Changed

Troy Burrow's came home drunk once again to a loving and very forgiving wife, Gia. She fell in love with Troy for who he was, but after the miscarrage of their first child, you couldn't get Troy to stop drinking.

Gia sighed as Troy stumbled through the door, she tried to help him to bed, but Troy slapped her to the floor and beat her. One thing about Troy was that when he was sober, and that was rare, he wasn't as short tempered and was never abusive to Gia, but when he was drunk, he was very short tempered and almost always abusive. But, Gia knew he loved her deep down and didn't mean the things he did to her.

Finally, after two hours of beatings, Troy finally passed out. Gia carried him to bed and left a glass of water and some pain killers for when he woke up. Then Gia cleaned up the house from blood and vomit and went to bed herself.

Troy woke up the next morning and felt the bed beside him for Gia's warmth but did not find it. The smell of breakfast cooking came to his nose and he knew she was cooking breakfast. Troy got up and found the pain killers and water on the bedside table. Troy sighed and wondered how he got lucky enough to have a wife like Gia.

Troy walked into the kitchen as Gia was setting out breakfast.

"Morning, "Gia said, not looking at her husband.

"Morning, "Troy said sitting down at the table.

The couple ate in silence. Troy left to start his daily drinking while Gia went to work with yet more explaining to do about the new brusies on her arms and why she was so sore. Gia worked as a waitress at the local dinner, which didn't pay much, but kept food on the table and enough money left over for Troy's drinking.

Gia arrived at work and met up with Emma, who also worked at the dinner with Gia.

"Gia, did he hit you AGAIN last night?"Emma asked as Gia nodded, "Why haven't you divorced him yet, Gia? You don't deserve what he does to you."

"I know, Em, but I love him and I know deep down he loves me. I just have to get him to change, "Gia said grabbing her aporn and check pad and setting off to work.

Meanwhile at the local bar, Troy was drinking his sorrows away, he never remembered what he did while he was drunk, so he had no idea what he does or what he drinks. He just knows that he drinks from open to last call and always walks home with a beer bottle in his hands. He's been busted for public intoxication and had to have Gia bail him out of jail before. But no matter what, he always went back to the bar and drank.

The next day, Gia held Troy at home from the bar that day, she was going to take him to chruch since it was Sunday and Troy went, just for the sake of going, to go do something other than the bar scene.

Gia and Troy walked into the church sactuary and sat by Emma and Noah.

"You managed to get him to come?"Emma whispered to Gia.

"Yes, I did, "Gia whispered back.

"Okay, what's the next part in your plan?"

"Not really sure, Emma. "

The girls would have continued their conversation, but the service started, so they shushed up.

The service was about the pastors life before Christ, how he was an alchoalic and how he found Christ and how his life change. The service really moved Troy and he relized that he was wrong and his little daughter up in the sky would not want her father like this because of her. Troy asked for forgivness right then and there and he really did change for the better.

Troy and Gia went home from the church service, Gia with a few tears in her eyes.

As they arrived home, Troy annouced , "I want to try to have another baby. "

"I think I do two, Troy, "Gia said.

And so they did try. The tried for a year and Gia finally became pregnant. Nine months later, she gave birth to a baby girl named Sara and a little boy named Andrew.

Troy never would have had this great family if he had never changed.