This is the first chapter of my story. I hope you like it and please review so I know whether to carry on or not.

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When Thing's Aren't as They Seem

"You be a good boy for daddy" Gabriella says kissing her son.

"Where's my kiss?" her boyfriend asks.

Gabriella smiles and kisses Mark.

"Where are you going again?" he asked suspiciously.

"I already told you, I'm meeting Troy" she yelled as she walked out of the door.

Troy and Gabriella was the best of friends. They had been since high school. When Gabriella had first moved to the same school as him sparks flew. They dated for a month then realised they worked better as friends. That was 4 years ago.

Troy had always been there for her and she was always there for Troy.

"Bye Baby," Troy said kissing his wife.

"I love you" she said.

"I love you too," he replied walking out the door.

Troy jumped into his car and smiled. He ignited the car and set off down the road away from the house he shared with his wife of 1 month Kate.

He pulled up at a local coffee shop called Café Latifah. He got out of the car and walked in to see Gabriella sat at the table they always sat at. He joined her.

"Hey" she cheerfully replied.

"Hey, you're early" he smiled.

"You're just late" she replied smiling too. They talked and talked as they always did. They could tell each other everything… or so they thought.

Gabriella returned home a few hours later. She opened the front door and walked into her beautiful house. Well it wasn't really her house… It was Marks.

Mark and she had been dating for four years. 2 months into their relationship Gabriella fell Pregnant. He stood by her. Mark was 21 when Gabriella was sixteen. He was a basketball star so she knew he would take care of her. 9 Months after that Gabriella gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, which they named Jaden. Gabriella owed Mark a lot and Mark wasn't going to let her forget it.

"WHAT TIME DO YOU CALL THIS!!" He yelled at her.

"I'm sorry, you should have called me" she says

"I TRIED" he shouted.

"Oh my god where's Jaden?" she panicked as he had never seen Mark so angry. He had obviously been drinking again.

He shrugged.

"WHERES JADEN" she screamed.

"DON'T YOU DARE SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT!" He bellowed.

"WHERES JADEN" She repeated.

"YOU STUPID FUCKING BITCH" He yelled.

She ran upstairs desperately searching for Jaden.

"Jaden" she shouted.

He grabbed her by her back and threw her down the stairs.

She landed with a loud crash at the bottom. Her neck hurt, her arm was killing her. She had to find her son. What if he had hurt him, she had never seen him like this before. She was terrified. She scampered to her feet tears rolling down her face. He walked down the stairs towards her. "WHERE'S JADEN?" She sobbed.

He pushed her into the wall as he barged by, leaving the house slamming the door behind him.

She ran up the stairs. She went into Jadens bedroom, he was lying their asleep.

Deep down she knew he didn't mean to hurt her and she knew he would never hurt Jaden. She cried and cried as she sat by Jadens side. Why was this happening to her? She knew Mark loved her and she loved him.

A few days later, Troy and Gabriella met up again like they always did. They talked and joked like they always did. Troy noticed that Gabriella's arm seemed to be hurting her. He asked what was wrong. She snapped at him, saying she had fallen down the stairs. Troy just left it. "Why would she lie to him?" He thought.

Later that evening, Gabriella was sitting in Jadens room reading him a bed time story. "Night baby" she said kissing him on the forehead. She walked downstairs and sat on the sofa. Mark stumbled through the door.

He walked straight through to the kitchen. Their was a loud clatter as glasses smashed. Gabriella walked into the kitchen. He was drunk and had cut his hand on some broken glass. She turned on the tap and put his hand under the water.

"Leave it" he moaned.

Gabriella ignored him and carried on running water onto his cut. He pulled his hand away which ended up smacking Gabriella round the face; she fell back onto the floor.

"I'm sorry Gaby" he says softly trying to help her up.

She stands up without his help and he leans on her as she carries him into the bedroom. She could hardly stand his weight so she dropped him on the bed. A tear rolled down her face. He stood up and drunkenly hugged hair.

He kissed her neck. Gabriella tried pulling away but he held a tight grip.

"Give up" she moans trying to walk away.

"DON'T YOU WALK AWAY FROM ME" he yells as he grabs her by the arm

"OWW YOU'RE HURTING ME" She Screams.

"SHUT UP" He shouted coldly as a familiar evil look came into his eye.

She screamed as he pinned down her hands.

He ripped open the shirt that she was wearing. She kicked and fought back until she finally broke free.

She ran down the hallway as he yelled behind her "GET BACK HERE BITCH YOU OWE ME!"

He chased after her his heavy drunken body crashed into the walls slowing him down. She ran downstairs: to the sofa where her phone was.

She picked it up and dialled the first number that came into her head.

She listened to it ring as a heavy, sweating drunken figure appeared behind her.

She turned quickly as he knocked the phone out of her hand.

He grabbed her from behind forcing her onto the floor. His heavy body lying on top of her.

He pulled at her trousers, this couldn't be happening to her.

His huge musky body held her down as she nearly passed out. She shouted and screamed "NO PLEASE NO". She began to cry as she felt numb. She was helpless.

Troy's phone rang. He looked at the caller, it was Gabriella. He smiled to himself and answered the call.

"Hey" he said.

There was no reply.

He heard her scream.

"GABRIELLA!" he shouted running out of his house and into his car.

"GABRIELLA" He yelled again as he drove away. He put the phone on loud speaker and it broke his heart to hear her scream.

He pulled up outside her house, ran out of the car and sprinted upto the door.

He heard her screaming. He barged through the door just as he saw Marks fist come in contact with her face. Marks Trousers were undone and so was Gabriella's. Gabriella's shirt was ripped as blood poured down her face.

"GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER!" Troy screamed at him as he punched him in the face. He fell to the floor.

"Gaby are you ok?" he panicked.

She picked herself up to see Troy cowering over her.

"Where's Jaden?" she struggled for breath as the blood poured down her face.

"YOUR'E DEAD YOU FUCKING WANKER!" Mark bellowed as he pulled himself up.

"Go get Jayden and then run to my car" he yelled so Gabriella could hear him as he stood up to face a very bloody and drunk Mark.

Mark threw a punch at Troy but missed as Troy ducked.

Troy could hear Gabriella running upstairs. Troy threw another punch as he realized how much he had hurt Gabriella.

"HOW COULD YOU TREAT HER LIKE THAT!" Troy roared as he heard Gabriella running around upstairs.

Mark stood up straight with an evil glint in his eye "I ALWAYS KNEW YOU WAS AFTER MY BIRD" He balled throwing a punch that hit Troy in his eye.

Troy stumbled back as Mark stormed past him towards Gabriella.

"YOUR NOT TAKING MY KID!" He shrieked as she ran down the stairs with Jaden in her arms.

Troy grabbed him and pulled him so Gabriella could run out of the door. Mark punched Troy in the ribs. Troy grabbed a near-by dining room chair and slammed it hard across Mark's face.

Mark flopped to the ground, he was out cold.

Troy kicked him in the stomach before running out to Gabriella.

"Get in the car," he told her. She climbed in; Jaden was lying in the back seat.

He started the engine and drove off.

He didn't know what to say to Gabriella.

Tears rolled down her face.

"Where are we going?" she asked quietly.

"To the hospital" he whispers gently.

"No" she said facing him sternly. "Please Troy I'm fine."

"Gabriella your bleeding!" he exclaimed.

"Troy, please I can't" she sobbed.

"It's okay" he whispered.

Please review, I really want to know what you think about this story so far.

Thank you

XX Becky ..// 3 3