Animal I Have Become

Chapter 13

As soon as Nurse Crowell leaves the room, Gabi lies back down to try and get some rest. She really needed it, she had her kidney and spleen removed do to get shot. She got shot to protect Marshall from twenty bullets that were gonna get shot at him. no one can really survive twenty gunshot wounds. Even if they were in non-fatal places like the arm or hand. He would definitely bleed to death with all those holes in his body leaking his blood to the sidewalk.

And because she took a bullet for Marshall, her stupid manager, Josh, yelled at her calling her insane and that a bullet isn't going to hurt Marshall, he is a forty year old rapper who can take a bullet without getting seriously injured like she did. She didn't need to jump in front of bullets for rappers. That Marshall didn't even want her in his life, wishes he never even started being friends with her and record Love The Way You Lie. That he has messed up so much like marrying Kim twice, his sleeping pill addiction, the tattoo he got while drunk, he had three daughters and only one was biologically his, that the world would be a better place without him.

That was just cold. Marshall may have made mistakes when he was younger, like pistol whipping that one guy, getting addicted to drugs, alcohol, Kim got pregnant when she was a teenager, failed the ninth grade three times, the tattoo of a gravestone that said Kim and Rot In Pieces, stealing. All that stuff happened to him because his mom was a drug addict and his dad left when he was only a few months old. Of course, now that he was famous, he came out into the spotlight and claimed that he had no clue Marshall was even born, and that was proved wrong when a photograph of his father holding him as a baby surfaced and was put in his autobiography The Way I Am.

She took a bullet for him to save his life, if he wasn't pushed out of the line of fire, he would definitely be gone right now. That did not make her insane, no matter what her stupid manager said to her.

There is another knock at the door.

"go away," Gabi calls out annoyed.

After talking to Josh and that stupid Nurse Crowell, Gabi definitely did not want to talk to or see anybody right now.

Obviously, the person on the other side of the door didn't get that and knocks again.

"I said go away," Gabi calls out again annoyed.

She just leans her head back and stares at the ceiling trying to get her mind off everything and think about something else. Go off in own world and go to when times were simpler like when she was younger and Dante was still alive and home.

And he just had to die on her after he joined the Marines.

Fifteen-year-old Gabi walks through the front door of her home back in Brinnon with her book bag at her side and her blonde hair in a high ponytail. She walks down in the hallway to the kitchen to see twenty year old Dante sitting there waiting for her.

"hey Dante," Gabi says casually as she puts her book bag on the counter and grabs a red apple out of the fridge.

"G, I need to tell you something," Dante tells her seriously.

Gabi looks at him and can tell that it is really serious so she walks over to the table and takes a seat across from him.

"ok, what's going on?" Gabi asks him. "you look like you just saw a someone get hit by a bus,"

Dante takes a deep breath and lets it out.

"you know I love you right," Dante tells her. "you are my baby sister,"

"yeah, I know that," Gabi replies. "but what's this about,"

"Gabi, my unit has been called up," Dante tells her. "I am being deployed to Iraq,"

Gabi then wipes her eyes and presses that memory to the back of her mind. She did not need to remember that now.

The knock on the door continues.

"what part of go freaking away don't you understand," Gabi calls out annoyed.

After a moment, the door opens and someone walks in. Gabi continues to stare at the ceiling before sitting up.

"I said to…" Gabi says as she sits up, but she stops mid sentence when she realizes who walked into her hospital room.

Kendall.

"I will give you ten seconds to turn around and leave before I start yelling at you,"

Kendall just stands there and looks at her before speaking.

"can we please just talk?" he asks her.

"ten…nine…eight…" Gabi counts down annoyed as she glares at him.

"I just want to explain what happened, you never gave me the chance," Kendall says to her.

"five…four…three…" Gabi continues to countdown.

"you need to know that I love you and I would never cheat on you," Kendall says.

Gabi just glares at him.

"do you honestly except me to believe that?" she asks him mad. "do you, because I know what I saw and I saw you with another girl, and it was disgusting,"

"will you just let me tell you what happened?" Kendall asks her.

"no, because I know what happened," Gabi says mad. "I walked in on you and her making out, your hands were all over her, and you think it's a coincidence this happened a week after I told you I wasn't ready to go all the way yet, you said you were fine with it, you didn't want to pressure me into something I didn't want to do, and I thought that you meant good by that, that you would wait for me to be ready, but instead you go behind my back with some slut to get it,"

"that is not what happened," Kendall tells her.

"it is what happened, I know what I saw and it hurt me Kendall," Gabi says mad in tears. "it hurt me worse then any of the beatings Justin gave me in the year I dated him and let him do that to me, it hurt worse then my own mom disowning me and telling me she would only believe me if I got the abortion, it hurt as bad as finding out Dante was dead and killed in a freaking explosion, and it hurt as bad as losing my unborn daughter, I felt betrayed, you said you loved me and that you would love me forever, and I am new to this whole love thing, but I know from reading romance novels and enough Daytime television, that when a guy loves a girl, he doesn't cheat on her,"

"Gabs, will you just listen to me," Kendall says.

"no, I will not," Gabi says getting madder. "just get out and leave, I don't want to see you ever again, you understand that, and don't ever call me Gabs again, I want you out of my life and to stay the hell away from me,"

"Gabs, please," Kendall starts.

"I said get the hell out and get the hell away from me," Gabi says mad. "do I need to throw something at you to get you out of here and leave me alone, because I will,"

"just will you listen to my side of what happened, let me explain to you what happened," Kendall says. "then, if you want, I will leave you alone forever, I will never come near you again,"

"you don't need to," Gabi says mad. "the girl you were with, she came to my apartment two days after I caught you guys, she told me everything, that right after I told you I wasn't ready, you came to her, you talked about me and then she said she could help you with your problem, and that you two have been sleeping together ever since,"

"Gabi, that is not what happened, will you please just listen to me," Kendall says.

"no I wont," Gabi says mad sitting up in her hospital ignoring the pulling pain of her stitches in her stomach where she had been shot. "now get out,"

Kendall just looks at her and can tell she is still hurt by this. He then turns around and walks out of her hospital room. As soon as he is gone, Gabi just collapses back in the hospital bed and lets the tears flow out of her eyes.