Thanks for all the reviews. Here is Anne and Gilbert's backstory.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters. They are L.M. Montgomery. And I owe this story to the great characters she had created.
Gilbert woke up with a start when he heard his dorm room door close. He looked around and saw that Anne had left. But yet he couldn't stop smiling. Anne had finally admitted her feelings to him just not through words. Gilbert sat there is a daze until he looked at the clock and realized he would be late for his first class, yet he didn't care as he finally had Anne in his life the way he wanted.
Anne decided to walk the long way home that morning, even though her dorm was right beside Gilbert's, because she need time to process what happened. Her relationship with Gilbert kept changing. First they were rivals and enemies that started on that first day they met. Anne's thoughts went back to that fateful day.
Anne was 11 years old and in school at Avonlea elementary school when she first spotted Gilbert. They were in the hallway after lunch, when Anne's bosom friend, Diana, poked Anne's shoulder and whispered, "That's Gilbert Blythe." Anne understood why all the girls were taken with him. He was quite good looking and he was older than them which made him even more handsome. Gilbert smiled and winked at her which made Anne blush (even though Anne would have never admitted it back then). But it wasn't until after school that she truly started hating him.
After school was done for the day, Anne was reading one of the Harry Potter books on one of the benches when she felt a tug on her hair. She ignored it and continued reading. It wasn't until she felt another tug and someone leaned down and whispered, "Carrots" in her ears that she took action. She stood up and turned around and wacked her book down hard on the person's head all within a couple of seconds. Then said, "How dare you!" It wasn't until then that she noticed it was Gilbert and he had fallen down as her book was quite hard.
A teacher saw, marched over and said, "Anne Shirley, why did you do that?"
"I…I," Anne was speechless while holding the book and her face was just red from anger.
"Ms. Smith, it was my bad. I teased her," Gilbert tried to explain to the teacher watching them.
"It doesn't matter whose fault it was. Young ladies should not hit other people on the head with books. Anne Shirley, you got yourself a trip to the principal's office," Ms. Smith explained before dragging Anne's arm back to the school and into the principal's office. Anne was steaming at Gilbert before being dragged away. Anne's punishment was detention for a week where she would have to write lines. While she walked home after that horrible meeting, she knew at that moment, that she would never forgive Gilbert and certainly never be friends with him.
Oh, how things have changed since then. Anne reached a park bench during her walk and sat down to think back to the moment she finally forgave him and they became friends.
Anne was in her second year of high school, and Gilbert in his third. They saw each other often as they were a part of the same youth group and they lived down the street from each other. But yet, every time she would see Gilbert, she would either walk faster, look busy, or just ignore him all together. The hardest part was at youth group where they had to be in the same room together. Anne could barely look at him without thinking about the anger he caused. It was one day after school, and Anne was supposed to be studying but she couldn't understand anything that her textbook was saying so she overdramatically sighed and put her head down. The next moment, she felt a tap on her shoulder and looked up and saw Gilbert.
"Are you ok?" Gilbert asked with a concerned look on his face.
Anne was going to say, "Nothing I need your help with" before deciding to be truthful and said, "I just don't understand this algebra."
Gilbert slid into the seat next to her and said, "Why, maybe I can help. I did take it last year."
"Really? That would be great," Anne replied with all seriousness.
So Gilbert and Anne got to work, figuring out Anne's algebra problems. It took them an hour, but finally Anne had the basic understanding of it with Gilbert's help.
While they were packing up, Gilbert asking, "Anne, why don't we be study partners? I will help you with algebra, and you help me with English."
Anne nodded. "I think I can agree to that." So they studied together starting at once or twice a week and ending up being every day by the end of the year.
During that time, they didn't just talk about school, but about their lives and once summer came, they were the closest of friends.
Diana was the greatest friend she could ever ask for, but Gilbert challenged her both personally and academically. When Gilbert graduated a year before Anne, he took a year off to work and save money for university. So even though Gilbert was a year ahead of her, she caught up at Redmond when they both started together.
Anne saw while thinking back over their relationship, that she needed Gilbert is her life, but yet did she like him more than a friend, she didn't know that yet.
It was as she thought off all this that she saw Gilbert walking down the path. She panicked when he saw her and started walking towards her.
"Anne, I think we need to talk," was the first thing out of Gilbert's mouth when he caught up to her.
I had a plan where this story was going before I posted it, and it has all changed in my mind. This back story came into my mind thanks to the reviews. So please review again as maybe I'll get new ideas.