Dedicated to someone who after breaking up with my friend, seems to stalk me.

Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett (according to Wikipedia… I only have it by the Lettermen)

July 9, 2012

9:00 AM

Abby drove to the studio ahead of everyone else Bryce had kept her up all night for being late after she went out to shoot some pictures. He had even broken her new digital camera and her older film camera in the process of his anger with her. Luckily she had already taken out the film and memory card and had them in her car.

Bryce had even had Edward hold her still as he "taught her a lesson on being on time" by cutting the palm of her hand with a kitchen knife. Abby had it wrapped in an ace bandage and would claim to have had the knife slip when she was peeling potatoes for dinner.

She set to work on developing the rolls of film and while they hung in the drying cabinet, she uploaded and started to work on the digital photographs. They were photographs of children playing at the park. The park had hired her to take pictures for their fliers and as art to hang on the wall in the Park's office building across the street.

The photographs made her happy and the only thing that kept bringing her out of daydreams was the throbbing pain in her right hand while she worked.

"Hey Abby." Gabriella said coming in as she unlocked the door.

"Hey." She replied as she gingerly picked up her energy drink. "How are you?" She asked before she took a big drink.

"Pretty good." Gabriella replied as she put her purse behind the desk in the cabinet. "What happened to your hands!" She asked in shock as she noticed the bandages.

Abby lifted her hand and looked at it, "The knife slipped wile I was peeling potatoes last night." Abby lied. "It's fine, not too deep." she smiled and tilted her head back and on an angle to look at her friend, "I really need to stop being so careless and clumsy, or maybe I should let Edward do all the cooking."

"If you do that he'll stay forever." Gabi said, "Why don't you just eat dinner with us, Zeke always makes too much food anyways."

"Um, maybe." Abby responded thinking. Bryce would probably hurt her either way no matter what she did.

"You okay?" Gabriella asked watching her closely.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Abby replied as she continued working on her pictures.

"Oh I forgot to tell you that yesterday we got our first wedding gig!" Gabriella said as she started to pick up some more pictures that Abby had taken and framed so they could display them in the office.

"Really?" Abby replied happily then remembered her cameras were broken. "Um, do you think I could borrow your dad's cameras? Bryce accidentally fell on my camera bag and broke my cameras."

"You could just use mine. I'll bring them tomorrow." Gabriella responded looking around. "Where's the hammer?"

" Zeke was putting up towel racks last night."

"Gabi?" Abby asked as Gabriella walked to Zeke's bakery.

"Hmm?"

"Can I stay with you tonight again? I think Bryce and Edward went out drinking all day again. I'm really sorry that I seem to be taking over half of your bedroom..."

"Its no problem, you're always welcome to come over. Actually, here." Gabriella tossed a key to Abby, "We discussed it and want you to hold our spare key. If they come back drunk you can get away from them, even if we aren't home. They are horrible when they are drunk." Gabi started to walk back toward the bakery again.

"They are worse sober." Abby muttered to herself, holding the key tightly in her good hand.

"What was that?"

"Thanks, I appreciate it. As long as you're sure I'm not intruding." Abby said grabbing her keys and slipping the new key onto it.

"It's really no problem, Abby. I'll be right back, I'm going to get the hammer." Gabriella said motioning across the street to where Zeke's new bakery was. Ryan and Sharpay's parents had financed it for him after having he catered a few of their parties.

"Get me a cupcake then." Abby said smiling.

"Will do." Gabriella said as she walked out. Abby watched her run across the street.

"You need to give Edward a job." Demanded Bryce as he and Edward walked in the studio together seeming sober for once.

"Why? Is he too stupid to find one himself?" Abby replied going back to her pictures and knowing that she shouldn't have said that.

Bryce walked up to the counter, reached over it, and grabbed the hand he had sliced the night previous. Abby flinched, but didn't cry out in pain.

"When does he start?" Bryce asked as he gripped her hand harder and harder as the seconds went by. Abby looked up thankfully when she heard the bell on the door ring and Gabriella walked back in.

"Hey...what's up?" She asked as she noticed the look on Abby's face.

"Nothing, Abby just gave Edward a job. Nice to see you Gabi." Bryce said as he let go of Abby's hand and he walked out.

"Excuse me?" Gabriella asked frozen by the door staring at Abby.

"Sorry, Gabs... I owe him a favor for taking over making dinner after I cut my hand. So he'll be an assistant here until he gets his own job elsewhere." Abby hit save on the photo she was fixing up and got up, "I'll be in the darkroom developing prints. Edward, that is off limits for you. If you turn on a light in there you'll ruin paper and any unfixed prints. You can start right now by fixing the pluming in the bathroom. She was sure Edward had thought he'd get a cooking job and she knew a fix it guy job would anger both him and Bryce, but since she wasn't going home that night she didn't care.

Gabriella was rather confused, but just went with it since Abby didn't seem to mind.

"Don't come near me either unless you want your nose to be broken again too." Gabriella said as Abby walked to the back of the studio to the darkroom.

"Whatever." Edward said before finding the bathroom.

July 10, 2012

The Girl's Apartment

3:45 AM

"Oh my goodness!" Gabriella said suddenly jumping as someone was pounding on their door. She looked at the clock. 3:45. Who knocks on someone's door at almost 4 in the morning!? She started to get out of bed as Abby was too and heard Sharpay's bedroom door slam.

"GO AWAY!" She yelled as she walked past Gabriella's room toward the front door. Abby and Gabriella followed and noticed that Sharpay had the bat again.

"What do you want!?" She said as she opened the door to find Bryce there.

"Is Abby here?" He asked calmly arms crossed.

"Yes, now what's mentally wrong with you for waking us up?" Sharpay said as she brought the bat to rest on her shoulder. "Do not ever do that again unless you want a very large headache."

"Can I talk to you?" Bryce asked noticing Abby standing slightly behind Gabriella.

"Fine." Abby mumbled walking forward and against her better judgment walking outside into the hall and closing the door partway behind her.

"Now what is it? It's four in the morning! Are you drunk again or something?"

"I'm not drunk." Bryce said, reaching around her and closing the door the rest of the way, "I was wondering where you were."

"What, worried?" she asked.

"Of course I was worried! It's my job to make sure your safe and how can I do that when you never come home?"

Abby looked at him confused, he was acting like he had before the wedding.

"Besides, I wanted to apologize for what happened. He walked to the door of their apartment and pulled out a dozen red roses and handed them to her. "It was wrong of me to make you give my brother a job like that. It's just that I was slightly drunk and he really needs a job. Though he is upset he's not working in the kitchen. He's a good cook and you know it."

"Bryce, you need a job. You know I don't like Edward and I don't care if he dislikes his job. If he wants to cook he should have gone and asked Zeke. Zeke's in charge of the catering part of our business."

"Ok, well, will you come back with me?

"No, I'm having a girl's night. Tomorrow, ok?" she said walking back into the girls' apartment.

So I'm starting to get really annoyed with the fact that I have to go through and check for random boxes and extra lines every time before I post. You'd think that the site would have fixed it after what? Two months?