So, you all asked for it and here it is, the sequel to All We Have is Each Other, enjoy!

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Ebonnie and Oscar Bolton thrashed their legs around, as their Mum strapped them into their pushchair.

"Are you trying to kick me, you little monkeys?" Gabriella Bolton asked, as she tickled her children's feet, while finishing strapping them in, then got up to get her other daughter out of the car.

Yep, Gabriella had been a Bolton for the last nine years of her life, and a Mum for the last six, and she wouldn't change any of it for the world.

"Anna honey, come on, we're here, you need to wake up so we can go and see Daddy." Anna Bolton slowly started to wake up in her car seat, Gabriella had only picked her up from school twenty minutes ago, but she had already fallen asleep, something wasn't right.

"We here to see Daddy?" Anna asked, as she rubbed the sleep from her eyes.

"Yeah sweetie, come on, out you get." Gabriella stepped back and opened the door all the way so Anna could climb out and greet her brother and sister.

"Hey guys, how you doing?" Her seven month old twin siblings simply looked at her, before continuing to thrash their legs around. They had just started to crawl, and when they weren't able to do so, they weren't very happy about it, and would thrash their legs in an attempt to get their way, it never worked.

Gabriella had graduated from the University of Albuquerque as an English teacher, and had gotten a job at East High, her and Troy's old from when they were teenagers.

Troy had graduated as a gym teacher and had gotten a job helping his Dad at East High because Jack had agreed it was about time he started to take things easy, and so was slowly starting to hand things over to Troy.

Gabriella had taken a break from teaching at the end of the last school year, in preparation to have her twins that July, she was now a stay at home Mum, and was loving every minute of it.

"Anna, you need to stay close to Mummy when we go inside, there'll be lots of people still about, and they're all a lot bigger than you, so you need to stay close, okay?" Gabriella warned, her six year old, as she grabbed her bag, and locked the car, before starting to push the twins towards East High's main entrance.

Anna nodded and took hold of the side of the pushchair.

"Mummy?" Anna asked, as they neared the front doors. "Is that Bella?"

Gabriella looked to where her daughter was pointing, and sure enough there sat Bella.

Isabella Bayden, or Bella as everyone called her was Gabriella's nearly seventeen year old brother, Alex's girlfriend, they'd been going out for just over seven months now, as they started dating just after Gabriella had, had the twins.

Alex and his twin sister Katie stilled lived with Jack and Lucille Bolton, although they no longer shared a room. When Troy and Gabriella moved out, after their first year at college, Alex had moved into their old room, giving him and sister their own private space.

Unlike her brother Katie hadn't stayed kind and caring and had become a bit rebellious, Gabriella was just thankful that both Troy and Alex were around her at school to stop her trying things with boys, she knew she'd get in trouble over. She had a thing going on with Hayden Jones, but he was the trouble maker in the twins' year, and neither Troy nor Alex would let the pair get close enough to each other for anything to happen, they knew he was trouble.

As Gabriella got closer to Bella she realized that she was crying, something that Bella never did, indicating to Gabriella something was really wrong.

"Bella honey, you okay?" Gabriella asked, as she lifted the twins' pushchair up the steps that led to the school's front doors.

Bella lifted her head to look at Gabriella. "Yeah, I'm okay thanks."

"You sure?" Gabriella asked, as she sat down on the wall next to Bella.

Bella couldn't look Gabriella in the eye, as she let the tears flow harder from her eyes.

"Oh sweetie, come here." Gabriella pulled Bella into a hug, and kept her there until she was sure the tears has stopped.

"Okay, now tell me what's got you crying out here." Gabriella asked gently, as she reached into her bag and handed Bella a tissue.

Bella blew her nose before answering. "It's nothing honestly, I'm fine."

"Bella, you're clearly not fine, we both know it takes a lot to make you cry, so come on, what's up?"

Bella sighed. "My parents have been arguing again, it scares me Mrs B, it really scares me, they shout at me, tell me it's my fault, and that really scares me." Bella explained, as she used the sleeve of the hoodie she was wearing to wipe away her tears.

"Oh sweetheart, have you told Alex? You must have seen him today, seeing as you're wearing his hoodie." Gabriella teased, trying to lighten the moment slightly.

"I didn't tell him 'cause I didn't know how he'd react, 'cause of what happened with your parents and everything."

"Honey you don't have to worry about that, you know full well we treat Jack and Lucille as our parents now, he would have listened to you, and you know it. You wanna come and see him with us, before they start practice? We're gonna go see Daddy and Uncle Alex, aren't we Anna?"

"Yeah, come on Bella, come see Uncle Alex, he can give you a hug, Auntie Katie won't be there."

Bella had nothing against Katie, it was Katie who didn't like Bella, she was jealous that her brother had someone before she did. When they first started dating Katie would leave the room when Bella came in, Lucille soon put a stop to this, telling Katie to stop being childish and to just be happy for her brother. Katie had stopped leaving the room, and was now civil to Bella, but that didn't mean she liked being near her.

"Yeah, why not, are you sure Mrs B?"

"Yes I'm sure, but please I'm not a teacher right now, so call me Gabriella, Mrs B, is my mother in law, now come on, before little Miss sleepy head over there falls asleep again."

Bella wiped away the last of her tears before picking up her bag, before following Gabriella and the children inside.

TGTGTGTG

"Daddy!" Anna happily shouted, as she ran into the gym, towards the direction of her Dad, Uncle and a few of the other payers on the team.

"Anna banana, what you doing here?" Troy asked his daughter, as he picked her up and swung her round.

Anna shrugged. "Mummy came here after school, don't know why. Uncle Alex, Bella crying, she with Mummy."

This caught Alex's attention. "Where are they now, Anna?"

Anna pointed towards the door, just as her Mum and Bella walked in with the twins.

Alex immediately dropped the ball he was holding, and made his way over to Bella.

"Babe, what's up? Anna said you were crying. What's wrong?"

Bella thought she'd stopped crying, but seeing Alex simply made it all come back again, and her tears started to fall.

"Babe, come here." Alex took Bella into his arms and let her cry, as Gabriella pushed the twins towards their Dad and sister.

"Hey boys." Gabriella greeted the basketball team, who were stood round lazily warming up, waiting for others to arrive. "Has she fallen asleep again?" Gabriella asked Troy, as she made her way towards him, letting the team make a fuss over the twins.

Troy looked down at his daughter in his arms, and sure enough, she was asleep. "Why'd you say again, was she asleep early?" Troy asked, shifting Anna from one arm to the other.

"She feel asleep on the way over here, her teacher said she'd been really quiet and slow at school today, I think she's coming down with something, I'd better get her home and put her to bed, she isn't right, they said she didn't eat her lunch either."

"Yeah, you're right that doesn't seem good, but before you go, why are you here? Not that I don't like seeing you all, because I do, but couldn't you just wait until I cam home, it is Friday, we'll be together all weekend, you know?"

"Yeah, I know, I'm just having a down day, I don't know what's wrong, but I just wanted to see my husband, is that a crime now a days?"

"No it's not, but it's just that I know that next weekend is the twins' birthday, which means it's your Mum's anniversary, which means you shut down and stop telling me how you feel, so we're gonna stop that now, okay?"

Gabriella nodded. "How about if I don't shut you out this year, you let these guys finish half an hour early tonight, so they can all start their weekend early."

"Fine, okay guys leave my children alone and start warming up properly, thanks to my wife you're all finishing half an hour early today, so we better get going. Alex, give Bella one last hug and hand her over to your sister, she can take her back to ours, and we'll meet them there later, I'll phone Mum and tell her you won't be there for dinner tonight, okay team lets move!" The team all sprang into action, all thankful that Gabriella had come in today; they all wanted their weekend to start.

TGTGTGTG

Troy, Gabriella, Alex, Bella, Jack and Lucille all sat in Troy and Gabriella's lounge, simply just watching the TV.

Troy had phoned his Mum to explain Alex wouldn't be home to dinner and that he'd drop him off later, but Lucille said she and Jack would join them because Katie had told her she was going over to a friend's.

"Bella honey, do you want to come back to ours tonight? You're more than welcome." Lucille asked, now knowing herself why Bella was so clingy tonight.

"Yes please Lucille if that's okay, I'll need to go home to get some stuff first, but Mum and Dad won't be there yet, so I'll just go and grab my stuff and come out. Will I be with Alex all the time?"

"You know you will sweetie, we wouldn't separate you when you're clearly in need of some hugs tonight." Lucille responded, as the front door opened, and Katie walked in. She slammed the door behind her and stomped up the stairs to one of Troy and Gabriella's spare rooms, somewhere she and Alex were always welcome to stay, and slammed the door behind her, making the whole house shake.

"I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure you don't dress like that when you go over to a friend's, something's up." Alex stated.

"Yeah thanks for that info Al, I think we'd all come to that conclusion, I'll go talk to her." Gabriella said, as she untangled herself from Troy, and made her way upstairs.

TGTGTGTG

Katie knew she was in deep trouble for defying everyone around her, but he's promised her he'd changed, and for some stupid reason, she'd believed him.

It had been going so well, they ate out, went to the movies, and then went back to his, that's when things went wrong. They were kissing, and that turned into making out, Katie was comfortable with that, but when Hayden had tried to put his hand up her skirt, she pulled away. He pulled her back in and started kissing her roughly, his hands were roaming all over her body, up her top and skirt, she tried to fight him of, tell him she wanted to stop, but he just wouldn't listen.

When she finally found the strength to push him away, things only got worse. Hayden got angry and pushed her off the couch, she fell backwards, smacking her back against the coffee table, causing pain to radiate through her body. She'd pulled herself to her feet and managed to grab her bag and get to the door, when he came in for one last try. She was ready this time though and found the strength to push him back, this only made him angrier though, and in one fell swoop Hayden's fist came into contact with Katie's lower lip, and now blood was everywhere.

Seeing the blood Hayden and ran off into the house giving Katie the opportunity she needed to run. Somehow, she wasn't sure how she ran all the way to Troy and Gabriella's, where she let herself in and took off upstairs.

Now she lay in the bed, shaking violently, tears pouring from her eyes and blood still coming from the cut on her lip. She didn't even attempt to move when she heard someone coming upstairs, she didn't really care who it was, she didn't care she was going to get into trouble; she just wanted to be in someone's arms, and feel safe.

TGTGTGTG

Upon arriving upstairs, Gabriella checked in on her children, who were all still asleep. She then made her way to the spare room that Katie had chosen to be hers. What she found when she opened the door, wasn't the sight she'd expected, and it shocked her massively.

"Katie, sweetheart, what happened?" Gabriella asked, as she made her way over to her crying sister on the bed.

"I'm sorry Gab; I'm really, really sorry." Katie sobbed, as she sat up, and allowed Gabriella to pull her into her arms.

"I think I know what's going on here young lady, and yes you should be sorry, but that talk will happen later, just tell me sweetie, did he touch places he shouldn't have?"

Katie shock her head. "No, he tried, his hands went up my top and skirt, but he never touched me, I was able to pull away, I'm sorry Gab, I've been so stupid, I really thought he'd changed, I'm such an idiot, I should have listened to everyone, I'm sorry Gabs."

"I know sweetie, I know, listen we're gonna get you cleaned up and in bed, you can stay here tonight, you're always welcome, you know that, just cover you ears, I'm gonna get Mum up here, okay?"

Katie nodded, and cuddled closer to her sister for warmth, covering her ears, as Gabriela shouted downstairs for Lucille to come up and join them.

Alex and Katie were told from day one, that they could call Jack and Lucille by their names, or Mum and Dad, they really didn't mind. So Katie and Alex called them both, depending on how they were feeling at the time.

Tonight, Katie would call Lucille Mum; because tonight she need her Mum to help make it all go away.

TGTGTGTG

It was three thirty when Troy came back to the master bedroom, after giving the twins their night time feed, and checking in on Anna and Katie. Gabriella hadn't woken up when they were crying, and he wanted it to stay that way.

She and Lucille had cleaned Katie up, and sat with her until she'd fallen asleep, they'd then gone back downstairs and explained to everyone what had happened, it was fair to say Alex and Troy were not happy.

It had taken them another forty five minutes to convince Alex that his twin would be fine where she was, and that for tonight he need to worry about Bella, who had fallen asleep in his arms.

He agreed that Bella needed him most right now because Katie was with Troy and Gabriella, and he then proceeded to wake up his girlfriend, so they could be taken to hers and then back to Jack and Lucille's, allowing Bella to continue the sleep she seemed so desperately to need.

The sight that met Troy as he made his way back to his bed broke his heart. Gabriella was awake, sitting up in bed, he knees pulled to her chest crying.

"Brie beautiful lady, why the tears?" Troy asked, as he slipped back into bed next to Gabriella, and pulled her into his arms.

"He could have seriously hurt her Troy, I-I'm not angry w-with her for going, i-it was bound to happen a-at some p-point, I j-just thought that s-she would have at least t-told one of us f-first. I-I'm just so a-angry that he t-tried to hurt her in the first p-place. I s-should have been t-there for her m-more. I should have realized s-she would try to rebel 'cause it's t-their birthday soon, she always g-gets worse t-this time of y-year, I-I just didn't expect this t-to h-happen, we n-need to have a s-serious heart to heart w-with her tomorrow."

"We will sweetheart, but tomorrow like you said, she's asleep now, just like the twins and Anna, her temperature is still going down by the way, so lets just lay down and try to sleep."

Gabriella had put Anna straight to bed when they came home because her temperature was sky high, but through the evening, it had started to fall again.

"W-will you h-hold me?"

"Brie sweetheart, you don't even need to ask that, come here beautiful." Troy pulled Gabriella closer to him, and slowly laid down, bringing her with him. He kissed her forehead, and soothingly rubbed her back, as she slowly fell back to sleep.

Tomorrow would be challenging for everyone involved, but he just hoped that having a heart to heart with Katie would bring everyone closer to together, in time for the twins to celebrate their birthday, and spend time with their sister remembering their Mum.

TGTGTGTG

There it is guys, the first chapter of the sequel, I hope you liked it :)

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