-1Moving On One Chicken Salad Sandwhich At A Time.

Disclaimer, I do not own Ugly Betty or any of the characters

This is my first fan fic about Ugly Betty, it's little about Betty and Henry's relationship and how she deals with him leaving and ends up moving on with Gio. HB and GB Fan Fic. I would appreciate reviews and feedback on this story.

Chapter 1

The alarm click beeped and Betty turned over and turned it off quickly. She was still exhausted. The past week had been pretty hectic for her. Mode had a big photo shoot to show off the top fashion trends, clothing designs and must haves items for Spring. Mode had hired Miles Preston, one of the best photographers in the fashion industry to do the photo shoot. Betty and Daniel had spent all week coming up with various ideas to present to Miles for the fashion shoot, and he kept rejecting all of their ideas. Miles was a very demanding person and he was a difficult photographer to work with. He liked to take ideas from the companies that employed him and "weave them into something magical" as he had told Daniel and Betty. He refused to work with companies that had people that were not capable of coming up with "fantastic ideas" that he could use and put his own spin on in his photography. He felt that a company was not worth any good if the people that worked there did not take enough "pride" in creating their own ideas, and letting him be the one to execute them. These were all the things that he had said to Daniel and Betty in Daniel's office, after he had finally agreed to do the upcoming photo shoot for Mode, for one of their most important issues of the year. He wanted their ideas, but he wanted perfect ones, and that was something that Betty and Daniel had not managed to achieve yet.

They were still trying to come up with new ideas to please Miles, but they were running out of time and the date for the photo shoot was coming up quickly. Daniel had stressed how much Mode needed Miles, and that if they wanted this photoshoot to go well, and for things to be perfect for their upcoming issue, then they needed to play by Miles rules. So Betty had spent the entire week trying to come up with new ideas, as well as running errands for Daniel, running tedious and strange errands for Miles, and did the other things that she normally did at her job and helped Daniel take care of other business for the magazine. She was beat.

Betty sat up on her bed, and yawned. Well, she thought to herself, at least one good thing had come out of this busy week, she had been able to avoid Gio. All the work that she had to do, made it easier to avoid him. Betty had very little time to do anything other than work over the past week, she wasn't even able to take her usual hour long lunch breaks. She had to cut that time in half, and less time meant grabbing something from one of the vendors that visited Mode or ordering food early so that it would arrive in time for her lunch break, instead of going out like she normally did for lunch and that included making trips to Gio's Deli.

Not that there was anything wrong with Gio's Deli. The atmosphere was comfortable and the food was incredibly delicious. Betty thought that Gio had the best sandwiches in the city. She had never tasted Chicken Salad as delicious as the way that Gio made it. That salad in between two slices of bread, sometimes, wheat, sometimes rye, sometimes sourdough, Betty did like to mix things up, topped with three sun dried tomatoes, sometimes Gio would slip a few more up there for her, was amazing. Betty missed that Chicken Salad. No, it wasn't the food that kept Betty away, from Gio's Deli, it was well Gio. The man that she was trying to avoid. Not that Gio was a horrible person. Yes, he did grate her nerves at times, with his overconfident, attitude, inappropriate jokes, and the way that he was constantly pushing her, pushing her to examine things that she wanted and needed, and pushing her to do something about some of those things, even when she didn't want to. At first Betty was somewhat turned off by Gio's demeanor, but she had gotten used to it and him and had even come to care for him as a friend. A friend that constantly pushed her buttons but a friend nonetheless.

So it was not even Gio's personality that was keeping her away from him and his chicken salad. It was her promise to her boyfriend Henry. She has promised Henry that she would stop spending time with Gio. For some reason unknown to Betty, Henry felt threatened by Gio and his presence in her life. He always felt the need to compete with Gio, and even told Betty this last week. This had left her stumped. She had wondered why Henry felt upset about her friendship with Gio. That was all that it was between them, a friendship. There was nothing for Henry to worry about and Betty had tried to assure him of this. Sure Amanda had said that Gio liked her, but what did Amanda know? She was probably bored and that is why she claimed that Gio had feelings for Betty. She often used boredom as her excuse for giving Betty advice about her relationship with her "nerd lover" as she often called Henry and how to deal with the "drama" with his "flamed haired baby mama" back in Tucson. Betty wasn't going to go by what Amanda said about Gio.

There was no way that he had feelings for her. Betty figured that she probably wasn't even his type. He probably liked types more like Hilda her sister,who he did go out with once, and it had appeared that both he and her sister had hit it off. Betty had expected them to continue dating, but for some reason they decided not to date any more and that surprised her. She thought that they were good for each other. She had never asked her sister Hilda, why things didn't work out between her and Gio.

"Hija come down for breakfast" her father's warm and kind voice interrupted Betty's thoughts. "I'm coming" she called back, smiling as she smelled the tantalizing scent of her father's famous Huevos Rancheros, She loved her father's Huevos Rancheros. He was a wonderful cook and no one could make Huevos Rancheros like he could. He was an expert at making them, much like Gio was an expert at making his sandwiches. Gio. Now why was she thinking of him again, it was best if she got him out of her mind, at least for now. She had made a promise to Henry that she was going to stay away from him and she was determined to do that. She really loved Henry and she wanted to make him happy, they had so little time left before the baby was born and he had to leave, and she wanted every second to be spent in peace and happiness, they couldn't have that if he felt unhappy about her relationship with Gio. That is why she had to end her friendship with Gio, for Henry's sake. Betty sighed and stood up. She went and slipped on her slippers and headed down stairs to eat breakfast with her family.