Scott walked into the lodge and saw Shelby. She was wearing a pair of blue jeans and a black, v-neck T-shirt. Her blonde hair was simply down and it looked like she had no make-up on but Scott still thought she was beautiful. When he walked in she looked up quickly but looked away just as fast and went back to talk with Daisy.

"Thanks for taking Jena last night, Dais. I needed to be alone last night." Shelby said.

"It's totally fine, Shel. I told you I would be here for you and I'm going to be." Daisy responded.

"Daisy, do you ever think I'll be okay with this? The whole Scott being Jena's father thing?"

"Well, that depends..."

"On what?"

"Now that he knows, what are you going to do? There are a lot of questions that need to be answered. Are you going to let him see her? Are you going to tell her that he's her father?"

"Well, if he wants to see her I can't not let him. So then I'd have to tell her. But she's only 5 years old, Dais. How's she going to take being told that she suddenly has a dad?"

"She always had a dad, Shelby. She just didn't know who he was because of you." Daisy said.

"True. I'm afraid to talk to him though." Shelby responded.

"You have to, Shelby." Daisy said sternly.

"I know" Shelby said and sighed.

Shelby walked into the kitchen and grabbed a cup of coffee. She sat down at a table and sipped her drink and sighed. She wondered what she was going to say when she finally worked up the courage to talk to Scott but before she could think of anything, Scott sat down at the table she was at.

"I'm trying to understand what you were thinking, Shelby. I really am but I just don't understand it so I'm not going to try anymore." Scott said.

Shelby looked up to him kind of startled but didn't say anything.

"All I do know is that I have a daughter now. And I want to be a part of her life. If you don't want me to then I'm not gonna force it or anything but I would like to be there for her." Scott spoke again.

"To be honest, I wasn't expecting you to want to be a part of her life." Shelby said softly.

"Why not?" Scott asked.

"I'm not sure." Shelby started and took in a deep breath before continuing, "I don't know what to do about you wanting to be a part of her life though. Scott, she doesn't even know you're her dad."

"Are you going to tell her?"

"I don't know." Shelby looked down. "If you want to be a part of her life then I guess I have to, don't I?"

"Do you not want me to be?" Scott asked with a hint of shock.

"I don't know, Scott. I mean, I do but It's going to be strange if you are."

"How?"

"Me and you. Together." Shelby spoke her words like they said everything.

"Look. I know we're not on the best of terms right now but it doesn't change the fact that I have a daughter."

"Or that I kept her from you for over 5 years."

"And that's exactly the reason why we're not on good terms."

"Don't you think I know that I screwed up!" Shelby retorted hotly.

"I don't know, Shelby. If you knew then why'd you do it?" Scott asked back.

Shelby responded by looking down at her cup of coffee.

"Um. Scott?" Juliet asked from the doorway between the lodge and the kitchen.

"This isn't a good time right now, Jules." Scott said.

"I can see that and I'm sorry but there's someone here to see you."

Scott looked confused.

"Did they say who they were?" Scott asked.

"No. But she's pretty. She's waiting in Peters office."

"All right. I'll be there in a minute."

Scott looked at Shelby and sighed.

"We'll talk about this later, okay?" Scott said.

"I'll just come with you. Kat's watching Jena right now so I'm free for a while. I'll come with you and then we can continue this." Shelby said. She wanted to get this talk with Scott over with.

Scott nodded and stood up. Shelby stood up, too. They both walked out of the kitchen and to Peters office in complete silence. When we reached the main office they noticed a new car there and Scott tensed. He swore silently under his breath and speeded his pace and walked into Peters office.

The person there to see Scott was a girl Shelby had never seen but Scott had obviously seen many times before and knew well for she greeted him with a brief kiss on the lips. She was short, about 5'3. She was pale with really dark hair and eyes; her hair was almost black and she had black/brown eyes. She was Shelby's total opposite.

"Anita. What are you doing here?" Scott asked surprised.

"Well I have the rest of the week off so I decided to come and see you." The woman responded.

"Oh." Scott responded and looked at Peter worried.

Shelby cleared her throat to remind Scott she was still real and hadn't been introduced to the person.

"Oh, Yeah. Anita, this is Shelby Merrick. Shelby, this is Anita Blake." Scott said and felt very strange.

"Hi." Shelby said and smiled warmly.

"Shelby Merrick? Your ex Shelby Merrick?" Anita asked Scott.

"Yeah that's the one." Scott said and faked a smile.

"Well, hello, Shelby. I'm Scott's girlfriend." Anita said and smiled.

Shelby looked to Scott and fought like hell to keep the anger, shock and sadness off of her face.

Scott chuckled nervously.

"How about we go to the lodge?" Peter suggested trying to break up some of the tension in the room.

"Good idea. I'm sure Scott and I can finish our discussion later." Shelby said trying to let the emotions not show in her voice.

"It's a very important conversation though, Shelby." Scott said.

"Yes, it is. But your girlfriend is here right now. Don't want to talk about that while she's around, now do you?" Shelby asked and emphasized on the word 'girlfriend'. She was also losing the battle of not letting anger show in her voice.

"No, I don't." Scott said softly.

"Oh. Don't let me intrude. If you two were talking about something important, please continue." Anita said trying to be nice but was also curious as to what the pair was talking about.

"No. It can wait." Scott pressed.

"Really, Scott, as long as you two weren't talking about getting back together or anything I'm perfectly okay with it."

Shelby and Scott met eachothers stare for a moment before they looked away.

"We weren't." Shelby said.

"Okay. So how about heading to the lodge." Peter said again.

"Right. I'll lead the way." Shelby said and started to walk out of the office and towards the lodge.

Peter grabbed Scott's arm and made him look him in the eye.

"Do you have any idea how much trouble you are about to be in with Shelby?" Peter asked.

"I'm not sure I want to know." Scott responded.

"No, you really don't."

"Oh. I'm so dead."

"Oh, yeah" Peter said half joking, half serious.

(A/N)- Not my best chapter, I know. But it's going to get better again. Thanks for all of the reviews I've been getting. I'm happy you all have been enjoying this story.