Troy was just standing at the doorway. He couldn't get his head around the fact that Gabbie thought she was ugly or fat. He walked forwards, silently realising that Taylor had left, and stared intensely at Gabbie. She, of course, moved her head to the side, avoiding any sort of eye contact. She thought that if they were going to be breaking up here, she would at least be able to convince herself later that he didn't really mean it because it wasn't in his eyes.

Troy was looking at Gabbie, trying to work out how she was fat or ugly and why she was alone and depressed.

"Gabbie…" he started.

She wouldn't look at him so he quickly locked the bathroom door and knelt down in front of her. He could tell she was going to break into tears any minute and he really hated her in pain. She still wouldn't look at him, so he gently pulled her face towards him.

"Troy, don't. I understand everything. We can get a divorce if you want." That's when she broke.

He quickly pulled her off the toilet seat and onto his lap. At first she tried to struggle, she didn't want to break up like this otherwise she may not be able to leave. She could tell by the ruggedness of his breath and the wetness on her shoulder that he was crying as well.

"I love you" Troy whispered. "I love you more than anything in the world"

"But…" she added, waiting for him to talk

"But nothing. I don't want a divorce; I don't want anything, other than you."

"It's okay, to not love me anymore. I don't really like me. You don't have to lie." She said softly

Troy clenched his fists and shot up. He grabbed her face in his hands and made her look at him. "I'm not lying. I love you. Why has that gone out of your head?! I have always loved you"

She whimpered and he let go of her face. He sat down and pulled her onto his lap, cradling her face by his chest.

There was a knock at the door and Chad's voice was heard into the bathroom "Aveline is having hysterics, she can't find either of you and she wants you." He said softly "We can't get her to stop crying"

"Tell her we're fine and will be out shortly" Tory said back in a not so nice tone of voice.

"Hmmm, okay. Sorry" Chad replied. If he was honest, Chad had tried that already and she was still crying immensely but he knew how Troy got when he was in a mood, and he definitely didn't want to be around.

Gabbie tried to haul herself off of Troy's lap, not looking at him but his hands were gripping her waist tightly to him.

"No, we need to sort this out" he said

"She's crying, we can't leave her" she said softly into her hands

""Chad, will be able to deal with her" he replied

Gabbie was still looking into her hands in her lap "You don -" She was cut off by Troy

"Why won't you look at me? You haven't looked at me at all. Why wont you talk to me?" he asked

She looked down, tears forming in her eyes again. She broke.

"It's okay….I" she hiccupped "I know…you don't….love me…cause I'm fat…..ugly and depressed." She chocked out.

Troy felt his own tears forming, his wife had been feeling like this, and he didn't have a clue. He was such a horrible husband.

"Gabbie," he sobbed out. "Can you look at me please?"

She hated herself, she had made him cry, which just made her cry even harder.

Eventually she looked up at him and they just stared into each others eyes. He was trying to convince her with his eyes that he was telling the truth.

"I love you. You're not fat; you have an amazing figure which I love so much." He paused, as he felt more tears fall from his eyes. "You are the most beautiful woman I have ever set eyes on and everyday I love you more."

Gabbie hiccupped as he carried on

"Every morning I watch you sleep and I can't believe my luck that you still want me after 9 years. You are totally out of my league yet you love me."

They stared at each, love showing in their eyes.

"I love you" Gabbie whispered so quietly he nearly missed it. But he didn't. He closed his eyes at her words and hugged her into his chest. He sighed and began to speak again.

"You've been feeling lonely? And depressed? Why didn't you tell me?" he asked

Before she could answer, they heard Aveline coming up the stairs crying for her mummy and daddy.

Gabbie was still crying on Troy's lap so she lifted herself up and this time Troy didn't object.

"We have to see her" she whispered to him

He gave a hug before pulling away "I'll go and calm her down. You wait here and we can carry on when I get back" he said.

He left the bathroom, leaving Gabbie alone. She fell to the ground and let her tears take over her body. After everything that has happened over the last weeks and especially last couple of days, she was exhausted. She just wanted to curl up in bed with Troy and cry it all away. But she had to wait for him to come back and have another talk which she wasn't up for.

Lying down on the floor, she went over the memories she had with Troy

"I'm Troy" he said to Gabbie

"I'm Gabbie" she replied. The bell rang and Gabbie was being pulled by Taylor to her classroom.

"Ohh, you were talking to the new boy. He's cute." Taylor said matter-of-factly. "He likes you. I could tell from his eyes"

"You could not tell that he liked me just from his eyes." She replied, while rolling her own eyes at her best friends thoughts.

Those bright blue eyes. The amazingly beautiful sea coloured eyes that had just mesmerized her, thought Gabbie. She was pulled out of her little dream by Taylor whacking her arm and signalling over to Troy waving over to them.

"Hmm, whatever girlie"

Mrz. Montez opened the door to find Troy at the door.

"Hi Mrs. Montez, is Gabbie ready?" he asked

"Oh, im afraid she isn't coming to school today she fell quite ill last night" she saw his eyes widen in worry "Just the lfu, you know how it comes around."

"Oh, okay, well..erm" if he was being honest he wanted to go up those stairs and sit with her but he knew that Mrs. Montez would never allow him to skip school at he was certain she would call his parents. "I'll come round after school and see how she's doing"

"Okay Troy." She waved to him as he left the house driveway.

He waited a couple of minutes till he was sure that she had gone back into the main house. He then walked back and went into the garden, making sure he ducked as he went passes the kitchen. He climbed up the tree and went onto Gabbies balcony. Luckily he heard say she would allow hjer to sleep and she would come up in a while to check on her.

Troy silently opened the door and saw Gabbie lying onj her bed looking ridiculously pale. He went over and sat on her computer chair by her head. He started stroking her hair as she opened her eyes.

"Troy, what are you doing here?" she asked quietly

"Your mum said you were ill. I couldn't go to school and leave you" she replied, equally as quiet as he was aware of being around the house.

"Don't be silly, its just the flu." She said

"Gabbie, are you alright? Who are -" Mrs. Montez came into Gabbies room and saw Troy. The moment between them seemed so cute it nearly melted her heart. Nearly. Troy was missing school.

"Aveline's alright now, she was just worried that we had left without her" Troy said as he walked into the bathroom. He stopped dead in his tracks.

Gabbie was lying on the floor in the bathroom, with a pool of her sick next to her.

"Gabbie?!" Troy shouted as he rushed to her side.

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