Scott woke up to scent of fresh coffee filling the air. Usually, the coffee didn't wake him up for he was sleeping in his room with the door shut but last night, he slept on the couch. Shelby had the bed to herself and Scott was stuck on the couch for she said that she couldn't sleep next to him after the argument they had.
The couple had been living together for only a little over three weeks and Scott had already slept on the couch 9 times. The two didn't work well together when they were living with each other. It was fight after fight, night after night. They were lucky if they went 4 days without screaming at each other. They both knew that it was pathetic but it had happened one-the-less.
Scott got off the couch and walked into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee and he saw Shelby pouring herself a cup. He looked at her and she only glared at him in response. She walked out of the way after adding her cream and sugar to her cup so Scott could get his own.
Scott grabbed a mug and poured himself a cup of coffee. He took a drink from it and looked over at Shelby, who was still glaring at him. The fight they had the night before still had her upset.
The fight was about Scott seeing Anita. It was a simple lunch together and they were only talking but it had Shelby upset anyway. She thought Scott was cheating on her with Anita. In her mind, she had good reasoning for thinking that too. After all, he cheated on Anita with her so what was to stop him from cheating on her with Anita?
"Shelby, nothing happened," Scott stated.
"How do I know that?" Shelby asked.
"Here's a crazy idea: you can believe me. And maybe trust me for a change."
Scott was growing angrier by second. Shelby was upset at the thought of the lunch but Scott was angry because Shelby wasn't trusting him. In his mind, she had no reason not to trust him.
When Shelby didn't respond to Scott's comment, he shook his head and left the kitchen. He walked into the bedroom to start getting ready for work. His simply going to work was starting to anger Shelby as well for his partner was Anita. There was almost nothing he could do that didn't upset Shelby.
Scott took his clothes out and put them on the bed so they would be there when he got out of the shower. He didn't have any extra time that morning for him to be behind in getting ready. If he didn't have everything ready, he would be late and he knew it. Scott grabbed a towel from the closet and took a quick shower.
When he walked back into the room, his clothes were no longer on the bed. He sighed and knew that Shelby had put them back. It wasn't the first time that Shelby had put his clothes away again.
"Shelby!" He yelled. "I had the clothes out for a reason."
"I know," Shelby yelled back from the living room.
Scott walked out of the bedroom and down the hall. He met Shelby in the living room, still only having a towel wrapped loosely around his waist. If Shelby hadn't been so angry with him, that sight alone would have been enough to make Shelby surrender any fight but it was barely phasing her then.
"You did that on purpose," Scott stated. "Just because you knew it would make me late for work."
"You sound real eager to go to work, Scott," Shelby said. "Do you want to see Anita that badly?"
Scott closed his eyes and clenched his jaw to stop himself from saying something that he would probably regret later. He didn't have time to fight with Shelby and he really didn't want to. If she wasn't going to believe him than there was nothing he could say that he hasn't already said that would make her believe him.
"I give up with you," Scott said.
Before Shelby had a chance to respond in any way, he turned around and made his way back to the bedroom. He had to move double time in order to get to work on time. He grabbed the clothes and got dressed as quickly as humanly possible. He put on his shoes and socks and threw the tie around his neck but not tying it. He didn't have time for it right then. He figured he could tie it when he got to work. He knew that everyone at work would understand him being a little rushed.
Scott walked out of the bedroom, passed Shelby in the living room, grabbed his car keys and left the house. He slammed the door behind him and walked quickly to his car. He started the car and pulled out of the drive way in a rush. He looked at the time and saw that he only had five minutes to get to work and it usually took him almost fifteen minutes to get there.
"Shit," He swore under his breath.
Shelby sighed as the door slammed. She kept flipping through the channels, trying to find something on TV to get her mind off of Scott. She turned the TV off with a huff as she realized that nothing would stop her from thinking about Scott and his lunch with Anita. She wasn't sure why it bothered her so much but it did. Shelby was usually a very confident girl and she normally didn't worry about her men cheating on her but she did with Scott. He was the only guy who could make her worry about such things.
Shelby stood up from the chair and looked over at the couch where it was still very evident that someone had slept there. The blanket was still sprawled over the couch and the pillows were still at the head of it. Shelby sighed softly and walked over to it to start putting the stuff away. She folded blanket and threw it over the top of the couch and moved the pillows so they looked like they belonged there.
Shelby sat down on the couch, grabbed her cup of coffee from the table and took a large drink of it.
Scott walked into the police department and walked over to his desk, where he found a stack of papers waiting for him. Anita was already sitting at her desk which was directly across from his. She had a simple, grey pants suit on and her black hair was down as usual. She wore minimal make-up, as always. She gave Scott a confused look as she looked at his un-tied tie.
"Rushed morning?" She asked.
"Huh?" He asked and then noticed her looking at the tie. "Oh, yeah."
Scott tied the tie quickly and looked back down at the stack of papers. He opened the file folder and saw that it was the paper work from the case him and Anita had just closed.
The case had brought back bad memories for Scott. It was a sexually abusive step-mother who was abusing her step-son. The teenage boy who was being sexually abused finally got tired of it after a few months had filed a report against his step-mom. The boy did something Scott never had the guts to do. The case meant something more than most cases did because of the simple fact that it was practically his life. He was happy when the women was being taken away in hand cuffs after they had enough evidence to convict her.
"You okay?" Anita asked, seeing that Scott was clearly thinking about something.
"Yeah, I'm just remembering the case," Scott replied, which was partially true.
Despite all the years of Anita and Scott working together and being together, Scott still never told her about his past with Elaine. She knew about Horizon and everything but he told her he was there simply because of the drugs.
"So, why were you so rushed this morning?" Anita asked as she looked through her own stack of papers.
"Because Shelby messed with my order of things just to get me mad," Scott replied, scanning his papers.
Scott, for the first couple of weeks, would avoid talking about Shelby to Anita but once he found out that Anita didn't mind, he was okay with it. Anita accepted Scott's choice and she was okay with Shelby so she was okay with hearing about Scott's problems and about his relationship. It was like how it used to be before they dated.
"Why would she do that?" She asked.
"Because she's pissed at me," Scott answered.
"Why?"
"Because of you actually," Scott teased with a smile. "She thinks I'm cheating on her with you. And it all got started because of how we had lunch together the other day."
"Do you want me to try and talk to her?"
"No, thanks. It would probably do more harm that good."
"If you say so," Anita said with a shrug.
The two stopped their discussion and got to their paper work. They both wanted it done as soon as they could have it done for paper work after a case was closed was probably the most boring part of being a detective. Yet for Scott, this paper work wouldn't boring, it would be a bad memory.
Shelby was sitting at the kitchen table with Daisy. They were both drinking cups of coffee and Shelby was completely stressed out. She knew that drinking coffee wasn't helping her situation but it was still the only thing she had been drinking since she woke up that morning. She had a full pot to herself save for the one cup Scott had before leaving.
"Shelby, you need to not worry about it so much," Daisy said.
"I know but I can't help it," Shelby said with a shrug.
"Why are you freaking out so badly? You've never done this with any of your other boyfriends."
"I know. Scott's the only one who can make me worry like this."
"Why don't you just take his word for it?" Daisy asked.
"Because he cheated on Anita after he had given her his word so what's to stop him from cheating on me?" Shelby asked back.
Daisy sighed with a shrug. She wanted to be supportive of her friend but she actually thought that it was silly. Scott had never cheated on Shelby before and she thought it was silly that Shelby thought he would. He loved her and he would never cheat on her. If Daisy could figure that out, why couldn't Shelby?
"Shelby, he's not going to cheat on you," Daisy stated, once again trying to make her friend believe her.
"I know," Shelby said with a sigh.
"Then what are you worrying about?"
"I don't know," Shelby replied, getting frustrated. "I don't know what's wrong with me."
"Well, I don't know what to tell you," Daisy said and she really didn't. "I have to get back to work though, my lunch break is over. I will see you later."
Daisy stood up from the chair and put her cup of coffee in the sink. She looked back to Shelby with a smile. Shelby smiled in response and waved to Daisy who then left, leaving Shelby alone again.
Shelby looked at the time and saw that Jena should be getting home from school with in the nest few minutes. She sighed and stood up from the chair she was sitting in. She left her cup of coffee on the table, knowing that she would drinking more later and walked out of the kitchen. She walked out of the door and walked to the corner of the street so she could wait for Jena to get off the bus.
It was around 9:00 p.m. when Scott finally made it home after a long day of filling out paper work and then being generally bored. He turned off his car, stepped out and walked into the house. He was hoping that the day alone would have given Shelby enough time to cool down. He really wasn't in the mood to fight.
Scott walked through the door and closed it behind him. He walked directly to the bedroom and the first thing he did was take of his tie. He hated wearing one. He sat down on the bed as he was taking the tie off. Once he had it off, he tossed it next to him on the bed and Shelby walked in.
Scott looked at her but didn't say anything and then looked away.
"I'm sorry," Shelby said which made Scott look at her again. "I had no right to be angry at you. You've never done anything to me to make be think you would cheat on me so I'm sorry."
"You're right. I've never done anything that would make you think I would hurt you," Scott said and stood up from the bed, still looking at Shelby. "I never kept anything from you. I never ran out on you, leaving you without a word. I never kept our daughter from you. I never did a damn thing to make you not trust me and you still don't."
Scott was finally getting everything he was feeling out. He hated the fact that Shelby was always angry with him because he never did anything to make her think he would ever hurt her. If anything, he had the right to be angry with her for everything she put him through.
"Why?" Scot t asked, sounding lost. "Why don't you trust me?"
Shelby looked at Scott for a few moments. Actually, it wasn't even looking, it was glaring. She was completely ignoring that he asked why she didn't trust him and was only thinking about all of the bad things he pointed out to her. That had her anger flare right back up simply because she knew she screwed up and didn't need a constant reminder of it.
"I know I screwed up, Scott. I don't need you pointing it out," Shelby stated while crossing her arms over her chest.
"Well, I think I have the right to point out some of your screw ups right now, Shelby," Scott retorted. "You did so much more to me than I could ever do to you and you're the one mad at me constantly. You have no reason for thinking the things you think about me and you still do."
"No reason? You cheated on Anita with me so obviously you don't think cheating is that bad."
"I know cheating is bad. And I told you before we even had sex at Horizon that you were the one I loved and you were the one I wanted to be with, not Anita. Why can't you just believe me?"
"I just can't, Scott!" She said. "I don't know why but I just can't."
"And you think getting mad at me and us fighting all the time is going to help you be able to believe me?" Scott asked, nearly yelling.
"Will you not get so loud? Jena is asleep."
"No, I'm gonna get as loud as I want 'cause I think I finally have the right to yell back."
Shelby shook her head and walked out of the bedroom. She walked over to Jena's room and saw that she was still asleep. Shelby closed her door before Scott would have a chance to wake her up with his yelling. Shelby walked into the living room, trying to avoid the unavoidable fight between her and Scott.
Scott followed Shelby into the living room and said, "Oh yeah, running away again."
"What's that suppose to mean?" Shelby asked with a glare.
"Whenever you have a problem you run away from it, Shelby. You ran away from me when you got pregnant, you ran away from home before Horizon, all you know how to do is run away!"
"Scott, I already told you that I left you before because I was scared and I panicked. I thought you understood," Shelby said and sighed. "And as for running away from home before, you, of all people, should understand that I didn't want to go through that hell."
"I do understand that but running away doesn't solve your problems, Shelby. It never will."
"Oh yeah and fighting with you now is really solving our problems," Shelby said with sarcasm.
"Well, maybe if you would stop causing us so many problems," Scott said.
"I came in by you tonight to apologize and you're the one who started the fight. So don't give me the bull shit about all of this being my fault."
"I'm not saying all of it is but it sure is damn close to being all of it."
Shelby shook her head and rolled her eyes. She didn't want to deal with Scott and the fight at that moment. She wanted to just get out of there and go somewhere else. She didn't want to deal with anything, she wanted to escape.
Shelby walked out of the living room and into the kitchen. Scott followed and looked at her, still waiting for her to respond. Instead of responding, Shelby took her cup of coffee from earlier that day and put it into the sink. Scott still watched her.
"Nothing to say?" He asked.
"What do you want me to say, Scott?" Shelby asked back and looked to him. "You want me to say that I fucked up? Alright, I fucked up. You want me to say that all of this is my fault? Then fine, all of this is my fault. Can we just drop it already?"
"Of course, now you want to drop a fight when I'm the one with the winning argument," Scott commented.
"Ya know what? Screw this," Shelby said.
Shelby grabbed her coat and car keys and made her way for the door. Scott stopped her by grabbed her wrist and pulling her around. He wasn't too forceful with it but forceful enough to pull her back.
"Where are you going?" Scott asked.
"I'm leaving. I can't be here anymore," Shelby replied and shook her hand harshly to get away from Scott's grip.
"No, you don't get to be the one who runs away. Not this time," Scott stated and grabbed his car keys. "For once, I'm going to be the one who leaves, leaving you thinking."
Scott walked out the door and slammed it behind him. He got into his car, started it and pulled out of the drive way. He quickly drove down the street with anger still flowing through him.
Shelby sighed and felt her eyes start to burn with unshed tears. She didn't know what to do or say at that moment. There was nothing she could do to change any of the things she did to Scott in the past and there was nothing she could do to change the things she had said during their many fights.
Shelby fell onto the floor and let the tears that were dying to fall, come. The tears streamed down her face and she made no attempt to stop them. She let herself drown in self pity. She felt like, in a way, that she deserved how badly she was feeling at that moment but she also just wanted it to stop. Her heart hurt so badly and she felt so guilty for everything Scott had mentioned. She just hurt in everyway a person could hurt.
(A/N)- First off thank you all so much for all the reviews from: Melms213, ScottandShelby334, hdrox, Linkie, keke1, twin muse, Ishbu girl, Ghostwriter, OliverWoodsGurl4life, Gabriela, iluvtv2much, OthfanAnna, nefftys, tribaltaisan, Ashlyn Alexis, Natalie Skywalker, Tracy, ScottandShelbyfan, Mandy, LilSoccerBaby20, Ems, Grey Daze's Nirvana, Jessa Faerie, Neptunes Princess, 2008ccampbell, sweetgirl,Lavender Brown-Halliwell, mary-023, angel, Saun, HCLvr, SethxSummer4Evah,CracKHeaDwitskillz,LJSkywalker and jessmerrick. I'm happy you all enjoy this story!
Okay, so I got this chapter up quickly. it was a pretty easy one for me to write and I had fun writing it. I tried to make it have lots of drama so let me know how I did 'cause I'm not sure if I did it well. I hope everyone enjoys it. I'm pretty sure I'll have a lot of people saying, 'I hope S&S will be okay' and all I have to say to that is: you'll just have to keep reading to find out.
Okay, so I think I'm going to be writing a new chapter in 'All Because Of A Play' next and then I'll do 'Haunted' and then I will be finishing 'Love and War'. That story has been going on for over a year now and I'm anticipating it's end.
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