SECRETS

A/N: I don't own any of the original characters of the TV show Higher Ground.

All of the Cliffhangers are in my story, as well as most of the counselors.

This doesn't take place at Mont Horizon, but the characters are still having the same problems and have to deal with their problems without this place.

Ghostwriter, the problems will come eventually, just be patient. It's really complicated to make them all in the first chapters. Thanks for reviewing.

Melms, thank you to you too, for your support. I'm glad to see that you like my story

This is the chapter where Shelby and Scott betray Juliet.

I took some ideas from others stories, in particularly for the love scene between Scott and Shelby.

Chapter 4: Mistakes

Shelby was still looking at her in the mirror. She had used two hours of getting ready for the party until she was satisfied. But now, she was still hesitant. Jess entered the bathroom and looked over at her.

"Wow Shel, you look beautiful!" she smiled and took her lipstick from her sister's hand.

"You think?"

"Yes. So is Scott coming?"

Shelby nodded and looked suspiciously at her sister. "Do you have a crush on Scott or what?"

"No, why?"

"Nothing, I just noticed that you were often talking about him."

"Yes maybe. It's just that I think you two are pretty close."

"We're friends, nothing more."

"I'm sure that's it" she said not convinced. Shelby rolled her eyes and walked out of the bathroom. She noticed Walt checking her out and wrapped her arms protectively around her body. She sent him a dead glare and came downstairs.

"Mom, I'm going. Don't wait for me!" she said loudly walking outside where Daisy was already waiting.

"Scott, are you ready now?" Auggie called from downstairs. It had been ten minutes he was waiting and was getting pretty mad.

"Yeah, I'm coming" Scott said exasperated.

As they arrived at the party, the girls were already here. They all took a beer; and laughed and joked around with each other for several hours. People were getting pretty drunk but without Juliet, Scott was feeling kind of lonely because Daisy was off with David, Auggie was flirting with a girl and Shelby, well she had just disappeared. That's when he spotted Ezra sitting on the couch with a black girl talking to him. He walked towards them and smiled at them.

"I was sure you'll find a way to come Ezra!" Scott said laughing, he was already pretty wasted. Ezra smiled and introduced Kat to him.

"Scott, this is Kat, she's a senior. Kat, Scott is one of my best friends." Scott nodded and sat next to them.

"Sorry guys but I spotted a friend of mine walking towards the balcony. I'll see you later maybe." Scott said after a while. Kat and Ezra were talking about things which weren't really interesting him so he had lied to escape from them. He decided to go to the balcony and saw Shelby sitting alone smoking a cigarette.

"Hey, you're here? I searched for you, you know" he said kindly as he sat down next to her.

"I needed to be alone" she said quietly.

"Oh, so you want me to leave?"

"Not really. You don't bother me at all" she smiled at him and put her head on his shoulder. He wrapped an arm around her and brought her closer.

"Scott?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you really think Juliet is fine?"

Scott shook his head and looked over at her.

"I just don't know what to do about this. She seems she doesn't want any help and I'm feeling I'm loosing her" he sadly said.

"You're not losing her Scott."

"You don't know. I mean we never talk, she is always trying to escape from a conversation or a time alone with me."

"Do you love her?"

"Shel, I don't know her anymore. I may have something for her, but I don't know if it's love."

"You two have been together for two years now. You may have an idea of what you feel for her, even though…"

"I need a drink, come on" he said avoiding her question.

"Okay" she agreed and they both got up and came inside.

At two, Daisy and Auggie decided they all should go back home, it was already late. Ezra, Shelby and Scott were so wasted that Daisy decided they should all sleep at her house, given that her father was on a business trip.

Whereas she and Auggie were laying Ezra on his bed, Scott and Shelby were flirting on the couch in the living room. When the two came downstairs what they found didn't amuse them: Scott was on top of Shelby taking away her shirt, and she was giggling stupidly. Auggie pulled Scott away from her and carried him in one of the bedrooms. When he was done with him, he took Shelby and carried her upstairs to be sure they wouldn't meet.

After this, Daisy left to her own bedroom and Auggie went back home.

Some time later, it was around four, Scott, who couldn't sleep because he was thinking of Elaine, got up and went upstairs to wash his face. That's when he saw Shelby lying in her bed, the door was slightly opened, but Scott entered the room and noticed she was mumbling something in her sleep. He closed the door quietly and went over to wake her up. He sat down on the bed and touched her arm. Her eyes slowly opened and she tried to smile at him. He knew something was wrong but didn't say anything to her. She sat down and brushed her hair out of her face.

"What is it?" she asked still faking.

"I heard you talking in your sleep. I figured you were having a nightmare" he explained as he drew closer to her. They looked into each other eyes and Shelby soon felt lost into his sexy blue eyes. On his side, Scott felt something moving inside of him as he looked at her beautiful innocent eyes. He took her face in his hands and unexpectedly kissed her. She wanted to stop him at first but decided otherwise when he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her with more passion a man had ever shown her. They began to take off each other clothes, not forgetting to be quiet, because they didn't want to be surprised by Daisy or Ezra. The kissing continued, and she wrapped her arms around his neck as he began to lift off her shirt slowly interrupting their passionate kisses. He wrapped back his arms around her waist breathing heavily and began to trace kisses from her cheek to the cradle of her neck. She let him doing this for a while until she couldn't take it anymore. She unbuttoned his pants quickly and he followed her taking her pants off leaving them rolling around in the bed in nothing but their underwear. The two of them couldn't help themselves. They knew how wrong it was and what would happen if they got caught but none of this mattered at this moment. Shelby laid on bottom while Scott kissed her neck then lower and lower until he got to her stomach where he stayed for a while. He undid her bra and pulled the rest of what she had on. Shelby knelt down in front of him and brought his lips to hers to kiss him again. Scott finally took off his boxers and they got back to the kissing. Their body rubbed up against one another and they held onto one another as Scott slowly made his way inside her. "Oh, God, Scott!" she whispered as their bodies met. Shelby moaned and Scott moved up and down. The sensations from both of them were incredible. Shelby couldn't help herself any longer and let it out as she had an orgasm.

Daisy woke up this morning with a headache. Even if she hadn't drunk a lot last night, she didn't feel very well. She got up and went into the bathroom to take a quick shower. Ten minutes later, as she was walking towards the kitchen, he noticed that Scott wasn't in the bedroom Auggie had left him. She thought at once that he must had left early in the morning. As she was preparing her breakfast, the phone rang. She took it quickly, remembering that David had told her that he would call. She smiled to herself and took the phone.

"Lipenowski residence?"

"Hi, Daisy is that you?" Unfortunately it was Juliet's annoying voice who replied.

"Yeah Juliet" Daisy answered bored.

"They called me this morning! Shel was right, they committed an error!" she said excitedly.

"What are you talking about?" Daisy didn't quite understand.

"I didn't fail at my exam! I have 86! They called this morning at home to tell me. Isn't that great?"

"Yeah, sure" she replied without enthusiasm.

"Is Shel here? I called at her house but Jess told me she spent the night at your house."

"She's probably still sleeping. To tell you, she was pretty wasted yesterday."

"Oh. And Scott is he here?"

"I don't think he's still here. I think he left early this morning."

"That's strange, his father told me he wasn't there when I called, and it was 5 minutes ago."

"Well, try again."

"No, too bad for him, I'll tell him after the others. Can I come to surprise Shelby? I could wake her up with good news. I'm sure she'll be in a good mood for the rest of the day!" she said with a childish voice

"If you want" she said tired "Look Juliet, I'm waiting for a call"

"Okay, okay I let you!" she said grinning like only she could.

Shelby woke up with a headache and an arm wrapped strongly around her waist. She turned around and faced Scott in horror. She tried to untangle herself away from his grab and got up slowly wrapping a sheet around her body. She then left for the bathroom where she took a warm shower, and cried a bit. When she returned into the room, Scott was sitting on the bed half dressed. She didn't even look at him and reached down for her clothes. Scott noticed her bending down and got up to draw her in a warm hug which lasted a long time. After a while, she regained composure and sat on the bed. They both knew it was time to talk, so Scott sat down next to her and took her hand.

"Don't worry Shel, we'll keep it secret" Scott tried to reassure her, gently stroking her hand.

"You don't understand, Scott. She's my best friend and you're her boyfriend. We didn't even use protection" she mumbled the last words looking down.

"I know. But what can we do about this? We can't tell her, not with what is happening to her now" he was now afraid of how Juliet would react to the news.

"So, you prefer lying to her and acting like nothing had happened?" she said exasperated.

"I don't know Shel."

"See, that's the problem, you never know how to act! Well, I'm going to tell her, so whether you tell with me, or no, I don't really care."

"Okay, we'll tell her together."

'Oh my Gosh, I'm so excited!' thought Juliet as she was going upstairs towards the room Shelby had spent the night.

'Wow, strange, it seems to be Scott's voice…' she mused

"Surprise!" she exclaimed opening the door. What she found didn't please her. Scott was getting dressed and Shelby had only a towel around her body. The two looked like two children who had got caught kissing or something.

"What are you doing here together?" she asked with a frown crossing her face.

"Juliet, we aren't going to lie at you" Shelby began. Juliet entered the room and sat on the chair which was near the bed. She motioned for Shelby to continue.

"Yesterday, we went to that party, and we drank a lot…" she paused "God, this is so hard" she whispered. Scott looked at her and nodded for her to go on. It was easier for him, since she was the one to tell.

"Continue" Juliet ordered.

"We slept together. We didn't really under-" Shelby stopped when she saw fury crossed Juliet's face.

"How could you? I thought you were my friend!"

"Juliet, I didn't want this to happen, we were wasted, we didn't realise what we were doing."

"You worked Scott against me with this story of me being sick just to bring him closer!" she said hysterically.

"Juliet calm down" Scott walked towards her and took her face into his hands. "You know this isn't like this."

"Leave me alone!" Juliet broke down in tears and pushed Scott away from her. He looked at her hurt and got up to leave. He only turned around a last time to find Juliet lying on the floor.

"Oh, Scott please, help me, don't leave me. I need you" she sobbed pleading to him. Scott drew her in a hug and she hid her face into his chest. He looked over at Shelby who was looking back at him, tears in eyes. He mouthed 'I'm sorry' and led Juliet outside. Before they weren't completely out, Juliet turned around and looked at Shelby in disgust.

"I will never forgive you for what you did to me"

"Jules, I-" Juliet just cut her off and shook her head.

"You will be sorry for what you did." With that she stormed out never looking back once.

What will happen in 5th Chapter?

"I don't understand why he would want her and not me, mom." she said crying.

"Dear, you need to take revenge on her. Nobody hurts you and goes out like this."

"You don't know what she did?" the girl asked surprised.

"She said to everybody I was a whore and that I made you drunk to sleep with you" she mumbled crying in his arms.

"I was victim of rumours before. Everybody thought that I had slept with Hank Ferry. The truth was that we were just good friends."

"And what did you do?"

"Nothing, I just let them talk until they got tired and found another target."

"Scott, if I learn that you saw her again, I'll commit suicide. And don't think I'm not able to do it" she said her voice threatening him.

"I'm sorry but she needs me. We can't be seeing together, at least not now"

"Guys, this is David, a friend of mine." Daisy said to Ezra and Shelby. Ezra's smile left his face and was replaced by a feeling of jealousy.