Abby didn't wake until late that next day, where as Jeff had been up and about early, he hadn't slept at all hardly during the night after the events of the so-called 'reunion', Abby was all that was going through his mind. He felt hurt and upset that she hadn't told him about what looks like she tried to kill herself. Something like that that above all was more important than drugs and alcohol, he could believe that Abby, a girl he'd known for years had tried to do this to herself, it just didn't seem right. He was stuck with whether or not to confront her about it, he didn't really want to say anything and would prefer for her to confide in him and tell him what had happened, but with Abby the way she was what really were there chances of Abby telling him with out her being prompted to?

"How's your head feeling this morning?" he asked her. Jeff was at the bottom of the stairs just about to go out for his morning run as Abby came down. She patted him gently on the head as she walked past where he was sitting.

"My head? Its fine," she replied to him plainly as if for there to be no reason why her head should hurt. "Why do you ask?"

"No reason," he told her feeling confused as he stood up from the bottom step where he'd been sitting.

"Good go get dressed then; you can come out for a run with me"

"Hey just hold on a minute there Hardy, I never agreed to any running." She laughed, walking out if the hallway and into the living room, Jeff followed her and stood in the doorway watching her turn on the T.V.

"Come on Abs don't you wanna get some fresh air, it' would do you some good to get out."

"Listen to me Jeff; I, don't, want, to, go… Get it?" she said to him firmly but oozing with sarcasm.

"Abby…"

"Jeff I said no!" she suddenly yelled loudly before turning up the volume on the T.V. Giving in once again to her defeat Jeff gave up and walked away with out a word. As soon as he left Abby hit her self in the head hard for the way she acted. She did actually feel badly for speaking to him like that but what ya gonna do when someone keeps pushing you on and on like that?

After thinking about the way she had acted towards him, by the time Jeff got back Abby was ready to apologise, biting Jeff's head off was the last thing she wanted to do.

"Abby without jumping off the handle," he said sarcastically, "What the hell is going on with you?" he said confrontationally once he had returned. Jeff was angry with her, he was frustrated with trying his best to help her- he couldn't help with out her co-operating.

"Nothing…" she replied sheepishly.

"I don't believe you. Is this the way is gonna be from now on? Me on the receiving end of your blow ups?" he asked her, almost in a yell.

"Jeff it was hardly a blow up, it was just the fact that you were pushing me!" she said storming off outside to have a smoke.

"Yeah I'm not just talking about today Abby, you've only been here for just over a day and it seems as if all your anger is being directed at me!" he yelled, hot on her trail.

She looked at him as he slumped out in a chair next to her in the yard "I'm sorry Jeff I really am…I'm sorry if that's how you feel, you know I'm in a weird place right now."

"I just don't see why you're acting like this, so hostile toward me. You've changed so much; I used to know everything about you…"

"Well there are a lot of things you don't know about me now…" she replied bitterly, she could even look at him any more.

"Well yeah, I noticed."

Abby turned her head sharply to look at him, wondering what that comment meant, "And what is that supposed to mean?"

Although it was only a couple of hours ago that Jeff had decided to himself not to say anything to Abby about what Amy had seen, he thought this was maybe the perfect time to get it out of her. He was only doing it out of concern, not to use against her or anything; Jeff would never do that to anyone, especially Abby. He was just worried about his friend, alarmed about what she had been through and was unsettled by the way she was acting.

"I don't know Abby, you tell me…"

"Well it sounds like there's something in particular that you want me to talk about." She said as she took the last drag of her cigarette and inhaled it before stubbing it out. "Come on then, if there's something on your mind Jeff then just say it." She snapped angrily as she stared at him intensely.

"Fine!" he snapped, by now just as aggravated as she was. "Amy had to put you to bed last night, yeah you were that wasted that you had to have help, she had to help you up the stairs, help you in bed and help you undress… you see where I' going with this?"

"I've got some idea…" she replied awkwardly.

"Do you wanna finish then?" he asked, still snapping, too caught up in the moment that this was going to be a sensitive topic and there he was being as insensitive as he could.

"No…"

"Well are you gonna give us any explanation on why your hiding your body from us, I know you are Abby."

She just looked at him in shock, she knew they were having a heated argument but how could he talk to her like that towards a subject like this one. She was surprised at Jeff for confronting the topic in this way, she knew she would have to tell them about her scars eventually, but she wanted to do it in her own time, not like this.

"What do you mean by explanation?" she croaked.

"You know exactly what I mean; the bruises, scratches, the scars?"

"He beat me up…"

"How many times?"

Abby just shrugged there was no way she could count the amount of times he had. Some were bad, some that ended in a trip to the hospital and some which were good, which to her meant just a slap- yes a slap in comparison to the rest was good. Her heart was breaking as Jeff spoke to her like this and the fact she had to tell him about it was killing her. One of the reasons being plain old embarrassment- leaving her best friends in North Carolina to go to New York ending up going down a road heading directly six feet underground was the most stupid mistake of Abby's life, naturally it would cause some embarrassment.

Abby could feel the tears welling up in her eyes as they had this conversation, Jeff was so angry with her and was demand she talked to him. She honestly didn't know what to say though, which was beginning to make her angry too. She thought for a short while, thinking of anything she could use to explain it. Suddenly she stood up, crossed over her arms and pulled her shirt up over her head, leaving her in just her bra. Jeff almost gasped as he was the site of her, she looked worst than how Amy had described.

"Well where to start…" she started bitterly. "Well due to lack of money I had a lack of food, my weight is right down. The darker of the bruises are the more recent ones, probably from just before I left…" as she told him, she indicated with her hands, using herself as if a story board. "These fainter ones are a few days older and are fixing now. "She turned around and pointed t the scars on her back. "Those scars are from when I was pushed through the glass doors and onto our balcony at our apartment, the other scratched as probably from various scuffles," she yelled at him, giving him exactly what he had wanted. By now floods of tears were falling from her eyes. "And these!" she yelled holding up her bare wrists, "These beauties are from when I tried to kill myself at the beginning of this year! So that is then Jeff got everything you wanted there? Any questions?"

Jeff shook his head quietly, he watched her in disbelief as she fell to the floor crying hysterically. He got up and rushed over to her to take her in his arms trying to attempt to restrain her anger. Jeff was truly speechless as he rocked her gently back and forth, his brain just wouldn't comprehend with what Abby had just confessed to him, he couldn't believe what she had lived through.

"I'm so proud of you for getting through his Abby, you were so brave to come here." He whispered loudly in her ear as he still rocked her, holding on to her as tightly as he could. "You've past the hardest part, you've just gotta mend yourself now. And I promise you Abby with all of my heart, I'm going to be with you every step of the way. You're not on your own now any more Abby."