SCHOOL OF LOVE

A/N: Lots of Wendy in this chapter… but still some Shelby and Scott stuff, though they do not have a moment alone together in this chapter…enjoy. Oh and also there is a bb game at the beginning and I have to admit I'm not really into bb, so there might be some mistakes…sorry about it!

Important: Okay, so right now, I'm finishing writing chapter 25 of this story so since I'm working this summer, I'll still be able to update the story, even if I have no time to write it! Be happy about it!

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Thanks also to ShalBrenfan, I'm really glad you still like my stories, and I'd like to see an update of an HG story soon...sorry if I didn't review your story about W.I.T.C.H., but really, I don't know anything about that cartoon. Also, I saw on your profile page you were planning on writing a story about the Tribe, I'm actually a Bramber fan so I'm excited about it! Good Luck with your work!

And finallyThanks to Ghostwriter, You're always here to review and that makes me really happy... I hope you'll like that chapter, even if it's more Wendy centered than any other character.

Thanks to those who are simply reading that story soon!

RATING: T (just to be sure)

CHARACTERS : Shelby, Scott, Wendy, Jill, OCs from the bb team, Donna, Luke

SUMMARY: AU. Shelby, Wendy, Scott, Brian and the others are all in high school. Walt still exists, but is slightly different in comparison with the show. Elaine happened but is now out of the picture.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the original characters. The others are completely made up, unless my subconscious worked on things I saw on TV or something…

CHAPTER ELEVEN

One Week Later

The team of the school was actually winning, but not from many points. In less than five minutes, everything was still possible for the visitors. Scott shouted a huge 'yes!' as Shelby recovered the ball from the girl of the other team and sent it to Janet who did an offensive rebound. Wendy crossed her fingers as Jill threw the ball up into the air. She missed the goal again, for the billionth time this night. The coach asked the team to come over and see him again and decided for the best. "Okay girls! Jill, we're actually winning and I don't know what's wrong with you but you tend to fail and miss your shots, I want you out until the end of the game. And calm down, your aggressiveness isn't good for the others of the team. We're going to proceed to some changes. Janet, you take her place and Shelby, you continue being the pivot but don't take any risks." Shelby and Janet nodded and the coach continued. "Good, now you girls are actually leading the game and you only have three minutes to last. I want you all to save our place in the championship, nothing more, and nothing less. If one of you fails, the whole team fails. Any questions?"

"Yeah, I do have one actually." Jill answered nastily and the coach nodded while Shelby caught her breath, knowing her friend was mad at him. "I don't understand why I can't keep on playing! You know I'm the best player of the team!"

"Jill, enough. This is my choice and you have nothing to say about it."

"But this is my team!" She argued and the coach said nothing. The girl in replacement held her head down, a little embarrassed that she had to take her place. "I hope you lose." She harshly replied and threw her team shirt to Shelby's face. "Take care of it for me, I give up!" She finished and Shelby frowned at her outburst.

"Okay girls; don't let her little scene get to you! You have a game to win, good luck." The coach said, patting Shelby's shoulder. She smiled weakly and the team got back in the game, still wondering why their captain had acted this way. The game ended pretty quickly without many actions from Shelby's team except some holdings of opponents. The final score was 63-58 for her team and they were all thrilled to be winner for the first game of the season. Wendy hugged Scott tightly, squealing and ran, joining Shelby on the field. She hugged her and both girls laughed happily. After celebrating their success, the girls went to the locker room and found Jill sitting on a bench in her towel. She had obviously showed seeing as her hair was down and wet.

"Jill?" Janet asked, clicking her fingers in from of her face as she noticed she wasn't reacting to her voice. Shelby sat next to her friend and concluded that she was probably on acid. "Should we call the coach?" Janet asked and Shelby looked up at her with worry in her eyes.

"I don't know…" She answered hesitantly, trying to keep the tears from falling of her eyes.

"We can't let him know…he would throw her out of the team. And we need her." Lydia said at her turn and some of the other girls nodded. Rachel shook her head in denial and placed herself in front of the others.

"We don't need her…look at tonight, we won without her." She stated and Janet nodded, knowing she was right.

"We can't let her stay like this anyway…" She replied and Shelby cleared her throat, breaking the heavy silence.

"If we tell the coach, she can say goodbye to her future as a basketball player…" Lydia pointed out and Rachel nodded her head, trying to show some compassion but falling miserably. Since Jill had been chosen to be captain, Rachel had been against her every move. She thought that it was unfair she hadn't been the one to be picked at her place. If Jill got to be evicted of the team, she would have her place for sure…

"But if we don't, who says she isn't going to say goodbye to her life?" Janet asked with great anxiety.

"You're crazy! I'm sure it's the first time she takes something." Julia retorted and all the girls looked at Shelby, expecting her to nod at her thinking.

"It's not…" Shelby muttered and Rachel snorted, containing a laugh. She shot her a glare and got up, looking her straight in the eye. "What exactly do you expect me to do? Punch your pretty face and be out too? Believe me, won't happen anytime soon." Rachel raised an eyebrow in challenge and sent her an unreadable smile.

"So what do we do? Shelby, she's your friend after all, what do you think?" She asked, hands on her hips. Shelby hated that she was right.

"Go find coach O'Connor Julia. We can't let her stay in this state." She finally made the decision and Julia ran out of the locker room and to the coach, tears in her eyes.

Shelby pulled back from Janet arms when she saw Wendy rushing over her, with worry written on her face. She had seen the paramedics' truck in front of the gymnasium and had decided to see what had happened, hoping it wasn't one of her friends…

"What is it?" Wendy asked and Shelby wiped some of her tears away and was about to talk when Scott joined them.

"What happened?" Scott asked, taking her in his arms as he noticed how shaken she looked. He didn't even care if Wendy noticed something going on between them right now. Shelby wrapped her arms around his waist and laced her fingers together behind his back, hugging him closely. Wendy put a hand on her shoulder, and squeezed it, trying to bring out some comfort. Shelby turned to look at her and untangled herself from Scott's embrace.

"It's Jill; you saw how she was when Coach O'Connor decided to break her off of the game?" She said with a lump in her throat. Scott rubbed his hand against her arms and she continued, leaning against his chest. He noticed she was cold and took off his coat, wrapping it around her shoulders. "Thanks." She said quietly and he only nodded.

"Yeah." Wendy said and sat back on the bench, looking at her brother and bestfriend strangely. They looked extremely close and didn't seem to feel uncomfortable with each other. Actually they looked even quite cozy.

"Well, apparently she took something to be more performing and it had side effects."

"Something? Like…" Wendy asked just for the sake of asking.

"Acid…or I don't know, medicine…the ambulance driver told coach O'Connor that they would run tests with her blood at the hospital to see what exactly had happened. But really Wendy…you should have seen her in the locker room…"

"But why would she do that?"

"She did take an ecstasy pill once, to improve her game…I saw her and she promised me she would never do it again…" She answered, and began crying again, turning her head against Scott's shirt. "…and I believed her." The muffled sound came from her mouth.

"Then why did she do it again?" Wendy questioned with a sigh of exasperation. She was angry. Angry at Jill for doing that to herself and even angrier at Shelby for having hidden to her that she had seen Jill take a pill of ecstasy.

"I don't know… they took her to the hospital but we can't see her right now." Shelby replied, turning back to her. She noticed Scott's shirt had a big wet spot and smiled a little through her tears. "Sorry." She whispered, patting his chest.

"It's nothing." He answered softly and Wendy stood up.

"Okay, we'll go see her tomorrow then?" She asked and Shelby nodded softly.

"There's no use in staying here, I think…" Scott trailed off and Wendy agreed with him.

"I still have to take a shower."

"You can take it at home." Scott gently said and she nodded, pulling away and handing him his coat. She had to go take her things from the locker room. "Keep it. We're waiting here for you." He offered and she weakly smiled at the two.

"I'll be quick." She stated and walked back to the locker room while they stood in the middle of the gymnasium, waiting for her to come back.

It had been almost three weeks since she had seen Brian last. Between the preparations for Thanksgiving and her will to keep her distances for a while and now Jill's issues, she hadn't even wanted to call him once. She liked him a lot; he had always been a good friend to her. But she was scared to death. Later that night after everyone was asleep, Wendy sat in front of her mirror, thinking. She looked like shit. She hadn't cried over their semi-break-up though she was sad. Her face was puffy, and red. Her eyes were bloodshot and had mascara stains all around them. She didn't know what to do with herself. For the past two months, Brian had been the constant in her life. They often fought, but when they did, they would usually make up about five minutes afterwards.

She decided what she needed was a wild night out, so she called Donna, an ex of Scott with whom she had strike up a friendship and asked her to come over and go out with her for a girl's night. Donna agreed and arrived at Wendy's house about twenty minutes later, just as she was getting out of the house.

This one looked her up and down and laughed. "Now, that's a mighty fine outfit to go clubbing in, Ms. Barringer." Wendy laughed back knowing she looked like a slut. The skirt was way to short and that top was almost a bra. But she didn't care, all she wanted was to forget, forget everything.

About a half an hour later, Wendy and Donna got out of Donna's car and they headed into the club, called The 17. Wendy would have to drag Shelby there once… Once they got in, Donna went to go get them drinks since she was over eighteen, while Wendy went to go get them a table. Donna came back with an Apple Martini for Wendy and a Diet Coke for herself, because she was playing designated driver. The girl was dumb but not that much to come back home completely drunk. Once they had their drinks, they were out on the dance floor. At first, they were dancing with each other, but then two guys came up and started to dance and flirt with each of them. As the alcohol started to go to Wendy's head, she slowly started to get closer and closer to the guy. She flipped her hair around to tease him. She started to grind against him and wrapped her arms around his neck and he wrapped his around her waist. His hands slowly started to slip as they got more into the rhythm of the music, and landed on her butt, she surprised herself as she barely flinched when he did this. Once the song finished, Donna went back to their table alone, but Wendy came back with her new "friend".

"Hey, I'm Wendy." She introduced herself said as he sat down next to Wendy.

"I already knew that." He smiled and continued. "Luke Turner, we're in the same school, it's nice to meet you here." Wendy smiled seductively, running her fingers on the top of his hand.

The guy was particularly hot. He had cut blonde hair and handsome blue eyes you could get lost into. He was about 6'2 and well- built, and with an amazing smile. He definitely wasn't Brian, but she'd take him though.

After they talked for about half an hour, and then they back out on the dance floor. They were both totally in sync with each other. They finally moved right up against each other and Wendy started to tease him by playing with his belt. He pulled her closer to him, kissing her neck and whispered in her ear, "Wanna come back to my place?" She looked up at him, as to contemplate whether or not to go. She could tell that he was a little nervous, and giggled, then nodded 'yes'.

She ran over to Donna and told her what was going on. Her friend was a little wary at first, but then she recognized Luke from school. She thought that at least, if he went to their school, he might not be that bad. So she said that she would cover for Wendy.

Wendy and Luke pulled up to a huge stucco house with a red door. Wendy always knew how to pick the rich ones. Brian was one of them, just like her brother…but they weren't arrogant or acting like spoiled kids, this guy Luke wasn't either all things considered. He got out then and came around to open Wendy's door.

"I'm assuming your parents aren't home?" Wendy asked as they entered the quiet and dark house.

"Nope, I'm only leaving with my mom and she's out of town for a month." Luke answered, anxiously laughing a little. His parents were divorced and even if he lived most of the time here, he was supposed to be going to his father twice a month… but since he saw him everyday at school, he didn't feel the need to see him more. His mother was everything to him and he knew she needed him.

"Not bad." Wendy replied with a smirk. They went into the den and sat down on the couch.

"Do you want to have a last drink or something?"

"A beer sounds good for now." She answered and he got up, walking to the kitchen.

"Cool, I thought there was only one bottle but looks like another pack had been hidden by my mom." Luke yelled as he went to grab two beers.

When he came back to sit on the couch, he and Wendy cuddled a little bit. "We can do 'or something' later." She leaned towards him and said that in a husky voice. He smiled and turned to look at her. He held her face in his hands and dipped down to catch her lips. Her tongue traced his lips and he parted his lips for access. Their kisses were full of lust, something that Wendy had never experienced before with Brian or Ben. Luke pulled her onto his lap and she straddled him.

He pulled back for a second to look at Wendy and asked, "Are you sure you want to?" He carefully asked and she nodded at him certain. He lifted her up and carried her to his bedroom. She spent the rest of the night experiencing the lust that she had never had before.

Wendy woke up the next morning with a pounding headache and an arm wrapped around her waist and a head on her back. She heard snoring and turned around to look at Brian. She was shocked when she found that the snoring boy was not her boyfriend, but Luke. Last night's events came back to her. She felt bad but strangely not guilty or disgusted. She was in bed with some random guy that she screwed all night. She wanted to leave, but she couldn't seem to get out from under him. As she tried to lift his arm off her waist, he woke up and smiled at her.

She gave him a very small smile. "Morning."

"Good morning, gorgeous." He replied and began to kiss her neck softly. She pulled away a little and he smiled at her gently. She could tell he had been pleased with their night. 'Shit.' Wendy thought. 'How do I let him down easily now?' She asked herself.

"What time is it, Luke?" She asked, as she found a way to escape without being mean or anything to him. He seemed to be a nice guy, after all. And she knew he wasn't very experienced on sex, even if he had been pretty good.

"About 9." He answered tiredly, and turned onto his back.

"Oh shit." Wendy jumped up in a fake panic and wrapped the sheet around her as she tried to retrieve her clothes.

"What is it?" Luke asked with concern. He sat on the bed and watched her dressing up.

"I'm supposed to meet with my bestfriend for brunch at 10, and I have to go home, take a shower and get dressed in less than an hour and that with being unnoticed. I'm really sorry."

"Do you need a ride home?" He asked, trying to be as helpful as possible.

"Uh…no. I can walk from here. You don't even need to get up. I'll let myself out. Last night was fun." She leaned down and kissed him quickly, then left, and she hoped forever.

It turned out that Luke only lived a few streets away from the Barringer's house, so the walk home was pretty easy, besides the fact that she was seriously hung-over. She snuck quietly into the house and made it up the stairs unnoticed. Apparently, her parents were either still sleeping (that would be her dad's day off) or already gone to work (her mother, of course had to open the store, even a Saturday). The problem came when she got to her room. She found her brother sitting on her bed, waiting for her, and he didn't look happy at all.

"Scott!" She cried, surprised to find him there. She laughed, trying to make the situation a little less tense, but unfortunately it didn't work.

"So, Wendy, how was your night?" Scott asked in a suspicious tone.

"I just went out for a walk this morning. I just couldn't stay in bed anymore. Ask Shelby? I saw her on my way out." She tried but knew she had failed miserably by the look that he gave her. Her smile faded. She knew that she was in some deep-shit. Scott laughed and then stopped abruptly.

"Nice, Wendy. It's funny, I saw her too and we even took our breakfast together and when I asked her about you, she told me she hadn't seen you of the morning. And look at yourself and what you're wearing! Do you want to lie to me some more?"

"No, that's useless…" She muttered and sat down, ready to tell a pack of lies about her night.

"Where were you all night?" He asked looking at her nails which were painted in a hideous lilac colour.

"I went to that club with Donna…" She began slowly and Scott's head shot up at the info.

"Donna? As my ex-girlfriend Donna?" He asked and she let out a sigh of exasperation.

"Okay, can I continue or are you going to stop me every each second?" She replied and got up, putting her hands on her hips.

"Go on, my dear…" He offered with a smirk and she shot him a look.

"So, we went to The 17, and…"

"The 17? The new club that opened last week? I heard that they're playing cool music…" He interrupted again and she rolled her eyes, clearly annoyed.

"Scott…" She whined annoyed he had to cut her off again.

"Sorry. Go on."

"We had fun, stayed like 2 hours and then we decided to go to her home and do some girly stuff, like painting nails and watching Titanic…"

"You're still onto Titanic? That's like, 8 years ago…" He said with a sarcastic laugh and she smirked at him angrily. Titanic was her favourite movie of all the times! How dared him mock her?

"Will you stop being so stupid for once?" She shouted and he stayed silent, watching her carefully. "Are you gonna tell mom and dad?"

"I dunno." He answered with a shrug. "I should…"

"Please don't…it was a mistake to go out, but a slight one compared to your last one…" She said with a mean smile and Scott frowned as she recalled him his slight accident of last week. He had drunk a soda in the car while driving and had spilled almost half of the bottle on the auto radio, causing a short-circuit…

"Do not threat me, not again…" He whined and she smiled victoriously…first because she had succeeded in lying to him and secondly because he wasn't very mad at her for going out again without the parents knowing…it was like she had passed to his second interest…fantastic!

"Or else…"

"Or else nothing. Just…go." He said with a shake of his head and she laughed at him.

"You're actually in my room, moron!" She slapped him on the head not too hard and he threw his hands in front of him in defence.

"Yeah right…you know, once I have all the money to change the auto radio, you won't have any thing to menace me with…" He threatened and she smiled at him.

"That's why I make the most of it until you do." He opened the door and was about to close it when she added. "Besides, knowing you, you'll have another thing to be bribed about. I have no worry…" She said as sweetly as she could. He smirked at her and she closed the door in his face.

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Next chap: Wendy/Shelby/Scott

Scott & Shelby fluff…

Jill/Wendy/Shelby