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Once, Gabby had stormed out Gemma turned to Tara an accusing look in her eye, "you knew about this?"
Tara looked at the older woman, "yes," she wasn't shamed of the fact that she had known, and knew that Gemma was just mad because she wasn't told everything.
"How long has she known?"
"Since two weeks after the rape."
"Why the hell didn't she say anything?"
"Well she really cant say it when you didn't want anyone to know, now can she," Tara spoke, she didn't want to keep the rape secret especially because she knew Gabby would have to then suffer alone.
Gemma took a step back at that, her own selfishness about not wanting anyone to know about her rape meant Gabby couldn't let anyone know about her own, yet when Tristan had gotten raped at the carnival over six months back, she had told Karen Oswald, Tristan's mother, that 'the only thing worse than being raped and everyone knowing is being raped and no one knowing.' Gemma stood there in shock before asking, "is she okay, with the baby, her and the baby healthy?"
"Yeah, she heard the heartbeat for the first time two weeks ago, the baby is healthy, but Gabby she needs to take better care of herself."
Opie who had been listening quietly as he tried to process everything, turned to them, "what do you mean?"
Tara turned to Opie, he looked like he was still processing the fight that was more one sided than anything, "she hasn't been sleeping properly, …"
"Yeah, she is I check before I go to bed she's always asleep."
"She told me at the ultrasound, she gets about three hours of sleep before she can't sleep anymore."
"Why not?"
Looking at Opie's eyes that still had dark rings around them, his cheeks seemed still a bit hallow, "probably the same reason your not, she can just use makeup cover it up more than you can." At Opie's confused face, she explains, "Ope she was in the truck when Donna was killed, a month later she was raped, she's pregnant at sixteen, and you apparently abandoned your kids making it so she became a parent to Ellie and Kenny.
"Mary was there …" but that was a far as he got.
"Pft. You told me yourself that Mary couldn't cut as a mom when you were a kid, do you really think she would cut it raising three? Especially when they had just lost their mom and you left." When Opie shook his head 'no,' she continued, "And anyways back to my original point, Gabby goes to school and works full time, she has more responsibilities than most people have at twenty-five and till today I'm guessing she never broke down about it to you, she told me when she broke down crying at the ultrasound it was the first time she cried over what has happened to her, she held everything in because she had to be strong for her siblings. You need to pick up your responsibilities so she can be a kid again, she only has till September and then her childhood will be officially over and she will be a mom, don't make her become an adult more than she already has."
Opie looked like he had been punched in the face, he had been so consumed by his own feelings and guilt he forgot that Gabby was the one picking up the pieces to everything.
Seeing that Opie was properly chastised, Tara and Gemma headed outside to see if Gabby was still around, as they closed the door they could hear Piney talking to his son. Looking around the lot, after they saw that the truck was still there, they found Gabby sitting against the boxing ring her knees up to her chest as she looked straight ahead not seeing anything but her thoughts in her head.
Both ladies headed over to her, Gemma went down to Gabby's level, "Gabby, I'm sorry," Tara had a look of shock on her face and Gabby abruptly turned her head to Gemma, they both knew this was a big deal, Gemma never apologized for anything, "if I didn't tell everyone to keep it secret, maybe you wouldn't of had to deal with everything alone."
"I wasn't alone," Gabby, mumbles out, her eyes popping out when she figures out she just ousted herself.
Tara and Gemma look at each other confused because Gabby didn't talk to either of them and they know Unser wouldn't of been much help, not to mention Gabby wouldn't go to him in the first place. Gemma then asks, "What do you mean?"
Gabby shakes her head 'no,' but then Tara asks, "Did you get help?" When Gabby shakes her head 'no' again, Tara asks, "Did you tell someone?"
Gabby sighs, apparently Tara wasn't going to give up, "I told a friend."
Gemma then asks, "What friend?"
Stretching out the first word, "Well, not really a friend, he's my boyfriend, Josh."
Tara is the first to come out of shock before practically yelling, "You have a boyfriend!"
While Gemma asks, "how long?"
Looking at Tara, Gabby answers, "Yes," before turning to Gemma, "almost fifteen months."
"Fifteen Months!" both Gemma and Tara yell, both thinking about how it could be kept secret that long because they both knew the Sons would have had an opinion on the fact that Gabby was dating.
Gemma then continued, "we're meeting him, small family dinner tomorrow."
The next day, the only people going to the family dinner were Gabby, Josh, Ellie, Kenny, the remaining Sons, no prospects, Tara and Abel, and Gemma. Everyone was already there except Gabby and Josh, Chibs then spoke up from where he was sitting at the table, "how did we miss the fact that she was dating?" while Opie had been in jail all the sons had paid particular attention to Gabby since she was typically seen at TM during the weekends and Opie had asked the guys to make sure she didn't do anything stupid, like she did when Dom had left to go on the run.
Piney gulfed at the question, while Opie shrugged, Kenny spoke up then, "what the difference between friends and dating, because my friend Drew said his older brother has a lot of girls he's dating because he is always taking them up to his room?"
All the men growled at that, the thought of Gabby having sex or dating was disgusting in their minds.
Just then the sound of a motorcycle could be heard coming up the street, before stopping in the driveway. A minute later Gabby is opening the door a teen boy following behind her, Josh.
Opie stood up quickly from where he had been waiting, "so you're the boy that's been dating my daughter behind everyone's back."
Before Josh could even respond, Gabby speaks, "pop it isn't like that. I didn't want to tell anyone," of course their friends knew, heck the whole school practically knew, and Josh's sister, Abby knew.
Gemma having her own agenda for the night asked, "so how old are you Josh?"
"Eighteen," Josh spoke, a bit nervous that he was there in the first place, when Gabby had told him that he was supposed to come to this dinner he had thought she was joking, saying sure and when she told him that she would be at his place at seven so that they could ride together to her Aunt Gemma's he figured out it wasn't a joke and he would be meeting her pop and some of her family. When he voiced his concern she had told him, he was lucky the 'crazy' ones were in jail at the moment.
Opie and Chibs growled a bit at that, while Piney gave the boy a death glare. Tara deciding to break the obvious tension spoke up, "well Josh its nice to meet you. How did you and Gabby meet?"
"At school, we were in the same art class."
Gemma spoke up again, "so what do you want to do?"
"Tattoo artist like my dad."
Opie then spoke up, "which tattoo artist?" wanting to know if he knew Josh's father.
"Freddie Daniels."
Piney spoke up then, "you ever have sex with Gabby before?"
Gabby's face turned bright red, as she yelled out, "grandpa, no." While Josh shook his own head 'no.'
With that the night continued, more embarrassing questions asked, but once the food was served it quieted down and once dinner was done Gabby dragged Josh out to avoid anymore death glares, growls, and questions.
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