G Force

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Chapter 20

Troy swept a long curl from her face as he rested his weight on his elbow. He ran his hand over her bare shoulder down her slim arm as he watched her sleep. It had been six weeks since he had moved in with the love of his life and her parents. His mother "needed" to move away for work and Troy had not wanted to accompany her. The Montez family had offered for him to stay with them so that he could finish up his senior year. His mother had put up no fight at his wanting to stay and vanished a few days later leaving a vague note as to where she had gone.

Over the past few weeks his life had traveled down a spiral that he had never thought he would find himself in. The only thing certain in his life right now was his love and commitment to Gabriella. He had fucked up royally. He had been trying to protect her and not even his smooth mouth could get him out of the shit he was in. He had been kicked out school a couple weeks before graduating and the future he sought after was no longer an option. Gabriella had told him that it would all work out as long as they had each other, but after one conversation with her father he wasn't so certain.

His options were limited and Greg Montez was offering him a chance to get his life back on track and give Gabriella what she always wanted. A career she sought after her entire life. The only catch, he would have to leave her for a few years. He would have to enter the life she had spoke hatred of from the moment he met her. A life she had grown up in and resented. He didn't want to do it, but he saw no other choice. His professional future was uncertain and therefore providing for her was impossible at the moment. She didn't deserve that. She didn't deserve to suffer and give up on her dreams because he couldn't control himself. He knew he was smarter than the actions that led him to the present problem, but at that moment protecting her had been his only goal.

He looked down at her beautiful face. The face he loved more than anything in the world. The face that he would defend again and again no matter the consequences. It got him in this predicament, but her safety made it all worth it. In the end Gabriella was everything and he would always put her above his own wants and needs.

He traced her features with his finger lightly. She had told him every day that she would defer college to get "them" on the right track. She would go to college when it was feasible. He didn't want that for her. She was better than what he could offer her. His record was tainted and it would take years for it to be cleared. He couldn't make her wait. He loved her to much for that.

He watched a content smile curl her sleeping face. He had made love to her moments prior professing his heart to her every few minutes wanting to memorize everything about her. Everything he did from the moment Gabriella Montez became his was for her and her happiness. If she didn't see it when he left he hoped that one day she would understand that he had to take her father up on the strings he had pulled. He had used Troy's excellent grades to help ease him pass the entry process. He would go straight into the program. He had to do it so she could have a life. A life that she deserved. He didn't want her to settle. She was better than that. Her family had done so much for him. She had done so much for him. It was the least he could do in his mind. He couldn't halt her dreams. He was young...she was young. He was doing what he felt necessary.

Her father had promised that this wasn't the end. He knew they were meant for one another. He wanted him as son-in-law. He wasn't blowing smoke. Troy knew that. Greg Montez was taking care of him and was going to take care of "them"

He would leave tomorrow and enter his path to become a pilot in the Navy. It would be the hardest thing he ever did in his life. The task didn't scare him, but the loss for the next several years made him burn and die inside. He was losing his heart and he had to hope and trust he would get it back.


Troy closed his eyes tight as tears streamed down his face while his lips pressed firmly against hers. His strong hands cupped her small face, "I love you. Please know how much I love you"

Gabriella shook her head. Her body entering hysterics, "No…No…Troy please. I need you. I love you. You can't do this."

Troy's jaw was clenched tight as the tears flowed like rivers down his face. He kept telling himself it was for her. Her screams and tears were making his heart break and his stomach ache. He wrapped his arms around her, "Baby, I have to do this"

Gabriella pushed him away as anger began to coarse through her veins. He had promised to never leave her, but here he was…leaving. She didn't understand. She never knew he was even considering the Navy. She thought the flying had only been a hobby, "why are you doing this? Don't you love me?"

Troy felt as if someone was punching him in the stomach. He took a step forward and wrapped his hands around her arms, "don't ever question that Brie. I love you more than life its self. That's why I'm doing this"

Gabriella shook her head harshly, "no…I don't understand. Please…I love you. I need you. Mom's all I have now…Troy"

Troy closed his eyes. Her pleading words scorching his heart. He pulled her into his arms, "It's not forever. You are my world Gabriella Montez. You are now and always will be."

Her heart was breaking. She fought him. Her tiny hands curled into fist and pounded against his firm chest, "I hate you for doing this to me. I let you in. I let myself love you so much and now as usual when I'm happy it's taken away from me. It's his fault. He is taking you away from me like he does everything." She screamed.

Troy tried to console her, but she continued to fight, "your father is not making me do this Brie. I have to do this. I have to do this for us"

Gabriella tossed her head back and forth violently as she escaped from his grasp, "Bull shit. Complete bull shit. Go…just go."

Troy stared at her with tears in his eyes, "this isn't it Gabriella. I promise"

Gabriella crossed her arms as tears traveled her cheeks, "your promises mean nothing anymore Troy"

He was dying inside, but he had to go. He closed the space between them and wrapped his arms around her motionless body. He kissed her square on the lips trying to savor everything about her, "I love you. I love you with every part of my being Brie. Please know that. This isn't it."

Gabriella remained silent as everything in front of her and inside slowly began to crumble. The start of her crashing world began that day. The day the love of her life turned and walked away.


Gabriella stared into his blue eyes. He was waiting for an answer that she wasn't ready to verbalize. He was waiting for her to say she presently loved him. All she had to do is say what she felt now, what she had always felt.

She brought her hand to run through his sandy soft strands. A few tears streamed down her face as she sucked in her bottom lip, "Troy"

Concern and fright covered his face. He knew she loved him. He knew it. Everything inside him told him that she reciprocated, but the tears running down her face and her inability to voice it over the past silent minutes scared him. Made his heart ache.

"I…I…I can't do this right now Troy…I'm sorry." she said in a low voice.

Troy's hands fell from her small waist as his hurt features studied hers. He had no words to say. He was crushed.

Gabriella stared at him for a moment longer and turned to walk away.

He watched her leave. It almost felt as if he was in a trance. Her pace quickened and gradually turned into a run until he could no longer see her. He stood like a statue broken on the inside. He had no idea what to do now.

He was now in the shoes he had left her in six years ago.

Gabriella stormed into her house slamming the door. She stomped up the stairs and down the hall till she reached his bedroom. She flung the door open with a bang, "I want answers." She said in a loud stern voice.

Greg shot up from the bed and looked at the clock blinking at the wee hours of morning. He looked at his daughters tear stained face and worry suddenly overtook him. He stood from the bed, "Gabriella…are you alright?"

Gabriella shook her head, "do I look like I'm fucking alright?"

Greg swallowed as he wrapped his robe around his thick body and took a few steps towards his shaking daughter, "no you don't"

"I want you to tell me everything you said to Troy the night before he left…The night he left me."

Greg sighed as he closed his eyes, "Gabriella"

"No…I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick of you blowing me off. I know you said something to him. Everything was fine until you called him in there. I know you did this. I woke up and everything was different and my boyfriend was leaving…I ask you again. What the fuck did you say to him?"

"Why are you asking me this now?"

Gabriella groaned at his evasion, "do you know how fucked up I am or do you just choose to ignore that every day I die a little bit more on the inside? I was crashing the moment he left. Mom dying only put the nail in my coffin. I love him. I have always loved him. Fuck, I never stopped and you knew that, yet you…" she stopped mid sentence as she saw his face fall and his eyes dart to the side. She stared at him for a moment, "you planned this"

Greg swallowed, "why would you say that?"

"You knew he was here. You planned for us to move here. This is why you deferred my last year... Why? Why would you want to hurt me like that?...You knew how I felt about him. You knew how destroyed I was."

Greg took a step towards his daughter, "He loves you. I knew from the day I met him that he was meant for you. I know you thought that I was naive to your life, having been a bit absent, but I knew everything Gabriella."

"You did this though. You took him away from me?" she said much calmer and still a bit shocked. She didn't know why it took her this long to put it all together.

Greg nodded, "I gave him an option... You knew that though."

Gabriella agreed, "yes, but he would have never done it if he hadn't been swayed. You…"

"I did talk to him Gabriella. I gave him his options if he didn't follow through and if he did. He made the final conclusion. He chose to give you a life. He didn't want to stop you from becoming what you always dreamed."

Gabriella shook her head, "he thought he would bring me down?"

Greg nodded, "Gabriella, I really think you need to have this conversation with Troy."

"I just don't understand why you felt the need to even talk to him Dad. Why couldn't you let us figure this out on our own." She asked becoming a little bit more frustrated.

Greg sighed, "You two were young. You needed guiding. I merely offered my opinion"

Gabriella scoffed, "you say you knew we were meant for each yet you felt the need to involve yourself? I don't get that. You should have trusted that we would work it out, but no, you had be in control."

Greg took a step forward, "Gabriella, Troy was lost. His mother had just left him and his career path was going nowhere. He needed help"

Gabriella narrowed her eyes, "I was helping him. I get what you were doing, but you have no idea the harm you have done. I would have always gone to school no matter if I took time off before. You should have trusted my judgment in that area. Troy should have trusted that. I get the sentiment, but the hell and pain I have been through doesn't make up for it. I needed him and he wasn't there and I had no way to reach him and he didn't call…"

Greg sighed.

Gabriella's eyes narrowed to slits, "he called" she said under her breath as her eyes caught the flicker of knowledge in his eyes.

Greg remained silent.

Gabriella brought her hand to cover her mouth, "oh my God…I'm going to be sick"

"Gabriella, understand it would have only made things harder for the two of you." he pleaded.

Gabriella shook her head, "you don't know that. You never gave us the chance" she yelled.

Greg had kept this all inside over the years. His wife having been the only one knowing the truth. Even if it didn't look like it, he loved Gabriella and Troy very much and he honestly thought he was doing them right.

"Gabriella…I know you hate me, but you have to know I had yours and his best interest at heart"

Gabriella rolled her eyes, "That may be, but I'm sorry father...I just can't see it that way" she said as her cold eyes bore into his and then she stormed off to her room slamming the door once she had entered.

Gabriella rested her backside against the hard door. Tears flowed freely from her eyes. To say she was on emotional information overload would have been the understatement of the century. Some questions had been answered but so may still lingered.

The facts still remained the same though. Troy had left her. Troy wasn't there when she needed him most, but the hurt wasn't as great.

She opened her eyes and nearly lost her balance. Her eyes stared wide at the strong presence sitting on the foot of her bed staring at her. Her heart was pounding and her mind was racing.

"Troy" she said in low voice almost as a question.

Troy swallowed as he stood from the bed, "I told you that I loved you with every part of my being and that my leaving wasn't the end of us. I love you and I'm not giving up."

Gabriella stared at him. She wet her bottom lip as she crossed the room to stand in front of him. Her eyes never leaving his. She took a deep breath as she crossed her arms, "I'm ready to listen" she said in a soft meek voice.

Troy nodded, "okay"