We Threw It All Away
Chapter 3: Sometimes You've Got To Grow-Up
Scott sat in the caffeateria at the breakfast table. Auggie and Juliet sat across from him. Juliet had Abagail in her lap and was playing with her. Daisy was holding Joey in her arms and playing with him. Hayden sat beside him. Alex, Tommy, and Lucas were all beside each other eating. Alex beside Hayden. Peter and Sophie were at both ends of the table. Ezra sat beside Daisy. David sat beside Scott. The only one missing was Shelby.
Scott: Where is Shelby?
Daisy: (harshly) Getting a package from the delivery man outside.
Scott: ( getting hostile) Daisy.
For a few seconds the two just glared at each other.
Alex: (confused) What's wrong with you two?
Daisy: ( in a calm voice) Nothing honey, just a little problem. Nothing you should worry about.
Before Alex could answer Shelby came in with a yellow folder.
Tommy: What's that Mom?
Shelby: Oh guys, school starting early this year. So a week after we leave here it'll be time for you all to go back to school. This is just all the stuff you signed up for last year.
Shelby said looking through the folder.
Shelby: (confused and concerned) Alex, why isn't your name on the sign-up form for football?
**A little girl, a little small for her age
A little too slow for the field day race
Momma's waiting at the finish line
And wipes the teardrops from her eyes
She says, "You did just fine honey, that's okay
Sometimes life's just that way
You're gonna lose the race from time to time
But you're always gonna find**
Alex got up and turned around and started to cry. Shelby ran up to her.
Shelby: (concerned) Alex, what's wrong?
Alex: (crying) I didn't sign up for a reason mom. I didn't sign up because you can't be a cheerleader and the football player at the same time. And I wanted to be a cheerleader instead of a football player.
Shelby: That's okay sweetie, you can be whatever you want.
Alex: ( still crying) I've always been a tomboy, but I don't want to be one no more. But I'm afraid you won't love me no more if I'm not a tomboy.
Shelby: Alex, no matter what you do, I promise you can't lose me. And that's more then a promise, I swear from the bottom of my heart.
**You can't lose me
Bet your life
I am here and I will always be
Just a wish away
Wherever you go
No matter how far
My love is where you are
You won't be lost if you believe
You can't lose me"**
Alex: But Tommy and Lucas will make fun of me.
Shelby: Guys we are not gonna make fun of Alex because she's growing up and becoming a women, right?
Tommy and Lucas: No
Lucas: Plus it might be cool having a sister that's a cheerleader, I get to meet all the hot chicks in our school.
Everybody laughed.
Shelby: See it's okay be a girl, it just means you growing up.
Alex: Your not mad.
Shelby: No, a little sad maybe because it means I'm getting old.
**Momma used to say, "Girl it won't be long
'Til it's time to go out on your own
Chase your dreams, find your place in life
I know you'll do just fine"
When that day finally came
There were things she needed to but could not say
So I whispered softly as I wiped
The tears from Momma's eyes**
Alex: Don't worry you don't look a day over twenty.
Shelby: (smiling) Well thank you. How about I be one of the cheerleading coaches.
Alex: Really?
**You can't lose me
Bet your life
I am here and I will always be
Just a wish away
Wherever I go
No matter how far
My love is where you are
You won't be lost if you believe
You can't lose me**
Shelby: Yeah it might be cool. And I can chase away all the guys.
Alex: Deal.
**Wherever I go
No matter how far
My love is where you are
You won't be lost if you believe
You can't lose me**
Shelby: Now lets eat.
Alex: Okay
Alex and Shelby went up to the table and sat down.
**No, you can't lose me
Wherever I go
(No matter how far)
My love is where you are
You can't lose me
No, you can't lose me**
Alex: Mom, there's one more thing.
Shelby: (playful) Oh no, please don't tell me you have a boyfriend. Because me and Daze will have to hunt him down and kill him. Right Daze?
Daisy: Don't forget torture also.
Alex: (smiling) No!! I have to tryout for cheerleading and I don't know anything about cheerleading so you can help me.
Shelby: I can't really help because I don't know very much, but I know someone who can help us both.
Alex: (confused) Who?
Shelby: ( turning to Jules) Jules, Jules, Jules, you know you were one of my best friends in school.
Everybody busted out laughing.
Juliet: Funny. But I'd be glad to help you both. Shall we get started.
Shelby: Yes we shall.
Juliet, Alex and Shelby all three got up from the table with Abigail tagging along. All day long they stayed outside practicing. About dinner Juliet and Shelby came in to the lodge where all the other cliffhangers were. The kids were all outside. Shelby was starring out the window as if she was in another world.
Ezra: Earth to Shelby.
Shelby: What? Huh?
David: What were you thinking about?
Shelby: (smiling) Oh um, Alex and how much she reminds me of Patty. It's amazing how two people can be so much a like but have grown up diffrent.
Auggie: You got that right.
Shelby: ( taking a deep breath) It's time.
Auggie: Time for what?
Shelby: ( taking another deep breath) Time to tell them the truth and help them get over it.
Daisy: (confused) What are you talking about?
Shelby: Daze, will you please go get the kids. I'll be right back.
Shelby walked out of the lodge leaving everybody confused.
*~*~*
Everybody sat in the lodge except for Shelby, Abigail, Hayden and Joey.
Lucas: What did mom want?
Daisy: I'm not sure, sweetie.
Just then Shelby walked in with three small boxes in her hands. Shelby went over to where Alex, Lucas and Tommy sat and sat down across from them.
**Mama went to sleep one night and never woke up
Daddy cried a tear into her old coffee cup
Now all he wants to do is drink the hurt all away
But if mama was here I know what mama would say**
Shelby: Guys, you never knew about your mother or how I met her. And you don't why I came to this school either. (starting to cry) And when I first got you guys I promised myself I'd tell you everything when you were all grown and ready for it. And today I finaly relized that you are not little kids no more. And you can handle the truth so I'm gonna tell you it. When I was ten years old my mom married a man who became my step-father. And he started to molest me and he kept doing it until I was fourteen and old enough to runaway. I met your mother when I ranaway. Your mother..... (taking a deep breath) your mother was a prostitute on the streets. Now don't go hating your mother for what she did because I did it too. I couldn't go back home to much pain and my mother at that time didn't belive me. I lived with your mother for two years. When I started to turn sixteen I notice she was getting big but I didn't say nothing. Well my mother found me and took me home. I ranaway again about three monthes later. When I came back to the streets your mother was back to her normal weight so I didn't think nothing of it. ( starting to cry again) A week later your mother od'd on drugs. My mother found me after that and brought me here. I kept these things that belonged to your mother to help me remeber her. And I think that you three need them more then me. And I don't want hating your mother for what she did because she had a bad life at home and like me she couldn't go back home. But if it wasn't for your mother, I wouldn't of lived. So if your gonna think anything of her think of her as an angel because she's your angel and she's mine too. She saved my life. And you must carry on.
**Carry on
Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on**
Shelby opened one of the boxes and took out a signed baseball. She handed it to Tommy.
Shelby: This was from a Braves game your mom and me went to. ( starting to smile) She waited in the rain for three hours after the game to get signed by the team. She refused to leave till the signed it. She said that somethings in life weren't worth giving up not even if you had to wait in the rain for hours to get it.
Tommy: Wow it's signed by the whole team from 1995.
Shelby: Yeah and it even has her signiture on it.
Tommy: ( smiling) Thanks, mom.
**Little sister's husband ran off with her best friend
Left her and the babies all alone again
It hurts to know the hurt that she's going through
But I know that she'll do what she's gotta do**
Shelby opened the second box and pulled out an old notebook. And handed it to Lucas.
Shelby: Your mom loved to write to music lyrics, just like you Lucas. She filled up the whole notebook with them. Who knows maybe you can rewrite them so there more modern.
Lucas: No, I'm sure they're perfect just the way they are.
Shelby: I'm sure they are too.
**Carry on
Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on**
Shelby opened the last box and pulled out a gold locket with an angel on it. She handed it to Alex.
Shelby: Go ahead, open it.
Alex opened the locket.
Alex: Is it out mother?
Shelby: Yep your mom and me I was 15 in that picture the other one is of her too.
Alex: She was a cheerleader?
Shelby: Yep, when she was the same age as you. The angel on it she always said protected her.
Alex: I love it, mom.
**Nobody ever said that life was gonna be fair
You're never gonna get nowhere by running scared
If you look down deep inside you'll find the faith to make you strong
Oh carry on**
Alex got up and hugged Shelby. Tommy and Lucas both got up and hugged her too in a giant family group hug. When they finaly broke away Shelby looked at them.
Shelby: You three need to go to bed. It's late. I love you, night.
They all said they loved her too and went to bed.
*~*~*
Scott sat at the docks like he had been doing late everynight. Auggie walked.
Auggie: Thought it was time for our usual talk.
Scott: She's changed so much, Auggie.
Auggie: Yeah Shelby has. She's grown up, meat.
**I try to walk the sunny side of the street
Don't let no shadows tangle up my feet
There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above
With a handful of faith and a heartful of love**
Scott: I just wish I hadn't hurt her.
Auggie: Well I'm sure she doesn't wish that?
Scott: (confused) What?
Auggie: Meat, look what she has gained from you doing that to her. She's gained the one thing she's always wanted. A family.
Scott: I guess sometimes you just gotta grow up.
Auggie: Your right meat, and that time as already come for Shelby. But when are you.
Scott: What do you mean?
**Carry on
Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on**
Auggie: When are you going to grow up and stop feeling guilty for hurting Shelby. And do something about it?
Scott: What can I do about it?
Auggie: You can be a father to your son. You can grow up, Meat. That's what you can do. I know one thing about love, meat. And it's what Shelby said tonight.
Scott: What's that?
Auggie: You have to carry on.
**Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on**
*~*~*
Sorry it took so long to post. I've been really busy. Please REVIEW. Sorry for any mistakes I was in a hurry.
Thankx
Sam
Chapter 3: Sometimes You've Got To Grow-Up
Scott sat in the caffeateria at the breakfast table. Auggie and Juliet sat across from him. Juliet had Abagail in her lap and was playing with her. Daisy was holding Joey in her arms and playing with him. Hayden sat beside him. Alex, Tommy, and Lucas were all beside each other eating. Alex beside Hayden. Peter and Sophie were at both ends of the table. Ezra sat beside Daisy. David sat beside Scott. The only one missing was Shelby.
Scott: Where is Shelby?
Daisy: (harshly) Getting a package from the delivery man outside.
Scott: ( getting hostile) Daisy.
For a few seconds the two just glared at each other.
Alex: (confused) What's wrong with you two?
Daisy: ( in a calm voice) Nothing honey, just a little problem. Nothing you should worry about.
Before Alex could answer Shelby came in with a yellow folder.
Tommy: What's that Mom?
Shelby: Oh guys, school starting early this year. So a week after we leave here it'll be time for you all to go back to school. This is just all the stuff you signed up for last year.
Shelby said looking through the folder.
Shelby: (confused and concerned) Alex, why isn't your name on the sign-up form for football?
**A little girl, a little small for her age
A little too slow for the field day race
Momma's waiting at the finish line
And wipes the teardrops from her eyes
She says, "You did just fine honey, that's okay
Sometimes life's just that way
You're gonna lose the race from time to time
But you're always gonna find**
Alex got up and turned around and started to cry. Shelby ran up to her.
Shelby: (concerned) Alex, what's wrong?
Alex: (crying) I didn't sign up for a reason mom. I didn't sign up because you can't be a cheerleader and the football player at the same time. And I wanted to be a cheerleader instead of a football player.
Shelby: That's okay sweetie, you can be whatever you want.
Alex: ( still crying) I've always been a tomboy, but I don't want to be one no more. But I'm afraid you won't love me no more if I'm not a tomboy.
Shelby: Alex, no matter what you do, I promise you can't lose me. And that's more then a promise, I swear from the bottom of my heart.
**You can't lose me
Bet your life
I am here and I will always be
Just a wish away
Wherever you go
No matter how far
My love is where you are
You won't be lost if you believe
You can't lose me"**
Alex: But Tommy and Lucas will make fun of me.
Shelby: Guys we are not gonna make fun of Alex because she's growing up and becoming a women, right?
Tommy and Lucas: No
Lucas: Plus it might be cool having a sister that's a cheerleader, I get to meet all the hot chicks in our school.
Everybody laughed.
Shelby: See it's okay be a girl, it just means you growing up.
Alex: Your not mad.
Shelby: No, a little sad maybe because it means I'm getting old.
**Momma used to say, "Girl it won't be long
'Til it's time to go out on your own
Chase your dreams, find your place in life
I know you'll do just fine"
When that day finally came
There were things she needed to but could not say
So I whispered softly as I wiped
The tears from Momma's eyes**
Alex: Don't worry you don't look a day over twenty.
Shelby: (smiling) Well thank you. How about I be one of the cheerleading coaches.
Alex: Really?
**You can't lose me
Bet your life
I am here and I will always be
Just a wish away
Wherever I go
No matter how far
My love is where you are
You won't be lost if you believe
You can't lose me**
Shelby: Yeah it might be cool. And I can chase away all the guys.
Alex: Deal.
**Wherever I go
No matter how far
My love is where you are
You won't be lost if you believe
You can't lose me**
Shelby: Now lets eat.
Alex: Okay
Alex and Shelby went up to the table and sat down.
**No, you can't lose me
Wherever I go
(No matter how far)
My love is where you are
You can't lose me
No, you can't lose me**
Alex: Mom, there's one more thing.
Shelby: (playful) Oh no, please don't tell me you have a boyfriend. Because me and Daze will have to hunt him down and kill him. Right Daze?
Daisy: Don't forget torture also.
Alex: (smiling) No!! I have to tryout for cheerleading and I don't know anything about cheerleading so you can help me.
Shelby: I can't really help because I don't know very much, but I know someone who can help us both.
Alex: (confused) Who?
Shelby: ( turning to Jules) Jules, Jules, Jules, you know you were one of my best friends in school.
Everybody busted out laughing.
Juliet: Funny. But I'd be glad to help you both. Shall we get started.
Shelby: Yes we shall.
Juliet, Alex and Shelby all three got up from the table with Abigail tagging along. All day long they stayed outside practicing. About dinner Juliet and Shelby came in to the lodge where all the other cliffhangers were. The kids were all outside. Shelby was starring out the window as if she was in another world.
Ezra: Earth to Shelby.
Shelby: What? Huh?
David: What were you thinking about?
Shelby: (smiling) Oh um, Alex and how much she reminds me of Patty. It's amazing how two people can be so much a like but have grown up diffrent.
Auggie: You got that right.
Shelby: ( taking a deep breath) It's time.
Auggie: Time for what?
Shelby: ( taking another deep breath) Time to tell them the truth and help them get over it.
Daisy: (confused) What are you talking about?
Shelby: Daze, will you please go get the kids. I'll be right back.
Shelby walked out of the lodge leaving everybody confused.
*~*~*
Everybody sat in the lodge except for Shelby, Abigail, Hayden and Joey.
Lucas: What did mom want?
Daisy: I'm not sure, sweetie.
Just then Shelby walked in with three small boxes in her hands. Shelby went over to where Alex, Lucas and Tommy sat and sat down across from them.
**Mama went to sleep one night and never woke up
Daddy cried a tear into her old coffee cup
Now all he wants to do is drink the hurt all away
But if mama was here I know what mama would say**
Shelby: Guys, you never knew about your mother or how I met her. And you don't why I came to this school either. (starting to cry) And when I first got you guys I promised myself I'd tell you everything when you were all grown and ready for it. And today I finaly relized that you are not little kids no more. And you can handle the truth so I'm gonna tell you it. When I was ten years old my mom married a man who became my step-father. And he started to molest me and he kept doing it until I was fourteen and old enough to runaway. I met your mother when I ranaway. Your mother..... (taking a deep breath) your mother was a prostitute on the streets. Now don't go hating your mother for what she did because I did it too. I couldn't go back home to much pain and my mother at that time didn't belive me. I lived with your mother for two years. When I started to turn sixteen I notice she was getting big but I didn't say nothing. Well my mother found me and took me home. I ranaway again about three monthes later. When I came back to the streets your mother was back to her normal weight so I didn't think nothing of it. ( starting to cry again) A week later your mother od'd on drugs. My mother found me after that and brought me here. I kept these things that belonged to your mother to help me remeber her. And I think that you three need them more then me. And I don't want hating your mother for what she did because she had a bad life at home and like me she couldn't go back home. But if it wasn't for your mother, I wouldn't of lived. So if your gonna think anything of her think of her as an angel because she's your angel and she's mine too. She saved my life. And you must carry on.
**Carry on
Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on**
Shelby opened one of the boxes and took out a signed baseball. She handed it to Tommy.
Shelby: This was from a Braves game your mom and me went to. ( starting to smile) She waited in the rain for three hours after the game to get signed by the team. She refused to leave till the signed it. She said that somethings in life weren't worth giving up not even if you had to wait in the rain for hours to get it.
Tommy: Wow it's signed by the whole team from 1995.
Shelby: Yeah and it even has her signiture on it.
Tommy: ( smiling) Thanks, mom.
**Little sister's husband ran off with her best friend
Left her and the babies all alone again
It hurts to know the hurt that she's going through
But I know that she'll do what she's gotta do**
Shelby opened the second box and pulled out an old notebook. And handed it to Lucas.
Shelby: Your mom loved to write to music lyrics, just like you Lucas. She filled up the whole notebook with them. Who knows maybe you can rewrite them so there more modern.
Lucas: No, I'm sure they're perfect just the way they are.
Shelby: I'm sure they are too.
**Carry on
Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on**
Shelby opened the last box and pulled out a gold locket with an angel on it. She handed it to Alex.
Shelby: Go ahead, open it.
Alex opened the locket.
Alex: Is it out mother?
Shelby: Yep your mom and me I was 15 in that picture the other one is of her too.
Alex: She was a cheerleader?
Shelby: Yep, when she was the same age as you. The angel on it she always said protected her.
Alex: I love it, mom.
**Nobody ever said that life was gonna be fair
You're never gonna get nowhere by running scared
If you look down deep inside you'll find the faith to make you strong
Oh carry on**
Alex got up and hugged Shelby. Tommy and Lucas both got up and hugged her too in a giant family group hug. When they finaly broke away Shelby looked at them.
Shelby: You three need to go to bed. It's late. I love you, night.
They all said they loved her too and went to bed.
*~*~*
Scott sat at the docks like he had been doing late everynight. Auggie walked.
Auggie: Thought it was time for our usual talk.
Scott: She's changed so much, Auggie.
Auggie: Yeah Shelby has. She's grown up, meat.
**I try to walk the sunny side of the street
Don't let no shadows tangle up my feet
There ain't no troubles that we can't rise above
With a handful of faith and a heartful of love**
Scott: I just wish I hadn't hurt her.
Auggie: Well I'm sure she doesn't wish that?
Scott: (confused) What?
Auggie: Meat, look what she has gained from you doing that to her. She's gained the one thing she's always wanted. A family.
Scott: I guess sometimes you just gotta grow up.
Auggie: Your right meat, and that time as already come for Shelby. But when are you.
Scott: What do you mean?
**Carry on
Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on**
Auggie: When are you going to grow up and stop feeling guilty for hurting Shelby. And do something about it?
Scott: What can I do about it?
Auggie: You can be a father to your son. You can grow up, Meat. That's what you can do. I know one thing about love, meat. And it's what Shelby said tonight.
Scott: What's that?
Auggie: You have to carry on.
**Carry on
What don't kill us makes us strong
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on
Carry on**
*~*~*
Sorry it took so long to post. I've been really busy. Please REVIEW. Sorry for any mistakes I was in a hurry.
Thankx
Sam