The House Guest

Chapter 1

Since moving to New York for college and work there had only been one thing had that ever stayed constant in Gabriella's life, her apartment it never changed unless she changed something it had been hers since bought it and she had always felt same there. Until now she had been shocked when she heard someone had broken into Mrs Edwin's flat and taken money, jewellery and her husband urn probably not knowing what it was. She had been even more shocked when she head Mrs Edwin had been taken into hospital for a heart attack due to the shock the poor lady had angina and was now in a critical but stable condition. Then it came around that Mrs Edwin had passed away, she had signed a DNR from her heart had stopped and she had joined her husband.

When Gabriella's mother heard all this in her weekly chat to her daughter she had urged her to sell the flat and come home. But Gabriella had refused New York was her life her job was her, her friends. So her mother urged her to move out of the apartments to sell and live somewhere else.

But Gabriella had said no security had been stepped up she would been fine. But then it happened again on the floor below Gabriella and then again the week after the flat across from her. She was very quick to sell back to her landlord, pack everything, put her furniture in storage and move in with a friend.

When her mother heard this she urged her to move in with her friend's son who lived in a nice part of New York with tight security. Gabriella had gone to say no but her mother sounded so worried that she agreed and within a week she had moved in with Dr Troy Bolton. They were both the same age 27 and Troy was becoming known has one of the best surgical residents in New York even though he was only in his second year. But because of his job his income was amazing and he was able to afford a very nice two floor house in an area of New York that security gates and security guards day and night because of the area as there were important people who live in the houses around Troy. Some senators and some offspring and relatives of famous singers and actors or actress.

Moving in with Troy didn't stop Gabriella from her usual day she had to get up an hour earlier to get work. So she had her shower at 6am when she woke, got dressed and ready for her day. Had her breakfast in the kitchen and cleaned her dishes before heading out at 7.00am to get to work for 8.30am, she arrived home at 6pm after finishing at half 4. She would cook for herself and settle into front of the TV in her room and do some paperwork from work. Work on any columns she needed to do. She always tired to turn her laptop off by 9 so she could be asleep by 11. She would get or make a chocolate milkshake from the kitchen and drink it while reading or she may still be reading on her laptop. She would plug her iPod into her Ipod dock select a slow and gentle song for the night and let its lullaby lull her to sleep. She rarely saw Troy and when he was in the house she kept to herself. They rarely spoke or saw each other. She wasn't here for him she was here to give her mother piece of mind. She liked being alone she had been alone for the last three years and she liked it that way. She was of course polite to Troy spoke to him when she saw him as did he. But they never asked personal questions it was always hi or good morning, sleep well, have a good day and good night or goodbye. Other then that the only thing Troy had said when she first arrived was Hi I'm Troy Bolton and when she had been hesitated to shake his hand due to the fact she wasn't confident with new people out the work place, he had said "I don't bite….much,"

After that they had kept to themselves. She was the house guest and he was the host.

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Gabriella Somerfield