Chapter 6---Love and War

Chapter 6 ~ Lodge ~ Daisy and Auggie sat with Peter and Sophie; they were all worried about Scott and Kellie and had no clue what to do! Peter had already send out a search party more than 2 hours ago and still there was no word on their location. "What are we going to do?" asked Peter putting his face in his hands and mumbling to him self. "Peter it will be okay, Scott knows the woods and I'm sure he'll take care of Kellie" Sophie walked over to Peter patting him on the back. "Yo meat knows what he's doin Peter, he'll be back before you know it" called Auggie from across the room. "I hope so Auggie, I hope so" ~ Woods - Ezra's Group ~ "Ezra still wont wake up" called Shelby as David and her lugged Ezra in a sling. They had been carrying Ezra though the woods for more than 2 hours and still he had not woken up once. "David what exactly did you and Ezra take?" asked Jules as she pulled her stuff and Ezra's stuff behind her. "What's it to you Ms. Princess, you would not know drugs if you saw them so don't ask unless you know!" was David's rude reply. "Okay sorry I asked" ~ River ~ "Kellie, Kellie" screamed Scott as his weak body was thrown up against rocks that were as big as a bear. "Kellie were are you?" Scott was out of breath and had lost his pack some were back a ways in the water. He had been separated from Kellie for a long time now and was losing hope of anyone finding him. He saw the end in the stream and then a long drop! "Oh sh*t" yelled Scott as he grabbed onto the nearest rock holding on for dear life. "Scott, Scott I can't swim, Scott" Scott turned and saw Kellie coming into view, he reached for her but she was to far away for him to grasp. "Kellie try and swim, or whatever closer to me". They slowly moved towards each other, when Kellie was in arms reach of Scott she latched onto his body and started crying. She looked horrible, her usually shiny blonde hair was matted down and covered in mud and leaves, her usual smile had turned into a frown and her close were torn and her shoes were gone. "Kellie its goina be ok, just hold on" Scott whispered. Kellie looked at Scott his blue eyes were shaking with fear. Fear of what? Fear of her? She asked her self. "Scott, I saw you looking at me this morning, I knew I would get your attention, it was like fate that you woke up from your love and saw me on the lake" Kellie looked Scott in the eyes. "Scott I'm not how I seem its just, well I've had it hard, harder than most, harder than your girlfriend Shelby. I thought if I had a boyfriend I could open up to someone and let someone in, Scott I have never told anyone about my past, no one, but I was ready to tell you. I need to tell someone or I think I may go crazy" Kellie looked away at the rushing by water as she said that. "Kellie, I understand, but I'm not the right person for you, I'm not the one you should tell your past to. Kellie you need some one better, someone who will love you for the pretty, smart person you are, and Kellie I'm just not that person" Scott said as he pulled a leave out of Kellie's hair. "Scott, I love you, you can't mean that I know how you looked at me when I fist came here, I know we could make it happen, just give me a chance." Kellie leaned in to kiss Scott as he pulled away; she let go of him and slowly started to drift back towards the long fall. "Kellie, Kellie" screamed Scott his face was turning red as he swam for her but just as he reached her she smiled at him, that sweet smile she had on her face the first day she came here. "Good bye Scott, I'm sorry it did not work out, I know you and Shelby are meant to be together and it was wrong of me to try and break you to up, but you know the saying?" Kellie kissed Scott's cheek and pulled away. "All's fair in LOVE AND WAR" they said in unison. Scott reached for Kellie's arm just as she pulled away from him and went over the waterfall. "Kellie, God no, Kellie" Scott grabbed onto a near by branch as he looked over the edge, Kellie's body was gone, no sign of her any were. "Some one help, some one help me!" Scott cried to him self as his tears became part of the river, and his cries were lost in the trees. ~ Ezra's Group - River side ~ The sun had gone down and it was around six in the after noon and Shelby and the others knew they were lost. Shelby had tried radioing in Peter at the lodge but there was no luck. They decided to rest for a wile at the bottom of the waterfall and try and wake up Ezra. "Jules, David get over here this is Scott's pack what's it doing in the water" Shelby's face lost all of its color and she dropped the pack. "Scott" yelled Shelby looking up at the waterfall. "Shelby I found something it looks like a body" screamed David jumping into the freezing water that gushed up to his neck. "It's Kellie," he said as he wrapped her body in his arms and looked back at Jules and Shelby. "Kellie, oh god she's dead" Shelby jumped though the water to Kellie and David. She helped David carefully take Kellie out of the water and lay her on the grass. Shelby dropped down to Kellie's face starting to do CPR on her. "Come on Kell breath" Shelby said to her self as she tried bringing life back to Kellie. "David it's not working she's not breathing," cried Shelby pulling away from Kellie and looking back at the water. "David Scott's out there some were and he, he could be dead" Shelby fell to her knees and started crying even more. Jules ran over and tried comforting her. "Shelby, I'd never leave you, Love always wins over War" said a voice. Shelby looked up tears running down her red cheeks. "Scott, Scott your alive" Shelby ran towards him as he took her in his embrace and kissed her like they had never kissed before. "Scott, your, you're here, I thought you were dead, and for a second my heart had stopped because I thought I would never see you again" Shelby kissed Scott again. "Scott, Shelby, Kellie's not waking up, she does not have a pulse" said Jules as she put her ear to Kellie's chest. "She said she loved me and that she wanted to be with me and I told her that I had Shelby and that she needed some one better and then she went over the waterfall" "No one can live though a fall like that" called David as he called Peter, finally making it though. Peter said he would be on his way to the waterfall with some paramedics and for everyone to stay put and keep trying to get Kellie to breath. ~ Lodge ~ "Cliffhangers, I just went to see Kellie and" Peter stopped in mid sentence. Everyone looked at him with sad faces "Is she okay?" asked Scott walking over to Peter. "Scott, she's not going to make it, she's dead" said Peter tears coming in his eyes. "What how, no she, she can't die" cried Scott falling to the ground. "She can't die, she just can't die, its not fair, she was a good person I know but she was just putting up a wall because she was scared to tell anyone about her past." Scott looked up at Peter, and grabbed a coffee table flipping it over along with every thing on it. "Sh*t" he yelled as he ran towards the infirmary. "Can I see her" he asked one of the doctors. "Yes, son but she's gone, but we shall keep trying, all I can tell you is she had a hard fall and had some drugs in her blood. I think she was still alive after the fall but took some of what little drugs she had left and had a over dose" Both her legs are broken and she has lost sight in one eye. She was wake for a minute or to but just long enough for use to realize she could not see in her left eye and that she wanted to see some boy named Scott, do you know him." The doctor looked at him, his dark brown eyes following Scott's worried blue eyes. "I'm Scott, Scott Barraniger" The doctor let Scott into the room. He ran over to Kellie's side leaning down to look at her face. She looked as though she was smiling and had that same smile she had always shown him. He took her hand and squeezed it hoping some life would jolt back into her. Her finger twitched and her eyes fluttered open for just a moment. "Kellie your awake" Scott said to her. "Scott, I'm sorry, don't be sad, I love you, and you belong with Shelby!" Kellie's mouth closed and her eyelids fell over her eyes. "Back away son, time to go" said one of the nurses as she pulled Scott away from Kellie. His hand was still holding onto hers, he could feel her grasp on his hand then her hand dropped to her side and she was gone. "Clear" yelled one of the doctors as Scott watched him try and shock life back into Kellie. "She's gone," he said as they pulled a white sheet over her and wheeled her out of the room. Scott watched her go he wished he would have let her in and maybe he could have saved her from this. Maybe he could have helped her live a little while longer, but sooner or later she was going to die and I guess this was just her time. Scott said to him self as he walked back into the lodge. Tears rolled quickly down his cheeks as Shelby walked over to him hugging him and saying that it will be okay. "Scott this is not your fault, she killed her self, it's no one's fault not even Kellie's" Shelby said to Scott as she patted him on the back and hugged. "Shelby I love you, thanks for everything" Scott said to himself as he kissed her cheek and took a seat next to Peter. "So, Ah Peter what are you going to tell Kellie's parents?" asked Scott "Scott, she has no parents, Kellie was from a problem child Scott kind of like Horizon's except it was an all girls school, her teacher's thought it would be better if she came and stayed at a better more remote school out in the mountains. Kellie had drug problems back at her other school and she had never really told anyone not even friends or a teacher about what was bottled up inside of her. She told me after she first saw you that you reminded her of a brother she use to have, a dead brother he committed suicide a few years ago but she loved him so much. She thought that if she got close to you, you could be both her boyfriend and that it would kind of be like she had her brother back and that when she looked you she would always smile. That's all she told me besides what was on her files. I think she was a little crazy in her mind but she worked as you and I in the heart. She had a obsession over Scott that drove her to her grave" Peter watched as the Cliffhangers mouth's fell open in sadness and they all understood the pain that Kellie had gone though and that all she needed was friends which none of them had really tried to give her. "Kellie told me she was different than everyone had thought she was and that all she wanted was me and then she would open up and I told her I was not the guy for her and that she should find someone else and you know she never will." Scott said as the fire popped and the Cliffhangers hung there heads in sadness. ~ Girls Dorm ~ Shelby lay awake as all the other girls had fallen fast a sleep. She got up a few dry tears still clung to her cheeks as she walked over to Kellie's bed. It was empty except for a trunk that held her close and a few little nick-nacks that sat on her dresser. Shelby opened up the trunk pulling out what little was inside of it. She opened up a pink photo album, inside were a lot of pictures of a younger looking Kellie and a boy who looked almost like Scott. He had a little bit of a sadder face and green eyes but was as cute and athletic looking as Scott. She flipped though it looking at more and more pictures of this boy and Kellie. At the end of the photo album was a tiny folded up piece of notebook paper. Shelby opened up the paper and read this: Dear Chris, How's It going, I've tried writing to you many times before but it was so hard to write to someone who's not there. I'm at a new school called "Mt. Horizon" the kids here are just like any other totally clueless. Except for one - his names Scott and he reminds me of you Chris, he could be you only he's not. I feel that I could tell him I'm not like everyone else and that I'm addicted to drugs, have no parents, and that I'm not all there in the mind but that I could love him. Chris I'm going to kill my self when I feel the time is right, I know that time will be when I fail at getting this boy to like, I know I will because he has a girlfriend named Shelby who he loves dearly. I don't need to live if I know that you are not here with me, and that I don't have anything to look forward to in the Morning's when I wake up. I love you Chris and I'll see ya soon! Love, Kellie Shelby folded the note back and picked up the album and took them over to her bed. She closed her eyes holding the album to her chest and fell asleep. She dreamed that she would go to Kellie's gravesite and lay the album and note on it because she did not want Kellie to forget what little she has left of her brother. Shelby thought she'd give Kellie a picture of Scott, maybe she would one day smile that smile she did when she first came to Horizon and saw Scott. She hoped that when Kellie looked at the picture of Scott, she could finally be happy.

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