Shay's POV

I'm sitting in bed reading a book when I hear a light tap on the door." Come in." I call out in a hushed tone.

"Hey." Matt pops his head in the door." You asleep?"

"Does it look like it?" I roll my eyes." Just get in here." Matt slips through the door hopping on the bottom of my bed laying across it." Why are you up so late?"

"Couldn't sleep." He shrugs playing with the pattern on my bedspread in his fingers." Why are you up so late?"

"I was reading." I say closing my book placing it on the night stand." What's on your mind Matt?"

"Nothing." He says trying to sound innocent." Just wanted to see what to see what your up to?"

"At one in the morning?" I chuckle." You want to talk about Gabby, don't beat around the bush."

"Shh, keep it down." Matt presses his finger to his lips." She's right downstairs, and I'm still mad at you by the way." He points his finger at me." You ambushed me the other night at the bar."

"All with good intension." I grin widely." Besides you two have really hit it off these past few days since Gabby moved in."

"Yeah." Matt answers somber." She seems lonely, even lost a little." He looks up seeing as I nod in agreement." As much as I panicked with your suggestion, I think it was the right move for her."

"I'm glad you agree." I smile back." She has been great company here as well."

Matt starts laughing." You just love having a cook around."

"Well you know I can't cook for my life." I say laughing along. I then turn more serious." I think something happened to her in Cleveland?"

"Me too." Matt whispers." I want to talk to her about it but don't know how to."

"No don't bring it up." I waive nervously." I don't know her that long but I can tell she is the type who will open up on their own time."

"Yeah." He nods." Hey did you notice the other night, Gabby never acknowledged she ever lived here before moving to Cleveland?"

"Yeah at Molly's." I nod." Her first shift with me she asked if I would drive, cause she didn't know the roads well."

"Well maybe being away so long she forgot the roads." Matt shrugs it off.

"Or she is trying to block out something from here?" I suggest and Matt's head pops up meeting my eyes." Maybe we are over thinking this." I say trying to brush it off, and the concern I saw in Matt's eye's he cared deeply for her, that much I could see.

"Yeah your right." Matt sits upright on the bed." It's not right us up here talking about her like this." He leaned over kissing my cheek now." Get some sleep it's late."

"You too." I say scouting down under my covers as Matt slipped out my door. I clicked my lamp off sleep taking over me quickly.

Casey's POV

I walk out of Shay's room and hear what sounds like a muffled cry come from downstairs. As I get to the staircase a dim light is coming from the living room and the muffled cries were louder. "Gabby?" I whisper as I get to the bottom step, as I see her sitting up on the couch her back facing me.

"Where did you get this?" Gabby mumbled never even turned to face me.

"Get what?" I question as I round the corner of the couch stopping dead in my tracks. Gabby had my yearbook in her hands." Where did you find that?"

"I couldn't sleep." Gabby whispers her eyes never leaving the closed book in her hands." I was looking for something to read." She glances over to the book rack of magazines across the room." Who gave you this, where did you get it from?" Her eyes finally look up to me as her tears spilled down her cheeks.

"It's mine." I answered after a brief moment.

"No no no, where did you get this, who sent it to you?" Gabby started to panic, I could see her body trembling.

"Gabby talk to me?" I say taking a seat on the couch next to her.

Gabby flinched away from me moving to far end of couch." Where did you get this?" She asks again.

"Gabby it's mine." I tell her reaching out my hand for the book." Let me show you." She hands me the book, I flip to the page with my class photo on it. I place it down on the coffee table before I point at it.

"Matthew Alan Casey." Gabby whispers as she leans forward looking at the picture." Why did you lie to me?" She asks more disappointed then angry.

"I didn't lie." I sit back on the couch further." You didn't know who I was back then."

"Fatty Matty?" She blurts out quickly covering her mouth." I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it just came to me."

"Ahh, so you heard my nickname too?" I chuckle bringing a small smile to her face." Why did you pretend to not know me?"

"It was a long time ago." Gabby says clamming up again." I didn't remember you." She closes her eyes taking a deep breath." Why did you pretend to not know me?"

"I didn't know you back then." I shrug looking away." I was fatty Matty right, you, you were the most popular girl in school."

Gabby shocked me now as she moved closer putting her hand over mine." I never called you that."

"You never called me anything." I say almost bitter that Gabby pulled her hand away." I'm sorry."

"No your right, I didn't talk to you." Gabby looks back over to me." But I'm not that stuck up snobby girl everyone thought I was back then."

"I never thought that." I reach my hand out for hers but she stands from the couch walking across the room." Gabby, it's true." I stand now as well." I know we never talked but I knew there was more that meets the eye with you ."

"Beingp popular wasn't the greatest." Gabby chuckled slightly." I was jealous, envious of you."

"Of me?" I look at her with wide eyes." I had no friends and talked to no one."

"Yeah, you were strong independent didn't deal with all the high school drama."

"Gabby I was far from strong, I was weak a coward no one wanted to be my friend." I say turning my back to her.

"That's not true." Gabby places her hand on my shoulder." Senior year when you lost all that weight, all the girls talked about you."

"But not to me." I snap back." I was still just gossip not good enough to talk to right?"

"They were all shallow, you were better off."

"Then what's your excuse." I turn to face her." You weren't shallow so why didn't you talk to me?"

"Maybe I was." Gabby shrugs looking away.

"Gabby." I take a step closer to her." When I asked you about moving to Chicago, why didn't you acknowledge you were from here?"

"Same reason why you didn't tell me you knew me." Gabby faces me again." I blocked out high school along time ago. It's better left in the past."

"Why did you move to Cleveland? Was it Johnny?" My question triggered something in Gabby as she looked at me with wide eye's and his name caused her body to tremble." What happened to you?" I take a step closer.

"The past is the past, just leave it there." Gabby walks to the couch taking a seat." I'm really tired, I need some sleep before shift tomorrow."

"We all have our secrets don't we." I snap causing Gabby to look at me confused before I turned to walk away." Good night."

"Good night." Gabby whispered back and I knew she wasn't going to tell me anything else, at least for tonight.