March 15, 2015

11:35 p.m. Mountain Time

Gabe sat up in his bed, sweat speeding down his face, he started crying.

He had that same horrible dream.

He slammed his head down on his pillow, and screamed into it, his pillow started to soak his tears as Amy walked in to the room.

She had heard him crying from her bedroom in her sleep, it woke her up from her nightmare, and she was glad. She walked to the side of his bed, to see his face buried in his pillow.

She reached her soft hand out, and stroked the hair out of his face.

Gabe looked up and smiled at his mom.

"Mom! Your okay!" he sat up gave Amy a huge hug, which made her almost fall over, after the hug, Gabe got out of the bed and sat up against the wall with his mother's arm around him.

He looked up at her with sad eyes.

"Mom?" he asked, as he looked into her eyes.

Amy looked down and frowned at the look on his face, he looked so much like Bob Diddlebock, that it was almost scary.

"Yes sweetie?" she smiled brightly at him.

"Do I look anything like you? Or do I really look exactly like that guy that I hate so much?" Gabe looked up at his mother, who had a distant look on her face, he wished he looked like her, he had always been the odd one out, everybody thinking he was a family friend, he got embarrassed when his mother told people was a Duncan, and their shocked look, and he could see the hurt in her eyes.

Amy looked down, so that he couldn't see into her eyes, but she could still feel the sixteen year old staring at her.

"Well, um, you see, you look a lot like your father, but you act a lot like me!" she looked up and smiled at him, his lips curled up very slightly.

"How?" he asked.

"Well, you are good at getting what you want, and you have the evil mind, and you love to be the center of attention." she smiled at him.

He laughed and hugged his mother, he loved her so much.

"I love you mom," he said as he laid his head on her shoulder, getting a few blonde strands in his face.

She hugged him back, and laid her arm around his shoulder.

Amy walked into the kitchen, beside Gabe. Both of them were smiling brightly.

Bob had to laugh at them, he walked up to his wife and kissed her on the head.

"Good morning honey," she looked up at him and smiled her brightest smile, and he felt his knees tremble.

"It is now!" she smiled, Bob turned and smiled at Gabe,

"Good morning, son," he walked over and ruffled his hair, he knew he was too old for that, but he did it anyway.

Gabe smiled at him, "Good morning, dad!"

Amy smiled again, she loved them both, and couldn't love them more.

The slight sunlight shone through the open window of Bob and Amy's room,

Amy tossed and turned as Bob Diddlebock was strangling her in her dream, she couldn't breath, her eyes were wide open as she tried to scream, but she couldn't speak.

Bob woke up next to her, and looked to see Amy laying motionless on her side of the bed, her eyes wide open.

"Amy!" Bob leaned over and wrapped his arms around her, he put his two fingers on her neck, and could feel her heart beating rapidly.

He was up and started shaking her,

She breathed in a gulp of air, before her eyes blinked a few times for being so dry, and looked over at her husband, and her heart beat immediatly slowed down.

"Bob?" she huffed out. She saw the sunlight peeking through her window as the morning approached. She felt just like her dream, that she had just been released of being strangled. Her neck hurt, and she was out of breath,

she didn't even do anything.

Then everything fell in her, she broke down crying.

Bob grabbed her, and leaned her up against him, and they both rocked while Amy's tears soothed down. She thought she was done crying.

She wiped away her tears as she sat up against headboard.

Her hair was flat, still curly, but not like the usual Amy Duncan perfection curls that she took two hours in the morning to fix up.

She smiled at her husband, as he sat up with her.

She looked down at her polka dotted shorts, and her purple short sleeved night top. Then she looked up at her husband again.

"I'm sorry I scared you, I just had another nightmare." she leaned her head back on the wall behind their bed, and looked up at the ceiling.

Bob reached over and stroked her hair as he smiled, then he scooted over to where they were touching, and he leaned his head on her's and smelled the essence of coconut from her hair, he wrapped his arm around her shoulder, and started playing with the loose curls on the opposite side of her head.

"It's alright, I'm just glad your okay. I don't want to be anywhere near close to losing you again." he smiled and looked into her eyes, and he fell in love with her again,

Why is it the eyes? Why do they always do that to me? He smiled, at the love of his life, and pulled her against him.

"I love you, I don't say that enough." she looked up at him, and smiled,

"I will always love you, no matter what." She replied, he smiled, and took his hand and caressed her cheek as he kissed her.

He pulled away and smiled. She had the same look on her face as she did back when he gave her that short kiss at his home, when she saw Diddlebock cheating on her.

He laughed at her, as she gave him a look, and playfully smacked him on the shoulder.

"Don't laugh at me!" She whipped the covers off her bare legs, and gave him a quick peck on the lips before she walked into the bathroom to take a shower.

Bob laughed again, he loved his wife so much, it was unexplainable, he heard her yell from the bathroom,

"I said don't laugh at me!"

Teddy and Spencer smiled at the pictures they forgot to look at from the other day, one was one when she was two, they were at a St. Patrick's parade in Denver.

P.J. had been on Bob's shoulders, and Amy was smiling at the camera while holding a fiesty Teddy, who smiled, her bright curls mimicking her mother's.

Teddy had a green shamrock sticker on each of her cheeks, while Amy had one on her forehead.

P.J. had an ice cream in his hands, as he had an evil look down at his father like he was going to drop it on him.

And by the smile on his face, you could tell Bob was worried he would.

In the background you could see the green vehicles driving down the main street, and a bright green double decker bus filled with people painted green.

Another picture was from her third birthday.

They were all under a gazebo in the Sloan Lake Park.

Teddy was in the middle. She was wearing a cute pink shirt under her overalls, and her bouncy curls were put in a ponytail. She was blowing out three birthday candles, with a smiling Amy next to her, wearing a purple shirt with short sleeves, and jean shorts.

Bob was on the other side of her smiling down at the half blown out candles. P.J. stood between Bob and Teddy with a frown on his face.

And in the background you could see a man, barley visible, sitting next to a tree, with dark hair, who looked like Gabe looking over at the party.

"Diddlebock," Teddy mumbled, a frown on her face.

They spent almost their entire afternoon looking at photos, until Amy and Toby, who got into the loft with her card, walked into the room and smiled at the sight of Teddy and Spencer asleep with the photo album on top of them.

Amy walked into the kitchen, and set the groceries that Teddy had kindly asked her to pick up for her, on the counter.

She picked up Toby and smiled at him. She put everything that needed to go into the fridge where it belonged and put the rest on the counter, and found a pen and paper and wrote with her loopy handwriting,

"Toby and I stopped by, we saw you sleeping and didn't want to wake you.

Don't worry about paying me back!

Love you, Mom"

Amy smiled as she picked up Toby and walked into the elevator. She took one more glance at the loft before the elevator doors closed the view, she thought of how her little baby girl was grown up, then she looked down at her three year old, who was smiling at her,

" I have nothing to worry about!" she smiled as she kissed Toby on the head

I know this is short, and I apologize, but I will update soon, Tell me what you think!