Chapter Ten

"Kelsi dinner!" Kelsi was at her piano punching a couple of notes and she let out at a sigh at her mom's voice. She dind't want to have to go to dinner and sit through it. But she was kind of hungry, Kelsi couldn't remember the last time that she ate.

"Coming!" Kelsi yelled back and hit a couple more keys on her piano before standing up and walking out the door. Running down the stairs Kelsi reached the kitchen and saw her mom at the table dishing up food on her own plate.

Kelsi looked at the food and felt glade that she decided to eat. Kelsi actually was pretty hungry. "Looks good." Kelsi told her mom and sat at the table in her spot. Glancing at her dad's empty chair Kelsi felt a weird feeling in her stomach, but pushed it away. Kelsi just wanted to get through the meal.

"So how was Troy." Kelsi's mom asked and Kelsi nodded her head as she dished up food on her plate.

"Good. I mean besides that I found out he had been talking to Gabriella with out telling me." KElsi mumbled picking up her fork and messing around with the food on her plate. Kelsi was hungry she just couldn't bring herself to eat right away, she had to let everything settle first.

"What happened with you guys anyway?" Mrs. Nelson asked and Kelsi shrugged. The last thing she wanted to do was go into detail about her, Troy and Gabriella.

"Okay." Kelsi's mom mumbled and Kelsi forked food in her mouth, chewing it slowly, then swallowing it. It felt good to eat, Kelsi had been avoiding it all day, and she didn't even know why. Kelsi just didn't feel like rewarding herself with the food, which was weird. Kelsi sighed and took more bites of her food as she watched her mom eat the last bit of her food and sit back in her chair. "We should watch a movie or something." She said and Kelsi almost felt shock. Her mom never really wanted to do much with Kelsi, her hobby for the past year had been fighting with Kelsi's dad.

"Sure." Kelsi said, happy that she could end up spending the evening with her mom, while she tried to figure out what to do about Troy and Gabriella.

"Okay." Mrs. Nelson said and stood out of her chair. "I'll finish this and then we'll watch something. Your choice." Mrs. Nelson finished and Kelsi nodded her head.

"Yeah, okay." Kelsi answered and she stood out of her seat and walked over to the DVDs and picked a random one that seemed okay to Kelsi. One that would distract her and make her mom laugh like she used to.

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Kelsi was in her room, hitting keys on her keyboard and trying to think about anything other then Troy. Thinking about him was blocking her writing and she couldn't get anything out. Sighing Kelsi hit a couple more keys and then stood up from the chair next to her keyboard. She had to do something about it, because it was getting to her.

Picking up her phone Kelsi quickly dialed Troy's number. She just had to at least talk to him, it'd been a couple of days since they had their mini-fight. "Hello?" Troy answered his cell phone and Kelsi took a deep breath.

"Hey." She said and she heard Troy sigh into the phone.

"Kels, I'm really glade you called." Troy told her and Kelsi really believed him.

"Yeah." Kelsi took a breath and quickly let out her question, the one that had been eating at her. "How long have you been talking to Gabriella like that?" Kelsi asked Troy and he sighed again.

"Since we broke up. I'm sorry I didn't tell you…" Troy trailed off and KElsi knew that there was something going on that he wasn't telling her. He sounded guilty when he talked about it, really guilty.

Kelsi walked over to her bed and sat down on it and adjusted the phone on her ear. "What's going on Troy?" Kelsi asked him and she knew that Troy picked up on the tone in her voice. The one that said Kelsi already knew and that he should just tell her.

"It's just that Gabriella really didn't want you to know." Troy stated and Kelsi nodded her head. She had guessed that much, Gabriella really hated her know.

"Okay." Kelsi said and tried not to sound too upset about it. Sighing Kelsi just wished things were nice and simple again. Gabriella never was a great friend to Kelsi, but at least she was there when Kelsi needed or wanted her to be. But now Gabriella wasn't there at all. Kelsi was alone, Troy was the only thing real in her life. But even he was going away now.

"Kelsi I'm sorry. Just needed someone to talk to and I wanted to be a friend to her. I hurt her pretty bad." Troy told Kelsi and his words only made her more upset.

"So what, getting with me was a mistake?" Kelsi asked feeling tears burn into her eyes. She felt bad, really bad, a lot worse then when her parents split. It wasn't the bad when it happened because she had Troy. But now she had no one, she was completely alone and that thought almost made her throw up.

"No Kelsi, that's no what I said…it's just…" Troy tried again, but didn't have anything to say and it made KElsi really mad.

"Whatever Troy. Just go back to Gabriella." Kelsi said and hung up her phone. Tossing steh phone onto the table next to her bed Kelsi felt tears run down her face and she felt horrible. Plopping down onto her bed KElsi just wanted to take back time, she dind't know to where, just anywhere other then the reality she was living.

Closing her eyes Kelsi thought back to the night that her and Troy had started their relationship for real and she wanted that back. That night was perfect and wonderful, one of the best experiences of Kelsi's life. She loved being loved and needed by Troy. Shaking her head against her pillow Kelsi knew that it was stupid she was acting this way. She just didn't Gabriella anymore and she hated how much Gabriella really hated Kelsi.

Sitting back up on her bed Kelsi realized she was being stupid and unfair to Troy. She shouldn't be acting that way to someone who had been what Troy had been to her. Leaning over to the table next to her bed Kelsi picked up the phone and dialed Troy's numbed again.

Kelsi pressed the phone to her ear and knew that she should just put everything good into Troy, because he was the one person in her life who was good and who loved her. She didn't have anything other then Troy and she wasn't going to throw him away for something so juvielle and stupid.

Plus Kelsi really wanted that night back.