Promises are like Eggs

I DON'T OWN ANYTHING!

Chapter 2

There was no noise coming from the small group of seven. Peter was still not back, and no one knew quite what to say. Sophie looked around at the six teenagers; she figured she should talk to them before Peter came back with Scott.

"I know you all must be confused, but right now Scott needs your support, he's going to be going through some tough times ahead."

"I can't believe something like that happened to Scott." Juliette said quietly

"Everyone is here for a reason Jules." Sophie said

"But, I don't know, I just…I never thought that could happen to a guy."

"Will you please just shut up?" Shelby said, her head in her hands

"Shelby, everyone has a right to express what their feeling right now."

"She's just mad because Scott will never talk to her again." Juliette said while smiling

"I swear, if you don't shut your mouth…"

She was interrupted by a door being closed; she looked over to the noise and watched as Scott was lead into the room by Peter, who had an arm around his shoulder. Scott was a mess, his face was red, and still had silent tears falling. There was blood coming from one of his hands, and he was hunched over, trying to keep his face hidden. As Shelby watched, all she could think was, what have I done?

"Alright, I want everyone to get ready for bed; lights out is in a little while." Peter said with sadness in his voice

No one complained, they all walked silently out of the room, and Shelby decided she would try to talk to Scott in the morning. When the kids were gone, Sophie walked over to Peter and Scott.

"How are you Scott?" She asked gently

He just shrugged, not even looking up at her.

"I'm going to take Scott to the infirmary to get his hand checked out; can you make sure everyone is where they need to be?"

"Sure." She smiled and gave Scott one last sad glance before walking out of the room.

Peter turned to Scott, "How bout we go get you checked out?" He asked soothingly

Scott nodded

"Alright, come on." They walked to the nurse's and after determining that there were no major injuries in his hand, Peter tried to talk to Scott.

"How are you doing?"

Scott kept his head down, "I'm fine." He said coldly, although Peter could hear the pain in his voice

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"No."

"Alright…Scott, you know I have to report this, don't you?"

"Yea."

"We'll worry about that in the morning."

"Ok."

Peter shook his head in sadness, "What are you thinking about?"

"Shelby."

"Do you want to talk to her?"

"No." Scott said harshly

"Why not?"

"She lied to me; she said she wouldn't tell anyone." He said with deep hurt in his voice

"Scott you know she didn't mean to. It slipped."

"I don't care."

"So you're just not going to talk to her because she messed up?"

"I have nothing to say to her."

Peter didn't want to push Scott about Shelby; they would just have to work it out on their own, besides, Peter knew when Scott was angry about something, there was no changing his mind right them.

"Scott look at me," When he did, Peter continued, "Nothing that happened was your fault."

Scott looked away and down, but didn't say anything

"Scott?"

"Peter, I'm really tired, could we talk about this tomorrow?"

"Yea sure, I'll walk you back to the dorm."

Scott nodded and stood up; he walked out the door followed by Peter. When they reached the dorm, Scott walked up the stairs.

Before he walked through the door, Peter called him, "Scott?"

He looked back, but not directly at Peter, "Yea?"

"You'll get through this, everything will be alright."

Scott nodded then turned and entered his dorm that became silent at the sight of him. He walked into the bathroom and closed the door. Almost instantly he could hear the other boys whispering in the other room. Scott just ignored them and walked over to the sinks and mirrors lined up. He stood and looked into the middle one.

Scott looked at his overall appearance, he was surprised to see how much different he actually looked. Just the was he was standing was different, Scott started to look up, slowly he passed his face until reaching his eyes. Looking, they appeared to be darker, almost grey in color. But when he truly looked, he saw it all, he saw all the pain, confusion, blame, anger, sadness. But mainly, he saw the betrayal. Never did he doubt Shelby, but now she had let out his most toxic secret, and he just didn't understand how something like that could just "slip".

Scott looked down at the sink and turned on the water; he cupped some in his hands and threw it on his face. Scott looked back up once more, then turned the water off and walked out of the bathroom. Again the talking stopped, but this time Auggie spoke up.

"Hey Meat, you all right?" he asked quietly

"Look, I'm not really in the mood to talk about anything."

"Are you sure, cause Peter has taught us that talking about it makes you feel better." David said sarcastically

"Yea, look, just leave it." He said and laid down in bed before turning off the lamp above his bed. The other guys just eyed each other then followed Scott and got into bed.

Girls Dorm

Shelby sat on her bed staring at nothing in particular, the other girls had already turned the lights out and were fast asleep, but Shelby had too much on her mind to sleep. Every time she closed her eyes, all she saw was Scott's face staring at him angrily with tears pouring from his eyes, and instead of her being his comfort, she was the thing that had caused his pain.

Her bed moved slightly, and when she looked, Daisy was staring at her.

"The heart was made to be broken." She said mysteriously

Shelby looked at her confused, "God, you're so weird."

Daisy rolled her eyes, "He's not ready to talk to you."

"Am I over there trying to make him?"

"You're planning on it tomorrow, I can tell."

"And? I need him to hear that I'm sorry."

"He's not ready to hear it yet."

Shelby put her head in her hands, "I don't know what I'm going to do, he's going to hate me."

"Yea." Daisy agreed

She looked up annoyed, "Are you here to make things worse?"

"Look, put yourself in his place, it's like putting a kid in a bed when they still need a crib."

Shelby shook her head in confusion

"You ripped the mask he's been wearing off his face before he was ready to show the world the real Scott. He's going to hate you for a while; you just have to give him the time he needs."

"I don't think I can take him hating me."

"If the two of you together is worth fighting for, you're going to have to."

Shelby looked at Daisy, tears in her eyes, "What should I do now?"

Daisy looked at the clock over the bathroom, it read 1:35, "Right now you should sleep, then tomorrow you can see where Scott's head is, but don't be surprised by whatever his reaction is."

Shelby nodded and Daisy walked over to her bed and laid down, Shelby also laid back down in bed, and before she fell asleep she said, "Daisy?"

"Yea?"

"Thanks."

"Yea well this place would be too boring without the two love birds together."

Shelby smiled, feeling slightly comforted for the moment. She closed her eyes and was soon met by darkness.

a/n- Thanks for all the reviews, I'm so sorry this took forever! The next one should be up sooner but then it will be a while because I'm going away. I also wanted to say thank you too everyone who reviewed and continued to review for world turned black and to die for! Thanks for all your support!