Hey everyone .. here is my second chapter .. i hope you all like it!
Gabriella woke up in the hospital 8 days later. Her eyes fluttered open and when she realized she had no idea where she was she started to panic. She tried to get up but
she was tied down at the wrists and legs and she heard monitors beeping. A nurse came in and realized she was up. "Oh good sweetie. Your up. We were all worried."
Gabriella started crying and asking all these questions. "Who are you?" "Who am i?" What am i doing here?" The nurse calmed down Gabriella and said she would be right
back and left the room. Gabriella was whimpering and shaking. The Nurse walks down the hall and around a corrider to the waiting room where Mr. Charles and Mrs.
Janice Delerosa were waiting upon the news of their son who was in the hospital for internal bleeding. The Nurse, whose name was Nancy had to tell them the results of
the operation. As Nancy walked over to them and they stood up with hopeful faces. Nancy took a deep breath "I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Delerosa, but you your son
Alexander has passed. The bleeding was just to bad for us to stop. I'm so very sorry." Mrs. Delerosa fell back onto the chair and was eyeing the magazine on the end table
desperately trying not to cry. Mr. Delerosa was open and closing his mouth apparently at a loss for words. "Charles, I think that we should go to the orphanage to go get a
sibling for Jaylene so she won't be alone." Nancy thought of Gabriella in the other room and a thought came to her. "Actually, we have a little 9 year old girl available. She
was found at the park unconscious and she has lost her memory so she has no clue who she is. You can take her if you want another child." Charles seemed to think this
through. "That seems like a good idea. I mean we don't have to sign any papers and we can rename her and we don't have to tell her she is adopted." Janice agreed by
nodding her head. Nancy smiled. "I will lead her to you." Nancy walked back to Gabriella's room with Charles and Janice in tow where Gabriella was still sobbing. Nancy
went to quiet the little girl. "Honey, calm down, your parents are here to get you." Gabriella stopped crying and look at Charles and Janice. Charles decided to talk first.
"Hey sweetie, wanna come home?" Gabriella finally spoke. "You're my parents?" They nodded. "What is my name?" Charles spoke up thinking of the perfect name. "Layla
Delerosa." Gabriella blinked her long eyelashes. Nancy was untying her wrists and legs so she can get up. Gabriella got off the bed and staggered because her feet were
asleep. Charles picked her up and they thanked Nancy and left the hospital. As they neared the Delerosa house, Charles called someone on his cellphone and muttered to
someone something and hung up. As they pulled into the driveway and got out of the car, Gabriella looked around the front of the house with amazement. There was two
parts of concrete leading up to the drive way and in the middle of the front yard had a huge water fountain. She looked at the house and her eyes widened. It was huge!
Before she could even count how many windows there were, Charles was calling her to come into the house. She walked in and the front hall was white. She looked up and
she saw a huge chandelier and two staris on sopposite sides leading up to a single balcony. She was amazed. Charles whispered in Gabriella's ear, "Welcome home."
Charles walked into the room on the right side and called out "Cecile!" A women in her early 20's walked in. She was pale white and skin and bones. She had blond hair
that was tight in a bun. "Yes, Mr. Delerosa?" she asked. "Bring Jaylene down here to meet her new sister." Cecile ran up one of the stairs to the balcony and headed left.
A few moments later she came back accompanied by a little girl about Gabriella's age. She had long flowy dirty blond hair and big bright blue eyes that could see right
through you. Charles said "Jaylene, bring Gabriella to her room." Jaylene nodded and took Gabriella by the hand and they walked up to the balcony and to the right.
Jaylene opened the first door and showed Gabriella in. The room was blue and all that was in it was a bed with no sheets and blankets and a closet with no clothes.
Gabriella sat on the bed and Jaylene stood akwardly stood by the door. Gabriella decided to speak first. "So, Jaylene, what do you do for fun around here?" Jaylene jumped
at the sound of her voice and muttered something and ran out of the door. Gabriella was tired so she decided to go to sleep. At 4 o' clock in the morning, Gabriella woke up
to the sound of breaking glass and screaming. She quietly got up and crept over to the door. She walked up to the balcony and slid down the wall of the balcony and
peeked at the hall below. It was her dad, but he was staggering and yelling. He was holding a bottle of vodka. He was yelling all of these words to Cecile and she was
crying. Charles ran over to Cecile and started chocking her and yelling something. Gabriella couldn't understand what he was saying because his words were slurring.
Gabriella heard a sound from behind her and saw Jaylene coming out of her room. Gabriella beckoned Jaylene over and they both watched Charles beat on Cecile. As he
was going to hit her again, he looked up and saw them both looking at him. He started screaming for them to come down and they reluctantly obeyed. He grabbed both of
there necks and pinned them both to the floor. Gabriella was scared as hell. She tried to hold the tears back. Charles started taking off his belt and started whipping them
with it. Gabriella didn't understand why her dad was doing this to her and Jaylene. They didn't do anything. After he was done whipping them, he picked them up and threw
Jaylene into the wall. Charles stared at Gabriella a little bit longer and then threw her into the coffee table at the far end of the wall. She tried to get up but she couldn't.
When she finally had the strength to get up, she ran up to her room and slammed the door. She started shaking and then she started crying. All of a sudden her hands
started shaking and her head had a sharp pain. She was having a vision and she embraced it.
(Gabriella's Vision)
A woman sitting on a bed crying her eyes out. A television was on but it was muted. She was rocking back and forth. She was muttering one word to
herself as she looked around crazily unable to see anything "Gabriella .. Gabriella .. Gabriella."
As her vision ended Gabriella wondered aloud "Who was that woman? Who is Gabriella?" she then realized that she in too much pain to think about it right now and fell on
the bed and cried herself to sleep. The next morning she woke up to a closet with some clothes on them. She went over to the closet and picked out a long red tattered
long sleeved shirt and a pair of tattered overalls. She walked downstairs and went into the kitchen. She saw Jaylene cleaning the oven. She walked over to her and Jaylene
handed her a list. It was list of chores. Gabriella looked puzzeled. Jaylene stopped cleaning the oven and explained everything to Gabriella. Gabriella learned about the
child that was here before her, Alexander, that had died that day they took her home from the hospital from internal bleeding. She learned that they are not Charles and
Janice's children. They are merely their slaves. They were to do all the chores and do them right. They were to bow and call them by their real names. You were not
allowed to cry in front of them. If they disobeyed these rules they were beaten. Charles was an alcoholic and Janice like to smoke crack in the kitchen. In a month,
Gabriella got used to cleaning and only eating one meal a day. Jaylene came out of her shell more and they became best friends. They still got beat all the time. They're
were bruises and welts all over them so they covered them up with clothes when they went to school. Gabriella's hair became straggly and knotted like Jaylene's. Her face
was always dirty and no one said anything about it. This whole ordeal went on for 7 years until Gabriella decided she had enough and decided to take some action.
A/N - from now on i'm going to stop saying gabriella and start replacing it with layla or else people will get confused. If it is confusing in anyway it will get more clearer i promise.