Chapter 6- the way it is
Disclaimer- I don't own any origional Higher Ground characters. But I do own all the new ones
In this chapter- Jamie does a Horizon no-no. Daisy and Shelby have a surprise.
Jamie got to her dorm as soon as she could. Her breathing was getting heavier and faster. She was having a semi-panic attack. She looked around to see if anyone was in the room. But no one was.
Jamie ran into the bathroom, turned on the sink and shut the door. She didn't know what she was going to do. She felt like she was going to throw up. She bent down on the floor over one of the toilets. She needed to do something. After throwing up she still didn't feel better. Her heart was pounding and she was crying.
Daisy and Shelby went to explore town. They decided to have lunch at Rustys.
"Hi Gracie!" Shelby said happily to the little girl who she had once saved.
"Hello Shelby, Hello Daisy." Ginger said back. "Mom's in the back with Parker. Want me to get her for you?"
"Sure, that would be nice." Daisy said. "Reminders of our past." She said almost bitterly.
If Gracie or Shelby heard the bitterness they ignored it because neither of them reacted. Gracie went back to the kitchen to get her mother. Soon Ginger came over with her and Curtis' son.
"Hello girls. I want you to meet Parker." Ginger said as she came over to the girls.
"Hello Parker." The girls said in the little giggly voice everyone uses with babies.
Ginger sat down with them for a few minutes. There was really no one in the restaurant.
"So what brings you girls back?" Ginger asked.
"Well I'm going to Australia soon for med-school and we both needed a break." Daisy said.
"There's only 4 things missing, Juliet, Auggie, Ezra, and Scott." Shelby said dreamily thinking of Scott.
Ginger nodded in agreement.
IN AN AIRPORT IN NYC
2 young men in their mid twenties were boarding a plan to Washington State. One, a tall, well built man with dirty blond hair held a large bouquet of roses. The other shorter man, with curly brown hair held a wrapped present.
As the two boarded the plane that would take them to their destination they smiled nervous smiles at each other.
"Do you really think this is a good Idea?" the blond haired one asked nervously, which was very unlike him.
"Daisy said that she wished she could see me before she left and I know your girl feels the same way." The dark haired guy said.
"Shelby.' The man whispered almost in a breathless way, speaking of his love.
The two men sat back as she plane took off. It would be almost 5 hours to get there.
AT HORIZON
Jamie looked on the shelf above the sinks. She was looking for her razor. Finally she found it. She cut herself once vertically on her wrist. The pain ran through her body, but so did a feeling of relief. She cut again. Blood was coming now.
"I won't let them make me be alone here." She said cutting the other wrist now.
Blood was splattering on the floor. But she didn't care. She wanted the pain, she needed this kind of pain to numb the other pain she felt, the non physical pain that was all purely emotional. She didn't like that kind of pain but the physical pain didn't bother her much anymore.
After a few more cuts the light-headedness was kicking in. That was the only part she didn't like and she had only felt like that once, the time right before horizon, when her parents decided she needed to get help.
All of a sudden the silence of Jamie's own thoughts was broken. Someone was knocking on the door.
"Come on Jamie open up please."
It was Alley and Rylan outside.
"Jamie open this door now." Rylan said angrily.
Jamie didn't open the door, partly because she felt to weak to, and partly because she didn't feel like it.
"Fine. We're coming in anyway." Alley said.
Soon there was a loud bang on the door as the girls rammed into it. They had opened the door. By this time Jamie was crying. She was found out and reality of what she had done was truly sinking in. Alley was the first to see the blood.
"Jamie what happened?" Alley asked scared.
That's when Rylan saw Jamie's wrists and almost cried to. She started freaking out.
"Rylan, go get Peter, or Sophie, or Katherine, anyone." Alley said as she went and tried to stop some of the bleeding from Jamie's arm.
Rylan ran as fast as she could to the lodge. Sophie and Peter were there holding another group session. Rylan went over crying hysterically.
"What's wrong Ry?" Sophie said concerned.
"Jamie.... Cutting... bleeding..." was all that was audible through the gasping and crying.
"Calm down Rylan. Calm down. Now what happened?" Peter asked.
"Jamie cut herself in the bathroom and she's bleeding really bad." Rylan said.
Peter ran as fast as he could to the dorm. Not even looking behind him back to Sophie to make sure that Rylan was taken care of.
AT THE AIRPORT
The two men got off the plane. There was no one waiting for them there. They went to the baggage claim and picked up their stuff. Then headed for a rental car. It would take only 20 minutes to get to Rusty's. A restaurant that everyone stopped in before going to or leaving horizon.
"Scott." The dark haired man asked.
"Yeah Ez?" the blond asked.
"What do you think the schools like now. Without Frank and us and everything?" Ezra asked.
"Different. But still some of the things are the same. I know they'll be okay." Was Scott's only reply.
ST. MARY'S HOSPTIOL.
Jamie opened her eyes. The fluorescent lights blinded her for a few minutes. When she could focus on anything, it was the white gauze on both her wrists.
"Must've cut to deep." She thought to herself.
She noticed that no one was in the room with her. She tried to sit up but was to weak to. She had lost a lot of blood. Luckily a nurse came in.
"I see you're up. I'll call your visitors in." the nurse, a nice young woman said softly to Jamie.
Jacob was the first to come in. He ran right to Jamie and tried to give her a small hug. Followed soon by Peter and Sophie. Sophie looked as if she had been crying.
"How long have I been in here?" was the first thing she asked.
"Not that long really. Only maybe 50 minutes to an hour. But you're going to stay here for a couple of days, you lost a lot of blood. And then be under supervision in the lodge by either Me, Peter, Rylan, or Alley at all times. You're under suicide watch until we're sure you can be trusted again okay?" Peter said giving the routine speech.
Jamie nodded to her best ability. "Did you have to call mom and dad?" she asked.
"Yes, but neither of them think it would be a good idea to send you home at the moment. So we're your temporary gaurdiens. " Sophie said.
Jacob turned to Sophie and Peter for a second. "Peter, Sophie, can you leave me and Jamie along for a few minutes. I want to talk to her?" he asked seriously.
"Sure Jacob, go ahead. We'll be right outside. Call us when you're finished." Sophie said as she dragged peter out of the room.
As soon as Peter and Sophie left Jacob took a seat on Jamie's bed. He looked into her eyes desperate for an answer to a question he really didn't want to ask again. He could find no answer in them
"Why Jamie? Why did you have to do this again?" Jacob said almost crying. "You could have died."
Jamie hated seeing her brother like this. He tried to act tough but he was in all actuality still young. He hadn't grown up as fast as she had. And he couldn't understand and she knew that bothered him. She hated him thinking she did these things because she hated him, and she knew that he felt like that right now.
"You were mad at me for fighting with Andy weren't you?" he asked ashamed.
"No Jacob. It's nothing like that." She said feeling suddenly guilty. "It was nothing you did."
"Then why. Why did you have to start cutting again?" he asked more direct this time.
"They said that they might have to send you home if you got in a fight again." She said.
"So it was my fighting wasn't it." He asked. "You dpon't have to lie to me Jamie. I CAN handle the truth."
The words cut through her. She didn't mean to hurt him because of that. She loved him more than anything else in the whole world. And she knew he felt the same way.
"It wasn't that Jacob. It was the fact that you might leave. I made you fight Andy, I should never have told you anything about the stuff at home. This never would have happened." She said.
"I would have found out Jamie. I would have some how." Jacob.
"Jakey." She said using the nickname for him that she only used when she was scared or something bad was happening. "I'm scared." She said and started to cry.
"Me to." Jacob said as he hugged his sister trying to comfort her. "I love you, and I won't leave you."
RUSTY'S RESTURANT-
Scott and Ezra pulled up into the parking lot and got out of the car.
"I'm nervous." Ezra said. "What if they don't want to see us?"
"They will. I'm sure of it.' Scott said. He was really unsure but tried to keep up a brave front for Ezra. He clutched his bouquet of roses tighter.
Both of them took a deep breath and then paused. They realized they didn't know what to say.
MEANWHILE IN SAN FRANCISCO
Juliet looked around the fancy restaurant that Auggie had taken her to for lunch. She wondered how he could afford something so expensive. She straighten the wrinkles in her cranberry dress nervously.
"Where is he?" she asked looking for him, he was late.
Auggie ran over to the table before Juliet could ask herself another question. He had on a tux. It was a black tie restaurant anyway. He sat down out of breath just as the waiter came over.
"Would you like to order now?" the waiter asked.
"Yes," Auggie answered for both of them "We'd like a single dish of lobster, and some breadsticks. "
"And to drink?"
"A bottle of red wine please." He said.
"Is that all?"
"Yes. Thank you." Juliet said.
Soon the food was there and eaten. Juliet was surprised that Auggie knew exactly what she had wanted. It was another reason to show how much she loved him. She was surprised when he stood up in the middle of dessert.
"What are you doing Auggie. We're still eating." She said almost embarrassed.
Auggie got down on one knee and pulled a ring out of his pocket. It had a small sparkling diamond on it. Juliet looked at it in shock and put her hands over her mouth to muffle out a scream.
"Juliet Wayborne. I have loved you since I first met you." He started out. "We have shared moments together, both good and bad. Through your cutting and my gang related days, to your mothers abusive words when she met me, to my parents love for you as their own daughter. We have shared tears and laughter for the last 2 years we have shared almost every moment of our lives together. And I want to make sure that time never ends. Juliet will you marry me?" he asked.
Tears ran from Juliet's eyes. The man she loved had just asked her to marry him in front of all these people.
"Yes. Yes Auggie. I will marry you." She said as he slipped the ring onto her finger.
They kissed each other as the whole restaurant broke out in applause.
THE END
Disclaimer- I don't own any origional Higher Ground characters. But I do own all the new ones
In this chapter- Jamie does a Horizon no-no. Daisy and Shelby have a surprise.
Jamie got to her dorm as soon as she could. Her breathing was getting heavier and faster. She was having a semi-panic attack. She looked around to see if anyone was in the room. But no one was.
Jamie ran into the bathroom, turned on the sink and shut the door. She didn't know what she was going to do. She felt like she was going to throw up. She bent down on the floor over one of the toilets. She needed to do something. After throwing up she still didn't feel better. Her heart was pounding and she was crying.
Daisy and Shelby went to explore town. They decided to have lunch at Rustys.
"Hi Gracie!" Shelby said happily to the little girl who she had once saved.
"Hello Shelby, Hello Daisy." Ginger said back. "Mom's in the back with Parker. Want me to get her for you?"
"Sure, that would be nice." Daisy said. "Reminders of our past." She said almost bitterly.
If Gracie or Shelby heard the bitterness they ignored it because neither of them reacted. Gracie went back to the kitchen to get her mother. Soon Ginger came over with her and Curtis' son.
"Hello girls. I want you to meet Parker." Ginger said as she came over to the girls.
"Hello Parker." The girls said in the little giggly voice everyone uses with babies.
Ginger sat down with them for a few minutes. There was really no one in the restaurant.
"So what brings you girls back?" Ginger asked.
"Well I'm going to Australia soon for med-school and we both needed a break." Daisy said.
"There's only 4 things missing, Juliet, Auggie, Ezra, and Scott." Shelby said dreamily thinking of Scott.
Ginger nodded in agreement.
IN AN AIRPORT IN NYC
2 young men in their mid twenties were boarding a plan to Washington State. One, a tall, well built man with dirty blond hair held a large bouquet of roses. The other shorter man, with curly brown hair held a wrapped present.
As the two boarded the plane that would take them to their destination they smiled nervous smiles at each other.
"Do you really think this is a good Idea?" the blond haired one asked nervously, which was very unlike him.
"Daisy said that she wished she could see me before she left and I know your girl feels the same way." The dark haired guy said.
"Shelby.' The man whispered almost in a breathless way, speaking of his love.
The two men sat back as she plane took off. It would be almost 5 hours to get there.
AT HORIZON
Jamie looked on the shelf above the sinks. She was looking for her razor. Finally she found it. She cut herself once vertically on her wrist. The pain ran through her body, but so did a feeling of relief. She cut again. Blood was coming now.
"I won't let them make me be alone here." She said cutting the other wrist now.
Blood was splattering on the floor. But she didn't care. She wanted the pain, she needed this kind of pain to numb the other pain she felt, the non physical pain that was all purely emotional. She didn't like that kind of pain but the physical pain didn't bother her much anymore.
After a few more cuts the light-headedness was kicking in. That was the only part she didn't like and she had only felt like that once, the time right before horizon, when her parents decided she needed to get help.
All of a sudden the silence of Jamie's own thoughts was broken. Someone was knocking on the door.
"Come on Jamie open up please."
It was Alley and Rylan outside.
"Jamie open this door now." Rylan said angrily.
Jamie didn't open the door, partly because she felt to weak to, and partly because she didn't feel like it.
"Fine. We're coming in anyway." Alley said.
Soon there was a loud bang on the door as the girls rammed into it. They had opened the door. By this time Jamie was crying. She was found out and reality of what she had done was truly sinking in. Alley was the first to see the blood.
"Jamie what happened?" Alley asked scared.
That's when Rylan saw Jamie's wrists and almost cried to. She started freaking out.
"Rylan, go get Peter, or Sophie, or Katherine, anyone." Alley said as she went and tried to stop some of the bleeding from Jamie's arm.
Rylan ran as fast as she could to the lodge. Sophie and Peter were there holding another group session. Rylan went over crying hysterically.
"What's wrong Ry?" Sophie said concerned.
"Jamie.... Cutting... bleeding..." was all that was audible through the gasping and crying.
"Calm down Rylan. Calm down. Now what happened?" Peter asked.
"Jamie cut herself in the bathroom and she's bleeding really bad." Rylan said.
Peter ran as fast as he could to the dorm. Not even looking behind him back to Sophie to make sure that Rylan was taken care of.
AT THE AIRPORT
The two men got off the plane. There was no one waiting for them there. They went to the baggage claim and picked up their stuff. Then headed for a rental car. It would take only 20 minutes to get to Rusty's. A restaurant that everyone stopped in before going to or leaving horizon.
"Scott." The dark haired man asked.
"Yeah Ez?" the blond asked.
"What do you think the schools like now. Without Frank and us and everything?" Ezra asked.
"Different. But still some of the things are the same. I know they'll be okay." Was Scott's only reply.
ST. MARY'S HOSPTIOL.
Jamie opened her eyes. The fluorescent lights blinded her for a few minutes. When she could focus on anything, it was the white gauze on both her wrists.
"Must've cut to deep." She thought to herself.
She noticed that no one was in the room with her. She tried to sit up but was to weak to. She had lost a lot of blood. Luckily a nurse came in.
"I see you're up. I'll call your visitors in." the nurse, a nice young woman said softly to Jamie.
Jacob was the first to come in. He ran right to Jamie and tried to give her a small hug. Followed soon by Peter and Sophie. Sophie looked as if she had been crying.
"How long have I been in here?" was the first thing she asked.
"Not that long really. Only maybe 50 minutes to an hour. But you're going to stay here for a couple of days, you lost a lot of blood. And then be under supervision in the lodge by either Me, Peter, Rylan, or Alley at all times. You're under suicide watch until we're sure you can be trusted again okay?" Peter said giving the routine speech.
Jamie nodded to her best ability. "Did you have to call mom and dad?" she asked.
"Yes, but neither of them think it would be a good idea to send you home at the moment. So we're your temporary gaurdiens. " Sophie said.
Jacob turned to Sophie and Peter for a second. "Peter, Sophie, can you leave me and Jamie along for a few minutes. I want to talk to her?" he asked seriously.
"Sure Jacob, go ahead. We'll be right outside. Call us when you're finished." Sophie said as she dragged peter out of the room.
As soon as Peter and Sophie left Jacob took a seat on Jamie's bed. He looked into her eyes desperate for an answer to a question he really didn't want to ask again. He could find no answer in them
"Why Jamie? Why did you have to do this again?" Jacob said almost crying. "You could have died."
Jamie hated seeing her brother like this. He tried to act tough but he was in all actuality still young. He hadn't grown up as fast as she had. And he couldn't understand and she knew that bothered him. She hated him thinking she did these things because she hated him, and she knew that he felt like that right now.
"You were mad at me for fighting with Andy weren't you?" he asked ashamed.
"No Jacob. It's nothing like that." She said feeling suddenly guilty. "It was nothing you did."
"Then why. Why did you have to start cutting again?" he asked more direct this time.
"They said that they might have to send you home if you got in a fight again." She said.
"So it was my fighting wasn't it." He asked. "You dpon't have to lie to me Jamie. I CAN handle the truth."
The words cut through her. She didn't mean to hurt him because of that. She loved him more than anything else in the whole world. And she knew he felt the same way.
"It wasn't that Jacob. It was the fact that you might leave. I made you fight Andy, I should never have told you anything about the stuff at home. This never would have happened." She said.
"I would have found out Jamie. I would have some how." Jacob.
"Jakey." She said using the nickname for him that she only used when she was scared or something bad was happening. "I'm scared." She said and started to cry.
"Me to." Jacob said as he hugged his sister trying to comfort her. "I love you, and I won't leave you."
RUSTY'S RESTURANT-
Scott and Ezra pulled up into the parking lot and got out of the car.
"I'm nervous." Ezra said. "What if they don't want to see us?"
"They will. I'm sure of it.' Scott said. He was really unsure but tried to keep up a brave front for Ezra. He clutched his bouquet of roses tighter.
Both of them took a deep breath and then paused. They realized they didn't know what to say.
MEANWHILE IN SAN FRANCISCO
Juliet looked around the fancy restaurant that Auggie had taken her to for lunch. She wondered how he could afford something so expensive. She straighten the wrinkles in her cranberry dress nervously.
"Where is he?" she asked looking for him, he was late.
Auggie ran over to the table before Juliet could ask herself another question. He had on a tux. It was a black tie restaurant anyway. He sat down out of breath just as the waiter came over.
"Would you like to order now?" the waiter asked.
"Yes," Auggie answered for both of them "We'd like a single dish of lobster, and some breadsticks. "
"And to drink?"
"A bottle of red wine please." He said.
"Is that all?"
"Yes. Thank you." Juliet said.
Soon the food was there and eaten. Juliet was surprised that Auggie knew exactly what she had wanted. It was another reason to show how much she loved him. She was surprised when he stood up in the middle of dessert.
"What are you doing Auggie. We're still eating." She said almost embarrassed.
Auggie got down on one knee and pulled a ring out of his pocket. It had a small sparkling diamond on it. Juliet looked at it in shock and put her hands over her mouth to muffle out a scream.
"Juliet Wayborne. I have loved you since I first met you." He started out. "We have shared moments together, both good and bad. Through your cutting and my gang related days, to your mothers abusive words when she met me, to my parents love for you as their own daughter. We have shared tears and laughter for the last 2 years we have shared almost every moment of our lives together. And I want to make sure that time never ends. Juliet will you marry me?" he asked.
Tears ran from Juliet's eyes. The man she loved had just asked her to marry him in front of all these people.
"Yes. Yes Auggie. I will marry you." She said as he slipped the ring onto her finger.
They kissed each other as the whole restaurant broke out in applause.
THE END