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Aubry walks in

Aubry looks up and sees Gabe. She blinks, surprised to see him here. And... he looks so different!

"...Gabe?" she calls out.

Aubry's face turns red, for no particular reason. "Um -- hi -- uh, I haven't seen you in a while, Gabe!" She manages an awkward smile, and then sees Jullian. "Who's the shrimp?" she asks curiously.

Aubry can't tear her eyes off Gabe. "Um -- yeah -- you look different..." She scratches her head a little, and then bites her tongue. She doesn't even know why she's getting tongue-tied, or why her face was so red.

Aubry backs away hurriedly, and trips over her own feet. She falls onto her butt and then lets out a yelp of pain. Feeling extremely embarrassed, she helps herself up, staring markedly at the ground. "Um... I don't know if my mom knows I'm out," she lies -- Gazzy was the one who told her to come here anyways. "It was nice to see you..."

She stops herself from saying, "you should come over some time" -- she's already feeling too funny around Gabe to have him come to her house.

Gabe slowly walked toward her then stopped kicking a rock a inch away from where he stood.
"It was...nice...seeing you too...."
Gabe looked down.
"my love..."

[This is so tacky neutral ]

Aubry pretends she didn't hear those last two words, and then she turns around and walks away, breaking into a run as soon as she's out of eyesight, her heart pounding in her throat.

Stopping for breath, she leans against a wall, and then she starts shaking. Gabe... changed alot... she keeps her head down the rest of the way home, concentrating on one step after another, as her legs are quivering so hard she needs to pay a lot of attention to walking straight.

Gabe ran as fast as he could and was panting very badly. He stopped to look up and smiled.
"At least it's the right one..."
Gabe looked up at Aubry's House thinking to himself.
I did live here once...shouldn't i remember where it is...
He walked toward a window and looked inside to see if Aubry was home yet.

Aubry yawns and looks out her window. Seeing Gabe, she almost faints in shock.

"Gabe?" she hisses frantically through the window, but it would be impossible for him to hear, due to the glass barrier. She looks down at her "All My Kittybombs" shirt -- the only thing she's wearing, and then yanks the shutters down, and collapses onto her bed.

Why was he following her? Momma had talked about boys who might "harass" her... she had said to kick them "low-down". Aubry realized she was breathing hard. quicky she pulled on her red skirt and just continued sitting there.

Aubry peeks through the curtains, and then pulls up the window. "What are you doing here?" She asks, her face a mask of shock. She remembers how Gabe tried to touch her earlier, and her face gets slightly pink.

Gabe twiddled his thumbs behind his back resisting the urge to grab and kiss her.
"Well..i wanted to see you."
He smerked.
"We haven't seen each other for a long time....besides the garden that is."

Aubry's face gets brick-red again, but she stares pointedly at the ground so Gabe won't notice. "Yeah well... you coulda called..."

He had touched her again! Aubry pulled away, for the second time, and shrugged at Gabe's question.

The noise sounded again, louder.

"Gabe... do you see a face?"

Aubry stands there, sort of terrified. Her blue eyes are slowly growing in size, and now about the same size as saucers. She keeps biting her tongue to keep herself from talking, and she leans out the window as far as she can.

And falls out.

"OW, ********!" She yells, as she hits the ground with an extra-loud thump, completely breaking the spell of silence that Gabe had been using to sneak towards the bushes.

"Oops," she says, sort of extra quietly.

Gabe shifted and then dorkily jumped infront of her and stood there in shock.
What am I? Some sort of DORK
Gabe thought to himself as he tryed to keep himself cool.

The man cackles insanely, and his arm flies about wildly, the gun pointing in every direction. The gun keeps seeming as if it's about to fly out of his hand every second, but he always manages to keep holding it.

"MONSTERS! MONSTERS! Goddamn MONSTERS leave me ALONE! Hired to paid to kill 'em! All gone! MONSTERS ALL GONE!" he adds as an afterthought, "bambam."

His finger, which up until this point had been stroking the trigger idly, suddenly jerks, involuntarily, freakishly, and pulls the trigger. It was a strange coincidence that the moment he pulled the trigger, the violently jerking gun had become steady, and was pointing straight at Gabe.

Aubry screams loudly and grabs Gabe's waist trying to squeeze herself as small as possible, so she won't be seeable to the madman. She's screaming and crying. "Make him go away!" she wails.

And then the shot is fired.

Gabe suddenly falls backwards very hard on her and Aubry grabs him tighter around the waist and holds him as tight as she can so that he doesn't fall. But Aubry's scrawny muscles can't support Gabe, and she collapses, with him on top of her.

The man blinks twice and leans in and then back.

"MONSTERS!" he screams, but now... a sort of half-hearted type of yell. As if he knows he's done. "Monsters gonna killya, gonnakillme, gottarunwhile we can! MONSTERS, there gonna GET YOU!!" He looks around in fits of paranoia and runs down the sidewalk. Accompanying the sound of pattering footsteps are the sound of multiple gunshots. Then there's the man's sudden yelp, and a weak cry of, "the monsters have got me!" And then a thud.

And no more gunshots echoed from down the road.

Aubry quickly scrambles out from under him massaging the leg which he fell on. She looks at Gabe and sees dark black blood seeping from his wound. "Are you all right?" she gasps, her voice breaking in mid-air, unusally high. She reaches out and grabs at the shirt which covers it and then pulls away quickly, grosed out by the clammy feel of blood.

She bites her lip and then leans in. "Thank you so much," she says, feeling extremely selfish. "It was my fault... he was aiming for me..." On the spur of the moment, she leans in and smashes her lips against his, meanwhile a rational part of her brain is just sitting there, staring at her, and wondering what she's doing.

Gabe was shocked with Aubry's actions but quickly got over it, the chance of actually kissing her without force was to great. He placed his hand at the back of her head and gently pushed her body closer to his, completely forgeting about his injury.

Aubry sits there, petrified, clutching onto Gabe as he kisses her mouth and then begins to kiss her face too. She's afraid to move, afraid that if she does she'll pass out, that's how dizzy she's feeling. She grabs his sweater/shirt/whatever, and allows him to hold onto her and press his lips on her. She's sort of scared, and every time he touches her a cold shiver runs through her. It seems as if he's trying to bite her, but holding back, and she's a little scared that he might bite her by accident.

Gabe pulls back iritated. He could tell That Aubry didn't care to "participate" in this moment.
He pushed himself up and leaned against the house wall looking down at the blood that had staind his shirt.
"I think i should just take care of this,...Aubry...This isn't the RIGHTEST time to be doing this..."
He stared into her confused eyes and slowly started walking the way he came limping.

Aubry watches him go, and finally finds the strength to go into her bedroom and collapse on her bed again.

Aubry is curledup onthe ground in his "Secret Area". The sounds of Gabe's footsteps awaken her, and she opens one eye.

Seeing Gabe, she moans and sits up, biting her tongue. He's the last person she wants to see now! Unsure of what to say, due to last night, she ventures a cocked eyebrow.

Aubry's eyes knit together at the unfairness of this question. "Whst we're you doing at my window last night?" she counters, instead of replying.

She slowly gets up, feeling sore from sitting on the ground. She realizes her AMK shirt is probably ruined forever with bloodstains as she looks down.

Aubry pouted. "That doesn't make sense. Why couldn't you have just knocked at my front door like a normal person? It's all your fault you were hurt, because youwere the one that brought me out of the stupid window anyways! If you had just come inside you'd be okay!"

Aubry shakes her hand in frustration. "No! He would've just walked down the street and shot someone else instead of you!" Then she pauses, and turns a furious red. "Anyways, you did... stuff... to me too! You thought you could just do whatever just because you saved my life!"

"Like what?" Aubry demands. "Anyways, how do you know I started anything! What if I just kissed you because I was grateful? i kiss my mom every day and she[ doesn't... er..."

She breaks off and starts again. "Maybe I didn't mean anything at all! You just got the wrong idea, okay! I didn't... I wasn't... I HATE YOU!"

Aubry gets pissed off at Gabe assuming everything. She opens her mouth and SCREAMS as loud as she can and kicks the wall she's standing next. "You don't know me, Gabe! YOU think you can just tell me everything and pretend it's true I HATE YOU I HATE YOU!" She thinks about kicking him but manages to at least keep that impulse under control.

"WHAT?!" She screams, balling her fists as if preparing for a fight.

Aubry shoves him rudely and furiously screms after him exactly what her mom had told her to say--

"I'M GONNA SUE YOU FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT! I'M GONNA SHOOT YOU! THE POLICE ARE GONNA GET YOU! YOU'RE GONNA GO TO JAIL! I HATE YOU!!" She adds, at the top of her lungs. Shading her eyes with her hands, she sees Gabe turn around, grin, and make a gun out of his fingers and "shoot" it cheesily, almost sarcastically. Then he waves and leaves.

Aubry's fuming. She stalks out of the "Secret Area" like a cat, and kicks up tufts of grass and rocks as she goes.

Aubry wakes up at some noise, coming from the direction of the bamboo grove. She groans, sitting up from her tree, and looks down to see who it is.

Gabe.

She shivers for a second, contemplating whether she should just stay up in the tree until he goes away... eh... her legs were asleep, and she felt horribly cramped.

Ehhhh.

Who really cared?, She finally decided. It wasn't like she was going to hide from Gabe just because of... one.. teeny... moment...

She finally just decides it doesn't really matter. She'll just leave. Gabe will see her walk away.. it isn't like he'll try to stop her... yeah... she'll just walk home. Or something.

She jumps down from the tree she's sitting in, and lands a few yards away from Gabe. She just stands there for a few seconds, awkwardly, and then raises her eyebrows at him, unable to tear her eyes away, wondering why her feet don't seem to be able to walk away. Just... move! She thinks. Don't stand there like an idiot!

Aubry's mouth moves a few times noiselessly, before a squeak of a word finally pops out. "G-Gabe!" She says, in a much higher pitch then she meant it too.

She flinches at her own stupidity, trying to regain her calm, trying to act normal. Just walk away, she tells herself, but she can't. "S-so," she finally manages. Just "so".

Don't say anything, if you're going to say it like that!, she thinks furiously, her face blushing crimson.

Aubry feels her heart stop as Gabe approaches. "So..." she repeats, again, like a broken record. Then she shakes herself mentally. "How.. are you, Gabe?"

Aubry stares at him. "I'm good." She says automatically.

And then she blurts out, almost accusingly, "what are you doing here?"

Aubry shrugs. "I fell asleep up there," she says bluntly, and then rolls her eyes.

"Anyways. This is not a private place. I can come if I want to." She suddenly sighs and stares at Gabe with almost a pleading look on her face. "Gabe... is something wrong... with us?"

Aubry clenched her fists. "********, Gabe, I'm actually trying to talk here!" She just shakes her head. "I mean, when I'm around you, I get a funny feeling, and I don't get that funny feeling around other people. And I feel like I want to run away, but I can't, because you're just so kyoo--"

She suddenly breaks off, clamping her hands over her mouth. "I mean-- I just-- I don't know. Words just fall out of my mouth. I didn't mean it!" She shakes her head and suddenly puts her hands over her eyes. "I mean, I feel so confused and-- it's-- so-- strange--"

She just stops and rubs her eyes, trying to figure out what she's saying.

Aubry stares into his eyes and shakes her head. "I mean... it's just that... I don't like it when you touch me!" She suddenly snaps, totally off subject, and wrenches her hands away from Gabe. Then she twitches a little. "But... not to be rude... it's... mom said that I was a teenager now, and it's just something that will happen... and not to take it seriously..."

She looks down now, ashamed.

"But... I think about it... and it seems so serious. I mean, I like you... or I did? Or something. But you saved my life at my house last month... and I never even thanked you!" She frowns. "But... well... thank you for then? Or something..."

Aubry, predictably, grabs Gabe. "Wait, where are you going?! I'm not done talking to you!" she says, annnoyed. "I thought you said you'd listen!"

"I'M TRYING TO BUT EVERYTIME I TRY..."
Gabe stopped from yelling.
"I can't listen to you without thinking...about just..."
Gabe leaned in to kiss Aubry...sort of cautiously.

Aubry pauses, trying not to, but something else inside her pushes her forward, so that suddenly she's smashing her lips up against Gabe's, trying to gasp, but unable to because of the current placement of her mouth.

Her entire body goes into shock, but somehow the something inside her still seems to be up and running, now directing the show. She clings onto Gabe's torso, wanting to stop, but not wanting to at the same way.

Aubry barely notices Gabe's hands, but she pulls away for a second, out of breath, her face slightly flushed.

"That was odd..." she says, trying to speak rationally. Then she gives a sort of crazy grin and leans in again.

Aubry pauses, and then pulls herself away from Gabe. "Gabe... I think we should stop now."

Gabe's lips were in a frozen position.
"Huh...? St...Stop...why?"
His hands were still around her.
Great...i just keep getting farther and farther and we just..have to stop everytime.

"I think I should go," Aubry says, prying Gabe's hands off her and turning around.

Aubry turns around and gives him a wide, mischevious grin, one that suggests she just played a huge practical joke on Gabe, wondering why suddenly she's so happy, and shrugs.

"I dunno. 'Bye!" she says cheerfully, waves, and walks off, patting her hair down.