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A/N: uUnderlined/u words means it is what's written on paper.
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"Shelby?" Jess said when they got outside. "What?" Shelby asked realizing she had ignored her sister
the whole day. "I've missed you." Jess said sincerely. "I know." Shelby said looking at her sister.
"No, I mean the real you. Why did she have to go?" Jess asked sadly. "She didn't." Shelby said
looking away and crossing her arms. "Yes she did." Jess said and walked off. Shelby watched her go
and felt sad. i"Why did she have to go? Oh yeah, Walt."/i Shelby thought cynically. Scott
emerged from the shadows. "What was that all about?" Scott asked looking in the direction of where
Jess walked off in. "I don't know." Shelby sighed and hugged Scott. "See you at twelve?" Scott asked
looking down at Shelby. "Yeah." Shelby said breaking the hug and departing to her dorm. Scott to his.
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At twelve Shelby stirred from her bed and got up. She yawned and double-checked the clock.
i"Yup, time to go."/i Shelby thought to herself and got out of bed. She walked carefully and
quietly to the bathroom. Shelby made herself presentable. She redid her hair and played around with
it till it looked right. After quietly putting on her jacket and shoes, Shelby crept out, making sure no
one woke up.
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It was freezing cold outside and Shelby decided to walk a bit faster to the shed that night. "Scott?"
Shelby whispered into the shed before walking into the shed. "Who's out there?" Jeff called out into
the darkness and flashed the flashlight in the direction of the shed. Scott pulled Shelby in before the
light hit and they toppled to the ground. Shelby landed on Scott's chest. She smiled down at him.
"Hello?" the two heard Jeff call out. Both breathed heavily, hoping he would go away. He reached the
door and started to open it. "Jeff, your night shift is over!" A voice rang out and Jeff walked away
from the shed, relived that he could go to sleep. Scott exhaled heavily. "Jumpy Cowboy?" Shelby
asked smiling seductively at Scott. i"My turn not to talk, but to act."/i Scott thought and leaned
up kissing Shelby. Shelby responded quickly and brought her hand up to his cheek. "Shelby?" a voice
whispered quietly, opening the shed door. It creaked on it's rusty old hinges. Shelby parted from
Scott's lips, unwillingly. "Why?" Shelby asked burying her head in Scott's chest. Scott coughed out a
small laugh. Shelby felt it, "Shut up." Shelby smacked Scott playfully. Jess looked at the two on the
floor, though it looked to Jess as a black blob. "Shelby, that you?" Jess asked again. Shelby rolled
off of Scott and got up. "Yes Jess? You're supposed to be sleeping." Shelby said looking at Jess. "So
are you." Jess retorted. Scott had gotten up and pulled Shelby toward him by her waist. Shelby
couldn't help but break a smile and laugh a little. "Jess, I'll be back at twelve-thirty. Don't worry
about me." Shelby said and Jess sighed, leaving. Scott and Shelby continued their activity.
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"Shelby get up, breakfast! I don't want kitchens!" Juliette whined poking at Shelby to get up. Shelby
groaned. "Go away." she exclaimed pulling her pillow over her head. Jess got mad. "Shelby, get up!"
Jess shouted and Shelby moaned, annoyed. "I think I'm sick." Shelby lied. "You're not sick! Now get
up!" Jess said pulling her out of bed. Shelby half-asleep, stumbled into the bathroom to talk a shower.
Surprizingly it was quick and she rushed to the mess hall. "Nice of you to join your group, Shelby.
Late night?" Peter asked as soon as Shelby had walked in. Shelby groaned, "Yes, I couldn't get to
sleep. Alot on my mind, ya know." Shelby lied walking past Peter. He carefully took Shelby in stride
before stopping her. "Go join Scott in the kitchen. Then you can have the remainder of the day in
slience. Here's your journal." Peter said handing Shelby the notebook. "Thanks Peter, you're so sweet!"
Shelby said through gritted teeth. "Go." Peter pointed at a already serving Scott. "Yes captain."
Shelby said saluting Peter then walking into the kitchen.
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"Why did you tell?" Shelby asked Scott ploping some pancakes on a girl's plate. "I didn't!" Scott
replied shocked that Shelby would even assume he'd tell. He placed an apple on the girl's plate and
looked at Shelby, who looked at him. i"Who did?"/i Shelby pondered looking around the room full
of suspects. "Maybe it was your sister." Scott said looking down the line at Jess. Shelby nodded. "She
knew, and I think she was mad at me." Shelby said getting a pretty good idea that Jess had told. "No
apple for her!" Scott said setting an apple down. Shelby looked at him and laughed. "What?" Scott
asked confused. "Like taking away her apple priviledge really matters." Shelby said serving a few more
kids. "Would to me." Scott grumbled and gave each kid an apple. Jess approached. "What would you
like, sister dear." Shelby said giving off a fake smile. "Um ... pancakes I guess." Jess said confused.
"Good choice." Shelby said dropping the pancakes on Jess's plate uncaringly. "Next." Shelby chimed.
Jess glared at Shelby. "OK what's up?" Jess asked getting mad. "Nothing, just I can't trust my sister
with anything." Shelby said looking at the next person. "I wouldn't have told if you paid at least SOME
attention to me!" Jess said storming off. "No apple for her." Scott repeated taking a bite out of the
apple. Shelby shook her head at Scott. "You're scaring me." Shelby laughed. "Good." Scott smiled and
continued to serve and eat his apple.
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After breakfast Shelby walked to the gazebo and opened the journal. i"Peter makes everyday just so
wonderful!"/i Shelby smirked and looked at the blank page. She tapped her pen on the paper boredly.
Peter walked up and sat down next to Shelby. "Shelby, how about we have a little talk?" Peter said
looking at Shelby. Shelby scribbled something on the paper and held it up to Peter. It read: uI
thought I couldn't talk./u Peter pushed the notebook back down onto Shelby's lap. "Come on Shel."
Peter said giving the notebook a tap. "Fine." Shelby said and rolled her eyes. "Jess told me about last
night..." Peter started and Shelby interrupted. "I know." Shelby said and looked up. "Wait a second,
are you going to give me a sex talk?" Shelby laughed and Peter was a bit taken back. He cleared his
throat. "Well, in a way..." Peter said and Shelby again cut him off. "You are! This should be good.
So Peter, tell me about the birds and the bees." Shelby smirked and Peter shook his head. "Shelby
come on. Behave. Now, tell me what you and Scott did." Peter said and Shelby rolled her eyes. Shelby
paused before answering. "OK Peter, we had sex." Shelby said cynically. Peter caught this and sighed.
"Why can't you ever give a straight truthful answer?" Peter asked looking at Shelby. "Cause it takes
out all the joy of life." Shelby said and closed the notebook, setting it down on the gazebo seat.
"Shelby, I'm still going to have you take a pregnacy test. Whether you and Scott did something or not."
Peter said standing up. "Come on." Peter said coaxingly. "Peter we did nothing but kiss." Shelby said
and got up anyway. "To the infirmary." Peter said and walked a annoyed Shelby to the infirmary.
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Scott walked to the dorm for his five minute break. "Yeah, Sara really opened up to me." Ezra
semi-boasted to David. "Yeah EZ, what she say?" Scott butted in. "Well, she has adopted parents like
me, and well, she knows her mom's name." Ezra said feeling bad for himself. "Really, what's her
mom's name." Scott said cynically, pretending he was interested. "It was like Elaine or something." Ezra
said and Scott stared at him. "El ... Elaine?" Scott sputtered unbelieving. "Yeah, yeah that's right.
Elaine." Ezra said rethinking. Scott glared at Ezra. "Who told you?" Scott said thinking Ezra was
making a joke about him being abused. "Told me what? She said her mom's name was ..." Ezra said
confused. "Shut, just shut up! Why are you doing this?" Scott said still thinking Ezra was joking.
"Doing what? You asked me what her mom's name was." Ezra said giving him a confused look. "It isn't
funny!" Scott shouted. "I'm not laughing!" Ezra said, "Gee Scott, chill. What just crawled up your
butt?" Ezra said backing away from him. Scott glared at him, "Just forget it." Scott stormed out of
the room and bumped into Juliette. "Hey!" Juliette said and realized it was Scott. "What's wrong?"
Juliette asked and Scott turned around. "Nothing!" Scott said and turned back around pissed. "I'm
here to talk to if you want!" Juliette shouted and Scott ignored her. Auggie walked out and they
embraced.
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Shelby walked out of the infirmary to a waiting Peter. "Happy, negative." Shelby said crossing her
arms and walking away. "Good, stay that way." Peter said taking stride with Shelby. "I can't have you
to off doing your own thing. Besides, you know the rules." Peter said sternly. "Yes Peter I know the
rules. Haven't you heard the saying, 'rules are meant to be broken'?" Shelby asked stopping. "Yes,
have you heard, 'if you break the rules you won't see that person for a long long time'?" Peter asked
and Shelby rolled her eyes. "No I haven't." Shelby smirked and walked off. "Shelby, are you
forgetting?" Peter said as Shelby turned around. He flipped her the journal. "Silences." Peter smiled.
"Oh Peter, thank you!" Shelby said cynically and walked to a picnic table and got to work.
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Scott saw her and walked over. "Shel." Scott said sitting down in front of her. Shelby wrote on her
notebook, "Scott". Shelby turned the notebook so he could read it and placed her chin on her two
hands, smiling at Scott. "Oh, silences eh." Scott said forgetting. Shelby nodded. "Anyways, that new
Sara girl, her mom's name is Elaine." Scott said looking away. Shelby turned his chin so he would look
at her. She gave him a simpathic look. Scott looked at the notebook and took Shelby's pen. He
flipped the notebook around and went to the very back. He started to scribble down something. Shelby
looked around for Peter. "Here." Scott said finishing and passing it back to Shelby. Shelby read it.
uElaine is supposed to visit sometime today. How can Peter allow this?/u Shelby frowned and took
the pen and worte back. uPeter has no power over her visiting. So I'm told from time to time. Just
ignore her, she'll get the message. Do you want me to stay with you or at least be near-by?/u
Shelby worte. Scott skimmed it and nodded. "Thanks." he gave Shelby a quick kiss on the cheek and
walked back over to the shed to start chopping.
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"When can I see him?" Elaine asked quickly to Peter once she sat down. "First, why isn't Scott's
father here?" Peter asked suspicous about everything. "He has business. I think he went to like
Pittsburg or something." Elaine said and Peter couldn't tell if she was lying. He said and sat down
deciding. "Just so you know Scott doesn't want to see you." Peter said hoping she would give up.
"That's nonsense. He does want to, he's only saying that." Elaine said hurt. Peter sighed. "Well, right
now he's on shuns." Peter said seeing Elaine's expression change. "What's shuns?" Elaine asked.
"Shuns is also known as a punishment. When a student breaks the rules he or she has to pay with
either chopping wood, in Scott's case, or kitchens." Peter explained and Elaine nodded. "What did he
do? I don't see Scott being so troublesome." Elaine said smiling. "He and Shelby were, well, out after
lights out." Peter said and saw Elaine's eyes widen. "Not anything serious, just kissing, which we don't
permit." Peter said and Elaine settled down. i"How can Scotty even think about kissing someone else!"
/i Elaine thought. "Can he be let off of shuns early? After all I only have the weekend." Elaine said
pushy. Peter sighed and finally gave up. "I suppose. But if he doesn't want to see you, then leave and
come back tomorrow." Peter said sternly. "I'll show you to him." Peter said getting up and walking to
the door. "Thank you Mr. Scarbrow." Elaine said walking out the door.
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"Shelby?" Jess said when they got outside. "What?" Shelby asked realizing she had ignored her sister
the whole day. "I've missed you." Jess said sincerely. "I know." Shelby said looking at her sister.
"No, I mean the real you. Why did she have to go?" Jess asked sadly. "She didn't." Shelby said
looking away and crossing her arms. "Yes she did." Jess said and walked off. Shelby watched her go
and felt sad. i"Why did she have to go? Oh yeah, Walt."/i Shelby thought cynically. Scott
emerged from the shadows. "What was that all about?" Scott asked looking in the direction of where
Jess walked off in. "I don't know." Shelby sighed and hugged Scott. "See you at twelve?" Scott asked
looking down at Shelby. "Yeah." Shelby said breaking the hug and departing to her dorm. Scott to his.
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At twelve Shelby stirred from her bed and got up. She yawned and double-checked the clock.
i"Yup, time to go."/i Shelby thought to herself and got out of bed. She walked carefully and
quietly to the bathroom. Shelby made herself presentable. She redid her hair and played around with
it till it looked right. After quietly putting on her jacket and shoes, Shelby crept out, making sure no
one woke up.
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It was freezing cold outside and Shelby decided to walk a bit faster to the shed that night. "Scott?"
Shelby whispered into the shed before walking into the shed. "Who's out there?" Jeff called out into
the darkness and flashed the flashlight in the direction of the shed. Scott pulled Shelby in before the
light hit and they toppled to the ground. Shelby landed on Scott's chest. She smiled down at him.
"Hello?" the two heard Jeff call out. Both breathed heavily, hoping he would go away. He reached the
door and started to open it. "Jeff, your night shift is over!" A voice rang out and Jeff walked away
from the shed, relived that he could go to sleep. Scott exhaled heavily. "Jumpy Cowboy?" Shelby
asked smiling seductively at Scott. i"My turn not to talk, but to act."/i Scott thought and leaned
up kissing Shelby. Shelby responded quickly and brought her hand up to his cheek. "Shelby?" a voice
whispered quietly, opening the shed door. It creaked on it's rusty old hinges. Shelby parted from
Scott's lips, unwillingly. "Why?" Shelby asked burying her head in Scott's chest. Scott coughed out a
small laugh. Shelby felt it, "Shut up." Shelby smacked Scott playfully. Jess looked at the two on the
floor, though it looked to Jess as a black blob. "Shelby, that you?" Jess asked again. Shelby rolled
off of Scott and got up. "Yes Jess? You're supposed to be sleeping." Shelby said looking at Jess. "So
are you." Jess retorted. Scott had gotten up and pulled Shelby toward him by her waist. Shelby
couldn't help but break a smile and laugh a little. "Jess, I'll be back at twelve-thirty. Don't worry
about me." Shelby said and Jess sighed, leaving. Scott and Shelby continued their activity.
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"Shelby get up, breakfast! I don't want kitchens!" Juliette whined poking at Shelby to get up. Shelby
groaned. "Go away." she exclaimed pulling her pillow over her head. Jess got mad. "Shelby, get up!"
Jess shouted and Shelby moaned, annoyed. "I think I'm sick." Shelby lied. "You're not sick! Now get
up!" Jess said pulling her out of bed. Shelby half-asleep, stumbled into the bathroom to talk a shower.
Surprizingly it was quick and she rushed to the mess hall. "Nice of you to join your group, Shelby.
Late night?" Peter asked as soon as Shelby had walked in. Shelby groaned, "Yes, I couldn't get to
sleep. Alot on my mind, ya know." Shelby lied walking past Peter. He carefully took Shelby in stride
before stopping her. "Go join Scott in the kitchen. Then you can have the remainder of the day in
slience. Here's your journal." Peter said handing Shelby the notebook. "Thanks Peter, you're so sweet!"
Shelby said through gritted teeth. "Go." Peter pointed at a already serving Scott. "Yes captain."
Shelby said saluting Peter then walking into the kitchen.
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"Why did you tell?" Shelby asked Scott ploping some pancakes on a girl's plate. "I didn't!" Scott
replied shocked that Shelby would even assume he'd tell. He placed an apple on the girl's plate and
looked at Shelby, who looked at him. i"Who did?"/i Shelby pondered looking around the room full
of suspects. "Maybe it was your sister." Scott said looking down the line at Jess. Shelby nodded. "She
knew, and I think she was mad at me." Shelby said getting a pretty good idea that Jess had told. "No
apple for her!" Scott said setting an apple down. Shelby looked at him and laughed. "What?" Scott
asked confused. "Like taking away her apple priviledge really matters." Shelby said serving a few more
kids. "Would to me." Scott grumbled and gave each kid an apple. Jess approached. "What would you
like, sister dear." Shelby said giving off a fake smile. "Um ... pancakes I guess." Jess said confused.
"Good choice." Shelby said dropping the pancakes on Jess's plate uncaringly. "Next." Shelby chimed.
Jess glared at Shelby. "OK what's up?" Jess asked getting mad. "Nothing, just I can't trust my sister
with anything." Shelby said looking at the next person. "I wouldn't have told if you paid at least SOME
attention to me!" Jess said storming off. "No apple for her." Scott repeated taking a bite out of the
apple. Shelby shook her head at Scott. "You're scaring me." Shelby laughed. "Good." Scott smiled and
continued to serve and eat his apple.
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After breakfast Shelby walked to the gazebo and opened the journal. i"Peter makes everyday just so
wonderful!"/i Shelby smirked and looked at the blank page. She tapped her pen on the paper boredly.
Peter walked up and sat down next to Shelby. "Shelby, how about we have a little talk?" Peter said
looking at Shelby. Shelby scribbled something on the paper and held it up to Peter. It read: uI
thought I couldn't talk./u Peter pushed the notebook back down onto Shelby's lap. "Come on Shel."
Peter said giving the notebook a tap. "Fine." Shelby said and rolled her eyes. "Jess told me about last
night..." Peter started and Shelby interrupted. "I know." Shelby said and looked up. "Wait a second,
are you going to give me a sex talk?" Shelby laughed and Peter was a bit taken back. He cleared his
throat. "Well, in a way..." Peter said and Shelby again cut him off. "You are! This should be good.
So Peter, tell me about the birds and the bees." Shelby smirked and Peter shook his head. "Shelby
come on. Behave. Now, tell me what you and Scott did." Peter said and Shelby rolled her eyes. Shelby
paused before answering. "OK Peter, we had sex." Shelby said cynically. Peter caught this and sighed.
"Why can't you ever give a straight truthful answer?" Peter asked looking at Shelby. "Cause it takes
out all the joy of life." Shelby said and closed the notebook, setting it down on the gazebo seat.
"Shelby, I'm still going to have you take a pregnacy test. Whether you and Scott did something or not."
Peter said standing up. "Come on." Peter said coaxingly. "Peter we did nothing but kiss." Shelby said
and got up anyway. "To the infirmary." Peter said and walked a annoyed Shelby to the infirmary.
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Scott walked to the dorm for his five minute break. "Yeah, Sara really opened up to me." Ezra
semi-boasted to David. "Yeah EZ, what she say?" Scott butted in. "Well, she has adopted parents like
me, and well, she knows her mom's name." Ezra said feeling bad for himself. "Really, what's her
mom's name." Scott said cynically, pretending he was interested. "It was like Elaine or something." Ezra
said and Scott stared at him. "El ... Elaine?" Scott sputtered unbelieving. "Yeah, yeah that's right.
Elaine." Ezra said rethinking. Scott glared at Ezra. "Who told you?" Scott said thinking Ezra was
making a joke about him being abused. "Told me what? She said her mom's name was ..." Ezra said
confused. "Shut, just shut up! Why are you doing this?" Scott said still thinking Ezra was joking.
"Doing what? You asked me what her mom's name was." Ezra said giving him a confused look. "It isn't
funny!" Scott shouted. "I'm not laughing!" Ezra said, "Gee Scott, chill. What just crawled up your
butt?" Ezra said backing away from him. Scott glared at him, "Just forget it." Scott stormed out of
the room and bumped into Juliette. "Hey!" Juliette said and realized it was Scott. "What's wrong?"
Juliette asked and Scott turned around. "Nothing!" Scott said and turned back around pissed. "I'm
here to talk to if you want!" Juliette shouted and Scott ignored her. Auggie walked out and they
embraced.
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Shelby walked out of the infirmary to a waiting Peter. "Happy, negative." Shelby said crossing her
arms and walking away. "Good, stay that way." Peter said taking stride with Shelby. "I can't have you
to off doing your own thing. Besides, you know the rules." Peter said sternly. "Yes Peter I know the
rules. Haven't you heard the saying, 'rules are meant to be broken'?" Shelby asked stopping. "Yes,
have you heard, 'if you break the rules you won't see that person for a long long time'?" Peter asked
and Shelby rolled her eyes. "No I haven't." Shelby smirked and walked off. "Shelby, are you
forgetting?" Peter said as Shelby turned around. He flipped her the journal. "Silences." Peter smiled.
"Oh Peter, thank you!" Shelby said cynically and walked to a picnic table and got to work.
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Scott saw her and walked over. "Shel." Scott said sitting down in front of her. Shelby wrote on her
notebook, "Scott". Shelby turned the notebook so he could read it and placed her chin on her two
hands, smiling at Scott. "Oh, silences eh." Scott said forgetting. Shelby nodded. "Anyways, that new
Sara girl, her mom's name is Elaine." Scott said looking away. Shelby turned his chin so he would look
at her. She gave him a simpathic look. Scott looked at the notebook and took Shelby's pen. He
flipped the notebook around and went to the very back. He started to scribble down something. Shelby
looked around for Peter. "Here." Scott said finishing and passing it back to Shelby. Shelby read it.
uElaine is supposed to visit sometime today. How can Peter allow this?/u Shelby frowned and took
the pen and worte back. uPeter has no power over her visiting. So I'm told from time to time. Just
ignore her, she'll get the message. Do you want me to stay with you or at least be near-by?/u
Shelby worte. Scott skimmed it and nodded. "Thanks." he gave Shelby a quick kiss on the cheek and
walked back over to the shed to start chopping.
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"When can I see him?" Elaine asked quickly to Peter once she sat down. "First, why isn't Scott's
father here?" Peter asked suspicous about everything. "He has business. I think he went to like
Pittsburg or something." Elaine said and Peter couldn't tell if she was lying. He said and sat down
deciding. "Just so you know Scott doesn't want to see you." Peter said hoping she would give up.
"That's nonsense. He does want to, he's only saying that." Elaine said hurt. Peter sighed. "Well, right
now he's on shuns." Peter said seeing Elaine's expression change. "What's shuns?" Elaine asked.
"Shuns is also known as a punishment. When a student breaks the rules he or she has to pay with
either chopping wood, in Scott's case, or kitchens." Peter explained and Elaine nodded. "What did he
do? I don't see Scott being so troublesome." Elaine said smiling. "He and Shelby were, well, out after
lights out." Peter said and saw Elaine's eyes widen. "Not anything serious, just kissing, which we don't
permit." Peter said and Elaine settled down. i"How can Scotty even think about kissing someone else!"
/i Elaine thought. "Can he be let off of shuns early? After all I only have the weekend." Elaine said
pushy. Peter sighed and finally gave up. "I suppose. But if he doesn't want to see you, then leave and
come back tomorrow." Peter said sternly. "I'll show you to him." Peter said getting up and walking to
the door. "Thank you Mr. Scarbrow." Elaine said walking out the door.
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