For 2 hours nobody called us, I was freaking out, I even tried getting up and leaving to go look for them but ofcourse my mum and monica stopped me. Now it has been 4 hours and still no word. I haven't stopped crying since they left, it was maybe sadness from what happened to me earlier, and maybe fear from what mr. Bolton could do to troy, but what I was sure of is that I was afraid troy would hurt his father and end up ruining his life because of him.

And while I was drowning in my tears and bad thoughts, I found troy entering the room, I was trying to sit up when he ran towards me and hugged me tight while I cried. He kept saying 'I am SO sorry! I am sorry gabriella!' after I could breathe again I said 'it is not your fault..' they all left the room, and a while later troy faced me, held my hand and said 'I can't believe he did that to you.. I am.. I don't even know what to say..' I said 'hush troy.. I am not blaming you.. and I forgive him..' troy looked at me shocked when I said 'yes.. I do.. because he wasn't himself troy! If you had seen him you would know what I mean.. he was.. lost.. and broken hearted from everything that has happened! So he drank until he lost himself in the process! So when.. when he did what he did he wasn't troy's father.. he wasn't mr. Bolton! He was.. a drunk person who has NO idea what he was doing!' troy has tears in his eyes and was not facing me anymore, so I raised his face and said 'don't do this to yourself.. IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT!' he hugged me again and said 'I love you gabriella..' I didn't answer, even though I loved him to death, but I was broken hearted, and I couldn't say those words, atleast not then.

Then I said 'so.. what happened troy?' he said 'when I ran out of here, I was going crazy, and the picture of you hurt and bruised was haunting me, I went to look for.. my dad, I found him at the bar, so I ran towards him and hit him until your dad came and stopped me.' I gasped and said 'oh my God troy! And are you okay?' he said 'gabriella.. are you?' I said 'yeah.. yeah I am..' he said 'then I am too..' I didn't know how to respond to that, I just said 'okay.. then what happened?' troy said 'well the police came and took him away again..' I said 'okay.. troy I am tired I want to sleep..' he said 'yeah okay sure, but I'll stay with you tonight' I said 'no thank you troy, I'd prefer my mum' he said 'but gabriella..' I said 'no troy.. just go..' he stood up, stared at me for a while then said 'okay gabriella.. goodbye' I nodded. Then I watched him leaving, and I closed my eyes and tried to sleep, but instead a tears escaped from my eyes, all I wanted was for him to stay with me, but what happened on our graduation day was still flashing in my mind, it was still breaking my heart.

I cried myself to sleep that night, and for 3 weeks after that month I never saw troy, he didn't come to see me, he didn't call, nothing. I didn't ask about him, but he was all I thought about! Every night I dreamt of him, all day long I stared at the door waiting for him to come in rushing towards me and hold me close, but he never did.

One month after I woke up from the choma, the doctor said I could go home, I was so happy because I missed my room, I missed going out with monica, and having fun, I was really tired of the hospital! The day I was going home, monica came and helped me get ready, I still had the bandage on my head, and not all the bruises healed, so I wasn't back as new but I was better, when I went home I found chad, mrs. Bolton and my dad screaming 'surprise!' with balloons, flowers and especially lilies! I hugged them all, and we ate cake and talked for a while, then I went to rest for a while in my room, I listened to some music, and sang along, suddenly 'us against the world' by westlife played. I started crying remembering the prom, and how troy defended me, and how he looked at me and admired my beauty, where was that? Where was he? I missed him!