Abby Middleton

Abby Middleton is a character in *Good Times, Bad Times*. She made her debut in the first season.

## Background

Abby works in the local café in town. Abby knows everyone and everything and is very vocal about stuff. She loves to do her job and is actually always present there. She gets along with the Jones family and helps them out a lot.

## Storyline

### Season 1

 Working all day and night at the café, Abby knows everyone and everything in Moredyke. When her childhood friend Roxy Wood arrives in town, Abby loses her mind and gets super excited to see her friend again. The two immediately catch up again. Abby suggests that Roxy looks for a job and the two go on job hunt.

When Roxy tells Abby what kind of job she found, after being fired by Kate Jones to Abby's frustration, she causes some reaction by Abby. Roxy will work at a escort-like service which causes Abby to be not cool about it. Roxy tells Abby that she'll be fine and Abby let's it go, instead focusing on the customers.

 Once Roxy goes missing, Abby tries to do everything to find her. She tries to get her friends Samir Jones and Megan Cox to look for her. Abby causes for some interactions with the customers, both good and bad, while Roxy is still missing. Abby doesn't like it how the Adams family just tries to rule the place while the Jones family is having a hard time, since she's very close with the Jones family.

 Abby celebrates big time when Roxy's found and brought back to the café. She suggests to have the Jones family take Roxy with them. When Roxy and Samir reveal to be in a relationship, she thinks it's going too fast.

### Season 2

Abby continues working at the café until Kate comes with some information. She has to leave her apartment unfortunately and instead of giving it to a stranger, Kate wants Abby to take over the café and the rooms above the café. Abby can't believe this is actually happening, celebrating this with her two friends Joseph Murray and Megan.

She quickly comes up with the idea to make the café a pub for any kind of customer. From young people to old people. She wants to use the rooms above the pub for her friends, making it a big friendhouse. She gives herself, Joseph and Megan the first three available rooms and starts renovating the whole pub. While doing this, she comes into contact with Jimmy Bandit. He tells her that he's a roofer and could help out. The two become friends early on and after finishing the pub, Abby gives one of the free rooms to Jimmy, especially since he became part of their friendgroup.

Abby develops feelings for Jimmy, which is the same from his side. The two start dating and get very close. Abby is also in charge of the pub now, becoming a more crowded place. Abby takes most of her time in the pub, listening to her friends and customers. She witnesses how Joseph gets to know Jade Welling, a girl who is stalked by her crazy ex-boyfriend and daily news around town. When she finds out Lily Jones tried to steal from her in the pub, Abby warns her. Lily returns to apologize but Abby isn't having it, forbidding Megan to help her out as she finds Megan too nice for this world.

Meanwhile, Abby gets bothered by Jimmy as he's having a new job and becoming real close with his partner at the radio station, it being Boyd Henderson. Abby never sees him again, only seeing him during the double date they have with Roxy and Samir. Abby shares her thoughts with Joseph, who tells her to not give up while Roxy tells her to follow her heart. Abby eventually makes a decision, breaking up with Jimmy as their worlds are too different. They remain very close friends.

Abby notices how Samir is betraying Roxy, who happens to be her very best friend. Abby warns Samir since she'll tell Roxy what happened if he doesn't before her. Abby sees her best friend that same night, telling her what she saw. Abby hears about their break-up and supports Roxy until she hears she's dating the arrogant Troy Adams. When meeting him, she instantly dislikes him and rather sees her best friend ending up with someone else. Abby decides to let it go and continues to focus on working and getting the daily gossips.

### Season 3

Abby uses all her free time to work at the pub and maintain it as she's feeling very responsible over it. She gets invested in every daily story as usual. Abby is surprised when she hears from Roxy that she is Kate's long lost daughter. Having dated Samir Jones, being her brother, and now dating Troy Adams, being her cousin, Abby sees this as a huge plottwist. She supports Roxy by her decision to break-up with Troy, having Abby comforting her at the pub as much as she can.

Her pub is becoming more popular, which gets noticed by evil businessman Senior Brown. He decides to make an offer to Abby to take over the pub. Abby's confident personality goes against Senior, telling him that she'll always be the owner of the pub and no prize would make her change her mind. Senior leaves but returns days later, now more aggressive. He threatens Abby into making her sell the pub, with Roxy arriving just in time. The two ladies go against Senior which sets him off for good.

After the drama around Senior Brown, Abby takes the time to hype up the pub even more and is present with a majority of the minor incidents happening at the pub such as the fight between Joseph and Jimmy, saying goodbye to Joseph and Lily as they leave Moredyke and helping out Jade while working. One day when Abby visits the park, she notices that Roxy's new boyfriend, Joshua Miller, is secretly cheating on her with their mutual enemy Chanel Adams. Abby informs Roxy, causing her to not believe her at first but because of the abusive relationship she's in, Roxy eventually finds out Abby was right.

Abby decides to let Roxy fix her own mess since Abby's finding out about the new relationship Jimmy has with Jade. Feeling betrayed, since Jimmy swore to have no time for a relationship, Abby rants about the two to Dana Jones, who holds Jade responsible for Joseph leaving. Abby supports Dana into fighting Jade, which results in Kate defending her daughter, threatening Abby to go to the police if she doesn't stop acting like this. The two go hard against hard but end it on good terms.

With all the drama behind her, having made up to both Jimmy and Jade alongside Dana, Abby is invited to visit the wedding of Troy Adams and Emely Emerald. Abby goes there with her friends and meets Roxy again, hearing about her and Chanel's tag-team revenge on Joshua. Abby is super glad to hear that.

### Season 4

With the pub becoming a more common place, Abby continues to work very hard at the pub. Without Jade helping her out anymore, Abby has to do most of the tasks herself. She's listening to all customers and friends that come to her. Abby hears all the news regarding the death of Maria Baxter and the mysterious disappearance of Arabella Dixon. She's also very glad to hear that Roxy's having a good relationship with her mother, Kate, now.

When Jimmy's parents DeAndre Bandit and Nia Bandit-Davis, alongside his sister Yasmin Bandit arrive, Abby is one of the few that gets along with them very easy. She's taking the role of big sister on Yasmin, despite having Yasmin not liking her at first. Abby sees how Jimmy is forced to quit his job at the radiostation and how he has to break up with Jade. Abby doesn't approve this at first but while she still likes Jimmy, she sees this as an opportunity to win him back. As DeAndre is a big fan of Abby, she comes up with a plan to Jimmy to pretend to be his girlfriend to please his parents.

Abby portrays herself to be Jimmy's girlfriend to his parents but goes too far as she starts to like him again. Roxy sees this happening and tries to protect Abby from getting hurt. At the same time, Yasmin is dating Vince Norell without making it a secret. Jimmy thinks it's time to be open about his fake relationship and gives Abby the reality check she needed, which is that they're not a real couple. Abby is heartbroken and gets support from Roxy.

While she's getting back to being herself, DeAndre cheats on his wife and causes her and Yasmin, who broke up with Vince, to return to Curacao. Jimmy's upset which Abby notices. She doesn't get the chance to support him as she's getting stalked by DeAndre, who's liking Abby a bit too much. Abby gets harrassed by him and almost gets raped. While Roxy takes care of Abby during this time, as she knows how it feels to be raped, Jimmy forces his dad to leave Moredyke for good.

Abby knows that Vince is dating Roxy recently as they clicked very well. Abby has liked Vince for a long time and it's revealed that her obsession over Jimmy was a cover-up of her actual crush on Vince. Abby uses Roxy's attention to distract her from Vince, which gets noticed by Jimmy. Jimmy tells Abby that she can't keep Roxy away from her boyfriend and therefore asks Roxy to break up with Vince. Roxy rejects and the two end their friendship as Abby manages to use a drunk Vince to get in her bed.

She now believes that she's in a relationship with him and decides to surprise him at the Rosenbottle hotel, where he stays. While she heads towards his hotelroom, Vince is on his way to tell Abby that their night was a mistake and that they're not dating. Abby arrives at his hotelroom and sees Roxy there, half-naked. When Roxy confronts her that she and Vince are still together and that her night with Vince was a mistake, Abby starts to lose control over herself. The two have a verbal fight at first but this turns into a physical fight as Abby sees a knife, grabbing it. As the lights are turned off, Abby attacks Roxy with a knife out of pure rage.

### Season 5

During the fight with Roxy, the knife Abby tried to use gets slapped out of her hand and somehow cuts through her arm. Abby loses a lot of blood and loses her conscious almost immediately, falling on the ground in the dark while Roxy moves herself to a different room. Abby is found by Vince and gets her taken to the hospital. While being in the hospital, Abby's nurse is Jimmy and gets a lot of help from him. Abby doesn't want to see Vince anymore after Roxy confessed they're still dating. She never said goodbye to him as Vince leaves Moredyke for good.

Abby returns to the pub as she has to take it easy. She spends a lot of time with Megan and Ali Elbaz. When Megan receives weird letters, Abby suspects Dean of being the one sending it. When trying to confront him at his house, she actually comes eye to eye with Roxy. Before it escalates, Abby manages to pull herself together and leaves. Later it turns out this is Megan's father, Alan Cox. With Megan deciding to leave Moredyke to live with her father, Abby is shocked when she gets the phone call that Megan and Alan died in a plane crash. Abby organizes a woke for Megan and her father, together with Jimmy and Ali, and doesn't invite Roxy but instead informs her on Megan's passing.

With the passing of Megan, Abby loses a dear friend. It causes her and Ali to grow towards each other, having Abby taking care of Ali. When Ali loses his job, she suggests him to get a job at RoJo. At this moment, Abby welcomes Nina Evans to Above the Pub which causes a new problem with Ali. Abby sees that Ali is feeling terrible and even catches him on a suicide attempt, stopping him from doing so. Abby knows there's only one way to finish this, which is to find Senior Brown whose responsible for Nora's kidnapping. They hire Saiph Brown to get his father to town which works, however, Senior flees town almost immediately again with Ali following him.

Abby starts to feel extremely lonely as all of her friends have left Moredyke and Jimmy never being present at the pub anymore due to his job at the Moredyke Local Hospital. Despite this, Jimmy informs Roxy on how Abby's feeling which stimulates Roxy to talk to Abby. The two have a very emotional reunion and talk everything out together, sharing how they missed each other throughout time. The friendship is stronger than ever before, with Roxy deciding to finally moving into Above The Pub.

### Season 6

Now that Abby and Roxy are back to being besties, and Roxy moves into Above The Pub, Abby feels very good again but that doesn't last super long. When Roxy shares with her that she and Troy have wedding plans, Abby fears that she's gonna lose her best friend and because she already has a bad view of the Adams family, her feelings are stimulated when Roxy spends more time with Troy, Lindsay Adams and Patrick Adams. When Abby shares this feeling with Jimmy, he advises her to just be happy for Roxy.

With Roxy being gone and all her other friends being too busy with their jobs, Abby is facing trouble at the pub as it's getting too heavy on her own. She has to look for a employee and after one day of advertising, she meets Rick Knight. The two get along almost immediately, especially since Rick is staying at Above The Pub as well. While it seems like it's just friendship, the two confess their love for each other and start a relationship. Abby finally turns into a more positive person as she used to be very negative, which was noticed by her friends. Together with Rick, she spends a lot of time at the pub.

Abby focuses on her relationship until she gets asked by Roxy to become her witness at her wedding. Abby accepts this and is present at the wedding of her and Troy, feeling genuinely happy for her best friend. When returning to the pub, Abby still feels odd about the whole situation since Roxy is dealing with problems surrounding the Adams family. Abby shows her bad side again when she is reunited with Diana Armine, someone she disliked from high school. When she tries to turn on Jimmy, Abby steps in and gets dragged away by Rick.

It appears that Rick continues to have great influence over Rick. She shares her concern about Roxy abandoning her, however, when Roxy figures out what's happening with Dean and Patrick, she rushes to Abby as she's the first person to be told about this. Rick points out that Roxy always informs Abby about things first and that their friendship is very valuable. Abby is very grateful for that and is happy with Rick bringing the best out of her.

### Season 7

Abby is starting to lose interest in the pub, having the desire to start her own hotel. When she approaches the idea to Roxy, Rick and Jimmy, they look uninterested. Abby decides to put her idea into work, causing a clash with both Rick and Jimmy. When Abby explains her long-time wish to own a hotel for teenagers and travelers, both men seem to be fine with it. Abby then asks Rick if he would like to take over the pub as he does. Abby then buys a hotel, making it the Middleton Hotel and gets herself, Rick, Jimmy and Roxy move into there.

The hotel is a big success as Abby has a lot of fun while taking charge of it. When one of the guests that previously stayed at Above The Pub, Gold Metz, comes out as transgender, Abby feels like she used Jimmy on purpose and forces Gold to either pay for her room or leave. This causes both Roxy and Rick to not want to be friends with Abby anymore. It takes time for Abby to realize how wrong she was, having Roxy and eventually Jimmy explaining to her and Troy, whom she shared her opinion with, what transgenders actually are and why they should be accepted and respected. Abby agrees and apologizes.

Abby's recent behavior has caused some distance between her and Rick. She sees how Rick gets attention from girls, mostly from Gina Hughes, and clashes with him more often. Rick admits he doesn't like some character traits of Abby and decides to break-up with her. Abby doesn't mourn about this and instead goes back to dating Jimmy as the two agree they always loved each other.

## Trivia

* Abby was the only black-colored main character of the first season, also making her the first person of color to make part of the series.
	+ Therefore she is named to be a big inspiration for many people who compare themselves to her.
* Abby is part of the *Big Seven*, a list that was made by the creator of the seven core characters that created the start of GTBT.
	+ The other six being Roxy Wood, Patrick Adams, Kate Jones, Dean Johnson, Troy Adams and Lindsay Adams.

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