A Heart's Promise

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Chapter Six: Revelation

"Dove?" Abby softly heard the nickname Gavin had give her. He told her, he gave it to her, because she had a calming effect on him. Abby didn't quite understand what he meant by that, but she didn't ask him about, figuring she wouldn't get a straight answer out of him away. "What's wrong?" He asked as they laid in bed. It was their six month anniversary and Gavin had surprised Abby by taking her away for the week to a vacation resort.

Last night had been their first night together and it was everything Abby wanted it to be. Her body responded to Gavin's perfectly, but she couldn't help but think and compare him to Wally and she felt ashamed because of it. Abby hated herself, for what she had gotten herself into. She had been lying to Gavin, making him believe that she had been true. She wanted to tell him about Wally, but the way Wally had acted the last time she had seen him, which had been a month ago when he walked out on her, it looked as though they knew each other or at least Wally knew of Gavin. And she just didn't want to chance it before talking to Wally, though it was more difficult than it sounded.

After few hours after Wally had left Abby's house, she tried calling him, but he refused to pick up his phone. It had been like that the entire month and though Abby didn't want to admit it to herself it had been hard. She missed Wally, especially when Gavin away, but then again, according to Wally, that had been the problem. "Abigail, are you listening?" Gavin's voice once again reached Abby's ears.

"What?" She finally turned her body towards Gavin, giving him her full attention. "I'm sorry."

"Abigail, what's wrong?" Gavin asked her again sadly. "You don't seem happy."

Abby plastered a smile on her face as she wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him. "Of course I'm happy," she told him, "I'm with you."

Gavin returned her smile. "You're to good for me." He whispered as he stroked her cheek. "So what do you want to do today, because I'm all yours."

"You mean it?" She looked at him earnestly. "Really?"

"Of course." He told her as he leaned in and began kissing her cheek, her neck, and her shoulder. Abby closed her eyes and treasured being in Gavin's arms and as she did, all thoughts of Wally vanished from her thoughts. She felt Gavin's tender lips leave her shoulder and make contact with her the flesh of her breast. His bottom lip brushed over her skin and Abby shivered as she felt his warm, wet tongue run across her sinuous nipple.

She gave a soft giggle in her contentment as she opened her eyes and ran her fingers through his golden blonde hair. Gavin then pulled away with a playful smile on his face as he rest his head in his hand and propped himself up on his side. He then took his other hand and brought it to Abby's face. He started by running the back of his fingers across her forehead and then his hand cupped and caressed her cheek. They then lightly played with her soft, plump lips.

Abby own hand came up as she slightly parted her lips and guided a couple of Gavin's fingers into her mouth and gently began to seductively suck on them; indicating what she planned on doing to him later on. As his fingers left her mouth, Gavin left a damp trail passed her chin and down her jaw line. His hand then momentarily stopped at her breast as he played with it in his hand, before spreading his fingers and slowly working his way down her stomach.

Abby then slide her hand around his neck and pulled him to her before pressing her lips against his. She moaned slightly in delight as his hand slipped underneath the covers and Abby gradually parted her legs and awaited his much desired touch, but before it came Gavin's cell phone rung. He pulled his head away from her. "Shit." He said softly as he dropped his head and groaned in irritation. He then looked at Abby with pleading eyes as she opened hers.

Abby gave him a small forced smile. "Go ahead and answer it."

"Thank you, baby." He kissed her cheek before he turned around to the nightstand to answer the call. "Gavin here." He spoke. Abby sighed in disappointment, she was hoping that he would decide not to answer it on his own. But she wasn't going to let that get to her now she thought as she scooted over to Gavin and leaned her body against his back.

She placed her hand on his waist as she kissed his neck and back lovingly. She then wrapped her arm around his waist before skimming down his abs and passed his navel. Her fingers then gingerly wrapped themselves around the shaft of his cock.

She stroked him a few times before Gavin switched the phone from one ear to the other and then reached his hand down and gently pushed Abby's hand away. "Dove, not now," he whispered, "I'm on the phone."

Abby huffed softly before rolling back over. "Right. Sorry." She said to herself as she angrily she got out of bed and covered her naked body with her housecoat. She wasn't in the mood for another one of Gavin's cryptic phone calls anyway. She just couldn't understand, what was so important, that he had jump whenever his phone rung. She just wanted his time, but more than that really, she wanted his uninterrupted time.

Abby then picked up her purse and took it to the bathroom with her and closed the door. She laid her purse on the counter and turned on the water in the sink. She splashed some water on her face hoping to fully wake up. After brushing her teeth she reached for her purse and pulled out her cell. She dial Wally's cell number and put it to her ear. But it didn't ring, instead she only got a busy signal. So she waited a few minutes and tried again. "Pick up. Please, just pick up." She whispered to herself. She let it ring for a whole minute before ending the call.

Shelooked at herself in the mirror and shook her head. "What are you doing," she began, disgusted with herself, "allowing some stupid boy to occupy your thoughts? Sure, Gavin has his faults, but he is wonderful man. . . when he's around." She added sadly. "You don't need Wally." She said and then repeated to herself as she made a promise that she wouldn't call him again.

She decided if he didn't want to talk to her, she wasn't going to waste her time. She would just forget about him and pretend she never meet him, pretend she never betrayed Gavin. Then to make sure she kept her promise to herself, she deleted Wally's number, though she didn't know why, she knew it by heart. She then pushed back her messy black hair and walked out the bathroom only to find Gavin dressing in a hurry. "Gavin? What are you doing?"

Gavin stopped immediately and looked at Abby with concern written all over his face. "It's my cousin. He's in the hospital. I got get home."

"The hospital?" She said in surprise. "Of course, but what about his parents?" She asked hoping she didn't sound selfish, but she didn't want to give up her time with him.

"No." He shook his head sadly not looking at Abby. "Our moms died when we were younger. Train accident.My uncle lost it afterwards and he's in a home, in a padded room, back in Australia." He explained as he grew upset. "Baby, I can't lose my cousin. Him and Joey are all I have left and-"

"Don't say another word." She spoke gently as she walked over to him and turned him around. "Just get dress. I'll pack our things and check us out."

"Thank you, Dove." Gavin said as he placed both hands on either side of her face and kissed her forehead. "I'll make it up to you." Came his infamous promise as Abby could do nothing, but smile.

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It had been a long two hour drive as the couple road away from the vacation resort to the hospital. Neither one spoke as Gavin kept his eyes on the road and Abby stared out the window and watched the lovely summer day pass her by.

Soon they were walking hand and hand down the hospital hall on the first floor. "Gavin!" They heard a boy call out.

"Joey. Thank God." Gavin let go of Abby's hand and hugged the eleven year old boy. "How's W.B.?" He asked. Abby's brow furrowed, she had heard that name before, but she couldn't quite place where.

"They won't tell me anything other than he's been shot." Joey told him. "They did let me see him though. He was sleeping, but he's awake now and he won't tell me anything either. Frank and Andy are with him now." Then for the time Joey noticed Abby. "Who's she?" He asked.

Gavin turned around and signaled Abby over and retook her hand. "This is Abigail, my girlfriend."

"Hi." Abby looked down at the boy. "I'm sorry about your cousin."

"He's my brother." Joey corrected her.

"Sorry." Was all Abby managed to say.

"What room is he in?" Gavin asked his little cousin.

"Come on, I'll show you." And Joey lead them to his brother's hospital room. They soon came upon it and they entered. "W.B. are you still awake? Gavin's here now."

As Abby entered the room to see whom Joey was talking to, she nearly stopped breathing, because she was looking at was none other than Wally Beatles. "Gav-" Wally stopped before he began as he saw the girl hanging onto his cousin.

"What is it, W.B.?" Gavin grew concern when Wally stop after the first syllable of his name.

"Nothing." He said not taking his eyes off of Abby. "I'm just glad you're here."

"You two," Gavin looked up from his cousin to Frank and Andy and continued angrily, "I want to know what the hell happened."

"Look, we went there just as planned, but-" Began one.

"Not now, you moron!" Gavin yelled. "Get out. I'll deal with you two later." He instructed them and the two men obeyed. As Gavin looked back down at Wally, he noticed the way he was intensely looking at his girlfriend. Abby had not noticed as she watched Frank and Andy leave the room. There was a puzzled expression on her face.

Gavin cleared his throat and Wally's eyes, slightly wide, instantly shot to Gavin, who spoke. "I hate that everyone had to meet this way, but W.B. this is my girlfriend, Abigail, my Dove. And Abigail this is my cousin, W.B."

"It's nice to meet you. . . Abigail." Wally tired to leave out the sadness in his voice.

"Same here. . . W.B." Abby looked at the bandage that had been tightly wrapped around his stomach. "How did you get hurt?"

Three sets of eyes looked to Abby, then Wally and Joey looked to their cousin, who slightly shook his head before telling her. "It's not important, Dove."

Abby turned to Gavin and whispered. "You would think it would be, Gavin."

"Baby, not now, okay? I'll answer all your questions later." He told her. "But right now what I really need to do is find the doctor."

"I know where to find her." Joey spoke up.

"Good. I need to talk to her as soon as possible." Gavin then turned to Abby and cupped her cheek. "I'm going to go look for her. Can you keep W.B. company for me? I don't want him alone."

Abby looked at Wally from the corner of her eye. "No problem." She told him before he kissed her forehead.

He was about to leave with Joey when Wally called out to him. "Gavin, I need to tell you something."

Gavin walked over beside Wally. "What is it?" He asked.

"I wasn't with Frank and Andy. I wasn't shot this morning." He told them in a whisper so only Gavin could hear.

"What do you mean?" He asked.

"It was yesterday afternoon, after you left." Wally then looked angry. "Gavin, they went after my kids."

"At the community center?" Wally only nodded his head. "Wait. Why wasn't I called yesterday?"

"I told them not to call." He paused, chancing a glance at Abby. "I knew you were um- with your girl. I didn't want to bother you. But my wound opened back up early this morning and they called you anyway." He couldn't look his cousin in the eye. "I'm sorry." Wally found himself saying.

"Why are you the one sorry?" Gavin asked. "Look, I'll care of this, okay?" Wally once again only nodded his head. "Joey, come on let's go." He turned back around, but before heading out the door he stopped and gave Abby a kiss on the cheek. At the sight of it, Wally turned his head away. "I'll be back." Gavin told her.

"Alright." She responded. When they were gone, she looked to her estranged friend. "Are you okay, Wally?"

"Leave. I don't need nor want your company, so just leave." He said impassively, looking out the window.

"Wally, don't do this. We need to talk about what happened." She sounded distraught as she whispered. "My god, your his cousin."

"Thanks for reminding me." He snapped back, still not looking at her. "Now please, leave me alone." He said hoarsely.

"Wally." She called. "Wally, look at me, please." She came closer as she grew impatient, wanting at least him to pay attention to her. "I'm going to tell Gavin what happened." She blurted out the threat.

"What?" He immediately turned his head towards her. "No!"

"Now that got your damn attention, didn't it?" She rested her hands on her hips.

"What do you want, Abby?" He asked angrily.

"Well, actually," she began timidly as she pulled up a seat and sat beside the bed, "I wasn't playing before. I want to tell Gavin." Wally just looked at her as she continued talking. "I just don't want to keep walking around with this guilt inside of me anymore. It's why I've been trying to call you. Just to let you know what was going on, but then to find out about you guys. . ." she trailed off for a moment, "it kind of changes things, you know?" She held her stomach, feeling a little sick at the thought.

"Look Abby, I know how you feel, but Gavin can't know." He tried to explain. "He can't know how badly I've- we've messed up. I mean, you don't know how much he loves you." Gavin was always a strange one when it came to girls, this Wally knew. Girls Gavin causally dated he couldn't shut up about, but the ones he cared for, Wally usually didn't know about them until months into the relationship. It was only about a week after Wally had last seen Abby that Gavin had started to talk about his relationship with Abigail.

Abby looked down as she smiled and responded to Wally's last statement. "He loves me?"

"Yeah," he answered softly as he saw how happy that had made her, "a lot. So see, there's no reason to go and destroy each of our relationships with him. I mean, the only valid reason I can see us even contemplating that would be if you were-" he paused as he noticed the way she was holding herself and the worry look that filled her eyes as she looked back up at him. Wally then thought, if he hadn't been so numb from his medication, he would have felt his stomach drop. "You're pregnant aren't you?" He asked calmly as he thought frantically, I am so screwed.

"What?" Abby said in surprise. "No. God no." She shook her head and laughed nervously. She then said plainly. "But honestly, we got lucky there, considering."

"Yeah." Wally was relieved, he could only imagine how that conversation would have gone. Gavin, you know Abigail, the girl you told me you were falling in love with the other week? You do? Well, um- I should let you know that I hit that and now she's having my brat. But I hope we're still cool. Wally shuttered at the thought. "So you agree with me then?" He asked. "About not telling him?"

She shook her head. "I don't know. I still feel guilty and what if he finds out?"

"How would he?" He asked. "Look, I don't want to lie to Gavin anymore than you do, but we have to be in agreement on this. Neither one of us wants to lose him over something stupid."

"Stupid?" She looked at him bitterly. Why had that word affected her so? Maybe because no girl wanted to think as their first time as stupid. "So what we shared was stupid?" She asked angrily. "Because I didn't hear you complaining at the time."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold it right there," he began, "you know I didn't mean it like that. The sex was amazing, alright?" He couldn't help but smile, but as quickly as it appeared, it vanished, feeling even more ashamed. "But we both know it was a mistake."

Abby took a breath. "I'm sorry," she stated, "after pushing you away, it should have ended there."

"No," Wally shook his head, "I shouldn't have started it. I shouldn't have kissed you. It was wrong, no matter who you were seeing."

They both sat in silence for a moment, as if each were trapped within the memories of that moment. Abby then spoke. "So you want to pretend none of it happened?"

"Yeah," he confirmed, "we'll pretend like we just met for the first time today."

"I still feel bad about it."

Wally reached for her hand lacing his fingers with hers as he had done then. "It's going to work out." He told her softly. "Trust me."

"Alright." She finally nodded as she smiled. Wally then all of sudden cringed, his pain medication was finally starting to wear off and he shift uncomfortably. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I'll be fine." His voice was strain.

Abby stood up, knowing he was lying. "I'll be back. I'm going to go find Gavin and the doctor." She turned around to leave, but Wally still had a whole of her hand and stopped her for going any further.

"Whatever you do, don't let him hear you call me anything outside of W.B." Abby only nodded. "Abigail," he paused, "I'm serious."

"Alright Wal-- W.B. I understand." She said before Wally let go of her hand. As Abby walked towards the door she slightly frowned as her eyebrows drew together. Something seemed off as he had warned her. Abby then thought, if she hadn't known better, fear resided in his eyes, but that didn't make sense. Why would he fear Gavin? Abby thought as she exited from the hospital room.

Transmission Interrupted. . .

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