Friday

"Dad?" I ventured closer to the oddly familiar man. He truned towards me and just stared openmouthed.

"A..Aya? You got better! That's so great!" my dad thought I was my twin.

"No, Daddy. It's Gabriella." I fought back the tears.

"Oh, Gabi. I've missed you."

"Sure you have. You missed me, but you never bothered to call." I felt the anger bubbling up inside me.

"I tried to call. I waited about two weeks so your mom and I could get ourselves straightened out. When I did call, the phone had been disconnected. I called your grandma's house too, but she was so mad at me she wouldn't talk."

"Great story!" I was really crying now. Hot and angry tears.

"Gabi, it's not a story." He grabbed my shoulders and tried to calm me down.

"Don't touch me!" I yelled at him. My mom turned around from the line.

"Gabi, are you OK?" She saw me crying and ran over.

"Jackie?" (A/N: Jackie's Gabriella's mom's name.)

"Sam?" (A/N: Sam will be Gabi's dad's name.)

For a moment, time seemed to stop. That is until to girls with flowing dark hair that looked shockingly like me came up to us.

"Dad?" One of the girls said. Oh no. They looked about my age. Did my dad have a second family? Even when he was us? Again, I filled up with those same hot tears. I glanced over at my mom. She was already drowning in them.

"Yeah cupcake?" That right there broke my heart. I was Daddy's cupcake. That's all I remember about him. He'd come home from his weekend business trips, swing me in his arms, and say, "Hey cupcake! You look especially sweet today! I missed you so much!" Then he'd give me a kiss and go on to Aya. He called Aya his bumblebee. I could tell that my mom was thinking the same thing I was. She tensed up and grabbed my hand.

"Dad, did you get any news about mom? Is she OK?" The other girl asked.

"I don't know yet, bumblebee." That's it!

"I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU!" I screamed into his face. I got up and ran outside. I couldn't breathe. I felt like the whole world was spinning. Then everything went black.

I woke up in a hospital bed with an IV in my arm.

"She's waking up!" I heard my mom's voice.

"Gabriella?" A man's voice sounded. Was it my dad? I blinked my eyes open. They felt like they weighed a million pounds each.

"Hi honey." my mom came over and grabbed my hand.

"Gabi?" I looked to find that the male voice was in fact my dad.

"You know Dad? For the past eleven years, I hoped every night that if I was good enough you'd come back for me. But now that you're here, the only thing I can think of is you leaving." His face fell.

"Ok, I'm truly sorry Gabriella. You know you look exactly like your mom." He walked over to her and kissed her on the cheek. "I'm sorry." I heard him whisper into her hair. My dad turned and left the room.

"Mom?" I asked. She nodded back. "You still love him, don't you?"

"Yeah, I do."

A/N: Sorry the chapter's so short. I wrote it in the car on the way to the hospital, so it might not be the best ever. ;) Please review!