Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters and I am not doin this to make $$$
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Scott and Shelby Unlimited. Ch 3
The next morning Peter woke Shelby up bright and early.
"Come on." He said "You broke the rules, now you pay the consequences. You're going to get up, go to the mess hall, get some breakfast and then I'll give you your tasks for today."
"For today? Great. How many days am I gonna have to do this crap?"
"Until I'm satisfied. Now move it!" He commanded. She got out of bed and waited for Peter to leave. She then got dressed and dragged herself down to the mess hall. The campus was deserted because she was up an hour and a half before all the other students. The mess hall was also deserted. Sophie had gotten out some breakfast material and Shelby had to put it together to make her own breakfast. She saw it had already been ruffled through. She knew what that meant. She looked behind her back at the tables. There sat Scott. She made a disgusted sigh and fixed her breakfast. She turned around to go sit at a different table, but Peter stepped in her way.
"Peter, what are you doing?" she asked with an aggravated tone.
"You're going to sit over there." He said pointing to Scott's table. "With Scott."
"WHY?!" she exclaimed very loudly
"You two are going to work out your differences and make up." Shelby narrowed her eyes at Peter.
"You can't make us talk, Peter." She argued.
" Oh, no??? We'll see about that." He gave her a lift of the eyebrows and then pointed at the table Scott was sitting at. "Go. Sit. Now."
"Chill out. You sound like a caveman." She mumbled as she pushed by him. She noisily pulled out a chair directly across from Scott, sat down, and slumped in it. Scott looked up at her and gave her an angry look. "Don't look at me like that unless you have something to say." She said in a low raspy tone. He looked down at his food and twirled his fork. Peter approached them. The both looked up.
"Okay kids—" he started, but Shelby cut him off.
"We're not kids. We're profoundly dysfunctional adolescents." She said sarcastically. He looked at her and then moved his gaze to Scott.
"You two are going to finish up here, and then you two are going to go on a survival hike together." They each let out an exasperated sigh. " You're gonna need a tent from the shed, and your sleeping bags. The rest of the stuff you'll need you should have in your dorms. This hike should take you today, and maybe half of the day tomorrow, tops."
"So we're not on shuns?" Scott asked still looking down and twirling his fork.
"Quite the opposite. For the next two weeks, you two are going to be doing EVERYTHING together. Got me? You two are going to eat, sleep, and breathe each other. You are going to be together so much you'll literally be coming out of each other's noses."
"Oh, lucky me. Scott coming out of my nose. Peter, can't you chose some other form of torture?" she said flatly.
"This is your task. Get going or get out. What do you choose?" he asked looking from one face to another. "Scott?"
"Get going." He mumbled "I guess."
"Shelby?"
"I guess we better get going then." She said looking away. They finished the rest of their breakfast in silence and then went their separate ways to get ready for the hike they both dreaded.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Scott got back to the cabin and grabbed a backpack. He shoved two days worth of clothes and the other necessities for this dumb hike that he was being forced to go on. He attached his sleeping bag to the top of it and he swung it over his shoulder.
"Hey, Meat." Auggie's groggy voice said. "Where ya goin? Ya aren't running again are ya??"
"Hey....no. I wish I was, though." He said and headed towards the door. "Shelby and I got caught outside after lights out. Peter's sending us on some dumb survival hike together."
"Together??" Auggie asked sounding very surprised. "A co-ed survival hike. And you and Shelby? Whoa. He must totally trust you two."
"Well..uh...actually...Shelby and I aren't exactly on each other's best sides right about now." Scott said.
"Oh. Well, later, man."
"Yeah, later." Scott said and went outside to get the tent they would need.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
n the girls' dorm Shelby got ready also. She had a rough time rolling up her sleeping bag after she had finished packing her clothes and finally huffed and threw the whole thing across the room. It landed on Daisy's face. Daisy slowly sat up and let the sleeping bag fall to her lap.
"May I ask what you are DOING?" Daisy asked angrily.
"Making soup." Shelby said sarcastically. "What does it look like I'm doing? I'm going on a survival hike."
"Why?" Daisy laughed.
"As if you didn't know. Scott and I got caught out there last night."
"Oh. So, uh, what's Scott's punishment."
"That's the worst part. We have to go on this crazy thing together."
"You two? On a survival hike? Together?"
"Yeah." Shelby chuckled. "Why? You sound like that messes up your life somehow."
"No. No. I just never heard of a co-ed survival hike without Peter or Sophie there." Daisy said quickly. Shelby shrugged.
" I dunno. Scott and I aren't on the best of terms right now. This hike is supposed to help us "find each other again". That's all I know".
"Well, when will you be back?" Daisy said.
"My my. Nosy, aren't we? Sometime tomorrow afternoon, if you must know." Shelby informed her.
"Oh, well........have fun.....I guess."
"Oh." Shelby said swinging her backpack over her shoulder. "You can count on it. Bye Daiz."
"Bye, Shel."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Next Chapter: Scott and Shelby leave on their survival hike together and Daisy brews up another plan....................
Okay...well....I hope this was LONG enough for you guys....I wrote this all this afternoon and now I really gotta go do homework, so I'll try and post the next chapter tomorrow, but I dunno if I can. There's a football home game tomorrow at my high school. H-I-L....L-T-O-P......P-E-R-S. OH YES! GO HILLTOPPERS!!!!!! Sorry bout that. I have to cheer at it. Let me know whatcha think of my story so far! Luv ya'll!