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: Queen of Shadows, hdrox, mary-023, 2008ccampbell, Melms213 : Thanks for the reviews! They were really nice.
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...
Chapter 4: A Night Out
Part One
"Good morning everybody." Shelby said unenthusiastically, walking slowly to the table where all the ex-Cliffhangers girls were already eating breakfast. She ran a hand through her dirty sweaty hair and put on a brave smile which was saying long over the night she had had.
"Hi Shellie!" Juliet smiled at her and patted a seat beside her. She flopped immediately into the chair.
"Thanks Juliet." Shelby took a cup and filled it with coffee. She drank it quickly and wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. The others looked at her like she was crazy. She wasn't in her real state, they had all noticed. "What?" She asked harshly, getting up quickly.
"I see you didn't have a good night…what happened?" Daisy asked her best friend a she took the jam pot from Juliet's hand.
"I'll tell you later." Shelby said hoarsely. She needed to get out of this house before Scott woke up.
"Okay. You don't wanna eat something?"
"No, I'm not really hungry. I'm just going to take a shower and go for a walk." Shelby said shaking her head in disgust as she saw Melody eating her toast like an animal.
"Okay. I can come with you if you want?" She just shrugged then disappeared.
"I wonder what happened to her…" Melody said pensively.
"I'm pretty sure it involves Scott." Daisy answered to her.
"Doesn't it always?" Juliet said, before taking a sip of tea. "I hope it isn't too bad…"
"Don't worry about it…if he did something very bad…I say we all we kick his butt hard." Melody said with a serious face. Sometimes Juliet was afraid she was not joking. "Relax Jules! I was kidding!" Juliet let out a breath and Daisy laughed at her.
"Ah, Juliet…" Daisy said smirking.
"Hey girls!" Ezra welcomed as Auggie and he arrived in the dining room just after Shelby left. Ezra went towards them and kissed each girl's cheek.
"And may I ask why you seem so happy today?" Melody asked with a small smile. Ezra was just so surprising! One day you couldn't tell him a thing…the other he was smiling every time.
"I don't know if you deserve it…I just spent a wonderful night in this bed! I didn't know this size even existed." He sat next to Melody and nudged her with a mischievous smile.
"What again?" She groaned, looking up at him.
"I heard you had a good night yesterday?"
"Excuse me?" She said feeling her cheeks reddening.
"Yeah, David's relating everything to Chris, Scott and Marco right now…" He said with a smirk. Melody closed her eyes for a second to calm herself, then opened them and got up silently.
"Where are you going?" Juliet asked worried for her.
"Beating the crap out of my boyfriend. Have a good breakfast everybody." With that she left them all very disgruntled.
"I wonder what's going to happen to our boyfriends too, Jules." Daisy said with a smirk.
"Well if they stayed there listening at David, I think they deserve nothing good." Juliet responded with a sweet smile.
"Like I said yesterday…the only guys good for you all are Auggie and I. Don't you see the others are little bastards?" Ezra said with good humor. Daisy decided to play along and leaned over to kiss him on the lips. Unfortunately, Ezra had seen her coming and put his hand behind her head, answering her kiss with passion. Daisy pulled him the furthest away she could and wiped her mouth mad.
"What was that Ezra? Are you stupid or what?" She yelled getting up and slapping his face fiercely. Ezra brought his hand to his cheek and smiled with puppy eyes.
"Don't worry, I won't tell your boyfriend…we'll have to keep it a secret." He laughed and soon the others joined his fun.
"You all are jerks!" Daisy said very mad, getting up and leaving the room fuming.
Part Two
"He doesn't have feelings anymore Dais!"
"You don't know that for sure. I see how he looks at you Shel…I am positive he loves you."
"Yeah like a friend…why would he lie?"
"You think he's looking at you like Ezra or Auggie do?"
"I…I don't know." She hesitated lost and confused by Daisy's statements.
"Shelby, listen to me…he is just as afraid as you are to restart your relationship."
"Why? Why are we so afraid?"
"I don't know Shel. But I'm sure things will go better once you two talk about it seriously."
"But what about what he told me yesterday?"
"He was tired Shelby…he didn't know what he was saying…"
"Yeah right…" They continued walking until they reached a clothes shop. "Come on, let's get inside. Maybe we'll find something nice?" Daisy spotted a cute guy inside and nodded.
"Okay." Daisy agreed following her inside the shop. She noticed the guy was the cash register and smiled to herself when he looked Shelby over. If Scott wouldn't admit his feelings for her best friend on his own choice, she was going to push him into doing it…
"Hi girls!" The guy welcomed with a smile. He was about their age, rather tall and black. Daisy thought he looked like a sportsman with his looks. She looked over at Shelby and noticed she was looking him over too. "So, uh, are you searching for something particular?" He asked walking towards them and smiling again.
"Yes. In fact we're searching for a boyfriend for her. Her name's Shelby an-" Before she could go any further, Shelby cut her off mad. Daisy held her hands out in defense and left the shop thinking her best friend was following her.
"She's kidding. Don't worry about her, she's a bit crazy. And I'm not searching for a boyfriend." Shelby explained quickly, afraid the guy would begin flirting with her.
"Oh, that's a shame 'cause you're rather cute if you want my opinion." He said charmingly.
"Thank you." Shelby blushed a bit and went to see if some clothes were nice for her to wear. The guy followed her.
"My name's Nick." He said holding out his hand for her to shake. Shelby turned to look at him and smiled intrigued.
"Nice to meet you."
"You, too. So that's' the truth? You have a boyfriend?"
"Why are you so interested by my life?"
"'Cause I think you're pretty."
"Well, to tell you the truth, no. I have nobody."
"Good…very good…"
Part Three
Juliet sprinkled Shelby from perfume as Melody was fixing her hair. "So tell me again…what are you going to do with him?"
"Oh, uh he asked me to go eat something and then see a good movie."
"That's great for you! Maybe you'll realize that Scott isn't the only guy on earth." Melody said with a smirk.
"Or she'll realize he's the only one for her…" Daisy added, smiling at Shelby.
"Please girls…could you stop talking about Scott; this is the past and I'm trying to move on." Shelby said tired of their attempts of bringing them back together when she knew she didn't have anymore hope of seeing it becoming true. Not after what he had said the night before.
"Yeah sorry about that." Juliet apologized with a small smile. Chris entered the room and saw all the girls were preparing Shelby.
"What's up here?"
"Shelby's having a date with a guy she met this morning." Juliet said squealing happily
"Oh…does Scott know?"
"No, and you better not telling him a thing." Shelby warned him with a look that clearly said 'if you do, you're dead."
"Yeah, okay, I promise I won't."
"Thanks." Shelby responded with a nice smile.
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Ezra smiled as he heard Chris and the girls discuss Shelby's interesting evening. He quietly left the corridor and went to see Scott who was swimming in the pool with Auggie and Marco. "Hey guys, you'll never believe this?"
"What Ezra? You found a girlfriend?" Marco said with a laugh.
"No…but someone else did…Shelby. She's having a date tonight."
"What?" Scott said incredibly. "Yesterday again, she was telling me she was still in love with me."
"Well apparently she moved on for good."
"Yeah." Scott said with a smile. But inside what he felt was pain and suffering.
"Aren't you sad meat?" Auggie asked slightly confused.
"No. Why would I be?"
"Well, we all thought that…"
"What?"
"No…drop it."
"No, tell me. What did everyone thought?"
"That you two were still in love with each other. Apparently we were wrong." Marco finally said.
"Yeah, you all were." Scott said quickly then dipped his head into the water and began to swim again. After a while he was fed up and wanted to see Shelby before she left with her date. He went back inside the house and headed directly to his room. He changed into his casual clothes and began thinking of what had happened between Shelby and him. He had been a jerk with her. He was only starting to realize it. He left his room and closed the door behind him. He stopped for a second as he heard laughers. Shelby's laughers. He watched as she opened the door of her room, not even noticing him. Daisy glared at him mad and nudged Shelby. She said something into her ear and Daisy walked inside her room.
"So I heard you're going out?" Scott said from his place. He just couldn't move. Shelby however walked towards his spot and leaned against the wall.
"Yeah. A guy invited me…" She answered with a smile.
"A guy?"
"Uh, uh…he's working in a shop this summer."
"Ah, and when will you be back?"
"Uh, I don't know. Why do you care anyway?" She said sharply, not looking him into the eye.
"I am your friend." He said defensively.
"Yes, that's it, a friend. Nothing more." She finished the small talk and went to see if Daisy had found her scarf. Scott stood there and wiped his eye as a tear threatened to fall from it.
Part Four
"I'm glad you showed me this thing. That was beautiful, the most gorgeous view I never saw. Thank you." Daisy said as she walked back to the house wrapped in Marco's arms.
"I'm happy you liked. You're the first person I take away there. I didn't even show this wall to Chris."
"Why not?"
"Because I thing that's too personal. That's a part of my secret garden and I want to share it with you."
"You're too special. I don't know what I'd do without you in my life…"
"I love you Daisy. And that's you who are special." Daisy blushed a little bit and leaned over to give him a quick kiss. Marco chuckled as they almost entered into a telegraph pole.
"I love you too, Marco. I never thought I would fall in love like that. I remember again when I was mocking S & S at Horizon. I was even slightly jealous because Shelby was spending too much time with him!"
"I guess things changed."
"Yeah, since I met the perfect man."
"I'm so happy I met you."
"Me too…I keep thinking that if all those events happened in my life, it was to meet you…"
"That's interesting." Marco said with a smile. He didn't believe in fate, neither in cards but he respected Daisy's believes. Daisy smirk at him and gave him a nudge as they reached the villa.
"Look at the balcony…Scott's waiting for Shel." She said pointing to him with her fingers.
"Poor guy…" Marco said bitterly. Daisy shook her head smiling. Whatever was the case, he was always defending the guys in relationships.
"That's him who broke up with her." She reminded him.
"I know but I can't help but feel sorry for him. Look at him, he inspires a certain pity, don't you think?"
"Well, pity isn't really good. I'm going to talk to him and wait for Shelby to come back. I wanna know everything of her little date. You join me?"
"Uh, no. That's doesn't tell me anything good. I'm going to see the others. They're apparently playing games tonight."
"Games? What sort of games?"
"I don't know…strip poker. That sort of games."
"What?"
"I'm kidding. Knowing Juliet, that won't be much more than monopoly™. Daisy smiled at him and went upstairs to see Scott. As she walked onto the balcony she found him with a cigarette and a whisky glass between his fingers.
"What's that Scott?" She motherly asked, pointing to the glass.
"Orange Juice. Why? You think I'd be drinking only because my ex is outside with a guy nobody knows and that anything could happen to her? Wouldn't that be stupid?"
"First thing, I know the guy and two; I could be careless of what could happen to you."
"I should have guessed." Scott muttered, taking a puff of his cigarette.
"You're such a jerk Scott Barringer. Look at yourself, you're pitiful!" Daisy said with a mean smile.
"Shut up Daisy! You better take care of your own problems."
"I don't have any problems!"
"Oh yeah? And what about a sexual frustration?"
"Excuse me? Did you really say what I think you did?"
"Yes."
"You really are the most stupid guy I know! I hope Shelby will have fun and screw this guy tonight."
"Shut up! Do you even know what you're saying? Thankfully she isn't here to hear-" Scott's voice died as he heard voices outside. "That's her." He whispered and they both approached the open window to hear and see what Shelby and Nick were doing. Scott's eyes widened as the guy kissed the girl he loved. He felt like someone had taken his heart apart and ripped it. He bit his lip as he watched Shelby pulling the guy body closer against hers. How was he going to win her back now? He quietly walked to his room, hearing Daisy whisper his name but never answering. All he wanted was to sleep now… He went to the bathroom and brushed his teeth softly. Everything he had done tonight had been like a duty. Just as he was about to go back to his room, he knew he couldn't. He had to talk to Shelby before it would be too late.
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Shelby entered her bedroom happily. Her plan had worked better than she had hoped. Daisy had related to her the conversation she had had with Scott and how sad he had been. He was still attached to her, she was sure of it now.
"Shelby?" Shelby started and lighted the room.
"Scott? What are you doing in my room?" She asked showing her surprise.
"I need to talk to you."
"I don't think that's the right time."
"Is it serious with this guy?"
"What guy?"
"The one you just kissed goodnight."
"Nick? You could do an effort and say his name. And yes it may be serious. But how do you know about the kiss? Were you spying on me?" Shelby continued her game and she was particularly enjoying it.
"Maybe…"
"I thought it was clear, though."
"What was clear?"
"That it was over between us. Why won't you just let me live my life like I want?"
"You're right. I'm sorry for bothering you at this time. Goodnight." Scott said sadly and got up, walking back to the bathroom to join his room.
"Scott! Wait."
"What?" He asked turning around to look at her.
"It's not serious. With Nick."
"Oh?"
"Uh, uh."
"Okay. Night Shel."
"Night Scott."
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Shelby woke up during the night. She just couldn't sleep. She went to the bathroom and drank water but nothing worked. She needed to know the feelings Scott felt for her, and she needed to know right now. She looked at her watch. It was hardly five. She walked towards Scott's door and tried to open it but it was locked. What was the interest in sleeping next to each other if the doors were locked?
"Scott." She whispered against the door. "Scott please, I wanna talk."
"It can't wait until tomorrow?" She heard his hoarse voice respond at once.
"No."
"Okay. Give me two minutes." Scott sat up in his bed and wrapped a sheet around his waist …you see he was sleeping naked. He got up and went to open the door. Shelby entered quickly and closed the door behind her. She went to sit on his bed and he followed her. "Okay, what do you wanna tell me?"
"I'm just going to ask a simple question."
"Okay…what's it?"
"Do you love me?"
"Shel…"
"Just answer. That's yes or no."
"Yes, I do."
"Okay. That's all what I needed to know." She leaned over and gave him a kiss. He didn't kiss back and even pulled away.
"Only like a sister."
I hope you liked…I know that was sad…but I have a surprise for the next chapter. A very good one. You'll be astonished…
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