SECRETS

A/N: Hey, I'm back!

For once I updated quickly, and I'm really proud of me!

Here is chapter 10, just wrote it after chap 9. Still don't own anything.

I downloaded all the episodes of Higher Ground in Spanish, just to see the pictures, since I don't understand that language. It was still nice to see them. I know it can seem a little crazy, but hey I'm a fanatic! One of my favourite episodes is "Close Encounters", the tenth. The scene from the beginning with Scott and Shelby was really cute; the final one was really meaningful for me, when they hold hands after Scott told everything to his father and Peter. Just BEAUTIFUL!


Chapter 10: Surprises

Juliet watched as Auggie walked up with his new girlfriend, Amber. Amber was a small brunette, always first in class and everybody liked her. She was funny and nice with everyone. David had dated her for a while years before. When Auggie felt her eyes on him, he looked up at her and gave her a small smile. Amber noticed and smiled at her too. Juliet gave them a fake brilliant smile and left quickly the hall. She couldn't believe she was actually jealous of Auggie dating someone. She didn't understand why, she loved Scott, didn't she?

Scott and Shelby were sitting on a bench flirting when they saw Juliet walking madly outside of the building.

"What's up with her again?" Shelby asked as Scott kissed her neck lightly.

"Don't know and don't care." He mumbled softly against her skin.

"Stop it; that tickles." She said giggling as his mouth touched her when he spoke.

"That's the aim." He smiled, wrapping his arms around her waist. "Hey look at this." He whispered, discreetly pointing at Auggie and Amber.

"You think they're like…going out?" Shelby asked quietly as they saw them approaching. Scott just shrugged.

"Hey guys!" Auggie said dropping Amber's hand to shook Scott's hand. He smiled at Shelby and kissed her on the cheek. Amber smiled at Shelby and Scott as they made room for Auggie and her to sit down next to them.

"Hi Amber!" Scott said nicely smiling at her. He knew about Auggie's feelings for Juliet and couldn't help but feeling sorry for this girl.


Later that day, Scott and Auggie had one hour free and went to play basketball together.

"Why are you going out with that…girl? You will only make her sad!"

"Scott, I don't know…but, maybe that'll make Juliet jealous" he confessed looking down at his feet, ashamed of himself.

"Are you kidding me? You can't do that to Amber; she's a nice girl and she really likes you. Everybody can see it."

"I know; I like her too."

"Yeah, right. Look, I just think she deserves better."

"Look who's talking, mister perfect gentleman! You cheated on your girlfriend, then went out with two girls at the same time, and finally didn't even break up with your girlfriend and just show up with someone else one day."

"You know why I didn't break up with Juliet sooner."

"You never broke up Scott." Auggie pointed throwing him the ball. Scott smirked and made a basket.


Juliet's mother made her way down the living room, where Juliet was on the phone with her grandmother. She waited until she finished, checking her over as she got up.

"Juliet, did you check out your weight last week?" she asked suspiciously.

"Yes mom"

"And how much did you take?"

"What?" Juliet asked fearing the worse.

"How much?" Her mother repeated calmly.

"I, uh, I didn't take a kilogram. I swear."

"See, that's the problem with you Juliet. You don't know exactly how to take care of yourself." She paused an instant before continuing, not even noticing the tears which began to flow from her daughter's eyes. "If you want to win back Scott's love, you have to be perfect and irreproachable." She took Juliet's chin with her manicured fingers and lifted it up.

"Do you understand?"

"Yes mom." Juliet nodded giving a small smile. "Can I go now? I have a lot of work."

"Of course my dear. Oh and don't forget that Hal is going to come over to diner tonight. I want you to make a good impression, okay?"

"Sure mom." Juliet sighed and went upstairs to finish her homework.


"Daisy, can we talk?" David asked her as she was talking with Ezra and Kat. She looked surprised but nodded following him outside.

"I'm sorry." He said simply, his eyes on the floor.

"Why? You didn't even try to follow me yesterday."

"I have some problems at home. I couldn't leave even if I wanted to."

"What are you talking about?" She asked noticing he was very bad looking. In fact he looked tired, like he hadn't sleep since a long time."

"I can't tell you here."

"David, you have to trust me."

"I know. Look if you still want to try something with me, I'm okay." He said quickly.

"Of course I want it." She said taking one of his hands, lacing his fingers with hers. "You want to do something tonight?"

"I can't. Look I have to go now. I'll see you tomorrow." He left her rapidly and began running down the street.

"David, we still have to talk!" She yelled after him. He waved at her as if to say 'okay' and continued running.


"You're late David" Robert Ruxton said as soon as his son entered the house.

"I'm sorry dad." He apologized quietly.

"You are not allowed to call me 'dad' when you disobey at my rules!" Robert exclaimed becoming very mad.

"Yes sir." David was about to leave when he felt a tap on his shoulder. He turned around and waited for his father to say something.

"Did I allow you to leave?"

"I'm sorry, I had a bad day."

"I don't need your lame excuses. I'm so tired of this son. You never obey to the rules." David closed his eyes knowing what was going to happen; he knew that tone too well. He soon felt a hand slapping him in the face. Robert approached his son and punched him several times.


"So, Shelby, how are you handling this thing with your stepfather?" Elaine asked as everyone at the Barringer's house was eating diner. Martin looked disapprovingly at his wife.

"What?" Shelby asked feeling a little bit nervous. She dropped her fork and looked up at Elaine, and then at Scott who looked almost as surprised as she was. "How are you aware of the situation?" She said becoming mad at her, but all above at Scott. How could he?

"Well, that's easy honey. Scott told Martin, who told me." Scott glared at her disgusted.

"HOW COULD YOU SCOTT!" Shelby yelled, getting up, ready to leave. Scott took her wrist but quickly let it go when his father motioned for him to let her go calm down. Shelby turned to look at him once more. "I know I shouldn't have trusted you."

Scott looked up at Elaine, very mad. "Why did you do that? Do you hate her that much?" He asked her as she was eating normally like nothing had happened.

"Scotty, I didn't want to make her mad, believe me. I just wanted to know how she was handling all of this." She said sweetly, giving him a smile. Scott took all of his energy to ignore her.

"Dad, can I get out of table? I have to talk to Shelby." Scott asked his father, pushing his plate on the side.

"Sure go. And tell her I'm sorry." Martin said kindly. Elaine narrowed her eyes.

"Thank you."


As she heard a tap on the window, Daisy got up and went to open it. "David?" Daisy asked surprised as she opened the window. David looked as hell, and she could easily tell he had been beaten a lot. She helped him climbing the window and sat him on her bed. He had lots of difficulties to walk and she wondered how he had even made it to her house.

"Oh God David, what happened?"

"He abused me, physically" He said sniffing a bit. His clothes were all wet, since it was running outside.

"You're going to be sick if you don't take your clothes away." She said nicely, helping him to take his shirt off.

"Okay, I'm going to search for something in my father's drawer. Stay here."

As she came back two minutes later, David was asleep on her bed hugging the pillow hardly. She found herself smiling at his cute position and put the clothes on her desk. She sat at the edge of the bed and began to stroke his hair.


"Shelby? Can I come in?" Scott asked lightly knocking on the door. When she didn't answer, he entered and found out that she was doing her suitcase.

"Don't tell me you're leaving!" He yelled becoming mad.

"Scott, I can't trust you! You promised me not to tell anyone. You just broke it." She said reaching for a shirt.

"I'm sorry." He said ashamed.

"Me too Scott. I should have known better…" She said bitterly.

"My dad wanted you to leave! What was I supposed to do?"

"You should have come telling me the truth! I don't want you to take decisions at my place! It was my story to tell."

"And where are you going?" He asked concerned, hoping she wouldn't come back to Walt, or worse, the streets.

"At Daisy's. She asked me when I came out of the hospital, I should have accepted then."

"Of course, what a bad idea to come here, uh?" He said sadly, leaving the room hurt.

"Shit!" Shelby bit her lip and finished doing her suitcase.


Another tap on the window. Daisy hoped it wasn't Ezra; she didn't want for him to see David here. She opened the window and was relieved when she saw it was only Shelby. She motioned for her friend to wait outside and climbed out the window.

"What are you doing here?" Daisy asked quickly.

"Daisy, do you have a place for me tonight?" Shelby demanded, looking desperately at her friend.

"I can't, I have to take care of David. Something serious happened to him" she explained.

"What happened with him?"

"I can't tell you. But what about Scott? Why aren't you at his house?"

"We had a fight. He told his dad about what happened to me because he wanted to kick me out of the house."

"Look, you should come back and apologize. He probably didn't know how to help you. He really cares about you, know that."

"I'm so stupid." Shelby muttered.

"No, you're not. Go now, I'll see you tomorrow." Daisy said smiling at her best friend.

"Thank you." They hugged and Shelby left, as Daisy climbed back inside her room.


As he was about to get in bed, Scott was startled by a sound coming from outside. He went next to his window and waited until he head another sound.

"Who's out there?" He asked calmly.

"Scott, it's me Shelby. Afraid of being robbed, mister Barringer?" She said laughing at him. He looked like he was going to have a heart attack.

"Shelby, what are you doing here?" He turned the lights on.

"Daisy couldn't let me stay. She already had a patient. Guess who?" Scott looked at her not quite understanding and shrugged. Shelby smiled knowingly. "David."

"I'm sorry Shel. Come on, you're going to be ill, if you stay here" he said helping her climbing the window.

"God, you're completely wet!" He exclaimed. "Why didn't you come by the door?" He asked slightly puzzled.

"It's a little late, and the lights were all off." She said tying her hair in a ponytail. "By the way, thank you."

"It's okay, you're welcome. I'm gonna take care of you." He said gently, taking her jacket off of her soaked body. He slowly ran his hands over her body and noticed how cold she was.

"Scott-" She began but he shut her up with a passionate kiss. She gently pulled back, placing her hands on his bare chest.

"Sorry, I couldn't help myself." He said shyly looking down at his feet. She lifted his chin and met his gorgeous blue eyes. She gave him a short kiss.

"Don't be sorry. It's just that I'm a little cold and I think I need to change my clothes." She stated, looking at her appearance in the mirror.

"You should take a shower too." He suggested looking down at her buttocks as she bent down to search for something in her suitcase.

"Stop looking, you're going to drool." She said sarcastically.

"How did you know where I was looking?" He asked kinda surprised, and grinned nervously.

"I know everything." She smirked at him turning to go to the bathroom.

"Oh and Shel?"

"Yeah?" She said turning to face him.

"The towels are just on the left in the closet."

"Thank you again." He only nodded.


Shelby emerged from the bathroom wearing anything but a small towel. Looking at her, Scott lost his breath. She smiled and sat on the bed next to him. God, why does she have to be so hot? Scott thought silently scanning the visible parts of her body.

"I need to find something to cover my body. I don't want to sleep completely naked." She said jokingly, getting up after having wiped her skin.

"God Shelby, you're just sitting on the clothes you took before going to the bathroom! Don't you remember?"

"Oh, yeah, stupid me!" She exclaimed smirking. She took her clothes and went back to the bathroom.

2 minutes later

"So, what are we going to do now?" She asked climbing under the cover, next to him. When he didn't answer, she looked at him and noticed he was asleep.

"Okay…" She said slowly, turning around and reaching for the lamp. She turned the light off and went to cuddle against him. He unconsciously wrapped his arm around her waist. She closed her eyes and soon fell asleep too.


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What will happen in Chapter11?

"I decided to create a group for people like you, who need help" he explained, looking at all of the teenagers who were sitting, glaring at him like he was an alien.

"Auggie, why are you doing this to me?" Amber asked sitting next to him on the couch.

"I thought that if I went out with you, I'd forget Juliet."

"What are you talking about? You two were going out together?"

"Not really."

"Juliet, you need to eat!"

"Leave me alone, Hal!"

"You should have seen his face when he found us in my bed! It was pretty funny."

"I don't think Shelby sees this like you. This should have been very embarrassing."

"What is it?" He asked gently, stroking her hair softly.

"Juliet is in the hospital. They say she tried to kill herself" she stammered shaking.

"Oh, my God! Do you want to go?" he asked smoothly lacing their fingers in support.

"Daisy, it might be possible that I'll be leaving in a few days. My mother is coming and she wants to take me back."

"I understand perfectly"

"I know what you're thinking. But I don't want to do this because you're leaving tomorrow. I want to do this because I love you David.

"I love you too."

"Don't forget me."

"I won't." He kissed her stained face and got in the car trying to put a smile on his face.


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