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“Who is it?” Chyrstal yelled at the door. There was no answer.

She looked through the peep hole and saw no one. She took a glass bottle out of the kitchen and walked back over to the door. She took a deep breath and opened it.        There stood Gabriel against the wall, jus out of sight from the peep hole.

“I figured if I said who it was, or stood where you could see me, you’d act like you weren’t home or something.” He moved in front of her. “You’ve been crying.” He said and wiped a stay tear from he face.    

    “Look Gabriel, I-“  He cut her off. “No. wait let me talk. I don’t want what happened between us, to be it. I want you to feel like you can be with me I want you to know I will take care of you and that I won’t hurt you. I know it’s a typical line and-“

 “Okay okay okay okay! Gabriel look, obviously, you’re not the giving up type. So come on in because I would feel safer with you here rite now.”

 “Ah yes Anthony. That’s also why I’m up here. Johnny called me,” He said walking through the door.

 “He called you?” she asked putting the bottle down. 

“Yea he knew I knew where you lived because of the night after the party. Remember I went to you job? It’s cause I was here talking to him. I gave him my number and he said he call me to kick it and what not. Anyways, I’m here to protect you from your potentially lethal ex.” He said smiling. 

“Huh. Yea. I see. Well yea welcome to my home I guess. It’s not much but, hey it’s all mine.” 

 “Wait, is he really lethal?” Gabriel asked concerned. 

“Yes. Literally. He…he kille-“  she choked back tears. They fell down her delicate cheeks and Gabriel grabbed her and pulled her into a sweet embrace. “Hey hey now baby girl, come here.” He said and gently rocked her. “What did this guy do to you?” he asked 

“He wasn’t always bad…” Chyrstal said. “He used to be so kind…” she closed her eyes and let the memories flood back.

 FLASHBACK

 It was the summer of freshman year. Saturday morning, Anthony was taking Chyrstal to meet his Mom and Brother.

“Anthony, where are you taking me?” Chyrstal giggled. 

“You’ll see.” He smiled at her and kissed her lips gently in the cab.

“Aren’t you used to this by now? It’s been about a year. Every date we’ve been on, it’s been surprise. By the way you look beautiful.” He said and pecked her lips again. 

She sighed contentally. “It never fails does it?”
“What are you talking about?” 

“Every time I grow impatient, you kiss me and it’s like my body whispers to me: wait. I don’t know if that makes sense, but yea.”

Anthony laughed. It was a deep captivating laugh. His green hazel eyes smiled.“Is that really how you feel?”

Chyrstal looked down at her hands “at times yes. I don’t know how to explain, but when you do the things you do...it just makes me…happy.”

The cab stopped.

“Come on babe.” He smiled and got out of the cab. He waited for her then closed the door after her. They walked onto the sidewalk. He immediately grabbed her by her waist and pulled her close. He whispered in her ear, “You do so much more for me.”

She smiled and grabbed his hand. They’re fingers entwined automatically.“So where are we goin now?” she asked. 

The door opened brining Chyrstal back. She was still in Gabriel’s arms as Johnny walked through the door. 

“Whoa. Am I interrupting something?” Johnny asked laughing and closing the door. 

“Well she was trying to tell me how Anthony wasn’t always a bad guy. Even though I don’t even know what he did to become a bad guy.” Gabriel said  

Chyrstal pulled out of Gabriel’s embrace and walked over to Johnny. “I…I…can’t.” she said looking up at him, tears welling up in her soft brown eyes.

 He hugged her, “why don’t you go lie down for a while, ill tell him. You’ve had a hard day.”

She nodded softy. Chyrstal went to her room and collapsed on the floor against her door. She listened. 

Johnny looked at Gabriel,“Man, do you really wana know?”

 “Yea. I want to know her, and this seams to be a big part of her life.” Johnny sighed. “Okay dude, you asked for it.” He motioned for them to move to the couch and they sat down.

 “I can’t tell it as well as she might, but at least I won’t cry. And it keeps her from some more pain.”

Johnny took a deep breath, “I don’t know how much she told you, but I guess I can jus give you what basically happened:

They started dating in the 8^th grade, I never approved because I knew about his brother. His brother was big trouble. He was a drug dealer and a really big gang member. He made a lot of money, and don’t get me wrong he always took care of his family, but if you messed with him, he’d get you jumped or worse killed. When Chyrstal and Anthony started dating, he would take her on all these extreme dates, from like, moonlit walks, to rock climbing, ice skating and dinners. It was insane, I heard about them, in full detail, all the time. I started to wonder where he’d get the money, but I never said anything to her. She used to tell me how sweet he was and stuff. Her mom absolutely adored him. But she never actually met him till after about a year.” 

“Wait her mom was alive then?” 

“Just wait. So then in freshman year, in the middle, I guess he changed, was meaner some how. She came to me sometimes, and would tell me what he said to her. He never hit her, but he’d break things, you know. Like at his house and stuff. Then one day, she went over to his house and caught him in the middle of a deal, he was pissed man.”

Gabriel had a look of confusion on his face.  Johnny saw it and took the time to explain how Chyrstal had grown up innocent, how she didn’t know much about gangs and drugs and such. 

Chyrstal was still listening. Then she some how slipped out of reality and back to that day when she found out the best person in her life was a gang member. 

FLASHBACK

 It was the middle of sophomore year. The second Saturday in January to be exact. It was raining Chyrstal got dropped off and knocked on the front door. Junior, Anthony’s brother, answered the door and called Anthony over.

“What is she doing here?” she heard his brother demand.

“I don’t know, ill take care of it.” Anthony walked over to her with an angry look on his face.

“Come on.” He pulled her around the house to the back door; he walked through and went to his room. Once they were in there he let her go, locked the door and glared at her.

 “What the hell are you doin here?” he asked furious.

“I just came to see you.” She said in a low voice.

“I told you. Not this weekend. I was busy.”

“I’m sorry. I forgot.” She looked at the floor and played with her hands.

Anthony sighed out of frustration. “You never just forget I told you da same damn thing last weekend nd you membered jus fine! What, were you checkin on me or somthin?”

She looked at him and laughed. “Oh please baby, don’t be so paranoid. Why? Is there somthin I need to be checkin on?”

“Well….nah, but…. jus…” he sighed again. He moved closer to her and grabbed her hands. “Baby girl, you know you are the most important thing in my life rite now, and if I ask you to stay away from my house for a day or two, I really need you to do that for me please! I don’t want to see you get hurt.”

“Anthony, how could I one, stay away form you, and two ever get hurt over here.”

He sighed again. It just seamed to be his thing for the day.

 “Okay, you know I don’t like lying to you, so ima just tell you and trust that you’ll still like me for who I am. Today, I was closing a drug deal that’s been out for the last few days, if I get it I’m gana get paid big time. But if something goes wrong, then things can get pretty bad.”    

There was a knock on the door and then it opened. A very pretty lady walked in. she had blue eyes and luscious gold and black hair. She looked about there age, maybe a year or two older. “Anthony babe, its time.”  He nodded and then the door shut.

Chyrstal looked and him and slowly started to back away babe? Why did she call him babe?  

“Anthony, who was that. Wait a drug deal? I don’t understand. Why?” she shook her head. “I don’t- I don’t think-“

she couldn’t even find words to express how scary and wierd this was for her.

“How long has this been goin on? I mean how long have you been into this stuff?” she questioned him.

“She’s jus a girl who, helps with the process. She’s jus one of many. She used to like me but nothing happened. I swear. And as for the how long, sense the beginning of ninth grade. Before I knew about it and stuff, because of my brother, but know I’m doin it. And I’m good at it. And I get paid.”

“No Anthony I can’t deal with this. I just can’t .not with girls like her being around here all the time. Not with the things that could happen. No. it’s over.” She ran to a near by store and called her mom to come get her. She cried. Her mom continually asked her what was wrong and she couldn’t say anything. Her phone rang. It was Anthony she ignored it. The whole day she got voice mails from him trying to explain. She never called him back. One of the last ones she got was around 5:00pm he sounded drunk still trying to explain himself. Then all of the calls stopped. 

A crash of glass out side of her room brought her back to reality. She pulled herself off the floor and opened the door.

“What’s wrong what happened? She asked walking in the living room.

“Nothin’ jus dropped a glass, sorry Chris.”

“O okays its fine.” She walked back into her room and took out her iPod. She turned it on and up full blast.

  As life goes on, I’m starting to lean more and more about responsibility and I realize that all I do is affecting the people around me. So I want to take this time out to apologize for things I’ve done, and things that haven’t occurred yet.- 

The song reminded her of Anthony so much. She took off her iPod and threw it on her bed. She wanted to stop thinking about him! But unsuccessfully, she went back into the past, think of the last day she saw him. It was so clear to her, as if it was yesterday. 

FLASHBACK 

 For the next 3 days she didn’t hear from him, he didn’t show up to school so she was quite happy. It was easier to deal with when she didn’t have to see him. But she still wasn’t talking. To anyone. Wednesday night, at 6:15pm there was a knock on her door. Then several rings of her doorbell. Her mom answered the door. It was Anthony. He seamed drunk.

“Heeeelllo msh.jooohnshum. How are you? Tthhatss wonderful. I’m here to see Chyrstal. Pleassse." 

 “Hey Anthony. I don’t know how much you’ve had to drink, or how you got here but you need to leave, she’s not in the mood to see you.” Ms. Johnson said to him 

Anger flashed all over Anthony’s face. “I thought yoou’d might say that.” He pulled out a gun and put it to her head. 

From the back of the house emerged Chyrstal, who had been listening and watching from her room. She had her hands up and spoke for the first time in days.“Mom, I love you. Remember that okay? Now trust me in what I’m doing, and don’t speak.”

“I love you too. Okay.”

“Anthony, it’s me. Chyrstal. Do you see me?” Anthony nodded. “

Okay now what do you want?” 

He looked at her and laughed “you of course. Why else would I be here?”

“Anthony your drunk.”

“No, I just faked that, I knew your mom would try to slowly explain things to me giving you time to come out of your room to see who it was at the door.”

“Then Anthony what are you doing? Put the gun away and we can talk.”

“One condition.”

“What is it Anthony?”

“You come back to me.”

Chyrstal nodded “of course. Anything. Now, put it down.”

“Promise me. Promise me you’ll come back.”

“Okay. I promise. Now give me my mom.”

Anthony lowered his gun and Chyrstal motioned for her mom to move out of the way. Her mom ran into the kitchen.

Anthony walked up to Chyrstal and kissed her. She let him. Her mom appeared out of the kitchen and hit Anthony in the back of the head with a pan. He fell the floor.

Chyrstal hugged her mom and said “okay, ill call his brother to come get him.”

*bang*

Anthony looked up from the floor at Chyrstal. Chyrstal looked at her mom, who collapsed on the floor.

“MOM! NO MOM!!” she fell to the floor beside her mom and grasped her hand.

“I’m so sorry. I love you.”

“I love you too *cough* sweetheart. *cough* take caaarrr-“ she said with her last breath.

Chyrstal started to sob.

“This is what happens babe. I would never hurt you, I love you. But other people, close to you. That’s different. Now come on. Let’s go.”

 Chyrstal looked up at him and glared. “Get away from me. Go away. far away, I never want to see your face or hear you voice or anything from you ever again. Stay away from me.”

Police sirens started to be heard in the background.

Anthony looked at her then looked toward the sirens. “I love you. Ill be back.” Then he disappeared.

The police came and tried to ask her question, but she wouldn’t talk. They eventually dropped the case. 

 Johnny knocked on her door, waking her from the horrible images that haunted her. “Hey, do you need anything?”

She looked at him sweetly. “No thanks, I’m good. Just going to go to sleep for a while.”

“Okay, well I’m here okay?”

“Okay. Thanks again.”

The door closed and she turned her iPod back on and went to sleep. 

Gabriel looked at Johnny. “So, why didn’t she have to stay with here dad?”

“Her aunt said she’d get her an apartment and check on her and stuff as long as her dad kept up with the expenses.”

“And that worked?”

“Yup.”

“So can I ask you something?’

“Sure.”

“Do you think I have a shot wit her? I mean man; I really like her a lot.”

“yea man, you’re a really cool guy and all, and I think she’d like you, but rite now, with  Anthony being back and what not, I don’t think it’s a good Idea if she gets close to anyone. not quite yet anyway.” 

Authors note: hello there, so tell me please, if you liked it, what should be fixed, and anything else you think is good for me to know. JJust f.y.i Gabriel in this book is based on someone I know in real life, he’s not really the guy in the story though, like he doesn’t have long hair, and he's not all God like && what ever, but the person’s name, and some things he does, where inspired by him. Also some of the things Anthony do before he turned all bad. But any ways, he just made an account here, so if you want to add him his is testriffic.com/user/raiderin619 he’s really nice, but I don’t know if he’s posted any of his stuff yet. So any who, 15 votes till the next post!!<3 J