Peter, Alice and Jess walked into Shelby hospital room after they finished signing and filling all the proper papers so Shelby could leave the hospital and stay at Horizon rather than going back with her Mother.

Shelby was zipping up a sweat shirt around her body to cover up the white tank top she was wearing. She was wearing blue jeans, the white tank top, and a baby blue sweatshirt that was zipped half way. Once she was done zipping the sweat shirt, she looked over to Alice, Peter and Jess and sighed.

"Oh. You guys," She said, not sounding happy.

Peter kind of winced at the fact that she sounding so upset about them being there. He quickly recovered and put a fresh smile on his face.

"Don't sound so happy," Peter said, sarcastically.

"Well, why don't you be going to live with complete strangers while you don't even know who you are," Shelby retorted.

"Look, I understand this is going to be difficult for you, but, trust me, you'll be okay at Horizon."

"If you say so."

Peter sighed. He knew this wasn't going to be easy. It would be just how Shelby was when she first came to Horizon; major attitude, hating authority, constantly talking back, and just being overall one who loved to rebel. He had to admit that he was happy she didn't remember her past, most notably the parts with Walt and being on the streets. That would be way too much for her to handle.

"So, when are we getting out of here?" Shelby asked.

"So, now you want to leave?" Peter asked.

"Well, yeah. I hate hospitals. I would much rather be at this Horizon place."

"We can leave whenever you're ready."

"Okay, I'm ready," Shelby said, without any hesitation.

"Okay, then say goodbye to your mom and sister. You're not going to be them for a while."

Shelby turned to Alice and Jess and walked over to them. She faked a half smile and said, "I think that if I had my memory, I would be upset about not seeing you two for a while but I really don't know what to say right now."

"Just say goodbye. We'll be seeing you again once you get your memory back," Jess said.

"You sound so confident that I will."

"Of course you will. If anyone can get over this, it's you."

"You know what? I think I like having you as a sister after all," Shelby said and smiled.

She pulled Jess into a hug and held her for a little while, but finally let go after a few moments. She turned to her Mom and got pulled into a hug by her. Once Alice finally let go, Shelby half smiled and said, "Bye."

Shelby left the hospital room with Peter and walked out to the car.

She stepped in the passenger side and looked around at the car. She saw the radio and smiled. Once Peter started the car, she turned on the radio and started to flip through the stations so she could find something to listen to. She stopped as she heard "Someday We'll Know" by The New Radicals come on. Peter looked over at her strangely.

"What?" Shelby asked.

"You know this song?" Peter asked back.

"I don't know. I like it though."

"Okay," Peter said and shook his head slightly.

They pulled up to Horizon and stepped out of the car.

Shelby looked around and all she could do was smile. She had a good feeling, a feeling like she was home. Maybe this is where I would've wanted to be, Shelby thought to herself.

She looked past the campus and saw trees beyond trees. It was nothing like she's ever scene before. It was so beautiful. Different shades of green blended in with the blue of the sky. Shelby's blue eyes scanned the scenery and she was in awe. She couldn't get over how beautiful it was here.

She closed her eyes and took in a deep breath through her knows and smelled the fresh, crispness of being outside. She could feel the sunlight hitting her back and the smile on her face grew.

She opened her eyes and saw Peter watching her.

"I take it you like it here?" Peter asked with a smile.

"It's beautiful here," Shelby replied.

"I'm glad you like it."

Shelby nodded and started to walk away but stopped for she realized that she had so clue where she was going. She turned back to Peter slowly and saw a huge grin on his face. He knew why she had stopped so he walked over to her and started to lead her to the Cliffhanger girls dorm.

He opened the door for her to enter and walked her over to her bed. He showed her with compartment was hers and made sure she knew where everything was and how everything worked. Shelby wasn't liking how Peter was treating her like she was a complete idiot but she ignored it and listened regardless.

"Okay, now, the other Cliffhanger girls are in Math right now, but they'll be back in about half an hour," Peter said. "Then, I'll have all the Cliffhangers meet in the lodge and I'll assign you a first week buddy."

"A first week buddy?" Shelby questioned.

"Yeah. It's what we assign new people who come here to help them get use to being here and show them the way around," Peter explained.

"So I'm gonna be like a newbie here?"

"Basically."

"Great," Shelby said, with absolutely no enthusiasm. "So who's going to be my first week buddy?"

"I was going to go for Daisy since you already know her," Peter replied calmly. "Is that okay with you?"

"Well, actually, I would prefer not being treated like a 5-year-old but I guess I don't have a choice in it, do I?" Shelby retorted.

"I'm sorry, Shelby, but you don't know your way around here and it's very easy for new students to get lost or not remember all the rules."

"But, I'm not a new student," Shelby argued.

"True," Peter complied. "But, you don't remember any of the rules or the grounds so I think this would be best."

"Do we always have to do what you think is best?"

"Well, I am the one who runs with school, so, yeah, I'm the boss."

Shelby sighed and sat down on what Peter told her was her bed. She sighed in frustration and ran her hands through her long blonde hair. She hated being on the loosing side of an argument and right then, she clearly was.

"Okay," Peter said. "I'll leave you alone for a little while. You still have a little time before the Cliffhangers get back from class. I'll let them know that you're back before they meet you in the lodge though."

"Peter?" Shelby asked. "Where the hell do you get these names? Cliffhangers? I saw Ridge runners earlier. I saw trackers too."

"First off, I didn't make them up, they were around when I was a student here and I don't know where they came from. Secondly, don't say 'hell'. You'll learn that one of the rules here is no swearing."

"Technically, hell isn't a swear word."

"It is here." Peter said sternly. "I'll come back and get you when the rest of your group is out of class."

"Wonderful," Shelby replied sarcastically with a sigh.

She threw her back on to her bed and looked up at the plain white ceiling. Why would I want to be here? Shelby asked herself. Is my home life really that terrible? It wasn't that Shelby hated Horizon or anything, she actually thought it was really beautiful and she did feel sort of at home there, but she still didn't understand why she was there. She knew that Horizon was a school for troubled teens so Shelby was left thinking about what her trouble was. What could've gotten a normal, 17 year old, girl into a school for troubled teens?

Shelby shook her head and decided not strain her mind thinking about it. She knew it would do no good. No matter how much she would try to remember things, she couldn't.

Shelby didn't realize how much time had passed while she lay there thinking, but before she knew it, Peter was knocking on the girls dorm door. Shelby sat up as a sigh left her lips. She didn't want to get up for she was comfortable but she stood up and opened the door regardless.

"Come on, the Cliffhangers are out of class which means you get to meet them in the lodge," Peter said.

"Oh. Yay, I get to meet the big bunch," Shelby said sarcastically.

"Shelby," Peter chided. "those people were like family to you."

"Yeah, 'were' being the operative word in that sentence. I don't remember them so forgive me if I'm not completely welcoming to my long lost family.

Shelby walked past Peter and towards the lodge. She barely knew where she was going but she knew she didn't want to argue with Peter anymore.

Peter stayed in the doorway for a moment in a sort of shock. He couldn't believe how Shelby was acting. He knew he would be dealing with her former attitude, but she went though such a transformation in the past year that he had forgotten just how back that attitude could be.

Peter half jogged to meet up with Shelby right before she walked into the lodge. He grabbed the handle to stop her from entering.

"Shelby, the people you're about to meet think you know who they are so you will have to forgive them if they assume things," Peter said.

"Wait. You didn't tell them?" Shelby asked,

"I did, but it still might not have sunk in to everyone yet. I only told them this morning before I came to pick you up."

"As long as they don't baby me like you are kind of doing, we'll be fine."

Shelby removed Peter's hand from the handle and walked into the lodge. She saw several people, that looked to be around her age, and one person that was obviously older sitting on a couch and some chairs near the fire place. Shelby walked over towards them with Peter behind her.

All the people looked at the pair and had sad smiles on their faces. Scott was the worst. He watched Shelby as she walked to a chair and sat down but then turned away, closed his eyes and let out a breath. He was refusing to allow tears to fall.

Shelby looked around to the other people and a soft, nervous chuckled left her mouth.

"Sorry, this is just really strange," Shelby said. "I know I'm suppose to know all of you, be friends with all of you and be enemies with at least one of you but I don't know who you guys are. So why doesn't someone tell me?"

Shelby wasn't in the mood to have a heart warming reunion with people she didn't really know. She wanted to get these introductions over and done with so she could leave.

Everyone looked sort of taken aback. None of them expected Shelby to be so strait forward and honest even though it was, after all, Shelby. They looked to each other and back to Shelby before Daisy decided to simplify things. She stood up and started to say who everyone was.

"This is Sophie, Juliet, Auggie, Ezra and David. And you already know me and Scott," Daisy said while pointing to the person who corresponded with the name.

Shelby and Daisy shared a smile. Shelby was already starting to like Daisy, she was a lot like her with wanting to just cut to the chase and get the introductions over with.

"Shelby!" Juliet squeaked.

Juliet jumped on Shelby and hugged her. Shelby was taken aback and almost fell out of the chair she was sitting in. Juliet was very happy to see her regardless of the fact that they were not exactly known to be the best of friends.

"Whoa!" Shelby said and kind of pushed Juliet off of her. "Relax."

"Sorry," Juliet said and chuckled.

Everyone, but Scott,sort of laughed at what Juliet had just done but the laughter soon subsided.

"Okay, Daisy, I was thinking you could be Shelby's first week buddy," Peter said.

"Wait," Daisy said. "You're giving her a first week buddy?"

"Yes, she doesn't know her way around and she is a lot like a new student right now so I'm going to treat her like one."

"Well," Shelby interjected. "I'm fine with that but stop treating me like I'm not here!"

"Sorry," Peter apologized. "Are you okay with Daisy being your first week buddy?"

"Yes," Shelby said.

"Okay, good. Well, that's it then. Shelby, you won't be expected to go to classes today but tomorrow I want you in class. You have all the same ones as Daisy so that won't be a problem."

"Oh, wonderful," Shelby replied sarcastically.

"Daisy, why don't you give Shelby the full tour?" Peter suggested.

"No problem," Daisy said with a slight nod. "Come on, Shel."

Shelby was looking at Scott as he stared into the fire so she didn't hear the suggestion Peter made or Daisy's words. Shelby was so interested in Scott that she couldn't bring herself not to look at him in that moment. He had so much pain and confusion in him that Shelby was actually worried about him even though she barely knew him.

"Shelby?" Daisy asked and snapped Shelby out of her thoughts on Scott.

"What?" Shelby asked.

"Come on, I'm suppose to give you the tour now."

"Oh. Right," Shelby said and stood up.

The two girls walked out of the lodge and started to walk around the grounds. Daisy showed Shelby random places and managed to cover all of the grounds rather quickly. Daisy stopped at the docks and sat down.

"And these are the docks. This is where you and Scott always went to talk," Daisy said.

"Right. Scott," Shelby said. "He seems a little out of it."

"He is. He misses you."

"But, I'm here."

"You are, yes, but, no offense, you're not the Shelby he loves," Daisy said gently.

"I'm started to understand that. It's, like, he tries to not even look at me," Shelby said.

"He does try to not look at you."

"Why though?"

"Because, seeing you is a constant reminder that the Shelby he loves isn't here."

Shelby sighed. She wasn't sure why, but she felt guilty about Scott being in so much pain. She knew it wasn't her fault for she couldn't control it but she still felt like it was her fault.

"It's not your fault, Shelby," Daisy said.

"I know," Shelby agreed. "It's just...I don't know. I can't help but think it is."
"Why?"

"Because me being here is what's reminding him that the real me isn't here," Shelby said and looked confused. "Did that just make any sense?"

"Yes," Daisy nodded. "It made perfect sense to me."

"Well, do you understand what I mean?"

"Yes, I do. But, you need to realize that it's not your fault."

"Do you think he's ever gonna talk to me?" Shelby asked.

"He will, it will just take some time," Daisy said.

That caused a smile to slip onto Shelby's face. She wasn't sure why she was so happy that Scott would talk to her eventually but she knew she was. He was very attractive and being talked to by someone that attractive was nice but it wasn't just that. Shelby just felt like there would be something missing in her if Scott constantly avoided her.

Shelby looked over at Daisy with that smile still on her face. She was happy that Daisy wasn't treating her any difference than anyone else. Everyone else seemed to think that Shelby needed to be babied and treated so delicately for she didn't remember who she was. She may not have known who she was but she still knew that she hated being treated like she was a porcelain doll.

"Thanks," Shelby said.

"For what?" Daisy questioned.

"For treating me normally instead of treating me like everyone else is."

"Oh, you mean like you're so delicate and need to be taken care of?" Daisy asked with a smirk.

"Exactly," Shelby said and nodded.

"Hey, what are friends for?"

Shelby chuckled.

"Come on, let's get back to the dorms. We'll have some time to do nothing before dinner," Daisy said and started walk.

"What's the food even like here?" Shelby asked as she started to walk back to the dorms with Daisy.

"You'll find out," Daisy replied and smirked.

"Damn. I can tell just by your facial expression that it's not good."

Daisy and Shelby laughed and continued to walk back to the girls dorm. They reached the door and walked through it finding the room to be empty. Both of them walked strait to their own beds and grabbed something to occupy themselves with; Daisy grabbed her tarot cards and started to shuffle them while Shelby grabbed a magazine and started to flip through the pages.

Shelby paused, looked up to Daisy and asked, "Hey, what's with that other girl?"

"Who? Juliet?" Daisy asked, still shuffling her cards.

"Yeah. She seems very," Shelby paused as if she was looking for the right words to use. "Perky."

"She is."

"Oh, great." Shelby said and rolled her eyes.

"Yeah, you two don't always get along."

"If she's always like she was in the lodge, then I'm not surprised."

"Sometimes she's actually even more enthusiastic," Daisy said.

"Oh, boy," Shelby said.

Both of the girls chuckled and went back to doing what they were doing.

(A/N)- First off, thanks so much for the reviews from: Melms213, Snoopy22, Linkie, ScottandShelby4ever, SnowyOwl-17, nefftys, tracy, hdrox, keke1, bubbly, Mickey, AliciaClark, Ossie, rogue-angel07, Ishbugirl, 2008ccampbell, luthien telemnar, Delia, Mandy, tribaltaism, Jill, Kala, PaceyandJoey4everAndAlways, Gaia, Anna, Ghostwriter, Ashley, FrostySnake and Ashley 0918. If I missed you, tell me. I'm soo happy that you're all enjoying this story.

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