HOLIDAY
Summary: The Cliffhangers decided to go on holiday together after their graduation of Horizon.
Rating: T all the time.
Genre: Romance, Drama, and involves some Humour.
Disclaimer: I don't own any character descended from the TV show! And I'm not earning money by writing fanfictions about it!
A/N: Hey, thanks to mary-023, lisa, FrostySnake, Emer, Queen of Shadows, 2008ccampbell, ShalBrenfan, and trish for all the great Reviews I received! I'm glad that so much people like this story!
Emer: To tell you the truth, since my boyfriend and I broke up, I have a lot more time! I'm not sad through; he is still a good friend of mine…
FrostySnake: Of course, we'll find out about Daisy's others talents…actually she's very good at annoying her friends… (lol)
Info: Scott and Shelby broke up a few months ago and are now best friends. They're very close and the Cliffhangers are sure they're still in love with each other. Juliet and Auggie aren't together anymore since almost two years. Juliet is going out with Chris; Auggie is single. Daisy's boyfriend is Marco (Chris's twin). And David is with Melody, a ridgerunner, better friend with the cliffhangers than with her own group.
Characters: All the original students of the show, except Kat… And new characters that I own:
Marco: He landed up at Horizon with his twin-brother Chris after the death of their loving mother who was working in one of the Twin Towers of New-York. He did drugs to mask his pain and forget everything around. Their father is a rich businessman who didn't have time to deal with them.
Chris: Same history as Marco. Except he didn't do drugs; he was a cutter.
Melody: She had a physical abusing alcoholic mother, who died of an overdose. She ran away from her father's house because she felt like a stranger in his family. Complicated story because when her parents had her, his father had already a wife...
I forgot their physical description for those who are interested. Marco and Chris are both dark-haired, rather tall, with cute brown eyes. They're both really charming. Imagine someone like…Johnny Depp when he was playing in 21 Jump Street.
Melody has curly red hair and deep green eyes and freckles on the cheeks. She's really short, about Kat's height and even thinner than Juliet.
Chapter 1: Their departure
Part One
That was it; they were finally leaving the place they had called home for so long. Shelby looked at Jess smiling sadly. She didn't know when they were going to see each other again. Jess was supposed to stay at Horizon for two more years before being free too. They hugged tightly, whispering sweet and comforting words to each other, not being able to pull apart. But it was the first time Shelby felt relieved to leave her little sister. Because she knew that she didn't risk anything by letting her stay at Horizon. After about five minutes, they finally pulled back softly. Daisy could see tears watering from her best friend's eyes. She had changed a lot…letting herself go a little more. She wasn't afraid of fully living her life anymore; part of it because of Scott. He had been an incredible support for her. Marco wrapped an arm around Daisy's shoulders, bringing her close to him.
"Everyone's ready to go?" Scott asked; doing his job of leader, like he always had loved to do so. Juliet nodded happily, but sadly all the same. She hugged Sophie once more and finally released her to put her bags (numerous!) into the trunk.
"Come on…we wasted time enough!" David whined already sitting in the car, at the driver seat. Scott muttered something under his breath and took place in the second car. The Cliffhangers had divided in two groups of five: David, Melody, Juliet, Chris and Auggie in the first car and the rest in the other (means Daisy, Marco, Shelby, Scott and Ezra). Everyone took place in their respective cars and David started the car happily. Peter, Sophie, Jess, the other counselors and some students waved at them, tears flowing from their eyes (yes, even Peter's!). Juliet blew them a kiss and squeezed in the car.
"Let's the fun begin!" She said turning on the radio, and raising the sound. David shook his head slightly annoyed as she immediately began singing.
"Oh, Juliet! Just shut up please!" He pleaded, furrowing his eyebrows. Juliet smiled sweetly at him and continued singing louder. Melody sat next to Chris and Auggie behind and pulled out a map.
"Jules, that's for you since you wanted to be in front to see if we were taking the right way." She said bitterly, handing it to her. "Lead us!" Juliet turned on her seat to look at her and smiled sweetly.
"No problem; I always had a good sense of orientation." She stated proudly, taking the map and at once looking at it. She waited a few seconds and then said: "Follow the others; I'm sure they know better where they're going."
In the other car, the organization had been made better. Since Scott was driving, and Marco had memorized the way after studying the map a few days before, they knew exactly were they were going and what road they should take. In the back of the car, Daisy was sitting between Ezra and Shelby. The three of them were chatting quietly about what they will do after their holiday. The all were going to university, not far away from each other.
"Yeah, Scott's having the same class of law as I have. We took it on purpose, to be together." Shelby said softly, smiling brightly at Ezra.
"That's great for you. But what he's doing exactly?"
"Uh, he just wants to do some law in case of his father wants him in his society later."
"I don't see Scott working in an office…" Daisy muttered, looking at him as he was having a passionate conversation with Marco, about football players.
"Me neither, but I'm not going to complain…at least I'll see him again." Shelby said pensively, glancing at the roadsigns they were passing. "Marco, are you sure we're taking the good way?" She said louder, cutting off the guys' conversation. Marco looked at her through the driving mirror, smiling confidentially.
"Don't worry…it is." He said grinning at her.
"When are we going to stop?" Ezra asked tiredly after a while. Shelby looked down at her watch.
"Ezra, we've only gone for less than an hour. Shut up and try to sleep if you don't know what to do." Shelby said harshly, herself already being fed up with the trip. In fact she would have liked to drive right now…but it wasn't her turn to.
"We should have gone in train…it would have been much easier." Ezra muttered under his breath.
"Stop complaining. It is better to have a car, once we're settled there."
"That's you who tell that."
"Shut up!"
"No, you shut up!" Shelby took her pillow (which she had taken with her to sleep in the car!) and brought it to the window.
"Sleep good Shel!" Scott said grinning at them.
"Thanks." She yawned and closed her eyes. She was soon slipping into another world.
"Okay guys, we'll stop to take lunch in about twenty minutes." Marco said quickly. Scott, Daisy and him had switched places, and now Daisy was driving. Scott had changed and was now sitting between Ezra and Shelby.
Shelby awoke to the sound of Marco's voice and groggily sat up yawning. Scott? When did he even sit next to her? She wondered to herself.
She looked over at him and saw a wet spot on the shoulder of his shirt where she had
accidentally drooled. She tried not to laugh but didn't succeed.
At this time, Scott awoke also; his light blue eyes fluttering open. "We almost there?" he tiredly asked Daisy who was apparently parking the car.
Daisy smiled at him. "Yes," she replied.
"Good," Scott muttered.
There were some seconds of silence after that.
Then Shelby turned from her position at the window to look at Scott. "I am sorry; I drooled on your shirt while we were sleeping." She apologized pointing to the wet spot. Scott looked over at it and smiled at Shelby.
"That's okay…at least it's not Ezra who did it…I would have killed him otherwise."
"I guess I'm lucky then…"
Part Two
Shelby smiled as the waitress arrived with her plate full of chips and chicken wings. She couldn't believe how lucky she was! She had waited almost three years to eat something looking like real food! "Thank you." She said politely to the waitress. She licked her lips and smiled again as she took a wing between her fingers. She dipped it in the Mexican sauce and brought it to her mouth "Um! This is so good!" She moaned with pleasure finally tasting it. Melody put her fork on the left side of the table and smiled sarcastically at her.
"Stop right now Shel! One would think that you're having sex right here." She exclaimed a little loud. Some people turned to look at the group amused. Shelby blushed embarrassed. Melody apparently didn't know how to keep quiet in a restaurant.
"Funny." Shelby mumbled as everyone at the table laughed.
Scott leaned over her ear. "You're way louder when it comes to pleasure…" He whispered into it. They had never made love together but had gone pretty far when they were still a couple. Shelby giggled a little and thought of a feedback to throw at Melody.
"What do you know about sex anyway?"
"What do you mean what I know? I'm not a virgin if that's what you're asking."
"I know that. Hey David, if she's moaning like that when you two do it, you should worry about it!" Melody kicked one of her feet from under the table. A gasp escaped from Scott's mouth.
"That was my foot, Mel!"
"Sorry." She apologized, fluttering her eyelashes sheepishly at him. Scott nodded smiling whereas Shelby narrowed her eyes at her, a bit jealous.
"Yeah well…about what you said Shelby, I can assure she's a lot more expressive, aren't you babe?"
"I don't know…when we do it together, I fall into a sort of a trance…" She said slyly, putting her hand on his tight and squeezing it softly.
"Thank you but we don't need any details about your sex-life." Juliet interrupted her, embarrassed by the turn the subject was taking. "And hurry eating; in case you didn't notice, we don't have all the afternoon!" Shelby and Melody both rolled their eyes at her and began eating again, quicker. They left about half an hour later and took the road back. No incident happened and they finally decided to halt for the night in a shabby hotel in edge of road. Auggie climbed out of the car stretching his arms and legs. Marco, Daisy, Scott, Shelby and Ezra had gotten there a few minutes before and were waiting for the others in the cold wind.
"What happened? Did you lose yourselves?" Ezra asked the second group as they all went to take their things from the trunk.
"No…we just had to stop 2 minutes because Juliet absolutely needed to pee." Melody said with a small laugh. Juliet blushed and re-entered the car to take her purse with her.
"We can go now?" Shelby grumbled impatiently, being a little cold as she only had a simple tank top. Scott noticed she was shivering and wrapped an arm around her shoulders, bringing her close to his warm body. She smiled at him gratefully.
"Yeah, come on." Daisy said, glancing at them. She felt Marco putting his hand on her back and began walking towards the hotel.
"I hope there will be rooms enough for all of us." Juliet spoke into the night as they were about to go inside. Chris smiled reassuringly at her, and took her hand in his.
"Don't worry; if there's not, some of us will sleep in the cars."
"Oh, yeah, great idea…" Ezra muttered unenthusiastically, following the couple inside. Daisy went ahead with Marco to the reception while the others waited in the lounge. Shelby and Scott sat down on a couch still wrapped in each other's arms. Shelby brought her hand to her mouth and yawned quietly. "You're tired?" Scott whispered into her ear, slowly stroking her long blonde hair.
"A little. How long did I sleep in the car?"
"About 4 hours I think."
"That much?" She asked incredibly. Scott nodded and kissed the top of her head.
"You better sleep well tonight because tomorrow you'll be driving first." He warned her in a fatherly tone. She smiled up at him and yawned again.
"I know, but don't worry about me. I ha-"
"Look. We only took five rooms of two beds since it was a bit expensive as we had planned. It's up to you to choose your roommate." Daisy interrupted her as Marco and she came back from the reception. She sat at the end of the couch were the two were staying and smiled down at them. "I was thinking about you and me, are you up for this?" She asked Shelby, leaning against the wall behind her. She almost brought down a picture that was hanging on it and got up, afraid of doing a bad move again.
"Okay…where is our room, then?"
"Come with me, I'll show you." Shelby nodded and untangled herself from Scott's possessive embrace. She got up and took her bag into her right hand.
"Goodnight everybody!" Shelby said with a small yawn as she followed Daisy. They all shouted 'goodnights' in return and began choosing their roommates.
"If you need to know where I am, I'm going to take the room just on the other side of the corridor with Scott!" Marco yelled after his girlfriend. She turned and winked at him.
"See you soon then!" She shouted back before disappearing into the elevator with Shelby.
"So, uh, why didn't you take a room with Marco?" Shelby asked her once they were outside the elevator.
"I didn't want to make you into an uncomfortable position…you would have been with Scott; that's for sure."
"And? Where's the harm in that?"
"I know what would have happened."
"Oh really? Mind to tell me?"
"You would have either argue again, or sleep together."
"Daisy, our relationship is totally pure, now. And we don't fight anymore." Shelby declared, putting her bag on the bed on the left side, taking some things out of it.
"Yeah, right." She said not convinced about it. "Look, I'm gonna see Marco…I'll see you later?"
"Sure, I'm going to take a shower; I feel so dirty!" Shelby said walking towards the room, towel and vanity-case in hand.
"Okay. See you soon!" Daisy yelled and opened the door of the bedroom.
"Yeah, you too!" She responded back from the bathroom.
Daisy sat on her bed anxiously, eating her fingernails nervously. She heard the door of the bathroom opening and sighed quietly.
"Shelby, would you be okay if we switched partners with Scott and Marco?" Daisy said unsurely, looking up at her friend as she came out of the bathroom.
"What?"
"Well, Marco and I, we'd like to have a little time to ourselves…"
"Can't you wait until we're in Florida?"
"Oh, come on Shelby! It's just Scott!"
"Yeah, and he's snoring."
"It never disturbed you before…"
"How do you know?"
"Oh, come on, you'd have complained if it had bothered you that much!"
"Okay…first of all we never spent an all night together because of Horizon's curfew. Second…I have to feel well tomorrow because I'm driving and Scott's already teasing me about women not knowing how to do so. Third…you have to be in form and not being tired, too."
"You look like Peter, that's not good!"
"I'll take that as a compliment."
"Come on please! Just two hours then!"
"I know how two hours will end up Dais! Plus, you chose to be with me first…if you didn't want it you should have said it earlier. What about the fact you didn't want me to be with Scott?" Daisy ignored her and got up from her bed.
"Okay…if you don't want it, maybe I can convince Scott to leave their room…I bet he'll sleep in the corridor…" She said mischievously. Shelby sighed, wrapping a small towel around her wet hair; she couldn't let Scott stay in the corridor.
"Okay, okay, but two hours sharp!"
"Thank you Shel; you're the best!" Daisy went to hug her smiling brightly. She headed towards the door and opened it, facing Scott. "That's okay, you can come in!" She said excitedly, running towards the chair putting next to her bed and taking her purse in her hand. Shelby glared at her, realizing that she had already planned everything. "See you later! Thanks you two!" Scott smiled back at her and sat on the bed, glancing at Shelby.
"I'm sorry about that. I just couldn't refuse." Shelby apologized, taking her nightgown with her and going to the bathroom. Scott chuckled, taking away his shoes, and laid down on Daisy's bed.
"It's okay…Marco did the same with me." Scott said relaxing, massaging his temples with the tip of his fingers for a few minutes.
"You have a headache?" Shelby asked coming back from the bathroom, and noticing him rub his forehead. She sat on the side of the bed and brought the back of her hand on top of his.
"No…I'm fine, just incredibly exhausted and a bit nervous."
"You want a massage on the back?"
"Uh, I don't know…"
"It would relax you better than what you've been doing. Remember when I did you one, last year after our trip in the mountains? The first hike we did without a supervisor?"
"Yeah, I remember perfectly this one. That was the best massage anyone had ever done to me." Scott lifted his shirt, revealing his perfect upper body to Shelby and turned onto his stomach.
"Okay, let's do this." Scott sighed happily and closed his eyes as she began to massage his sore shoulders. He groaned, and she stopped.
"Am I hurting you?" She whispered.
"No, it's good. Keep going, you're just perfect." He murmured softly, pulling his hands under the pillow. That went on for about five minutes before Shelby was fed up with doing it. She stopped abruptly and Scott tensed. "Are you finished?"
"Yeah, sorry but I'm too tired…"
"That's okay. Thank you." Shelby responded with a smile and went to clean her hands and teeth. Scott sat back and took a book from inside his bag and began reading it. She got back several minutes later, ready to go to bed.
"You're going to sleep?" Scott asked putting his book beside him on the night table and popping on his elbow to watch her slipping into the bed. She nodded and yawned once more. "No goodnight kiss?" He asked slyly smiling at her.
"Come giving me one then…" Scott sighed but got up and went to her side. He knelt down in front of her and kissed the tip of her cold pink nose. She giggled wrapping an arm around his neck before he could leave. She kissed his cheek soundly and released her grip. "Goodnight Scott."
"Night Shel."
"Look at them! They're both sleeping like babies! We shouldn't wake them up!" Marco protested.
"Only Scott is going to be wakened. If we don't do this, Shel will be so mad."
"Okay, do this then…I'm not playing a part in this job." Marco groaned, crossing his arms in front of his chest. He leaned against the door and watched playfully as Daisy shook Scott's arm a little.
"You're lucky he didn't sleep naked…" He commented upon the fact Daisy had lifted up the sheets when Scott had groaned, and turned around.
"What? He sleeps naked?"
"Not at horizon…but he told me once that he was used to do it before Elaine and Horizon…" He confessed quietly, noticing his friend was finally waking up.
"Daisy? Marco? You two are here?" Scott whispered in order not to wake Shelby who was still sleeping. He put the light of the lamp on the night-table on and wiped his eyes, readjusting them to the light.
"You can go back to your room, my dear." Daisy told him. She walked back towards her boyfriend and hugged him. "Goodnight you."
"Night babe." They passionately kissed for a few minutes and Scott looked at them sadly whishing he could do the same with someone…
"Come on Marco, you'll see her in a few hours." He took Marco's arm, forcing him to pull away from Daisy. Marco smiled apologetically and followed him to their room. Marco turned around and saw his girlfriend about to close to door.
"I love you Dais!"
"Love you too!"
Part Three
"Chris! Auggie! It's time to wake up!" Juliet opened the curtains and the sunshine immediately lighted up the room. Auggie put his head under his pillow, wincing as he heard Juliet's voice again. "Come on! All the others are already up and they're taking their breakfasts. We're leaving in an half an hour."
"Jules…" Auggie whined. He heard Chris stiffing a laugh and laughed back.
"I wonder how she can be like it this early in the morning."
"Yes…well I wonder if I'm not going to be deaf before arriving to the house…if she wakes us up every morning." Auggie responded chuckling a little.
"Half an hour…we won't even have time to eat." Chris sadly stated, finally sitting in his bed.
"I guess we'll have to take it in the car."
"I don't want my car to be dirty because you don't know how to eat neatly." Chris said with a frown.
"Look…you wanna go first to the bathroom or I can?"
"No go…I'll sleep five minutes more…" He said reluctant to move and pulling the cover back on his head.
"Okay." Auggie got up and went to the bathroom, not bothering locking the door behind him.
The other ex-Cliffhangers were all sitting at a table chatting quietly and looking at the map. "We should be able to drive until St Paul in the Minnesota, here." Scott said pointing out the city on the map.
"You think we'll be apt to go there in one day?" David asked incredibly, looking down at the plan, perplexed. Scott only nodded, self-confident.
"I think Scott's right." Shelby said at her turn.
"Figures." Daisy said smirking. Shelby narrowed her eyes at her and Juliet giggled getting up. "I'm gonna make sure Chris and Auggie didn't fall asleep again."
"We should have gone to California…" David muttered into his girlfriend's ear. She shook her head smiling and ran a comforting hand through his dark hair.
"I'll come with you." Ezra told Juliet and followed her upstairs.
"I wonder what's up with him lately." Marco said as he watched Ezra leaving the restaurant.
"I think he's a bit depressed of not having a girlfriend." Shelby said and Marco shrugged.
"We'll find someone for him once we're in Florida." Scott said confidently.
"Who would want a guy like him as a boyfriend?" Melody asked. Everyone except David glared at her. "What? That's the truth, no? For example, would you want him Shel?"
"He's not my type." Shelby answered with a smirk.
"Oh and what's your type? Ex-football player, blond and tall, with a name like Scott or something?" Daisy said teasing her best friend. Shelby and Scott both threw her annoyed looks.
"Shut up for once Dais." Scott muttered, loud enough for her to hear.
"He's right Daisy, just let them." Marco said defending the two blondes. Daisy narrowed her eyes at him and began sulking.
"Well, I'm going to call Peter to tell him where we are." Shelby said getting up and walking towards the doorway. She had seen a phone cab the night before outside, just near the hotel entrance.
"I'm coming with you." Melody decided, taking her purse with her. She gave David a small kiss and followed Shelby outside. They both walked silently until Shelby finally spoke.
"I'm so fed up with Daisy's attempts of making Scott and I go back together." She complained, searching in her bag for money.
"Yeah, I understand. She's a real pain when she decides to annoy people. Imagine what relief Peter, Soph and the other counselors must be feeling now she isn't at Horizon anymore. That girl; she doesn't know when to stop and has no limits!"
"Um, um. Do you have money? I only took bills with me."
"Yeah, hold on."
"Thanks." Shelby dialed the phone number of Peter and Sophie's house and waited until someone respond. Melody pressed her ear against the other side of the phone and listened the conversation:
'Scarbrow Residence?'
'Peter? It's Shelby.'
'Oh! I'm glad you took time to call! Are you all okay?' He asked and his voice sounded concerned.
'Yeah fine, a bit tired.'
'Where are you? Did you stop to sleep?'
'We stopped in a hotel for the night.'
'That's good.'
'Um, um. How is life going here at Horizon?'
'Pretty fine. But don't think about Horizon anymore. You life is outside now.'
'Yeah, I know but it still feels weird when you spent three years of your life in a place and that one day you aren't anymore.'
'I know what you mean. How was the trip apart from that? Any problems with the cars?'
'No, apparently Juliet was a bit annoying during the trip in the car but we weren't together, so I don't know…but Melody does.'
'Melody's here with you?'
'She's just beside me. You wanna talk to her?'
'Yes why not? I mean, if you have the time…'
'Okay, I'll pass her to you. Oh, and say hello to Jess and kiss her for me!'
'You know I will. Be careful!'
'We allwill. Bye.' "Hey Melo, that's for you." Shelby said handing her the phone and stepping outside the cab. She waited for about two minutes until Melody had used all the money she had put inside the phone and they both left together, hoping the others were finally ready to leave this hotel.
That was a long chapter, wasn't it? I think that's the longest I wrote...
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