Hey guys, I'm slightly annoyed with myself that I haven't posted this sooner, but I'm on a bit of a low at the minute and just didn't feel like it, sorry :(

Anyway here it is chapter eleven, enjoy!

Captains

Don't get her wrong, Gabriella loved being a stay at home Mum, it was the only other thing she would do if she wasn't teaching, but right now she was regretting the fact that she had let Jack and Lucille take Anna out after school because now, with Ebonnie and Oscar asleep, and all the house work finished, she didn't have anything left to do.

Jack and Lucille had offered to take Anna shopping and out for dinner, they said they hadn't spent much time with her by herself recently, and they wanted to give her a reward, all be it a late one, for being such a brave little girl when she had her arm in the cast.

It was now four o'clock and Gabriella wasn't entirely sure when she have any company, she knew there was basketball practice tonight, that's where Troy, Cam and Alex defiantly were, but she wasn't sure about the girls, they were either: watching the boys practice, waiting around in some other part of the school, or making their own way home before they boys.

Gabriella gave up on trying to decide what she would cook for dinner, she didn't know who would be there or when they'd all get back, so she decided to do something she hadn't done intentionally for a while; sit back relax and watch TV.

After arming herself with the baby monitor, some choc chip biscuits and a cup of coffee, she picked up the remote from the coffee table and plopped herself down on the sofa.

It was only one cup of coffee and two biscuits later when a knock on the door brought Gabriella's attention away from the telly.

She wasn't really sure who to expect, the others all had keys, unless they'd forgotten them, so she just decided to give into her guessing game and open the door.

"Bella sweetie, what are you doing here?"

Bella sniffed, as she used Alex's hoddie sleeve to wipe away her falling tears. "I need a … girly chat … but I need to talk to someone who won't repeat it all to Alex."

Gabriella reached out and took Bella's hand and gently pulled her inside so she could shut the door. "What you tell me won't ever get back to Alex, unless, you tell him, okay?" Gabriella asked, as she pulled the obviously frightened and upset girl into a much needed hug.

Bella nodded her head, as she nestled herself against Gabriella. "So, how about we get some more coffee, 'cause I ran out, and get some proper chocolate as well as biscuits, and then we sit down and chat, 'cause if we stay standing for too long I will fall over, I may be able to hobble about here without my crutch, but that doesn't mean my knee can take standing for long periods, now come on, lets go on a chocolate hunt!"

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"COME ON BOYS KEEP MOVING, THE SLOWER YOU GO THE LONGER YOU RUN. NOW MOVE!"

Alex and Cam shot each other a glance, as they pushed themselves to keep running the laps that Troy had been ordering them to do for the last five minutes, the thing was; he showed now sign of stopping them any time soon.

"Dude, what is with him today? He's been like this since free period practise before lunch, is Mrs B making him sleep on the couch or something?"

"I have no idea, but if we don't motivate the others soon, he's gonna make us do this for the rest of practise."

Cam nodded in understanding and both boys picked up their pace so that they were no longer at the back, but leading their team from the front like captains should.

They shrugged at their team mates as they jogged past, telling them they were just as much in the dark about Troy's mood as they were, and although they weren't to happy about running so many laps their team mates knew they just had to keep going, their captains would figure this out sooner or later.

"Cam, I'm gonna try and talk to him, we can't carry on like this, the guys are starting to get dizzy, I'll peel of and talk to him in a couple of laps. Why don't you slow the pace down? If we're up front leading, like captains should, the guys are gonna stay behind and follow our lead. By slowing the pace, we're still running but not as fast, I think Troy's too pissed off to notice."

Cam nodded. "Let's do it captain."

Cam and Alex slowed the pace and then briefly turned round to look at their team mates and smiled when they saw the relief on their faces, as they began to realise what their captains were doing.

"Cam dude, wish me luck, I'm going in!" Alex peeled off and hesitantly jogged over to Troy.

"Troy? What's happening? You okay?"

"I'm being pretty harsh, aren't I?"

"Yeah, we slowed down the pace, but their getting tired and dizzy. Dude, let them have a break."

Troy nodded and lifted his whistle to his mouth, automatically bringing the boys to a stop. "Okay, I'm sorry guys, I've had a bad day and I shouldn't be taking it out on you, take a break, I'll be back in a bit." With that said Troy turned on his heel and left the gym, heading towards the locker rooms and his office.

Cam jogged over to Alex and with one shared glance, they quickly headed after Troy.

They found him slumped in his office chair, his head down on his desk.

"Troy? What's going on? You didn't have an argument with Gabi did you?" Alex approached Troy cautiously, he had no idea what was wrong with him, he'd never seen him like this before.

Troy didn't answer Alex, or make any indication that he knew he was there.

"Come on coach, talk to us, what's going on?" Cam also made his presence known, and this time Troy listened.

"I had a bad class, the period before we had practise earlier, they just wouldn't listen to me, there was too many of them for me to teach alone, one of the other coach's didn't organise a sub to cover his classes, so I ended up teaching twice the amount of pupils." Troy said, his head still down on his desk.

"Yeah but you've had bad classes before, what's so different this time?" Cam asked, as he moved from the doorway to join Alex on the coach in the office.

Trot lifted his head off of his desk. "I asked them to start clearing up twenty five minutes before the end of the lesson rather than twenty, there were more of them so I figured they'd be more to clear up. Most of them did as they were asked, some I had to ask a couple of times but within ten minutes they'd done it and I let them get changed and leave early. There was one lad, he just wouldn't listen, I asked him so many times that I just gave up in the end and helped the others before I went back to try again. He was using the weights, I said he could, I said they could do what they wanted as long as they cleared up after themselves, maybe that was a mistake. I went back to him after I'd sent the others to change. He'd cleared up by then, except for one of the small ball weights, he had it in his hands, tossing it from one to the other. I didn't get a chance to say anything to him before he threw it at me. It hit me in the thigh, he put a lot of power behind it so I was knocked over, he left after that, didn't say anything, just left."

"Hang on a minute, he threw a ball weight at you, Troy that's abuse."

"Yeah I know Al, I phoned through to the principle, he immediately sent someone after the lad and phoned his parents. We had a meeting at lunch, they've suspended him and given him a month's detention. I didn't want the police involved if we could deal with it in school."

"Whoa coach hold up, if he threw a ball weight at you, it must have bruised. How bad is it?"

When Troy didn't answer the boys knew he'd been his stubborn self and hadn't looked at or treated the bruise.

Alex got up from the couch and went over to the small fridge freezer Troy had in his office and took out an ice pack.

"Put this on the bruise, we'll go and get practise started again, you come back out when you ready, okay?"

Troy nodded and took the ice pack from Alex. "Thanks boys."

"Anytime Coach."

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Gabriella sat on the couch with a shaking, crying Bella in her arms. She'd just learnt that Bella was being seriously bullied at school by the girls in her gym class. They'd attack her in the locker room both verbally and physically telling her she wasn't pretty enough for Alex, that he didn't want her and he was just with her to prove that he could have anyone he wanted. They would circle around her, making her back into the lockers, they'd repeatedly push her against the lockers and this was evident from the bruises which covered Bella's back.

After forty five minutes of tears, Gabriella had managed to calm Bella down and had convinced her they had to get these girls punished. So, Gabriella phoned the principle who immediately sent for someone to take the girls away form their after school activity and had their parents phoned and brought to the school immediately. The girls were suspended and given a month of detention and when the principle phoned Gabriella back to tell her this, he also told her to look after Troy. She had no idea what he was talking about, but decided to let it pass and wait until Troy got home.

The front door finally opened at quarter past five and Troy, Alex, Cam and Katie all piled in.

Their chattering stopped when they saw the state Bella was in and Alex was immediately by her side.

"Bella babe, what's going on?" Alex tried to pull Bella into a hug, but she just hung tighter to Gabriella.

"Bella honey you need to tell them what happened while I go and talk to Troy. Just tell them like you did with me, go slow and you'll be fine. You need to go to Alex now, okay?"

Bella nodded, as Gabriella moved her arms from round Bella, only for them to be replaced by Alex's.

Gabriella handed the tissues to Katie on her way past, as she went to find Troy, who had disappeared upstairs, shortly after arriving home.

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It had been a tough for everyone and they were very glad it was over and that tomorrow was Saturday, all except one.

Cam and Katie had been spending time together in her room when he asked her to come over for dinner tomorrow night and meet his parents.

The reactions he got wasn't one he expected. Katie collected his things and kicked him out of her room, telling him she didn't want to see him again.

Cam had gone downstairs only to be met with bewildered looks from the others. He told them what was going on and they had told him to stay down there while she went to talk to her.

"I still don't understand why you can't go and meet them, I've seen them from across the street, they seem perfectly nice people. Look how well Cam has been brought up, they must be nice people."

"Yeah, but what if they start asking me questions about Mum and Dad? What am I supposed to say them Gabs? I can't talk about Mum and Dad without getting emotional, they'll just think I'm a mess."

"Did you even let Cam stay round long enough to ask him what his parents knew about you, because from what he was saying they know pretty much everything about you, including what happened to Mum and Dad, and who you live with now. They were the ones who asked him to invite you over, he didn't want to, he was worried you'd say no, looks like he was right to worry, doesn't it?"

"I was being really harsh wasn't I? I didn't even give him a chance to tell me all the details, I just grabbed his stuff and threw him out, is he still here?"

"Yeah he was gonna leave, but we made him stay. Jack and Lucille just got here as well, so if you're going home you better come down."

Katie nodded, as she gathered her stuff together and followed Gabriella downstairs to apologise to Cam.

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Alex lay in bed and cradled Bella in his arms, as yet more tears escaped her eyes. She wasn't sure if she had anymore tears left in her, but sure enough they just kept on coming.

"Bella honey, please stop crying, you're safe here I promise you, they can't hurt you, and they will never hurt you again, I'll make sure of it."

"I'm s-sorry, I didn't t-think it was p-possible to cry t-this much but…"

"But you have and now you're going to stop. Babe it's the weekend now, we're together, we haven't got any homework that needs to be done urgently and we can do whatever you want to tomorrow, so please stop crying."

Bella took a deep breath and wiped away the last of her tears. "There, that's it, no more tears, no more crying, I'm done now. Do you think we could take Anna out tomorrow? Cam and Katie could come as well, the others could take the twins to see the Danthorths."

"I don't see why not, I'll ring Gabi in the morning. Now go to sleep, tomorrow will be a bigger and better day, okay?"

"Mkay." Bella replied, as she kissed Alex goodnight and snuggled up against him and fell asleep.

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It may not have been as bad, but now Gabriella knew how Troy felt when she was in pain after the accident. It really pained her, to see him in pain and she was glad the lad who did this was getting punished just as much as the girls who hurt Bella.

"I'm sorry, just hold still a second longer and let me rub this in, then I'm done, I promise."

"It's not your fault Gabs, it's actually quite nice 'cause you hands are cold and my leg is really hot, so it kinda works. What is that stuff anyway?"

"I dunno, Jack said it had some kind of numbing agent in it, which would make it easier for you to sleep tonight 'cause you wouldn't feel pain when you slept and rolled on it. All I know is if it's gonna make it easier for you to sleep and take the pain away, then I'm all for it." Gabriella said, as she finished rubbing the cream onto Troy's bruise.

"Did Anna have a nice time with Mum and Dad?" Troy asked, as Gabriella put the cream on the bedside table, and turned off the light, before shuffling over and moulding her body against Troy's side.

"Yep, they took her to the big toy shop in the mall and brought her a dolls house, I had to threaten her with taking it away to get her in the bath, and then again when I actually wanted her to get in bed so I could read to her, they spoil her way too much. They took her to that diner as well, the one we used to go in when we were in college."

Troy chuckled. "If they do that for the twins as well, they'll be broke pretty soon."

"I tried to tell them, but they didn't listen."

"Ah well, they're loss. I love you by the way." Troy said, as he pulled Gabriella closer.

"That's nice."

"Don't you love me back?" Troy asked, feigning hurt.

"Maybe."

"Gabs, I'm really upset here you know?"

Gabriella moved so she could look Troy in the eye. "You know, I love you. I love you with all my heart, I have done since we started dating, and I hate to break it to ya babe, but I always will."

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There it is guys chapter eleven. Pretty rubbish if you ask me, but it's what you think that really matters.

I need some ideas for this story, I can probably get another chapter out of it with their day out with Anna and Katie meeting Cam's parents, but after that who knows, so IDEAS PLEASE!

I've also got another idea for a story, but I need to run it by someone or more than one person to know if it'll be liked or hated, or even if they can help me with ideas for it. If you're interested please let me know in the review or PM me so I can PM you, I need to know what people think.

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