Chapter Fourteen:

I watch as Gabriel pulls all my bags out of Angelica's trunk and listen as he mumbles curse words.

"Jesus Christ woman, how much did you spend?" He complains.

"What? It was all on sale." As he finally gathers all the bags, not allowing me to take a single one we start walking to his car that is parked all the way at the end of the street.

"I got you something actually." I tell him,

"That is?" I can tell he is excited to know, even though he is trying hard not to show it.

"A Nike hoodie." I saw it at Nike at I thought of him... mostly because it's grey and that's one of the only colours Gabriel wears and also he loves tracksuits but I'm thinking of getting him one of those for Christmas. I hate to admit it, but I love his bland style. I'm all about expressing myself but I like that he wears what he is most comfortable in. He usually wears grey or white shirts and sweaters with dark blue jeans or sweatpants... simple suits him. I see a smile form on his face.

"Thank you, baby. You didn't have to do that. I should be the one buying you things." He says to me.

"I don't need anything from you." I love to be spoiled, I'm not going to lie, but really I'm just happy to be with him, I don't need gifts. I look in front of me, and continue to listen to Gabriel cussing me out for shopping so much but I ignore him...he's just mad because he wasn't invited to go shopping. From a far distance I see a boy with blue hair,

"Daniel?!" I yell in shock,

"Oh my fucking God, Maddie is that you?" I run to my old friend's arms and hug him tight. Daniel use to be one of my best friends back in LA. We haven't talked much since I left but that is what usually happens between Daniel and I. We don't talk for a long periods of time, then talk again like we never stopped.

"So this is the town you moved to." He says to me when we finally let go of each other,

"Yeah... what are you even doing here?" Daniel... here... in a town far from the city? Wow. I mean, he always talked about how he will never leave, even if its for a day or two.

"I have a date."

"Jackson has been talking about you, asking how you've been." Oh Lord.

I almost forgot about him and what we had. He decided to break up with me before I left and at first, I was mad about it... angry but now I'm not, besides we weren't good together and I always felt like I was losing my best friend.

"How is he?" I find myself asking.

"Good... he's still not over you though... I told him he should text you."  He tells me... yeah like he will do that. He is over the relationship, I know that. He misses the friendship... I do too.

Gabriel starts to fake cough and I just remember that he is here... shit. Maybe I shouldn't be talking about a ex around him, especially a more recent one.

"Oh yes, David this is Gabriel, Gabriel this is David." I say introducing them to each other,

"I'm her boyfriend." Gabriel says like he is marking his territory. David takes one glimpse at him and then back down to me and doesn't even wave or give Gabriel any of his attention,

"Anyways, I've got to go before I'm late... i'll tell Jackson you say hi." I wave bye to him and as he walks away I can feel an argument coming.

"You really just stood there as he treated me like total shit." He says and I'm trying my best not to engage in this unnecessary fight.

"It wouldn't make a difference if I did, he wouldn't apologize." I cross my fingers in my mind hoping he wont drag this on.

"You didn't even fucking tell him that you had a boyfriend. You just let him continue on about Jarred."

"His name is Jackson and I think you knew that." Okay maybe I shouldn't have corrected him.

"I don't give a rats ass about what his name is, the fact is you let him mention him and had the audacity to ask how he is? Who gives a fuck how he is? I sure as hell don't!"

"Oh my fuck! We were friends before anything else and we didn't break up that long ago Gabriel... I still care for him." I tell him. He stays quiet until we approach his car, he slams the back door open, throwing my bags inside then slams it shut,

"If you still have feelings for him, were fucking through." What?!

"Gabriel... I don't have feelings for him anymore, don't say that shit. I only want to be with you." I reinsure him.

"Why didn't you tell him we are together? His voice becomes calmer and I grab his hand,

"I don't know... I'm sorry." I admit.

"Tell me."

"Tell you what?" I ask in confusion.

"Tell me that your mine." This shit again. I hate when he says that... it makes me sound like an object.

I decide to give in though,

"I'm yours."

"I don't deserve you." He tells me like he does every once and awhile and I always reply with,

"But you have me."

As soon as we got to Gabriel's place, he passed out and seems like he is still out cold. I don't know what he did today, but it must have been a lot for him. I've been laying here beside him, waiting for him to wake up but he is really passed out and I'm really thirsty.

I decide to get up and grab a drink from downstairs. I would ask Gabriel but there's no way I will be able to wake him up. I put on one Gabriel's sweaters and loose boxers and go downstairs to his kitchen.

I search his cabinets for a cup and when I finally do, I fill it up half way with water from the fridge. From behind me I hear a thump and I jump a bit, resulting in me spilling some of the water on the floor,

"Who the fuck are you?" A woman asks, she seems to have a thick French accent. I turn around to face this stranger and she is a whole mess. She has a uneven haircut and has cigarette burns all over her and also has a wine bottle in her hand.

"Oh... I know!" She says in excitement,

"You must be Gabriel's whore." What the actually fuck.

"Excuse me?" Who is this crackhead? And why is she calling me a whore? I'm so fucking confused.

"I'm Gabriel's mother, Grace." Her voice becomes more high pitched and she is back to being excited. She is obviously a drunk, but not a bad drunk. Just a drunk that wants to feel care free and good... kind of how I am when I get drunk but she obviously has been a drunk so long, that her drunk self is her personality now and she has some form of control over herself.

"Nice to meet you? I'm sorry for the mess I made." I try to stay polite so I don't give her a reason to insult me once again. "Don't apologize, water dries!" She laughs. Okay, maybe she is just crazy.

"I would go back upstairs before Gabriel's father gets home... he is a little-"

"He's not my Father." Gabriel approaches from behind her, stopping her from continuing whatever she was going to say about him.

"Oh shush, Gabriel dear." She puts her hand on her sons shoulder and he reacts by pushing her off him and grabbing the wine bottle from her hand.

"Hey!" She says to him but he ignores her, throwing out the bottle.

"Olivia wont be happy if she sees you drinking that shit, Mom! Neither will Mark." He tells her and none of those names sound familiar at all.

"I don't give a fuck..." she mumbles but it was very clear.

"Maddie go home." Gabriel tells me.

"What? Why?"

"Stop asking questions and grab your shit... I'll text you later."

"Don't even fucking bother." I tell him. I storm out of his kitchen and go back upstairs and do what he said, grab my shit. He can be so fucking annoying. Is there a reason he is being rude to me? No there isn't.

I should be the one that is mad since he doesn't tell me shit. I didn't know anything about his Mom or a girl named Olivia or a guy named Mark. Now I'm stuck, walking home at eight at night with a bunch of shopping bags and a pair of heels. Angelica is at a date so I cant fucking call her and I feel too embarrassed to tell Leandro to pick me up because... well it looks worse than it is.

I race out of his house and walk a bit before deciding to call Griffin... I know he is Gabriel's friend but he is the only person I really have right now. He tells me that Rose is with him but I don't even care. My house is around a thirty minute walk from Gabriel's and only a ten minute drive. I hear Griffin honk at me and I open the back door, putting in my bags first.

"Hey." Is all Griffin says and I say the same. Griffin is good at not asking questions and minding his own business, he's not noisy like me.

"What did he do now?" Rose says breaking the three minutes of silence... to my surprise.

"What do you care?"  The one time I talked to this chick, she was all defensive about Gabriel, blaming me for his behaviour choices.

"I don't care at all but your important to Griffin... and Gabriel so I guess I will try to care." Is that a nice comment I hear?

"He kicked me out." I give in and tell her,

"For?" Noisy bitch.

"I talked to his Mom and he started being stupid." I briefly explain to her and both her and Griffin laugh,

"What?"

"Rule number one if you want to be close to Gabriel, you never talk to his family unless your insane." Griffin says.

"Why?"

"Gabriel's family is complicated, even us that are close to him know that were just suppose to ignore their existence. He always gets mad when anyone talks to them so your not so special." Rose says in a nicer tone than usual.

"What's so bad about them that he doesn't want anyone to know about?" I ask them.

"We don't know... no one in our friend group really does." Griffin quietly says.

"Yeah, the same thing that happened to you happened to us. We see his Mom, we talk to her, she says some disturbing shit, Gabriel finds out and freaks."

"You've never seen anyone else? Just his mom?" Maybe I shouldn't be asking any more questions and I should respect Gabriel's privacy but I don't know anything about his family and I really haven't realized that until now.

"Only his sister, Olivia. Liam made out with her once and now we all lost the privilege to go over." Rose hits Griffin's leg, mouthing "Shut up." In response to him saying too much but really, I don't think he said enough. I never even knew he had a sister.  I always assumed he was a only child but now that makes sense about what he said about her In the kitchen, "Olivia wont be happy if she sees you drinking that shit, Mom! Neither will Mark." But who is Mark?