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He's My Student
Chapter 10
After 10 minutes of small chatter and a drink, Jack came back in from talking with officer Shaw. He let out a big sigh as he sat himself down next to his wife, Lucille.
"Detective Sarah has photographed everything, she wants you to go over and tell her if anything has gone or shouldn't be there." He said to Troy and he nodded standing as Gabriella took her mug in the kitchen.
"Right, we'll be back for Syd as soon as we've finished over at my place," Troy said before taking Gabriella's hand and heading for the front door after his parents said there goodbye's, for now.
"Okay if you just follow me through the house and if you don't recognize anything tell me and I'll bag it for evidence or if something's missing tell Officer Shaw who will be following us in." Sarah explained as she opened the front door. "Don't touch anything okay, you might disturb any of the robber's DNA." They nodded hands still clasped together as they followed her in and as she said Officer Shaw following and closed the door behind them.
"I've just got off the phone with the lab they're bringing some more C.S.I's down to get finger prints and other evidence. If were lucky." Shaw said.
"What do you mean lucky? There's bound to be some evidence look at the mess they've made and we're only in the hallway." Troy stated.
"You don't know who did this, they could be good at what they do. So seems they got in through the back way, the lock has been forced. Do you see anything missing?" Sarah asked as they entered the family room first. They gasped, as the room became visible seeing it for the first time since the incident. The glass coffee table was shattered into a million pieces; his furniture had been ripped to shreds, all the wooden cabinets that held various things had been bashed in, by what looked like some sort of bat. The tele was smashed in, as was the DVD player and ps2.
"Oh my god." Gabriella whispered her hand running through her thick curls. Troy turned his head to the side to look at her for a second.
"This is a disaster, how am i supposed to tell if anything has gone missing." Troy exclaimed as he looked around the room again shaking his head, clearly pissed off.
"I can't see anything that's gone, the only thing you kept in here really was the T.V., couch, DVD's, and extra plates, knives and forks in that cabinet. Also some of Sydney's toys in a basket." Gabriella said pointing to the now completely destroyed toy box.
"Ah come on, how can you do that to a 2 years olds' toy box? She loved that Barbie." Troy exclaimed once again sighing, the officer and detective both sending sympathetic smiles at the couple.
"Okay so if you'll just follow me and we'll show you up stairs." The officer said letting them go up first. The landing looked so much different to downstairs. It was the way they left it, spotless. They came to Troy's room first. It was practically empty. Most of his clothes were gone his little-ish T.V that was up on the wall opposite the bed was gone. Gabriella's things that were there were gone jewellery, shoes, make-up, odd pair of jeans, t-shirts.
"Oh my god practically everything," Troy more or less shouted as he entered, Gabriella following. "Even my frigging school books are gone. My shoes have gone, all of my clothes, except one lousy shirt that i never wear, oh and that stupid tie." Troy exclaimed anger rising. His head turned to his girlfriend as she gasped and scurried over to the dresser. She went to touch the jewellery box, but Sarah stopped her.
"I'm sorry," Gabriella said, tears starting to wash over her eyes. "But can you look over this please, there's supposed to be a necklace a white gold one. You have to look please." Gabriella begged pointing at the dresser; Sarah nodded getting her gloves and delicately started to lift things. Troy's heart broke at the thought of this one particular item gone. It meant the world to her she'd had it since she was a little girl. Getting it made bigger as she got older. It was a birthday present she received from her parents one year.
"What does it look like miss?" Sarah asked she let out a watery sigh before she answered.
"Round link t-bar chain, it has a heart pendant on the fastener; the words 'H.B Gabs We Love You, From M & D.' are engraved on one side." She explained wiping away the tear that dropped and Troy put his arm her shoulders letting her head rest in his chest.
"I'm sorry miss it's not in this room, could you write the details down please officer?" Sarah said after a few more minutes of looking. Gabriella closed her eyes at her words, her heart sinking. Troy kissed the side of her head affectionately.
"Tell us what else's missing please?" Shaw asked they nodded and started to list the rest of the things that had gone.
Not long after they had checked the house, the guest rooms in other words Chad's and every now and then Taylor's were mostly just trashed like the family room and kitchen. The other C.S.I's had arrived and where everywhere taking every little fingerprint, hair, they could find. There was one room left, Sidney's. To say Troy was starting to get incredibly angry and felt sick to his stomach that someone had been in his daughter's room was an understatement. The officer and detective stopped as they reached the closed door.
"Okay this is what we found strange," Sarah said as she opened the door. There mouths dropped it was spotless, not a thing out of place. The pink shining off the walls as the sun came in through the blinds. As Troy saw this he seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, no one had touched anything.
"Did they come in here at all?" Troy asked slightly dreading the answer seeing their faces of pure sympathy.
"Yes, we found this on the bed." Sarah said handing him transparent bag revealing a note it was bagged as evidence.
'You've ruined my life i hate you. I'm back Troy and i'm gunna ruin you and your little family, take the brat of a kid off of you and make sure that your little math teacher of a girlfriend of yours is behind bars were she belongs.'
Troy instantly wrapped his arms around Gabriella has her head dropped into his chest after reading the note with him. He kissed her cheek softly as her tears re-appeared,
"Do you have any idea who this could be now?" Robert asked regretfully breaking the two apart.
"The only person who ever said I'd ruin their life was Sydney's mom. For getting her pregnant in the first place, hence why i have custody over her." Troy explained rubbing a hand through his hair handing Sarah the evidence back. He nodded jotting everything down.
"How long have you been together, seems they've been following you for a while." He stated motioning to the note with his head.
"Urm nearly five months," Gabriella answered quietly, Troy giving her shoulder a squeeze of reassurance.
"What is Sydney's mothers name?"
"Stacey Harrison, she's the same age as me and used to go East High but she went some where, who knows where, after giving birth to Syd." Troy explained trying to get off the subject about the woman who abandoned her own daughter seconds after she was born, missing the shake of Robs head as he mentioned Stacy's name.
"Okay now that is most of the information we can get and we'll be getting in touch with Miss Harrison a.s.a.p. We have to ask is the statement in this note true? The teacher thing," Robert asked sighing, Troy's face cringed as he asked and Gabriella gulped loudly, not surprised if anyone heard it.
"Yeah," she whispered rubbing her eyes with her thumb and forefinger tightening her grip on his hand slightly.
"And how did you meet?" Sarah asked.
"She's my math teacher at East high," Troy answered.
"Have you had any sexual contact?" Robert asked, Troy despite the situation he was in tried to hide his smile but was dreadfully failing, while Gabriella felt the blush come up and bit her lip.
"Yeah," they answered together.
"And when did you turn 19? I'm sorry for this but if you were 19 when you had sex then this makes this case dust." He answered and he smiled to himself when their heads shot up, jaws slightly dropped.
"You mean i can't get arrested if he was 19 when we went out." Gabriella said making sure she heard right.
"Had sex. Dating a different matter but if you had sex before he was 19 then this makes it serious." Sarah corrected smiling.
"Does my 19th birthday make a difference?" Troy asked sheepishly and Gabriella blushed as they laughed.
"Look i'll make a deal, okay? You two don't ever mention this again and you move math classes till you graduate, then this conversation was never spoken." Robert said.
"You're not breaking the law as such because Troy's and adult but teacher, student relationships are so its not your age but the situation you're in." Sarah concluded.
"Deal," they said smiling genuinely since all the commotion kicked off.
"Thought so," Roberts said chuckling. "So we better get going, leave the C.S.I's to it. You got somewhere to stay?" They nodded and followed them down the stairs and out onto the street.
"We'll be in touch when we get a concrete lead, it's useless telling you the little details just to get your hopes up, to have them brought down by a dead end."
"Just make sure you catch the fucker," Troy shouted over his shoulder, they laughed at him before getting in the car and leaving the couple walking to his mom's.
"Can you believe it Troy, we can stay together." Gabriella said a bit of her usual self-coming back as he saw her smile but could also see the sadness in her eyes from the missing necklace. He smiled back and stopped in front of his parent's door, arms at either side of her head, trapping her.
"I know i seriously thought he was going to arrest you there and then." Troy whispered, as his face was so close to hers he'd be shouting if he spoke normal. She could only nod her head as the gaze he was giving her making her shudder, in a good way. He smirked a bit and brought his lips on hers. Her arms first instinct to wrap them around his neck and were doing just that as his tongue ran over her lips for entrance, which she gladly accepted. He wrapped his arms around her waist bringing her closer. They pulled apart when a clearing of someone's throat was heard and saw Jack there with a emotionless expression on his face, Troy took her hand and lead her in mumbling a sorry on his way past.
"So was anything important taken?" Lucille asked as she set the drinks down on the table.
"Most of my clothes and tele and stuff, but El's necklace she got for her 5th birthday off her parents has gone." Troy said sadly and they heard her take a deep breath in willing her self not to let herself get upset again.
"It's not about the necklace well it is, but mostly the meaning of it, it's irreplaceable and the only thing that helps me when i think about them or if i'm upset." Gabriella replied and Lucille smiled apologetically.
"I'm sure the police will find it, did they tell you if they had any idea who did it?"
"Sarah and Robert found a note in Syd's room, the only room not trashed. It said something you've ruined my life and i'm coming back to ruin your family and put El in jail we she belongs for dating a student. Something stupid." He explained hiding a smile at the shocked expressions on his parents.
"And they didn't arrest you?" Jack asked shocked but the young couple where more shocked, as he didn't sound disappointed but more surprised.
"Were not breaking the law as such but Troy has to change math class as student teacher relationships are illegal but as he graduates in a few months he said he'd let it slide if we agreed to it." Brie explained smiling at him and he smiled brushing her hair out of her face.
"Oh that's great," Lucille sorta squealed and clapped, Jack nodded a bit with a small smile. "But wait who'd you think wrote the note, have they been like stalking you?" She asked confused,
"Seems that way, but the only person i can think of whose life i've 'ruined' because getting pregnant only takes one person," Troy said sarcastically. "Is the bitch." He stated and his mother sent him a scowl.
"Troy," she scolded. "Anyway you really think she did this?" He nodded.
"Wouldn't put it past her." His dad injected bitterness in his voice.
"I just hope the police catch who ever did it," Spoke Gabriella. "We never caught who did ours when i was younger." She added they nodded in agreement at her first sentence.
"Okay let's go i'm wiped," Troy said standing and going over to Sydney on the free couch opposite and gently picked her up.
"Bye Lucille, Bye Jack," Gabriella said as they went to the front door.
"Bye Guys," they said stood at the front door as they jumped in her car and drove down the street to her house after buckling Syd and themselves in.