Hey. R&R. I'm now Born to be STUPID. WEEEEEEEEE

Gabby didn't know what she felt. Her dad was supposed to be dead but he was standing right in front of her. What if I'm going crazy, she thought. No. I can't be crazy.

"D..da..D...da...da...dad?"

"Yeah, Hun. What do you mean I'm supposed to be dead?"

Gabby ran up the stairs and into her Mom's room. "Mom." That's all she had to say.

Her mom saw the tears and heard the tone of her voice. She didn't know who but someone was at the door who was scaring the hell out of her daughter.

Suddenly Gabby spat out, "You said he was dead." It took a while for Ms. Montez to register this. She suddenly got it and ran down the stairs.

"HOW DARE YOU COME IN THIS HOUSE AND UPSET MY DAUGHTER!" She yelled before she even reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Your daughter. You mean our daughter?" Came the reply.

"SHE BECAME MY DAUGHTER AND MINE ALONE WHEN YOU WENT OFF BONKING EVERY PRETTY GIRL YOU SAW WHEN SHE WAS ONLY ONE AND A HALF YEARS OLD. WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?"

"I THOUGHT….I THOUGHT." Suddenly his voice got soft. "I thought that... maybe we could pick up where we left off. You know. Maybe I could get to know my daughter."

"WELL YOU THOUGHT WRONG!" Ms. Montez's voice never faltered. "MAYBE ALL THOSE WOMEN BONKED YOUR BRAINS OUT. YOU ARROGANT …...URG! GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!" She slammed the door and turned around. Gabby had been crying through this whole ordeal.

"Mom."

"I know I lied. I was protecting you. I was gonna tell when you turned 17 in a couple months." She said rushing to hug her daughter.

Gabby was sobbing so hard. Her Mom couldn't stand seeing her daughter like this. "Come into the kitchen and I'll tell you all about it."

Gabby followed her mother into their kitchen and sat on one of their stools.

"Gabby. Do you know who that was?"

Gabby nodded her head.

"I thought so. Hun, when you were just a little girl, your Daddy started cheating on me… you…..us, I guess. We fought a lot. You were too young to remember any of it. When he finally packed up and left, I felt relieved. I was worried about you, though, because you loved him so, soo much. I lied to you to protect you. I guess I was just protecting myself. I'm sorry, Gabs. I really am. The part about this that made me so angry was that he didn't take one single picture that you drew for him. That's why I told you he died."

"But, Mom. He did take one." Said Gabby quietly. "The one I drew of us. All three of us. When I first gave it to him, he said he would always keep it with him. In his pocket."

"I know that's what he said, but Gabby, um, he didn't. I overheard him saying that to you. When he left, I found it. I kept it from you. It was all crumpled up in a ball. I found it in the trash about a week after he left."

Gabby stood up, almost knocking over her stool. "I don't want to here anymore." She said through gritted teeth.

She ran to the door and opened it. She didn't expect him to still be there, but he was.

"I HATE YOU!" she screamed. She slapped him across the face and slammed the door. She ran upstairs and flopped onto her bed. She cried all night and all through the next day. She didn't feel like going to school. She didn't feel like staying home. She got up in the middle of the night and got dressed. She walked out the door and down the path. Her mother heard her leaving, but didn't try to stop her. When she finally came back at six in the morning, she had giant, dark, black circles under her eyes. Her clothes were soaked and her eyes were bloodshot.

"Hey, Mom." She said. Ms. Montez was sitting at the kitchen table. "Um…. When can we go see Aunt V?"

"Oh, Hun. We'll go see her later. After you get some sleep." She replied.

"Thanks, Mom."

"Sure thing, Hun."

Gabby walked slowly up the stairs. She had called her Aunt V when she had heard that she was fine to tell her she was coming the next day. Now she had bailed to just lie in bed. She felt kinda guilty.

When she got upstairs, she flopped into bed. As soon as her head hit the pillow, she was asleep. She was soooo exhausted. When she finally woke up, it was 10:00 o'clock. She sighed. She'd only had four hours of sleep, but still she felt wide awake. She knew her mother was up. She usually got up at 8 or 9. Gabby walked down stairs and saw her mother sitting there still drinking coffee.

"Hey, Ma." Gabs said weakly.

"Hi, Hun."

"We going soon?"

"Yeah. As soon as you're ready."

"Okay. You have to have a shower, too, you know." Gabby said playfully.

"Ha-ha. I love you, too. Hurry up."

Gabby ran upstairs. All of a sudden, the events of last night came flooding back into her memory. She started crying but thought to herself I won't cry. Stop it! Don't let him get you! He's the loser! Not you! She still felt as if he'd beaten her, though. She sighed and went for her shower.

When she was out and wearing her favorite, blue, striped, button-up shirt and patched jeans, her mother was still in the shower. She brushed her hair and put it up. ((A.N: You know, the way she had it when she first met Troy. ;) ))

When her mother finally got out of the shower, she was bouncing with excitement.

"COME OOOONNN! MAAA!" She whined. "You took forever."

"Sorry. I'm a procrastinator."

"Ha-ha."

Gabby ran to the door and got her Mom's keys off the hook. She raced back, jammed them in her Mom's hand, then ran back out the door and into the car. She was laying on the horn when her Mom slowly walked out the door and slowly turned around and slowly locked the door and slowly walked to the car and slowly opened the door and slowly got in and slowly put the key in the ignition-

"DON'T TELL ME YOU DON'T WANNA SEE HER, TOO!" Gabby said giggling.

"Okay. I'm going."

"Hey, Mom. Don't forget, No speeding." Gabby said sarcastically.

When they FINALLY arrived, Gabby was hoping with excitement. She had called Troy while her Mom was in the shower and told him all about what had happened the night before. He had asked her if she wanted him to be there, but she had said no. It was a family thing.

When they got to her room, there was a guy there.

Cliffy. Ha-ha. Kinda obvious, but still.

R&R!