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: This is the fifth chapter! Thanks to Queen of Shadows, Melms213, ShalBrenfan, 2008ccampbell and mary-023 for their reviews.

ShalBrenfan: I don't know if I'll give Scott a date…all I know is that S&S will end up together…for the rest…we'll see!

Melms213: You guessed! It was only a bad dream! I hope to see more of your works soon…because I really love your two stories 'Promises are like eggs' and even more 'The smell of Ocean.'

Queen of Shadows: That's the same! I like your stories too and when I went to your profile page I noticed you had a lot of projects for newt stories. Good luck with this and have fun!

Mary-023: When are we going to see more of your stories? I kinda miss them all!

2008ccampbell: Thank you for your fidelity. I hope you won't hate me anymore once you'll have read this chapter…

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 5: Revelations

Part One

Shelby woke up. 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 just 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."

Shelby screamed and woke up, sitting straight up into her bed, completely shocked. She had had one of those stupid nightmares. Of course she highly preferred these ones than the others with Walt and the streets. But still…why wouldn't her mind just fall into sleep too, for once. She wiped the sweat from her face and was about to get up when the door of the bathroom opened quietly.

"Shel? You okay?" Scott asked as he entered her bedroom. He probably had heard her nightmare. He went in search of the switch and knocked against the dresser.

"Ouch!" He exclaimed rubbing his knee softly.

"Scott?"

"I'm okay." He reassured her quickly. I heard you screaming my name. You had a nightmare about Walt?" He switched on the light and went to check on her.

"Not exactly but it wasn't pleasant."

"Tell me everything…what was it about?" He said sitting next to her and wrapping his arms around her for comfort. She leaned against his bare chest taking in the amazing scent of his skin.

"I don't remember." She lied wrapping her arms around his waist. She wasn't going to let him leave her tonight.

"Oh…you want me to stay here until you fall asleep again?" She nodded with a satisfied smile and he sighed. Shelby thought he didn't really want to stay and her smile faded.

"But…I mean if you prefer going back to your own bed, you can, uh?"

"That's fine Shel. It doesn't bother me at all." He said with a small smile. She made room for him to slip under the sheets next to her and smiled to herself when he wrapped his arms around her waist and brought her close to his chest. They soon fell asleep in each other arms, content with the turn of events. They had taken a step. All she needed now was to convince him they were better before…when they were going out together. And she promised herself something. She would open up to him…more than she ever had.


Part Two

"Morning you two! Did you sleep well?" Daisy asked as Scott and Shelby walked together into the dining room. She noticed the closeness of their bodies and smiled to herself. Her plan had worked perfectly. She had seen that Scott had been jealous the night before and had hoped he would do something…apparently he had.

"Yeah thanks." Shelby said with a smile, stretching her arms above her head, showing her tanned tummy to everyone.

"I never realized you had a piercing Shel." Ezra said then winced. "Does it hurt?" Shelby shook her head, breaking a smile.

"Not at all. Why? Do you want one?" She asked sarcastically.

"I was just wondering." He said defensively.

"I have one too." Melody said "I did it last year during the holiday I spent at my grandmother's house."

"Oh, and where is it situated?" Ezra asked curiously. How come he had never noticed hers too?

"I can't show you. David would be mad."

"Really?" Scott asked interested, taking part in the conversation. "Where is it?"

"On my nipple if you really wanna know." She said proudly. Scott's eyes widened, as he sat down slowly, a bit shocked.

"How come you never told us before?" Shelby asked sitting in front of her, next to Scott.

"I don't think that's one of your business what I do with my body."

"Okay…take it like that and I won't tell you anything about my love life anymore."

"Like you would have something to say." Melody challenged with a wicked smile.

"Bitch." Shelby muttered mad at her comment. Scott brought his hand on top of hers under the table.

"Don't pay attention; she's just jealous because you can show us your piercing and not her." Scott whispered to Shelby but louder enough for the others to hear. Melody narrowed her eyes at them both.

"I see you no longer are mad at each other."

"Oh, no. We decided we were much better at torturing you together than separated." Scott said with a smile.

"So, what are we going to do today?"

"How about going to the sea for a change?" David asked sarcastically as he entered the room happily.

"If you're not happy about your holiday, find a job." Shelby retorted mad as he was complaining again. It was like he spent his days at finding everything useless and uninteresting.

"Very funny Blondie. To tell you the truth, I was just thinking of it." He said with a smirk. "Oh, by the way, how was your hot date last night?" He added not noticing Scott's glare at first.

"Fine."

"That's all? No sex of any kind?" He asked on purpose, smirking at Scott. Scott just ignored him, looking down at his cereals.

"You're sultry David." Daisy stated before the conversation could go any further. Shelby gave her a grateful smile and got up.

"I'm gonna change into my swimsuit." She announced taking a toast with her.

"Yeah, me too." Daisy said following her close behind. She absolutely wanted to know what had happened between the two blondes the night before. The two friends walked silently to Shelby's room and that's only when Shelby closed the door that Daisy exclaimed: "So tell me everything! What happened with Scott?"

"Um, he went to spend the night in my bed with me after I had a nightmare."

"Oh…and did you two talk about Nick?"

"Yeah, just after I got back from my date. He was waiting for me in my room to ask me about him and if it was serious."

"Good. And what did you say then?"

"At first I told him it was none of his business because we were only friends. But then I finally said it wasn't 'cause you see…he was too cute with his puppy eyes."

"And how did he react?"

"I think he let out a quick smile, though he didn't want for me to see it." She said as they both began to laugh.

"Shel?" They heard Scott's voice call from the bathroom.

"Oops!" Daisy exclaimed quietly. "I hope he didn't hear anything."

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Is it safe to enter?"

"Sure, I was only talking with Dais." Scott entered smiling big.

"We have a plan for today! I was talking with Marco and he said we could go to Disney World for a change."

"Really?" Shelby asked smiling even bigger than him.

"Yes! But we should be ready to go quickly because there will be a lot of people on the road."

"Okay, I'm okay with it. Are you in Dais?"

"Sure, as long as nobody force me into doing things too creepy."

"You have my world. What do we need to take?"

"Uh, some money, sunglasses, a cap, and a bottle of water, too."

"Okay."

"Oh, and also your Id. cards and licenses."

"Cool. Except I don't know where Marco put mine." Daisy said with a smirk. "I better go find them right now. See you two soon." Scott remained next to the door and leaned against it.

"Yeah." Shelby said smiling back. "So, who's going?"

"Uh, Melody, David, Marco, Auggie plus us three."

"Oh, what about the others?"

"Well Ezra is not interested; and Jules and Chris want to stay together for once since they both already went to this park."

"Okay. Um, can you help me finding my purse? I don't know where I put it last night."

"Yeah sure. Look, I overheard you talking to Daisy when I was in the bathroom." Scott began as he was searching under her bed.

"Oh, sorry about that." Shelby apologized, blushing slightly.

"Yeah well. Shel, if we really want it to work, we need to be discreet and not telling the others."

"What do you mean 'want it to work'?" She asked stopping searching and looking up at him a bit confused.

"Uh, maybe I misunderstood…I thought you wanted to give us another chance." He said smiling cutely.

"Did I say that? I don't remember." She wanted to tease him a little, he deserved it.

"Sorry, I-"

"I didn't but that doesn't mean I wasn't thinking of it. But what about what you told me two days ago?"

"I don't know. I guess I just panicked. I wasn't thinking anything I said."

"Oh…not even the fact you find me beautiful?"

"I was only talking about the nasty things I said about our relationship at Horizon and everything…you see?"

"Yeah, I know what you mean. I was only kidding. What about the fact you saw me kissing Nick yesterday…"

"Jealousy got over me." He admitted softly.

"We really have to work on this jealousy thing, you know?"

"Well, excuse me but no guy kiss the girl I love except me!" He said with mock indignation. Shelby gave him a mischievous smile.

"So, you really wanna go back with me?"

"Yes, but I think we should take it slow…"

"Yeah you're right. We could be special friends then see where it leads?" Shelby proposed walking towards him in slow motion.

"Yeah, that'd be cool." He said keeping his hands into his pocket, mocking shyness.

"But do you know what special friends are supposed to do together?"

"What do you think?"

"Well…I think they're allowed to kiss."

"I guess."

"Good." She said looking up at his face with a smirk. She brought one hand to his check and softly rubbed it with the top of her fingers. Scott leaned down in order to capture her lips but they were stopped by someone knocking at the door. "I can't believe it." She whispered, breaking away from Scott. She went to open the door, only to find Ezra waiting. "What do you want?" She asked harshly; mad at him for having interrupted her little moment as she was finally making a good move with Scott.

"Nick's waiting for you in the living room."

"Shit. What does he want again?"

"Didn't tell me."

"Good luck with this." Scott said with a smile, regaining his bedroom by the bathroom.

"Thank you…" She sighed, slowly walking back to the living room with Ezra. Nick was standing there, talking to Auggie when Ezra and she entered the room. "Hey Nick." She welcomed forcing a smile. He was a nice guy after all. "I wasn't expecting you that soon."

"Yeah I know…well you let me a pretty good first impression. So, I was walking around and decided to come seeing you." He explained walking towards her unsure of how acting with her. She was so surprising that he didn't know if he was coming or going.

"Yeah, that's nice and all, but you see…we were about to leave…"

"Oh, you're already leaving? I didn't know you'd be leaving that soon. You didn't even stay a week, right?" Shelby gave out a nervous laugh.

"I'm not coming back home…we're just going to Disney World."

"Oh! That's great!"

"Yeah, I guess."

"You could come with us? I mean, since you don't work today." Daisy proposed with a nice smile. Since she didn't know about Scott and Shelby getting back together, she thought it would arrange Shelby.

"Oh…I don't know if that's…" Shelby began slowly.

"That'll be a great idea!" Melody exclaimed from behind cutting Shelby even before she could answer him. Shelby turned to look at her with anger. Melody just shrugged her shoulders.

"Cool! That'll leave us a bit more time to know about each other…I really liked last night. Shelby's so great! She even showed me how people were doing a movie kiss when I dropped her here."

"I think that's all for today Nick." Shelby only answered; a bit intimidated by the fact the others (including Scott who had just arrived) were all listening. Scott contained a laugh, realizing she had set up everything for him to see the kiss. 'Shut up!' Shelby mouthed at him as he was about to say something. She was sure he would embarrass more in front of the others. "Well, I'm gonna take my things and we can leave?" She said disappearing quickly, receiving a smirk from Scott.

"Yeah, hurry!" Marco said pulling on his sunglasses.

"Hey where did you buy those?" Scott asked, really liking their style.

"Uh, in a shop last night. Do you like? Daisy finds them a bit old-fashioned."

"No! They're cool! Daisy you definitively have no taste." Scott teased her, receiving a nudge from Marco. "Hey Nick, that's it?" He asked walking towards the poor guy his girlfriend had played with. Nick advanced and shook his hand. Scott looked at him closely and found he was looking pretty young. "Uh, can I ask you something?"

"Yeah what?"

"Just to know…how old are you?"

"Uh, seventeen. Why?"

"That's what I thought. Does Shelby know she went out with a minor?"

"I didn't tell her my age if that's what you're asking. But I guess she likes the young."

"Who likes young?" Shelby asked coming back from the bedroom.

"You knew you corrupted a minor yesterday?"

"What? What are you talking about?"

"Nick, here, is only seventeen my dear." Daisy explained with a smirk. Nick blushed a bit embarrassed.

"Really? That's why he absolutely wanted a kiss then?" The poor guy looked down at his shoes awkwardly. He couldn't believe Shelby was making fun of him in front of everyone.

"Oh, don't tell me he forced you!" Melody said mocking indignation. Shelby narrowed her eyes at her not really happy.

"You're not funny Melody." Scott defended his 'secret' girlfriend.

"Sorry, I forgot her past." She said with a smirk. David didn't find it amusing either and gave her a nudge as she was about to continue.

"Thanks David." Shelby said gratefully, knowing well he was the only one who was able to stop her when she was annoying people.

"We can go now?" Daisy asked impatiently, taking Marco's hand, leading him towards the front door. "Thank goodness!" She sighed as the others followed.

"Spend a good day Ez!" Marco said smirking at him.

"I will; don't worry about me!" He answered with a giant smile.

"Oh, and don't forget to call Peter to tell him how we're doing! That completely went out of my head yesterday." Shelby reminded him, kissing his cheek quietly.

"Have fun." Nick said to Shelby, smiling sadly.

"You're not coming finally?" Daisy asked confused.

"No…my parents wouldn't allow this. And I already went there tons of times!" Nick lied not wanting to spend the day with that bunch of losers.

"Okay. Bye!" Shelby said happily. At least, they wouldn't have to drag a teenager all day.


Next Chapter: Love, Fun and Games!

I know Shelby wasn't nice with the poor Nick. He was just the help she needed to reach her purposes with Scott.

Please R&R! I don't know if I did a good work…