Scott's World-Ch. 24
Martin made his way into the Barringer Corporate building. He asked to speak to Edward but his secretary said that he was in a meeting in the conference room. Martin was in no mood to wait for an appointment so he just took it upon himself to bust into the conference room with the secretary running after him yelling. When he burst into the room all eyes around the large table turned to see what the commotion was about. The woman was apologizing and saying that she had tried to stop him. Edward held up his hand and stood up dismissing the woman.
"Well Martin, long time no see. What an unexpected surprise."
Martin, "Cut the bullshit dad. Where's Scott? I know that you have him. Where is he? So help me, if anything has happened to him."
"Martin such harsh accusations. He is my grandson why would I harm him?"
"So you admit that you do have him?"
"I haven't admitted to anything. Why would you deprive a grandfather for 16 years the right to know his own grandson?"
"You lost all your rights the day you threw me out of the house."
Everyone was still sitting around the conference table and finally Edward dismissed them as well so that he could continue this conversation in private.
"You are so mistaken Martin. I have even more rights than you think. You and Susan both lost all your rights to him they day you decided to become an abusive father. Susan walked out on him and then you and your pedophile of a wife decided to abuse him."
"Your crazy, did Scott tell you that?" Martin was becoming a bit concerned that Scott told him things he shouldn't have.
"Maybe he did and maybe he didn't but never the less I have documented proof of the allegations. Scott has agreed to live with me and I shall give him the proper home environment and schooling. If you fight me on this than I will take you to court and file for custody. You know my track record. I've never lost a court case in my life and I don't plan to start now."
"You're bluffing. You don't expect me to step aside and let you finish raising my son do you? I'll get you on kidnapping charges. He is my son and you are not going to control him. I don't know what documentation you claim to have but it won't hold up in court. Besides a true judge would ask Scott who'd he'd rather be with and I know it wouldn't be you."
"Are you so sure? It's been awhile so why don't you come home for dinner tonight and you can see for yourself how content Scott is. Shall we say 6:00 the usual time?"
"I'll be there and you had better have Scott's bags packed because he will go home with me."
"Wishful thinking never hurt anyone. See you at 6."
Martin left in a huff. There was no way that Scott could willingly agree to the old mans terms. All he needed to do was to apologize to Scott and make him think that he believed him regarding the allegations against Elaine.
The first thing that Edward did was call home to inform everyone of the dinner guest. Corinne was excited to be seeing her long forgotten son again. Edward got Scott on the phone and drilled him on the behavior that he expected of him. He of course used his usual threats against Shelby to keep Scott in line. This was going to be the true test of Scott's devotion to her. All he had to do was hold his cell phone with the speed dial set for Spencer in front of Scott for him to understand what could happen. He smiled and waited in anticipation for the night's festivities.
Horizon
Susan showed up at Horizon exhausted from flying the redeye flight to Washington. She was in dire need to find out if what Scott told her was true. She drove a rental car up to the Horizon main campus to see if she could talk to Peter. Juliet was walking to breakfast with Shelby when she noticed her.
"Oh my gosh. That's Scott's mom."
Shelby, "Jules are you crazy that's not Elaine."
"No it's Scott's real mother. I met her when you were sent home the first time."
She waved and ran over to greet her. "Mrs. Boyd how are you?"
"Juliet it's so nice to see you again."
"Have you heard about Scott? Do you have any news about him?" she asked anxiously
"Yes he called me last night."
Shelby franticly began talking. "What do you mean he called you? Where is he? Is he ok? What happened to him? When will he be back? I've been dying without him."
Susan just smiled. "You must be Shelby."
"Yes how did you know?"
"Scott told me all about you. You are actually the reason why I am here. Can we go somewhere and talk?"
Peter noticed the vehicle parked out front and came to see who the visitor was. She looked familiar but he wasn't quite sure. He went over to introduce himself.
"Hi! I'm Peter Scarbrow and you are?"
Susan looked a little confused but introduced herself again. "I'm Susan Boyd Scott's mother."
It all came flooding back to Peter. The first time that they had met was when he was high on painkillers. He felt a little embarrassed in forgetting who she was but blamed it on the flue. Peter took them into his office so that they could talk. He dismissed Juliet and Shelby until Susan informed him that she needed to have Shelby there. Juliet left with her head down because she too wanted to hear what Mrs. Boyd had to say about Scott. At least she could go tell the rest of the group that Scott was ok and that he had talked to his mother last night.
They all sat down and Peter started asking almost the same questions that Shelby asked. Susan interrupted so she could tell them why she had come.
"First of all I need to know if what Scott told me was true. Shelby are you pregnant with Scott's child?"
Shelby's mouth dropped opened and so did Peter's. "How could he have known. He wasn't here for anyone to tell him."
"I don't know how he found out but that is why I am here."
So many things were going through Shelby's head right now. She probably came here to tell me that Scott doesn't ever want to see me again. She is going to say that I ruined her son's life and that I can have no further contact with him. What am I going to do? Shelby pulled herself together. She didn't want to break down in front of Mrs. Boyd. She slowly got up out of her chair and started to walk out of the door. Susan was confused at Shelby's reaction.
"Excuse me but I didn't hear a confirmation. Are you or are you not carrying my grandchild?"
Shelby slowly and sadly turned. "Yes I'm sorry to say that I am but don't worry I promise I won't ask of anything from Scott. I won't hold him responsible because it was me who set him up and seduced him. I'll take full responsibility for what happened." She again turned and headed for the door.
"Wait. I came to help." Shelby stopped and turned around not believing what she had heard. "I know that being a teenager today is so hard and especially harder when you don't have the guidance of a mother. I made one of the biggest mistakes in my life when I put myself first and walked out on Scott when he needed me. A lot of Scott's problems that he has been dealing with are the result of me leaving him. I know that I can't change what has happened to him but I can be there for him now. The only thing that he has asked of me is to take care of you and make sure that you are ok. I know that Horizon can't keep you here in your condition and Scott said that your family would have a hard time excepting this. I am opening my heart and my home to you if you except. I love my son and I have so much time to make up to him. This has been his one and only request and I feel that I must fulfill it. If I could get permission from your family for me to be your temporary guardian until you are 18, than you could come live with me until we can figure out a way to bring Scott back. I'll even make sure that you finish your education because that is really important. What do you say? I'll give you time to think about it and you can let me know." She walked out of the room to give Shelby some time to discuss this with Peter.
Shelby stood there in shock not knowing what to say. Peter spoke first.
"Shelby I think that you just got the biggest blessing handed to you on a silver platter. I'll call your mother if you want to discuss this with her. She has already told me that she couldn't handle your problem right now in her life. I think that if you take Mrs. Boyd up on her offer than you could probably still keep in touch with your own family but they wouldn't be burdened with the actual problem. This sounds like the perfect solution to me. What do you think?"
Shelby couldn't hold up the wall any more and finally broke down. She wept as she tried to discuss her feelings. "I've never in my life met a more generous person besides you and Sophie. Now I know why Scott is such a special person. Look at the mother he has. How can a mother be so understanding about their own child's mistakes?"
Peter just held her and let her cry. "Shelby I think you just experienced the true meaning of unconditional love. It's a good feeling isn't it? There are a lot of people in the world who are like that. Not everyone in the world is bad. Once you get out of here and into the real world maybe you can see for yourself that the world really isn't such a bad place after all."
"Thank you Peter. I needed to hear that. Make the call to my mother while I'll let Mrs. Boyd know. Oh my gosh I've got to say goodbye to everyone here. I better get busy." She hurried off to get everything she needed to do accomplished.
Barringer House
It was almost 6:00 and Edward was giving Scott some last minute lecture. Lilly just stood by and shook her head. After Edward walked away she approached Scott.
"So now comes the big theatrical performance right?"
"Right. If I don't pull it off than something might happen to Shelby."
"She is pretty lucky to have someone like you. Damn why'd you have to be related to me? I never get the good guys. So how long is this little charade going to last?"
"Well grandfather is planning on shipping me off to Manchester Academy on Monday. Do you have any ideas of getting kicked out of there? I'm open to suggestions."
"Well it won't be easy because grandfather is on the board of trustees. If you keep pulling demerits by braking the rules than you'll probably just get a lot of punishments but they won't send you home. The only way that I can think of to actually get expelled or kicked out is to sleep with the headmasters daughter."
"Oh thank you. I really needed to hear that. I'll see what else I can do." By that time the doorbell rang and everyone was getting set for Martin's visit. Scott looked over at Lilly. "Quick do you have anything to smoke? I need something to get me through this."
She grabbed his hand "Hurry up and follow me."
The butler answered the door and escorted Martin into the sitting room where his mother Corinne was waiting for him. She broke down and cried and seeing her youngest son that she hadn't seen in over 16 years. Even though Martin held a lot of resentment against his father, he didn't hold any negative feelings against his mother. He crouched down and gave her a big long over due hug. She held his face in her hands as she tried to bring back all the lost memories.
"Martin it's so good to see you again. I've missed you terribly. You've got one fine handsome young man for a son. I'm so proud of you. You've became a success without the aid of your family and I admire you for that. I know things have been hard but I hope we can just put all our differences aside just for once and get along."
"Mom you know that I've missed you terribly too but I can't forgive father for what he has just done. Scott is my son and he belongs at home with me."
"I know dear but you know your father. He is prepared to take you down in order to have some rights to Scott. See if you two can work out a deal that will make everyone happy. I only want what's best for him. He's a gifted and talented child and I don't want to see him getting caught in the cross fire."
"I don't know what's going to happen but I do promise you that I won't keep him away from seeing you."
"Thank you dear, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't see him again."
Edward walked in to the parlor. "Well I see that you at least still have some respect for your mother."
This made Martin mad. "Can it dad. You know damn well that mother was always the innocent party here. I have never had any grief with her. Now where is my son? You don't have him locked up as a prisoner do you?"
"Oh Martin don't be absurd. Scott has the run of the house here. Charles, go find master Scott and bring him here." The butler left to go locate Scott while the others sat down for a cocktail.
It was about 15 minutes for Charles to locate Lilly and Scott. He had to wade through the strong sweet aroma and think smoke cloud. "Ohhh weee, you'd better get yourself sobered up because your daddy is here to see you."
Scott just looked at him. "I know. Why'd you think I'm not in there right now."
"Well master Scott you can't hide forever so you might as well go make an appearance before I get in trouble for not finding you."
"Alright, here goes nothing."
Scott walked into the parlor but stood back away from his dad. Martin turned when he saw Scott walk in and ran over to him. "Scott are you alright?"
Scott pulled away without responding to his hug. He felt that if he let his emotions get away from him than he wouldn't be able to keep up with the charade. The more distance that he could bring between himself and his dad the better it would be for him.
"Of course I'm alright. Why didn't you ever tell me that I had some grandparents?"
This was not the welcome that Martin was hoping for. "Scott I had my reasons. I want you to go get you things because you are going home with me."
Scott looked over at his grandfather who held his cell phone in his hand and gave the assuring look that he'd better do the right thing. "I'm not going home with you right now. I want to stay here and live with my grandparents for awhile."
Martin's heart ached. He knew that he needed to give his sells pitch to Scott right now. "No Scott you don't know what you're saying. You need to come back with me. I've been doing a lot of thinking and I've come to realize that Elaine is to blame for everything that went on. I don't blame you anymore."
Scott couldn't tell if it was coming from the heart or not. He wanted to so much believe that his dad was being honest with him. Even if he was Scott couldn't do anything about it right now. Scott's eyes watered a little as he tried to hold back the tear that was about to fall. He pulled himself together and backed away further from his dad. "It's too late for that. I don't want to live with you anymore. I want to stay here."
Martin aggressively walked over and grabbed his son's shoulders. "Look at me."
Scott slowly raised his head and met his father's eyes with his own. "What are you on Scott? Your eyes are bloodshot. I might have been dumb enough to fall for this before but I won't do it again. What are you doing to him dad? Giving him drugs so he can't think straight?"
Edward, "I have no idea what you're talking about. There are no drugs in this household."
"You don't know what you're talking about dad. I'm going to my room and I'm staying here." With that said, Scott turned and walked out of the room before things got way out of hand. Martin ran after Scott and yelled at him from the top of the stairs. Scott turned "Just leave me along right now dad I need to be left alone. I'll call you sometime and we can talk later."
Martin knew that he was beaten and he finally had to except defeat. He turned to his father. "You may have won this round but you won't win the whole match. I'll have the police and my lawyer with me that next time I come."
"Martin you can bring the U.S. army but it won't change anything. Scott likes being here. If you were are better father than none of this would have ever taken place."
"Don't talk to me about good fathers when you ruined my life."
"That's where you are wrong. I was the best father possible. It was you who decided to rebel. I promise that I won't let Scott make the same mistake."
He turned to his mother and gave her a kiss. "It was a pleasure to see you again mother. I'll be returning again and I will retrieve my son the next time." He walked out without even considering the dinner plans they had for him.
Edward smiled and shouted "Victorious. I need to go and talk to Scott before we sit for dinner."
He walked into Scott's room and saw him laying face down crying into his pillow. "Get up boy. I will not tolerate you falling apart like that. You successfully survived that little ordeal now are you going to survive the next one?"
Scott turned over to look at him "What next one?"
Edward grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him off the bed. "I especially will not tolerate drug use in this house. What are you on and where did you get it?"
To Be continued.
Martin made his way into the Barringer Corporate building. He asked to speak to Edward but his secretary said that he was in a meeting in the conference room. Martin was in no mood to wait for an appointment so he just took it upon himself to bust into the conference room with the secretary running after him yelling. When he burst into the room all eyes around the large table turned to see what the commotion was about. The woman was apologizing and saying that she had tried to stop him. Edward held up his hand and stood up dismissing the woman.
"Well Martin, long time no see. What an unexpected surprise."
Martin, "Cut the bullshit dad. Where's Scott? I know that you have him. Where is he? So help me, if anything has happened to him."
"Martin such harsh accusations. He is my grandson why would I harm him?"
"So you admit that you do have him?"
"I haven't admitted to anything. Why would you deprive a grandfather for 16 years the right to know his own grandson?"
"You lost all your rights the day you threw me out of the house."
Everyone was still sitting around the conference table and finally Edward dismissed them as well so that he could continue this conversation in private.
"You are so mistaken Martin. I have even more rights than you think. You and Susan both lost all your rights to him they day you decided to become an abusive father. Susan walked out on him and then you and your pedophile of a wife decided to abuse him."
"Your crazy, did Scott tell you that?" Martin was becoming a bit concerned that Scott told him things he shouldn't have.
"Maybe he did and maybe he didn't but never the less I have documented proof of the allegations. Scott has agreed to live with me and I shall give him the proper home environment and schooling. If you fight me on this than I will take you to court and file for custody. You know my track record. I've never lost a court case in my life and I don't plan to start now."
"You're bluffing. You don't expect me to step aside and let you finish raising my son do you? I'll get you on kidnapping charges. He is my son and you are not going to control him. I don't know what documentation you claim to have but it won't hold up in court. Besides a true judge would ask Scott who'd he'd rather be with and I know it wouldn't be you."
"Are you so sure? It's been awhile so why don't you come home for dinner tonight and you can see for yourself how content Scott is. Shall we say 6:00 the usual time?"
"I'll be there and you had better have Scott's bags packed because he will go home with me."
"Wishful thinking never hurt anyone. See you at 6."
Martin left in a huff. There was no way that Scott could willingly agree to the old mans terms. All he needed to do was to apologize to Scott and make him think that he believed him regarding the allegations against Elaine.
The first thing that Edward did was call home to inform everyone of the dinner guest. Corinne was excited to be seeing her long forgotten son again. Edward got Scott on the phone and drilled him on the behavior that he expected of him. He of course used his usual threats against Shelby to keep Scott in line. This was going to be the true test of Scott's devotion to her. All he had to do was hold his cell phone with the speed dial set for Spencer in front of Scott for him to understand what could happen. He smiled and waited in anticipation for the night's festivities.
Horizon
Susan showed up at Horizon exhausted from flying the redeye flight to Washington. She was in dire need to find out if what Scott told her was true. She drove a rental car up to the Horizon main campus to see if she could talk to Peter. Juliet was walking to breakfast with Shelby when she noticed her.
"Oh my gosh. That's Scott's mom."
Shelby, "Jules are you crazy that's not Elaine."
"No it's Scott's real mother. I met her when you were sent home the first time."
She waved and ran over to greet her. "Mrs. Boyd how are you?"
"Juliet it's so nice to see you again."
"Have you heard about Scott? Do you have any news about him?" she asked anxiously
"Yes he called me last night."
Shelby franticly began talking. "What do you mean he called you? Where is he? Is he ok? What happened to him? When will he be back? I've been dying without him."
Susan just smiled. "You must be Shelby."
"Yes how did you know?"
"Scott told me all about you. You are actually the reason why I am here. Can we go somewhere and talk?"
Peter noticed the vehicle parked out front and came to see who the visitor was. She looked familiar but he wasn't quite sure. He went over to introduce himself.
"Hi! I'm Peter Scarbrow and you are?"
Susan looked a little confused but introduced herself again. "I'm Susan Boyd Scott's mother."
It all came flooding back to Peter. The first time that they had met was when he was high on painkillers. He felt a little embarrassed in forgetting who she was but blamed it on the flue. Peter took them into his office so that they could talk. He dismissed Juliet and Shelby until Susan informed him that she needed to have Shelby there. Juliet left with her head down because she too wanted to hear what Mrs. Boyd had to say about Scott. At least she could go tell the rest of the group that Scott was ok and that he had talked to his mother last night.
They all sat down and Peter started asking almost the same questions that Shelby asked. Susan interrupted so she could tell them why she had come.
"First of all I need to know if what Scott told me was true. Shelby are you pregnant with Scott's child?"
Shelby's mouth dropped opened and so did Peter's. "How could he have known. He wasn't here for anyone to tell him."
"I don't know how he found out but that is why I am here."
So many things were going through Shelby's head right now. She probably came here to tell me that Scott doesn't ever want to see me again. She is going to say that I ruined her son's life and that I can have no further contact with him. What am I going to do? Shelby pulled herself together. She didn't want to break down in front of Mrs. Boyd. She slowly got up out of her chair and started to walk out of the door. Susan was confused at Shelby's reaction.
"Excuse me but I didn't hear a confirmation. Are you or are you not carrying my grandchild?"
Shelby slowly and sadly turned. "Yes I'm sorry to say that I am but don't worry I promise I won't ask of anything from Scott. I won't hold him responsible because it was me who set him up and seduced him. I'll take full responsibility for what happened." She again turned and headed for the door.
"Wait. I came to help." Shelby stopped and turned around not believing what she had heard. "I know that being a teenager today is so hard and especially harder when you don't have the guidance of a mother. I made one of the biggest mistakes in my life when I put myself first and walked out on Scott when he needed me. A lot of Scott's problems that he has been dealing with are the result of me leaving him. I know that I can't change what has happened to him but I can be there for him now. The only thing that he has asked of me is to take care of you and make sure that you are ok. I know that Horizon can't keep you here in your condition and Scott said that your family would have a hard time excepting this. I am opening my heart and my home to you if you except. I love my son and I have so much time to make up to him. This has been his one and only request and I feel that I must fulfill it. If I could get permission from your family for me to be your temporary guardian until you are 18, than you could come live with me until we can figure out a way to bring Scott back. I'll even make sure that you finish your education because that is really important. What do you say? I'll give you time to think about it and you can let me know." She walked out of the room to give Shelby some time to discuss this with Peter.
Shelby stood there in shock not knowing what to say. Peter spoke first.
"Shelby I think that you just got the biggest blessing handed to you on a silver platter. I'll call your mother if you want to discuss this with her. She has already told me that she couldn't handle your problem right now in her life. I think that if you take Mrs. Boyd up on her offer than you could probably still keep in touch with your own family but they wouldn't be burdened with the actual problem. This sounds like the perfect solution to me. What do you think?"
Shelby couldn't hold up the wall any more and finally broke down. She wept as she tried to discuss her feelings. "I've never in my life met a more generous person besides you and Sophie. Now I know why Scott is such a special person. Look at the mother he has. How can a mother be so understanding about their own child's mistakes?"
Peter just held her and let her cry. "Shelby I think you just experienced the true meaning of unconditional love. It's a good feeling isn't it? There are a lot of people in the world who are like that. Not everyone in the world is bad. Once you get out of here and into the real world maybe you can see for yourself that the world really isn't such a bad place after all."
"Thank you Peter. I needed to hear that. Make the call to my mother while I'll let Mrs. Boyd know. Oh my gosh I've got to say goodbye to everyone here. I better get busy." She hurried off to get everything she needed to do accomplished.
Barringer House
It was almost 6:00 and Edward was giving Scott some last minute lecture. Lilly just stood by and shook her head. After Edward walked away she approached Scott.
"So now comes the big theatrical performance right?"
"Right. If I don't pull it off than something might happen to Shelby."
"She is pretty lucky to have someone like you. Damn why'd you have to be related to me? I never get the good guys. So how long is this little charade going to last?"
"Well grandfather is planning on shipping me off to Manchester Academy on Monday. Do you have any ideas of getting kicked out of there? I'm open to suggestions."
"Well it won't be easy because grandfather is on the board of trustees. If you keep pulling demerits by braking the rules than you'll probably just get a lot of punishments but they won't send you home. The only way that I can think of to actually get expelled or kicked out is to sleep with the headmasters daughter."
"Oh thank you. I really needed to hear that. I'll see what else I can do." By that time the doorbell rang and everyone was getting set for Martin's visit. Scott looked over at Lilly. "Quick do you have anything to smoke? I need something to get me through this."
She grabbed his hand "Hurry up and follow me."
The butler answered the door and escorted Martin into the sitting room where his mother Corinne was waiting for him. She broke down and cried and seeing her youngest son that she hadn't seen in over 16 years. Even though Martin held a lot of resentment against his father, he didn't hold any negative feelings against his mother. He crouched down and gave her a big long over due hug. She held his face in her hands as she tried to bring back all the lost memories.
"Martin it's so good to see you again. I've missed you terribly. You've got one fine handsome young man for a son. I'm so proud of you. You've became a success without the aid of your family and I admire you for that. I know things have been hard but I hope we can just put all our differences aside just for once and get along."
"Mom you know that I've missed you terribly too but I can't forgive father for what he has just done. Scott is my son and he belongs at home with me."
"I know dear but you know your father. He is prepared to take you down in order to have some rights to Scott. See if you two can work out a deal that will make everyone happy. I only want what's best for him. He's a gifted and talented child and I don't want to see him getting caught in the cross fire."
"I don't know what's going to happen but I do promise you that I won't keep him away from seeing you."
"Thank you dear, I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't see him again."
Edward walked in to the parlor. "Well I see that you at least still have some respect for your mother."
This made Martin mad. "Can it dad. You know damn well that mother was always the innocent party here. I have never had any grief with her. Now where is my son? You don't have him locked up as a prisoner do you?"
"Oh Martin don't be absurd. Scott has the run of the house here. Charles, go find master Scott and bring him here." The butler left to go locate Scott while the others sat down for a cocktail.
It was about 15 minutes for Charles to locate Lilly and Scott. He had to wade through the strong sweet aroma and think smoke cloud. "Ohhh weee, you'd better get yourself sobered up because your daddy is here to see you."
Scott just looked at him. "I know. Why'd you think I'm not in there right now."
"Well master Scott you can't hide forever so you might as well go make an appearance before I get in trouble for not finding you."
"Alright, here goes nothing."
Scott walked into the parlor but stood back away from his dad. Martin turned when he saw Scott walk in and ran over to him. "Scott are you alright?"
Scott pulled away without responding to his hug. He felt that if he let his emotions get away from him than he wouldn't be able to keep up with the charade. The more distance that he could bring between himself and his dad the better it would be for him.
"Of course I'm alright. Why didn't you ever tell me that I had some grandparents?"
This was not the welcome that Martin was hoping for. "Scott I had my reasons. I want you to go get you things because you are going home with me."
Scott looked over at his grandfather who held his cell phone in his hand and gave the assuring look that he'd better do the right thing. "I'm not going home with you right now. I want to stay here and live with my grandparents for awhile."
Martin's heart ached. He knew that he needed to give his sells pitch to Scott right now. "No Scott you don't know what you're saying. You need to come back with me. I've been doing a lot of thinking and I've come to realize that Elaine is to blame for everything that went on. I don't blame you anymore."
Scott couldn't tell if it was coming from the heart or not. He wanted to so much believe that his dad was being honest with him. Even if he was Scott couldn't do anything about it right now. Scott's eyes watered a little as he tried to hold back the tear that was about to fall. He pulled himself together and backed away further from his dad. "It's too late for that. I don't want to live with you anymore. I want to stay here."
Martin aggressively walked over and grabbed his son's shoulders. "Look at me."
Scott slowly raised his head and met his father's eyes with his own. "What are you on Scott? Your eyes are bloodshot. I might have been dumb enough to fall for this before but I won't do it again. What are you doing to him dad? Giving him drugs so he can't think straight?"
Edward, "I have no idea what you're talking about. There are no drugs in this household."
"You don't know what you're talking about dad. I'm going to my room and I'm staying here." With that said, Scott turned and walked out of the room before things got way out of hand. Martin ran after Scott and yelled at him from the top of the stairs. Scott turned "Just leave me along right now dad I need to be left alone. I'll call you sometime and we can talk later."
Martin knew that he was beaten and he finally had to except defeat. He turned to his father. "You may have won this round but you won't win the whole match. I'll have the police and my lawyer with me that next time I come."
"Martin you can bring the U.S. army but it won't change anything. Scott likes being here. If you were are better father than none of this would have ever taken place."
"Don't talk to me about good fathers when you ruined my life."
"That's where you are wrong. I was the best father possible. It was you who decided to rebel. I promise that I won't let Scott make the same mistake."
He turned to his mother and gave her a kiss. "It was a pleasure to see you again mother. I'll be returning again and I will retrieve my son the next time." He walked out without even considering the dinner plans they had for him.
Edward smiled and shouted "Victorious. I need to go and talk to Scott before we sit for dinner."
He walked into Scott's room and saw him laying face down crying into his pillow. "Get up boy. I will not tolerate you falling apart like that. You successfully survived that little ordeal now are you going to survive the next one?"
Scott turned over to look at him "What next one?"
Edward grabbed the front of his shirt and pulled him off the bed. "I especially will not tolerate drug use in this house. What are you on and where did you get it?"
To Be continued.