CHAPTER 16
Things were getting a little better between Martin and Scott ever since he decided to accept Shelby and Scott together. Football season was now over and they had won the state championship. Shelby thought that she would be able to spend more time with Scott now but he decided to join the indoor track team. One of the coaches told Scott that he had the body for a pole-vaulter so Scott decided to give it a try. Once he tried it and felt the rush he got from the experience, he was hooked. It gave him a sense of a high that he never experienced when he was a user. He got the ambition and desire to attempt higher and higher levels as he pushed himself harder. It was a weird sense of freedom that he got pushing himself high in the air with the pole and then letting go and free falling to the ground. Almost like the rush a bungy-jumper would get from the fall.
Scott was coming home late from practice and then is bombarded with homework so the time he should be having with Shelby became less and less. Shelby was at the end of her second trimester and now had her energy back. She wanted to go out and have fun but Scott was exhausted by the end of the day. In order to fulfill her boredom, she started going out with her friends from school and not coming home until late. Scott knew that she needed some freedom because she would be tied down once the baby came and so he tried to not let it bother him. Their love making sessions was becoming less and this was putting a strain on things.
Thanksgiving was coming soon and so Scott decided that they should spend it together so that they could have some quality time. Scott waited up one night to tell Shelby that he turned down his parent's invitation for Thanksgiving dinner so that they could spend the day together alone. Shelby had just walked in the door and it was a little after 11:00 at night.
"Scott you're still up? You're usually asleep when I come home. Is everything ok?"
"Yeah, I just thought that we don't seem to spend as much time together anymore because we both are very busy."
"No Scott, you are the one who is busy. I'm just having a good time."
"Well I thought that maybe that good time you are having can include me for once."
"Scott you are the one being a stick in the mud. Every time I walk out that door, I ask you to come along. You are the one who seems to be over committed to other things all the time."
"I'm sorry if I can't seem to just drop what I'm doing all the time and hit the clubs. I do have to maintain a certain grade point average so my grandfather won't pull the plug on everything we have here. You could stay here and keep me company."
"Are you kidding? I thought you were ok with me going out. You know that I'm going to get stuck at home once the baby comes. I'm going to have all the fun while I still can."
"Going out every now and then is not a problem but you seem to be going out every night. All your friends are single and they are just looking for a quick pick up. You are married if you haven't forgotten."
"Why Scott, I do believe that you are jealous."
"Knock it off Shelby. What's wrong with wanting to spend some time with you once in a while."
"Absolutely nothing but it is always when it is convenient to you and nobody else."
"So going out with your girlfriends is more important than spending time with me?"
"So staying after school with all your jock friends everyday is more important than coming home to me?"
"That's not fair. It's not the same thing. It's not like we sit around a party for hours. We happen to be working are asses off."
"Exactly. And then you come home totally exhausted and not have any time or energy let for me."
"Well I can see this conversation isn't getting us anywhere. I'm going to bed now. By the way, I told my parents that we aren't going over to their house for Thanksgiving. I thought that we could spend the time alone together."
"Opps. Too late. My little sister Jess is coming to spend the holiday because my mother has to work. I didn't want Jess at home all alone for the holiday."
Scott was starting to get fed up with what was going on. He threw his hands up in the air and walked towards the bedroom. "Fine whatever. Thanks for telling me sooner."
"What? Now you have a problem with my little sister?"
Scott turned around sharply. "Did I say that I have a problem with your sister? Shit Shelby. What the hell are we fighting about? I just waited up so that I could spend some time with you and now I realize that it was a waste of my time. Good night." He went into the bedroom and slammed the door behind him.
Shelby picked up her purse and threw it across the room. She flopped down on the sofa and tried to figure out what just happened. The tension and stress were building everyday and she felt that her and Scott were growing further and further apart. She seemed to be going through mixed emotions about the baby. One minute she was trying to bond to the infant growing inside her and then the next minute she was fighting for her freedom.
She had been spending some of her time with a girl in her class that already had a three-month-old baby. Shelby had noticed how her friend was completely tied down and had completely lost any freedom that she may have had at one time. She was a single mother and so she didn't have any help from anyone else. Shelby couldn't help but put herself in that same position. She kept thinking that once the baby was born than Scott would hang out with his jock friends and leave her home alone with the baby. She was too young to get tied down. There were times that she wondered if they had done the right thing. She fell asleep on the couch with the weight of the world on her shoulder.
The next morning Scott had already gone to school when she woke. It was Wednesday before Thanksgiving and school was only going half day. Once she got home from school, Shelby went to the bus station to pick up Jess who had been put on the bus earlier that morning. All the way home Jess kept telling Shelby how lucky she was being married to a cute guy and living in her own home. Shelby wasn't really paying to much attention because her mind seemed to have been elsewhere. Scott was at home because track practice was cancelled for the holiday break. Jess was excited to see Scott because unbeknownst to anyone, she secretly had a crush on him. She would dream that someday she would meet someone like him and he would take her away from all the bad memories like Scott had done for Shelby.
Scott very causally said, "Hey Jess, how's it going?"
Jess, "I'm doing fine. Thanks for letting me come spend the holiday with you."
"Sure no problem. Maybe Shelby will stay home for once now that you are here." Scott didn't mean for it to come out that way but it did. Shelby of course took it the wrong way and became very defensive.
"And what's that suppose to mean? You think that just because my sister is here that I'm going to get stranded at home? I plan on taking Jess out and showing her the town."
"You do that Shel. Make sure that you set a good example for her to follow."
Jess could sense there was something wrong between to two of them. She could feel the tension in the air. She just stood there in silence feeling completely out of place. Scott looked over and felt sorry for putting her in the situation. He walked over and grabbed her suitcase. "Come on Jess, I'll show you where you'll be staying."
As they were walking off the phone rang. Shelby went over and answered it. It was one of her many friends calling to cry on her shoulder about a fight that she had with her boyfriend. It seemed that most of the girls in Shelby's class always turned to her regarding boy problems. Shelby knew that she had to go out and spend some time with the tormented soul.
"Scott I need to go out for awhile. Kira's had a fight with her boyfriend again and is completely unglued. She sounds hysterical and needs a shoulder to cry on. Jess you want to go out with me?"
Jess knew that Scott would be home alone so she declined Shelby's offer. "No. I'm really beat from the long trip so I think I'll just stay here and chill. I might go to bed early."
"Ok. Suite yourself. I need you to help me with Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow any ways. I'll see you in the morning."
Shelby grabbed her purse and coat and left without even saying goodbye to Scott. Scott was fuming but couldn't show his anger because of Jess being there. He went into the living and turned the TV on. Jess came over and quietly sat down in another chair. She felt out of place and didn't know what to say. Scott felt uncomfortable with it just being the two of them there. The air was thick with silence and Scott decided to break the ice.
"You hungry? I guess we need to fend for ourselves tonight."
"Won't Shelby be back for dinner?"
"The odds are against it. This staying out half the night is getting quite common with her."
Jess couldn't believe it. Was her sister stupid? How could she go out half the night when she had this handsome hunk sitting at home waiting for her?
"Is everything ok between you two? I'm sorry I don't mean to be noisy but they're just seemed like a lot of tension in the air."
"Yeah well it seems that Shelby is getting scared about the whole motherhood thing and she doesn't seem to like me being on the track team. She seems to think that I spend too much of my time with the guys and so she makes up for it by spending even more time with her friends."
"Yeah Shelby told me that you were pole-vaulting. I think that's great. I would love to see you pole-vault some time. What does it feel like to get so high up in the air and drop down?"
"It's an awesome feeling. It's hard to explain but it's like coming down over the first dip of a rollercoaster. Your stomach does a flip but it feels great once you achieve a certain height."
"That sounds like fun. I bet Shelby gets excited watching you go over."
"Are you kidding? She has never gone to any of my meets yet. She probably thinks it's stupid and that I'm wasting my time. I wish that she had your attitude."
"Well I don't know what's wrong with her because if I had a guy like you, I'd be following you around like a shadow." Jess didn't realize that those words came out loud and she turned red with embarrassment.
Scott just smiled at her blushing. "Let's go find something to eat."
They went into the kitchen and dug through the refrigerator. They found some pasta that Scott heated up and Jess made a salad. They were sitting at the table eating trying to think up a conversation. Scott made the first effort. "How are things at home and school with you?"
"It's really boring. I don't really like school much and when I come home I'm all alone until my mother gets home. I really hate that house because of everything that has happened in it. My mom pulls a lot of night shift and so I don't see her very much. There's just no one to talk to."
"Well if you are spending so much time alone than maybe you should leave."
"Leave where? I don't have any other place to go."
"You could come live with Shelby and me. You know once the baby comes than Shelby is going to need some help. You could go to school out here and then come home and help Shelby with the baby until graduation."
Jess was excited about the possibility. She really hated where she lived and she loved the big city that Scott and Shelby lived in. The condo that they lived in was one of the nicest places that she had ever been in. "Oh do you really thing that it could happen? I would love to live here and go to school. I could be like a live in nanny. I'll do all the housework and everything. Could you ask Shelby if that's ok? You'll have to convince my mother also." She didn't tell Scott that she was even more excited about her living under the same roof as him.
After Shelby came back from her nightly excursion, Scott confronted her about having a live in nanny. Shelby actually agreed and helped convince her mother that it was the right thing for Jess because she wouldn't be coming home to an empty house all the time. Once everything was agreed upon, Jess finally made the move and was enrolled in the local Jr. High School.
The weeks were flying by and Christmas was getting closer. Jess was happy as a lark living with her sister and Scott. She helped support Scott by attending his track meets while Shelby found other things to interest her. The bigger that Shelby got with her pregnancy, the more frightened she became and withdrawn. She kept her feelings bottled up inside her and never let Scott know how she felt. Scott took her mood swings as a sign that she longer cared for him. It was like they were going through the role of a marriage but it was all a fake. They slept in the same bed but nothing ever happened any more. Jess was the listening hear that Scott would turn to when he came home from school. Jess probably knew more about what was going on in Scott's life than Shelby did. This used to bother Scott before Jess showed up but now that he had someone else to confide in than it wasn't so bad.
Christmas break finally came and school was out. Shelby decided that she would try and make herself become in the festive mood. All three of them went out and bought a Christmas tree and they were going to decorate the condo for the holidays. They were sitting around drinking eggnog and listening to Jesse's N'Sync Christmas CD when the phone rang. It was on Kira fighting with her boyfriend again. It always seemed to happen around a holiday. Shelby knew that she had to be there for her again.
Shelby hung up the phone and looked over to Scott. "That was Kira."
Scott, "Don't tell me, she is fighting with her boyfriend again."
"Yeah, I need to go spend time with her."
"No. I've had it Shelby. Every time she calls you have to drop everything and go running. Tell her that you are spending the night with your family and she'll just have to grow up and face her problems on her own."
"That's cruel Scott. She has no one else that she can talk to."
"Maybe it's because everyone else is sick of hearing her boo who's all the time. You're not going."
Shelby went to the closet and pulled out her coat. "You can't tell me what to do Scott. You are not my father. I'll try and not stay out too late this time." She went out the door as Scott picked up a box of Christmas ornaments and threw them across the room. He than proceeded over to the blender of eggnog and filled a large glass to drink.
Jess went over to turn off the N'Sync CD because she figured it would begin to get on Scott's nerves. She than went over and cleaned up the mess that he had made with the ornaments. Once she was done she didn't know what to do. She felt so sorry for him and she was really getting mad at her sister for treating him so bad. He seemed like he would do anything for Shelby and she just always turned her back on him. She wanted to go over and comfort him.
After Scott had polished off his third large glass of eggnog, he just sat down at the kitchen table and put his head on the table. Jess walked over and felt the need to comfort him. She went over and put her arms around him for a big hug. "I'm sorry Scott. I don't know what her problem is."
Scott turned around and stood up facing Jess. He had tears in his eyes as he spoke. "I don't think she loves me anymore. I don't know what I did. She hardly talks to me anymore and she won't let me touch her."
Jess just held him close as he cried. "I'm sure that she loves you. She has to because I do too." Scott pulled away from her a little and looked down into her face trying to grasp what she had just said. "My sister can be so stupid. I can't believe that she has the best right here in front of her and she doesn't want it. I want you Scott." Maybe it was the alcohol taking effect or the melancholy mood that he was in but the next thing he knew he was passionately kissing Jess.
Her stepfather sexually abused Jess and that was the extent of any kind of sexual activity that Jess had ever experienced. Jess didn't know what was happening to her but it was the most wonderful feeling that she had ever felt. Jess returned his passionate kisses with a more forceful one. All the sexual tension that Scott had been denied lately was burning inside him. Scott was definitely not in the right frame of mind right now and his body was dying for some satisfaction. Scott pulled away to see what kind of reaction that he was getting from Jess. She stared him hard in the eyes and brought his head down again to meet her lips. That was the signal that he needed to know that everything was ok with her and that she wanted it also.
Scott grabbed Jess by the hand and led her into her bedroom. Jess continued kissing him as she reached down and pulled his shirt over his head. Next she grabbed him by the front of his pants at the waist and pulled him closer. She unhooked his jeans with one hand while holding the back of his neck with the other never braking the kiss. Scott broke the kiss of a second while he pulled her shirt over her head and unfastened her bra. She pushed him down on the bed while she fell on top. She never thought that she could be this sexually aggressive but so much heat and desire was going on inside her body that she had lost control of her senses. They continued to let the lust overtake them as they made love without thinking of any consequences.
It was a powerful love session and they both fell asleep in each other's arms after the experience. About an hour later they heard the front door slam shut as Shelby finally came home. Scott heard the door and opened his eyes. At first it didn't register where he was until he looked over and saw who was in his arms. "Shit. Jess wake up Shelby's home." Jess jumped out of the bed so fast that she almost fell as she ran to shut her bedroom door. Scott was throwing clothes on in record time. Jess grabbed her bathrobe and put it around her. They both heard Shelby walk down the hall past her room assuming that Jess was asleep. Once they heard her go into her own bedroom Scott slipped out and went into the living room. Shelby turned on the bathroom light and noticed that Scott wasn't in the bed. She walked back out into the hall towards the kitchen calling his name.
"Scott."
"Right here. How'd things go? Kira going to survive another brake up?"
"Yeah, Look I'm really sorry for running out like that. I should have stayed here and helped finish the tree. Where were you when I came in?"
"Oh I was just sitting here in the living room."
"No you weren't. I looked in the living room before I went down the hall."
"I was probably still out on the deck then because I went out there for awhile."
Shelby reached over and touched him. "Scott it's below zero out there and you are warm as can be. You couldn't have been out there."
Scott was really thinking hard trying to weasel his way out of this one. "I was outside but that was awhile ago. I was in the living room but you didn't see me because the lights were out. I heard you come in but I just didn't say anything."
"Scott you aren't making any sense. If you were in the living room and heard me come in than why did you say that you might have been outside?"
"I don't know. I've had one to much eggnog tonight and you are confusing me now. Can we just go to bed now?"
Shelby cuddled up to him. "So you're feeling a little tipsy tonight huh? Listen I know that I've been acting like a real bitch lately so I was thinking about giving you the time of your life. What'd say cowboy? Ready to go made some mad passionately love?"
The look on Scott's face was not the look of desire. The thought that ran through his mind was "Oh shit. How am I going to get the strength to get it up again after what I just went through."
Things were getting a little better between Martin and Scott ever since he decided to accept Shelby and Scott together. Football season was now over and they had won the state championship. Shelby thought that she would be able to spend more time with Scott now but he decided to join the indoor track team. One of the coaches told Scott that he had the body for a pole-vaulter so Scott decided to give it a try. Once he tried it and felt the rush he got from the experience, he was hooked. It gave him a sense of a high that he never experienced when he was a user. He got the ambition and desire to attempt higher and higher levels as he pushed himself harder. It was a weird sense of freedom that he got pushing himself high in the air with the pole and then letting go and free falling to the ground. Almost like the rush a bungy-jumper would get from the fall.
Scott was coming home late from practice and then is bombarded with homework so the time he should be having with Shelby became less and less. Shelby was at the end of her second trimester and now had her energy back. She wanted to go out and have fun but Scott was exhausted by the end of the day. In order to fulfill her boredom, she started going out with her friends from school and not coming home until late. Scott knew that she needed some freedom because she would be tied down once the baby came and so he tried to not let it bother him. Their love making sessions was becoming less and this was putting a strain on things.
Thanksgiving was coming soon and so Scott decided that they should spend it together so that they could have some quality time. Scott waited up one night to tell Shelby that he turned down his parent's invitation for Thanksgiving dinner so that they could spend the day together alone. Shelby had just walked in the door and it was a little after 11:00 at night.
"Scott you're still up? You're usually asleep when I come home. Is everything ok?"
"Yeah, I just thought that we don't seem to spend as much time together anymore because we both are very busy."
"No Scott, you are the one who is busy. I'm just having a good time."
"Well I thought that maybe that good time you are having can include me for once."
"Scott you are the one being a stick in the mud. Every time I walk out that door, I ask you to come along. You are the one who seems to be over committed to other things all the time."
"I'm sorry if I can't seem to just drop what I'm doing all the time and hit the clubs. I do have to maintain a certain grade point average so my grandfather won't pull the plug on everything we have here. You could stay here and keep me company."
"Are you kidding? I thought you were ok with me going out. You know that I'm going to get stuck at home once the baby comes. I'm going to have all the fun while I still can."
"Going out every now and then is not a problem but you seem to be going out every night. All your friends are single and they are just looking for a quick pick up. You are married if you haven't forgotten."
"Why Scott, I do believe that you are jealous."
"Knock it off Shelby. What's wrong with wanting to spend some time with you once in a while."
"Absolutely nothing but it is always when it is convenient to you and nobody else."
"So going out with your girlfriends is more important than spending time with me?"
"So staying after school with all your jock friends everyday is more important than coming home to me?"
"That's not fair. It's not the same thing. It's not like we sit around a party for hours. We happen to be working are asses off."
"Exactly. And then you come home totally exhausted and not have any time or energy let for me."
"Well I can see this conversation isn't getting us anywhere. I'm going to bed now. By the way, I told my parents that we aren't going over to their house for Thanksgiving. I thought that we could spend the time alone together."
"Opps. Too late. My little sister Jess is coming to spend the holiday because my mother has to work. I didn't want Jess at home all alone for the holiday."
Scott was starting to get fed up with what was going on. He threw his hands up in the air and walked towards the bedroom. "Fine whatever. Thanks for telling me sooner."
"What? Now you have a problem with my little sister?"
Scott turned around sharply. "Did I say that I have a problem with your sister? Shit Shelby. What the hell are we fighting about? I just waited up so that I could spend some time with you and now I realize that it was a waste of my time. Good night." He went into the bedroom and slammed the door behind him.
Shelby picked up her purse and threw it across the room. She flopped down on the sofa and tried to figure out what just happened. The tension and stress were building everyday and she felt that her and Scott were growing further and further apart. She seemed to be going through mixed emotions about the baby. One minute she was trying to bond to the infant growing inside her and then the next minute she was fighting for her freedom.
She had been spending some of her time with a girl in her class that already had a three-month-old baby. Shelby had noticed how her friend was completely tied down and had completely lost any freedom that she may have had at one time. She was a single mother and so she didn't have any help from anyone else. Shelby couldn't help but put herself in that same position. She kept thinking that once the baby was born than Scott would hang out with his jock friends and leave her home alone with the baby. She was too young to get tied down. There were times that she wondered if they had done the right thing. She fell asleep on the couch with the weight of the world on her shoulder.
The next morning Scott had already gone to school when she woke. It was Wednesday before Thanksgiving and school was only going half day. Once she got home from school, Shelby went to the bus station to pick up Jess who had been put on the bus earlier that morning. All the way home Jess kept telling Shelby how lucky she was being married to a cute guy and living in her own home. Shelby wasn't really paying to much attention because her mind seemed to have been elsewhere. Scott was at home because track practice was cancelled for the holiday break. Jess was excited to see Scott because unbeknownst to anyone, she secretly had a crush on him. She would dream that someday she would meet someone like him and he would take her away from all the bad memories like Scott had done for Shelby.
Scott very causally said, "Hey Jess, how's it going?"
Jess, "I'm doing fine. Thanks for letting me come spend the holiday with you."
"Sure no problem. Maybe Shelby will stay home for once now that you are here." Scott didn't mean for it to come out that way but it did. Shelby of course took it the wrong way and became very defensive.
"And what's that suppose to mean? You think that just because my sister is here that I'm going to get stranded at home? I plan on taking Jess out and showing her the town."
"You do that Shel. Make sure that you set a good example for her to follow."
Jess could sense there was something wrong between to two of them. She could feel the tension in the air. She just stood there in silence feeling completely out of place. Scott looked over and felt sorry for putting her in the situation. He walked over and grabbed her suitcase. "Come on Jess, I'll show you where you'll be staying."
As they were walking off the phone rang. Shelby went over and answered it. It was one of her many friends calling to cry on her shoulder about a fight that she had with her boyfriend. It seemed that most of the girls in Shelby's class always turned to her regarding boy problems. Shelby knew that she had to go out and spend some time with the tormented soul.
"Scott I need to go out for awhile. Kira's had a fight with her boyfriend again and is completely unglued. She sounds hysterical and needs a shoulder to cry on. Jess you want to go out with me?"
Jess knew that Scott would be home alone so she declined Shelby's offer. "No. I'm really beat from the long trip so I think I'll just stay here and chill. I might go to bed early."
"Ok. Suite yourself. I need you to help me with Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow any ways. I'll see you in the morning."
Shelby grabbed her purse and coat and left without even saying goodbye to Scott. Scott was fuming but couldn't show his anger because of Jess being there. He went into the living and turned the TV on. Jess came over and quietly sat down in another chair. She felt out of place and didn't know what to say. Scott felt uncomfortable with it just being the two of them there. The air was thick with silence and Scott decided to break the ice.
"You hungry? I guess we need to fend for ourselves tonight."
"Won't Shelby be back for dinner?"
"The odds are against it. This staying out half the night is getting quite common with her."
Jess couldn't believe it. Was her sister stupid? How could she go out half the night when she had this handsome hunk sitting at home waiting for her?
"Is everything ok between you two? I'm sorry I don't mean to be noisy but they're just seemed like a lot of tension in the air."
"Yeah well it seems that Shelby is getting scared about the whole motherhood thing and she doesn't seem to like me being on the track team. She seems to think that I spend too much of my time with the guys and so she makes up for it by spending even more time with her friends."
"Yeah Shelby told me that you were pole-vaulting. I think that's great. I would love to see you pole-vault some time. What does it feel like to get so high up in the air and drop down?"
"It's an awesome feeling. It's hard to explain but it's like coming down over the first dip of a rollercoaster. Your stomach does a flip but it feels great once you achieve a certain height."
"That sounds like fun. I bet Shelby gets excited watching you go over."
"Are you kidding? She has never gone to any of my meets yet. She probably thinks it's stupid and that I'm wasting my time. I wish that she had your attitude."
"Well I don't know what's wrong with her because if I had a guy like you, I'd be following you around like a shadow." Jess didn't realize that those words came out loud and she turned red with embarrassment.
Scott just smiled at her blushing. "Let's go find something to eat."
They went into the kitchen and dug through the refrigerator. They found some pasta that Scott heated up and Jess made a salad. They were sitting at the table eating trying to think up a conversation. Scott made the first effort. "How are things at home and school with you?"
"It's really boring. I don't really like school much and when I come home I'm all alone until my mother gets home. I really hate that house because of everything that has happened in it. My mom pulls a lot of night shift and so I don't see her very much. There's just no one to talk to."
"Well if you are spending so much time alone than maybe you should leave."
"Leave where? I don't have any other place to go."
"You could come live with Shelby and me. You know once the baby comes than Shelby is going to need some help. You could go to school out here and then come home and help Shelby with the baby until graduation."
Jess was excited about the possibility. She really hated where she lived and she loved the big city that Scott and Shelby lived in. The condo that they lived in was one of the nicest places that she had ever been in. "Oh do you really thing that it could happen? I would love to live here and go to school. I could be like a live in nanny. I'll do all the housework and everything. Could you ask Shelby if that's ok? You'll have to convince my mother also." She didn't tell Scott that she was even more excited about her living under the same roof as him.
After Shelby came back from her nightly excursion, Scott confronted her about having a live in nanny. Shelby actually agreed and helped convince her mother that it was the right thing for Jess because she wouldn't be coming home to an empty house all the time. Once everything was agreed upon, Jess finally made the move and was enrolled in the local Jr. High School.
The weeks were flying by and Christmas was getting closer. Jess was happy as a lark living with her sister and Scott. She helped support Scott by attending his track meets while Shelby found other things to interest her. The bigger that Shelby got with her pregnancy, the more frightened she became and withdrawn. She kept her feelings bottled up inside her and never let Scott know how she felt. Scott took her mood swings as a sign that she longer cared for him. It was like they were going through the role of a marriage but it was all a fake. They slept in the same bed but nothing ever happened any more. Jess was the listening hear that Scott would turn to when he came home from school. Jess probably knew more about what was going on in Scott's life than Shelby did. This used to bother Scott before Jess showed up but now that he had someone else to confide in than it wasn't so bad.
Christmas break finally came and school was out. Shelby decided that she would try and make herself become in the festive mood. All three of them went out and bought a Christmas tree and they were going to decorate the condo for the holidays. They were sitting around drinking eggnog and listening to Jesse's N'Sync Christmas CD when the phone rang. It was on Kira fighting with her boyfriend again. It always seemed to happen around a holiday. Shelby knew that she had to be there for her again.
Shelby hung up the phone and looked over to Scott. "That was Kira."
Scott, "Don't tell me, she is fighting with her boyfriend again."
"Yeah, I need to go spend time with her."
"No. I've had it Shelby. Every time she calls you have to drop everything and go running. Tell her that you are spending the night with your family and she'll just have to grow up and face her problems on her own."
"That's cruel Scott. She has no one else that she can talk to."
"Maybe it's because everyone else is sick of hearing her boo who's all the time. You're not going."
Shelby went to the closet and pulled out her coat. "You can't tell me what to do Scott. You are not my father. I'll try and not stay out too late this time." She went out the door as Scott picked up a box of Christmas ornaments and threw them across the room. He than proceeded over to the blender of eggnog and filled a large glass to drink.
Jess went over to turn off the N'Sync CD because she figured it would begin to get on Scott's nerves. She than went over and cleaned up the mess that he had made with the ornaments. Once she was done she didn't know what to do. She felt so sorry for him and she was really getting mad at her sister for treating him so bad. He seemed like he would do anything for Shelby and she just always turned her back on him. She wanted to go over and comfort him.
After Scott had polished off his third large glass of eggnog, he just sat down at the kitchen table and put his head on the table. Jess walked over and felt the need to comfort him. She went over and put her arms around him for a big hug. "I'm sorry Scott. I don't know what her problem is."
Scott turned around and stood up facing Jess. He had tears in his eyes as he spoke. "I don't think she loves me anymore. I don't know what I did. She hardly talks to me anymore and she won't let me touch her."
Jess just held him close as he cried. "I'm sure that she loves you. She has to because I do too." Scott pulled away from her a little and looked down into her face trying to grasp what she had just said. "My sister can be so stupid. I can't believe that she has the best right here in front of her and she doesn't want it. I want you Scott." Maybe it was the alcohol taking effect or the melancholy mood that he was in but the next thing he knew he was passionately kissing Jess.
Her stepfather sexually abused Jess and that was the extent of any kind of sexual activity that Jess had ever experienced. Jess didn't know what was happening to her but it was the most wonderful feeling that she had ever felt. Jess returned his passionate kisses with a more forceful one. All the sexual tension that Scott had been denied lately was burning inside him. Scott was definitely not in the right frame of mind right now and his body was dying for some satisfaction. Scott pulled away to see what kind of reaction that he was getting from Jess. She stared him hard in the eyes and brought his head down again to meet her lips. That was the signal that he needed to know that everything was ok with her and that she wanted it also.
Scott grabbed Jess by the hand and led her into her bedroom. Jess continued kissing him as she reached down and pulled his shirt over his head. Next she grabbed him by the front of his pants at the waist and pulled him closer. She unhooked his jeans with one hand while holding the back of his neck with the other never braking the kiss. Scott broke the kiss of a second while he pulled her shirt over her head and unfastened her bra. She pushed him down on the bed while she fell on top. She never thought that she could be this sexually aggressive but so much heat and desire was going on inside her body that she had lost control of her senses. They continued to let the lust overtake them as they made love without thinking of any consequences.
It was a powerful love session and they both fell asleep in each other's arms after the experience. About an hour later they heard the front door slam shut as Shelby finally came home. Scott heard the door and opened his eyes. At first it didn't register where he was until he looked over and saw who was in his arms. "Shit. Jess wake up Shelby's home." Jess jumped out of the bed so fast that she almost fell as she ran to shut her bedroom door. Scott was throwing clothes on in record time. Jess grabbed her bathrobe and put it around her. They both heard Shelby walk down the hall past her room assuming that Jess was asleep. Once they heard her go into her own bedroom Scott slipped out and went into the living room. Shelby turned on the bathroom light and noticed that Scott wasn't in the bed. She walked back out into the hall towards the kitchen calling his name.
"Scott."
"Right here. How'd things go? Kira going to survive another brake up?"
"Yeah, Look I'm really sorry for running out like that. I should have stayed here and helped finish the tree. Where were you when I came in?"
"Oh I was just sitting here in the living room."
"No you weren't. I looked in the living room before I went down the hall."
"I was probably still out on the deck then because I went out there for awhile."
Shelby reached over and touched him. "Scott it's below zero out there and you are warm as can be. You couldn't have been out there."
Scott was really thinking hard trying to weasel his way out of this one. "I was outside but that was awhile ago. I was in the living room but you didn't see me because the lights were out. I heard you come in but I just didn't say anything."
"Scott you aren't making any sense. If you were in the living room and heard me come in than why did you say that you might have been outside?"
"I don't know. I've had one to much eggnog tonight and you are confusing me now. Can we just go to bed now?"
Shelby cuddled up to him. "So you're feeling a little tipsy tonight huh? Listen I know that I've been acting like a real bitch lately so I was thinking about giving you the time of your life. What'd say cowboy? Ready to go made some mad passionately love?"
The look on Scott's face was not the look of desire. The thought that ran through his mind was "Oh shit. How am I going to get the strength to get it up again after what I just went through."