PART ONE AND TWO ARE GOING TO BE ON THE SAME PAGE SO HAVE FUN READING IT. COPYRIGHT 2000
Part one: Pain then Tears (JOURNEY'S SIDE OF THE STORY) Access got so confused of what's Journey was talking about. "Whoa, whoa, whoa. You're losing me luv. What's going on between you and Daphne?" He asked. "I don't want to talk about it here. I'm going to move to my penthouse that I'm renting. That should suit Daphne for a while." Journey said.
So Access, Fred and Shaggy helped Journey with the rest of it. The guys placed it into her apartment on the top floor. "What about the rest of the furniture?" Fred asked.
"Don't worry, they already provided some for me. Like the couch, refrigerator, coffee table and minor things. The rest of the stuff that I'm going to live in." "Why are you moving here instead of living with Daphne?" Fred asked. Everyone fell silent. "That is something I don't want to talk about." She said.
When they got into the almost empty penthouse, it was wonderful. "This is the place." Journey said while entering her own place. "It looks great." "Thanks." She said. "This is how I'm going to visit you?" Access said. He was sad.
"Don't worry, we'll go on our dates. Besides no matter how many miles we're apart, we'll still be together." Journey said. While kissing him. Shaggy turned away. "Like enough with the mushy stuff, let's finishing moving the stuff from the truck." Shaggy and Fred left.
"My own place. I don't believe it." She said. "I'm going to be helping the rest of the guys move okay, you start to unpack." He kissed her and left. Just then Scooby and Velma came along. "Hey Journey." Velma said. "Hey guys. You like the place?" Journey asked. "We love it. We came up here to help you unpack." "Sure. I need all the help I can get." Journey said. "Since Daphne is on that rage against me." "What rage?"
Access, Fred and Shaggy were done and they rest for a drink. "Would you like to tell us what's going on between you and Daphne?" Velma said. Everyone was getting impatient. All were sitting on the floor. Access was sitting on the couch. He rubbed her back.
"(sigh) Okay I'll tell you. When it's over, don't get mad at me too." "Don't worry, We won't get mad." Fred said. "Yeah Like, we're your friends." "Riends." Scooby said. "Okay here's the story. It happened like a few weeks ago."
Few weeks ago…
"Journey can you house sit for a few week, the gang and I are going on a trip?" "Okay I will." I said while sitting on the couch reading a book. She left for her trip with you guys and everything else. Access stayed with me so I wouldn't get lonely.
As a week went by, I've been getting no calls and I kept the place spotless because I'm always out. Sure I had a few get together with my other friends. They never made a mess and everything. They would stay there and talk and stuff. So that was all right.
I clean my messes and did the dishes, and got food for it. but there was this visitor that would come by at a daily bases. Daphne doesn't know him. the visitor would come by and haunt me all the time and threaten to mess up the house. I would lock the door.
One day, I got something in the mail. It read: "I'm going to mess up your house and say you did it." I was very frightened. If she found out that she thinks I mess up the house, she would be mad. I mean, no one wants a messy house. When I get home, I would lock the doors and window so no one went in.
I received more threats. I went to the cops and they say that there was nothing that they would do. So that got me mad. I thought "the heck with you" and went on and protect the house.
A few Fridays ago, I woke up the next morning, finding the exterior of the house a mess. There was toilet paper around it, shaving cream on the windows and eggs smothered the door.
But that wasn't all. I had to pay the damages to the windows because they crashed it with a few baseball bats and baseballs during the night. I had to clean off the house and repaint it too. I was getting frustrated. I called the police and still nothing. Now I was getting even more madder. I called a few friends of mine to protect the house whenever I out of the house. Still more threats to damage the house. But this note was worse.
When one of my friends picked up the note she gave it to me when I came back. She sat down with me and read it aloud. I was getting frightened.
It said: JOURNEY, SO YOU THINK THIS IS ENOUGH. SPLATTERING THE HOUSE WITH EGGS, SHAVING CREAM AND TOILET PAPER. DAMAGING YOUR WINDOWS SO YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE DAMAGES. IT'S NOT OVER YET. I HATE IT WHEN YOU REPORT IT TO THE POLICE. YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT. I'M GOING TO DAMAGE THE INTERIOR OF YOUR HOUSE AND WHEN DAPHNE COMES BACK, SHE'S GOING TO BLAME IT ON POOR LITTLE JOURNEY. SHE WON'T KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE ME. P. J.
I talked to Red. "I'm being set up and who the heck is PJ?" I mean how does he know that I phoned the police. He thinks that the cops can't know about it. I will let them know anyway. How does he know I was phoning the cops?
My friends took me to a place where you play video games two weeks later. Access house sit when I was gone. Some how, when I got back, the house was trashed. "Oh my gosh, she's going to be mad." The phone rang. I didn't bother to pick it up so I left it on the answering machine. "I'm coming back tonight. Bye." Daphne hung up. "I'm dead. She's going to kill me." I looked at the clock. It was six. "Access are you here?" "In the basement."
I went down at the basement to rescue Access. I wanted to escape. I wasn't fast enough. Daphne was already home. When she opened the door, she had a shock on her face. I was set up. "What happened?" She screamed.
I was scared. So I hid for a few minutes. "Journey get over here." I had to face the music so I went out of the basement. She had a mad look on her face.
"What happened here?" She yelled. Access left from the back door. "I don't know Daphne." I said. By the look on her face, she wasn't buying it. She was getting madder by the minute. "Don't I don't know Daphne me. I know you did it." She said. "I didn't do it." I mean, she was like screaming at me. She got me more scared.
"I swear it. I didn't do it." "I am not arguing with someone that claims that didn't do it but did." "I'm not taking that from you." I said walking away from her.
I was getting madder by the minute. I sat down on the couch. I thought: 'I was set up by that PJ guy.' I looked at the note. "He was right. Daphne did blame me." I got up and started to clean up.
"You deserve to clean it up by yourself. You messed it up." She screamed. I didn't say a word and cleaned it up with tears on my face. I was upset, scared and mad. I had mixed emotions. It was something that won't go away.
I screamed at her back. "YOU KNOW WHAT? WHY BOTHER TALKING TO YOU. YOU WON'T LISTEN TO ME ANYWAY. INSTEAD OF BLAMING SOMEONE ELSE, YOU DECIDE TO BLAME ONE OF YOUR OWN THAT GREW UP WITH YOU. YOU DECIDE TO BLAME YOUR OWN SISTER FOR SOMETHING I DIDN'T DO!" I said. I stopped talking and started to clean up.
Now I've seen the "Frustrated Daphne" the one that screams at someone that DIDN'T made a mess. I was set up. After I was done cleaning up the mess, I went outside to think.
Where ever I walked, everyone was making fun of me. They called me names like "messy Journey." Or "Journey the messier." Or "Journey blame." I wanted to come back home and shoot myself in the head. But I didn't.
Next day, it got worse, she called me "Journey Blame" everytime I went into the same room as her like I deserve every name that people called. I went upstairs and cried.
She came up to my bedroom. "I wish I never had you. I want you out of my house. Get out and stay out. I don't want you to visit here again." she said. She left. I started to pack. I had tears in my eyes.
PRESENT…
"I thought 'it was for my own good.' I wished that this were a nightmare. It came to reality. She was harsh that day." Journey finished. "Why did you move?" Velma said. Everyone was silent except Shaggy and Scooby who were crying and hugging each other.
"It was best for both of us. She doesn't stand me anymore. She doesn't want to be in my life anymore. I left the notes there. She deserves everything she gets." Journey said. "She doesn't mean those words. Neither do you." Fred said. "Yeah. You should apologize." Access said.
"Is saying 'I'm sorry' that simple for someone that didn't mess up her sister's place? I didn't do anything." "She didn't have to take it seriously. If you let her see those notes or done something else, she wouldn't make her move." "I wish everything was that simple. It would for you guys but not for me."
Journey went to her room. "I believe her." Fred said. "I feel so sorry for Journey." Shaggy said between sobs. "Re roo." "That's it, I'm going over to Daphne's today to see how she's feeling and what's going on." Fred said. "I'm going with you." Velma said. "Us too." "Re raying rith Rouney." "Why don't you, Velma and Shaggy go. Scooby and I can stay here and keep Journey company." Access said. "Good idea. She needs all the help she can get for the unpacking." Velma said. "Good luck. Hope you better than Journey did." Access said walking to the room Scooby followed. Fred, Velma and Shaggy left.
END OF PART ONE
PART TWO: DAPHNE KEEPS THE FAITH (Daphne's side of the story) "Boy were Journey and I ever that young?" Daphne said. She had tears in her eyes of course. Then she read the diary she and Journey had together. She read it. There were two books that she had to read. Just then there was a knock on the door. "Who is it?" She said while getting up. "It's your friends." Velma said. "Come in." Daphne said while walking into the kitchen.
Everyone came in. "Hey Daphne." Velma said. "Hey guys." Daphne said with a sad face. "What's the matter Daphne?" Fred said. Daphne didn't say anything. All she did was return to the couch that she was sitting on. Shaggy, Fred and Velma joined her on the couch. Fred sat on the relciner. "This is where Journey used to sit." She still had the sad look on her face. she regret something.
"What's going on between you and Journey?" Shaggy said. "We just had an argument yesterday and I told her to get out of the house and never come back." Daphne said. "Journey was right about everything." Fred said. "Did you go and see her?" "As a matter of fact, we helped her with the stuff that she had. And she was sad so we heard her side of the story." Velma said. "I guess you guys are here to hear my side of the story.
"She said that you screeched at her." Shaggy said. "(Sigh) I did. And yes I regret that." Daphne said. Shaggy closed the book. "We want to hear your side of the story." Shaggy said. "Well it happened a few weeks ago…."
Few weeks in the past
I told her that I was going a way and I wanted to house sit for me. I totally trust her. I sent post cards and everything. I never called. She tried to call me on my cell phone, but I didn't get the time to answer them.
When I go to sleep, I always wonder if I can live up to her trust. She is what I call a "tidy cat". I had nightmares of her beaten up or thrown somewhere and the house is trashed.
She's usually out. She's never in the house. She usually parties, hang out with her friends, hanging out with Access for a while at his place a few miles away. She usually works. Whenever she is home, She does things for herself. She cleans up and eats and sleeps here. Or used to.
Journey has friends over at the house and all they do is sit and talk. They have totally respect and they are very polite about everything and everyone. They never mess up my house. I never knew that she was looking for an apartment or penthouse of her own. I saw the classifieds on the coffee table in the living room. Some of them are circled. But this one that she only circled was this penthouse that had, two bedrooms, a bath with a walk in shower. It also said that some of the furniture that would come with it at no cost.
When I got home, journey was no where in sight. The house was damaged. I yelled to see if she was home. She was home, in the basement. She had a scared look on her face.
I asked: "What happened?" She didn't know. I just got mad at her every minute. She kept on denying it. She had a even more scared look on her face. I didn't know what I was thinking. She walked in the living room crying.
I had a huge headache from all of this yelling. Still crying, Journey cleaned it up. I went up stairs saying: "You deserve to clean it up by yourself. You messed it up." I went up stairs and rest for a while. I heard yelling too.
she called someone about the penthouse she was ready to move in. "Hello. This is Journey Blake calling. We met a few weeks ago about the penthouse. I'm ready to move in. Tomorrow." I was going like fine I don't need you to live here anyway. That day I didn't care how Journey felt.
Today, I saw her packing her things. I said to her "Why don' you go away? I don't want you anyway." I left. I was in no mood. I didn't know about people calling her names. I didn't mean to.
Now…..
"How is she?" "In no mood to see you." Just then Velma saw something on the table. She looked at them. "I just found something." "What?" Daphne said. "I'm looking at the recent threat note that Journey got during the vacation. She was set up." Velma said. "She was telling the truth after all. Let me see them." Daphne said.
Daphne looked at the notes that Journey received. "This guy did trash the place." "See. She didn't mess it up." "It says here that they trashed the windows, the eggs at the front door. And the shaving cream." "She must of paid for the damages and repainted."
Daphne stopped and looked at the notes. "I feel like such a fool." She said. "We'll leave you alone with the notes." Fred said while they left. Daphne fell asleep. Fred gave her a kiss on the cheek before leaving.
A few weeks later…
Daphne still looked at the notes. She didn't still believe it. Journey had a right to be scared because Daphne looked at the lower part of the note. "I HATE IT WHEN YOU REPORT IT TO THE POLICE. YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR IT. I'M GOING TO DAMAGE THE INTERIOR OF YOUR HOUSE AND WHEN DAPHNE COMES BACK, SHE'S GOING TO BLAME IT ON POOR LITTLE JOURNEY. SHE WON'T KNOW IT IS GOING TO BE ME. P. J."
'She did the right thing about calling police.' Daphne thought while looking through the diary from the last month. "I don't believe this she did call the police but they didn't do a thing." She said to herself. "It's never the same without Journey's bubbly personality to cheer me up. She still mad at me I guess." She said.
Daphne tried to call Journey, but she got the answering machine. "It's journey and I'm not here so leave a message and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. Beep. (Break) I'm just kidding. Just leave your message and I'll get back to you. (Beep)." "Hello, it's me Daphne, if you have time tonight, why don't I come over to her apartment and we'll talk. I'm serious. See ya later." She hung up the phone.
'I got the stupid answering machine. I hope she gets the message.' Daphne thought. She got outside and went for walk. Fred joined her. "I'm such a fool." She said. "No you're not." He said. "I embarrassed her. Word got out that they think that she made the mess. They've been calling her names." Daphne said. "What did you do?" "I tried to call her to see her but she's wasn't home so I left a message on the answering machine. I hope she gets the message." Daphne said.
At the pent house, Journey got back to her phone. She looked and checked them. "Daphne called. Let's see what she wants." She pressed the receive message button. "Hello, it's me Daphne, if you have time tonight, why don't I come over to her apartment and we'll talk. I'm serious. See ya later." She said. "She is serious all right." Journey got back to her on her cell phone. "Hey Daphne." Journey said.
"Hey Journey, did you get the message?" Daphne asked. "Yes, Why wouldn't I be calling you if I didn't?" Journey said. "Well, can I come over?" "Sure. We have to talk anyway." She said. She hung up the phone.
Daphne got out of her work clothes and got dressed in her leisure clothes. She invited the gang over to see it. She was excited to see Journey. It's been weeks since she's seen her.
At Journey's apartment…
Journey was typing up her emails and stuff. There was a knock on the door. "Come in." Journey said. Daphne came in. Scooby was there with Journey, along with Shaggy. Both of them were watching TV. "Journey, Daphne's here." Shaggy said. "Thank you." Journey said while getting up. Journey's wearing her purple pants and long sleeve shirt with a upside down "V" cut in the middle.
Journey was in tears the first time she saw Daphne. She knew better not to run away. "Hey Daphne." Journey said. "Hey Journey." Daphne gave her a hug. Journey gave one back. "It's so good to see you." Journey said. Shaggy went to hug Daphne too. "We both like missed you." "I didn't want to go out of the house until I thought about what I did to her." Daphne said.
Scooby went to see her. "Hey Scooby." Daphne said. "Rello Raphne." Scooby said. He greeted her with a big lick. "Would you and Scooby like to stay for dinner with Daphne and me?" Journey asked. "We love to. Right Scoob?" "Right." Scooby said.
The gang came in too and joined them. Journey wrote in her journal. Saying: "There are such things as a happy endings from the feuding going on between one another. Just like Daphne and me. She knew that I was set up with all of the notes. Daphne admitted that she was too extreme to me and apologized. I forgave her. The gang missed her because, let's say that she put herself under "house arrest". They came over for the big dinner I was having with Daphne. "P. J. was arrested for breaking and entering and robbery. He stole half my life savings ($10,000). I'm happy for it. Will see ya later I'm going to join the gang in a little mystery solvin'. Love always, Journey."
The End!!!! That's it!! no more!!!
Journey was in her room packing, when Access knocked on the door. "Come in." Journey said. Access came in. He saw her packing her clothes. She was in a sad but angry mood. "Watcha doing?" "Listen Access, I'm in no mood. Daphne told me to leave, I'm leaving. We got into an argument of some kind."
Daphne was looking through a bunch of photo albums once she got done cleaning up that someone made. She sipped her cup of water, sitting on the couch while looking through them.
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