shelby. You were supposedly in love with him but yet you treat him like dirt. That might turn some guys on but not Scott. He's hurting real badly and you weren't there for him so I took your place. You snooze, you loose. Go to sleep." Natalie rolls over and pulls her covers back up.
"Fine I'll let you go back to sleep but I'll let you know sister that this conversation isn't over yet." Shelby retrieved her pillow and went back to bed.
When all the lights were off again Natalie quietly says, "Damn he's a great kisser."
"SHUT UP, don't even talk to me right now unless you want me to rearrange your face."
"Alright both of you go to sleep. You guys can have it out in the morning."
"I hope you get put on shuns until the day to leave here."
Morning finally came and Natalie was up and gone before Shelby woke up.
"Where's Miss Homewrecker?" Shelby asked.
"She left early. She might have had kitchen duty or maybe she was taken to see Peter."
"She had better of left because she knew what was good for her. She better not come across my path any time soon."
Juliet, "Shelby don't do anything drastic. You'll be the one on shuns and if your on shuns than how are you going to discuss this with Scott?"
"Discuss this with him? He'd better be ready to fight World War III when I get through with him. He cheated on me with miss goody goody two shoes."
"Shelby you actually haven't been sending the right vibes his way lately."
"Are you sticking up for him?'"
"No, I just think that he's had it rough lately."
"He doesn't know what rough is yet. He'll want to go back home to daddy after I finish with him." She storms out of the dorm.
Daisy and Juliet stand and stare at each other with their mouths open.
"What was that all about. She can't possibly think of winning him back with that kind of attitude."
"She's running scared. I clearly see the symptoms. She's afraid of loosing him and so she does the opposite. It's the only way she knows how to survive. I think that we need to get to Scott before she does and make matters worse."
Roger brought Scott and Natalie into the administration building and told them to sit while he talked to Peter first. Natalie looked over at Scott and noticed the brooding look that has been prevalent in his behavior earlier.
"You ok? Are you sorry about what happened?"
"No, yes I don't know. I've too many issues to deal with and I really didn't need another one. I mean you were there for me and I appreciate it but I just don't know what I want anymore. I don't think I deserve any good fortune happening to me."
"Why not? What have you done that is so bad that you feel you need to be punished for?"
Peter opened the door and gave them both a disappointed look. "Natalie you come in first. Scott don't you move from that spot. I'll be with you in a minute.
Peter made Natalie sit down and he walked around the room a couple of times.
"Well Natalie I'm actually quite surprised to see you in here. You've actually been such an apt pupil that I never seemed to worry about you. You want to tell me why you felt impelled to brake the rules?"
"I didn't mean to. I just happened to notice that Scott left his dorm and went out back of the tool shed. He has been so depressed lately and you have told us in group to do what we can to help him."
"Ok, I see that there were good intentions here but how does that explain the compromising position that you were found in?"
"I think it was something that he needed. I didn't want to hurt him by pushing him away. He was finally opening up and I didn't want to ruin it for him."
"Are you saying that he forced himself on you?"
"No, I just said that he started it and I didn't do anything to stop it."
"Ok, you did brake some rules but your actions weren't totally selfish. I'm going to give you one day of dorm restriction with a 500 word essay explaining what are some other ways that you can help a person in need?"
Natalie thought that she got off pretty easy. Her only problem now was dealing with Shelby. She went out of Peter's office and smiled at Scott. "It wasn't so bad. It was actually worth the kiss." She winked and proceeded on to get breakfast before she would be stranded in the dorm all day.
Peter ushered Scott in and he fell hard on the chair with his feet propped up over the side of one arm. The attitude was quite apparent. Peter walked over and pushed his feet on the floor making him sit up in the chair the right way. Peter walked over a brought his chair over to sit face to face with Scott.
"You want to tell me about it?"
Scott said nothing and turned his head to other way.
"Come on Scott talk to me. You can't go around using people to make you feel good about yourself."
Scott's head snapped around, "Is that what you think? Great. Well why not? Other people have used me to feel good about themselves."
"No that's not what I think and that's not what I meant. I just meant that Natalie was trying to get you to open up and to get through to you. You took her generosity and turned it into your advantage."
"How did I turn it into my advantage?"
"By kissing her and bringing other emotions into the situation."
"It's not like I forced her."
"In a way you did. You put her in a situation of helping you that she didn't know how to deal with. She felt that if she didn't comply than it would have hurt you even more."
"Fine. Whatever. If you say I forced her than I forced her. Just like Elaine. It's always the guy that's in the wrong."
"Scott that's not true and you know it. How many people do you kiss because they offer to help you? Remember what I told you about feelings? Feelings are never wrong, it's how we act upon them that are. How could you have treated the situation differently?"
"You're so worried about how I could have handled the situation. Did it ever occur to you that I never should have had this situation to deal with in the first place?"
"Yes, it has occurred to me. I don't know what you went through back home but your are right. You should have never been put in that situation but your were. Life always throws us roadblocks but we can't let them destroy us. We learn from our mistakes and it makes us stronger. We learn to move on."
Scott is starting to get emotional and there is a lot of pain in his eyes.
"What do I learn from being beat on?"
"You learn that violence is not the way out."
Scott is crying now, "Fine, than you tell that to my dad."
Peter couldn't believe what he had just heard. "Are you saying that your dad is the one who beat you?"
After Scott just realized what he said he knew he had to back pedal.
"Scott answer me."
"No!"
"No you won't answer me or no he wasn't the one who beat you?"
"I haven't had breakfast yet and I'm hungry. Are you going to put me on shuns or what?"
Peter just realized that he just ran into the roadblock that was keeping Scott from progressing forward. He had to wear Scott down until he would be too tired to fight any more. He had to come up with something to bring Scott to exhaustion.
"No shuns for you. That would be way too easy. You seem to have a lot of energy to burn at night so I'll give you something that will make you sleep like a baby at night. I want you to cut the grass and after that the fence needs painting and after that the windows on all buildings need to be washed on the outside and after that . . . . ."
"No way in hell I can do all that in one day."
"I'll tell you what. I'll make a list. When you finish one job you cross it off and proceed to the next then the next so on and so forth. I didn't say you had to do it all in one day but you will keep going with only bathroom breaks and meal breaks. You'll start after breakfast and go until sunset. What you don't finish today you'll start up tomorrow after breakfast."
"And how many days is this going to last?"
"Until everything on the list is crossed off."
"Well give me the list." Scott try's to grab the paper out of Peter's hand.
"Not yet, you go eat breakfast. I haven't finished adding on to the list."
"What? You can't keep adding on to the list you'll kill me."
Peter gave Scott a wicked smile; "No one has ever died from hard labor. Now get out of here and eat a hardy breakfast because you'll need the energy."
Peter thought, it may not happen today or tomorrow but eventually Scott will come crawling back and then he'll be ready to talk.
To be continued.
Shelby was tossing and turning. She couldn't get the fact that Natalie was with Scott after lights out. She tried to wait until morning to confront her but the tension was continually building up inside her like the lava in a volcano waiting to erupt. Finally she couldn't take it any more and threw her pillow over at Natalie who was sound asleep having luscious dreams about kissing Scott.
"What the heck? What did you do that for?" she awoke suddenly.
"Why were you crushing on Scott?"
By this time the other girls in the dorm were awake also.
Jules, "What's going on here? People are trying to sleep."
"That's right Juliet. You need your beauty sleep. Sorry to wake you but Natalie here thinks that she can take advantage of an emotionally depressed person."
Daisy, "I didn't know that you've been emotional depressed Shelby?"
"Not me psychic one, I'm talking about Scott. She was caught behind the shed tonight making out with Scott."
Juliet, "OMG, you took advantage of Scott. Did it freak him out?"
"You people are sooooo weird. I didn't take advantage of anyone. The feeling was mutual. I didn't force him into anything. He was the one who started it. I can't believe you Shelby. You were supposedly in love with him but yet you treat him like dirt. That might turn some guys on but not Scott. He's hurting real badly and you weren't there for him so I took your place. You snooze, you loose. Go to sleep." Natalie rolls over and pulls her covers back up.
"Fine I'll let you go back to sleep but I'll let you know sister that this conversation isn't over yet." Shelby retrieved her pillow and went back to bed.
When all the lights were off again Natalie quietly says, "Damn he's a great kisser."
"SHUT UP, don't even talk to me right now unless you want me to rearrange your face."
"Alright both of you go to sleep. You guys can have it out in the morning."
"I hope you get put on shuns until the day to leave here."
Morning finally came and Natalie was up and gone before Shelby woke up.
"Where's Miss Homewrecker?" Shelby asked.
"She left early. She might have had kitchen duty or maybe she was taken to see Peter."
"She had better of left because she knew what was good for her. She better not come across my path any time soon."
Juliet, "Shelby don't do anything drastic. You'll be the one on shuns and if your on shuns than how are you going to discuss this with Scott?"
"Discuss this with him? He'd better be ready to fight World War III when I get through with him. He cheated on me with miss goody goody two shoes."
"Shelby you actually haven't been sending the right vibes his way lately."
"Are you sticking up for him?'"
"No, I just think that he's had it rough lately."
"He doesn't know what rough is yet. He'll want to go back home to daddy after I finish with him." She storms out of the dorm.
Daisy and Juliet stand and stare at each other with their mouths open.
"What was that all about. She can't possibly think of winning him back with that kind of attitude."
"She's running scared. I clearly see the symptoms. She's afraid of loosing him and so she does the opposite. It's the only way she knows how to survive. I think that we need to get to Scott before she does and make matters worse."
Roger brought Scott and Natalie into the administration building and told them to sit while he talked to Peter first. Natalie looked over at Scott and noticed the brooding look that has been prevalent in his behavior earlier.
"You ok? Are you sorry about what happened?"
"No, yes I don't know. I've too many issues to deal with and I really didn't need another one. I mean you were there for me and I appreciate it but I just don't know what I want anymore. I don't think I deserve any good fortune happening to me."
"Why not? What have you done that is so bad that you feel you need to be punished for?"
Peter opened the door and gave them both a disappointed look. "Natalie you come in first. Scott don't you move from that spot. I'll be with you in a minute.
Peter made Natalie sit down and he walked around the room a couple of times.
"Well Natalie I'm actually quite surprised to see you in here. You've actually been such an apt pupil that I never seemed to worry about you. You want to tell me why you felt impelled to brake the rules?"
"I didn't mean to. I just happened to notice that Scott left his dorm and went out back of the tool shed. He has been so depressed lately and you have told us in group to do what we can to help him."
"Ok, I see that there were good intentions here but how does that explain the compromising position that you were found in?"
"I think it was something that he needed. I didn't want to hurt him by pushing him away. He was finally opening up and I didn't want to ruin it for him."
"Are you saying that he forced himself on you?"
"No, I just said that he started it and I didn't do anything to stop it."
"Ok, you did brake some rules but your actions weren't totally selfish. I'm going to give you one day of dorm restriction with a 500 word essay explaining what are some other ways that you can help a person in need?"
Natalie thought that she got off pretty easy. Her only problem now was dealing with Shelby. She went out of Peter's office and smiled at Scott. "It wasn't so bad. It was actually worth the kiss." She winked and proceeded on to get breakfast before she would be stranded in the dorm all day.
Peter ushered Scott in and he fell hard on the chair with his feet propped up over the side of one arm. The attitude was quite apparent. Peter walked over and pushed his feet on the floor making him sit up in the chair the right way. Peter walked over a brought his chair over to sit face to face with Scott.
"You want to tell me about it?"
Scott said nothing and turned his head to other way.
"Come on Scott talk to me. You can't go around using people to make you feel good about yourself."
Scott's head snapped around, "Is that what you think? Great. Well why not? Other people have used me to feel good about themselves."
"No that's not what I think and that's not what I meant. I just meant that Natalie was trying to get you to open up and to get through to you. You took her generosity and turned it into your advantage."
"How did I turn it into my advantage?"
"By kissing her and bringing other emotions into the situation."
"It's not like I forced her."
"In a way you did. You put her in a situation of helping you that she didn't know how to deal with. She felt that if she didn't comply than it would have hurt you even more."
"Fine. Whatever. If you say I forced her than I forced her. Just like Elaine. It's always the guy that's in the wrong."
"Scott that's not true and you know it. How many people do you kiss because they offer to help you? Remember what I told you about feelings? Feelings are never wrong, it's how we act upon them that are. How could you have treated the situation differently?"
"You're so worried about how I could have handled the situation. Did it ever occur to you that I never should have had this situation to deal with in the first place?"
"Yes, it has occurred to me. I don't know what you went through back home but your are right. You should have never been put in that situation but your were. Life always throws us roadblocks but we can't let them destroy us. We learn from our mistakes and it makes us stronger. We learn to move on."
Scott is starting to get emotional and there is a lot of pain in his eyes.
"What do I learn from being beat on?"
"You learn that violence is not the way out."
Scott is crying now, "Fine, than you tell that to my dad."
Peter couldn't believe what he had just heard. "Are you saying that your dad is the one who beat you?"
After Scott just realized what he said he knew he had to back pedal.
"Scott answer me."
"No!"
"No you won't answer me or no he wasn't the one who beat you?"
"I haven't had breakfast yet and I'm hungry. Are you going to put me on shuns or what?"
Peter just realized that he just ran into the roadblock that was keeping Scott from progressing forward. He had to wear Scott down until he would be too tired to fight any more. He had to come up with something to bring Scott to exhaustion.
"No shuns for you. That would be way too easy. You seem to have a lot of energy to burn at night so I'll give you something that will make you sleep like a baby at night. I want you to cut the grass and after that the fence needs painting and after that the windows on all buildings need to be washed on the outside and after that . . . . ."
"No way in hell I can do all that in one day."
"I'll tell you what. I'll make a list. When you finish one job you cross it off and proceed to the next then the next so on and so forth. I didn't say you had to do it all in one day but you will keep going with only bathroom breaks and meal breaks. You'll start after breakfast and go until sunset. What you don't finish today you'll start up tomorrow after breakfast."
"And how many days is this going to last?"
"Until everything on the list is crossed off."
"Well give me the list." Scott try's to grab the paper out of Peter's hand.
"Not yet, you go eat breakfast. I haven't finished adding on to the list."
"What? You can't keep adding on to the list you'll kill me."
Peter gave Scott a wicked smile; "No one has ever died from hard labor. Now get out of here and eat a hardy breakfast because you'll need the energy."
Peter thought, it may not happen today or tomorrow but eventually Scott will come crawling back and then he'll be ready to talk.
To be continued.