World Turned Black
I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING (lol)
Chapter 5
Had she heard right? Did Scott just say someone died? She watched as he continued to cry and curl up with a pained expression on his face.
"Please, I'm sorry, Stop!" he cried
"Scott come on, wake up, look at me Scott." She needed him to explain this, what could have possibly happened? He cried out a few more times and suddenly jerked up, gasping.
"Scott, your ok, I'm here, it's Shelby." She tried to calm him down, she could see he was still dazed from the dream so she just waited for him to catch his breath, she didn't want to scare him.
As if he just realized where he was, Scott looked up into her eyes, "Shel?"
She rushed to his side and wrapped her arms around him, "I'm here."
"I was so scared." He looked up and Shelby saw how haunted his eyes looked
"Scott, what happened?"
He looked away, he knew she wanted to help and he knew how hurt she was going to be when he didn't tell her, but how could he? His dad would kill him, he knew she kept the secret about Elaine the first time, but this was different, he just couldn't tell her.
She watched as he sat there not answering, she knew he was figuring out if he could tell her, "Scott?"
He jumped and looked back at her quickly, like she had just jumped out of nowhere screaming BOO! It hurt so much to lie to her but he knew there was no other choice, "What?"
She rolled her eyes, he was denying it? She just stared at him, waiting for him to start talking
He knew what she was doing; she was trying to get him to talk. Could he? No, no that would be too dangerous.
They sat there staring at each other; neither willing to give in, both knew it was pointless, both knew how stubborn the other was. But for some reason, the two sat there hoping for a victory.
Finally she gave up; he was not going to talk, she decided that maybe if he knew that she heard his dreams about someone being dead he would talk about it. "Scott?"
"Yea?"
She took a deep breath, "Scott who died?"
Scott looked up surprised; he stared into her eyes, into her soul. How could she know? Then he remembered how scared she looked when he woke up. He silently chided himself for falling asleep In the first place. Before he came back he hardly slept because they were so bad, he had told her subconsciously. He parted his mouth to speak, he didn't know what was going to come out, but he knew something had to be said, "Look…"
He stopped when a whistle was blown. He looked around for the source when a boy ran out into view. At first Scott figured it was someone from another ground but then heard Shelby addressing him.
"Zack?"
"Hey Shel."
"Zack?" Scott looked at her, who was this?
"Oh yea, he came before you got back."
"Oh, hey." He was still confused, why did he call her Shel, she usually only let people she was close to call her that.
"Hey." He was looking at Scott closely; he could see that his eyes were all puffy, probably from crying. David had told him what Scott's stepmother had done, how could Shelby like this wimp? He was going to have to figure out a way to get he from him.
There was so much tension in the air you could cut it with a knife and Shelby decided to put an end to the silence at least, "So what's with the whistle?"
"Peter gave them to everyone in case we found you."
"Oh yea." She had completely forgotten about running after Scott
The silence proceeded to fill the air, Shelby sat between the boy she loved and the one she almost threw it away for. This went on for another few minutes until finally they heard footsteps nearing.
"I think the whistle came from over here Soph." They heard Peter talking
"We're over here!" Zack yelled towards his voice
They heard leaves rustling and sticks cracking for a few more seconds until Peter and Sophie stepped into view. When Peter saw the Zack was with both Shelby and Scott he was relieved, they could finally call off the search, although he never really doubted the she would find him.
"Sophie, can you radio Roger and Jeff and tell them to get all the kids back to the school?"
"Sure, I'll be right back."
Peter looked back at the threesome; he could also tell then Scott was crying, Shelby looked disappointed and Peter guessed she didn't get anything out of Scott. Then, Peter looked at Zack, he knew that he had a crush on Shelby, but the look he was giving Scott scared Peter a little, he was looking at him with scorn in his eyes. He decided he would have to talk to him later about it.
The first thing Peter did was walk over to Scott and kneeled down in front of him, "Scott what happened?"
"With what?" he looked straight into Peter's eyes
"Well, you just got back and already ran again except this time you decide to sit in the woods."
"Then I guess I didn't run huh?"
Peter realized Scott wasn't going to budge just as Shelby had a mere 20 minutes ago he stood up and looked at Shelby, "Are you ok?"
"Yea, fine." Peter could here the anger in her voice he knew it was not the time to give her a speech about responsibility; it would just have to wait until they got back
"Ok well, let's head back then."
Scott and Shelby both stood began to walk along with Peter and Zack. After they were walking for a few minutes, Peter walked to Scott and Shelby, "Can I talk to Scott for a second?"
"Sure." Shelby and Zack started walking ahead a few feet as to give them privacy
Scott didn't acknowledge that Peter was standing next to him; he just stared at Shelby and Zack.
"What are you thinking about?" Peter questioned
For the first time, Scott looked up at him then quickly turned his attention back to the two in front of him, "What's up with Zack?"
"What do you mean?"
"Why is he here?"
"You know I can't tell you that."
"Yea."
"Don't worry, Shelby loves you, she wouldn't do that." Peter was looking intently at Scott, when he saw his expression; he knew he got it right
Scott looked up again, then instead of at Shelby, he looked at the ground and stifled a laugh, "That obvious huh?"
"Just a little," Peter laughed too, then he turned serious, "Scott, you know I have to call you parents."
Shelby and Zack
"So." Zack said
"What?" She knew he had something on his mind
"What happened?"
"With what?"
"Us." He looked at her, she got a confused look on her face
"Zack, there never was an "us"."
He looked back down, she could tell that he was hurt, "It's just, I love Scott, and I was in a really bad place, I thought he forgot about me, I'm sorry."
"So you were going to use me then."
"No, I mean, I thought you were cute, and maybe something could've happened, but my heart will always belong to Scott, and now he's back, I'm sorry."
"Yea." He wasn't going to give up, maybe Shelby's heart belonged to Scott right now but he just had to show her how great he could be, show her she didn't need Scott.
Scott and Peter
Scott turned angry, "I didn't even run!"
"Scott," Peter tried to calm him down, "I know that something happened at home, but unless you give me a reason, I have to call, you did run."
"Nooo," He dragged the o's like it was obvious, "I just…needed to take a break and be by myself for a little while."
"You could have been alone in your dorm."
"Yea for about five minutes then someone would've came in and tried to get me to talk."
"Then why don't you just talk?"
"Cause there's nothing to talk about."
"We'll, I hoped you enjoyed you vacation, because your going to be on wood chopping duty for two weeks."
"Peter!"
"No Scott, you know that no one forces you to talk, there are plenty of places to be alone, you can just run from your problems."
"I DIDN'T RUN!" At that, Scott walked up to Shelby and Zack, "Shel, can I talk to you?"
"Sure." She said with concern in her voice. Zack walked back with Peter, Both looked defeated, for two very different reasons.
Scott and Shelby walked silently, neither looking at the other, both just lost in their own thoughts. Then, Shelby looked at him, "What did you want to talk about?" She asked softly.
Scott just shrugged his shoulders
"Scott, you know you can tell me anything, I will always be here for you, always on your side."
"I know Shel," he looked up at her, "Thanks."
She looked into his eyes; it hurt her so much to see him in so much pain, "Scott why can't you tell me?"
He looked down for a split second then back up to her, he had tears in his eyes, "Because he'll kill me."