A/N I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING! Thank you to Bluebell140 for the idea of having the gang come over to visit Gabriella.

Gabriella was sitting on her bed doing some homework when she stopped and sighed. It had been three months since she last spoke to her brother and he still hadn't come back to her. Suddenly her cell phone rang. She grabbed it and answered it.

"Hello?"

"Hello Gabriella." Gabriel said.

"Gabe?"

He hardly ever called her by her full name.

"Yes, I'm calling to let you know that I will not be come back home."

"What? Why?"

"I found a new girl and I just don't care about you anymore. I didn't want you anyway. I only put up with you because I had to, but since mom and dad stopped caring so did I. I just called to let you know."

"Bu-bu-but Gabe."

"No, goodbye Gabriella. I don't love you anymore."

"NO! GABE! NO!"

"GABRIELLA WAKE UP!"

"GABRIEL! GABRIEL!"

"GABRIELLA, GABRIELLA WAKE UP!"

Gabriella shot up in bed gasping for air as tears streamed down her cheeks. "Gabriel!" she cried.

Troy pulled her into a hug. "Shhh baby, shhh it was a bad dream. It was just a bad dream."

Troy rubbed her back as she cried into his shoulder.

"Gabriel, Gabriel please don't hate me please. I love you please." Gabriella cried.

"Gabriel does love you baby. He does I promise you he does."

"No, he said he didn't. He got a new girlfriend and he doesn't love me anymore."

Troy looked at the others "Call Gabriel." He mouthed to them.

Chad took out his cell phone and called Gabe's number. Chad sighed and hung up. "Voicemail." He mouth back.

"Baby it was just a nightmare. Gabe loves you. He loves you very much." Troy said.

Gabriella just cried into him.

Then something caught Chad's eye on the bookshelf. He walked over to it and picked it up. He smiled. He went back over to the bed.

"You want prove that your brother loves you Gabster just look at this." Chad said handing her a photo album. Gabriella took it and opened it to the first page. Gabriella let out a small chuckle as she saw the picture of both her and Gabriel on the floor in the living sitting in a pile of popcorn with guilty faces.

"You remember this?" Chad asked.

Gabriella nodded.

"Gabriel started to tickle you and you knocked over the bowl of popcorn." Chad said.

Gabriella nodded again.

"He ended up taking all the blame too." Chad went on.

"He spent the rest of that night picking popcorn out of the rug." Gabriella finished for him.

Gabriella turned the page and giggled. Gabriel was standing there soaking wet with Gabriella behind him and huge grin on her face and an empty cooler in her hands.

"Gabriel had scored the winning point in that game and started to complain he was hot so you took the cooler and dumped it all over him." Troy laughed.

Gabriella nodded giggling slightly.

"Hey look at this one Gabriella." Chad said pointing to another picture on the page.

Gabriella looked and covered her face with her hands shaking her head. Troy laughed and the others joined it. It was a Halloween and Gabriella was a four year old clown but that was only because she decided to give herself a make-over using permanent makers. Then she had a huge orange wing and a brought red round nose.

"Stop laughing it's not funny." Gabriella groaned.

"It's hysterical ." Chad left.

"Look who is standing next to you." Troy said.

"Yeah you were so upset that you couldn't be a princess so Gabriel dressed up as a clown too."

Gabriella peeked at the picture and broke out into laughter. Troy turned the page and quickly covered it with his hands. "What?" Gabriella asked.

"Nothing." He said quickly.

Chad removed his hands and burst into hysterical laughter. It was a picture of Troy sleeping soundly but cuddled up next to a stuffed basketball.

Gabriella joined Chad and the other in laughing hysterically. She was having so much fun she forgot all about her nightmare or all the bad stuff that was going on, even about her injuries. Troy turned the page again and this time it was his turn to bust into hysterics. Gabriella took one look at the picture and broke out into laughter once more. Chad looked at the picture and his face went white. It was a picture of him and half of his hair was cut off and Gabriella stood next to him hold some of Chad's hair in one hand and a pair of scissors in other with a huge smile on her face.

"I can't believe you trusted a 9 year old to cut your hair." Gabriella laughed.

"It was supposed to be pretend." Chad said.

"Yeah but then Gabriel was making me laugh and I just well…I missed the air."

"Yeah thanks to you I had to cut it really short."

Gabriella just giggled at him. "Sorry."

"Yeah, sure you are."

They turned the page and the only one to laugh this time was Gabriella. It was a picture of all the guys covered in cake. Gabriella standing in front of them smiling looking beautiful in a princess dress.

"Oh come on that was really funny." Gabriella said.

"For you." Chad said.

"How did that even happen?" Zeke asked.

"Someone tricked us." Chad said eyeing Gabriella making her laugh even harder.

"I didn't trick you. You fell." Gabriella laughed.

"It was Gabriella's birthday and we were all playing basketball and she wanted us to play dollies or something with her and we said no so the ball rolled over to her and she grabbed it and took off running. We chased after her but she spilled her drink and didn't bother to tell us so we all slipped and face planted her cake." Troy explained.

"It was my birthday and you guys ignored me I had to do something."

The guys just laughed shaking their heads at her. They turned the next page and the guys laughed. Gabriella looked confused. She was sitting on the floor with a confused look on her face Gabriel was standing next to her laughing.

"What was this?" she asked.

"Gabriel was going to play fight with you so we got it all set up and you just sat there looking lost and confused and we were yelling at you saying get him, get him but you just looked at us like we were crazy." Troy told her.

"How old was I?"

"Two maybe three."

"That would explain it what else is in here?" she turned the page and looked even more confused. Her brother had her pinned to the floor and he was on top of his face buried in her crook of her neck and her mouth was wide open and her eyes were squeezed shut.

"What is Gabe doing to me?" Gabriella asked.

The guys just laughed.

"What?" Gabriella asked.

"You were throwing a fit because you wanted raspberries, like the kind you eat but we didn't have any so Gabe decided to pin you down and give you raspberries , the tickling kind and you just screamed in laughing. That's why your mouth is open you were screaming." Troy told her.

They turned the page and Gabriel had a black and blue eye.

"What happen?" Gabriella asked.

"He started to give you raspberries on your feet and you went nuts and kicked him in the face." Troy answered.

"Was he mad at me?" Gabriella asked looking down at her hands.

"No, not at all." Troy told her.

"Hey look at this." Chad said quickly changing the subject.

Gabriella looked back up and laughed Gabriel was on his back with his hands and feet in the air Gabriella was laying on his feet as he held her hands.

"I remember this one. I wanted to fly. Gabriel told me this was the only way I'd be able to fly."

They guys laughed. "You laughed so hard you almost peed on him." Chad laughed.

Gabriella just giggled. She turned the page again and laughed when she saw her and Gabriel covered in flour and eggs.

"You two were cooking for the first time and you ended up making such a mess." Troy laughed.

"I remember that. My mom didn't get mad; she found it so funny…much to my father's dismay." Gabriella muttered. "I guess he was always kind of harsh but…but he didn't have hit me."

"Hey let's keep looking." Chad said.

"I don't want to look anymore."

Troy took a peek at the next picture. "Please, this was is really funny and I want to know the story behind it. Please?"

Gabriella nodded and turned to page. Gabriella burst into laughter. The next picture was of Gabriel dressed as a girl. The guys burst into hysterical laughter.

"Ok what's the story?" Chad asked.

"We made a bet. He bet me he could make me laugh just by looking at me. Loser had to dress up as the other gender for a whole day and guess who won." Gabriella giggled. "It was really funny."

Troy laughed and turned the page, they were getting close to the end of the book and the pictures were becoming more recent. Gabriella was faced down on the ground and Gabriel was sitting next to her crying into his hands. "What's this?" Troy asked.

"Gabriel was tickling face down like that and I was asking, begging him to stop but he wouldn't so I stopped laughing and stop breathing…as hard as it was….and he got off me but I stayed still. He started to cry because he thought he killed me." Gabriella giggled.

The guys laughed, "that's really funny Brie." Troy said.

Giggling Gabriella turned the page to the last picture. Her tears of laughter and joy suddenly turned into tears of sorrow and pain. She grabbed the book and threw it hard at the wall and cried.

"Whoa, baby? Hey, what was that about?" Troy asked.

Gabriella just cried into him. Just one picture had managed to bring back all the pain and fears.

"The picture was taken last Christmas. It was of all of us. We were so happy and everyone loved me! Now we are all apart and everyone hates me." Gabriella cried.

"Baby not one hates you. Your father is a liar, no one hates you. You are so, so, so loved by lots of people."

"If he loved me he wouldn't have hit me. If he loved me he would have touched me, if mom had loved me she never would have left with him and if Gabriel really loved he'd be here by now!"

"Gabriella your brother and mother do love you. They had no idea your father was going to hurt you.'

'Yes they did! They di…OW!" Gabriella cried. She wrapped her arms around her ribs. Troy pulled her into his arms. "Shhhh baby girl easy, shhhhh. It's ok, everything is ok. Shhh." Troy started to rock her back and forth until she calmed down. "Gabriella, we talked about this last night. I love you, I already told you that. I love you and I always will. Don't ever, ever, ever feel like you aren't loved because you are. The only reason Gabe isn't here right now is because of a stupid storm. Once that passes he will be here I promise."

"I miss him so much Troy I miss my brother."

"I know you do sweetie and I promise you he will be here soon."

Gabriella sniffed and cuddled into him. "Troy my ribs are hurting."

"Let's get you back home. You can take some medicine and lay down."

He lifted her up and they all walked back to the house. When they got home someone was standing there talking to Lucille and Jack.

"What's going on?" Troy asked.

"Nothing sweetie just talk about Greg's trial." Lucille said softly.

"Will I have to testify?" Gabriella asked from Troy's shoulder.

"Yes, sweetie. I'm sorry but you will."

"I don't want to."

"I know baby girl and if there was something I could do to stop it I would."

Gabriella started to cry. How could a day that started out so good end so badly? How would she be able to face her father without Gabriel there to help her?

A/N next chapter Gabriella and Troy go on their first date and the gang has some fun at the park. Thanks again to Bluebell140 for the idea of having the gang come over to visit Gabriella.