Behind These Hazel Eyes
Chapter 10
Gabi walks through the doors of the studio with a tear stained face. She takes a CD out of her purse then quickly puts her purse down on one of the chairs and walks over to Gustavo and Griffin who are talking with Kendall by the recording booth.
She hands the CD to Gustavo.
"I have three songs prepared to show you and Griffin, after both we can decide which I will perform on Ellen," Gabi tells him.
"Gabi, are you ok?" Griffin asks her "you look like you have been crying,"
"I'm fine," Gabi lies. "I woke up early this morning and couldn't get back to sleep so I watched Michael Jackson's This Is It, it always makes me cry in it, I am a fan of him and its just so sad what happened to him,"
Kendall can tell she is lying through her teeth.
"Ok, well, get into the booth and show us what you got," Griffin tells her.
Gabi nods and heads into the recording booth. Gustavo and Griffin sit down outside and get there head phones on while Gustavo starts the instrumental.
Kendall just stands back with his arms crossed trying to figure out what Gabi is trying to hide.
Gabi puts her headphones on and gets ready by the mic.
Please tell me what is taking place
Cause I can't seem find a trace
Guess it must have got away somehow
Probably cause I always forget
Every time someone tells me their name
It's always got to be insane
In my world
Never wore cover up
Always beat the boys up
Grew up in a eight hundred population town
Made my money by cutting grass
Got fired by Chevron gas
All in small town Brinnon
I always stay up with out sleeping
Thinking to myself
Where do I belong forever?
In who's arms
The time and place
I can't help it if I space in a daze
My eyes tune out the other way
I cant help I'm day dreaming
In this head my thoughts are deep
Sometimes I can't even speak
Will some one be not pretend?
I'm off again in my world
Kendall hears the door open to the studio room, so he turns around and sees James walk in. Kendall then walks over to him after he walks in the door.
"What are you doing here?" Kendall asks him.
"I was in the neighborhood and I was wondering if she mentioned me yet?" James says to Kendall.
"Will you just give up on that," Kendall says to him annoyed.
"Relax, I am really here to help you find out what she is hiding," James tells him. "And possibly prove my spy theory,"
"How are you going to help?" Kendall asks him.
"Where did she put her purse?" James asks him.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Kendall asks him confused.
"Just where is it?" James asks him.
"She put it on that chair when she came in," Kendall says as he points to it.
James starts walking to it.
"I still don't see what this has to do with anything," Kendall says as he follows him.
"One thing I learned about from dating that one girl Monique back in Minnesota is that you can learn a lot about a girl with what she keeps in her purse," James explains.
"You are not going to go looking through her purse," Kendall says, "if she found out she would kill you, then she would never want to date you, and when she mentioned you, it will be on how much she hates you,"
"Not if it fell over while we were talking and I was putting the stuff back in it," James says.
"What are you talking about?" Kendall asks confused.
James quickly answers him by knocking Gabi's purse onto the ground from the chair and spilling its contents.
"Now, I will have to put the stuff back in her purse," James says. "And I can't help it if I look at some of the stuff,"
James bends down to the ground and Kendall does the same.
"You are not seriously going to go through her purse," Kendall says to her.
"I am," James says.
He grabs her wallet from off the ground and opens it.
"Ok, she has a school ID, it says she went to Brinnon High School," James says. "She has about forty bucks cash in here also,"
He pulls her school ID out and behind it is a picture of her and a dark haired guy with brown eyes and olive skin.
"Who is this guy?" James asks as he looks at it.
He flips the picture over to the back and sees writing. He reads it aloud to him and Kendall
"Gabi, whatever life deals to you, you can handle, you are the strongest person I know, take care of yourself, I love you, -Dante,"
James looks at the picture again.
"Oh my god, she has an older boyfriend," James says as he looks at it. "This guy looks like he's 21,"
"For all you know that could be her cousin," Kendall says.
"Then why does it say 'I love you,'" James asks him.
"Because they could be close," Kendall answers him. "Come on, we are not looking through her purse,"
James then puts the picture back in the wallet and grabs a small notebook from it and opens it up.
"You tried to lock the door with me forever, but I broke my own way out, you tried to build a wall and tell me never, but I was never backing down, you tried to take my wings, but I kept on flying, fighting, fighting, fighting for my life" James reads. "Must be a song she is working on,"
He flips to the next page.
"You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be, you were everything, everything that I wanted, we were meant to be, supposed to be but we lost it, all the memories so close to me just fade away, all this time you were pretending, so much for my happy ending," James reads "yeah, these are defiantly songs, if were lucky, this is about her breakup with this Dante guy so she is now single,"
"Like I said before, for all we know Dante could be her cousin, brother or best friend,"
He then puts it down and grabs her cell phone and flips it open.
"You are seriously looking through her phone?" Kendall says, "That just shows loads of class,"
James ignores him and goes into recent calls.
"She recently talked to her mom," James says "this morning,"
He goes into text messages,
"She has a huge inbox, so she texts a lot," James says "mostly to someone named Emma, so not a Dante, which helps my theory about he is an ex-boyfriend,"
"What girl would go around with a picture of her ex-boyfriend in her wallet?" Kendall asks him.
"A girl that is hurting and needs someone to lean on," James answers him "which should be me,"
Gabi's phone ringbones goes off. It's the chorus for the song The Real Slim Shady by Eminem.
"Someone's calling her," James says freaking out "what do I do?"
"Who is it?" Kendall asks.
James looks at the screen of her phone.
"Dante," James answers "what do it do?"
"Click the ignore call button," Kendall tells him.
"Which button is that?" James asks still freaking out.
Kendall grabs the cell phone from his hand and clicks a button that sends the caller to voicemail then hands it back to James.
"That button," Kendall says.
James just stares at the phone for a second before he puts her phone down and grabs a slip of paper and unfolds it.
"I think I found something," he says to Kendall as he stares at it.
"What?" Kendall asks him.
"This," James says.
He hands Kendall the piece of paper and Kendall reads the five words on it.
'You will ALWAYS be MINE'