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Shelby still had an hour or two before her mom would come and pick her up. She walked around the campus, trying to find something that would get her mind out of the sad state that it was in. She had been around the campus and she finally came to the docks where she noticed that there was no one there.
'Why would anyone be here, they are all waiting for their parents. Duh Shelby.' She thought.
Shelby walked down the dock and over to the bench that was furthest towards the lake and farthest from the land, she figured that the farther away from people she was the better, all she wanted to do was think and sulk.
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Juliette stood next to Peter on the steps of the front lodge; they were waiting for Juliette's mother to pick her up.
"So are you nervous Jules?" Peter asked, knowing that Juliette probably wouldn't tell if she had any worries.
"Nope," Juliette replied in a perky tone, perkier than usual, "you and Sophie have taught me to use the tools that I have learned here."
Peter, who picked up that Juliette was more perky than usual, and knew that she was hiding her nervousness, told her "You can call anytime you want to."
Before Juliette could reply the two turned their attention towards the crunching of the gravel and looked at the clean, expensive looking car that was pulling up to the administration building.
A sophisticated looking woman stepped out of the passenger side and smoothed out her business skirt and looked at her daughter. Juliette picked up her bag and walked down the steps to greet her mother. Peter waited a second and then followed Juliette; he wanted the two to say hello without feeling Peter was on their backs.
"Hello mother." Juliette said with a smile as she set her bag down to hug her mother.
"Hello Juliette." Said her mother with a smile; most likely a fake one.
The two of them hugged and as they did Juliette's mother whispered "Have you been watching you weight?"
"Yes mother." Juliette replied, and then she pulled away.
"Alright let's get going honey; we don't want to keep Hal waiting." Juliette's mother replied. "Can I say goodbye to Peter?" Juliette asked, in a whiney tone.
"Make it quick, I'll be in the car." Her mother replied, and then walked back to the car.
Juliette made her way to Peter who stayed back a little from Juliette and her mother. Peter walked towards Juliette to meet her.
"I will see you in two weeks." Peter said as he opened his arms to give Juliette a hug.
Juliette opened her arms and gave Peter a hug, while they were hugging, Peter whispered, "What have you learned?"
The two pulled away and Juliette replied, "To not let my mother get inside of my head and to use words and not negative actions to express myself."
"You'll be fine." Peter said as he gave her a pat on the back.
Juliette bent down and grabbed her bag and said goodbye to Peter and walked to the car, feeling a little more confident than before about going home.
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Daisy was sitting at one of the picnic tables reading a book, but stopped when she heard someone walking up to her. She looked up and saw Ezra approaching her.
"Hey Dais, want some company?" Ezra asked, not sure what her response would be, the two of them had never really talked one on one.
Daisy thought a moment, and not wanting to come off as cruel, she raised her shoulders, giving off the 'it doesn't matter to me' vibe and motioned him to sit.
"Looking forward to going home?" Ezra asked as he sat down on the bench, not realizing his mistake until the words were out of his mouth.
"Dad's in rehab still remember?" Daisy said as she continued reading.
"I'm really sorry Dais, I forgot." Ezra apologized.
Daisy smiled, looked up from her book and said, "it's okay Ezra, I'm not crying over it," she closed her book and added, "besides according to Peter this will be a good chance for Auggie and me to 'become closer friends.'"
"What do you mean?" Ezra asked confusingly.
"I guess Auggie's parents called the other night and said that Auggie wouldn't be able to come home this break." Daisy explained. "Why?" Ezra asked, as he took a quick look around to see if his mother was here yet.
"Not sure, but I'm sure that these next two weeks here at good ol' Horizon, with the other twenty-fiveish students who aren't going home, will give me enough time to find out." Daisy replied with a little sarcasm in her voice.
Ezra and Daisy continued talking for another ten minutes or so until Ezra saw Sophie coming towards him and Daisy with his mother right behind her. When Ezra made eye contact with his mom, a big smile came over her face and she waved energetically.
Daisy noticed Ezra giving a wave to someone and when she turned to see who it was, she shut her book.
Daisy stood up and started to walk away when Ezra asked, "Where are you going?"
"If I recall right your mom isn't too fond of me remember?" Daisy asked.
"Don't worry about her, stay." Ezra told her.
"I don't want to start things off on the bad foot with you and your mom," Daisy replied, happy that he was sticking up for her.
"But-" Ezra started, but was cut off.
"Don't worry bout' it. Have a good break and don't let your mom push you to the point of doing something that will make me mad at you." Daisy warned, raising her eyebrows, and bringing up Ezra's suicide attempt last time his parents came.
Daisy turned and walked away leaving Ezra thinking about how great of a friend he had.
"Hi Ezzy honey." Ezra's mother said as she wrapped her arms around him and squeezed tightly.
"Hi mom." Ezra replied, bringing his arms up to return the hug.
"You are looking great." Ezra's mom complimented.
"Thanks," Ezra said with a little blush, "ready to go?"
"Of course sweetie," Said the proud mother.
Ezra walked over to Sophie and said goodbye to her, then he picked up his bag, and followed his mother.
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Roger walked into the lodge to find Auggie sitting in a chair, drawing in his black book. Roger noticed the look of anger on his face, so he decided to go and find out if he could help cheer Auggie up.
"What's up man?" Roger asked, noticing Auggie's drawing which looked a little angry.
"Nothing," Auggie replied coldly.
"You sure? I am here if you wanna talk." Roger reassured.
"Listen man, just drop it." Auggie exclaimed angrily as he stood up.
Roger put his arms up in a defensive position, letting Auggie know that he was backing off. He didnt want to upset Auggie anymore than he already was. Auggie closed his book and stormed off.
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Auggie walked into the cafeteria and sat down at the nearest empty table. He was mad that he wasn't able to go home, and he didn't feel like talking to anyone about it. He just re-opened his book and continued his drawing.
After a few minutes he felt the chair across him being pulled out and someone sat down. He was about to go off, until he looked up and saw Daisy sitting across from him.
"What do you want?" Auggie asked in an annoyed tone.
"Oh not much, just wanting to catch up Auggie buddy." Daisy replied with sarcasm.
"Don't you have to get ready to go home?" Auggie shot back, going back to his drawing.
"My dad is still in rehab so that means I'm stuck here." Daisy shot back.
Auggie paused for a second realizing what he had just inconsiderately said and told Daisy, "I'm sorry Dais, I really wasn't thinking. I forgot."
"Don't worry, your not the only one," Daisy replied, "I was about to ask you the same question."
"I'm stuck here too." Auggie simply said.
"Well I'm guessing your parents aren't in rehab, so what's your excuse?" Daisy asked hoping to find out why he wasn't going home.
"I don't want to talk about it." Auggie replied, starting to go back to his drawing.
"Oh come on Auggie, we have two weeks, I'm going to find out eventually." Daisy said, pushing Auggie.
"My parents called and said that I couldn't come home because my brother was causing trouble." Auggie told her, knowing that he had lost this argument.
"Oh. I'm sorry Auggie." Daisy told him, "I guess if you look at it they are just looking out for you."
"Yeah, yeah, but when it comes down to it I am stuck here." Auggie said as he let out a sigh.
"Well sorry that being in my company without Juliette is so bad." Daisy jokingly said.
"It's not that Daisy," Auggie started.
"I know, I am just joking with you. If we are together for two weeks you have to lighten up." Daisy replied.
Auggie let out a chuckle and said, "Okay okay."
The two of them continued to talk and start to 'bond' as Peter wanted them to.
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As the time drew closer for Cole to leave to go home with Brian, he found himself growing more and more nervous. He was walking around trying to clear the thoughts that were racing through his mind.
Not sure how, Cole managed to find himself all the way by the docks. He looked around and to his surprise he saw Shelby sitting with her back to him all the way at the end of the dock.
Cole walked over to Shelby, thinking that she looked like she wanted to talk to someone, or if she didn't want to talk, he could sure use someone to talk to.
Cole slowly walked up behind Shelby and placed his hand on her shoulder and said "hey there."
Shelby jumped and turned around, flustered she said "Jeeze, don't do that."
"Sorry, thought you heard me." Cole said, and when he noticed her tear streaked face, he asked, "Are you okay?"
Shelby noticed that Cole saw that she was crying so she wiped her face and said "yeah. What are you doing here?" "Came to think," Cole simply said, "you?"
"Came to think." Shelby replied as she scooted over on the bench, inviting Cole to join her.
"So, why you hiding out here? I figured you would be anxious to see your sister." Cole said.
"Yeah well, I needed to think about things that are going on here before I can deal with the things that are going on at home." Shelby plainly stated.
"Wanna talk about it?" Cole offered.
"If I wanted to talk about it, my lips would be moving." Shelby spat out.
"Okay, I get it." Cole said.
"So why are you here anyway?" Shelby asked.
"I have my anxieties about going home myself." Cole replied.
"From what I here you are going home with a cop right?" Shelby asked, brushing the hair out of her eyes.
"Yeah, see why I am nervous?" Cole replied.
"Yeah," Shelby said.
"And from what I here you and Scott didn't say goodbye to each other before he left." Cole said.
"How did you-" Shelby started to ask when she was cut off by Cole.
"Ezra, but that's not the point. I know this isn't any of my business, but what happened between you two? I thought you guys were back on track to being the couple you were before." Cole said.
"That's the problem the old couple we were is the one where he always wanted to talk." Shelby replied.
"I don't get it." Cole stated.
"He wants to know why I have been distant lately, and I am not ready to tell him. I mean I have told him about my past and we finally made amends with that, but does he have to know every single thing that I am going through?" Shelby asked.
"He just cares about you Shel." Cole said.
"I know, but he needs to know that I have Peter and Sophie to talk to about my problems. I don't need to cramp his style with problems that I can get help with from the people that are here to help me." Shelby told Cole.
"Maybe you should tell him how you feel when he gets back, I am sure he will understand." Cole reassured.
Not wanting to admit that Cole was possibly right about this situation, she just decided not to say anything at all.
Cole looked at his watch and said, "I have to go now, according to Peter, Brian should be here soon."
Cole stood up and started to walk away, but turned around and said "Hope you have a good visit home."
As Cole continued walking Shelby called out, "Don't worry, you're tough, you can handle living with a cop."
Cole turned around and smiled, then headed to the dorms to get his bags.
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I hope you enjoyed, reviews are always appreciated. The next chapter will be the last.
Katie, Cole, Shelby
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Shelby still had an hour or two before her mom would come and pick her up. She walked around the campus, trying to find something that would get her mind out of the sad state that it was in. She had been around the campus and she finally came to the docks where she noticed that there was no one there.
'Why would anyone be here, they are all waiting for their parents. Duh Shelby.' She thought.
Shelby walked down the dock and over to the bench that was furthest towards the lake and farthest from the land, she figured that the farther away from people she was the better, all she wanted to do was think and sulk.
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Juliette stood next to Peter on the steps of the front lodge; they were waiting for Juliette's mother to pick her up.
"So are you nervous Jules?" Peter asked, knowing that Juliette probably wouldn't tell if she had any worries.
"Nope," Juliette replied in a perky tone, perkier than usual, "you and Sophie have taught me to use the tools that I have learned here."
Peter, who picked up that Juliette was more perky than usual, and knew that she was hiding her nervousness, told her "You can call anytime you want to."
Before Juliette could reply the two turned their attention towards the crunching of the gravel and looked at the clean, expensive looking car that was pulling up to the administration building.
A sophisticated looking woman stepped out of the passenger side and smoothed out her business skirt and looked at her daughter. Juliette picked up her bag and walked down the steps to greet her mother. Peter waited a second and then followed Juliette; he wanted the two to say hello without feeling Peter was on their backs.
"Hello mother." Juliette said with a smile as she set her bag down to hug her mother.
"Hello Juliette." Said her mother with a smile; most likely a fake one.
The two of them hugged and as they did Juliette's mother whispered "Have you been watching you weight?"
"Yes mother." Juliette replied, and then she pulled away.
"Alright let's get going honey; we don't want to keep Hal waiting." Juliette's mother replied. "Can I say goodbye to Peter?" Juliette asked, in a whiney tone.
"Make it quick, I'll be in the car." Her mother replied, and then walked back to the car.
Juliette made her way to Peter who stayed back a little from Juliette and her mother. Peter walked towards Juliette to meet her.
"I will see you in two weeks." Peter said as he opened his arms to give Juliette a hug.
Juliette opened her arms and gave Peter a hug, while they were hugging, Peter whispered, "What have you learned?"
The two pulled away and Juliette replied, "To not let my mother get inside of my head and to use words and not negative actions to express myself."
"You'll be fine." Peter said as he gave her a pat on the back.
Juliette bent down and grabbed her bag and said goodbye to Peter and walked to the car, feeling a little more confident than before about going home.
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Daisy was sitting at one of the picnic tables reading a book, but stopped when she heard someone walking up to her. She looked up and saw Ezra approaching her.
"Hey Dais, want some company?" Ezra asked, not sure what her response would be, the two of them had never really talked one on one.
Daisy thought a moment, and not wanting to come off as cruel, she raised her shoulders, giving off the 'it doesn't matter to me' vibe and motioned him to sit.
"Looking forward to going home?" Ezra asked as he sat down on the bench, not realizing his mistake until the words were out of his mouth.
"Dad's in rehab still remember?" Daisy said as she continued reading.
"I'm really sorry Dais, I forgot." Ezra apologized.
Daisy smiled, looked up from her book and said, "it's okay Ezra, I'm not crying over it," she closed her book and added, "besides according to Peter this will be a good chance for Auggie and me to 'become closer friends.'"
"What do you mean?" Ezra asked confusingly.
"I guess Auggie's parents called the other night and said that Auggie wouldn't be able to come home this break." Daisy explained. "Why?" Ezra asked, as he took a quick look around to see if his mother was here yet.
"Not sure, but I'm sure that these next two weeks here at good ol' Horizon, with the other twenty-fiveish students who aren't going home, will give me enough time to find out." Daisy replied with a little sarcasm in her voice.
Ezra and Daisy continued talking for another ten minutes or so until Ezra saw Sophie coming towards him and Daisy with his mother right behind her. When Ezra made eye contact with his mom, a big smile came over her face and she waved energetically.
Daisy noticed Ezra giving a wave to someone and when she turned to see who it was, she shut her book.
Daisy stood up and started to walk away when Ezra asked, "Where are you going?"
"If I recall right your mom isn't too fond of me remember?" Daisy asked.
"Don't worry about her, stay." Ezra told her.
"I don't want to start things off on the bad foot with you and your mom," Daisy replied, happy that he was sticking up for her.
"But-" Ezra started, but was cut off.
"Don't worry bout' it. Have a good break and don't let your mom push you to the point of doing something that will make me mad at you." Daisy warned, raising her eyebrows, and bringing up Ezra's suicide attempt last time his parents came.
Daisy turned and walked away leaving Ezra thinking about how great of a friend he had.
"Hi Ezzy honey." Ezra's mother said as she wrapped her arms around him and squeezed tightly.
"Hi mom." Ezra replied, bringing his arms up to return the hug.
"You are looking great." Ezra's mom complimented.
"Thanks," Ezra said with a little blush, "ready to go?"
"Of course sweetie," Said the proud mother.
Ezra walked over to Sophie and said goodbye to her, then he picked up his bag, and followed his mother.
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Roger walked into the lodge to find Auggie sitting in a chair, drawing in his black book. Roger noticed the look of anger on his face, so he decided to go and find out if he could help cheer Auggie up.
"What's up man?" Roger asked, noticing Auggie's drawing which looked a little angry.
"Nothing," Auggie replied coldly.
"You sure? I am here if you wanna talk." Roger reassured.
"Listen man, just drop it." Auggie exclaimed angrily as he stood up.
Roger put his arms up in a defensive position, letting Auggie know that he was backing off. He didnt want to upset Auggie anymore than he already was. Auggie closed his book and stormed off.
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Auggie walked into the cafeteria and sat down at the nearest empty table. He was mad that he wasn't able to go home, and he didn't feel like talking to anyone about it. He just re-opened his book and continued his drawing.
After a few minutes he felt the chair across him being pulled out and someone sat down. He was about to go off, until he looked up and saw Daisy sitting across from him.
"What do you want?" Auggie asked in an annoyed tone.
"Oh not much, just wanting to catch up Auggie buddy." Daisy replied with sarcasm.
"Don't you have to get ready to go home?" Auggie shot back, going back to his drawing.
"My dad is still in rehab so that means I'm stuck here." Daisy shot back.
Auggie paused for a second realizing what he had just inconsiderately said and told Daisy, "I'm sorry Dais, I really wasn't thinking. I forgot."
"Don't worry, your not the only one," Daisy replied, "I was about to ask you the same question."
"I'm stuck here too." Auggie simply said.
"Well I'm guessing your parents aren't in rehab, so what's your excuse?" Daisy asked hoping to find out why he wasn't going home.
"I don't want to talk about it." Auggie replied, starting to go back to his drawing.
"Oh come on Auggie, we have two weeks, I'm going to find out eventually." Daisy said, pushing Auggie.
"My parents called and said that I couldn't come home because my brother was causing trouble." Auggie told her, knowing that he had lost this argument.
"Oh. I'm sorry Auggie." Daisy told him, "I guess if you look at it they are just looking out for you."
"Yeah, yeah, but when it comes down to it I am stuck here." Auggie said as he let out a sigh.
"Well sorry that being in my company without Juliette is so bad." Daisy jokingly said.
"It's not that Daisy," Auggie started.
"I know, I am just joking with you. If we are together for two weeks you have to lighten up." Daisy replied.
Auggie let out a chuckle and said, "Okay okay."
The two of them continued to talk and start to 'bond' as Peter wanted them to.
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As the time drew closer for Cole to leave to go home with Brian, he found himself growing more and more nervous. He was walking around trying to clear the thoughts that were racing through his mind.
Not sure how, Cole managed to find himself all the way by the docks. He looked around and to his surprise he saw Shelby sitting with her back to him all the way at the end of the dock.
Cole walked over to Shelby, thinking that she looked like she wanted to talk to someone, or if she didn't want to talk, he could sure use someone to talk to.
Cole slowly walked up behind Shelby and placed his hand on her shoulder and said "hey there."
Shelby jumped and turned around, flustered she said "Jeeze, don't do that."
"Sorry, thought you heard me." Cole said, and when he noticed her tear streaked face, he asked, "Are you okay?"
Shelby noticed that Cole saw that she was crying so she wiped her face and said "yeah. What are you doing here?" "Came to think," Cole simply said, "you?"
"Came to think." Shelby replied as she scooted over on the bench, inviting Cole to join her.
"So, why you hiding out here? I figured you would be anxious to see your sister." Cole said.
"Yeah well, I needed to think about things that are going on here before I can deal with the things that are going on at home." Shelby plainly stated.
"Wanna talk about it?" Cole offered.
"If I wanted to talk about it, my lips would be moving." Shelby spat out.
"Okay, I get it." Cole said.
"So why are you here anyway?" Shelby asked.
"I have my anxieties about going home myself." Cole replied.
"From what I here you are going home with a cop right?" Shelby asked, brushing the hair out of her eyes.
"Yeah, see why I am nervous?" Cole replied.
"Yeah," Shelby said.
"And from what I here you and Scott didn't say goodbye to each other before he left." Cole said.
"How did you-" Shelby started to ask when she was cut off by Cole.
"Ezra, but that's not the point. I know this isn't any of my business, but what happened between you two? I thought you guys were back on track to being the couple you were before." Cole said.
"That's the problem the old couple we were is the one where he always wanted to talk." Shelby replied.
"I don't get it." Cole stated.
"He wants to know why I have been distant lately, and I am not ready to tell him. I mean I have told him about my past and we finally made amends with that, but does he have to know every single thing that I am going through?" Shelby asked.
"He just cares about you Shel." Cole said.
"I know, but he needs to know that I have Peter and Sophie to talk to about my problems. I don't need to cramp his style with problems that I can get help with from the people that are here to help me." Shelby told Cole.
"Maybe you should tell him how you feel when he gets back, I am sure he will understand." Cole reassured.
Not wanting to admit that Cole was possibly right about this situation, she just decided not to say anything at all.
Cole looked at his watch and said, "I have to go now, according to Peter, Brian should be here soon."
Cole stood up and started to walk away, but turned around and said "Hope you have a good visit home."
As Cole continued walking Shelby called out, "Don't worry, you're tough, you can handle living with a cop."
Cole turned around and smiled, then headed to the dorms to get his bags.
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I hope you enjoyed, reviews are always appreciated. The next chapter will be the last.
Katie, Cole, Shelby