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Chapter 20-One Step At A Time
After Sam decided to give me a hell of a yelling, I had locked myself in my room for the rest of the day. I thought I was ready to face everything again, but I wasn't. I missed Troy but right now, I needed to fix things with everyone.
The problem with all of this was I didn't really know what I was going to do to fix what I had messed up. I was in a dark place and I didn't really know what I was going to do when it came to being the old Gabriella. Nothing was the same. I had pushed Sam and Kayla away, Zak was sick, and Troy and I weren't exactly on talking terms at all right now.
Sam was trying to help me and I kept pushing him away and the first thing I needed to do was fix it.
I looked out the window to my room and I realized that it was dark outside. I knew that I needed to do something about what I started today. Sam was only trying to help me and I had walked past him, acting too stubborn to apologize for my actions when I knew he was right. About everything.
I looked around and saw Sam staring out the glass door to the backyard. I smiled, remembering that the only time he ever did something like that was when he was deep in thought.
I cleared my throat, playing with the ends of my messy hair, nervously. Sam turned to look at me and he stared at me, waiting for me to say something.
"Hey." I said, looking around the rest of the basement, noticing that Kayla wasn't around, "Where's Kayla?"
"She's out for a walk. She wanted to get some fresh air. Y'know…away from all this drama." He said, moving his attention back toward what was going on outside.
"Oh." I nodded, "Well, Sam I…" I trailed off, realizing my voice was going to crack.
"Can we talk?" I said, "Just you and me?"
"No more screaming?" he said, looking toward me again.
"Just talking and listening. Civilly." I closed my eyes, trying to fight back everything that was going through my head, "No more stubborn Gabi."
I saw a hint of a smile creep onto Sam's face as he nodded and went to go sit down on the couch in front of the T.V. and then patted next to him to get me to sit next to him.
I sat next to him, breathing deeply to try and relax myself. This was the first time I had ever been nervous around Sam and that feeling broke my heart. I shouldn't have to be nervous in front of my best friend.
I clasped my hands together, then looked down at the floor, then toward Sam and took a deep breath giving him a smile. "Does everyone hate me?"
Sam chuckled, rubbing the back of his neck, "I don't think any of us could ever hate you, Gabriella. We all love you and that includes Troy. I think Madi hates you though. I was wondering when she'd finally crack. She's really upset that Troy's upset over you. She knows that he still loves you."
"He doesn't love me anymore, Sam. I totally me—"
"Gabi, if you think Troy stopped loving you then I think you're totally messed up in the head. Troy never stopped loving you. When you ended things with him, he was trying to find a way to cope, just like you are right now. He still loves you and he's never going to let you go. If you can't see that then maybe you need to talk to him instead of me."
"Sam, I need you, right now. I miss you and Kayla. I miss the three musketeers." I said, feeling tears fill my eyes.
"We'll never leave you." Sam said, putting an arm around my waist, pulling me in for a hug, "We're still the three musketeers. We're just going through some problems."
"I'm so sorry." I said, bursting into tears, holding on to his shirt tightly. "I said things that I didn't mean, I just got scared that Zak was leaving me and that Troy and I were completely over and I ended up skipping meals and…" I choked up, not being able to talk anymore.
I held onto him tightly, letting my tears fall. I was done trying to be strong for anyone and I was done trying to be too stubborn to fix anything. I needed my friends back. I needed me back.
Sam hugged me tightly, wrapping his around me, stroking my hair. "It's okay Gabriella. It'll be okay. We'll fix things. We're all sorry and we all did stupid things and said things we didn't mean."
After a while, my tears stopped falling and I finally began to catch my breath again. "I'm really sorry, Sam." I said.
"Stop apologizing, you doof." Sam chuckled, "We'll fix everything."
"I just feel so guilty…" I sighed, "I ruined everything."
Sam sighed, "I think you're being over-reactive. You didn't ruin everything and as long as we're all trying to fix everything, then we'll be okay. Kayla will be back and I'll let you two fix everything. We'll all be okay. Zak will be happy to hear that you're starting to feel better." He said, rubbing my back in a comforting way.
I nodded, still trying to get my breath back.
"You are feeling better, right?"
"Yes." I laughed, "Do you have any ice cream?"
Sam laughed, "You're definitely feeling better."
I nodded, smiling at him. "But seriously, do you have ice cream?"
"I think Lucille bought some ice cream. It's up in the freezer. I think she got your favorite."
"Ben and Jerry's Mint Chocolate Cookie?"
"I think so." He nodded.
"Well then what the heck are we waiting for?" I said, getting up quickly, spinning around toward the stairs.
I froze, noticing Kayla who had been standing by the stairs. Sam stood up and noticed her and then smiled at her.
"How long have you been standing there?" I said, noticing that Kayla had tears in her eyes.
"Long enough." She gave me a small smile.
"I'm so sorry." We said at the same time and ran toward each other and hugged each other tightly.
"I was such a bitch for lying to you." Kayla said, "I should have-"
"No—I was such a bitch for pushing you away when all you were doing was trying to help me. You were just doing what Zak asked you to do and I shouldn't have over-reacted the way I did."
"But Zak means the world to you and I would have acted the same way if you didn't tell me that Sam was dying."
"Okay great!" Sam interrupted us, putting his arms around the both of us, "We're made up and we're all sorry. Now I'm actually craving ice cream so, let's go get some, okay?"
"Sam!" Kayla and I said in unison, smacking him on the shoulder.
"Well I'm glad you two are better now…." Sam said, "Jeez. You don't have to hit me."
Kayla and I laughed and hugged him tightly. "I'm glad you're better Gabs. I missed you." Sam whispered into my ear.
"One step at a time." I said, feeling a step closer to being back to my old self.
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