"You killed him." he said. I heard the door open and a familiar voice speak.
"Gabby! Thank you! You're awake! Don't scare me like that again!" I felt Andy shaking but the realized it was me. "Gabby, are you ok?" I slid my hands from his shoulder. My arms fell limp to my sides.
"Gabby?" Maria whispered. A huge sob broke out in my chest.
"Uh, guys I think it's time for lunch, go tell the nurse." Troy told everyone. They slowly sulked out and I curled up on the floor next to the bed. I started shaking and crying.
"Gabriella," Troy said and he walked over by me helping me up on the bed. He rocked me on his lap while I cry into his chest. "It's ok Gabby, its ok."
"N-no its not! I-I killed my dad!" I wailed.
"It was an accident,"
"So if you're driving in a storm and your dad tells you to slow down, but you don't, you actually speed up and crash, and you kill your dad and its an accident?" (sorry if no one understood that)
"Gabi—"
"Wahh!" the cry came from the box on the side of the room. We got up and walked over to my sister. She was moving her mouth around and her face was red from crying.
"Go tell the nurse that she's hungry." I ordered him. he looked like he was going to say something but walked outside. I picked up the baby and rocked her in my arms. I lay back in my bed and held her to my chest.
"Don't worry Gabby, don't worry, were going to take good care of you." I promised her. Her cries softened and she looked at me with her brown eyes. "Gabrielle, wanna know who you're named after? You're named after your da─… your daddy. His name was Gabriel."
"Miss Montez? Your mom is still sleeping so I have a bottle for the baby. You know how to feed her?" She asked. I nodded and she gave me the bot6tle. I lifted her into s proper position and fed her to bottle. That was when I realized it. I just killed this child's father. She will never see her dad again. and it's my fault.
As I remembered I traveled upstairs to my bed and laid donw thinking.
"Gabby!" I called for her. She came bounding into the room and ran up to me. I lifted her up to the bed and held her in my arms. "I'm so sorry baby," I told her.
"Why are you kwiyin?" (pronounce it as written) Gabby asked.
"Don't worry, I'm fwine- Fine" I told her.
"Toy say he love you again," Gabby said.
"Did he? Well make sure you keep this a secret, cause I love him back," I whispered in her ear.
"Hey, Gabby!" Troy said popping his head through the door. "My parents want me home soon so I figure I'll help you get them to sleep and then I'll leave." I smiled at him
"Troy if you thought that they were devils when they were awake, wait till you try to get them to sleep."
"AHHH!!!!" Tommy screamed as I chased him trying to get him to brush his teeth. Troy was chasing Andy and Ashley around because they couldn't got to there room Gabby was in her crib and babbling to herself. Maria was making a huge mess in the bathroom getting water everywhere. I really couldn't take it any more. I went downstairs in the kitchen drawer and got out the fog horn dad bought for mom after they had Maria. I walked to the fireplace that had vents in each room in the house, stuck it though the hole and pushed the button. It echoed though the house and everybody stopped. I ran over and picked up Andrew and brought him into the bathroom to brush his teeth and helped Maria wash herself up. Troy got Ashley and Andrew into their rooms and Gabby stopped babbling and went to sleep. I wrapped Maria in her towel and sent her to moms room.
"Troy if you want you could leave," I told him as I pulled one of dads t-shirts over Maria's head.
"Um, ok, I'll stop by tomorrow to see you guys, bye, Bye Guys!" he called to the kids
"Bye Troy!" we all said. I kissed him on the cheek and he walked outside blushing. I went to the room and tucked in the kids kissing them goodnight. I lifted up Gabby and brought her into the room with me. I laid her down next to me and i fell asleep.
I woke up to a knocking on the door.
"Gabby? The storm is scaring us. Can we come in?" I heard Tommy ask.
"Yeah, come in." I told them. As soon as they opened the door lightning flashed and thunder boomed. They all ran in and climbed on the bed. I lifted Gabby so she wouldn't get crushed and we all snuggled up together. Another thunder clap came and we all jumped. I sat up and turned on the lights so that we could watch TV. Just our luck. This was the worst storm in history in Albuquerque and all of the channel were blocked telling everyone to stay inside. (ok, just for the info there was a huge storm in NJ for hours and thunder every few seconds. I really don't feel like saying each time there was lightning.) I reached to turn the TV off but suddenly the power went out. The kids screamed plus started moving closer to me. I was trying my hardest to stay strong for them but it wasn't working. I turned on my cell phone and tried to call Troy but the power lines were down.
"Uh, Uh," I said trying to get rid of the nervousness. "Everybody, go downstairs and get your jackets on, the ones with the hoods." Everybody slowly went downstairs and got on their stuff while I carried Gabby. We got all of our shoes on and coats on and went outside to the car. When everybody buckled up I started the engine and gripped the steering wheel with two hands.
"You can do this." I whispered to myself. "come on," I carefully put the car in drive and pulled away from the corner. A bolt of lightning came and that's when I got freaked out. I was hallucinating. The road kept on switching from the road to the road on the way to the hospital. All I needed to do was drive a few more blocks to make it to Troy's house.
A block from Troy's house was when the moment replayed in my head. I could hear my dad yelling to slow down. So I did. It was just in time too. A lightning bolt came down from the heavens and came at the road right in front of the car. I pulled up to Troy's curb and got out the car walking to the front. When I saw the tire I started crying. The lightning bolt was so close to the wheel that it had melted some of the rubber. Realizing I was soaking wet I got everybody out of the car and herded them to the door. Ringing the doorbell I waited until somebody answered it.
"H-h-hi M-Mrs. B-b-Bolton." I said sobbing a little. I got a good look at what Mrs. Bolton I saw she was wearing a nice dress and there were a lot of lights on in the house. "o-oh, I'm sorry for interrupting your party─"
"no, sweetie, don't worry, just bring the kids in," she told me. I nodded my lip while I bit the inside of my cheek.
"W-we could come through the back door,"
"Come on in," she offered her hand to Maria and she took it leading us through the living room. I could just feel people staring at us wondering what a whole herd of kids in their soaking wet pajamas are doing in this house. She led us to the stairs and told us where Troy's room was.
We opened the door to his room and Chad and Taylor there
"Hey, Gabby, what's up?" Troy asked getting up form his spot on the bed and taking the little Gabby in his arms.
"Thunderstorm." I whispered.
"Oh, ok, it's going to be ok," he told me.
"No," I told him shaking my head, "its not."
"Why?" he asked "hey, Taylor take Gabby for a sec I gotta see something," he said giving Taylor the child and walked with me downstairs. "Gabby, what's up?" he asked as I pulled him by his hand to the front door, "its raining outside." He said like it wasn't obvious. I opened the door and for the first time I ignored the thunder and lightning I dragged him right to the front of the car and pointed at the wheel sobbing.
"What the heck happened?" he asked staring at the melted tire.
"lightning." I whispered.
"Oh, Gabby," he said his voice dripping with sympathy. He wrapped his arms around me and kissed my forehead. Now both of us were soaking wet. Suddenly we both saw a lightning bolt that turned the night into day. The street lights went out and one by one the light in every house went off leading down the street. I pulled myself closer to Troy waiting for the thunder that was sure to follow. It was so loud I screamed and felt myself collapse. I covered my ears because the thunder was echoing over and over through the sky and through my ears.
"DAD!" I shrieked ad called his name over and over again, "I'm Sorry! I'm Sorry!" I screamed without stopping. I felt Troy try to help me up but I fought him of and kept screaming. I screamed until I felt my lungs feel like they were going to burst. Troy tried to pick me up this time but I wriggled out of his grasp. My ears were ringing and I opened my eyes not knowing that I closed them. Everything was blurry and spinning. I saw Chad and Taylor running over to us and I couldn't hear anything. I remember collapsing into Troy's arms and blacked out.
Is ending it in the next chapter too soon?
