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Closer

Chapter 20

By Thetruemeaningoflove

This is from no-one's point of view so kind of like a narrator.

'Babe what's wrong?' Troy had to think before he answered the question he knew what was wrong but he didn't know how to put it in words.

When Troy didn't answer, Gabi knew that if she didn't get it out of him soon then she would never get it out of him and it would just keep eating away at him until he eventually blow up. So she kept on asking him. 'Honey you need to tell me what's otherwise I'm gonna start worrying about you and then like you said I won't be able get let out soon. And I know that's not what you want.'

Eventually Troy lifted his head up, when Gabriella looked over him the only sign that said he had been crying was his blood shot eyes but apart from that he looked so scared and vulnerable but she didn't understand why everything was fine now. The way her boyfriend was looking at her in that moment it time made her heart break in two.

'While you were in here' Troy began 'While you were in here I've been the one that has been going along saying oh yeah you know Brie she'll wake up when she wants just being stubborn' a small smile crept on his face while Gabi let out a little giggle 'and as soon as I said that everyone would stop worrying for a little while and then when they weren't so sure they would come and ask me again and I would say the same. Then I started to promise people things that I wasn't sure whether I could keep at first it was about you being a God Mother and then I promised Josh that you would wake up before his birthday party so that you could come' When Troy let out a sigh Gabriella knew that the next thing he said wouldn't be a positive as what he had said before. 'But the whole time there was something that was scared because at times I thought that you were gonna die I thought that I was gonna lose my best friend and that meant that I would never be able to wish you a happy 18th birthday or that I wouldn't be there when you Graduated from Collage. There would be no-one there when I was having a really bad day to make it all feel better again, I would be able to see the face you pull when you're trying to study but I'm putting you off or the spark that comes in your eye when you haven't seen me in a couple of days and I surprise you by walking in your room. I was scared that I was never gonna hear you giggle and feel your hug or hear you call me Honey.' Troy paused and wiped the tears that were falling down the latina's cheeks and then smiled at his thought 'And then when you had been unconscious for longer, I wanted you to wake up so that I could hear you voice I didn't care if you turned into some mad woman, or whether you would hardly speak I just need a sign that you okay I didn't care if you woke up and when you saw me started screaming at me for not protecting you because I really I hadn't otherwise you would be the one in a hospital bed he would.'

When he had finished it felt like a weight that been lifted off his shoulders but that mean he didn't feel a little guilty, at first he didn't even realize that he thought he had been a little to blame but as he started to open up to his girlfriend he just kept on talking, saying everything he had bottled up even things that he hadn't know he had kept to himself.

When he felt Gabriella's hand on his cheek he looked up at her and saw her smiling at him she still had watery eyes but she wasn't crying amore which made him feel a little better. 'Honey...' she giggled using the mane that he had wanted him to hear 'I can promise you that I don't blame any of this on you, you weren't to know that he was gonna come and push me over or that I was gonna walk in on him doing something he shouldn't, you simply wanted to get introduced properly and that is fine I don't blame you because if you weren't there then I could have just been left but you came over and helped me so no matter what anyone else says none of this was your fault okay'

A small smile crept onto Troy's face all this time he had been worrying and it was nice to know that he wasn't blamed for anything that had happened to Gabi, if anything she was grateful.

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Troy was sitting in Gabriella's bed as she was walking around getting ready to leave the room that she had been in for a week. He couldn't help but chuckle as he watched her run around trying to get all of her things together as quickly as possible. It hadn't been 5 minutes ago that the doctor came in to give his girlfriend back her results, the couple breathed a sigh of relief when they were told that Gabriella was completely healthy and she was free to leave as soon as she had signed her release forms, but she had to stay with at home with someone for a week in case they had missed something.

That was when she began running around to collect all of the items that had made its way into her room since she had been there. Gabriella wasn't even changed out of her pyjama's well that's what she called them it was Troy's grey sweat pants that were really big on her, she had rolled them over at the waist until they were the right size but they were way to big length wise as she skidded around with that she but a simple black tank top. Although she wouldn't agree Troy thought that she looked beautiful walking around in his cloths.

'Babe are you gonna get changed or you gonna stay like that?' Troy had directed the question to Brie and as he said babe a little smile appeared on her face but she just stopped what she was ding and walked over to her boyfriend and placing a delicate kiss on his lips.

'Naa I'm just gonna stay in these I mean I'm only gonna go back and get in bed anyways so there's no point' Troy smiled at her reply and pulled her onto his lap, a squeal escaped her mouth followed by a giggle then finally a sigh as her felt troy nuzzle his face into her hair.

'Kay, are you ready then?' The blue eyed boy whispered into her ear making her giggle yet again although his time he chuckled at her. Gabriella nodded her head and jumped off him and picked up the bag that contained all of her stuff, but soon found that it was taken off her as Troy grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the hospital room that she had been using.

They walked over to the reception desk, filling in the release forms and signing where needed once the last signature was in place she smiled and handed the papers back in. Finally she thought she didn't really like hospitals and finally getting released had put her in a good mood as she skipped over to where Troy was standing he chuckled and then shook his head, then let himself get dragged away by this best friend and girlfriend.

Once they finally reached Troy's car, Troy opened the door for Gabriella and she placed a kiss on his cheek as a thank you as she got in, Troy then walked round to the driver's side and on the way dropping off the bag that he had carried for his love.

Once he had started the engine he looked over and smiled 'Troooy?' Gabriella dragged it out and he knew that she wanted something 'Yessss?' he replied in the same way Gabi just giggled and looked at him.

'Can I go to your house?' she asked quietly Troy chuckled and nodded his head 'Sure anything for you babe'

She smiled 'Does that mean we can so to star bucks now?' He chuckled again and took the next left leading to the coffee house.

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