Gabriella couldn't believe who she was looking at. The woman standing a few feet away couldn't believe it either. Gabriella looked into her brown eyes and could tell it was really her, the woman she shares DNA with, the woman she used to consider as "Mom."

"Olivia why don't you go see what's taking Daddy so long," Maria said. Olivia obeyed and walked away.

Maria turned back towards her oldest daughter who had tears slowly streaming from her eyes.

"You told her that she's and only child," was the first thing that came out of Gabriella's mouth.

Maria's eyes dropped to look at her feet, not knowing what to say. Like her mother Gabriella looked down but at her small daughter who had no idea what was going on or what her grandmother had done.

Gabriella didn't know what to do or what to say, the last time she saw her mother was 16 ½ years ago when she and her siblings watched the cops handcuff her while they hit at the park ten feet away.

The two women continued to sit there in silence when Gabriella's phone began to vibrate in her pocket but didn't answer it knowing it was most likely her sister.

"When did you get out," was the next thing out of Gabriella's mouth.

Maria looked up and answered, "Three and a half years after I went in. And then I met Charlie and had Olivia….You may not believe it but being in jail got me clean. I'm nothing like I was before, I have a job, a big house, I'm married and I have a daughter who doesn't know about my horrible past."

Gabriella was somewhat happy for her mother yet she still didn't know if she should forgive her for leaving them by themselves.

"What about us, you left us. It may have been okay for me and Hannah but what about James and Katie they weren't really old enough to know what was going on. Did you know that for the first year and a half Katie would wake me up at night and ask me why you didn't have the TV on really loud and when we went to sleep I couldn't leave the door open because she thought that you would come find us and take her if it was open," Gabriella said. Maria didn't know what to say, she knew not that it was a horrible way of life she created for her young children and felt horrible about it.

Before Maria could respond with an apology Gabriella said, "Why didn't you come find us after you got out and were clean," with more tears pooling from her eyes. Maria sat down on the opposite lawn chair and took a deep breath, "I thought that you guys wouldn't want to see me."

"We didn't and probably not now either," Gabriella interrupted.

"But Gabriella I'm still your mother," Maria defended.

"Yes you gave birth to us so biologically you are our mother but there's a hella lot more to mothering then that," Gabriella's voice rose, "Who stayed up all night when James was three telling him there was no monsters under his bed, who skipped school when the day care called saying Katie had a fever of 103 and it wouldn't go down, who drove a 15 year old Hannah to the hospital and held her hand while she was in labor, who did all the things you were supposed to do."
At that point Gabriella didn't really care if anyone heard her yelling at her mother, before Gabriella could continue she heard Rylan yell, "Mommy look," Gabriella turned to look at her daughter who was standing on her father's shoulders and smiled when she saw her six year old and her husband with huge smiles on their face, "Awesome baby, be careful. Troy if you let her fall your dead."

"Oh relax," he said then pretended to drop his daughter and Gabriella sent him a death glare. Then he continued to play with his children not knowing the crucial information about the person his wife was talking to.

"She's beautiful," Gabriella heard Maria say.

"Thank you," she said coldly.

"How many children do you have," Maria asked not wanting to go back to the argument they were having.

"Six. Hannah has three and James has one," she once again said with no emotion.

Maria didn't know how she was supposed to react learning about having ten grandchildren, it was a weird feeling because the last time she's seen her children they were young. She looked over in the same direction her daughter did to look at the young brown hair children playing with a man she assumed was their father. 'Wow' was what Maria was thinking, it was beautiful to see little boys and girls identical to their mother splashing around in the clear water.

After a while Gabriella couldn't sit there next to her mother anymore, it was all too overwhelming. She grabbed Bliss' blanket and stood up and said, "I'm sorry but I have to go."

Maria turned her attention to her daughter and stood up along with her, "Oh well is there any way we could talk some more sometime?"
Gabriella closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "I don't think so," then walked towards the door to the hotel with tears crawling out of her eyes.

Troy looked over to the spot his wife had been moments ago then noticed her walking away with Bliss in her arms. At first he thought that maybe she went to go feed Bliss but he had this feeling in his chest that something wasn't right.

"Hey guys come on lets go get mommy so she and Blissy can come swimming with us," Troy said trying to get them all out of the pool without anyone throwing fits. They all yelled, "Yeah," and jumped out of pool grabbing their towels.

With Jackson and Brooklynn in his arms and the other three holding onto each other's hands they went out to look for Gabriella, eventually finding her sitting on the bed in their room. Troy told the kids to go play while he walked into his and Gabriella's bedroom and found her laying on their bed watching Bliss sleep with tears still coming out of her eyes. He ran over to her and sat down by his wife feet and rubbed her back, "Baby what's wrong," he whispered.

She closed her eyes then said, "I talked to my mom."
Troy's mouth dropped, "When, how?"

Gabriella sat up and wiped her nose with the back of her hand, "You know the woman I was talking to," Troy nodded his head, "That was her. And I have another sister, Olivia, she's 13. I just cant believe it, I thought I would never see her ever again and for a long time I was okay with that but know I don't know. She say's she clean and put together and she even looks it but I don't know if I could just forget everything that happened and forgive her. I hate what she did to us but yet I also hate having to tell the kids that I don't know where their other grandma is," Gabriella said looking up into her husbands deep blue eyes. Troy grabbed her and pulled her into a big bear hug and let her cry on his shoulder, "I don't know what to do. You have to tell me what to do," she cried.

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HANNAH