A New Horizon- Chapter 4- Blast from the past?
Disclaimer: I do not own any original HG characters. But I do own all the new ones.
In this chapter: Daisy and Shelby visit, Aiken gets a letter from someone in his past.
"Guys, pay attention please." Anthony shouted to the Cliffhangers.
Though almost 3 years younger than the oldest cliffhanger Anthony Scarbrow got the chance to guide them for once, and in a way to intimidate them. His father and mother, Peter and Sophie had taught him in the 3 years he had lived with them to mountain climb. He was pretty good at it. He could climb and repel in almost anyway, even upside down. And it was his job after school one day every week to teach the cliffhangers to climb the Rock wall they had in the middle of Campus.
"Come on I mean it." Anthony shouted again.
Finally the group looked up at him.
"Go on Anthony." Aiken said smiling at his little friend.
"Thanks Aiken." Anthony said knowing no one would mess with a senior member.
"Does everyone have their harnesses on?" he asked checking his own.
"Yep." They all said in one way or another.
"Okay. Now we're going to climb to the top and I'm going to teach you a new way to come down." Anthony said.
The group climbed to the top. It was a great experience. The wall was at a place in campus where you could see all the buildings from it. That's where Anthony saw the car coming up the drive.
"They're here." He shouted happily.
The rest of the cliffhangers looked at Anthony puzzled. They thought he was going crazy until they saw a car. Then they wondered who it was.
"Who's here?" Jamie asked.
"Shelby and Daisy." Anthony said as he started climbing down the wall. "The lessons over for now. We'll have to reschedule. Now I want you all to get down." He yelled to them from the bottom of the wall.
"Alley, if anyone has trouble help them okay?" Anthony instructed as he ran towards the car.
INFRONT OF THE HORIZON ADDMITTION BUILDING
Daisy and Shelby got out of the car. When they got out they were surprised to be met by a dog.
"Shelby, Daisy." They heard a person scream.
They both looked the way the voice was coming and saw a boy running towards them. They waited until he came up to them. When they saw who it was they were very surprised.
"Anthony, is that you?" Daisy said hugging the teen.
"Yeah. Hi." He said as he hugged her and then Shelby.
"You've grown a lot since we saw you last time." Shelby said smiling. "By the way, who's the dog?"
Anthony looked down and laughed. He pets the dog and the dog sat down.
"That's challenge." He said. "We got him right after Frank died."
"It feels so different without him here to great us." Shelby said softly. "I remember when he let Scott stay after he trashed that house."
"And when he took the guys to Hope Falls after Isaac committed suicide." Daisy said.
"Oh yeah. I remember that. That was awful. But he was the only one of us that ever did." Shelby said remembering.
"Shelby. Daisy." Kat said as she got over to them. "I missed you guys so much."
Katherine hugged both of them tightly. She was always the over emotional type.
"So do you like counseling the masses of freaks?" Shelby said remembering one of the terms for them selves. "Who's the unfortunate group this time?"
"Cliffhangers. I got the old group thing back." Katherine said smiling.
"Where are out predecessors anyway?" Daisy asked.
"They should be coming. I told them that I would have to postpone class." Anthony said looking around for them.
"You mean little Anthony is teaching the big kids?" Shelby said teasingly.
"Yes. I am." He said as-a-mater-of-factly.
Just then the Cliffhangers show up. Aiken, Alley, Jacob, Jamie, Andy, and Rylan stood in front of them.
"So you must be our all mighty offspring?" Daisy asked.
"Yeah, whatever." Jamie said bitterly, not wanting to be put on display.
"I think she's you're clone Shel." Katherine whispered.
"Which one's mine?" Daisy asked enjoying the conversation now.
"I'm guessing Rylan or Alley." Katherine said to her.
"And which ones are they?"
"The blond is Alley and the red head is Rylan." Katherine said explaining.
"I'm the Scott." Aiken said showing the two he knew what they were talking about.
Shelby and Daisy looked at him in surprise, how could he have known about Scott if he were here now. They studied him for a minute trying to put a name to the face.
"Aiken Gregory, does it ring a bell?" he asked them.
Shelby's face gave a look of acknowledgment. "Now I know who you are. You were here when David and Ezra graduated. And you started when the rest of us left. Remember Dais?" she asked.
"Now I do. You've grown too." She said remembering.
"Yeah." Aiken said now embarrassed because they remembered and were smiling at him.
"Mom and Dad want to see you." Anthony said suddenly as he grabbed both Shelby and Daisy's hands, not acting his age at all.
Shelby and Daisy followed after Anthony, after giving each other happy looks at each other; they were "home" again.
PETERS OFFICE
"Mom, Dad. They're here. They're here!!!" Anthony ran in screaming.
"Who Anthony?" Peter asked looking up from a file.
"Shelby and Daisy. They're here. They got here a few minutes ago." He said excitedly.
"Well where are they?" Sophie said happily to her son. It had been so long since she had seen them.
As if on cue Daisy and Shelby came into the room. Sophie and Peter went over to hug them. Shelby and Daisy hugged back. Peter backed up to look at the two.
"You two look wonderful." He said as he offered Shelby and Daisy a seat.
"You too Peter." Daisy said Politely, though now almost nearing 48 the youth had not gone out of his face, and he looked great.
"Yeah, sure I do." He said knowing he wasn't as healthy as he used to be, his knee was still deteriorating and the surgery he had had 4 years ago was beginning to wear off.
"So how is school for both of you?" Sophie asked them.
"It's okay, law's really dragging along." Shelby said depressed. "I mean I want to do it but the schooling is so boring at the moment, it's just studying and more studying."
Peter laughed. "That's the way school it."
"I'm going to Australia in a couple of weeks, the medical school down there is fabulous." Daisy said.
"Well that is wonderful." Sophie said and checked her watch. "Well I need to get Anne Marie up. She need some lunch."
"So could I." Daisy said. "Starvation is not the way I want to die."
"Then let me take you to the dinning hall." Peter said as the two followed him out the door.
THE DINNING HALL
Aiken went to go sit next to Alley at lunch. She was eating the Chicken Soup they had been served.
"Hey Alley." He said.
Shelby looked over at the two of them and pictures of her and Scott crept into her mind, They had loved each other once. And though she had tried to bury the feeling, and he knew she had to. They still loved each other. Instantly she wished his strong arms could hold her. To is the one cheering him to the fieldgoal post in football. She missed him s much.
The same thing was happening to Daisy, she kept having this feeling of Ezra. She knew she had hurt her with the whole David thing all those years ago. But she needed Ezra more as a best friend. She was always worried about what would happen if they got to close. So many people close to her before had hurt her, and she couldn't bear to be hurt by Ezra to. It meant too much to her, and to be hurt by him would have tortured her soul even more than it already was.
"You guys okay?" Sophie asked as she carried Anne Marie over to the table and noticed the two girls' blank stairs over at Aiken and Alley.
"Oh yeah. Just thinking of the past." Was the reply of both.
Shelby looked over at the little girl in Sophie's arms. She was Shelby's goddaughter. "Can I hold her?" she asked.
"Sure you can." Sophie said handing Anne Marie to Shelby.
Shelby held the little girl. The girl smiled up at Shelby. She looked so innocent. Anne Marie reached up to play with Shelby's blond hair, and Shelby and Daisy laughed.
"She's so cute." Daisy commented.
Just then a loud thump was heard in the room disrupting their conversation. Sophie turned around startled. There was a scream before the group moved apart. The scream was of Jamie. Jacob and Andy were on the floor fighting. Jacob was on top of Andy and Andy's nose was bleeding.
"Don't talk to my sister like that." Jacob yelled, getting ready to punch Andy again.
Sophie and Roger ran to stop the fight. Roger grabbed Jacob who was still trying to hit Andy/.
"What is going on here?" Sophie said angrily to the two of them after telling the rest of the students and Jamie to go sit down. "No wait, tell me when we get to Peter's office.
PETERS OFFICE.
"What happened out there you two?" Sophie asked looking at both of the boys, Andy's face already showing signs of swelling, and Jacob with a fat lip.
"I don't know." Jacob said angrily. He really didn't know why all this was happening. Every time they went home, he and Jamie, they came back worse than they were before. And he hated to admit it but he was becoming more like his old former horizon, after the divorce self again.
"I don't know either." Andy said.
"Well people don't just fight for no reason." Sophie said almost on the verge of sarcasm.
"I'm sorry Okay." Jacob said bitterly, he had to many feelings building up inside of him right now. "He said something about Jamie."
Sophie looked at Jacob, she knew that he and his sister was close, but fighting for the other was wrong, was out of the question.
"What did he say." Sophie asked.
"He said that she was pretty, that he liked her." Jacob said softly.
"So what if I said that, That doesn't mean you can attack me." Andy said. "But I shouldn't have fought back either."
"I am putting both of you on Kitchen detail for a week, and Jacob, seeing that you started this fight, you have shuns for a week. You can't talk to anyone, other than Me, Peter, and Katherine, and of course Andy because you two are going to be spending a lot of time together, and you are not even allowed to talk to Jamie." She added.
"What? No way. I am talking to my sister." He said, he couldn't stand not talking to her.
"Well those are the rules Jacob, you break em, you pay for it. Only Andy and you can't give him messages to give to Jamie either. That is against the rules. And you have to write down your feelings in your journal. Understand both of you?" she asked folding her arms. She hated to have to do that to Jacob but she had to.
"Yeah." Andy said casually.
"Yes. I understand perfectly." Jacob said still mad at her for the judgement.
"Good, now go to lunch." Sophie said to them.
As soon as they left Sophie sank in her chair. She felt exhausted, after the fight, and everything. That's when Shelby and Daisy came in.
"Remember when me and Juliet used to fight like that?" Shelby asked trying to lighten Sophie's mood.
"Yeah... Yeah I do." She said laughing.
The three of them sat down and started to talk about the past again.
MEANWHILE...
It was time for mail call for the cliffhangers.
"Alley." Jeff called handing her two letters.
"Thanks."
"Jacob and Jamie." He said handing them both a package and some letters.
"Thank you." Jamie said for both of them.
"Andy."
Andy got up and smiled at the letters he had gotten, he hadn't received mail in a long time.
"Rylan, sorry, you don't have anything." Jeff said to her sadly.
"It's okay" she said not letting it affect her.
"And last but not least, Aiken." Jeff said handing Aiken a single letter,
Aiken looked at the letter and nearly fainted when he saw whom it was from. The address read: "Mitchell Gregory 112 New Heart Ave. Houston, Texas". It was a letter from his father.
To be continued. AND PLEASE GIVE ME FEEDBACK!!!!!
Disclaimer: I do not own any original HG characters. But I do own all the new ones.
In this chapter: Daisy and Shelby visit, Aiken gets a letter from someone in his past.
"Guys, pay attention please." Anthony shouted to the Cliffhangers.
Though almost 3 years younger than the oldest cliffhanger Anthony Scarbrow got the chance to guide them for once, and in a way to intimidate them. His father and mother, Peter and Sophie had taught him in the 3 years he had lived with them to mountain climb. He was pretty good at it. He could climb and repel in almost anyway, even upside down. And it was his job after school one day every week to teach the cliffhangers to climb the Rock wall they had in the middle of Campus.
"Come on I mean it." Anthony shouted again.
Finally the group looked up at him.
"Go on Anthony." Aiken said smiling at his little friend.
"Thanks Aiken." Anthony said knowing no one would mess with a senior member.
"Does everyone have their harnesses on?" he asked checking his own.
"Yep." They all said in one way or another.
"Okay. Now we're going to climb to the top and I'm going to teach you a new way to come down." Anthony said.
The group climbed to the top. It was a great experience. The wall was at a place in campus where you could see all the buildings from it. That's where Anthony saw the car coming up the drive.
"They're here." He shouted happily.
The rest of the cliffhangers looked at Anthony puzzled. They thought he was going crazy until they saw a car. Then they wondered who it was.
"Who's here?" Jamie asked.
"Shelby and Daisy." Anthony said as he started climbing down the wall. "The lessons over for now. We'll have to reschedule. Now I want you all to get down." He yelled to them from the bottom of the wall.
"Alley, if anyone has trouble help them okay?" Anthony instructed as he ran towards the car.
INFRONT OF THE HORIZON ADDMITTION BUILDING
Daisy and Shelby got out of the car. When they got out they were surprised to be met by a dog.
"Shelby, Daisy." They heard a person scream.
They both looked the way the voice was coming and saw a boy running towards them. They waited until he came up to them. When they saw who it was they were very surprised.
"Anthony, is that you?" Daisy said hugging the teen.
"Yeah. Hi." He said as he hugged her and then Shelby.
"You've grown a lot since we saw you last time." Shelby said smiling. "By the way, who's the dog?"
Anthony looked down and laughed. He pets the dog and the dog sat down.
"That's challenge." He said. "We got him right after Frank died."
"It feels so different without him here to great us." Shelby said softly. "I remember when he let Scott stay after he trashed that house."
"And when he took the guys to Hope Falls after Isaac committed suicide." Daisy said.
"Oh yeah. I remember that. That was awful. But he was the only one of us that ever did." Shelby said remembering.
"Shelby. Daisy." Kat said as she got over to them. "I missed you guys so much."
Katherine hugged both of them tightly. She was always the over emotional type.
"So do you like counseling the masses of freaks?" Shelby said remembering one of the terms for them selves. "Who's the unfortunate group this time?"
"Cliffhangers. I got the old group thing back." Katherine said smiling.
"Where are out predecessors anyway?" Daisy asked.
"They should be coming. I told them that I would have to postpone class." Anthony said looking around for them.
"You mean little Anthony is teaching the big kids?" Shelby said teasingly.
"Yes. I am." He said as-a-mater-of-factly.
Just then the Cliffhangers show up. Aiken, Alley, Jacob, Jamie, Andy, and Rylan stood in front of them.
"So you must be our all mighty offspring?" Daisy asked.
"Yeah, whatever." Jamie said bitterly, not wanting to be put on display.
"I think she's you're clone Shel." Katherine whispered.
"Which one's mine?" Daisy asked enjoying the conversation now.
"I'm guessing Rylan or Alley." Katherine said to her.
"And which ones are they?"
"The blond is Alley and the red head is Rylan." Katherine said explaining.
"I'm the Scott." Aiken said showing the two he knew what they were talking about.
Shelby and Daisy looked at him in surprise, how could he have known about Scott if he were here now. They studied him for a minute trying to put a name to the face.
"Aiken Gregory, does it ring a bell?" he asked them.
Shelby's face gave a look of acknowledgment. "Now I know who you are. You were here when David and Ezra graduated. And you started when the rest of us left. Remember Dais?" she asked.
"Now I do. You've grown too." She said remembering.
"Yeah." Aiken said now embarrassed because they remembered and were smiling at him.
"Mom and Dad want to see you." Anthony said suddenly as he grabbed both Shelby and Daisy's hands, not acting his age at all.
Shelby and Daisy followed after Anthony, after giving each other happy looks at each other; they were "home" again.
PETERS OFFICE
"Mom, Dad. They're here. They're here!!!" Anthony ran in screaming.
"Who Anthony?" Peter asked looking up from a file.
"Shelby and Daisy. They're here. They got here a few minutes ago." He said excitedly.
"Well where are they?" Sophie said happily to her son. It had been so long since she had seen them.
As if on cue Daisy and Shelby came into the room. Sophie and Peter went over to hug them. Shelby and Daisy hugged back. Peter backed up to look at the two.
"You two look wonderful." He said as he offered Shelby and Daisy a seat.
"You too Peter." Daisy said Politely, though now almost nearing 48 the youth had not gone out of his face, and he looked great.
"Yeah, sure I do." He said knowing he wasn't as healthy as he used to be, his knee was still deteriorating and the surgery he had had 4 years ago was beginning to wear off.
"So how is school for both of you?" Sophie asked them.
"It's okay, law's really dragging along." Shelby said depressed. "I mean I want to do it but the schooling is so boring at the moment, it's just studying and more studying."
Peter laughed. "That's the way school it."
"I'm going to Australia in a couple of weeks, the medical school down there is fabulous." Daisy said.
"Well that is wonderful." Sophie said and checked her watch. "Well I need to get Anne Marie up. She need some lunch."
"So could I." Daisy said. "Starvation is not the way I want to die."
"Then let me take you to the dinning hall." Peter said as the two followed him out the door.
THE DINNING HALL
Aiken went to go sit next to Alley at lunch. She was eating the Chicken Soup they had been served.
"Hey Alley." He said.
Shelby looked over at the two of them and pictures of her and Scott crept into her mind, They had loved each other once. And though she had tried to bury the feeling, and he knew she had to. They still loved each other. Instantly she wished his strong arms could hold her. To is the one cheering him to the fieldgoal post in football. She missed him s much.
The same thing was happening to Daisy, she kept having this feeling of Ezra. She knew she had hurt her with the whole David thing all those years ago. But she needed Ezra more as a best friend. She was always worried about what would happen if they got to close. So many people close to her before had hurt her, and she couldn't bear to be hurt by Ezra to. It meant too much to her, and to be hurt by him would have tortured her soul even more than it already was.
"You guys okay?" Sophie asked as she carried Anne Marie over to the table and noticed the two girls' blank stairs over at Aiken and Alley.
"Oh yeah. Just thinking of the past." Was the reply of both.
Shelby looked over at the little girl in Sophie's arms. She was Shelby's goddaughter. "Can I hold her?" she asked.
"Sure you can." Sophie said handing Anne Marie to Shelby.
Shelby held the little girl. The girl smiled up at Shelby. She looked so innocent. Anne Marie reached up to play with Shelby's blond hair, and Shelby and Daisy laughed.
"She's so cute." Daisy commented.
Just then a loud thump was heard in the room disrupting their conversation. Sophie turned around startled. There was a scream before the group moved apart. The scream was of Jamie. Jacob and Andy were on the floor fighting. Jacob was on top of Andy and Andy's nose was bleeding.
"Don't talk to my sister like that." Jacob yelled, getting ready to punch Andy again.
Sophie and Roger ran to stop the fight. Roger grabbed Jacob who was still trying to hit Andy/.
"What is going on here?" Sophie said angrily to the two of them after telling the rest of the students and Jamie to go sit down. "No wait, tell me when we get to Peter's office.
PETERS OFFICE.
"What happened out there you two?" Sophie asked looking at both of the boys, Andy's face already showing signs of swelling, and Jacob with a fat lip.
"I don't know." Jacob said angrily. He really didn't know why all this was happening. Every time they went home, he and Jamie, they came back worse than they were before. And he hated to admit it but he was becoming more like his old former horizon, after the divorce self again.
"I don't know either." Andy said.
"Well people don't just fight for no reason." Sophie said almost on the verge of sarcasm.
"I'm sorry Okay." Jacob said bitterly, he had to many feelings building up inside of him right now. "He said something about Jamie."
Sophie looked at Jacob, she knew that he and his sister was close, but fighting for the other was wrong, was out of the question.
"What did he say." Sophie asked.
"He said that she was pretty, that he liked her." Jacob said softly.
"So what if I said that, That doesn't mean you can attack me." Andy said. "But I shouldn't have fought back either."
"I am putting both of you on Kitchen detail for a week, and Jacob, seeing that you started this fight, you have shuns for a week. You can't talk to anyone, other than Me, Peter, and Katherine, and of course Andy because you two are going to be spending a lot of time together, and you are not even allowed to talk to Jamie." She added.
"What? No way. I am talking to my sister." He said, he couldn't stand not talking to her.
"Well those are the rules Jacob, you break em, you pay for it. Only Andy and you can't give him messages to give to Jamie either. That is against the rules. And you have to write down your feelings in your journal. Understand both of you?" she asked folding her arms. She hated to have to do that to Jacob but she had to.
"Yeah." Andy said casually.
"Yes. I understand perfectly." Jacob said still mad at her for the judgement.
"Good, now go to lunch." Sophie said to them.
As soon as they left Sophie sank in her chair. She felt exhausted, after the fight, and everything. That's when Shelby and Daisy came in.
"Remember when me and Juliet used to fight like that?" Shelby asked trying to lighten Sophie's mood.
"Yeah... Yeah I do." She said laughing.
The three of them sat down and started to talk about the past again.
MEANWHILE...
It was time for mail call for the cliffhangers.
"Alley." Jeff called handing her two letters.
"Thanks."
"Jacob and Jamie." He said handing them both a package and some letters.
"Thank you." Jamie said for both of them.
"Andy."
Andy got up and smiled at the letters he had gotten, he hadn't received mail in a long time.
"Rylan, sorry, you don't have anything." Jeff said to her sadly.
"It's okay" she said not letting it affect her.
"And last but not least, Aiken." Jeff said handing Aiken a single letter,
Aiken looked at the letter and nearly fainted when he saw whom it was from. The address read: "Mitchell Gregory 112 New Heart Ave. Houston, Texas". It was a letter from his father.
To be continued. AND PLEASE GIVE ME FEEDBACK!!!!!