Chloe got up to get something to eat, she was starving. Gary was sat at the breakfast bar in the kitchen scrolling down his phone and sniffing occasionally. She sighed and walked over to him. Even if he was cheating, she still loved him. Chloe sat down next to him but he didn't flinch.She put a hand on his arm but he pulled away. "Gary I'm sorry." - "You should be." Chloe sighed again propoing herself up on her elbows. "Why? You don't trust me Chloe, why? You think I'm cheating don't you? You always jump to conclusiins whenever I don't soend every second of the day with you or when I so much as look at any other girl. Who d'you think I am?" - "I'm sorry. I'm just... You're gorgeous Gary. Really, you're beautiful. And famous and talented and lovely and you know you could have any girl you wanted." - "I want you Chloe." - "But I feel like... I've never felt like I deserve you." he frowned. "Don't be stupid! Why? Have I made you feel like that?" - "N-no, no if course not." - "Well..." - "I dunno. It's just there's all these beautiful girls around and gorgeous celebrities and then thos girls the other week-" - ""What? You're not seriously still stressing because of them? They're not worth it Chloe!" she shrugged. "What were you doing with this Jenny then?" Gary sighed. "Well I didn't wanna tell you, I didn't want you to see how much this all... affected me." He put his phone down and started playing with his hands nervously. She reached out and held his hands She frowned as she accidentally pulled his sleeves back a bit and he tried pulling his hands away. but she held onto him. He bit his lip as she pulled the sleeves back to reveal 3 small marks. Chloe looked uo at him in shock. He couldn't bring himself to do the same."It hurt Chloe. I don't know why but I just... tipped." - "Is that all of them?" He nodded. "I'm sorry. You're probably ashamed of me now. But I couldn't bare you being away Chloe I'm sorry." - "Gary." she said sharply. "I'm not ashamed of you, I never will be. But please Gary, please promis you'll never ever do anything like this again." He nodded. "I won't. I don't need to anymore. You're back." Chloe felt so guilty. Everything he'd been through, it was all her fault. She couldn't believe it though, he'd always seemed so strong.
"Gary... you... you should..." - "Go see someone?" he finished her sentence. Chloe nodded. "I am. Jenny." Oh right. "I didn't wanna tell you cos I didn't want you to think I was weak." - "Gary, I love you. I don't care about what you've done as long as you can get over it and move on." - "I promise. I love you." he said as she bent forward to kiss his cheek.
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"I'm so sorry Gary." Chloe said. They'd gone out for a walk and Gary was holding onto Liam with one arm whilst Chloe held his free hand. He stopped. "What for?" - "You know what." Gary sighed. "If I hadn't been such a stubborn bitch, this wouldn't have happened." - "But you are Chloe. You are a stubborn bitch, you always have been. And if you weren't, you wouldn't be you..." - "So you like that do you?" Gary stared at her for a while. "No. Not really. But everyone has their weaknesses. Mine is my huge ego..." Chloe frowned. "You don't have an ego." Gary lifted his eyebrows. "Oh I do." She shrugged. "I like it." - "See. It's a bad virtue but you love it because nobody's perfect." - "You come pretty close though." Gary chuckled. "That was rubbish." - "I know." Chloe smiled at him as they carried on walking.
"D'you wanna go out to eat tonight?" Gary suddenly asked her. "What? Oh... yeah, why not? And Liam?" - "Well we'll just have to go early enough to be able to take him won't we?"
"What about the house?" Chloe ventured after a while. "I dunno. I don't know what we're looking for. 2 bedrooms? 3? 4? How big? Where?" - "Near Rose." Gary looked at her bewildered. "She loved having you around, couldn't you tell? I think she misses you more than she admits." - "Okay..." - "And I'd say definetly more than 2 bedrooms." She said and bit her lip. Gary smirked "and why's that?" She shrugged. "D'you really just wanna have one kid?" - "I got two remember?" - "One kid with me?" he raised an eyebrow. "Not now, Gary, obviously but in like a couple of years time I could well imagine having a couple more." - "3." -"4." -"4?! Chloe I'll have 5 kids!" she hrugged. "Maybe. I'll think about it. For the moment, mister here is proving to be quite a lot of work already." He said moving Liam into a different position. "And we've got a wedding to arrange yet
