Summerdays….*Chapter 7*

A few hours later, back at Gabbie’s house:

Gabbie just got in the door, and after a five hour lunch and walk around town with Jared, she’s ready for a hot bath, and bed. She sees that there’s a light on in the living room, so she goes in there and is just about to turn it off where out of nowhere Shannon, who’s been laying on the sofa without Gabbie taking any notice of him even being there, says, “Have fun in battle?” Gabbie gives a jump and turns around in a flash. “Oh shit Shan! You sacred the hell out of me!” “Nice to see you too, yes my day went well, thanks for asking” he’s being a smartass. “Out shut up, I should beat you up for scaring me” “Haha well sorry about that love, come and sit here and I’ll make it up to you” Gabbie smiles and sits next to Shannon, he then raps his arms around her and pulls her close to him, and the he gives her a kiss on the head. “Ok, forgiven” says Gabbie leaning back on Shannon enjoying his touch. “Good, now, how’d ya do with emo boy?” “Oh that. Well not so bad really. House needs to be cleaned like you can’t even think on how dusty it is, and it needs more light in there. After we had our little talk he said he wants to clean up, and I told him that I’ll help him when he’s ready” “Oh that’s cool, atleast he wants to start turning his life around, good job! So how’d ya do it?” “Well we talked about him and well still can’t get out of him on way he’s been doing his alien crap but he did say he feels like shit for making Jess leave him and him not trying to make things right between them, and he felt that he was holding her back on things she wanted to do” “Oh that’s not true” says Shannon shaking his head, “She said it herself she wouldn’t go to school but do it at home so she could be with him” “I know, silly thing to think huh?” “Yeah it is, and shut up, I love you but I don’t feel like dealing with you about that right now ok?” “Whatever. Anyways, so yeah I told him that as much as it sucks he has to move on and he doesn’t have to be alone doing it, I said that I would be there for him and all” “Oh that’s so sweet of you! So he’s moving on?” “Hopefully yes, be I want to wait and see first if he does anything or not” “Ok, sounds good. Oh forgot to tell ya the you have a lot of calls” “Really, from who?” “Um, Jared, Jessica, and don’t worry, when she asked where you were I just said you want out for a bit and didn’t say you were with Jared, just to avoid anything for you” “Ha thanks an ton!” “No prob.So anyway oh and Tomo, Hannah and Dee” “Wow that’s a lot” “Yeah, Dee and Jess and Hannah might be asleep already but Tomo might be still up and I know that Jared is, since sleep to him seems like a forbidden thing” “Haha! Ok let me try Dee first, I’ll call her cell so I don’t wake anyone up if their asleep” she calls Dee, and gets her voicemail. “As I thought” says Shannon when Gabbie leaves a message and hangs up. “Yeah well dealing with her job and then dealing with the baby and little Bayly, it’s a hard job” “Haha yeah I guess so” So then Gabbie call’s Jessica and she’s up. “Hey where have ya been?!” asks Jessica when she hears Gabbie’s voice. “Out, needed to do a few things” “Oh cool! So anyways, just wanted to call and say thank you so much for lunch I really had a great time!” “Oh cool glad to hear it!” “Yeah, oh and did you talk to Hannah yet? I know she called you but I don’t know if you talked to her” “Yeah she called but I didn’t get it” “Oh ok well she called asking you if you and Shannon would like to go to the zoo tomorrow with us!” “Oh, um, hold on a sec” Gabbie covers the phone for a sec and says to Shannon, “Jessica, Hannah and Dee asked if we want to go to the zoo tomorrow with them, sound good?” “Sure awesome!” “Ok!” Gabbie gets back on the phone, “Ok it’s a go” “Oh cool! Ok, we’re gonna pick you guys up around noon sound good?” “Hold on, noon good Shan?!” “Sounds good to me!” answers Shannon. “Sounds good” “Ok well gonna let you go now, it’s late and you gotta be tired so goodnight!” “Night night” They hang up, then Gabbie calls Hannah, and gets her voicemail. She laves a message and then calls Tomo, and gets his voicemail. “Jeez is anyone up?!” says Gabbie shaking her head after leaving a message to Tomo. “It isn’t late, maybe there doing stuff instead of sleeping. Like we do ya know?” says Shannon. “Yeah I guess, let me call Jared and then, I donno want to watch a movie?” “Sure!” “Cool go pick out what you want to watch” Shannon goes over to the DVD shelf and picks though the tons of movies Gabbie has. Gabbie calls Jared and of course he picks up. “Hey what’s up!?” he says. “Nothing much, got in awhile ago. You?” “Nothing much either. Listen, I just called to thank you for helping and all” “Hey no prob that’s what I’m here for” “I know. I had a really great time today, haven’t been out in awhile so it felt good to get out ya know?” “Yeah I know. Glad you had fun” “Yep so anyway I was thinking, maybe do that major clean up thing at my house…next Friday?” “ Sounds good to me. What time?” “Around noon?” “Ok sounds good” “Ok! I hear your tired so I’m gonna let you go” “Ok then. Goodnight” “Goodnight” they hang up and the Gabbie sits on the sofa taking a deep sigh. “You ok honey?” says Shannon walking over to her and putting his arms around her. “Yeah I’m ok, just tired” “Oh well you want to skip the movie and go to bed” ‘Oh no it’s ok we can watch the movie” “Hum, how about we watch it upstairs in bed, just in case you fall asleep?” “Um ok whatever you want. So what are we watching?”

A few hours later:

Gabbie and Shannon just got to sleep. Gabbie’s almost in a sound sleep when her cell suddenly rings. She gets up with a grr and picks it up to see who it is. “What now?!”