Shelby was packing the last of hers and Jena's belongings into the two suitcase. She was walking back and forth from one end of the room to the other grabbing everything and making sure she wasn't forgetting anything.
"Do we have to go?" Jena asked, sitting down on the bed.
"Yes," Shelby replied. "We have to. I'm already 3 days late for work."
"Is daddy coming home with us?" Jena asked.
Shelby smiled. Jena hadn't even known Scott was her father for a week and she was already calling him 'daddy'.
"No, he's not. But, we're going to go stay with him for a little bit this weekend." Shelby said.
"Are we always gonna be going on trips on the weekends now?" Jena asked.
"No," Shelby chuckled. "Actually, me and Scott need to talk about that."
Scott and Shelby still haven't discussed what's going to happen as far as living standards. Shelby lived in Chicago while Scott lived in St. Louis. They couldn't keep going back and forth every weekend for the rest of their lives. It wouldn't be good for Jena or for them as a couple.
Shelby sighed as she heard a knock on her door. She walked over to the door and opened it to see Scott. A smile crept on her face and she hugged him. She was going to go for just a hug but Scott placed a kiss on her lips, forgetting that Jena was in the room.
"Eww," Jena complained.
Scott pulled his lips off of Shelby's lips and smiled.
"We really have to stop doing that in front of her," Scott breathed against Shelby's lips.
"It was your fault," Shelby teased.
They both smiled at each other and Scott kissed Shelby quickly. They both moved away from each other. Shelby did a couple last minute checks before finally closing the suitcases. She picked up both of the suitcases and started to walk towards the door but Scott took one of the suitcases from her and carried it himself.
"What are you doing?" Shelby asked.
"Taking one of your suitcases for you. You don't have to carry both of them. Hell, I'll carry your other one, too if you want me to," Scott replied simply.
"I don't want you to. You know how I hate having other people do things for me when I know that I can do them myself."
"Why don't you just say 'thank you' and accept my help?"
"Fine," Shelby gave up. "Thank you."
"You're welcome," Scott responded with a smirk.
Scott, Shelby and Jena walked into the lodge to meet all of the other former Cliffhangers, Peter and Sophie. Scott and Shelby put down the suitcases and walked over to the group who were all hugging each other and saying their tear-filled good-byes.
"Oh, Shelby!" Sophie said and pulled Shelby into a tight hug.
Shelby was very surprised by it but hugged her back regardless. Sophie was squeezing so tight that Shelby was starting to not be able to breath.
"Okay," Shelby said. "Oxygen's becoming an issue."
"Sorry," Sophie said and pulled away only to move to Scott and pull him into a tight hug.
Shelby chuckled to herself as Scott was pulled into the hug and then walked over towards Peter who was in the middle of saying goodbye to Ezra. Once Peter noticed Shelby he turned around and they gave each other a quick hug.
"Are you going to be okay? I know a lot's happened while you were here." Peter said.
"I'll be fine," Shelby replied calmly with a smile.
"All right. You know you can call me if you ever need anything."
"I know. Ya know, I really didn't want to come here this weekend," Shelby glanced at Scott holding Jena in his arms. "But I'm really glad I did."
"He missed you, Shelby." Peter said.
"I know he did. And I missed him, too. I just reacted badly and thought that he wouldn't take me back, so I didn't bother." Shelby replied. "And with me becoming a mom and having to worry about everything I had no room to hope he would take me back."
"Hey, there's always room for hope."
"I remember that now. I had forgotten that but being back here if only for the weekend, it made me remember everything I learned here and I'm happy for that. I needed to remember."
Shelby and Peter hugged each other again. They smiled and then moved to go say goodbye to other people.
Shelby walked up next to Scott as he was saying goodbye Auggie but he no longer had Jena in his arms.
"Where's Jena?" Shelby asked.
Scott looked worried as if he lost her.
"Scott!" Shelby almost screamed.
"Relax, She's with Daisy." Scott replied calmly with a smirk.
"Chill, Shel. You don't think he'd be a father and loose his kid all in the same week, do you?" Auggie asked with a smirk.
"I don't know. It's hard to tell with him," Shelby replied, smiled and nudged Scott.
They all chuckled.
"Shelby, it was good seeing you," Auggie said and hugged her.
"You too, Aug," Shelby replied.
"And I'm glad you two worked everything out."
"Me, too," Shelby said and looked up at Scott. "Okay, well I have to go find your wife. She'll kill me if I don't say goodbye to her."
Shelby left to go find Juliet while Scott and Auggie went back to talking.
"So, how are you two?" Auggie asked.
"We're good. It's just, everything's so confusing now," Scott replied.
"You two gonna live together now?"
"I want to but that's confusing too. I mean, she lives in Chicago and I live in St. Louis. I'm not gonna ask her to quit her job to come live with me but I can't exactly quit mine to go up to live with her either."
"You guys should figure something out."
"I hope so."
"Yeah. Well, it was good seeing you, meat," Auggie said.
"It was good seeing you, too," Scott replied.
They shook hands with each other. They never really hugged each other; it was too strange for them. They could hug girls, Peter, Ezra, sometimes even David but they could never hug each other.
Juliet was talking to Daisy and Jason when Shelby found her.
"And I better get an invite to your wedding," Juliet said to Daisy.
"You will," Daisy smiled.
"Oh, Shelby!" Juliet said and pulled Shelby into a hug.
It was always strange when they hugged for they weren't exactly known to get along great but it was a different story after that weekend. They were always like family before and they hadn't seen each other in years so a hug was kind of mandatory.
They parted from the hug and Juliet looked like she had tears in her eyes.
"Princess, are you crying?" Shelby asked.
"Yeah. It's just so sad. None of us saw each other for so long and now it's going to be like all over again. I'm gonna miss everyone," Juliet explained.
"Relax, Jules," Daisy said.
Juliet smiled and hugged Daisy. She hugged Jason too even though she didn't know him. Jason was okay with it but the look on his face was priceless; he was, obviously, not expecting the hug.
"Mommy, why do people keep hugging me?" Jena asked from Jason's arms.
"Because we're at Horizon and that's what people do here," Shelby replied with a small smile.
"Michelle, we have to go," David said from not too far away from the group. Him and Kat were trying to separate Michelle and Chris. They became friends while here and apparently, didn't want to leave each other.
"Having some trouble there?" Shelby asked with a smirk.
David looked and Shelby and said, "Very funny."
"Shelby!" Kate said and ran over to her and gave her a hug. "I'm gonna miss you."
"My turn next," Ezra said.
Shelby chuckled to herself and hugged Ezra. She went to David but they didn't hug.
"David," Shelby said.
"Shelby," David responded with a nod of his head.
"See, you know how to say goodbye."
David and Shelby both smiled to each other and went their separate ways.
Shelby walked back over to Scott who was saying his good-byes to Peter. Shelby smiled as Scott noticed her and wrapped his arm around her waist. She couldn't help but be happy. She was upset for they were leaving but she was leaving with Scott so it made the trip worth while.
"I'm ready to go whenever you are," Shelby said to Scott.
He nodded to Shelby and turned back to Peter. They hugged each other and Scott thanked Peter for being there for him these past few days. Peter smiled and nodded to Scott.
Scott and Shelby walked over to Daisy, Jason and Jena. Shelby grabbed the suitcase she was carrying before and Scott grabbed the other one and they turned around, smiled, waved goodbye a final time and left the lodge.
Shelby opened the trunk of her car and her and Scott placed the suitcases inside. Shelby closed the trunk, buckled Jena into her seat and paused to look at Scott before getting in the car. They hugged each other and kissed very briefly before getting into their own vehicles and drove off.
Shelby had told Scott to call her once he got home and he agreed. He actually wanted Jena and Shelby to just come back to his house for a while so Shelby could keep her promise and be there when Scott broke up with Anita but Shelby wanted to be home for a little while. Shelby and Jena were going to go down that weekend anyhow and the weekend was only 3 days away.
Shelby and Jena walked into their small house and Shelby put the suitcases on the floor. Jena ran strait to her room and threw herself on her bed. She missed being home, sleeping in her own room and on her own bed.
Shelby smiled at Jena and walked into her own room. She sat down on the corner of her bed and opened the top drawer of the small dresser next to her bed. She moved several papers and took out the picture of her and Scott from graduation. She smiled at the picture and unlike when she usually looks at the picture, it was a truly happy smile.
She stood up from her bed, took one of the random picture frames she had around her room and took the picture she had of her and Jena out. She had several pictures of her and Jena together around the house and in her room so she felt no shame in replacing that picture with the one of her and Scott.
Shelby put the picture frame back on the shelve she took it down from and smiled while looking at it. She jumped as she heard her cell phone ring and felt it vibrate against her thigh from the inside of her pocket. She shook her head and took the phone out. The smile that disappeared when the phone rang reappeared when she looked at the caller ID and saw that it was Scott.
She flipped open her phone and said, "Hello?"
"Hi. I missed you," Scott's voice came over the other line.
"Scott, we saw each other, like, 12 hours ago," Shelby replied.
"I know. Doesn't mean I can't miss you."
"I know. I wanted you to call anyhow. Have you talked to Anita?"
"Not yet," Scott sighed. "But she wanted me to call her once I got back. And even if I don't, I have to go to work tomorrow and she's my partner so I would have to see her."
"Don't sound so happy about it," Shelby teased for Scott didn't sound enthused about seeing Anita.
"I'm sorry. She's wonderful but she's not the person I'm in love with."
"So, why don't you tell her that?"
"Because I know it's going to hurt her. And you already promised you would be here when I break up with her."
"I know, Scott. But I'm not coming down there until this weekend and you can't just pretend like everything's great until I'm there."
"I know. You still promised though, and I'm going to make you stick to that promise," Scott replied with a mischievous voice.
"Oh, yeah. Great. Have her hate me."
"She won't hate you. She might be a little envious, but she won't hate you."
"Right," Shelby replied, not convinced
Shelby sat down on her bed and lay back. She sighed and thought about how much she really didn't want to be there for the break up. But, she made a promise to Scott and she knew Scott was going to hold her to it.
"Mommy!" Jean screamed and jumped on the bed next to Shelby. "Let's watch booty and the beast."
Shelby chuckled. Jena meant Beauty and The Beast but she still couldn't 'beauty' correctly so it always came out 'booty'.
"I thought her favorite movie was Alice In Wonderland?" Scott asked.
"It is," Shelby replied. "But, she loves Beauty and The Beast, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, and Cinderella too."
"All classic Disney movies," Scott approved.
Shelby shook her head and chuckled.
"Who are you talking to?" Jena asked her Mom.
"Your dad," Shelby replied.
"Hi, Daddy!" Jena screamed into the phone.
Shelby pulled away slightly so Jena wouldn't make Scott go deaf from the loudness of her voice but was a little bit too late.
"Okay first off, ow, that was loud. Second, let me talk to her," Scott replied and one could tell by his tone that he was smiling. He loved that Jena called him 'daddy'.
"Here," Shelby said to Jena and handed her the cell phone. "He wants to talk to you."
Jena took the phone from Shelby's hand, raised it to her ear and said, "Hi, Daddy."
"Hey, Jena," Scott replied.
"When am I gonna see you again?"
"You and your Mom are gonna come down and visit in just a few days."
"For how long?"
"Only for the weekend," Scott said and sounded upset about that.
"Okay," Jena didn't sound any happier than Scott felt about how short the visit would be. "Can you get Mommy to watch Booty and the beast with me?"
"If you put her back on the phone, I'll try."
"Okay. I'll give it back to her."
"Okay, I'll see you this weekend, sweetie."
"Bye, Daddy," Jena said.
"Bye, baby," Scott replied.
Jena gave the phone back to Shelby and left the room to go get Beauty and The Beast. She knew that she would be watching the movie with her Mom so she grabbed the movie for she didn't want to wait once Shelby agreed.
"Hello?" Shelby said as she brought her phone back to her ear.
"Hi," Scott replied. "You have to watch Beauty and The Beast with our daughter."
"That still sounds so strange."
"What does?"
"Saying 'our daughter'."
"Hey, how do you think I feel? You knew she was my daughter, I didn't," Scott said.
"I know. I'm not even really sure why it's so strange to me but it is," Shelby replied with a sigh.
"A good strange or a bad strange?"
"Good strange," Shelby assured.
"I was hoping you'd say that," Scott said and smiled.
"Okay, well I'm going to go watch the movie with Jena. I'll call you tomorrow."
"Okay. I love you," Scott said in a sweet voice.
"I love you, too," Shelby replied with a huge smile on her face.
Shelby hung up the phone and lie back on her bed with that huge smile still on her face. She let a soft, almost giddy, sigh leave her lips. She loved the fact that Scott still loved her even after all she did to him. Everything was working out so well for her.
"Mommy, come watch the movie with me," Jena said from the doorway.
"Okay, I'm coming," Shelby responded, getting up from the bed.
Shelby walked into their living room behind Jena and saw that the movie had already been started and was already at the 'Bonjour!' part. Shelby sat down on the couch and Jena sat next to her. Jena leaned her head on Shelby and they watched Beauty and The Beast together.
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