Disclaimer: I don't own Higher Ground. I own the characters you don't recognize.
A/N: Thanks for the reviews! I know I said the next part was going to be about the cliffhangers going on a quest but I decided to go another way. Blame my muse.
Part Six
Shelby entered the girl's dorm as quietly as she could. She had just returned from meeting Scott on the docks as usual. As she was climbing into her bed to dream of Scott she happened to glance around the room, she saw Daisy's head covered by her blanket, Juliette hanging half off the bed, but Kaitlyn wasn't in her bed. Shelby was curious and a bit worried. She went to the bathroom and saw that Kait was sitting on the floor. Just sitting there with a glazed look in her eyes. She didn't acknowledge Shelby at all and Shel decided to just leave her alone, and went to bed.
Shelby noticed that the same thing kept happening. Every night when she would come in she would find Kaitlyn in the same position. Finally one night she decided to talk to the girl.
"Hey," Shelby said startling Kait.
"Hi" Kaitlyn replied softly. She just kept her eyes trained on the floor not looking at the blonde girl seated next to her. "What do you want?"
"Why did you call Scott your angel?" Shelby asked surprising Kait.
Kaitlyn gave a little laugh and responded, "When we were about 4 years old his mom was reading us some story trying to get us to take a nap. And it was about an angel. The angel in the book showed a young boy with curly blonde hair and these bright blue eyes. And I looked at the picture and pointed to Scott and said 'angel' cause I thought he must be one since he looked like the one in the book. The name just kind of stuck, so he became my angel. I remember one Halloween he dressed up as an angel and I dressed up as Tinkerbell. Because I wanted wings so badly and I was so tiny I decided that I must be a pixie. But I was switched at birth or something. I ran around in that costume for weeks. And years afterwards he would call me a pixie cause of that."
"So what happened to the angel and pixie who use to be best friends?" Shelby asked.
"They grew up." Kaitlyn said with finality. "I'm going to try and get some sleep. Goodnight."
"Goodnight." Shelby echoed.
The next day the cliffhangers were seated in the lodge doing homework. It was then that Scott decided that he needed to try and work things out with Kaitlyn. He told Shelby who agreed that it was a good idea.
"Kaitlyn can we talk?" he asked her.
"I really don't want to talk to you. Go away." She replied.
"We can either do this now privately or in group in front of everyone." Scott responded with.
She glared at him but got up and went outside with him. She stared at him expectantly. He shuffled around for a bit before beginning.
"I'm sorry. I don't remember saying those things but I was so high and screwed up that I don't remember a lot of things. I hurt you and let you down. And I'm sorry and I can't make up for it but I don't want to lose you as a friend. And I want to try and help."
"You can't help me Scott. No one can."
"Why do you say that? Just tell me what happened?"
"Why don't you tell me what happened to you." She said desperately trying to avoid his question.
"Fine you want to know my story. Here it is. I got high everyday and every night because I didn't want to think about my life. Because I didn't want to think about her and what she was doing to me. And what I was doing to my family."
"Her who?"
"Elaine. She…she would come into my room and even when I didn't want to…she wouldn't stop. And she tore apart my family."
Kaitlyn stared at him in complete shock. She hadn't expected this. The first words she could think of were "That bitch! How dare she do that to you! Oh god Scott I'm sorry. I'm so sorry I didn't know. I didn't know."
"I know. But I'm dealing I have people here who really care about me. They have helped save me; they helped save so many others. Please let them help you."
Kaitlyn looked at him with the saddest expression he had ever seen. "They can't save me Scott. You can't save me. I'm sorry about what happened to you and I'm glad that they're helping you but…no one can save me."
"Fine you say I can't save you but can we try and be friends again? I know it can't be like before but can we at least try?"
"I don't know…I'll try but I can't promise anything." He smiled at this but she just shook her head and said "I'm not the same girl you left behind, remember that."
Daisy was staring at the word problem she was supposed to be working on and sighed in frustration. She just couldn't concentrate and all because of those stupid boys! She had swore she would never become one of those girls who only thought about which guy liked her and junk like that but here she was. Stuck between two boys. She just didn't know what to do she liked them both, but in different ways. She loved to talk to Ezra and could talk to hi about anything. He was sweet and adorable. But David well she wasn't exactly sure what made her like David. He made her laugh and just had that kind of 'bad boy' thing going for him. And they had a lot of fun at the Morp. The main thing was she didn't want to hurt anybody. She cared about both of them but she couldn't have them fighting over her anymore. It was driving her and everyone else crazy. And it wasn't fair to them. But then again life wasn't really fair. Maybe she should ask Shelby but Shelby really didn't like David at all and thought Ezra was well not boyfriend material. Grrr, Daisy thought, stupid stupid boys!
A/N: Sorry but I had to put this part at the bottom as it has to do w/ what you just read. I just want everyone's opinions on who Daisy should choose Ezra or David? I can't decide so I figured why not have the readers have some input. So review and tell me what you think about the story and which guy for Daisy. Thanks J