I didn't have this written up in time to post with the others yesterday... sorry. These stories obviously are set in GGF universe, I'm hoping they won't post anything contradicting me in the meantime... Wow this last episode was super uncomfortable and I think Anne was trying to put on a brave face... but this was mostly written from Gil's POV because some of his facial expressions just said it all (but the end bit is written to show Anne was uncomfortable too I don't think she showed it too much on camera but she must have felt it! The poor duck! Poor Gil! Poor Anne!

Gilbert had never been so uncomfortable in his life! When his notification had popped up saying Anne had tweeted him his heart had leaped!

'Do you want to hang out soon Call_Me_Gil? It's been so long since we've talked.' It read.

He had read it moments after she had tweeted but he refrained from replying immediately. 'It's been so long since we've talked'!? He had thought immediately. 'Hardly MY fault is it?! How would you feel Anne if YOUR moment of humiliation had been posted ONLINE for 9502 subscribers on YouTube to see!' He couldn't believe she had ACTUALLY posted it! 'Who does that!?'

He wrote a reply

'Gee Anne, can't think of anything else I would want to do other than spend time with the girl who has humiliated me!'

Then he had deleted it before he tweeted it. He would leave it for now. Mull over it a while. Maybe he would change his mind, maybe he would calm down, maybe it would leave her waiting.

His emotions had ranged from re-proclaiming his undying love for her to complete and utter distain for her.

He didn't know how he felt anymore. He didn't see why he had to feel anything truth be told but he should really reply to her.

' AnneWith_An_E Sure, I'm free tomorrow, if you're available?'

There. That was nice and neutral. Not overly affectionate not devoid of all feelings. Maybe he could work out where he was in all this.

He figured it out as soon as she threw the door open and greeted him with a hug. "Gil!" She had said happily.

His whole body tensed. Part of him screaming to him to return the affection but it was overwhelming! All he ended up doing was standing there torn between the thin line of love and complete distain.

"Oh come in come in! I've been so excited to see you!" she exclaimed happily. Dragging him into the room. His stomach leaped uncomfortably as her hand around his wrist. He wanted to cry. This was a really really bad idea! And he had agreed to it!

He sat down on the bed deliberately not giving eye contact, he knew if he did he would break in two, it was difficult his natural reaction was to look at his beauty… no she was never his to have. He didn't know what to do when she switched on the camera. 'Wait?' he thought, 'is she really doing THIS? NOW? REALLY' it really seemed he had no choice. She sat on the bed quite close to him.

"Hello" Anne started as he shuffled uncomfortably further away from her. "everyone. So I asked Gilbert over today because we haven't hung out recently, and I thought a video…" He looked in her direction briefly blankly she was really doing this! "… would be a great way for us to have fun together…"

'Fun? Is that what she called humiliating me? Fun?' He found himself nodding uncomfortably with a sarcastic look on his face, Not that would she care?

"Right yeah." He said slowly, he meant for the sarcasm to come to the surface but it didn't seem to.

"Sooo, what have you been up to recently?" She asked him as if it were normal what she was doing.

"Erm…" he thought, he had to respond really but he couldn't bear to look at her so instead addressed himself to the camera "just studying with school work mostly, my fraternity is organising a polar bear plunge at the end of the month…" he looked down feeling a lump in his throat "so…"

"Fuuuuuunnn?" She said, he could see out the corner of his eye she was looking at him "What is that?"

He looked at the camera again and not Anne, this was so awkward! "erm we basically get people to donate money for us to jump into lake Onterio, cos' its middle of winter, it's cold."

"That's …" Anne started "wonderful…"

"yeah." He replied.

"Cold." She giggled. There was a long pause. Unnaturally long, this was not going well at all! "So, I've been meaning to tell you, about this great short story I wrote in one of my classes…" she told him.

Really? Why do you care to tell me, was it not just last week you were telling your new boyfriend you had yet to 'find some who had been helpful with my writing'. He thought

It stung.

Stung him to high heaven.

No it wasn't him who had made a whole video with her ENCOURAGING her. Calling her smart and driven, "I know you can do it" he had said.

"Sooner or later someone is going to see your talent." He could, he could see it despite the flaws in the story, it was… imaginative and so like her!

She had drawn love hearts on his leg! He couldn't tell you what a turn in it had been, her playing with any part of him! That closeness! That thrill which had pulsed round his body.

"You can be anything you want Shirley." He had told her.

"well I'll always be here to pull you back over" he had promised.

"I am creative and talented" he had made her say. Because she was. She was perfect to him.

But no, my encouragement clearly meant nothing to her, just like me. He thought.

"Its about this doctor, he's trying to save one of his patients, BUT there's a huge dilemma so he has to improvise, cos' he runs out of medicine, and, and so he has to work with one of the syringes, and it gets really intense." She continued.

He was hurting really badly. "Yea, yeah. That sounds just like me." He croaked.

"Well yeah" Anne continued it seemed oblivious to his discomfort "I thought, doctors… medicine, it made me think of you."

"Cooool." He managed.

They sat in silence she started talking about something to do with the student union and Phil his mind only really tuned in when she mentioned,

"…they were showing Forrest Gump at the students center, and they have pizza and popcorn and icecream, I love ice cream! So much…"

'Sure,' he thought awkwardly 'she can love ice-cream, she can say she loves ice-cream' he thought slightly jealous a dessert could stir even a little of those emotions in her "yeah, I think most people do…" he said dismissively.

"Well yes, that's why we should go…" She continued.

He looked down frustrated, 'is she kidding!? Yes lets go and see Forrest Gump where a major subplot was that he was in love with his best friend… what a spirit boaster that would be!'

"…plus I've never seen Forrest Gump." She said continued.

" Really?" he said trying to sound interested. 'This was not working!' he thought miserably. "Errmmm You know what I actually have a lot of studying to do, I have a test on Monday so…" he tried but she didn't seem to be getting it.

"I can't wait to go home for reading week and see Marilla! Oh and Ruby and Josie and Jane…" she continued

Gilbert was frustrated and this time when he spoke it showed "Anne! … what…?"

…What are you doing?

…Do you think this is helping?

…Do you think anything is back to normal?

…This isn't normal Anne!

…I don't feel normal!

…I feel broken!

…And frustrated!

…And like I never meant anything to you!

All ran through his mind in a matter of milliseconds. Instead he sighed, he wasn't going to break down in front of the camera again "I… I really have a lot of homework to do, and erm, I have tests… I…"

"Well stay we'll work on our homework right now." She offered.

How was she not getting this. Quick an excuse! He looked dead at her if he looked he would seem like he was telling the truth. "I actually have a study date with Christine…" he said "so…"

"Oh!" she exclaimed, obviously wasn't expecting that was she? Because unlike Anne, Christine was at least not breaking my heart!

"Sorry." He managed.

"Oh! Cool!" Anne said she seemed to still be stringing the words together.

He stood up "Yep" this was definitely the end of the conversation.

"Totally! I'll call Phil or something." She said.

'Thank heavens she didn't say Royal!' he thought to himself, he couldn't have taken the mention of that pretentious… "yeah, urm, I'll talk to you later" he said leaving the room.

"Yes, yes, we'll talk later." She said quickly

"urm.." he didn't know where it left them.

"We'll see each other next week. I'll see." She said to him.

"Have fun at the movie." He managed.

"I will. I will." He looked briefly at her as he was walking out, 'Gods she is beautiful' he thought destructively. "Bye." She said waving.

He left the room frustrated. He pulled out his cell phone and started a text.

'hey Christine, fancy coming over and testing my knowledge for the test on Monday?'

He walked down the corridor his legs felt like jelly! He had been away from her for a month! A month! 5 weeks! And she was still having these effects on him! He reached the bottom of the dorms and slammed the door behind him frustrated these feelings were coming back to the surface.

His cell phone buzzed in his pocket. He took it out to see the text.

'sure thing Gil, see you in a hour and a half? I have to finish up my piano recital practice' Christine wrote.

'Great' he wrote, 'See you then'.

He got back to his dorm quickly, he felt like he was on fire by the time he got back. It was a clear 70 minutes before Christine was due so he grabbed a towel and headed for the showers. He didn't even wait for the warm water to come through he needed to get the lovely smell of Anne away from him. Before he went into self-destruct! He stood freezing cold in the shower but found his body heat remained constant. His cheeks were burning and it wasn't only shower water which hit the base of the shower, his own hot silent tears fell amongst the water.

"That was so good!" Who am I kidding!? My fans right? They wouldn't see through this facade. "I've reaallly missed talking to Gilbert!" I have, I have so missed Gilbert! "So it was really nice just to catch up on things…" reiterate, reiterate! "It went really really well, I'll see you guys later, Bye!" she reached for the camera and switched it off.

She had tried to edit it the best she could.

It went terribly terribly! He wouldn't even look at me!

But what could she do now but post it?

Thanks for the great hangout Call_Me_Gil then put a link to the video. Maybe if he saw how much she had missed him?

She still had sometime before Phil would burst through the door ready to go to the movie so she slipped into the shower pulling her hair in a high bun and shower cap. She stood against the heat of the shower.

I miss him. She thought sadly. The real Gil, I miss him, his smile the lights in his eyes, his enthusiasm they seemed… dead. She thought sadly.

Maybe we just need more time. She concluded silently.

She couldn't tell you why there was silent tears rolling down her cheeks.