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I am so sorry, I tried to finish the chapter for publishing it last night but, it was impossible. I am not pretty sure if I have done or not a good job with this chapter. I had to re-write it a few times because I wasn't sure about it. So, I hope that you like the final version.

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Namine Redfield

Chapter 13

One hour after falling asleep with his chest pressed against Gabby's back, Matt was woken up by somebody that was brushing his dirty blonde hair fondly. He opened his eyes and saw that it was Gabby who had woken up him. She was giving him a genuine smile.

"Hi sleepyhead" She crushed her lips against his "How are you?"

"I am fine and you? Are you feeling better?" He sat on the bed and looked her

"Yeah I am better. Matt, I think that we should talk about what happened before in the living room when you insisted in washing the dirty dishes" She said and looked him with a serious expression on her face

"No" he said shaking his head "I already told you that I gonna take care of everything from now on"

"Why?" She asked annoyed "Give me a reason at least"

"You are pregnant" He got up of the bed and started pacing around the room "Do you need another reason?"

"Yeah. I need a real reason not something obvious. So, at less that you have a good reason, I am going to continue working on Molly's and at home"

"I don't want that you lose our baby like happened to-" But he stopped of speaking since Gabby didn't know anything about what happened when he was a small kid "Forget it" he walked to reach the doorknob for going out of the room

"No" She got up of the bed and walked to him. She placed her hands around his neck and pressed her chest against his back "Talk to me, baby. Are you afraid of losing me or the baby?"

He opened his mouth for saying something but, no sound came out until he finally said "Something like that" Then, Gabby grabbed him of his hands and led him to the bed for sitting again. They needed to have a talk and it had to be in that moment; He had to be sincere with her and speak about what was bothering him.

Matt took a deep breath "I don't know where to start"

"Why not you start by the beginning" she said encouraging him to talk about what was bothering him

"Alright, but you have to know that I have never spoken with anyone about this. It is tough for me"

She caressed his hand "Take as long as you need"

"I have a brother" Gabby looked him surprised by the unexpected news. In all the time that she had met him, she had never heard that he had a brother "Well, in reality I had a brother" he clarified "His name was gonna be Derek" At that point of his speech, he had tears falling down his cheeks and he couldn't continue speaking any longer.

"What do you mean by that his name was gonna be Derek? What happened?" Gabby was afraid that her question could cause him more pain nevertheless, she was sure that speak about it will help him to feel a little bit better.

"He never was born. He was already dead the day that he arrived to this world" he crashed against her chest and started to cry uncontrollably.

Gabby looked him not knowing what to do, she had never seen him before as broken as he was in that moment. Immediately, she regretted to have pushed him of talking about something that it was clear that he wasn't ready to talk about it yet.

"Baby, I am sorry" She brushed his hair "I am so sorry" She gave small kisses on the top of his head

"He is dead because of my father" he said moving away of her embrace. His eyes and cheeks were already wet as well as her sweatshirt "My father was a jerk. He did nothing for helping my mom while she was pregnant of Derek. My mom...My mom" but his tears didn't allowed him to continue speaking

"Matt, you don't have to continue talking if you don't want" but he shook his head

"She was the one who had to cook, clean the house, take care of my sister and me and, bring money home. We were short of money most of the time so, my mom used to work like 16 or 18 hours every day. She had three different jobs" he made a little pause "I and my sister...We...we tried to help her but, we couldn't. Christie was ten and I was four. What could we have done? I tried to help her as much as I could but, it wasn't enough" He sounded like if he was blaming himself of the death of his younger brother.

"There was nothing that you could have done for helping her. You were a kid. A small kid" She said softly and cupped his face. He pressed his forehead against hers and she dried his tears with her thumbs "That is why you want to do everything, right? You think that in that way I am not going to lose our baby doesn't it?" she asked after a minute of silence. He looked at her in the eyes and gave her a nod.

"I don't want to be like my father" He was feeling pathetic for being crying in front of her and was trying not to shed more tears

"You are not going to be like him, baby" she said "You have nothing to do with him. You are a lovely fiancé and you are great with kids" She said remembering when he had to take care of the Darden's boys while they mother was in prison after driving under the effect of the alcohol.

"Because they aren't mine" he said "I don't know how I am going to react when I have to look after of my own kids. I don't know if I am going to be really strict with them or if I am going to beat them like my father used to do with me when I was younger" the last part broke her heart. She couldn't understand how someone could dare to raise its hand against a small and defenseless kid.

"You are not going to do nothing like that to our kids" She made a pause and added with a little of humor "Besides, if this baby is a girl, I am sure that she is gonna be a daddy's girl" He laughed

"Yeah. I am sure that she is gonna be. However, one part of me thinks that I am going to be exactly like him. He was always insulting my sister, my mom and me. He said that I was useless"

"Matt, listen to me" she placed a hand under his chin and made him to look her eyes "You are not useless and, you are not going to hurt to none of us" she grabbed his hand and placed it on the top of her stomach "You are going to be a great daddy for our baby. Never dare to doubt about that, alright?"

"Alright" he gave her a soft smile and pressed his lips against hers

"Are you feeling better?"

"Yeah. A little"

"Alright, but we still need to speak about something. I really appreciate that you want to help me but, you have to let me do things by myself. There are a lot of things that I can still do like for example cooking or working on Molly's"

"Gabby, I want to help you"

"I know. And, I promise you that if I am not feeling well or if there is something that I can't do, I will ask your help, okay?"

"Okay"

She hugged him and whispered "I love you"

"I love you too" he circled her body with high arms and rested his head on the top of her

"Now, why not we get out of me old room and go to the kitchen for grabbing something to eat? The little one is hungry" She said looking down to her belly

"Yeah. Sure, it is the baby who is hungry all the time" he said a little skeptical raising his eyebrows

"Well, I am eating for two now" she got up of the bed and put on her old slipper. Hand by hand they walked out of the room.

When they were downstairs, they could hear voices coming from the living room. They went straight to the living room and saw that Diego and Eva were already there speaking with their abuela whereas Antony was speaking with his father about something on the kitchen.

"Aunty Gabby" Eva said running to her "I missed you"

"I missed you too, guys" she hugged both kids. It had been more than one an half months since the last time that she saw them "How are you doing?"

"We are fine" Eva rolled her eyes since she was lying to her aunt.

"Yeah, we are good" Diego gave to her aunty a forced smile

Neither of them was as well as they were trying to look like. It has been so hard for them to have to move out of Chicago. In the past, the used to spend most of the afternoon at their grandparents' house now, they had to reluctantly accept visiting them only a few times per month.

"Alright, since your aunty Gabby and Matt has woken up of their nap, I think that we can have some cake all together before opening the presents that Santa has let you under the tree" Tim said while he was coming from the kitchen holding a chocolate cake.

All of them sat on the couch and enjoyed of a nice family talk while they ate the cake that Rocio had cooked that morning. However, when the nice conversation reached to a tough topic for both kids the attitude of both of them changed. Her aunty had asked them about how their new school was. Eva moved in her spot on the couch while Diego looked to the ground; they didn't know what to say.

Diego was the first one in saying something after a few seconds of silence "It just sucks" he was really annoyed because he preferred his old school. He tried that his mother drove him to his old school instead of to the new one but, it was not possible. They had moved out of Chicago and they needed to go to a school nearest to their new neighborhood.

"Diego" his father told him off

"It is true. I want to come back to my old school! The new one doesn't have a chess team or a robotic team of Lego. It sucks" He repeated upset

"Diego, I'll not say it twice. I don't like your behavior and, you won't get anywhere with that attitude" He said tired of the behavior of his younger son.

"I don't care. What are you gonna do? Are you going to ground me? You can't do it because you are not at home!" he got up of the couch and looked to his father with an angry expression on his face "I hate you"

"Enough. Get out of here now!" Antonio said rising his voice "Go to the kitchen and don't move of there until new order" Diego looked to his father to eyes knowing that he has screwed up that time. He didn't want to annoy his father but, he was tired of all that was happening in that moment. All that he wanted to do was to come back to his old home, where his old bedroom was and see his father more often "Didn't you heard me?" Antonio said grabbing him by his arm

"Yes sir" He whispered scared. Antonio released him and Diego went to kitchen with his head down in shame. He was trying to control his tears; that was the first time that his father spoke to him in that tone or grabbed him of his arm. He had never seen his father as annoyed as he was with him in that moment.

"Antonio" Her mother said "You shouldn't have done that. What is wrong with you?. You must go to the kitchen and speak with him immediately"

"Not now. I have to make a call" He took his phone and walked out of the house

"It is not their first discussion, right?" Gabby asked to Eva, who was sat on the couch with her head down. The teenager gave her just a single nod as an answer

"He misses dad" Eva said. Gabby encircled the shoulder of the teenager with her arm and got her closer to her "I miss him too" she said softly

"Everything is gonna be okay" Gabby kissed her in her forehead

"Why all the adults say the same? Nothing is gonna be fine if we continue living out of Chicago. Why mom had to move out of Chicago? Why not she moved to another neighborhood instead of where we are living now? Chicago is where our family and friends are. It's where we belong. We don't belong to that town in which we are living now"

"She thinks that she was doing what is right for you and your brother" Her abuela said

"That is not what we want"

"Have you spoken with your mother about that?" Her abuelo asked her

"She shuts us down every time that Diego or I ask her about when we are going to come back to Chicago"

"And, what about your father? Have you tried to explain you how do you feel?"

"He calls us only few times during the week. But, we don't speak about it because we don't have enough time. We only speak for a few minutes" She was crying loudly. However, as soon as she heard that the front door was opened, she dried her wet eyes.

"Is everything alright?" Antonio said looking to her daughter. He knelt in front of her and asked with a soft voice "you okay, sweetheart?"

"How do you dare to ask me that?" She said furious with her dad "You don't mind how we are. if it had been for you, we wouldn't have come to visit you"

"I heard enough of that bullshit for a day. Go and say your brother to get ready. We are leaving" Few minutes later both kids were walking to the front door ready to say good bye to everyone.

"Where are you going Antonio?" his mother asked "they have not open their presents yet"

"I don't give a damn if they have not opened their presents. I'm gonna drive them to the train station. I have agreed with their mother that she is going to pick up them there in half an hour"

"Antonio" Gabby said walking to his brother "You need to calm down"

"Don't say what I have to do!" he yelled to his sister

"Antonio" Matt, who until that moment had been in silence in one side of the room looking what was happening, walked to Gabby and stood near to her. He was sure that Antonio was just as annoyed as the kids were about what was happening.

"Go to the car" Antonio said to the kids.

"Antonio, what is going on?" Gabby asked "You never yelled to any of them before"

"Laura wants the divorce" it was the only thing that he said before walking to his SUV

"oh my God" Gabby knew that her brother and her sister-in law was having some problems after he was shot some months ago. However, she would have never imagined that their problems could have reached to the extreme of Laura wanting to have a divorce.

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Hours later, Gabby and Matt had came back to their apartment. The news about the divorce of her brother was still in Gabby's mind. She couldn't stop of thinking in how much her nephew and niece was suffering.

Matt walked to her and circled her waist with his arms "You okay?" Matt asked

"Yeah" she said "I can't imagine, my brother and Laura are getting a divorce"

"Me neither" He kissed her in her temple "Do you want that I prepared something for dinner?"

"Yeah, why not?"

Suddenly, there was a knock on the front door. They looked to each other surprised since they weren't waiting to anyone.

"I'll open the door" Matt walked to the door and looked through the peephole "Oh my God"

"Who it is?" Gabby said approaching to the door

"Diego and Eva" he opened the door and looked to the teenager and to the pre-teenager "What are you doing here?"

"Can we come in inside?" Diego said rubbing his arms with his hands "the hallway is quite cold"

"Yeah sure. Come on in, guys" He moved to one side and let that them could come inside of the warm apartment.

"What happened?" Gabby asked looking them with a worried expression on her face

"mom and dad were having a discussion on the train station and, we..." Diego said

"We walked out of the station" Eva finished the sentence of her brother

"Are you kidding me?" Gabby said annoyed "Are you telling me that you two came here by your own and your parents don't know anything?"

"Yeah" Diego said "We are tired of their arguments. They were yelling one to each other"

"I am going to give a call to Antonio" Matt said grabbing his mobile phone

"No" Eva and Diego yelled at the same time "Don't tell him where we are, please"

"He has to be really worried about you" he said. Then, Diego took out of his hand his iPhone "If you tell him where we are, we will get out before he arrives"

"okay, I will not call him" Diego returned him his phone

"But, if he shows up on the door we are not going to lay saying that you are not here"

"Alright"

"Can we spend the night here?" Eva asked smiling innocently

"Sure"

"Yay" Diego said happy and ran to the living room for watching some TV.

"Do you think that it is a good idea?" Matt asked her

"Yeah" she hugged Matt and continued saying "I think that my brother and Laura need to work out a few things"

I really hope that you liked this chapter and let me some reviews with your opinion.

In the next chapter, Antonio and Laura will try to find their kids while Matt and Gabby try to take care of them for a few hours. Will they make it up? or will they continue through the divorce process?

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